Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Moritz Emanuel Bondeli

Dissertation:  Uncivil Democracy: Violence, Political Selection, and Democratic Representation
Personal Website:  https://mbondeli.github.io/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/moritz-bondeli
Advisors List:  Isabela Mares, Milan Svolik, Steven Wilkinson
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Democratization, Representation, Political Behavior, Causal Inference
Email:  moritz.bondeli@yale.edu

Haley Allen DeMarco

Dissertation:  Repressing the Resistance: Police-Military Collaboration in Authoritarian Regimes
Personal Website:  https://www.haleyallendemarco.com/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/haley-allen
Advisors List:  Elisabeth Jean Wood, Jennifer Gandhi, Milan Svolik, and Daniel Mattingly
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, International Relations, Qualitative Methods, Latin American Politics, Political Regimes, Political Violence, Security Studies
Email:  haley.allen@yale.edu

Sofia Elverdin

Dissertation:  The Cost of Success: Disenchantment After Partidization. Evidence from Contemporary Feminist Movements in Argentina
Personal Website:  https://www.sofiaelverdin.com/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/sofia-elverdin
Advisors List:  Ana De La O (chair), Isabela Mares, Emily Sellars, Sarah Khan
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Social Movements, Gender and Politics, Latin American Politics
Email:  sofia.elverdin@yale.edu

Jack Greenberg

Dissertation:  “The President’s First Moves: The Dynamics of Executive Agenda Construction, 1969-2022”
Personal Website:  greenbergjack.com
Departmental Profile: https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/jack-greenberg
Advisors List:  Steve Skowronek (chair), Christina Kinane, Ian Turner
Areas of Concentration:  American Politics, The Presidency, Political Leadership, American Political Development, Congress, American Political Thought, Public Policy, Qualitative and Mixed Methods
Email:   jack.greenberg@yale.edu

Daniel Hirschel-Burns

Dissertation:  The Ideological Socialization of Civilians During Civil War
Current Position:  Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University
Personal Website:  http://www.dannyhirschelburns.com/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/daniel-hirschel-burns
Advisors List:  Elisabeth Wood (chair), James Scott, Daniel Mattingly, Egor Lazarev
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Qualitative Methods, Political Violence, Latin American Politics
Email:   dh4476@princeton.edu

Anne Mishkind

Dissertation:  Genealogies of Autonomy: Schooling and the Politics of Civic Subject Formation
Current Position:  Visiting Professor, Deep Springs College (spring 2025)
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/anne-mishkind
Advisors List:  Bryan Garsten (chair), James C. Scott, Giulia Oskian
Areas of Concentration:  Political theory, education, political psychology, interpretive social science
Email:   anne.mishkind@yale.edu

Paul Lendway

Dissertation:  Assessing the Consequences of Populist Rhetoric and the Determinants of Populist Support
Personal Website:  https://lendway.github.io/
Departmental Profile: https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/paul-lendway
Advisors List:  Alex Coppock, Greg Huber, Josh Kalla, and Isabela Mares
Areas of Concentration:  Democratic Backsliding and Populism
Email:   paul.lendway@yale.edu

Colin Moreshead

Dissertation:  Government-Press Relations and Political Communication in Japan
Personal Website:  https://www.colinmoreshead.com/
Departmental Profile: https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/colin-moreshead
Advisors List:  Daniel Mattingly, Isabela Mares, Yusaku Horiuchi, Charles McClean
Areas of Concentration:  Political Communication, Japanese Politics, Comparative Politics
Email:   colin.moreshead@yale.edu

Abolfazl Nuri

Dissertation:  A Model of Sanctions under Incomplete Information
Advisors List:  Bruce Ackerman, Winston Lin, Tyler Pratt
Areas of Concentration:  Economics of Asymmetric Power, Economic Consequences of Normative Systems, Economic Roots of Normative Systems, Quantitative Methods
Email:   a.nuri@yale.edu

Deepika Padmanabhan

Dissertation:  Everyday Imposition: Language Promotion as Nation-Building Strategy in Southern India
Personal Website: www.deepikapadmanabhan.com
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/deepika-padmanabhan
Advisors List:  Steven Wilkinson (Chair), Kate Baldwin, Sarah Khan, Alex Coppock
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Email:   deepika.padmanabhan@yale.edu

