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!
Professor Jacob Brown awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Professor Jacob Brown has been awarded a $200,000 research stipend by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study political segregation and political polarization. Press release: https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-awards-fellowships-to-26-scholars-researching-political-polarization/
Graduate Student Chas Walker published in Criminology
Grad student Chas Walker has been published in Criminology, the top journal in the field of criminology and criminal justice. He and his coauthors apply the sociological theory of racialized organizations to criminal legal organizations using evidence from seven recent book-length ethnographies of police, courts, and jails. Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12397
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.