Seth Abrams BA: University
of Michigan (History, 1996)
JD: University of Michigan (2000)
Expected graduation: 2013
First field: American Politics
Second field: CP4
Research interests: Social Capital and Social
Trust; Local and Private Governments; Political Communication, specifically the
interplay between entertainment and governance.
Other interests: Board Games, especially Scrabble,
Risk, and Trivial Pursuit; College Football and Basketball; Rockies Baseball;
Racquetball; "Good" TV, i.e. "Dexter", "Mad Men", and "The Price is Right."
Words of wisdom: "Artistry is in having an insight
into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no
one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people." —Steve
Jobs
Email: sabrams at gvpt•umd•edu
Melissa Bell BA: Christopher
Newport University (2005)
MA: University of Maryland (2008)
First field: American Politics
Second field: Public Policy
Research interests: Religion and politics; women
and politics; money and politics; campaign finance reform.
Other interests: Running, cheering on the Phillies,
and plotting my way onto the Amazing Race.
Words of wisdom: “The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” —Albert
Einstein
CV: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/grad/cv/mbell.pdf
Email: mbell at gvpt•umd•edu
Daniel R. Biggers
Brittany Houtz Bramlett
Matthew J. Burger BA: Western
Maryland College (Political Science and History, 2001)
MPP: The George Washington University (Education
Policy and Policy Formation, 2004)
Expected graduation: December 2010
First field: American Politics
Second field: Public Law
Research interests: Political Geography, American
Political Culture, Elite Theory and Political Communication, Religion and Politics,
Constitutional Law (Free Exercise and Establishment), The Presidency, British
Politics, Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.
Avocations: Hiking and Outdoors, Reading (Hemmingway,
Conrad, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton), Smoking good tobacco, Drinking good Scotch,
and of course Jesus!
Words of wisdom: "Always remember others may
hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you
destroy yourself." —Richard Nixon
"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion
and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can
securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and
if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have
it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will
not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies." —John
Adams
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." —G.K.
Chesterton
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." —G.K.
Chesterton
Email: mburger at gvpt•umd•edu
Anne M. Cizmar
Heather M. Creek
James M. Curry BS: SUNY
Brockport (Political Science, 2006)
MA: University of Maryland (Political Science,
2009)
Expected graduation: 2011
First field: American Politics
Second field: Quantitative Methods
Research interests: U.S. Congress, Political
Leadership; History and Politics
Other interests: The usual...taming tarpan and
'rasslin gators
Words of "wisdom": "Ancient Rome declined because
it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?" —Will
Rogers
CV: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/jcurry/docs/curry_cv.pdf
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/jcurry
Email: jcurry at gvpt•umd•edu
Jill Gloekler BS: Mercyhurst
College (Political Science, 2004)
MA: University of Maryland (Political Science,
2009)
Expected graduation: 2011
First field: American Politics
Second field: Quantitative Methods
Research interests: U.S. Congress, Political
Parties, Statistics, U.S. Judiciary, State and Local Politics
Other interests: Running, ice hockey, cooking
Words of wisdom: "Democracy is a device that
ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." —George Bernard
Shaw
CV: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/jgloekler/documents/cv.pdf
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/jgloekler
Email: jgloekler at gvpt•umd•edu
Bryan Gervais BS: UMass-Amherst
(Political Science, 2008)
Expected graduation: 2013
First field: American Politics
Second field: Quantitative Methods
Research interests: Political Knowledge, Public
Opinion, Partisanship
Other interests: Red Sox, coffee, jazz bars,
and cycling
CV: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/grad/cv/bgervais.pdf
Email: bgervais at gvpt•umd•edu
Katie Kruger BA: California
State University, Long Beach (English Literature, 2005)
MA: California State University, Long Beach (Political
Science, 2008)
Expected graduation: 2013
First field: American Politics
Second field: Public Law
Research interests: Institutional dynamics of
the US Supreme Court, inter-branch relationships and presidential power
Other interests: Any and all things relating
to movies, music, and theatre
Words of wisdom: "I believe that man will not
merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures
has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion
and sacrifice and endurance." —William Faulkner
Email: kkruger at gvpt•umd•edu
John Michael McTague
Jeffrey A. Taylor BA: St.
