Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Elyse Boldt

Dissertation:  “Great Power Crises and the Evolution of Strategic Rivalries”
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/elyse-boldt
Advisors List:  Alexandre Debs, Sebastian Rosato, Soyoung Lee, Ian Shapiro
Areas of Concentration:  International Relations, Security Studies, Nuclear Politics, and Qualitative Methods
Email:   elyse.boldt@yale.edu

Samuel Dunham

Dissertation:  “Under the Gun: Repression, Airpower, and Control in the British Mandate for Iraq”
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/samuel-dunham
Advisors List:  Isabela Mares, Didac Queralt, Steven Wilkinson
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, International Security, Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
Email:   samuel.dunham@yale.edu

Tylir Fowler

Dissertation:  “The Strategic Logic of Populist Competition”
Personal Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/tylirfowler
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/tylir-fowler
Advisors List:  Milan Svolik, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Emily Sellars
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Formal Theory
Email:   tylir.fowler@yale.edu

Sebastian A Nicol Hernandez

Dissertation:   ”The Political Economy of Information Frictions: Institutions and Accountability”
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/sebastian-hernandez-leiva
Advisors List:   Gerard Padró i Miquel (Chair), Emily A. Sellars, Adam Meirowitz
Areas of Concentration:   Political Economy, Game Theory
Email:    sebastian.hernandez@yale.edu

Ishaan Jajodia

Dissertation:  “Between Town and Country: City Planning as Political Philosophy in Practice”
Personal Website:  ishaanjajodia.com
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu//people/ishaan-jajodia
Advisors List:  Steven Smith (Chair), Bryan Garsten, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Stephen Skowronek
Areas of Concentration:   Political Theory
Email:   ishaan.jajodia@yale.edu

Matthew Koo

Dissertation:  “The Autocratic Deep State: The Causes and Consequences of Politicization in Security Bureaucracies”
Personal Website:  https://mattmkoo.github.io/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/matthew-koo
Advisors List:  Kate Baldwin (co-chair), Jennifer Gandhi (co-chair), Elisabeth Wood, Daniel Mattingly, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
Areas of Concentration:   Comparative Politics; International Relations
Email:   matthew.koo@yale.edu

Gary Leung

Dissertation:  “Nationalism and Authoritarian Rule”
Personal Website:  https://garytleung.github.io/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/gary-leung
Advisors List:  Nicholas Sambanis (chair), Jennifer Gandhi, Daniel Mattingly
Areas of Concentration:   Comparative Politics
Email:   gary.leung@yale.edu

Sean Nossek

Dissertation:  Essays on Trade, Market Concentration, and the Power of Firms and Workers
Personal Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/seannossek/
Advisors List:  Didac Queralt, Ken Scheve, Leonardo Baccini (external)
Areas of Concentration:  International Relations, Comparative Politics, Quantitative Methods
Email:   sean.nossek@yale.edu

Chetana Sabnis

Dissertation:  “The Intimacy Contract: States and Hierarchies of Belonging”
Personal Website:  www.chetanasabnis.com
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/chetana-sabnis
Advisors List:  Elisabeth Wood (co-chair), Joe Fischel (co-chair), Dara Strolovitch, Egor Lazarev
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Law and Society, Gender Politics
Email:   chetana.sabnis@yale.edu

Natalie Hernandez

Dissertation: “Representation and Abortion Policy in the Post-Roe United States”
Current Position:   Agora Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/natalie-hernandez
Personal Website: https://nataliehernandez.com
Advisors List:  Gregory Huber; Joshua Kalla; Dara Strolovitch; Dawn Teele
Areas of Concentration:  American Politics
Email:   natalie.hernandez@yale.edu

Paul Lendway

Dissertation:  “Sermon Rhetoric and White Evangelical Support for the Republican Party”
Personal Website:  https://lendway.github.io/
Current Position:  Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University
Advisors List:  Dissertation Chair - Greg Huber
Email:   Lendway@Stanford.edu

Ryan Pike

Dissertation:  “Greening in Groups: Essays on the Political Geography of Industrial Decarbonization”
Personal website: https://ryan-pike.github.io/
Current Position:  Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative
Advisors List:  Sarah Bush, Didac Queralt, Luke Sanford, Isabela Mares
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Economy
Email:   ryan.pike@yale.edu

Loren Reinoso

Dissertation:  “Together We Rule: Representative Authority and Political Agency”
Current Position:  Princeton University
Advisors List:  Hélène Landemore, Bryan Garsten, Ian Shapiro, Stephen Darwall (Philosophy)
Areas of Concentration:  Political Theory/Philosophy
Email:   loren.reinoso@yale.edu