USC Political Science Ph.D.s and International Relations Ph.D.s have secured jobs at a number of prestigious institutions in recent years, including the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, Purdue University, the George Washington University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Oregon, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Hawaii, DePaul University, Virginia Tech, California State University (Fullerton), Western Illinois University, California State University (Los Angeles), San Francisco State University, and others.  They have also secured prestigious postdoctoral fellowships at Berkeley, Harvard, Duke, and Brown.

Summer 2009 Placements!
Congratulations to Jillian Medeiros (Class of 2009) for her tenure-track placement at the Robert Wood Johnson Center at the University of New Mexico and to Jarrod Hayes (Class of 2009) for his tenure-track placement at the University of Oklahoma.

Here are some of our current students:

David E. Bridge, M.A.
deb@usc.edu
Dissertation: Congressional Policy Preferences and Outcomes
Advisers: Dean Howard Gillman and Jeb Barnes
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Cher Weixia Chen, Ph.D.
weixiach@usc.edu
Dissertation: Compliance and Compromise: The Jurisprudence of Gender Pay Equity
Adviser: Alison Dundes Renteln
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Jason Enia, Ph.D.
enia@usc.edu
Dissertation: Shaking the Foundations of Violent Civil Conflict: Institutions, Disasters & the
Political Economies of State-Rebel Interaction
Website: http://jasonenia.wordpress.com
Adviser: Pat James
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Adrian Felix, MA
adrianfe@usc.edu
Dissertation: Transnational (After)life: Migrant Transnationalism & Engagement in U.S. & Mexican Politics
Advisers: Ricardo Ramirez, Janelle Wong, Nora Hamilton, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
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Andrew Edward Manning, Ph.D.  
profmanning@yahoo.com
Dissertation: The Emotional Dimension of Foreign Policy Decisionmaking: John F. Kennedy’s Deliberations on Berlin, Nuclear Testing, and Vietnam
Advisers: Michael Graham Fry (Chair), Ronal Steel, Ann Crigler

Sangha Padhy, MA
spadhy15@hotmail.com
Dissertation: Greening Human Rights: Socio-Legal Discourse on Environmental Human Rights in India
Adviser: Alison D. Renteln
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Nukhet Sandal, MA
sandal@usc.edu
Dissertation Title: Religious Actors as Epistemic Communities in Conflict Transformation
Website: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sandal/
Advisers: Patrick James, Laurie Brand and Thomas Goodnight

Minerva Storms, Ph.D.  
minervag@usc.edu
Dissertation: The Other Side of Authenticity: Authenticity, Liberalism, and Resistance
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Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, MA
jenifer.woodring@gmail.com
Dissertation: Fourth Estate, Fifth Column or Megaphone: Media Freedom, Democracy, and Government Respect for Human Rights
Advisers: Patrick James, Ann Crigler, Philip Seib, and Carol Wise
Website (CV included): http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittenw/

Jeff Whitten, MA
jeffrey.whitten@gmail.com
Dissertation: Egalitarianism Begins at Home and in Cohorts: Egalitarianism in United States Public Opinion, 1952-2000
Adviser: Ann Crigler
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