GW Ph.D. Students in Residence

Eleanor Albert

Eleanor Albert

Eleanor M. Albert is a PhD candidate in political science at the George Washington University. Her research interests include Chinese foreign and domestic policy, and China’s participation in global governance. Eleanor previously worked for the explanatory journalism arm of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She holds a dual degree masters from Sciences Po Paris and Fudan University in Shanghai, and a BA from Vassar College. 

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Stephen Rangazas

Stephen Rangazas is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at George Washington University. His research interests include violence against civilians, insurgent taxation, and the uses of historical conflict data. His dissertation explores the effectiveness of government indiscriminate violence during civil wars with a particular focus on the Vietnam War. He holds a B.A. from Indiana University. 

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Sverrir Steinsson

Sverrir Steinsson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at George Washington University, where he concentrates on international relations and comparative politics. He studies international security, integration, state formation, and secession. He examines changes in the number and size of states over time.

He has published in Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, European Security, and Scandinavian Journal of History, as well as chapters in edited collections for Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Alexander Wright

Alexander Wright is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at The George  Washington University. His dissertation examines the role of external actors in interstate war,  and their influence on war duration and outcomes. He is an active duty Naval Officer with  combat experience in the F/A-18 Super Hornet. He will be teaching at the U.S. Naval  Academy upon completion of his doctorate.

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Daniel Yoon

Bio coming soon.

Previous PhD Students in Residence

Amoz Hor

Alex Vandermaas-Peeler

Michelle Cerna

Alexander Kirss

Shahryar Pasandideh, Pre-doctoral fellow in the International Security program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Julie Thompson-Gomez

Brian Radzinsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Danielle Gilbert, U.S. Air Force Academy

Ryan Baker, Brute Krulak Center

Daniel Jacobs, Post-doctoral Fellow, Notre Dame International Security Center

Michael Joseph, UCSD, Dept. of Political Science

Bryce Loidolt, National Defense University

Kenneth Vincent, USG: Dept. of Energy

Jacquelyn Schneider, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Inwook Kim, Singapore Management University

Julia Macdonald, University of Denver, Korbel School

Chana Solomon-Schwartz

Tristan Volpe, Naval Postgraduate School