Graduate Student

Gray

Current Placement

Assistant Professor

University of Texas, Dallas

Placement Year

2017

Statement

Thomas Gray is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Politics, who specializes in American judicial politics, American institutions, and American state politics.  His dissertation explores the influence governors and state legislatures have on state supreme courts when they have the power to reappoint justices.

Clarke

Current Placement

Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Law

Lafayette College

Placement Year

2017

Andrews

Dissertation

Sowing Seeds of Support: Elections, Bureaucrats and Agricultural Clientelism in Africa

Committee

David Waldner (chair), Carol Mershon, Daniel Gingerich, and Isaac Mbiti (Batten)

Current Placement

Assistant Professor

Principia College

Placement Year

2017

Previous Placements

Mary Baldwin College

Placement Year

2016

Heersink

Dissertation

Beyond Service: National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics

Committee

Committee: Jeffery A. Jenkins (co-chair), Sidney M. Milkis (co-chair), Paul Freedman

Current Placement

Assistant Professor

Fordham University

Placement Year

2017

Nguyen

Dissertation

US-Vietnam Relations 1975-2006—A Theoretical Approach

Ph.D., University of Virginia

Current Placement

Dean

Department of International Politics & Diplomacy, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV)

Placement Year

2018

Mittiga

Dissertation

Before Collapse: A Political Theory of Climate Catastrophe

Committee

George Klosko (chair), Colin Bird, Jennifer Rubenstein, Talbot Brewer (UVA, Philosophy), Simon Caney (Oxford)

Current Placement

Assistant Professor

Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Placement Year

2018

Publications and Coverage

 virginia.academia.edu/RossMittiga

Post

Dissertation

The Language of Signaling: National Rhetoric in International Bargaining

Committee

John M. Owen (co-chair), Todd Sechser (co-chair), Nick Winter

Current Placement

Assistant Professor of International Relations/National Security in the Department of History & Political Science

Anderson University

Placement Year

2018

Herlevi

Dissertation

Competition for Investment: Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the Special Economic Zone

Committee

Committee Members: David Leblang (Chair), Sonal Pandya, and Brantly Womack

Current Placement

Research Scientist

China Studies Division, CNA

Placement Year

2018

Plapinger

Subfield

Comparative Politics/International Relations

Dissertation

Selecting Success: Recruitment and Insurgent Effectiveness in Civil Wars

Committee

David Waldner (Chair), Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Todd Sechser

Degrees

BA, Wesleyan University

MA, University of Virginia

Current Placement

Research Analyst

Operations Evaluation Group, CNA

Placement Year

2018

Ingram

Current Placement

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

University of Nevada Reno

Placement Year

2018

Previous Placements

Visiting Lecturer, Texas Christian University, Department of Political Science

Placement Year

2016

Visiting Assistant Professor, DePauw University

Placement Year

2016

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