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Simon Ballesteros

sb1795@georgetown.edu

Ph.D. – Comparative Government

Research Interests: Constitution-making; Democracy; Latin American Political and Legal Institutions

Dissertation: Explaining Variation in the Democratic Character of Constitution-Making Processes: A Comparative Analysis


Nicholas Barden

nb786@georgetown.edu

Ph.D. Candidate – Political Theory

Research Interests: Early Modern Political Thought, Sovereignty, Constitutionalism, Civil War

Dissertation: Bridling the Prince: Reforming French Constitutional Thought, 1532-1586


Justin Casey

Ph.D. – International Relations

Dissertation: The Propaganda Dilemma: Image Consciousness, Democractic Restraint, and America and Britain in the Wars of Ideas

Research Interests: Propaganda and disinformation; Subversion; Power politics; Archives; Diplomatic history; Qualitative methods; Ideology and religion; Far-right and populist movements; Grand strategy; International order; Pragmatism; Russian/Post-Soviet area studies; IR historiography; Democratic backsliding; IR theory; Interwar and Cold War periods


Matthew David Hamilton

mdh136@georgetown.edu

Dissertation: Whose Autonomy? Which Self-Determination?