Dissertation Title: "Technology-Mediated Decisions and the Ideology of Administrative Neutrality." Committee: Sidney M. Milkis (co-chair), Nicholas J.G. Winter (co-chair), George Klosko.

Dissertation Title: From Rebels to Rulers, The Structural Origins of Revolutionary Order in the Andes, 1980-1998

Advisors: David Waldner (chair), Herman Schwartz, Daniel Gingerich, Luis Medina and Herbert Tico Braun (outside reader, History)

Dissertation title: "Crude Power: The Foreign Policy of Oil-Exporting States."

Committee: Allen Lynch (chair), Dale Copeland and David Waldner

Dissertation Title: "The Human Rights Hegemon: United States Soft Power and the Transformation of the United Nations Human Rights Council"

Advisors: Michael Smith (Chair) , John Owen, John Setear (UVa Law), Deena Hurwitz (UVa Law)