Graduate Student Bo Feng Published In World Development
Graduate student Bo Feng has a new article published in World Development. In this collaborative paper, he and his coauthors examine how intra-elite patronage connections within China’s political system shaped the local implementation of COVID-19 policies. Read the article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X25000385
Graduate Student Zara Albright Published in Latin American Politics and Society
Graduate student Zara Albright has been published in Latin American Politics and Society. Her article on China’s development finance in Latin America and the Caribbean can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2024.54
Professor Rachel Meade publishes in The Conversation, discussing RFK Jr., alt-media, and populism in the US.
Professor Rachel Meade’s newest piece appears in The Conversation, discussing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s slide from left-aligned skepticism to outright Trumpism, and the rise of populism and alternative media spaces in the US. Read it here: RFK Jr.’s pivot to Trump is a journey taken by many populists swept along the left-to-right alternative media pipeline
Graduate Student Chas Walker Receives Research Grant from Russell Sage Foundation
Graduate student Chas Walker received a dissertation research grant from the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). This initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas.
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.