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Below is my Curriculum Vitae. A .pdf can be downloaded by clicking the icon in the top right.
General Information
| Full Name | Sjors Verhaak |
| Last Updated | September 2025 |
Education
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August 2026 Ph.D., Cornell University, Department of Government
- Dissertation: Imaginaries of Earth
- Committee: Patchen Markell (Chair), Jill Frank, Alex Livingston
- Fields: Political Theory (Major), Comparative Politics (Minor)
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August 2022 M.A., Cornell University, Department of Government
- Prospectus: “Nature and Personhood”
- GPA: 3.90
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May 2019 B.A., The Ohio State University, Department of Political Science
- Honors Research Thesis: “Normative Demonstration in Constitutional Democracy: An Expression of Political Love-Recognition”
- GPA: 3.852
Teaching Experience
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FA25 Graduate Student Instructor
FWS: Thinking Earth -
SP23 Graduate Student Instructor
FWS: Politics and Nature -
WI23 Graduate Lecturer
What Makes Us Human? -
FA22 Teaching Assistant
American Political Thought -
SU22-25, WI25 Teaching Assistant
What Makes Us Human? -
SP22 Teaching Assistant
The U.S. Constitution -
FA21 Teaching Assistant
Civil Disobedience -
SP21 Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Political Theory -
FA20 Teaching Assistant
Introduction to American Government and Politics
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
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AY24-25 - Sage Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Cornell)
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AY19-20 - Sage Fellowship (Cornell)
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2019 - Pi Sigma Alpha Member (Political Science Honors Society)
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2017-2019 - Dean’s List (OSU)
Conferences and Workshops
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2025 (Scheduled) Association for Political Theory Conference
- Paper Presenter: “Figures of Gaia: Planetary Thinking Beyond Systems Theory”
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2024 American Political Science Association Conference
- Paper Presenter: “Contestable Earth: On the Earth Community and the Rights of Nature Movement”
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2020, 2022, 2024 Political Theory Workshop, Cornell University
- Discussant: “Cis Goes Mainstream” (Perry Zurn, 2024)
- Discussant: “Radical Democratic Theory of Expertise in the Context of the Anthropocene” (Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen, 2022)
- Discussant: “With or against the State? Feminism, Prison Abolition, and the Pursuit of Justice” (Anna Terwiel, 2022)
- Discussant: “The Nomos of the Eaarth [Sic]: Schmitt, Latour, and the Politics of Planetary Habitability” (Dan Zimmer, 2020)
Service
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AY23-24 International Relations Minor and Migration Studies Minor Coordinator
- Coordinated advising and administrative support for undergraduate minors in International Relations and Migration Studies
- Assisted with curriculum planning, course scheduling, and student outreach
- Organized minor-related events and facilitated communication between faculty and administrative staff
Languages
- English (native speaker)
- German, Dutch, Latin (academic reading proficiency)