I very much enjoy working with students, and have had the
privilege of working with many excellent ones. Here I provide a list of current and past students I have advised or on whose dissertation committees I have served. If you are interested in working with me, I strongly recommend you: 1) check out the work on my Research page to assess fit and 2) contact me via e-mail.
Current Ph.D. Advisees (Some on the job market!)
- Gloria Cheung [Co-advised with Eddy Malesky]: authoritarian politics, comparative authoritarianism, and authoritarian consolidation. (On the job market!)
- Justine Robinson [Co-advised with Peter Feaver]: behavior within the military
- Stephanie Wright: recognition and its effects
Former Ph.D. Advisees (Some on the job market!)
- Pei-Yu Wei: Duke Ph.D. 2023, Strategic Third-Party Actors in Economic Sanctions, Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Clements Center for National Security (The University of Texas at Austin). (On the job market!)
- So Jin Lee [Co-advised with Peter Feaver]: Duke Ph.D. 2021, Carrots or Sticks? Positive Inducements and Sanctions in International Relations, Current Position: Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s International Security Program and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program. Starting Fall 2024, will be
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. - Marco Morucci [Co-advised with Cynthia Rudin]: Duke Ph.D. 2021, Methods for Robust and Interpretable Causal Inference and Analysis of Image Data for Political Science, Current Position: Moore-Sloan faculty fellow at New York University’s Center for Data Science. (On the job market!)
- Margaret Foster: Duke Ph.D. 2020, Between a Hammer and an Anvil: Bottom-Up Organizational Transformation, Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Duke University. (On the job market!)
- Katie Webster [Co-advised with Kyle Beardsley]: Duke Ph.D. 2019, Rethinking Civil War, Current Position: RS21.
- Christine Mele [Co-advised with Will Moore]: FSU Ph.D. 2013, Terrorism, Provocation, and Mobilization, Current Position: Data Governance Analyst, Clayton Homes.
- Carlisle Rainey [Co-advised with Bob Jackson], FSU Ph.D. 2013, Essays on the Role and Function of Political Parties, Current Position: Associate Professor at the Florida State University.
Current Ph.D. Committees
- Benjamin Broman (Duke)
Former Ph.D. Committees
- Kendrick Hardison (Duke, 2023)
- Gabriella Levy (Duke, 2023)
- Priscilla Torres (Duke, 2023)
- Ana Montoya (Duke, 2022)
- Gabriel Madson (Duke, 2021)
- Tusi (Ündes) Wen (Duke, 2020)
- Frances Duffy (UNC, 2020)
- Daniel Gustafson (UNC, 2020)
- Chong Chen (Duke, 2019)
- Noa Cnaan-On (Duke, 2019)
- Howard Liu (Duke, 2019)
- Chelsea Estancona (UNC, 2018)
- Xiaoli Guo (FSU, 2018)
- Asli Cansunar (Duke, 2018)
- Sophie Lee (Duke, 2017)
- Max Gallop (Duke, 2015)
- Ammar Shamaileh (FSU, 2015)
- Marius Radean (FSU, 2013)
- Daniel Hill (FSU, 2012)
- Nate Lee (FSU, 2012)
- Daniel Milton (FSU 2012)
- Sunhee Park (FSU, 2012)
- Justin Conrad (FSU, 2011)
- Robert Parillo (FSU, 2009)
MA Advisees
- Anisha Datta (Duke, 2022)
- Qi Liu (Duke, 2022)
- Saamia Noorali (Duke, 2019)
- Jaewon Chung (Duke, 2016)
Undergraduate Honors Advisees
- Kyle Melatti (Duke, 2022)
- Danielle French (Duke, 2018)
- Nick Johnston (Duke, 2017)
- Julia Janco (Duke, 2015)
- Michael Brandow (FSU, 2008)
- Wesley Yeary (FSU, 2007)