Political Science - The New School for Social Research

PhD Students

Email	Last Name (*Ph.D. Candidate)	First Name	Interests, Dissertation Title, etc.
aharm988@newschool.edu	Aharony*	Michal	Research Interests: Continental political philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries; literature and political philosophy; and Holocaust Studies. Dissertation Title: "Total Domination: Between Conception and Experience - Rethinking the Arendtian Account through Holocaust Testimonies."
AlahN409@newschool.edu	Alahmad*	Nida	Research Interests: Comparative politics, theories of the state and political power, philosophy of social sciences. Dissertation Topic: "Survival of a State: Looking inside the boundaries of the Iraqi Ba'thist state."
albem367@newschool.edu	Albero	Michael
AlejM102@newschool.edu	Alejo-Brusco*	Myrna	Research Interests: Contentious Politics, discourses of political violence, democratization and human rights. Dissertation Topic: "The relationship between democratization and collective violence in the Philippines, 1986-2005."
AlhaH334@newschool.edu	Alhajeri	Hanan	Research Interests: Religion, Immigration and Political Participation in Latin America and the USA. Proposal Title:"Religion, Immigration and Political participation in Argentina and the USA."
alhassan4@yahoo.com	Al-Hassan*	Mohamed	Research Interests: Guest-workers' migration in Persian Gulf states
AndeK413@newschool.edu	Anderson*	Karin	Research Interests: Feminist theory, women and war, political philosophy. Proposal Title:"When Terror has a Female Face: Female Agency in Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL)."
attea908@newschool.edu	Attenello	Allison	Research Interests: Gender-based violence; Conflict; Border crossings/trafficking; Latin America.
baikj953@newschool.edu	Baik	Jong Wan
BaliJ009@newschool.edu	Balint	Jo
basua260@newschool.edu	Basurto	Amando	Research Interests: U.S. politics and political thought, particularly pragmatism.
BernD940@newschool.edu	Berney	David	Research Interests: Recognition and identity politics, race theory, political psychology, Cuba.
BhagR507@newschool.edu	Bhagat*	Renu	Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Identity Politics, Race and Ethnicity. Dissertation Title:"State as Arbiter in Identity Construction: The Case of Affirmative Action in the US and India."
	Bjorkman	Lisa	Research Interests: Political economy of urban infrastructure, globalization and finance, South Asia, water politics.
BlatJ775@newschool.edu	Blatt	Jessica	Research Interests: Race and disciplinary/intellectual history.
	Bolland	Keith William	Research Interests: American political development, modern American conservatism, political cultures and norms.
BudaA221@newschool.edu	Budabin	Alexandra	Research Interests: Civil society, advocacy groups, humanitarian intervention, and public participation.
CarlA897@newschool.edu	Carla	Andrea	Research Interests: Theories of identity, racial-ethnic group relations, protection of minorities, issue of national security, and˜immigration policies. ˜
caste712@newschool.edu	Castro	Elga	Research Interests: Nation-state development, immigration, citizenship; theories of nationalism; identity politics; relation between sports and social phenomena; contemporary political theory.
ChacR167@newschool.edu	Chacon Aguirre*	Rodrigo	Research Interests: History of political philosophy; philosophy (phenomenology) and politics; liberal political thought and its critics. Dissertation Title: "Why Political Philosoph." The Neo-Socratic Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss in Dialogue."
CharK130@newschool.edu	Chareonying	Kalaya	Research Interests: Political theory, gender theory, identity politics, international political economy, international relations, East Asia, Latin America.
ClarH445@newschool.edu	Clark*	Hilary	Research Interests: Democratic theory, history of ideas and methods of intellectual history, and 18th and 19th Century concepts of participation and obligation, 19th century British political thought.
clementcorp@aol.com	Clement	Paul	Research Interests: International Political Economy, Comparative Politics. Proposal Title: "The Politics Of Regional Integration In The Developing World."
coheh887@newschool.edu	Cohen	Hadas
ConlB648@newschool.edu	Conley*	Brian	Research Interests: US party politics: race, class and antebellum party formation; New Deal liberalism; urban politics; race, ethnicity and contemporary voting behavior.˜ Twentieth century US foreign policy: culture and foreign policy.
