Professor Christine Slaughter Receives Ash Center Fellowship From Harvard Kennedy School
Professor Christine Slaughter has received a fellowship from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She will be a research fellow in the Allen Lab, and her profile can be found here: https://ash.harvard.edu/people/christine-slaughter/
Professor Apekshya Prasai Wins Awards from American Political Science Association’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section and Women, Gender, and Politics Section
Professor Apekshya Prasai has won two prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association: Best Dissertation Award from the Women, Gender, and Politics Section, for her dissertation “Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence.” Qualitative Evidence Award from the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, her work with qualitative and multi-method research
Professor Taylor Boas Receives the 2025 Seligson Prize from the Center for Global Democracy
Professor Taylor Boas received the 2025 Seligson Prize for the article “Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates”, co-authored with Amy Erica Smith (Iowa State) in in British Journal of Political Science, for best scholarship using LAPOP’s AmericasBarometer data.
Professor Max Palmer Receives 2025 Miller Prize for Best Work from Society for Political Methodology
Professor Max Palmer received the 2025 Miller Prize from the Society for Political Methodology for the article “A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure”, co-authored with Ben Schneer (Harvard) and Kevin DeLuca (Yale) in Political Analysis in 2024.
Professor Spencer Piston and Graduate Student Chas Walker Published in Annual Review of Political Science
Professor Spencer Piston and grad student Chas Walker have published a new article on racism in research and the study of policing (co-authored with Kaneesha Johnson and Selma Hedlund) in Annual Review of Political Science. Read the full article here: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-033123-124752
Professor Christine Slaughter wins APSA Award
Professor Christine Slaughter’s paper “All Emotions Aren’t the Same: Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses” (co-authored with Kennia L. Coronado, Camille Burge-Hicks, and Nadia E. Brown) was selected as one of two winners of the 2024 Best Paper on Intersectionality by the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of APSA!
Professor Jacob Brown awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Professor Jacob Brown has been awarded a $200,000 research stipend by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study political segregation and political polarization. Press release: https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-awards-fellowships-to-26-scholars-researching-political-polarization/
Professor Rachel Meade publishes in The Conversation, discussing RFK Jr., alt-media, and populism in the US.
Professor Rachel Meade’s newest piece appears in The Conversation, discussing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s slide from left-aligned skepticism to outright Trumpism, and the rise of populism and alternative media spaces in the US. Read it here: RFK Jr.’s pivot to Drumpf is a journey taken by many populists swept along the left-to-right alternative media pipeline
Professor William Grimes and PO Alumnus Yaechan Lee formally published in Review of International Political Economy
The Review of International Political Economy has formally published an article by Professor William Grimes and PO alumnus Yaechan Lee (GRS ’23). The article, “Manifesting the embedded developmental state: the role of South Korea’s National Pension Service in managing financial crisis” can be found here.
PO Faculty Emerita Judith A. Swanson Published In Washington University Review of Philosophy
PO Faculty Emerita Judith A. Swanson has been published in the Washington University Review of Philosophy. Her article, “Marx’s Destruction of the Private by Criticism and Force” can be found here.