2018 APSA Highlights
Faculty:
Dino Christenson and his co-authors were honored with the Editor’s Choice award in Political Analysis for their paper “Modeling Unobserved Heterogeneity in Social Networks with the Frailty Exponential Random Graph Model” which appeared in January 2018 in Political Analysis.
Katie Einstein and Max Palmer were featured for work they did on the NIMBY phenomena in the Boston Globe which will appear soon in Perspectives on Politics, https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/08/30/researchers-examine-nimby-factor/uVws4Lrm6Sa2qa6UdyHIiO/story.html.
Spencer Piston was the focus of on an Author Meet Critics panel discussing his new book, Class Attitudes in America.
Steve Rosenzweig won the APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics 2017 award.
Gina Sapiro finished her three-year term as Chair of the APSA Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms. She write, “Our most important accomplishments during that time were to design a new Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy for our annual meetings; design, execute, analyze, and report on the 2017 Sexual Harassment Survey of all members to find out what about the climate at our annual meetings; design and put in place an Ombuds service at the meetings; collaborate in creating a new process for dealing with harassment cases; and begin the work of revising the APSA Guide to Professional Ethics. Related, at the meeting I appeared on a roundtable, “Enough! Ending Sexual Harassment in Political Science,” where I summarized findings from our survey and made remarks related to my forthcoming article, ‘Sexual Harassment: Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Power,’ Perspectives on Politics 16 (4), forthcoming.”
Graduate Student Highlights:
Laura Blume presented her work “Narcos’ Business Strategies: Explaining Patterns of Violence in Central America” on a panel called Crime and the State in Latin America.
Mike Luke presented “All that’s Left: The Politics of Crisis and Industrial Relations” at the panel Business and the State.
Claudia Kim was on a panel called US Foreign Policy: What is it and What Should it Be? where she presented her work “Varieties of Base Contestation: Anti-U.S. Base Protests in South Korea and Japan.”