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Professor Martin receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark

Professor Cathie Jo Martin received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark on October 25, 2019. In the words of Jens Ringsmose, the Dean of Social Sciences at Southern Denmark University, “Your work on welfare state issues and comparative politics in general truly deserves to be recognized – so giving you an honorable […]

Professor Christenson publishes in APSR

Professor Dino Christenson and former faculty member Doug Kriner recently had an article published in APSR: Does Public Opinion Constrain Presidential Unilateralism? can be found here.

Profs Boas and Schmidt Recognized as some of top cited in PhD cohort

Professors Taylor Boas and Vivien Schmidt were mentioned in an article published one of the American Political Science Association’s official journals, PS: Political Science & Politics that “identifies the 100 currently most-cited scholars, the 25 most-cited in each PhD cohort and subfield, the 40 most-cited women scholars, and the 25 most-cited emeriti.” It uses 2017 […]

Prof. de Benedictis-Kessner publishes in APSR

Our newest faculty member, Professor Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, had two articles published recently in APSR: The first, “Persuading the Enemy: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with the Preference-Incorporating Choice and Assignment Design,” is here. The second, “Concentrated Burdens: How Self-Interest and Partisanship Shape Opinion on Opioid Treatment Policy,” is here.  

Prof. Martin to be awarded Honorary Doctorate

Professor Cathie Jo Martin will receive an honorary doctorate from Southern Denmark University in October 2019. She recently gave a keynote at the Copenhagen Business School on “The Past, Present and Future of the Danish Social Investment Society form a Comparative Perspective”. Congratulations to Professor Martin on this extraordinary achievement!

Prof. Lida Maxwell Book Published

Professor Lida Maxwell’s book Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth Telling has just been published by Oxford University Press.

Prof. Dino Christenson awarded Research Incubation Award

In June, Professor Dino Christenson was awarded a Research Incubation Award (RIA) to be funded by the Hariri Institute for Computing for his project “Integrated foundations for privacy­-protected public opinion research.”