Katherine Levine Einstein Featured on Brookings Institution Panel
Katherine Levine Einstein spoke on a Brookings Institution panel on housing policies for the middle class on May 8, 2019. Check out the event here.
April 24th: Upcoming Howard Zinn Fellow for Democracy Talk by Claudia Kim
“The Empire and the People: Opposing U.S. Military Presence Overseas” April 24th at 4:00 pm in the African Studies Center Seminar Room, 232 Bay State Rd. 5th fl, Boston, MA 02215.
Ph.D. Alum Sarah Knowles Publishes Updated Book about Justice Kennedy
Rowman and Littlefield recently published an updated paperback edition of Ph.D. alum Sarah Knowles’ book about Justice Kennedy, containing a new Afterword: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538124703/The-Tie-Goes-to-Freedom-Justice-Anthony-M-Kennedy-on-Liberty-Updated-Edition
Professor Crawford Featured on NPR
Professor Neta Crawford was interviewed on NPR discussing the Cost of War Project’s annual report. Take a listen here: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/18/669007529/brown-university-releases-cost-of-war-project.
Work on the Court’s Legitimacy from BU Profs in the News
The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is making news these days with the confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh. To what extent does the public change their views of the Supreme Court around political events like these? Political science has had much to say about the topic. See, for example, two recent pieces in Vox that discuss work […]
What is Democracy? Screening, 10/24 at 5pm
What is Democracy? BU will host one of the first American screenings of Astra Taylor’s new documentary, “What is Democracy?”, followed by a short panel discussion with the director (Astra Taylor) and a few faculty (Lida Maxwell [PO], Spencer Piston [PO], Petrus Liu [WLL & WGS], Margaret Litvin [WLL], and Vivien Schmidt [PO & Pardee]). […]
Schmidt To Receive EUSA Lifetime Achievement Award
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science will receive the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s upcoming conference in Denver in May 2019. The EUSA Executive Committee selects a scholar each year in the field of EU studies whose lifetime of research and writing have been important, enduring, […]
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 […]