Students

Dissertations supervised

Juan Delgado
Census, Consensus, and Dissensus: The Sense of Ethnoracial Demography in Mexico and Colombia (1778-2020) (2022)

Philippe Duhart
“Between Bullets and Ballots: Disengagement from Terrorism in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country” (2017)

Matthew Baltz
“Between Militarism and Neoliberalism: The American State and Developmental Politics in a Globalizing Era” (2017)

Gustav Brown
“Islamization and Religious Pluralism in Democratizing Indonesia” (2016)

Stela Krasteva
“Evangelical Christianity and Roma Communities in Post-Socialist Bulgaria” (2014)

Zeynep Ozgen
“Schooling, Islamization, and Religious Mobilization in Turkey” (2014)

Jaeeun Kim
“Colonial Migration and Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea” (2011)

Justin Lee
“The Logic and Practice of Social Inquiry” (2010)

Kristin Surak
“Nation-Work: Making Tea, Making Japanese” (2009)

Robert Jansen
“Populist Mobilization: Peru in Historical and Comparative Perspective” (2009)

Peter Stamatov
“The Religious Origins of Modern Long-Distance Humanitarianism: England, 1780-1880, in Comparative Perspective” (2006)

Jon Fox
“Nationhood without Nationalism: Being National in Everyday Life” (2004)

Joel Andreas
“Dismantling and rebuilding class: The failure of the communist experiment in China” (2003)

Mara Loveman
“Nation-state building, ‘race,’ and the production of official statistics: Brazil in comparative perspective” (2001)

Shigeki Sato
“The politics of nationhood in Germany and Japan” (1998)

Dissertation committees served on

Nihal Kayali
“Uncertain Practices: Healthcare Provision and Access for Syrian Refugees in Turkey” (2024)

Wisam Alhaibi
“The Anatomy of Regime Change: Transborder Political Opposition and Domestic Foreign Policy Elites in the Making of US Foreign Policy on Iraq” (2023)

Anatolii Tokmantcev
“Jehovah’s Witnesses in Post-Soviet Armenia” (2023)

Andrew Le
“The Quest for Mobility: The Constraints of Privatized Migration Control, Opportunistic Brokerage, and Migrant Resistance in Vietnam” (2021)

Neil Gong
“Mind and Matter: Madness and Inequality in Los Angeles” (2019)

Tahseen Shams
“Here, There, and Elsewhere: A Multicentered Relational Framework for Immigrant Identity Formation Based on Global Geopolitical Contexts” 2018

Rezzan Karaman
“Gendered Derivatives of Identity Formation in Ottoman Kurdistan in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries” (2016)

Kristen Kao
“Electoral Institutions, Ethnicity, and Clientelism: Authoritarianism in Jordan” (2015)

Joshua Bloom
“Pathways of insurgency : black liberation struggle and the second reconstruction, 1945-1975” (2014)

Nazgol Ghandnoosh
“Challenging Mass Incarceration: A California Group’s Advocacy for the Parole Release of Term-to-Life Prisoners” (2013)

Wesley Hiers
“American Ethnocracy: Origins and Development of Legal Racial Exclusion in Comparative Perspective, 1600s to 1900s” (2013)

Rajashree Mazumder
“Constructing the Indian Immigrant to Colonial Burma, 1885–1948” (2013)

Hazem Kandil
“Power triangle : military, security, and politics in the shaping of the Egyptian, Iranian, and Turkish regimes” (2012)

John O’Brien
“Growing up Muslim in America : managing multiple cultures in everyday life” (2012)

Iddo Tavory
“Off Melrose: Sustaining Orthodox Jewish religious life in a secular space” (2010)

Liana Grancea
“Aspects of sequence and preference organization in Romanian telephone conversation” (2008)

David Fitzgerald
“A nation of emigrants? : statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities” (2005)

David Cook
“Making and unmaking nationals : 150 years of migration between Argentina, Italy, and Spain” (2005)

Aleksandra Sasha Milicevic
“Joining Serbia’s wars : volunteers and draft-dodgers, 1991-1995” (2004)

Stephen Bloom
“Economic reform and ethnic cooperation in post-Soviet Latvia and Ukraine” (2004)

Afshin Marashi
“Nationalizing Iran: Culture, power, and the state, 1870—1941” (2003)

Franciso Gil-White
“The evolutionary psychology of ethnicity” (2002)

Michael Kellogg
“Hitler’s “Russian” connection : White emigré political and ideological influence on the genesis and development of national socialism” (2002)

Caleb Southworth
“How Russian industry works : worker and firm survival strategies in six enterprises in Bashkortostan” (2001)

Greg Rasmussen
“Words without swords : international institutions and great power concert” (2000)

Gopal Balakrishnan
“The enemy: An intellectual portrait of Carl Schmitt” (1998)

Lawrence Robertson
“The political economy of ethnonationalism : separatism and secession from the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation” (1994)

Brenda Vallance
“Neotraditionalism and the military : the challenge of reform in communist systems” (1992)