CorrG795@newschool.edu	Correa Cabrera*	Guadalupe	Research Interests: Inequality and democracy in Mexico, economic reform in Latin America, risks for democratic consolidation, contentious politics. Dissertation topic: "Challenges to Political Authority in 21st Century Mexico: Inequality, Institutional Ineffectiveness and Active Political Factionalism"
dasg927@newschool.edu	Das	Geeti	Research Interests: Mechanisms of collective mobilization, including informal networks, towards development, particularly in the Indian context; also, within this, the roles of identity and gender.
diaze106@newschool.edu	Diaz Gras	Elisa
	Dragomir	Cristina
FerrA487@newschool.edu	Ferreyra-Barreiro*	Aleida	Research Interests: Intellectual and Social History, Immigration and Transnational History (Cuba, Spain, United States), American Politics and Political Theory. Dissertation Title:"Rolling for the Revolution: A Transnational History of Cuban Cigarmakers in Havana, South Florida and New York City, 1850s-1890s."
FiguC936@newschool.edu	Figueroa	Carlos	Research Interests: American Political Development; Politics of U.S. citizenship, immigration & nationality; Public Law (Constitutional law, American Jurisprudence, & Judicial Review); Puerto Rican politics.
furioused@aol.com	Fong*	Edmund	Research Interests: Identity and Identifications in political formations, Critical Race Theory and Poststructuralism, American political history and thought, Postcolonial critiques, American political development. Dissertation Title: "Multicultural Miscegenations: Cultural pluralism and representations of race in post-60's US."
frant151@newschool.edu	Frank	Thomas	Research Interests: Political philosophy of international relations, history of western political thought, the concept of sovereignty in the age of globalization.
ganna666@newschool.edu	Gannaway	Adam
gonze459@newschool.edu	Gonzalez	Edward	Research Interests: Women's political parties, electoral politics, gender and comparative politics, and democratic theory. Areas of Special Focus."Northern Ireland and Iceland.
GordW860@newschool.edu	Gordon*	William	Research Interests: American political development, electoral and political party systems, comparative governmental institutions, American constitutional law, and international organizations. Dissertation Title: "Why Minor Political Parties Fail in the United States: The Electoral and Governmental Barriers to Minor Party Persistence."
GretzM01@newschool.edu	Gretz	Michael	Research Interests: Political theory, Marxism, the history of international communism, labor history with a geographic focus on Western Europe.
GritM210@newschool.edu	Gritter*	Matthew	Research Interests: The role of race and ethnicity in shaping American Political Development in the 20th Century. Dissertation Title: "Democracy at Home: The Place of Mexican Americans in the Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy."
halek253@newschool.edu	Haley	Karl	Research Interests: Political theory, American conservatism, US politics and religious fundamentalism, peacekeeping, Canada.
HaysK730@newschool.edu	Haysom*	Keith	Research Interests: Social justice and social democracy, critical theory, philosophy of social science.
152570@newschool.edu	Holland*	Kyra	Research Interests: Critical theory, Jurgen Habermas, Democratic Theory. Dissertation Title: "Setting the Boundaries of Utopia in a Post-Socialist Era: The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas."
HurtS01@newschool.edu	Hurt*	Shelley	Dissertation Title: "Science, Power, and the State: U.S. Foreign Policy, Intellectual Property Law, and the Origins of Agricultural Biotechnology, 1969-1994." Position: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vassar College, AY 2006-2007.
desihur@hotmail.com	Hurtak*	Desiree	Research Interests: Environmental social movements and political change. Dissertation Title: "The European Union and the Environmental Movement in Europe: An Analysis of the Purpose of Insider Status."
