Ph.D.'s on the Market

Ruth Carmi is a PhD candidate whose previous professional work as a human-rights lawyer informs her study of the connection between Israeli society's racial formation, gender, and the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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." 

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.