Jennifer L. Epley (Ph.D. expected Spring 2009)
Dissertation Title: Voices of the Faithful in Contemporary Indonesia
Dissertation Committee: Ashutosh Varshney (Co-Chair), Allen Hicken (Co-Chair), Mark Tessler, Zvi Gitelman, and Webb Keane (Anthropology)
Research Interests: Comparative Government and Politics; Religion and Politics; Public Opinion; Political Behavior; Gender and Politics; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Democracy; Southeast Asia; Developing Countries; and Research Methodology
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G. Jiyun Kim (Ph.D. 2006)
Dissertation Title: The Nature and the Timing of Political Stabilization
Dissertation Committee: James Morrow (Chair), Robert Axelrod, Robert Franzese, Scott Page, Daniel Silverman (Economics)
Research Interests: Political Transitions, Conflict Resolution, State Failure, Political Violence, Modeling and Simulation, Large N Quant, and Knowledge / Socio-cognitive Engineering.
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Shanna A. Kirschner (Ph.D. expected Summer 2009)
Dissertation Title: Families and Foes: Ethnic Civil War Duration
Dissertation Committee: James Morrow (Chair), Paul Huth (U Maryland), Jana von Stein, and Stuart Kirsch (UM Anthropology)
Research Interests: Political violence, ethnic politics, human rights, international institutions, Middle Eastern politics, and African politics.
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Yoshikuni Ono (Ph.D. expected Summer 2008)
Dissertation Title: Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy:
Bargaining within and across parties
Dissertation Committee: Arthur Lupia (Chair), William R. Clark, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Orit Kedar (MIT), Daisuke Nakajima (Economics)
Research Interests: Japanese politics; parliamentary democracy; coalition politics; political parties; intra-party politics; delegation of power; bureaucracy; institutional development; electoral system; formal modeling
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Leanne Powner (Ph.D. expected August 2008)
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Wooster
Dissertation Title: Consensus, Capacity, and The Choice to Cooperate
Dissertation Committee: Jim Morrow (Chair), Rob Franzese, Jana von Stein, Dario Gaggio (UM History)
Research Interests: International cooperation and institutions, European Union, Western Europe, developed democracy
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Joel Selway (Ph.D. expected Spring 2009)
Dissertation Title: Constitutions, Cleavages and Coordination: The Political Economy of Human Development Policy
Dissertation Committee: Rob Franzese (Co-chair), Allen Hicken (Co-chair), Ashutosh Varshney, Ken Kollman, Mark Mizruchi (UM Sociology/Business)
Research Interests: Comparative Political Economy, Ethnic Politics & Social Structure, Political & Economic Development, Civil War & Political Violence, Institutions & Electoral Systems, Statistical Methodology, Formal Modeling
Area Interests: Southeast Asia, The Developing World (esp. Middle-Income Countries)
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Olesya Tkacheva (Ph.D. expected Spring 2009)
Dissertation Title: "Rational Actors and Transient Institutions: Essays on Consequences of Electoral Reform in Russia"
Dissertation Committee: Jan Svejnar (Co-chair, UM Schools of Business and Public Policy), William Zimmerman (Co-chair), John Jackson, Allen Hicken, Sheldon Danziger (UM School of Public Policy)
Research Interests: Political economy, Federalism, Party politics
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