IlizC263@newschool.edu	Ilizarbe*	Carmen	Research Interests: Democratic theory; political imaginaries, political discourses and ideology; processes of political change in Latin America.Dissertation Title: “Deepening Democracy? The Democratic Imaginary and the Reconfiguration of the Public Sphere in Peru, 1997-2006”
IngraJ01@newschool.edu	Ingram*	James
IshiN910@newschool.edu	Ishihara	Nami	Research Interests: Middle East politics, culture and politics, family law reforms.
JaraA989@newschool.edu	Jaramillo Torres*	Angel	Research Interests: Theories of ancient and modern tyrannies and wars; the political philosophy of Leo Strauss; French political thought.
JoneK669@newschool.edu	Jones*	Kristine	Research Interests: Political identity & recognition, transnational social movements, globalization.˜ Regions include: Asia, Central American, Southern Africa. Dissertation Title: "Zapatismo v. Shangri-l." Political Identity in the Transnational Movements of Mexico and Tibet."
JoseM080@newschool.edu	Joseph	Maya	Research Interests: Food and politics, political philosophy, phenomenology.
JoycA995@newschool.edu	Joyce	Adam	Research Interests: U.S. economic and foreign policy; political economy; international relations; the spread of democracy by force.
karamw72@newschool.edu	Karaman	Wilson	Research Interests: Marxist dialectical method, 20th century American political history, the Progressive Era, political language, and the roles of religion and science in American politics.
karag263@newschool.edu	Karavitis	Gerasimos
KatoD861@newschool.edu	Kato*	Daniel	Research Interests: American political development, constitutional theory, race and labor history. Dissertation Title: "Liberalism, lynching, and constitutional anarchy."
KimM712@newschool.edu	Kim	Man Kwon	Research Interests: Constitutional Poliitcs; Political Theory; Liberal Political Philosophy.
KabaGK@aol.com	Kwotuah*	Gregory	Research Interests: Regime change, identity politics, institutional structures, and stability/instability; why some countries enjoy relative political stability and others are engulfed in upheavals in Africa south of the Sahara.
LangB739@newschool.edu	Langenberger	Birgit
LathY608@newschool.edu; Yannet_L@yahoo.com	Lathrop	Yannet	Research Interests: Working class formation, the history and theory of revolutionary movements, the history of socialist and communist thought in the United States, Hegel and Marx/Engels, modern political theory.
LeeC608@newschool.edu	Lee	Choong Hoon	Research Interests: The politics of international population movement and its control, transnational migration, the politics of Korean Americans, Japanese colonialism, North Korean refugees.
lernj908@newschool.edu; Website: http://www.linesofflight.net	Lerner	Josh	Research Interests: Participatory democracy; Participatory planning; Democratic learning; New politics; Participatory budgeting in North America and Latin America; Transformative political games.
majop364@newschool.edu	Majorosova	Pavlina
mansd318@newschool.edu	Mansbach	Daniela	Research Interests: Politics of Resistance; Everyday Forms of Resistance; Mimicry; Gender; Social Movements.
mccoa737@newschool.edu	McCown	Alex
mcelc774@newschool.edu	McElderry	Christina	Research Interests: Political theory, particularly theories of power, freedom, sovereignty, and responsibility.
MillL339@newschool.edu	Miller*	Laura	Research Interests: Political and moral theory and American political history. Dissertation Title: "The Religion Clauses as a Right to Ethical Self-Determination:˜The Decline of the Secular/Religious Distinction and the Rise of Religious Identity Claims in US Constitutional Law."
MilsB300@newschool.edu	Milstein*	Brian	Research Interests: Critical social theory, political theory, world politics, the state, Kant, Foucault, and Habermas. Dissertation Title: "The Power of Autonomy: Toward a Critical Social Theory of Cosmopolitanism."
MireA100@newschool.edu	Mirescu*	Alexander	Research Interests: Comparative Politics, former Yugoslavia and Balkan issues, democracy in Eastern Europe, European Union and eastern expansion, religion and ethnic conflict.
MulcaD01@newschool.edu	Mulcare*	Daniel	My dissertation is on the role that slavery and the racial politics around it played in the development of the American government during the antebellum period.
nevesr39@newschool.edu	Neves	Raphael	Research Interests: Critical Theory; Theories of Democracy; Deliberative Democracy; Empirical Approaches on Deliberation or Arguing.
