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/
Professor Christine Slaughter Receives Ash Center Fellowship From Harvard Kennedy School
Professor Christine Slaughter has received a fellowship from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She will be a research fellow in the Allen Lab, and her profile can be found here: https://ash.harvard.edu/people/christine-slaughter/
Professor Apekshya Prasai Wins Awards from American Political Science Association’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section and Women, Gender, and Politics Section
Professor Apekshya Prasai has won two prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association: Best Dissertation Award from the Women, Gender, and Politics Section, for her dissertation “Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence.” Qualitative Evidence Award from the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, her work with qualitative and multi-method research
Professor Taylor Boas Receives the 2025 Seligson Prize from the Center for Global Democracy
Professor Taylor Boas received the 2025 Seligson Prize for the article “Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates”, co-authored with Amy Erica Smith (Iowa State) in in British Journal of Political Science, for best scholarship using LAPOP’s AmericasBarometer data.
Professor Max Palmer Receives 2025 Miller Prize for Best Work from Society for Political Methodology
Professor Max Palmer received the 2025 Miller Prize from the Society for Political Methodology for the article “A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure”, co-authored with Ben Schneer (Harvard) and Kevin DeLuca (Yale) in Political Analysis in 2024.
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
Professor Christine Slaughter wins APSA Award
Professor Christine Slaughter’s paper “All Emotions Aren’t the Same: Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses” (co-authored with Kennia L. Coronado, Camille Burge-Hicks, and Nadia E. Brown) was selected as one of two winners of the 2024 Best Paper on Intersectionality by the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of APSA!