Current and Completed PhD Dissertations & Placements
ABD | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
ABD
Baker, Eric
- Dissertation Title: The Epistemic Community of Sustainable Development at the Local Level: Two Case Studies
- Chair: Rosenbaum
- Placement: East Carolina University (visiting)
Bardsley, Lance
- Dissertation Title: The Politics of Devolution: Institutionalizing Subnational Legislatures in Scotland and Wales
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Gainesville College (Georgia)
Bow, Shannon
- Dissertation Title: Regionalism in Presidential Rhetoric
- Chair: Conley / Dodd
- Placement: University of Texas - Austin (lecturer)
Moody, Eric M.
- Dissertation Title: Landmines on the Table: A negotiations analysis of the global campaign to ban landmines, 1991-1997.
- Chair: Barkin
- Placement: U.S. Air Force
Nazworth, Napp
- Dissertation Title: The Structure of the Christian Right
- Chair: Wald
- Placement: University of Texas - Tyler (visiting)
2006
Moore, Kelli
- Dissertation Title: How Do Organizations Matter? The Effects of Civic Organizations on Ethnic Relations in England and Beyond
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. (NTA)
Straus, Jacob R.
- Dissertation Title: Amateurs and professionals in the House of Representatives: the impacts of pre-congressional political experience
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Assistant Professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland (TT)
2005
Ellis, David
- Dissertation Title: Defending the international interest
- Chair: Barkin
- Placement: Visiting professor of political science at New College of Florida (NTA)
Gainous, Jason
- Dissertation Title: Having our cake and eating it too: Americans' ambivalence about social welfare
- Chair: Craig/Martinez
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. (TT)
Hoon, Parakh
- Dissertation Title: Between Exchange and Reciprocity: The politics of wildlife conservation and agricultural intensification in Botswana and Zambia
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Visiting Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (NTA)
Mousa, Waleed
- Dissertation Title: Islam, democracy, and governance: Sudan and Morocco in a comparative perspective
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Director, Center for Governance, Khartoum, Sudan (NA)
Seri, Guillermina
- Dissertation Title: Policing and Democracy: The Influence of Narratives on Police Discretion
- Chair: Anderson/Thiele
- Placement: 2005-6 academic year post-doctoral fellowship at Colgate University
Spadoni, Paolo
- Dissertation Title: Effectiveness of economic sanctions in the context of globalization and transnational linkages: the case of Cuba
- Chair: McCoy
- Placement: Visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. (NTA)
Wagner, Kevin
- Dissertation Title:Image, Authority and Change: Reconstructing Representation in the Modern Era
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. (TT)
2004
Albarracin, Julia
- Dissertation Title: Selecting immigration in modern Argentina: economic, cultural, international and institutional factors
- Chair: Williams
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Illinois University. (TT)
Aguayo, Javier
- Dissertation Title: The Legislature Strikes Back in Peru: The Role of Congress in the Demise of Fujimori in 2000
- Chair: Anderson
- Placement: Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Denison University. (TT)
Baia, Larissa
- Dissertation Title: Christianity and the Imagined Latino Self: The Emergence of Pan-ethnic Identity Amongst Latinos in Paterson, New Jersey
- Chair: Anderson
- Placement: Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions at Lynn University (NA)
Behringer, Ronald
- Dissertation Title: Middle Power Leadership on Human Security
- Chair: Oren
- Placement: Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. (NTA)
Bolus, John M.
- Dissertation Title: The road to public sector reform in Argentina's provinces
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. (TT)
Press, Robert
- Dissertation Title: Establishing a Culture of Resistance: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Authoritarian Kenya, 1987-2002
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. (TT)
2003
Fuentes, Vilma Elisa
- Dissertation Title: The Political Effects of Disaster and Foreign Aid: National and Subnational Governance in Honduras After Hurricane Mitch
- Chair: Anderson
- Placement: Teaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Santa Fe Community College. (TT)
Leslie, Agnes George Ngoma.
- Dissertation Title: Social movement and democracy in Africa: the impact of women's struggle for equal rights in Botswana
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Outreach Director for the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. (NA)
Walker, Lee D.
- Dissertation Title: The Democratic Arbiter: The Role of the Judiciary in the Democratic Consolidation Process in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
- Chair: Anderson
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. (TT)
2002
Gordon, Joshua Barrett.
- Dissertation Title: The power of the purse reconsidered : partisanship and social integration in the House appropriations committee
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Policy analyst at the Concord Coalition in Washington, DC. (NA)
Greaves, Edward F.
- Dissertation Title: Reorganizing Popular Civil Society: Popular Movements, Municipalities And The State in Post-Dictatorship Chile, 1990-2000
- Chair: Anderson
- Placement: Assistant professor of political science at St. Cloud State University (TT)
Kenney, Michael C.
- Dissertation Title: Outsmarting the state : a comparative case study of the learning capacity of Colombian drug traffic
- Chair: Williams
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Pennsylvania State University Capitol College. (TT)
Nisley, Thomas Jay
- Dissertation Title: Democracy promotion and U.S. foreign policy : the role of domestic norms
- Chair: Brown
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Polytechnic State University (TT)
Reid, Audley George, Jr.
- Dissertation Title: Distinct paths: race and public housing in postwar Toronto and Chicago
- Chair: Button
Rogers, Peter J.
- Dissertation Title: The political ecology of pastoralism, conservation, and development in the Arusha region of Northern Tanzania
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College. (TT)
Silverman, Adam L.
- Dissertation Title: An exploratory analysis of an interdisciplinary theory of terrorism
- Chair: Wald
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Long Island University. (TT)
2001
Bird, Shawn L.
- Dissertation Title: Mitigating the crisis in democratization : municipal reform and local governance in El Salvador
- Chair: Williams
- Placement: Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Deptartment of State
Currinder, Marian
- Dissertation Title: Leadership PAC contribution strategies and House member ambitions
- Chair: Conway/ Dodd
- Placement: Senior Fellow in the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. (TT)
Garrott, Luke
- Dissertation Title: Authenticity and ideology
- Chair: Thiele
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. (TT)
Oldmixon, Elizabeth
- Dissertation Title: Understanding the fight over good and evil : legislating morality in the U.S. House of Representatives
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. (TT)
Roth, Barbara N.
- Dissertation Title: Florida AFDC families : identifying elements that increase the probability of becoming economically independent
- Chair: Button
- Placement: Barbara Roth is deceased. Adjunct Professor prior to death (NTA))
2000
Marcus, Richard R.
- Dissertation Title: Cultivating democracy on fragile grounds : environmental institutions and non-elite perceptions
- Chair: Hyden
- Placement: Assistant Professor of international studies at California State University, Long Beach (TT)
Pfeifer, Kimberly
- Dissertation Title: Echoing silence and narcissistic violence
- Chair: Sanderson
- Placement: Research Director, OXFAM-USA, Washington D.C. (NA)
Schecter, David L.
- Dissertation Title: Evaluating the impact of direct democracy on voter turnout
- Chair: Conway
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University-Fresno (TT)
Wright, Fiona M.
- Dissertation Title: Congressional reform and its institutional consequences
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Assistant Professor of political science at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (TT)
Zarkin, Michael J.
- Dissertation Title: The transformation of US telecommunications policy : social learning and policy change, 1900-1996
- Chair: Dodd
- Placement: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Westminster College of Salt Lake City. (TT)
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