Graduate Student Samuel Gerstle To Receive Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper
PO graduate student Sam Gerstle will receive the Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper. His work “Leaders, Legislators, and Bureaucrats in the Design of National Security Organizations” was presented at the 2025 ISA annual convention.
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.
Graduate Student Shivan Fazil Published In Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides
Graduate Student Shivan Fazil has co-authored a piece with Bahar Baser (Durham University) in The Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides. Their article can be found as Chapter 11: Echoes of Survival and Justice: The Yezidi Genocide and Its Lasting Impact.
Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil published with North Carolina State University’s Khayrallah Center on Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil recently co-authored a report with North Carolina State University’s Khayrallah Center on Lebanese Diaspora Studies. The Lebanese Diaspora Philanthropy Report can be found here: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/08/2025-Philanthropy-Report-Final.pdf
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti published in War on the Rocks
Graduate student Yasir Kuoti has recently been published in War on the Rocks. His article on Iraq’s 2025 election, co-authored with Ali Taher al-Hamoud, can be found here: https://warontherocks.com/2025/09/iraqs-2025-election-a-recalibration-of-power-not-a-rupture-of-the-status-quo/
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti Published in Amwaj.media
Graduate student Yasir Kuoti was recently commissioned to write on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units for UK-based independent new organization Amwaj.media. His article can be found here.
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
Graduate Student Chas Walker published in Criminology
Grad student Chas Walker has been published in Criminology, the top journal in the field of criminology and criminal justice. He and his coauthors apply the sociological theory of racialized organizations to criminal legal organizations using evidence from seven recent book-length ethnographies of police, courts, and jails. Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12397
Graduate Student Bo Feng Published In World Development
Graduate student Bo Feng has a new article published in World Development. In this collaborative paper, he and his coauthors examine how intra-elite patronage connections within China’s political system shaped the local implementation of COVID-19 policies. Read the article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X25000385
Graduate Student Zara Albright Published in Latin American Politics and Society
Graduate student Zara Albright has been published in Latin American Politics and Society. Her article on China’s development finance in Latin America and the Caribbean can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2024.54