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John Ahlquist
Fields: Comparative and international political economy, methodology.
Dissertation title: Building and Using Strategic Capacity: Labor Union Federations and Economic Policy
Committee: Margaret Levi & Michael Ward (co-chairs)
web site: http://jahlquist.bol.ucla.edu/
email: jahlquist@irle.ucla.edu
CV: http://students.washington.edu/jsa5/cvAhlquist.pdf

Erica Johnson
Fields: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, and Communist and Post-Communist Politics and Societies
Dissertation title: Authoritarian Regimes and Nongovernmental Organizations: Transitions in Health Care in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Committee: Stephen E. Hanson (chair), Erik Wibbels, Rachel Cichowski

My dissertation aims to understand what is replacing the comprehensive Soviet social safety net and to capture healthcare outcomes since the collapse of socialism.  I analyze the relationships between authoritarian regimes and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in social welfare provision in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan to answer the following question: Under which conditions do post-Soviet states cooperate with, compete against, or co-opt NGOs?  To explain the divergent outcomes in these three cases, I argue that political factors determine the states' social welfare spending decisions (whether to cut or continue health care spending), and economic factors determine the political space in which states allow NGOs to engage in health care provision (whether to co-opt, compete, or cooperate).
Drawing on language skills in Russian and Uzbek (a Turkic language related to both Kazakh and Kyrgyz), dissertation research in all three case countries, and more than 15 years of academic and professional experience throughout the former Soviet Union, my dissertation contributes new theoretical and empirical understandings of how and why autocrats use social welfare policy and state-NGO relationships as tools of governance and political survival.
email: ejj3@u.washington.edu



Min-hyung Kim
Fields: International Relations: International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, International Institutions, European Union, East Asian Regionalism
Dissertation title: "State Preferences and Regional Integration"
Committee: James A. Caporaso (chair), Aseem Prakash, David Bachman Donald Hellmann
email: mkim@hws.edu



Sebastien Lazardeux
Fields: Comparative politics, American politics, political economy
Dissertation title: "Cohabitation and Policymaking Efficiency in Semi-Presidential Systems"
Committee: Anthony Gill (chair), John T.S. Keeler, John Wilkerson

My past and current research focuses on the relationship between governments and parliamentary assemblies. In my dissertation, I aim at expanding the debate about divided government and policy gridlock outside of the American setting by analyzing the effect of cohabitation (a form of divided government found in semi-presidential systems) on policy outputs. Using game theory as an analytical tool, I come to the counter-intuitive prediction- supported by empirical evidence- that policy paralysis will occur if the cohabitationist prime minister possesses a cohesive and sizeable legislative majority. Past projects also reflect my interest in legislative – executive relations. In two recent articles, I respectively propose an explanation for the punctuated development of the oversight capacity of the French Parliament and for the variations in the use of oversight tools between individual legislators.  I am primarily interested in teaching courses on legislative institutions, Western European politics, and comparative political economy.
web site: http://staff.washington.edu/sgl2/home.shtml
email: sgl2@u.washington.edu
CV: http://staff.washington.edu/sgl2/CV/Slazardeux-_CV2009.pdf



Joshua Sapotichne
Fields: American Politics, Public Policy Processes, Political Methodology Institutions
Areas of Specialization: policy processes, urban politics and policy, political institutions
Dissertation title: "Up and Down with Issue Attention: Reconstructing National Urban Policy"
Committee: Bryan Jones (co-chair), Peter May (co-chair), Mark Smith
web site: http://staff.washington.edu/joshsap/
email: joshsap@u.washington.edu
CV: SapotichneCV_090108.pdf



Hironori Sasada
Fields: International relations, Comparative politics, Japan studies
Dissertation title: "Institutions, interests, and Ideas: The Evolution of Developmental State System in Manchuria, Wartime Japan, and Postwar Japan"
Committee: Aseem Prakash (Chair), Elizabeth Kier, Marie Anchordoguy, Robert Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka
Placement: Research Fellow, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
email: hsasada@u.washington