NewmO121@newschool.edu	Newman*	Olivia	Research Interests: Political liberalism, theories of justice, education, and political psychology. Dissertation Title: "Psychological realism and the case for shared values in the polity and the classroom."
nienb118@newschool.edu	Nienass	Benjamin	Research Interests: Constructivism in International Relations; Discourse Analysis; European Identity.
novab236@newschool.edu	Novak	Benjamin
parel880@newschool.edu	Paremoer	Lauren	Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, citizenship and the state in contemporary South Africa; the impact of HIV-AIDS on citizenship claims in South Africa.
PereA831@newschool.edu	Perez	Alfredo	Research Interests: Normative political theory, cosmopolitanism and sovereignty, theories of human nature, and political economy.
peted181@newschool.edu	Peters	Damon
PinkJ942@newschool.edu	Pinkard*	John
PoulD226@newschool.edu	Poulos*	Diana
PrecJ896@newschool.edu	Preciado Lopez	Jesus Isaac	Research Interests: Comparative politics, democratic consolidation and inequality, political institutions and historical studies.
320453@newschool.edu	Prifti	Oltion
QuiroM01@newschool.edu	Quiroz-Becerra	Maria	Research Interests: Transnational communities, collective action across borders, political inclusion/exclusion, politics of representation, feminist theory. Proposal Title:"Refashioning Citizenship Through Transnational Collective Action: Mexicans in New York-Puebla".
leonardo_reales@yahoo.com	Reales Jimenez	Leonardo	Research Interests: Afro-descendants, ethnic identity and political participation in Latin America.
reifn892@newschool.edu	Reifer*	Nancy	Research Interests: Political theory; the political thought of Hannah Arendt; American and comparative constitutional law; the development of civil rights and liberties in the modern state; educational policy. Dissertation Title:"From Law and Power to Ideology and Terror: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Concepts of Totalitarianism and Imperialism".
rialc225@newschool.edu	Rialas	Christos	Research Interests: American politics with a minor in Political Theory.˜ His research interests focus on US federal healthcare policy as well as science and technology related policies in the United States. Note: Christos is a neuroscientist who returned to school for a Doctorate in Political Science. ˜He received his MA in Political Science in January 2006.
richd702@newschool.edu	Richards	Daniel
mvriddell@earthlink.net	Riddell*	Mary	Research Interests: Issues relating to gender, sexuality, human rights, feminist political theory Dissertation Topic: "Redefining reproduction: assisted reproductive technology and egg donation on the internet."
	Romero-Leon	Luis	Research Interests: Political philosophy and critical theory; Immigration, citizenship and political identity. Working Dissertation Title:"Democracy and the Foreigner."
rusta294@newschool.edu	Rustemova	Assel	Research Interests: Essentialist and Anti-essentialist definitions of nationalism, ethos of neoliberalism, questions of economic development. Working Proposal Title: "Reflections on Central Asia or how neoliberal ethos redefines perspectives of nationhood."˜
bill.sachs@gmail.com	Sachs	William	Dissertation Focus: The formation of a union of New York State professional (Public Employees Federation) workers.˜ I will be examining their social and political activism, their"fit" in modern American labor movement and their procedures and internal politics.
SavaiS01@newschool.edu	Savaiano*	Scott
ASchmidt@kenyon.com	Schmidt	Andrew	Research Interests: Democratic theory, comparative politics in the developing world. Dissertation Title: "Autonomy or Unity: National Identity in Zanzibar."
eschwartz@cambridge.org	Schwartz*	Eric	Research Interests: Political Theory. Dissertation Title:"The Passions and the Interests and the British Empiricist Tradition."
simojudith@gmail.com	Simonsen*	Judith	Research Interests: Moral and political theory, epistemology, power, history of medicine. Dissertation Title:"Knowledge and Power: The Role of Science and Psychiatry in the American Eugenics Movement."
SkouG390@newschool.edu	Skouras	George
StafA350@newschool.edu	Stafford	Adrienne
SteiS686@newschool.edu	Steinhilber	Silke
bsyrrakos@yahoo.com	Syrrakos*	Barbara	Research Interests: Governance and sovereignty theory, federalism, Modern Europe. Dissertation Title: "Multi-Level Governance, Agriculture Policy, and Small States in the European Union."
taylor.sarah@gmail.com	Taylor*	Sarah	Research Interests: Comparative politics, particularly looking at conflict and gender; Latin American politics; identity politics; nationalism. Proposal Title: "A Better Peac." Including Women in Conflict Negotiations."
terrj810@newschool.edu	Terrell	Jennifer	Research Interests: African politics, land reform, democratic theory, postcolonial studies. Dissertation Title: "The Paradox of Rights in the Postcolonial State: ˜Land, Recognition, and Equality in South Africa." ˜
TesfM863@newschool.edu	Tesfamichael	Meron
TopaA927@newschool.edu	Topal*	Aylin	Research Interests: Political economy, comparative politics, Middle East.
	Van Den Breemer*	Rosemarie	Research Interests: Comparative Politics; Liberal and Democratic Theory; Religion, Identity, Islam; State Church Relations and European History. Dissertation Title: "Secularism Revisited: A Comparative Study of Secularism as Practice in the Netherlands, France and Britain."
vandn333@newschool.edu	Van Der Zwan	Natascha	Research Interests: Political Economy of Western Europe and the United States; Political Theories of Capitalism; Business and Labor History; Class Identities; Employee Ownership; Pension Politics. Dissertation Title: "American Labor and the Financialization of Work: A Study of Class in an Ownership Society."
VargoM01@newschool.edu	Vargova*	Mariela	Research Interests: Constitutionalism, justice and democracy; political judgment; relationship between politics and law. Dissertation Title: "Democratic Constitution in-Process."
vimoj294@newschool.edu	Vimo	Jacqueline
VoroT601@newschool.edu	Voronoff*	Timothy John	Research Interests: Political philosophies of Spinoza and Hobbes in the areas of epistemology and emotion, theories of political bodies and democracy, and theories of the affects, and their impact on the idea of the body. Dissertation Title: "Ruling Emotion: Spinoza, Hobbes and the Politics of Fear."
WaksE447@newschool.edu	Waksman	Efrat	Contemporary democratic theory, social solidarity and the epistemologies of late-modernity.
wille480@newschool.edu	Wills	Emily	Research Interests: Middle Eastern politics; Gender; Discourse and Politics; Identity.
yescc566@newschool.edu	Yescas Angeles Trujano	Carlos
yins437@newschool.edu	Yin	Shao Loong	Research Interests: Imperialism, colonialism, & national liberation in Third World countries; Anti-Eurocentric research and redesign of Third World social science curricula; Transnational corporations, international environmental agreements, world trade. Proposal Title: "Malaysia and Western Domination - the psychological, economic and political bases of colonialism."
zebav450@newschool.edu	Zebadua Yanez	Veronica Alicia	Research Interests: Modern and contemporary political theory; Political violence; Feminism; Radical democracy.

STUDENTS' ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Lisa Gurley (PhD Candidate, Political Science) recently presented a paper at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington , DC (over the Labor Day weekend). The paper was titled "Challenging Western Thought: Irigaray and the Concept of Reason". She also recently published a book entitled Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy along with fellow Political Science student, Claudia Leeb (PhD Candidate and another colleague at the NSSR, Anna Aloisia Moser. The book was published by the Philosophy & Politics Series of Peter Lang Publishers.

Mariela Vargova (PhD Candidate, Political Science) recently published her article, “Democratic Deficits of Dualist Deliberative Constitutionalism: Bruce Ackerman and Jurgen Habermas,” in Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Vol. 18, No.3, September 2005, pp365-386).

Adam Lupel recently published "Tasks of a Global Civil Society: Held, Habermas and Democratic Legitimacy beyond the Nation-State," in GLOBALIZATIONS, Vol. 2, No.1 (May 2005).

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