tomorrows verse Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: American politics Research Interests: Campaigns/Elections (Presidential more than Congressional, but they're all fun); Media and Politics; Political responses to traumatic events Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certain_Entropy Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) Subfield: Comparative Research interests: South Asia, ethnic and religious violence, identity politics of subaltern groups, institutions and identity preferences, nonviolent conflict and theory @OP political response to traumatic events sounds fascinating, any particular events you have in mind? also what's the scope of political, is it congressional response, voter behavior, etc? Edited January 28, 2010 by Certain_Entropy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunuwyn Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: IR Conflict and economic coercion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curufinwe Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 subfield: comparative research interests: democratization, authoritarian regimes, regime changes regional focus: middle east. but will start comparing it to latin america i guess -also: turkish foreign policy, political islam etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziz Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: theory Research interests: non-human animals, intergenerational justice, just war theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEPA Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) Subfield: Comparative Interests: Middle East, Arab-Israeli conflict, democratization, ethnic and religious conflict, terrorism Edited January 28, 2010 by rwfan88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readeatsleep Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 subfield: theory/philosophy interests: HPT (esp. Rousseau and Hegel), will formation and legitimacy, democratic theory, recognition/identity, critical theory, agency/action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomorrows verse Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) Subfield: Comparative Research interests: South Asia, ethnic and religious violence, identity politics of subaltern groups, institutions and identity preferences, nonviolent conflict and theory @OP political response to traumatic events sounds fascinating, any particular events you have in mind? also what's the scope of political, is it congressional response, voter behavior, etc? The only research I've done in that area was historical-I looked at the suppression of anarchists following McKinley's assassination. In that case I focused mostly on state and congressional responses. Ideally I would like to look at voter behavior and the effects of such events on elections. Edited January 28, 2010 by rml015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxiousapplicant Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 My subfield is political theory/philosophy. My interests include but are not limited to Enlightenment and Continental philosophy, with a little ancient thrown in, specifically Kant, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Plato. I want to study topics such as the values of society, speculation regarding the ideal way to organize society and what role human nature plays in that. My interests often tend to veer off into non-political territory in philosophy, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxiousapplicant Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Oh, and I love Marx too, although I'm not a marxist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poli90 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: Theory Research Interests: modern political thought (esp. Hobbes, Kant, and Hegel), modernity, critical social theory, democratic theory, continental political thought (Foucault, Arendt, and Habermas), political theory and revolution, affect and rhetoric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewski Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield:Theory Interests: global justice, multiculturalism, religion, rights, int'l legal theory, ir theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrar Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: IR Interests: Gender, IR theory, peace studies, security, role of organizations in these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tskinner Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: IR Interests: WAR and PEACE! Why do we go to war? Why do we not? I'm particularly interested in why we stop once we've started (especially since nowadays the endpoint is becoming less clear). Also interested in the role and effectiveness of diplomacy and economic sanctioning. If I have to pick a second (sub-sub field), I said I'd do comparative simply because of the international component, but I'm becoming very interested in methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brouhaha Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: IR Interests: Pacific Rim relations and US foreign policy pertaining to China, Japan, and SE Asia, security issues, feminism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interista Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Subfield: Theory Interests: Historical and contemporary liberal political thought (Locke, Mill, Rawls, Berlin), distributive justice, theories of freedom, political ethics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarrisonWinslow Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Subfield: Theory Specific Areas: The "history of political thought"; philosophy of social science/philosophy of history; metatheory/methodology in the "history of political thought"; Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Wolin, Gunnell, Foucault, Strauss, and Pocock/Skinner; history and sociology of "modernity"; "the concept of the political"; and paradigm shifts in political-scientific-philosophical thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It'sgonnabeme Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Subfield: IR Interests: IR theory, security studies, ethnic conflicts, religion and nationalism in global politics. (They overlap quite a bit with CP.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridgey Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Subfield: (for poli sci) comparative Interests: The politics of health and social policy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APGradApplicant Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Gosh! We seem to have a shortage of American politics students, so I'll throw my name into the mix here. Subfield: American politics Research interests: Political institutions, particularly Congress; Congressional elections; Congressional member tactics in DC vs. at home; Parties and partisan primary election dynamics; women in politics; congressional redistricting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomorrows verse Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 I second the surprise about the lack of Americanists. I'm shocked to see so many theory folks. There are very few students at my undergrad institution who are really into theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curufinwe Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I am glad to see very few comparativists and sad to see those few are really qualified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certain_Entropy Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I am glad to see very few comparativists and sad to see those few are really qualified if it makes you feel better, I'm probably in the other set of unqualified comparativists. i swear standardized testing hates me and everything related does to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curufinwe Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 if it makes you feel better, I'm probably in the other set of unqualified comparativists. i swear standardized testing hates me and everything related does to. I do not know your stats, but I strongly want you to be overqualified actually. So that you will get in to Yale, Princeton or Berkeley and leave the Northwestern, Brown etc to me ^^ hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certain_Entropy Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 I do not know your stats, but I strongly want you to be overqualified actually. So that you will get in to Yale, Princeton or Berkeley and leave the Northwestern, Brown etc to me ^^ hehe lol i was thinking the exact same thing. If brown, cornell, northwestern, or nyu accepts me, I'd be so happy. um my stats in a nutshell undergrad: private R1, top 20 in terms of its polisci grad program (hope that works in my favor) gpa: upper 3.7ish gre: humiliatingly low (sub 600 both) lors: i think my professors like me research: nothing academic cept the thesis im working on, and an internship at an NGO with dealt with my substantive interests SOP: it has jokes in it probably not the best idea in retrospect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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