Website: glenbillesbach.com
Research Interests: Political Theory | International Relations | Science & Technology Studies | Environmental Politics | Interpretive Methods
Glen Billesbach is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is employed at the Center for Adaptive Innovation, Resilience, Ethics and Science (UF CAIRES), coordinating and instructing its Active Learning Program of experiential education for undergraduates. His interdisciplinary research and teaching draws from political theory and interpretive methods to address climate change politics and the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technologies.
Website: stephaniedenardo.com
Research Interests: Feminist IR theory and methodologies | Theories of IR | Historical political sociology | Archival research methodologies
Stephanie Denardo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, specializing in International Relations at the University of Florida. She received her B.S. in Telecommunications News (Summa kum laude) and B.A. in Political Science (Summa kum laude) in 2014 from the University of Florida, and her M.A. in Political Science (Summa kum laude) in 2018 also at UF. Her research combines her experience in journalism with feminist perspectives to investigate constructions of power and order in the global system. Denardo focuses primarily on feminist IR theory, theories of IR, historical political sociology, and archival research methodologies.
Denardo’s dissertation tells an alternative history of how a discipline of International Relations was built in the US following WWII, recovering the women and marginalized peoples and perspectives involved in its construction. She investigates how gendered, racialized processes of discipline-maintenance materialized in the 1950s through 60s, and their implications for a discipline and theories of global politics today. For this project, Denardo conducted extensive archival research at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New York City, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the Center for Jewish History.
This past academic year, Denardo taught ‘Theories of International Relations’, an advanced undergraduate course offered to juniors and seniors majoring in the Department of Political Science. She received the Best Graduate Student Teacher Award in the Department for 2023-2024. Previously, she served as the International Relations Editorial Assistant for Perspectives on Politics (Cambridge University Press) from 2019-2023, and currently assists with the journal Review of International Political Economy. Denardo received a National Science Foundation Grant in 2018 for her PhD student fellowship.
Website: sarahksnowmann.wixsite.com/website
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, ethnic politics, European politics, institutions, and political rhetoric.
Sarah Katherine Snowmann is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Florida. She received her BA from Stetson University. Her research addresses intra-ethnic political competition in Europe; in particular, the intersection of institutional design, within-group economic inequality, and ethnic political party rhetoric in Northern Ireland, the Basque Country in Spain, and Flanders in Belgium. Her broader research agenda focuses on the role of institutions in shaping ethnic party rhetoric within a comparative context, such as her publication in the Nationalities Papers on the role of Brexit in shaping nationalist party rhetoric on the European Union.