PO Alumnus Ken Peters Publishes Book On Georgetown’s Retail Past
PO alumnus Ken Peters, CAS ’71, has written the recently-published Georgetown’s Retail Past, a history of retail businesses in Washington, D.C.’s historic Georgetown neighborhood.
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 […]
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