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. Students with Summary of Interests
- So Jin Lee (so.jin.lee ‘at’ duke.edu)[Co-advised with Peter Feaver]: Interested in sanctions and positive inducements in international relations, behavioral models, survey and lab experiments.
- Marco Morucci (marco.morucci ‘at’ duke.edu)[Co-advised with Cynthia Rudin]: Interested in methods for causal inference and computational social science, aid and conflict.
- Gloria Cheung (gloria.cheung ‘at’ duke.edu)[Co-advised with Eddy Malesky]: Interested in authoritarian regimes and control, elite defection, social networks.
- Pei-Yu Wei (pei.yu.wei ‘at’ duke.edu): Interested in sanctions, international political economy, formal theory.
- Anisha Datta (anisha.datta ‘at’ duke.edu): Interested in identity formation, migration.
Former Ph.D. Students
- Margaret Foster (margaret.foster ‘at’ duke.edu): Duke Ph.D. 2020, Between a Hammer and an Anvil: Bottom-Up Organizational Transformation, Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill.
- Katie Webster (kwebst12 ‘at’ uncc.edu) [Co-advised with Kyle Beardsley]: Duke Ph.D. 2019, Rethinking Civil War, Current Position: University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
- Christine Mele () [Co-advised with Will Moore]: FSU Ph.D. 2013, Terrorism, Provocation, and Mobilization, Current Position: Data Governance Analyst, Clayton Homes.
- Carlisle Rainey (crainey ‘at’ fsu.edu) [Co-advised with Bob Jackson], FSU Ph.D. 2013, Essays on the Role and Function of Political Parties, Current Position: Florida State University.
Current Ph.D. Committees
- Gabriella Levy (Duke)
- Gabriel Madson (Duke)
- Priscilla Torres (Duke)
- Tusi (Ündes) Wen (Duke)
Former Ph.D. Committees
- 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)
Undergraduate Honors Advisees
- Danielle French (Duke, 2018)
- Nick Johnston (Duke, 2017)
- Julia Janco (Duke, 2015)
- Michael Brandow (FSU, 2008)
- Wesley Yeary (FSU, 2007)