Theresa Squatrito
Fields: Comparative politics, international relations and public law.
Dissertation title: "European Law and the Politics of Domestic
Incorporation: Civil Society and Mobilization of Anti-Discrimination Law"
Committee: Rachel Cichowski (chair), James Caporaso, Michael McCann

Theresa Squatrito earned her PhD in August of 2008. She also completed a certificate in Comparative Law and Society Studies. Theresa's primary research interests relate to European legal integration, human rights, and civil society. Her dissertation explores the process by which international law, or European
law specifically, becomes integrated, enforceable and meaningful in domestic legal orders. This research focuses on three explanatory factors—-institutional fit, activism of state actors and civil society. Theresa's research contributes to the study of European integration and international legal regimes by providing a civil society oriented perspective, embracing a pluralist understanding of international law, and comparing across international legal regimes. Theresa's primary teaching interests included comparative and international law, European integration, human rights, and civil society.
web site: http://students.washington.edu/tsquatri/index.shtml
email:tsquatri@u.washington.edu
CV: SquatritoCV_Aug08.pdf

Departmental Placement Record 2002-2008

(Updated October 2008)


Political Science Placement Record, 2007-2008

Jonathan Acuff
Politics
Saint Anselm College; Visiting Assistant Professor

John Ahlquist
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UCLA; Post-doctoral fellow

Ceren Belge
Academy for International and Area studies
Harvard University; Post-doctoral fellow (2008-2010)

Xun Cao
International Relations, Political Economy
Department of Government
University of Essex, UK; Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Rose Ernst
Political Science
Seattle University; Assistant Professor, tenure track

Devin Joshi
Graduate School of International Studies
University of Denver; Assistant Professor, tenure track

Vince Jungkunz
Political Science
Ohio University; Assistant Professor, tenure track

Min-hyung Kim
Political Science
Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Visiting Assistant Professor

Erik Lundsgaarde
Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation
German Development Institute; Research fellow

Mellissa Merry
Political Science
Pacific Lutheran University; Visiting Assistant Professor

Michael Strausz
Political Science
Texas Christian University; Assistant Professor, tenure track



Political Science Placement Record, 2006-2007

Umut Aydin
International Relations, Comparative Politics
Bogazici University, Turkey, tenure-track position (Autumn 2008); Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (Autumn 2007)

Kristen Bakke
Comparative Politics, International Relations.
Leiden University, Netherlands, Assistant Professor (Autumn 2008); Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs, Harvard (2007-2008)

Graeme Boushey
American Politics, Public Policy Processes
San Francisco State, tenure track position (Autumn 2007)

Christian Breunig
Political Economy, Comparative Politics
University of Toronto, tenure-track position (Autumn 2008); Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne, Germany (Autumn 2007)

Stephanie Burkhalter
Political Theory, American Politics and Political Communication
Humboldt State University, tenure-track position (Autumn 2007)

Xun Cao
International Relations, Political Economy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton (Autumn 2007)

Rose Ernst
American Politics, Public Law .
Seattle University, Visiting Assistant Professor (two-year appointment, Autumn 2007)

Lisa Glidden
Comparative Politics, Latin Am. Studies
State University of New York, Oswego, tenure-track position (Autumn 2007)

Iza Hussin
Public Law, Comparative Politics, SE Asia/Middle East
University of Massachusets, tenure-track position (Autumn 2008); Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard (Autumn 2007)

Chris Koski
Public Policy, American Politics
James Madison, tenure-track position (Autumn 2007)

Terence Lee
International Relations, SE Asian Politics, Comparative Politics
Nanyang Technological University, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore (3-year appointment autumn 2007). Postdoctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University (Autumn 2006)

Ying Lin
China, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Offer: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, tenure track position

Glenn Mackin
Political Theory, Public Law
Eastman School of Music, Assistant Professor (Autumn 2007)

Brian Mello
Comparative Politics, Political Theories, Social Movements
Muhlenberg College, tenure track position (Autumn 2007)

