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  • Furkan Benliogullari

    Furkan Benliogullari

    International relations; Territorial Disputes; International Law

    Dissertation Title: Territorial Disputes in the Shadow of Law: The Impact of International Law on Territorial Claims, Use of Force, and Third-Party Responses

    Email: fbenliog@ucsd.edu

  • Ye June Jung (June Jung)

    Ye June Jung (June Jung)

    International Organizations; International Political Economy; Human Rights; EU

    Dissertation Title: Illiberal Human Rights Norms in Trade and the Effectiveness of Western Conditionalities

    Email: j0jung@ucsd.edu

  • Theodoros Ntounias

    Theodoros Ntounias

    Comparative Politics; Democratic Backsliding; Local Government

    Dissertation Title: Cutting Off the Respirator: Aspiring Autocrats and Subnational Autonomy

    Email: tntounias@pm.me

  • Kimberly Renk

    Kimberly Renk

    Comparative Politics; Historical Political Economy; Latin America

    Dissertation Title: Rulers, Resistance, and Refuge: The Historical Political Economy of Extraction

    Email: krenk@ucsd.edu

  • Eric Thai

    Eric Thai

    International Political Economy; Trade; Labor

    Dissertation Title: Courting the Median: Strategic President and the Distribution of Tariff Phaseouts in U.S. Free Trade Agreements

    Email: ethai@ucsd.edu

  • Laura Uribe

    Laura Uribe

    American Politics; Latino Politics; Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior

    Dissertation Title: The Elements of Latinidad: Conceptualizing and Measuring Within-Group Status and its Impact on Latine Politics

    Email: uribe@ucsd.edu

  • Jesus E. Rojas Venzor

    Jesus E. Rojas Venzor

    International Cooperation; Forced Migration; Domestic Political Challengers

    Dissertation Title: Security Cooperation on Migration in the Age of Right-Wing Politics

    Email: jrojasve@ucsd.edu

  • Wendy Wagner

    Wendy Wagner

    International Relations; Conflict Processes; MENA

    Dissertation Title: No War, Yet No Peace: How Rebels and States Coexist

    Email: wwagner@ucsd.edu

  • Alex Richard Zhao

    Alex Richard Zhao

    American Politics; Indigenous Politics; Federalism

    Dissertation Title: The Indigenous American Voter: Evidence from the Political Geography of the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikeyah)

    Email: arzhao@ucsd.edu

  • Ziwen (Gary) Zu

    Ziwen (Gary) Zu

    Comparative Politics; Judicial Politics, Authoritarianism

    Dissertation Title: Mobilizing Law: Professionalism and Control in Authoritarian China

    Email: zzu@ucsd.edu