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American Politics

 

Name               Year   Email Research Interest
Emily Anderson 2008 anderson.1810[at]osu.edu

Political psychology, voting behavior, public opinion, religion and politics.

Vanessa Bouche 2005 bouche.1[at]polisci.osu.edu

American Foreign Policy in the Middle East, with a Focus on Inter-Institutional Politics; Quantitative Methods; Political Psychology.

Lakeyta Bonnette 2004 bonnette.15[at]osu.edu

Public opinion, political psychology, minority politics, American government,gender politics, and voting behavior.

Sarah Bryner 2006 bryner.3[at]osu.edu

Political Communication; Gender and Politics; Environmental Politics.

Jeff Budziak 2006 budziak.3[at]osu.edu

Judicial Politics, Judicial Decision-Making, Federal Appellate Courts and Political Methodology.

Dino Christenson 2004 christenson.24[at]polisci.osu.edu

Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Elite Behavior; Survey Research; Interest Groups; Quantitative Methods; Political Psychology.

Delton T. Daigle 2003 daigle.8[at]osu.edu

US Politics; Canadian Politics; Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Campaign Dynamics.

Samuel DeCanio 2000 samueldecanio[at]hotmail.com

Voting Behavior and Public Opinion; Interest Groups and Civic Engagement; American Political Development; State Theory and State Formation; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Christopher Devine 2006 devine.61[at]osu.edu

Political Psychology, Voting Behavior and Elections, Political Parties, Public Opinion, Ideology, Party Identification.

Monique Fournet 2005 fournet.1[at]osu.edu

Judicial Politics; Gender Politics; Race Politics; Quantitative Methods; Survey Methodology.

Erik Heidemann 2004 hediemann.3[at]osu.edu

American Politics: Political Parties, Elections, and Voting Behavior; Political Psychology, and Survey Methodology.

Kyle C. Kopko 2005 kopko.5[at]osu.edu

American Politics; Judicial Politics; Constitutional Law; State & Local Politics; Religion & Politics; Political Psychology.

Chryl Laird 2006 laird.40[at]osu.edu

Race and Politics; Black Voting Behavior and Political Participation; Minority Youth Voting Behavior and Civic Engagement.

Daniel Lempert 2006 lempert.4(at)osu.edu

American Politics.

Dorothy "Didi" Lund 2007 lund.29[at]osu.edu

Political Behavior and Ideology; Latino Politics; Women in Politics.

Todd Makse 2003 makse.1[at]osu.edu

Congressional and State Legislative Redistricting; Legislative Elections; Public Policy Diffusion; Political Parties; Legislative Politics; State Politics; Direct Democracy.

Roneka Matheny 2005 matheny.43[at]osu.edu

Comparative Racial Politics, specifically the Politics of African Diaspora Communities in Latin America. 

Erin McAdams 2002 mcadams.19[at]osu.edu

Voting Behavior; Party Politics; Public Opinion; Religion and Politics; Survey Research Methodology.

Banks Miller 2004 miller.3676[at]osu.edu

Judicial Politics; Research Methods; State Courts, Federal Appellate Courts and Judicial Decision Making.

De'Mel Mojica 2006 mojica.2[at]polisci.osu.edu

Judicial Decision Making; Latino Politics; Constitutional Law; Judicial Politics; Race and Politics; and Gender Politics.

Steven Nawara 2006 nawara.1[at]osu.edu

Voting Behavior, Political Parties, Elections, Survey Research, Political Methodology.

Tina D. Pierce 2001 pierce.252[at]osu.edu

Dissertation: Political Leadership and Policy Preferences: A Case Study of the Columbus Board of Education.

Corwin Smidt 2002 smidt.2[at]osu.edu

Campaigns and Mass-level Opinion and Electoral Behavior.

Anand E. Sokhey 2003 sokhey.2[at]osu.edu

Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Elite Behavior; Religion & Politics; Methodology.

Dana Wittmer 2005 wittmer.8[at]osu.edu

Gender and Politics; Judicial Politics; Political Psychology.

 

Comparative Politics

Name               Year   Email Research Interest
Richard Arnold 2003 arnold.301[at]osu.edu

Comparative Ethnic Politics; Forms of Ethnic Violence; Political Parties and Political Theory.

Quintin Beazer 2004 beazer.1[at]osu.edu

Post-communist Political Economy; Methods; Game Theory.

C. Travis Bunner 2008 bunner.15[at]osu.edu

Comparative Political Economy; Latin American Politics; Labor Politics; Social Welfare Policy; US Foreign Policy.

Soundarya Chidambaram 2004 chidambaram.2[at]osu.edu

Ethnic Politics; Political Economy of Ethnic Violence; Communal Riots in India.

Michael Cohen 2002 cohen.271[at]polisci.osu.edu

Parties and Elections; Comparative Political Institutions of the Developed World; Federalism; Public Policy Diffusion.

