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SPA's PhD curriculum is designed to provide doctoral students with the skills to effect immediate impact.

With expertise spanning public management, global health governance, regulatory policy and more, our PhD candidates bring the research competency and academic rigor to their respective fields and educate the next generation of public affairs leaders.

Public Administration PhD Students

Victoria Gibney Adjunct Instructor SPA | Public Administration

Victoria Hunter Gibney is a doctoral candidate and adjunct instructor in èßäÉçÇøapp University's Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research interests include material hardship and anti…

Ìý vg7211a@american.edu

Kathryn Grossman Adjunct Instructor

Kathryn is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Her research interests include public and nonprofit management and education policy. She is a qualitative researc…

Ìý kg0238a@american.edu

Kathryn Johnson

Kathryn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at èßäÉçÇøapp University. Her research interests include environmental, health, and criminal justice policy.

Ìý kj5677a@american.edu

William Prince

Will is a doctoral candidate and Charles Levine Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. His research interests include public personnel management, citizen-gove…

Ìý wp7117a@american.edu

Political Science PhD Students

Dakota Strode Adjunct Instructor SPA | Government

Dakota Strode is a PhD candidate studying Political Science at èßäÉçÇøapp University. His research in èßäÉçÇøapp politics focuses on LGBTQ politics, political behavior, campaigns and elections, and politi…

Ìý ds4090a@american.edu

Abdullah Atalan

Abdullah is a PhD student at èßäÉçÇøapp University. He studies comparative politics, political methodology with concentrations in civil-military relations and regime-types in the Middle East. Abdullah w…

Ìý aa7174a@american.edu

Justice, Law & Criminology PhD Students

Natalie Chwalisz Adjunct Instructor

Natalie Chwalisz received her PhD fromÌý the School of Public Affairs, in the Justice, Law and Criminology Department. She focuses in on human smuggling, mixed migration and forced displacement.In her …

Ìý chwalisz@american.edu