Current Graduate Students' Areas of Interest
Daniel Andersen, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: danderse@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Political Theory; American Politics
Current Research: Dissertation work currently focuses on the role of face-to-face dialog for democracies; utilizing work by Habermas and Martin Buber.
Bruno Anili , Ph.D. Candidate
Email: banili@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Political Theory; Comparative Politics; Contemporary Philosophy; Communication Theory
Current Research: Modernity reconsidered: post-structuralist perspectives on structuralism; post-structuralist critiques of methodological (ontological, normative) individualism. Resistance to power: dynamics; foundations. Semiotics and politics: deconstruction of political discourses; patterns of ideological, cultural hegemony.
Robin Barklis, Doctoral Student
Email: barklis@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Political Theory; International Relations
Current Research: Multiculturalism in theory and practice; the rights of indigenous peoples and ethno-cultural minorities; liberalism and its critics
Samuel Bernofsky, Doctoral Student
Email: sbernofs@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Political Theory; U.S. Politics
Current Research: Hannah Arendt's Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
Debasis Bhattacharya, Doctoral Student
Email: dbhattac@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Relations; Political Theory; Comparative Politics
Current Research: Global political and economic development, new world order, process of democratization, expansion of democracy in the era of globalization.
Sarah Cate, Master’s Student
Email: scate@uoregon.edu
Field of Interest: U.S. Politics
Loryn Cesario, Master’s Student
Email: loryn@uoregon.edu
Field of Interest: Political Theory
Clayton Cleveland, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: cclevel1@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Relations Theory; International Organization; Methods; Europe
Joseph Deckert, Doctoral Student
Email: jdeckert@uoregone.du
Fields of Interest: Quantitative methods; Game Theory; Political Theory
Current Research: Inequity aversion and other non-traditional utility functions; Violence in politics.
Jekatyerina (Katya) Dunajeva, Doctoral Student
Email: dunajeva@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Relations, Political Economy and Development of Eastern Europe and Russia, Comparative Politics, Immigration, Minorities in Eastern Europe
Teresa Finn, Doctoral Student
Email: tfinn@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Political Theory
Current Research: Explaining and predicting global systemic economic changes, examining the effects of competing economic philosophies on political outcomes between countries.
Tamas Golya, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: tgolya@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Relations; Environmental Politics; Politics of Oil; Game Theory; Evolutionary Psychology
Current Research: US Foreign Oil Dependency and US Foreign Policy, Effects of Peak Oil.
Brian Guy, Doctoral Student
Email: bguy@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics; Political Theory; International Relations
Jennifer M Hehnke, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: jhehnke@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: U.S. Politics; Political Theory; Public Policy; Public School Reform
Current Research: Researching the politics of school reform efforts at the subnational level, focusing on poor, urban public schools.
Jessica Hejny, Doctoral Student
Email: jhejny@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Relations; Environmental Politics and Philosophy; Public Policy
Leif Birger Hoffmann, Ph.D. Candidate
Website: http://leifhoffmann.tripod.com
Email: lhoffma2@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics; International Relations; European Integration and Politics; Qualitative Methods
Current Research: Differences and similarities in the allocation of authority and a single market in the European Union and the United States.
Tim Johnson, Doctoral Student
Email: tmj@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Relations and Comparative Politics
Laura Keown, Master’s Student
Email: keown@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Environmental Politics; Local Politics
Daniel Lemke, Doctoral Student
Email: dlemke@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International Affairs/Relations
Gregory Liggett, Doctoral Student
Email: gliggett@uoregon.edu
Field of Interest: Political Theory
Kelley Littlepage, Doctoral Student
Email: klittlep@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics; International Relations; EU Politics; Immigration; Citizenship; Law; Qualitative Methods
Current Research: My current research focuses on the process of transnational judicial dialogue in Western European countries and examines its effect on policies of immigration, citizenship, and human rights. Cases include UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Jane Lukinova, Doctoral Student
Email: evgeniya@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Quantitative methods, Experimental Design, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory.
Xiaotong Mao, Doctoral Student
Email: xmao@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Political Theory: Modernity; Critical Theory; Political-Environmental Philosophy; Comparative Politics: Latin America and East Asia
Current Research: Theories in modernity, democracy, communicative rationality.
Kathryn Miller, Doctoral Student
Email: klm@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Race, thnicity, immigration and language politics
Current Research: The politics of bilingual education.
Vanessa Mousavizadeh, Doctoral Student
Email: vmousavi@uoregon.edu
Current Research: Economy and policy sphere in social security and environmental sustainability.
Forrest A. Nabors, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: fnabors@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: United States Politics; Political Theory
Current Research: Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
Sean Parson, Ph.D. Candidate
Website: http://www.uoregon.edu/~sparson
Email: sparson@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Social Movements; Environmental Politics; Environmental Political Theory; Radical Political Theory
Current Research: For my dissertation I am looking into the politics surrounding tactical escalation in social movements by using the Earth Liberation Front and their rise to prominence during the summer of 1996 as the major case study.
Josh Plencner, Doctoral Student
Email: jplencne@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: American Politics; US Public Policy
Current Research: Superheroes, vigilantism, and American political culture; political history of marriage law; politics of disaster policy.
Ryan A. Smith, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: rsmith5@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: American Politics; U.S. Public Policy
Current Research: I am most interested in the viability (implementation and broad satisfaction) of deliberative democratic theory as an alternative governance reform, especially as a response to complex and contentious U.S. policy issues in instrumental pluralist settings. I recently presented a paper entitled "Evaluating Grand Claims in Oregon Health Care Reform via the Health Services Commission: Deliberative Democracy or 'Normal Politics'?" This paper was an evaluative case study of Oregon health care reform along deliberative criteria, beginning with innovation in late 1980s and subsequent lack of diffusion. I am currently working on my dissertation, which is entitled, "The Role of Policy Environment in Deliberative Democracy."
Jay Steinmetz, Doctoral Student
Email: steinmet@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: Political Theory, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Critical Theory and Film
Current Research: Jonestown and the Body Snatchers: Rage and Paranoia in 1970s American Film. An analysis of American political development through the films “Dirty Harry” (1971), “Taxi Driver” (1976), and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978).
Jeremy Strickler, Doctoral Student
Email: jstrick1@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: U.S. Politics; Public Policy; Regime cycles; Presidential power and executive branch politics
Nicolas Thompson, Doctoral Student
Email: nthompso@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interest: International trade and development issues; International and American political economy; Public policy issues with an emphasis on American energy and agricultural policy
Michael Weinerman, Master’s Student
Email: weinerma@uoregon.edu
Fields of Interests: Political Economy; Comparative Development; Illicit Economies