Mary's College of Maryland (Political Science, May 2008)
Expected graduation: 2013
First field: American Politics
Second field: Methods
Research interests: State politics, legislative
institutions, state campaign finance; the interplay between state-level political
parties and state legislative institutions; how legislative structure shapes
campaign contributions and expenditures
Other interests: Photography, hiking, sailing,
skiing, and the culinary arts
Email: jtaylor at gvpt•umd•edu
Antonio Rodriguez BA: Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale (2006)
MA: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
(2007)
Expected graduation: 2014
First field: American Politics
Research interests: Minority political behavior,
Latino & immigrant politics, social networks, political communication
CV: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/grad/cv/arodriguez.pdf
Email: anrodriguez at gvpt•umd•edu
Stephen Yoder BA: Ohio
Wesleyan University (History, 1998)
Certificate in Scholarly Publishing: Arizona
State University (2001)
MA: Arizona State University (History, 2005)
MA: University of Maryland (Government and Politics,
2009)
Expected graduation: May 2011
First field: American Politics
Second field: Public Policy
Research interests: Political behavior and participation;
state and local politics; immigration policy; scholarly publishing
Other interests: Running marathons, ice hockey,
softball, brewing
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/syoder
Email: syoder at gvpt•umd•edu
Dror Yuravlivker First
field: American Politics
Second field: Public Policy
Research interests: U.S. Congress, voting behavior,
U.S. foreign policy
Other interests: History, photography, film,
theatre, running, travel, West Wing, Calvin & Hobbes
Words of wisdom: "Life is like a sewer: What
you get out of it depends on what you put into it."—Tom Lehrer
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."—Oscar Wilde
CV: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/grad/cv/dyuravlivker.pdf
Email: dror at gvpt•umd•edu
Diana
Boros
Carter Johnson
Shana Marshall
Mary Kate Schneider BA: Kutztown
University (Political Science and Psychology, 2006)
MA: Lehigh University (Political Science, 2008)
First field: Comparative Politics
Second field: International Relations
Research interests: Nationalism, state-building,
self-determination [theory + movements], conflict, democratization, international
law, former Yugoslavia/Western Balkans
Other interests: Horseback riding, taking pictures,
cake decorating, traveling, museums
Email: mschneider at gvpt•umd•edu
Peter Voitsekhovsky
Benjamin J. Appel
Jacob Aronson
BA: University of California, Santa Cruz
Expected graduation: 2012
First field: International Relations
Second field: Security Studies
Research interests: Links between conventional war, guerrilla war and terrorism; COIN; civilian targeting in non-conventional conflicts; U.S. grand strategy; offensive realism; quantitative methodology; free market economics
Email: jaronson at gvpt•umd•edu
Michael D. Beevers
Emma Davies BA: University
of Delaware (International Relations, 2006)
Expected graduation: 2014
First field: International Relations
Second field: Comparative Politics
Research interests: Ethnic conflict, evolution
of insurgencies, U.S. military strategy
Other interests: Riding horses, running, traveling,
Philly sports
Email: edavies at gvpt•umd•edu
Nicholas Grossman BA: Wesleyan
University (2003)
Expected graduation: June 2011
First field: International Relations
Second field: Security Studies
Research interests: Asymmetric warfare, terrorism,
insurgency, guerrilla warfare, game theory, IR theory
Email: ngrossman at gvpt•umd•edu
Rabih Helou
Jacqui Ignatov BA: San
Francisco State University (International Relations)
MA: University of California, Santa Barbara (Global
Studies)
Expected graduation: 2013
First field: International Relations
Second field: Environmental Politics
Research interests: Social movements, international
political economy (especially critical and feminist perspectives), indigenous
politics, critical geography, politics of extractive industries, food politics,
environment and development, non-state actors
Other interests: Traveling and planning travels,
hiking, yoga, cooking, swimming in the ocean, reading, making and appreciating
art, music (partial to guitar and percussion), people and animal-watching
Words of wisdom: "If you only read the books
that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." —Haruki
Murakami
Email: jignatov at gvpt•umd•edu
Tara Innes  BA: University of the Pacific, School of International Studies (International Environmental Policy)
Expected graduation: 2012
First field: International Relations
Second field: Comparative Politics
Research interests: Environment-Conflict Linkages, Constructivist Approaches to Security, Assymetrical Conflict
Other interests: Gender theory, queer studies, rowing, cooking
Email: tinnes at gvpt•umd•edu
Carter Johnson
Roudabeh Kishi BS: Georgia
Institute of Technology (Psychology, Minors in International Affairs and French)
Expected graduation: 2014
First field: International Relations
Second field: Comparative Politics
Research interests: International Peace, Conflict,
and Reconciliation; African and Latin American Politics; Environmental Politics;
International Organizations; International Development
Other interests: Traveling and good food
Words of wisdom: The earth is what we all have
in common.
