Dissertations from 2024
The Unitary Executive and Power in the Modern American Presidency, Maxwell J. Fuerderer
Legislating the Taboo: Taboo Subcultures, Political Communication, and Public Policy, Rebecca S. Krisel
Unpacking Normative Change: The United Nations at its 60th Anniversary, Giovanna Marques Kuele
Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976, Douglas A. Medina
The Crisis of Market Society and the Fascist Solution in the Work of Karl Polanyi, Nicholas E. Reynolds
Stop the Madness: Small Arms Related Internal Violence: Improving Micro-disarmament and Human Rights in Post Conflict Reconstruction, Paulette A. Southall
United States Foreign Policy Towards South Africa: From Constructive Engagement to Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, Jennifer J. Squires
Normative Orientations to Housing Activism and the Uneven Path to Nonprofitization in New York City, 1964–1989, Andrew Wilkes
Dissertations from 2023
Evolutions in Suicide Bombing: Exploring the Relationship Between the Tactic and Its Application by Non-state Armed Groups Across Various Conflict Zones Over Time, David E. Firester
Language And Conjuncture in Populist Strategy: Podemos And Contemporary Spanish Political Thought, Francisco J. Fortuño Bernier
David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History, Nicholas K. Petaludis
Authoritarian Coalitions in Democracies: The Politics of Elite and Mass Engagement with Democratic Backsliding, Dean G. Schafer
“Addiction” in U.S. Political Culture, Be Stone
Numbered, Weighed, Divided: Revolution and/as Apocalypse in the Modern Liberal Tradition, Asher J. Wycoff
Dissertations from 2022
Past Actions and Expertise: How States Infer Enemy Intentions, Yu Aoki
The Rise of a New Machine: Dominican Political Mobilization and Incorporation in New York City from 1991 to the Present, Fernando Aquino
Public Policy and the Business Life Cycle, Hugo Barreca
Legislating Against Liberties: Congress and the Constitution in the Aftermath of War, Harry Blain
Cooperation or Competition with China: Interest Groups and US Policy on Climate Change, Lucia G. Green-Weiskel
Narcommunication: The Messaging, Marketing, and Murder of Organized Crime, Philip L. Johnson
The Politics of Media Freedom, Kyong Mazzaro
Shame On You: The 2018 Senate Race and Gendered Language on Facebook and Twitter, Heather A. Mir
Purity, Exclusion, and Political Order in Colombia, Osha Smith-Gittelman
Gospels of (Anti)Inequality: The Politics of Biblical Interpretation in the New Poor People’s Campaign and Capitol Ministries, Jonathan Peter Tschudy
Dissertations from 2021
Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons: The United States and Italy as Case Studies, Paul Celentano
Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?, Sarah L. Kostecki
Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?, Sari Krieger Rivera
In the Shadow of China: Autonomy Movements and Local Government Responses in Hong Kong, Jessica M. Mahlbacher
Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community, Alison E. Parks
Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Colombian Political Landscape, Heidi A. Rhodes
Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels, Sally Sharif
Dissertations from 2020
In Search of Trojan Horses: The United Nations Culture War, Patricia Ackerman
The Politics of Femicide: Woman Making and Woman Killing in Turkey, Sumru Atuk
Threat Perceptions and Russian Foreign Policy: From Cooperation to Assertiveness, Angela Borozna
Dangerous Exhibitions: Erotic Justice and Comparative Constitutional Law, Elena Cohen
Thoughts of Becoming: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Bangladesh, Humayun Kabir
Searching for Pōhakuloa: A Citizen Scientist’s Journey in Aloha ‘Āina, Drake Logan
Beast-Gods, Bandits, and Beggar-Kings: The Traveler in Political Thought, Nader Sadre
Dissertations from 2019
The Counter-Patriotic Tradition in American Politics: Resistance, Nationhood, and Democracy, Maxwell Burkey
Imagined Futures: Feminist Science Studies in an Era of Climate Change Denial, Emily K. Crandall
Ungodly Freedom: How Philosophers Rise and Empires Fall in the Work of Leo Strauss, Eli Karetny
Between Politics and Morality: Hans Kelsen's Contributions to the Changing Notion of International Criminal Responsibility, Jason Kropsky
Claiming the Remains of the Past: The Return of Cultural Heritage Objects to Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, Pierre Losson
Coordination, Collaboration, and Delegation in EU Migration Management, Nicholas R. Micinski
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman
Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World, Amy B. Schiller
The Diffusion of a Movement Moment: Labor Organizing in the Shadow of Occupy Wall Street, Pamela Whitefield
