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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 | July 2025 |
Education
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2026 (Expected) Ph.D., Cornell University, Department of Government
- Dissertation: Imaginaries of Earth
- Committee: Patchen Markell (Chair), Alex Livingston, Jill Frank
- 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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2024 American Political Science Association Conference
- Paper Presenter: “Contestable Earth: On the Earth Community and the Rights of Nature Movement”
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2024 Political Theory Workshop, Cornell University
- Discussant: “Cis Goes Mainstream” (Perry Zurn)
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2022 Political Theory Workshop, Cornell University
- Discussant: “Radical Democratic Theory of Expertise in the Context of the Anthropocene” (Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen)
- Discussant: “With or against the State? Feminism, Prison Abolition, and the Pursuit of Justice” (Anna Terwiel)
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2020 Political Theory Workshop, Cornell University
- Discussant: “The Nomos of the Eaarth [Sic]: Schmitt, Latour, and the Politics of Planetary Habitability” (Dan Zimmer)
Service
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AY23-24 International Relations Minor and Migration Studies Minor Coordinator
Languages
- English (native speaker)
- German (academic reading proficiency)
- Dutch (academic reading proficiency)
- Latin (academic reading proficiency)