BUWG: September 27, Lunch and Learn: Midterm Election Panel
Register here: http://www.bu.edu/womensguild/events-2018-2019/2018-september-27-lunch-learn-midterm-election-panel/
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 […]
Faculty Search in American Politics
The Department of Political Science at Boston University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in American politics. The position is open with respect to substantive focus within American Politics. The start day is 1 July 2019, pending final budgetary and Provost’s final approval. The successful candidate will teach four courses a year, variously […]
Grad Student Laura Blume Authors Article for NACLA
Graduate student Laura Blume recently published an article entitled “A Tale of Two Dictatorships” for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). Read more here: https://nacla.org/news/2018/08/15/tale-two-dictatorships.
Prof Rosenzweig Awarded APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics
Professor Steve Rosenzweig has won the APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics 2017 award. This year’s committee consisted of Ryan Saylor (University of Tulsa), George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), and Kimuli Kasara (Columbia University). The committee unanimously agreed that the dissertation represented outstanding scholarship in African politics. The formal announcement […]
Professors Einstein, Glick, and Palmer Featured in Bostonia
Professors Katie Einstein, David Glick, and Max Palmer were featured in Bostonia magazine discussing their research in an article entitled “Why Some Politicians Shun Promotions?”. The article can be found here. Congrats to all!
Professor Christenson’s Article Selected for Editor’s Choice Award
Political Analysis has selected a paper entitled “Modeling Unobserved Heterogeneity in Social Networks with the Frailty Exponential Random Graph Model” written by Professor Dino Christenson and Professors Janet Box-Steffensmeier and Jason Morgan from the Ohio State University for the Editor’s Choice award. The paper has been ungated and can be found here. Congratulations, Dino!
Alum Thejasa Jayachandran Published in the Columbia Journal on Politics and Society
The Columbia Journal on Politics and Society just published BA/MA alum (2017) Thejasa Jayachandran’s thesis in their Spring 2018 volume! The article can be found here: http://www.helvidius.org/essays/the-neglected-war-intervention-and-extra-state-war-duration-1816-2007/. Congrats, Thejasa!
Convocation 2018
We were honored to have families, friends, faculty, graduates, and esteemed guests attend yesterday’s convocation and were delighted to hear from student speaker and College Prize winner Michaela Cushing-Daniels, the venerable Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto, and faculty member Katie Einstein. Congrats to all of the 2018 graduates!
Advanced Programs Poster Session 2018
The BU Political Science community gathered together on Thursday, May 17, 2018 to celebrate the accomplishments of the Honors Program and BA/MA candidates. This poster session allowed students to communicate the results of their year-long theses with faculty, graduate students, family, and friends. Below you can view the posters from the session: Anima Anwar’s poster […]