Dissertations

Recently Completed

Ahmed, Amel
"Constituting the Electorate: Voting Systems Reform and Working Class Incorporation in France, The United Kingdom, and The United States, 1867-1913"
Committee: Rogers M. Smith (chair), Rudra Sil, Julia Lynch

Praveen K. Chaudhry
"International Linkages, Economic Reforms and Democracy: A Study of India's Political Economy"
Committee: Francine Frankel (chair), Thomas Callaghy, Rudra Sil

Cheng Chen
"Illiberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist States"
Committee: Ian S. Lustick (chair), Avery Goldstein, Rudra Sil

Michele E. Commercio
"Minority Responses to the Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Russian
Diaspora in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Latvia"
Committee: Tom Callaghy (chair), Ian Lustick, Rudra Sil

Steven Cook
"The Military Enclave: Islam and State in Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria"
Committee: Ian S. Lustick (chair), Robert Vitalis, Jose A. Cheibub (Yale University), William B. Quandt (University of Virginia)

Bryan Coutain
"The Multilateral and Bilateral Provision of Trade: Institutional Forms and the Content of Commercial Cooperation in the World Economy, 1860Ë1995"
Committee: Thomas Callaghy (chair), Edward Mansfield, Jennifer Amyx

Tara Das
"Power Veiled In The UN Mandate Of Information Provision: Constructing Authoritative HIV/AIDS Discourses"
Committee: Tom Callaghy (chair), Marie Gottschalk, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
( Anthropology), Kathleen Hall (Anthropology).

Carmel Davis
"Power vs. Threat: Explanations of US Balancing Against the Soviet Union After 1976
Committee: Avery Goldstein (chair), G. John Ikenberry (Georgetown University), William C. Wohlforth (Dartmouth College)

Stephen J. Del Rosso Jr.
Bringing the Globe Back In: An Analysis of the Effects of "Globalization" on National Self-Determination through Application of Rogers Brubaker's "Triadic Nexus" of Nationalism to the Case of Estonia.
Committee: Ian Lustick (chair), Thomas Callaghy, Rudra Sil

Graham Dodds
"Executive Orders in American Political and Constitutional Development"
Committee: Rogers Smith (chair), Marie Gottschalk, Jack Nagel

Victoria Farmer
"Television, Governance and Social Change: Media Policy Through India's First Half-Century of Independence"
Committee: Francine Frankel (chair), Thomas Callaghy, Robert Vitalis

Katalin Fuzer
"Rights and Constitutional Theory in Weimar Germany"
Committee: Ellen Kennedy (chair), Kim Lane Scheppele (Law), Thomas Childers (History)

Jane Gordon
"The General Will as Political Legitimacy:
Disenchantment and Double Consciousness in Modern Democratic
Life."
Committee: Ellen Kennedy (chair), Anne Norton, Rogers M. Smith

Joseph Glicksberg
"The Islamic Movement and the Subversion of Secularism in Modern Egypt"
Committee: Ian Lustick (Chair), Thomas Callaghy, Robert Vitalis

Chris Harth
"Geopolitics and Grand Strategy: Foundations of American National Security"
Committee: Avery Goldstein (chair), Karl von Vorys, Walter McDougall (History)

Ferdous Jahan
"Gender, Violence and Power: Retributive Versus Restorative Justice in South Asia"
Committee: Rogers Smith (supervisor), Lawrence Sherman (supervisor) (Fels Institute of Government), Marie Gottschalk, Nancy Hirschmann, Rudra Sil

Joon S. Kil
"Korea, Taiwan, And The Asian Financial Crisis: Domestic Institutional Differences And Impact Of External Pressure For Liberalization"
Committee: Thomas Callaghy (chair), Avery Goldstein, Rudra Sil

Jason Kirk
"International Assistance and Federal Politics: The World Bank's
State-level Lending Shift in India"
Committee: Tom Callaghy (chair), Francine Frankel, Rudra Sil

Joseph Mink
"Space and the Constitution of Reason: Temperance and the American Liberal
Tradition"
Committee: Anne Norton (chair), Rogers Smith, and Uday Mehta, (Amherst College)

Dan Miodownik
"The Emergence and Trajectories of Ethnopolitical Contention: When Regional Self-Determination Meets the State" (working title)
Committee: Ian S. Lustick (chair), Rudra Sil, David L. Rousseau,
A. Maurits van der Veen (University of Georgia)

Wambui Mwangi
"The Order of Money: Colonialism and the East African Currency Board"
Committee: Tom Callaghy (chair), Anne Norton, Ellen Kennedy,
Sandra Barnes (Anthropology)

Galya Benarieh Ruffer
"Virtual Citizenship. Migrants and the Constitutional Polity"
Committee: Ellen Kennedy (chair), William F. Harris III, Kim Lane Scheppele (Law School)

Robert E. Watkins
"Immanent Politics: Burke, Hume, and Deleuze on Culture and Empiricism's Other Secrets"
Committee: Anne Norton (chair), Ellen Kennedy, Uday Mehta (Amherst College)

Justin Wert
"The Not-So-Great-Writ: Habeas Corpus and American Political Development"
Committee: Rogers M. Smith (chair), Marie Gottschalk, John DiIulio

Catherine Wilson
"A Different Kind of Mandate: Latino Faith-Based Organizations and the Communitarian Impulse"
Committee: John DiIulio (chair), Jack Nagel, Henry Teune

In Progress

Todor Enev
"Social Policy Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: International Institutions, Domestic Actors and Ideology Formation"
Committee: Rudra Sil (chair), Julia Lynch

Kimberly Fitch
"Critical Pressure, Divergent Response: The Political Economy of Water
Privatization"
Committee: Julia Lynch (chair) Rudra Sil, Thomas Callaghy

Peter Funke
"Governing and Resisting Global Capitalism: Global Governance and
the World Social Forum"
Committee: Thomas Callaghy, Anne Norton, Adolph Reed

Michael Janson
"A Unified State, A Divided Nation: New Deal Policymaking and Protestantism, 1925-1947."
Committee: Marie Gottschalk (chair), Rogers Smith, Sarah Gordon, (Law)

Marton Markovits
"External Actors and the Social Relations of Political and Economic Governance
in Africa: Ghana and Senegal in Comparative Perspective"
Committee: Thomas Callaghy (chair), Rudra Sil,

Edward Webb
"Secularizations and Their Discontents: A Cross-National Study"
Committee: Robert Vitalis (chair), Anne Norton, Brendan O'Leary

Stacey Philbrick-Yadav
"Islamist Parliamentary Practice and the Remaking of Democracy:
Hizbollah and al-Islah in Comparative Perspective"
Committee: Anne Norton (chair), Ian Lustick, Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago)