Teaching and Mentoring

Courses

Graduate

• POLI 540: International Relations Core Seminar
• POLI 541: International Cooperation
• POLI 577: Domestic Politics and International Relations

Undergraduate

• FWIS 149: Managing and Resolving International Conflicts (first year writing-intensive seminar)
• POLI 211: Introduction to International Relations
• POLI 375: International Organization
• POLI 475: International Cooperation (seminar)
• POLI 477: Domestic Politics and International Relations (seminar)

Advice and Guides

• Guide to Writing a Research Paper
• Tips for Writing an Analytical Paper
• Five Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me in Grad School: Summing Up. Duck of Minerva, July 2, 2021.
• The Importance of Mentoring. OUPblog, November 23, 2014.

Ph.D. Students

I work actively with Ph.D. students and am able and willing to take on new advisees. In the Rice Department of Political Science, admissions decisions are made by an admissions committee rather than by individual advisors. Students have the opportunity to choose their advisers after getting to know the faculty. You can find information about the admission process here.

Below is a list of past Ph.D. students I have advised, along with their years of graduation, their current positions, and their dissertation titles.  This list only includes students for whom I was the chair or co-chair of the dissertation committee.  The students are listed in reverse order of graduation date. Feel free to contact any of them if you want to learn more about what it was like to be a Ph.D. student at Rice.

• Yui Nishimura (Ph.D. 2024, Assistant Professor of Law, Kansai University) Institutionalized Cooperation: How NGO Cooperation Shapes Global Governance on Human Rights
• Alex Pugh (Ph.D. 2023, Lecturer, Rice University Social Policy Analysis Program) Designed to Favor: The Effects of Appointing Ad Hoc Judges in International Courts
• Nicholas Coulombe (Ph.D. 2023; Professor of Government, San Jacinto College) Promises of Future Cooperation and Alliance Credibility
• Kristin Bryant (Ph.D. 2022; Researcher/Statistician, State of South Carolina Office of Fiscal Affairs) Essays on Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights at Home and Abroad
• Jared Oestman (Ph.D. 2022; Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Providing Peace: The Role of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations in Shaping States’ Voluntary Commitments to UN Peace Operations
• Jessica Edry (Ph.D. 2020; VP – Data Analytics, Live Oak Bank) Domestic Politics, NGO Activism, and Global Cooperation
• Ahra Wu (Ph.D. 2018; Senior Research Specialist, Bobst Center, Princeton University) Alliance Choices and Their Effects on Interstate Disputes: Adopting a New Methodological Approach to Address Endogenous Treatment and Sample Selection Bias
• Andrew Wood (Ph.D., 2018; Leadership Specialist, Russell Reynolds) Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Refugee Movements
• Naoko Matsumura (Ph.D., 2015; Professor, Kobe University) The Effects of Foreign Audiences in International Dispute Settlements
• Jaewook Chung (Ph.D., 2014; Assistant Professor, Kyungnam University) The Power Distribution Between Allies, Alliance Politics and Alliance Duration
• Jesse C. Johnson (Ph.D., 2012; Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin) The Cost of Security: Foreign Policy Concessions and Military Alliances
• Daina Chiba (Ph.D., 2012; Associate Professor, University of Macao) Essays on Durations of War and Postwar Peace
• Sezi Anac (Ph.D., 2007; Turkish Foreign Service) The Broader-Deeper Trade Off and Regional Trade Agreements
• Michaela Mattes (Ph.D., 2006; Professor, University of California-Berkeley) Falling to “Peaces”: Conciliatory Agreements and the Durability of Peace 
• Burcu Savun (Ph.D., 2006; Professor, University of Pittsburgh) Information, Bias, and Mediation Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mediation of International Conflicts