Anthony Pezzola
Comparative Politics, International Political Economy
Pontificia Universidad, Chile, Assistant Professor (Autumn 2007); Reed College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Autumn 2006)

2005-2006 Placement for Political Science

Wongi Choe
Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Korea (Autumn 2006). University of Oklahoma, School of International and Area Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor (2005-2006)

Robert Farley
Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky, tenure-track position (Autumn 2006). Doctoral Fellow, Patterson School of Commerce and International Diplomacy, University of Kentucky (Autumn 2005). Lecturer, University of Washington, Department of Political Science (Autumn 2004)

Ahmet Kuru
San Diego State University, tenure-track position (Autumn 2006). Other offers: Iowa State, and Dickinson College. Other interviews: Cornell, University of Arizona, Villanova, and interview declined at Colorado State University

Heather Larsen
University of Memphis, tenure-track position (Autumn 2006). Other offers: University of Mississippi, and Albright College. Other Interviews: University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Southern Illinois University, Wesleyan, and interview declined at Temple University

Terence Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University (Autumn 2006)

Adam Luedtke
University of Utah, tenure-track position (Autumn 2006). Other interview: Miami University (Ohio)

Brian Mello
Seattle University, Department of Political Science, Core Lecturer (Autumn 2005 and Autumn 2006)

Anthony Pezzola
Reed College, Visiting Assistant Professor (Autumn 2006). Other offer: School of Economics and Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. Interview: Georgia State University

Ki-young Shin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ochanomizu University (Autumn 2006). Other interview: Georgetown University

2004-2005 Placement for Political Science

Lauren Basson
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Politics and Government, tenure-track position (Autumn 2005)

Betsi Beem
University of Sydney, Australia, Lecturer (Autumn 2005)

Wongi Choi
University of Oklahoma, School of International and Area Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor

Robert Farley
Postdoctoral Fellow, Patterson School of Commerce and International Diplomacy, University of Kentucky (Autumn 2005). Lecturer, University of Washington, Department of Political Science (Autumn 2004)

Turan Kayaoglu
University of Washington, Tacoma, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, tenure-track position (Autumn 2005)

Cricket Keating
Ohio State, Women’s Studies, tenure-track position (Autumn 2005). Sienna College, tenure-track position (Autumn 2004). Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership and the Department of Political Science, St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana (2002-2004)

Yoshi Nishizaki
Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore (Spring 2005)

Katherine Stenger
Gustavus Adolphus College, tenure-track position (Autumn 2005)

Michael Xeno
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Communication Arts, tenure-track position (Autumn 2005). Other interview: Ohio State

2002-2003 and 2003-2004 Placement for Political Science

Carlo Bonura
University of Puget Sound, tenure-track position (Autumn 2003)

Jamie Davidson
Research Fellow, Von Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University (Autumn 2004 -2007); Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (January 03)

Jeffrey Dudas
University of Connecticut, tenure-track position (Autumn 2004). University of Alabama, tenure-track position (2003-2004)

Deborah Elms
Offer: Institute for Defense and Security Studies (Singapore), February, 2005

T. Jens Feele
NASA Headquarters, Science Directorate, Arlington, Virginia (July 2004)

Christine Keating
Sienna College, tenure-track position (autumn 2004). Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership and the Department of Political Science, St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana (2002-2004)

Scott Lemieux
Hunter College, tenure-track position (Autumn 2004)

Kimberley Manning
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University (2003-2004); Concordia University, tenure-track position (Autumn 2003)

Gregory Miller
Western Washington University, Visiting Assistant Professor (Autumn 2004). Lewis & Clark College, Visiting Instructor (2003-2004)

Tamir Moustafa
University of Wisconsin, Madison, tenure-track position (Autumn 2003)

Mary Alice Pickert
Wesleyan, tenure-track position (Autumn 04). Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International Studies (2003-2005)

Claire Rasmussen
University of Delaware, tenure-track position (Autumn 2003)

Benjamin Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International Studies (2002-2004). University of Florida, tenure-track position (Autumn 2003)

Robert Wood
University of North Dakota, tenure-track position (Autumn 2003)