UF Political Science Graduate Job Candidates
Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Bryon Moraski - Email: bmoraski@ufl.edu
Placement Director: Badredine Arfi  - Email: barfi@ufl.edu

American Politics
Daniel Cicenia
Dissertation Title: "Surviving Legislative Deadlock: The 17th Amendment and Institutional Change in the US Senate"
Areas of Specialization: American Government (major), Methodology (minor), Political Behavior (minor)
Committee: Lawrence C. Dodd, Daniel A. Smith, Beth A. Rosenson,
Won-ho Park, Larry Kenney
Graduation Date: May 2010
Dissertation Abstract: MS Word
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
Kathryn L. Oates
Dissertation Title: "The Expansion of Interest Power: Religious Interests in the Supreme Court"
Areas of Specialization: Religion and Politics in America, Judicial Politics, Social Movements and Interest Groups, Methodology, Women in Politics, State and Local Government
Committee: Kenneth Wald (chair), Michael Martinez, Daniel Smith, Marcus Hendershot, Michael Heaney, Elizabeth Dale
Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Abstract: PDF
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Robert W. Scharr
Dissertation Title: "Agents of Exclusion: A Historical Analysis of Immigration Law vis-a-vis Asian-Americans and Latinos"
Areas of Specialization: American Institutions (major), IR (minor),  Race and Politics
Committee: Larry Dodd (chair), Sharon Wright Austin (co-chair), Badredine Arfi, Ken Wald, Joseph Murphy, Beth Rosenson
Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Dissertation Abstract and Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
Comparative Politics
Aaron Hale
Dissertation Title: "In Search of Peace: An Autopsy of Political Dimensions of Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo"
Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics (major), Public Policy (minor), Methodology (minor)
Committee: Leonardo Villalon (chair), Goran Hyden (co-chair), Staffan Lindberg, Aida Hozic, Rene Lemarchand (Retired, Emeritus), and Milagros Pena
Graduation Date: Spring 2009
Dissertation Abstract: MS Word
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
Stephen Marr
Dissertation Title: "Spaces of Aspiration, Liberation and Exclusion: Public Space and Politics in an African Democracy"
Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics (major), Political Theory (minor), African Studies (minor)
Dissertation Abstract: MS Word
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
International Relations
Ryan Kiggins
Dissertation Title: "Wired World: United States Policy and Governance of the Internet"
Areas of Specialization: International Relations (major), Political Theory (minor), Methodology – qualitative emphasis (minor)
Committee: Ido Oren, Aida Hozic, Leann Brown, Daniel O'Neill, David Ostroff
Graduation Date: Spring 2011
Dissertation Abstract: PDF
Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Ty Solomon
Dissertation Title: "Affect and Identification in U.S. Foreign Policy"
Areas of Specialization: International Relations (major), Political Theory (minor)
Committee: Badredine Arfi (chair), Ido Oren (co-chair), Aida Hozic, Leslie Paul Thiele, Terry Harpold
Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Abstract: PDF
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
Jonathan D. Wadley
Dissertation Title: "Sex Trafficking and the Reproduction of Europe: Identites, Integration, and the Politics of Protection"
Areas of Specialization: International Relations Theory, Gender Studies, International Security, European Studies
Graduation Date: December 2009
Committee: Aida A. Hozic (chair), J. Samuel Barkin (co-chair), M. Leann Brown, Leslie Paul Thiele, Kendal L. Broad
Dissertation Abstract: MS Word
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
Political Theory
James Maggio
Dissertation Title: "In Good Form: An Examination of the Political Dimension of the Formal Qualities of Art and Aesthetics"
Areas of Specialization: Political Theory, Aesthetic Theory, American Political Thought, Cultural Theory, Law and Legal Theory, American Government, Rhetoric
Committee: Leslie Thiele, Margaret Kohn, Daniel O’Neill, John Leavey
Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Dissertation Abstract: MS Word
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word
Public Policy
Ioannis Livanis
Dissertation Title: "European Union Environmental Policy: Muddling Through Theories that Explain Variation in Compliance"
Areas of Specialization: Public Administration and Policy (major), International Relations (minor), Comparative Politics (minor), European Politics, Environmental Policy
Graduation Date: Spring 2010
Committee: David Hedge, Amie Kreppel, Leann Brown, Lynn Leverty, Elias Dinopoulos
Dissertation Abstract: MS Word
Curriculum Vitae: MS Word

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