Daniel O. Davis 2006 davis.2397[at]osu.edu

Comparative Political Deliberation; Democratic Theory; Technocratic Politics/Governance.

Delia Dumitrescu 2003 dumitrescu.5[at]osu.edu

Political Communication and Political Behavior in Advanced Industrialized Countries; Political Psychology.

Dissertation: Political Posters: An Old Form of Campaign Communication in a New Light. Why Do Politicians Use Posters and to What Effect? 

Miryam Farrar 2006 farrar.23[at]osu.edu

Political parties, democratization, authoritarian regimes, Latin America.

Shelly Wilkinson 2007 wilkinosn.143[at]osu.edu

Political Economy of Development; Latin American Politics.

Rebecca Haimowitz 2006 haimowitz.2[at]osu.edu

Democratization, quality of democratic governance, civil society and media in politics.

Nanaho Hanada 2003 hanada.2[at]polisci.osu.edu

Nonprofit Organizations and Political Empowerment; Women and Politics; Civic Engagement; Community Involvement and Women; Women in Japan.

Djayadi Hanan 2007 hanan.2[at]osu.edu

Legislature Reform; Decentralization; Political Leadership; Social Movement and Civil Society.

Sinan Hastorun 2003 hastorun.1[at]osu.edu

Comparative Political Economy, International Political Economy, Economic Growth and Development in Japan, East Asia, Turkey, Middle East, Eastern Europe.

Suh Jiwon 2006 suh.79[at]polisci.osu.edu

Democratization; Social Movements and Development of Modern Political Concepts with a Focus on Southeast and East Asia, particularly Thailand.

Danielle Langfield 2002 langfield.1[at]osu.edu

Dissertation: The Effects of the Changing Political Party System, Particularly at the Local Level, on the Consolidation of South Africa’s Democracy.

Didi Lund 2007 lund.29[at]osu.edu

Ethnic conflict, democratization, and voting behavior.

Jason Morgan 2008 morgan.746[at]osu.edu

Comparative politics, methodology, Central European politics, political economy, nation-state formation.

Dag Mossige 2002 mossige.1[at]osu.edu

Comparative Political Institutions; Democratic Transitions and Consolidation. Dissertation: Comparative Study of the Argentine Partido Justicialista-Frente para la Victoria and the Mexican Partido de la Revolución Democrática.

Scott R. Powell 2005 powell.413[at]osu.edu

Comparative Political Economy, Social Protection in Industrialized Democracies, Political Methodology.

Yoon-Ah Oh 2005 oh.146[at]osu.edu

International Migration and Its Impact on Developing Countries, Comparative Immigration Policy, Democracy and Development, Southeast and East Asian Politics, Political Methodology.

Hiram J. I. Osorio 1996 irizarry-osorio.1[at]osu.edu

Dissertation : The Politics of Taxation in Argentina and Brazil in the Last Twenty Years of the 20th Century.

Yusuf Sarfati 2001 sarfati.1[at]osu.edu

Politics of the Middle East, Religion and Politics, Culture and Politics, Social Movements, Political Theory, Democratic Theory
Dissertation:
State Co-optation, Religiopolitical Actors, and the Mobilization of Sociocultural Cleavages: A Comparative Study of the Rise of Religious Parties in Turkey and Israel.

Sarah W. Sokhey 2003 sokhey.3[at]osu.edu

The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-communist Countries.     Dissertation: The Transformation of the Welfare State in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.

Konstantin Vossing 2002 vossing.1[at]osu.edu

Institutions of Advanced Democracies; Comparative Political Parties; Comparative Political Behavior; Political Development: EU Studies.

Dinna Wisnu 2001 wisnu.3[at]osu.edu

Dissertation: Identifying and Explaining the Variation of Social Security Reforms post the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore.

Christina Xydias 2003 xydias.1[at]osu.edu

     Women in politics, German politics, comparative electoral systems, democratic theory, gender theory, and terror and terrorism.

Dissertation: Women Representing Women: Pathways to Substantive Representation.

Amanda K. Yates 2006 akyates[at]gmail.com

Political Economy of Development and Democratization.

A. Kadir Yildirim 2004 yildirim.10[at]osu.edu

Comparative Political Economy; Globalization, and Social Protection in Developing Countries; Turkey and Middle East.

 

International Relations

Name               Year   Email Research Interest
Justin Acome 2007 acome.1[at]osu.edu

Identity, representation, and practice.

Vonna Adams 2007 adams.818[at]polisci.osu.edu

Foreign Policy; International Security; Sources of International Conflict; Construction of and Roles of Power; Politics of Development.

Bentley B. Allan 2006 allan.29[at]polisci.osu.edu

International Organizations; International Security; Constructivism; Qualitative Methods.

Emilie Becault 2005 becault.1[at]polisci.osu.edu

International Relations theory (especially historical sociology), international security and peace research, global governance. Dissertation: Punishment, Resistance, and International Relations.

