Graduate Student Bo Feng Wins the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
Bo Feng, PO PhD candidate, won the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2023) for his dissertation project “Strategic Allocation of Discretionary Power in Authoritarianism: Political Control, Politicians’ Preferences, and Policy Trade-offs in China.” His dissertation will examine how Chinese political elites allocate discretionary power to subordinates.
Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil Published in the Center on Forced Displacement
Graduate student Catherine Abou-Khalil published in the Center on Forced Displacement. Her article, “Reflections on Gender, Race, and Intersectionality in the Global Border Regime”, can be found here.
Graduate Student Si Wu Published in the GDP Center
Graduate student Si Wu has been published in the GDP Center. Her article “Summer in the Field: Women, Work and Politics in China’s New Era of Family Planning”, can be found here.
Graduate Student Sam Gerstle Published In Defense Studies
Graduate student Sam Gerstle has been published in the journal Defense Studies. His article “American Arms and Industry in a Changing International Order”, co-authored with Professor Rosella Cappella Zielinski and others, can be found here.
Professor William Grimes and PO Alumnus Yaechan Lee formally published in Review of International Political Economy
The Review of International Political Economy has formally published an article by Professor William Grimes and PO alumnus Yaechan Lee (GRS ’23). The article, “Manifesting the embedded developmental state: the role of South Korea’s National Pension Service in managing financial crisis” can be found here.
PO Faculty Emerita Judith A. Swanson Published In Washington University Review of Philosophy
PO Faculty Emerita Judith A. Swanson has been published in the Washington University Review of Philosophy. Her article, “Marx’s Destruction of the Private by Criticism and Force” can be found here.
Professors Katherine Levine Einstein, David Glick, and Maxwell Palmer received CHAPA Open Door Champion Award for their research on the local politics of housing
Professors of Political Science Katherine Levine Einstein, David Glick, and Maxwell Palmer received the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) Open Door Champion Award for their research on the local politics of housing. Read more about their accomplishments here.
PO Alumna Sabrina Abreu Named Boston University’s First FAO Schwarz Fellow
Sabrina Abreu (CAS’23, GRS’23), who recently completed her joint BA in Political Science and MA in Political Science and Government, has become the first student from Boston University to receive the prestigious FAO Schwarz Fellowship in social impact. Read more about her accomplishment here.
PO Alumnus Jaewook Lee Wins APSA Best Paper Award
Jaewook Lee, recent PhD grad (GRS ’23), won the Best Paper Award on Social and Economic Inequality in the APSA Class and Inequality Section (2023) for his paper “Luddite or Technophile? – Policy Preferences for Governing Technology-Driven Economic Change.”
Professor Maxwell Palmer Cited in Supreme Court Allen v. Milligan Opinion
PO’s own Maxwell Palmer was quoted in Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion on the Alabama redistricting case Allen v. Milligan. Professor Palmer served as an expert witness in the original case, and his report can be found here. The Supreme Court opinion can be found here.