Loren Reinoso

Dissertation:  Politics in the First-Person Plural: Representative Authority and Political Agency
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/loren-reinoso
Advisors List:  Hélène Landemore (chair), Bryan Garsten, Ian Shapiro, Stephen Darwall (department of philosophy)
Areas of Concentration:  Political theory (political representation, collective action, early modern political thought, liberalism and democratic theory)
Email:   loren.reinoso@yale.edu

Alexander Trubowitz

Dissertation:  Facing the Deluge: Labor and the Politics of Automation
Personal Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/atrubowitz/home
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/alexander-trubowitz
Advisors List:  Isabela Mares, Kenneth Scheve, Steven Wilkinson
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Email:   alexander.trubowitz@yale.edu

Robin Yajie Wang

Dissertation: The Politics of Trade Policymaking in China
Personal Website:  https://robin-yajiewang.com/
Departmental Profile: https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/robin-wang
Advisors List:  Kenneth Scheve, Didac Queralt, Daniel Mattingly
Areas of Concentration:  Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics
Email:   wangyajie621@gmail.com

Sophia Wang

Dissertation:  Activist in Time: From Intense Preferences to Local Political Participation
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jsophiawang/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/sophia-wang
Advisors List:  P Aronow, Ian Turner, Gerard Padro, Ben Ansell (external)
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Urban and Local Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy, Quantitative Methodology
Email:    jinghong.wang@yale.edu

Amanda Weiss

Dissertation:  Three Essays on Political Methodology
Personal Website:  https://www.amandakweiss.com
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/amanda-weiss
Advisors List:  Fredrik Sävje, P.M. Aronow, Joshua Kalla
Areas of Concentration:  Political Methodology, American Politics
Email:    amanda.weiss@yale.edu

Changwook Ju

Dissertation:  Quantitative Studies on International Security: Military Recruitment and Effectiveness, Chinese Public Nuclear Attitudes, and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Current Position:  International Security Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Personal Website:  https://www.changwookju.com/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/changwook-ju
Advisors List:  Alexandre Debs; Daniel Mattingly;  Frances Rosenbluth;  Elisabeth Wood
Areas of Concentration:   Military Recruitment; Battlefield Effectiveness; Civil–Military Relations; Democracy and War; Public Nuclear Attitudes; China and International Politics; Political Violence; Conflict-Related Sexual Violence; Quantitative Methods
Email:   changwookju@gmail.com

Armando Jose Perez-Gea

Dissertation:  An Aristotelian Theory of the Political Association: An Alternative to Weber
Current Position:   Fellow to Diversify Teaching and Learning, Stanford University
Personal Website:   https://www.perezgea.com/
Departmental Profile: https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/armando-jose-perez-gea
Advisors List:  Bryan Garsten, Ian Shapiro, David Charles, Stephen Darwall
Areas of Concentration:  Political Theory
Email:  perezgea@stanford.edu

Drew Stommes

Dissertation:   Armed Political Parties and Their Violence
Current Position:  : Postdoctoral Associate, New York University, Department of Politics
Personal Website:  drew-stommes.github.io
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/drew-stommes
Advisors List:  P. Aronow, Elizabeth Nugent, Steven Wilkinson (Chair), Elisabeth Wood
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Quantitative Methods, South Asian Politics, Political Violence, Elections, Identity
Email:    drew.stommes@nyu.edu

Dana Stuster

Dissertation:  Great Powers, Regional Powers, and the Balance of Power in Conflict
Current Position:  Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Naval War College; Foreign Policy Co-Editor, Lawfare
Personal Website:  https://www.jdanastuster.com/
Departmental Profile: https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/dana-stuster
Advisors List:  Nuno Monteiro, Tyler Pratt, Sarah Sunn Bush, David Edelstein
Areas of Concentration:  International Relations Theory, International Security, International Norms, Middle East Politics, Network Analysis, Qualitative Methods
Email:   johnstuster@gmail.com