2026-27 Job Market Candidates
Jacqueline G Burns
Email:
jgburns@uci.edu
CV:
Curriculum Vitae
Website:
https://jacquelinegburns.com/
Job Market Paper:
Peacemaking on the Margins: How Women Exercise Power Through Informal Social Networks
to Achieve Peace
Dissertation Committee Members:
Chair - Heidi Hardt, Erin Lockwood & Pamela Nwakanma
William Kidd
Email:
wkidd@uci.edu
CV:
Curriculum Vitae
Website:
https://williamkidd.org/
Job Market Paper:
Partisan (A)Symmetries In Hardball: Mass Level Support Equivalent Across Party and
Race
Dissertation Committee Members:
Chair - Michael Tesler, Davin Phoenix, Samantha Vortherms, Peter Ditto (Psychology
Dept) & Howard Lavine (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Ryan Mundy
Email:
rmundy@uci.edu
CV:
Curriculum Vitae
Job Market Paper:
Inherited Influence: The Political Giving of Billionaire Heirs
Dissertation Committee Members:
Danielle Thomsen, Michael Tesler, and Graeme Boushey
Jacob Sutherland
Email:
jacob.sutherland@uci.edu
CV:
Curriculum Vitae
Job Market Paper:
The Politics of Progressive Church Plants
Dissertation Committee Members:
Chair - Charles Anthony Smith, Danielle Thomsen, Louis DeSipio
Jackie Ku
Email:
jackieck@uci.edu
CV:
Curriculum Vitae
Job Market Paper:
Client to Citizen: Civic Empowerment in Cyberspace
LinkedIn:
Jackie Ku's LinkedIn
Dissertation Committee Members:
Chair - Simone Chambers, Mary McThomas and Jeffrey Kopstein