Daniel Blake 2004 blake.165[at]polisci.osu.edu

International Political Economy; Rationalist Theories of Institutions; Quantitative Studies of International Security; Methods; Game Theory.

Zoltán I. Búzás 2007 buzas.7[at]osu.edu

Social Theories of International Relations; Philosophy of Science; Transatlantic Relations; European Integration and European Identity; the Renaissance Italian Subsystem.

Austin Carson 2007 carson.153[at]osu.edu

IR Theory; Security Studies; US WMD and Defense Policy; Political Psychology; Qualitative Methods.

Aldous Cheung 2007 cheung.97[at]polisci.osu.edu

IR Theory; The Social Construction of Sovereignty; International Norms; Legitimacy; Political Theory.

Eun Bin Chung 2008 chung.372[at]osu.edu

 

Kevin J. Duska Jr. 2007 duska.1[at]polisci.osu.edu

Anomie; Comparative Historical Foreign Policy Analysis; Collective Emotion and Sovereignty; Durkheim and Weber in IR; Processes of State Identity Change; Qualitative Methods; Transatlantic Relations.

Miryam Farrar 2006 farrar.23[at]osu.edu

Security; Foreign Policy; Creation of Conflict; the Conflict in the Middle East; the Transitions to Democracy in Southern Europe and South America.

Caleb Gallemore 2006 gallemore.1[at]polisci.osu.edu

20th Century Continental Political Theory, particularly the Work of Gilles Deleuze; Global Governance Institutions, particularly the European Union.

Seth M. Goldstein 2003 goldstein.95[at]osu.edu

IR Theory; Political Psychology; Foreign Policy; International Security.
Dissertation: 'Image-ning' Credibility: The Perceptual Logic of Domestic Signaling in International Bargaining.

Erin Graham 2006 graham.474[at]osu.edu

International Organization; International Institutions; Regime Design.

Marcus Holmes 2006 holmes.504[at]polisci.osu.edu

IR Theory; International Political Economy; Political Psychology; Corporate Social Responsibility; Media and Politics; the Public Interest.

Dane Imerman 2003 imerman.2[at]osu.edu

IR Theory; International Norms and Norm Change; Social Theories of Institutions; Hegemony and Hegemonic Decline; Qualitative Methods.  Dissertation: The Politics of Progress in International Relations.

Benjamin Jones 2007 jones.2781[at]polisci.osu.edu

International Security; IR Theory; The Sources of International Conflict; Foreign Policy; Alliance Behavior.

Jason Keiber 2006 keiber.4[at]osu.edu

IR Theory, International Organization, Security.

Joshua D. Kertzer 2007 kertzer.1[at]osu.edu

International Security; Political Psychology; American Foreign Policy; Strategic Culture; Public Opinion

TongFi Kim 2003 kim.1740[at]osu.edu

Alliance Theory and International Security Affairs of Northeast Asia.

Rebecca Lightle 2004 lightle.21[at]osu.edu

Political Psychology; Foreign Policy; Socialization and Norm Dynamics Among States; Iran and Its Relationship with Other Muslim-majority Countries.

Fernando Nunez Mietz 2006 nunez.19[at]osu.edu

IR Theory, Systems Theory, International Political Authority, International Rule of Law.

Jenny Nowlin 2005 nowlin.17[at]polisci.osu.edu

Near East Politics; Foreign Policy.

Autumn Lockwood Payton 2003 payton.29[at]osu.edu

International Relations

Dissertation: How Weak States Dominate the Design of International Institutions?

John Oates 2005 oates.35[at]osu.edu

IR theory, international organization, theories of sovereignty.

Xiaoyu Pu 2006 pu.8[at]osu.edu

IR Theory; International Security; Comparative Politics; China’s Foreign Policy; Political Psychology.

Michael Reese   reese.150[at]osu.edu

International Security; Crises; Asymmetric Relationships; Empire; International Legitimacy; Nuclear Weapons and National Security; Nationalism.

Amanda M. Rosen 2002 rosen.81[at]osu.edu

Environmental Politics (Multilevel Governance of International Climate Change); Transatlantic Security; Terrorism; The US-UK "Special Relationship"; American Politics

Byungwon Woo 2003 woo.54[at]polisci.osu.edu

International Political Economy; International Institutions; Economic Sanctions, WTO Dispute Settlement Process; Formal Theory; Methods.   Dissertation: The Effect of Domestic Interests in International Economic Bargaining.

Joshua Su-Ya Wu 2008 wu.639[at]osu.edu

IR theory (especially exploring if neo-realism is still relevant), nationalism, international security, Asia, and environmental politics.

Clément Wyplosz 2005 wyplosz.1[at]osu.edu

International Security; Middle-Eastern Politics, Religion and Politics; Nationalism; Conflicts in the Third-World.

 

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