Advising

I very much enjoy working with students, and have had the privilege of working with many excellent ones. Here I provide a list of current and past students I have advised or on whose dissertation committees I have served. If you are interested in working with me, I strongly recommend you: 1) check out the work here to assess fit and 2) contact me via e-mail.

Current Ph.D. Students with Interests

• Margaret Foster (margaret.foster 'at' duke.edu): On the academic market, interested in bottom-up organizational change, terrorist and insurgent organizations, computational social science, formal models.

• So Jin Lee (so.jin.lee ‘at’ duke.edu)[Co-advised with Peter Feaver]: Interested in sanctions and positive inducements in international relations, behavioral models, survey and lab experiments.

• Marco Morucci (marco.morucci ‘at’ duke.edu)[Co-advised with Cynthia Rudin]:: Interested in methods for causal inference and computational social science, aid and conflict.

• Gloria Cheung (gloria.cheung ‘at’ duke.edu): Interested in authoritarian regimes and control, elite defection, social networks.

• Pei-Yu Wei (pei.yu.wei ‘at’ duke.edu): Interested in sanctions, international political economy, formal theory.

• Anisha Datta (anisha.datta ‘at’ duke.edu): Interested in identity formation, migration.

Former Ph.D. Students

• Katie Webster (kwebst12 'at' uncc.edu) [Co-advised with Kyle Beardsley]: Ph.D. 2019, Rethinking Civil War, Current Position: University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

• Christine Mele () [Co-advised with Will Moore]: Ph.D. 2013, Terrorism, Provocation, and Mobilization, Current Position: Data Governance Analyst, Clayton Homes.

• Carlisle Rainey (crainey 'at' fsu.edu) [Co-advised with Bob Jackson], Ph.D. 2013, Essays on the Role and Function of Political Parties, Current Position: Florida State University.

Current Ph.D. Committees

• Frances Duffy (UNC)
• Daniel Gustafson (UNC)
• Gabriel Madson (Duke)
• Tusi (Ündes) Wen (Duke)

Former Ph.D. Committees

• Chong Chen (2019)
• Noa Cnaan-On (2019)
• Howard Liu (2019)
• Chelsea Estancona (2018)
• Xiaoli Guo (2018)
• Asli Cansunar (2018)
• Sophie Lee (2017)
• Max Gallop (2015)
• Ammar Shamaileh (2015)
• Marius Radean (2013)
• Daniel Hill (2012)
• Nate Lee (2012)
• Daniel Milton (2012)
• Sunhee Park (2012)
• Justin Conrad (2011)
• Robert Parillo (2009)

Undergraduate Advisor

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2019