Dissertations from 2018
Feeling as Knowing: Trans Phenomenology and Epistemic Justice, B. Lee Aultman
Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017, Elizabeth C. Eisenberg
State Unbuilding: Presidents and the American National Security State, 1952–2016, Adam M. McMahon
A History of Employee Ownership in the United States, Christopher Michael
The Politics of United States Army Doctrine, David C. Rasmussen
(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ, Paul M. Romita
Dissertations from 2017
Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jinu R. Abraham
Four Years, Three Months: Migrant Caregivers in Israel/Palestine, Rachel Brown
The Legitimacy of Global Legal Governance: Institutional Power and Human Rights Bias in International Criminal Justice, Martin J. Burke
Webs of War in the Congo: The Politics of Hybrid Wars, Conflict Networks, and Multilateral Responses 1996-2003, Tatiana Carayannis
Electoral System Effects: Institutions and Context or New and Old Democracies, Helen Chang
Rights and Feelings: Marriage Equality and the Language of Citizenship in Argentina and the United States, Julie Hollar
Thine Is the Kingdom: The Political Thought of 21st Century Evangelicalism, Joanna Tice Jen
Asymmetric Alliances and Side Payments: Alliance Politics Between Unequal Powers, Muhammad S. Kabir
A Political Ecology of Information: Media and The Dilemma of State Power in China, Michael L. Miller
Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency, Matthew Murray
Thresholds of Atrocity: Liberal Violence and the Politics of Moral Vision, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico, Domenico Romero
Dinosaurs for the Digital Age: Democratic Party Organization in the Twenty-First Century, Aaron B. Shapiro
Customer Management in the Internet Age, Joshua Sperber
The Bourgeois Crown: Capitalism and the Monarchy in Thailand, 1946–2016, Puangchon Unchanam
History and Politics in the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Nathan Wallace
Dissertations from 2016
Better Work and Global Governance, Paul Alois
The Politics of Middle Class Decline and Growth in Industrialized Democracies, 1980 to 2010, Young-hwan Byun
Assessing Social Protection Arrangements in Angola and Mozambique, Andre Cavaller Guzzi
Claiming Time: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith on Freedom and Futurity, Jennifer Corby
The Politics of Court Driven Morality Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage 1971-2015, Korey L. Hughes
Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding, Ervin Kallfa
Internet Access and Freedom: Constructing and Reacting to Transnational Norms about Internet Diffusion and Use, Heather L. Katz
Refractions Through the Secular: Islam, Human Rights and Universality, Zara Khan
“God Is Near": American Theocracy and the Political Theology of Joseph Smith, Alan P. Koenig
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike, José A. Laguarta Ramírez
Politics Between and Within Us: Authenticity and Theatricality in Modern Political Thought, Daniel J. McCool
Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory, John McMahon
The Transatlantic Oarsmen Cooperative: Doubling Down on a Transatlantic Financial Regulatory Regime, Joselyn Muhleisen
The Hermeneutics of International Trade Conflicts: U.S. Punitive Trade Policy Towards China and Japan, Barry F. Murdaco
Power and Proximity: The Politics of State Secession, Elizabeth A. Nelson
Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation, Sobukwe O. Odinga
The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, Heidi M. Rafferty-Reijm
"They have sold the clouds": Queering Indigenous Politics in Colombia, Taylor O. Ramsey
Richard A. Posner: A Study in Judicial Entrepreneurship, Sean J. Shannon
Social Ties and State Formation in Post-Soviet Central Asia, David Siegel
Dissertations from 2015
The People Behind the Presidential Bully Pulpit, Kara Susan Alaimo
Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity, Emily Cury
Getting Out of the Ghetto: Harm Reduction, Drug User Health, and the Transformation of Social Policy in New York, Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein
Immigration & Naturalization Policy Innovation Through Bureaucratic Reorganization, Neil Hernandez
The Voting Rights Act Under Siege: The Development of the Influence of Colorblind Conservatism on the Federal Government and the Voting Rights Act, Melanie Adrienne Jones
The Archdiocese Of New York: Transition From Urban Powerhouse To Suburban Institution, 1950-2000 A Case Study, Henry A. Sheinkopf
Dissertations from 2014
Diaspora As Development Actors: A Source Of Human And Social Capital For Local Development In Turkey, Meryem Senay Ataselim