Associate Professor of Political Science

Students

Past and Current Graduate Students

Peter Carey

PhD Candidate, University of California, Merced

Dissertation: Repression, Group Threat, & the Threat Environment

Dissertation Co-Chair (with Courtenay Conrad)

 

Dogus Aktan

PhD Candidate, University of Denver

Dissertation: How Does Violence Deter? Functional and Informational Effects of Preemptive Repression

Dissertation Committee Member (Cullen Hendrix, Chair)

Jennifer Barnes

Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University

Dissertation: Title TBD

Primary Advisor


Ae sil Woo

2020 PhD, University of California, Merced

Dissertation: Designing the Rules of the Game: Legislative Processes in Authoritarian Legislatures

Dissertation Committee Member (Courtenay Conrad, Chair)

Placement: Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College

Gina Lei Miller

2015 PhD, University of Alabama

Dissertation: Anticipating Backfire: The Effect of Institutions on Repression of Nonviolent Dissent

Dissertation Co-Chair (with Douglas Gibler)

Placement: Assistant Professor, George Fox University

Current: Associate Professor, George Fox University


Christopher Kromphardt

2015 PhD, University of Alabama

Dissertation: How Law Clerks Influence: U.S. Supreme Court Law Clerks as Information Sources

Dissertation Committee Member (Joseph Smith, chair)

Placement: Lecturer, Washington State University

Jacqueline M. Sievert

2014 PhD, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Dissertation: Authoritarianism and Information: Courts as Information Providers in Non-Democracies

Dissertation Committee Member (Harvey Palmer, chair)

Placement: Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University

Steven V. Miller

2012 PhD, University of Alabama

Dissertation: Territorial Threats and Individual Attitudes of Leadership, Corruption and Quality of Life

Dissertation Committee Member (Douglas Gibler, chair)

Placement: Assistant Professor, Clemson University

Current: Associate Professor, Clemson University