Ph.D.s on the Market

Anna graduated in August of 2021 and is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years. Her dissertation is titled "Peace Education for the World: People-to-People Programs, American Youth, and U.S. Power, 1939-1961." 

Joséphine Lechartre is a PhD Candidate in Political Science and Peace Studies studying political behavior, political violence, peacebuilding, and race and ethnicity. Her research explores the nexus between past and present forms of violence by looking at how past conflict actors continue to act as peace spoilers in the present, and how past experiences of victimization impact the capacity of civilian populations to mobilize for justice and political inclusion after conflict.

Şehrazat is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint Peace Studies and Sociology program with an expected graduation date of May 2024. She holds an M.A. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame and B.A. degrees in sociology and political science & international relations from Bogazici University (Turkey). She pursues two research agendas that center on questions of power, inclusion, and social change, with particular attention to practical applications of her findings.

Ana Sánchez-Ramírez is a PhD candidate in the joint Peace Studies and History program with an expected graduation date of May 2023. Ana holds an M.A. in Ethnic Studies and a graduate certificate in Women Studies and Gender Research from Colorado State University, as well as a B.A degree in Anthropology from the National University of Colombia. Her doctoral dissertation is titled “Violentology: Expert Knowledge and Government Peacebuilding in Late 20th Century Colombia.” 

Mahmoud is a doctoral candidate writing a dissertation in peace studies and political theory. The dissertation is a comparative study of Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli. It charts the imaginaries—the affective universes—that the two thinkers inhabited as a preliminary step to compare their work on political stability and its relevance for today’s thinking about peace and politics. It further argues that the understanding of these imaginaries is itself important for understanding and transforming conflict.