Email: rkishi at gvpt•umd•edu
Mike Lebson First
field: International Relations
Second field: Comparative Politics
Website: http://www.mikelebson.com
Email: mlebson at gvpt•umd•edu
Shana Marshall
Jesse-Douglas Mathewson
Sanaz Sayfi Mirzaei BS: Georgia
Institute of Technology (2004)
MS: Georgia Institute of Technology (2005)
Expected Graduation: 2012
First field: International Relations
Second field: Public Law
Research interests: International law, compliance,
rule of law
Other interests: Traveling, cooking, playing
with my daughter
Words of wisdom: "None but our minds can set
us free" —Bob Marley
Email: smirzaei at gvpt•umd•edu
Diana Boros
Maria Dimitriu Hometown: Caracal,
Olt, Romania
BA: Economics and International Business
MA: Military Strategy and Geopolitics
Entered program: 2006
First field: Political Theory
Second field: Formal Theory
Research interests: Modern Political Theory;
critical theory; aesthetic theory; religion and politics; the study of the following
concepts: Enlightenment, Modernity (in an interdisciplinary sense), reification,
time, history, good and evil, religion, and fear; British and French literary
movements; Symbolism, the nature of symbols, and the migration of symbols across
time and disciplines; institutional theory and social choice.
Other interests: experimental film, experimental
movies, using creativity in new ways, playing guitar, writing fiction, the outdoors,
various crafts, and taking care of my hibiscus plants.
Email: mdimitriu at gvpt•umd•edu
Emil Dzhuraev Hometown: Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
BA: American University in Kyrgyzstan (International
Relations, 2000)
MA: Indiana University, Bloomington (Political
Science, 2002)
Entered program: 2007
Expected graduation: 2012
First field: Political Theory
Second field: Comparative Politics
Research interests: Political regimes and institutions,
democracy and democratization, constitutionalism and republicanism, regimes of
political memory; institutional theory and institutional crafting.
Email: edzhuraev at gvpt•umd•edu
Jonathan Hensley
Susan Lee
Darragh McNally BA: University
College Cork (Philosophy and English, 2005)
MA: University College Cork (Philosophy, 2005)
Expected graduation: 2014
First field: Political Theory
Second field: Comparative Politics
Research interests: Democratic Theory, Ethnic
Conflict, Social Justice
Words of wisdom: "You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one…" —John Lennon
Email: dmcnally at gvpt•umd•edu
Benjamin Newton
Benli M. Shechter Hometown: Miami,
Florida
BA: Florida State University (Philosophy, 2002)
MA: University of Chicago (Social Science, 2003)
MA: University of Maryland (Government and Politics,
2008)
Entered program: 2005
First field: Political Theory
Second field: Social Theory
Research interests: Contemporary Social and Political
Thought
Email: bmshechter at gvpt•umd•edu
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