Professor Christine Slaughter named Emerging Faculty Leader by Mellon Foundation
Professor Christine Slaughter has been named one of ten Emerging Faculty Leaders by the Mellon Foundation. The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Awards support junior faculty whose research focuses on contemporary history, politics, culture, and society, and who are committed to the creation of thriving campus communities for students and faculty. More information can be found […]
Professor Rosella Cappella Zielinski and co-author published in Security Studies
Professor Rosella Cappella Zielinski and her coauthor Ryan Grauer (University of Pittsburgh) have been published in the most recent issue of Security Studies. Their article, ‘When Do Militaries Fight Battles Together’, can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2026.2620043
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti and Professor Shamiran Mako Published in War on the Rocks
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti and Professor Shamiran Mako have published an article on President Trump’s recent criticism of Nouri al Maliki and US-Iraqi relations on the online political analysis platform War on the Rocks.
Professor Christine Slaughter and co-authors featured in American Association for Public Opinion Research
Professor Christine Slaughter recently published a feature with coauthors Dr. Nadia E. Brown (Georgetown) and Dr. Camille Burge (Villanova) in the Black and African American Public Opinion Research affinity group’s winter newsletter, which has been spotlighted by the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Professor David Mayers Publishes New Book
Professor David Mayers has published a new book, Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935–1941, that recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand their nation and its place in the world in the roiled years 1935–41. Professor Mayers identifies these individuals as ‘seekers’ and […]
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