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Please join the Commune for a panel discussion and Q&A with four advanced PhD students on completing the Department’s major research paper requirement and preparing for comprehensive exams. 

First and second-year students in the PhD program are strongly encouraged to attend, but all are welcome – there’ll be opportunity for other upper-year students to share advice and their experiences throughout the panel as well. Lunch will be served.

Panelists are drawn from each of the Department’s major subfields and include:

Amanda Ziyi Fu (Political Theory) is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Northwestern. She works in political theory, especially feminist, critical, and anticolonial theories. Situated at the intersection of feminist theory and comparative political theory, her dissertation will survey the conception of political sexuality in the Western versus non-Western women's writings in the global twentieth century, as well as the contemporary aftermath of the sexual liberation movement. She is also working on a paper exploring the radical utopian potentials of silence as a site of protest and refusal.

Alisher Juzgenbayev (Comparative Politics) is a J.D./Ph.D. student at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law & Department of Political Science. He studies comparative politics, with a focus on the relationship between law and politics in postcommunist countries.

Jack McGovern (American Politics)

Emerson Murray (International Relations) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in International Relations and Political Theory, and a Doctoral Fellow with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He holds a BAH in Political Studies from Queen's University and an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) from the University of Oxford. His academic interests include critical international relations theory; race and empire in global politics; global historical sociology; postcolonial political economy; and interpretive methods.

With Eden Melles serving as moderator.