Lo logré!!!!
Aprobada la sustentación de mi tesis doctoral por mi comité!
Gracias a la vida, a
@FulbrightCol
qué me dio la beca, a
@PoliSciatNU
que me dio la oportunidad, y a mis profesores, Edward, Jim, Will y
@anamarjona
que hoy aprobaron la tesis!
Me graduaré Junio 20!🌻
PhD candidate Claudia López Hernández (
@ClaudiaLopez
|
@TGSatNU
) presents research from her dissertation on Contemporary State-building through Democratization [Construcción contemporánea de Estado a través de procesos de democratización]
@omar_lizardo
Excellent new book edited by and with chapters from
@seejenspeak
and Menaka Philips on the long history of academic men taking credit for the work of their wives is now available for pre-order.
Classic state-building examines the drivers of sovereign national recognition on the international stage. Today state-building occurs through contentious political processes of democratization that extend national power and legitimacy evenly across its subnational territories.
With respect and appreciation for our University, and acknowledging the immediate impact of resources already provided, the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University has released the following letter In support of our graduate students.
The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor working in the field of Comparative Politics.
Review begins immediately, Deadline Oct 27th
#PoliSciJobs
#psjminfo
Open Letter from the faculty advisory committee and undersigned members of the Political Science Department to students, President Schapiro, and the Northwestern Community
Classic state-building examines the drivers of sovereign national recognition on the international stage. Today state-building occurs through contentious political processes of democratization that extend national power and legitimacy evenly across its subnational territories.
Congratulations to NU Ph.D.
@rbkhoury
🎉🎉🎉 An award-winning scholar on activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and organizations in MENA, Khoury will join
@IllinoisPolSci
as an assistant professor in the fall.
The Political Consequences of Depression:
How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence.
Prof. James Druckman & PhD candidate
@jennifer_lin16
, et al via
@AJPS_Editor
/
@MPSAnet
🔗
#OpenAccess
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate
@asdurso
, who will join
@dartmouth
as a Guarini Dean’s Post Doctoral Fellow 🎉🎉🎉
The award-winning scholar researches American politics with an emphasis on race and ethnic politics, with a dissertation on the racialization of MENA.
The undersigned faculty in
@NorthwesternU
's Department of Political Science stand with
@NorthwesternGW
and all our graduate students during this pandemic.
.
@asdurso
,
@PoliSciatNU
PhD & Guarini Dean’s Postdoc
@dartmouth
in Gov & QSS, researches how Middle Easterners & North Africans (MENA) have been racialized throughout the 20th and 21st century, despite being legally classified as ‘White’
#PSJMinfo
#APSA2022
The Dept of Political Science at Northwestern University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of American Politics who specializes Political Behavior.
Review begins immediately, Deadline Oct 20th
#PoliSciJobs
#psjminfo
🚨Forthcoming Must Read!!!
The Political Development of American Debt Relief
Emily Zackin (
@JHUPoliSci
) and Chloe N. Thurston (
@ChloeThurstonDC
).
Pre-order now, in print May 2024 via
@UChicagoPress
.
@NorthwesternU
students protesting the Board’s refusal to divest from fossil fuel, currently blocking traffic outside Scott Hall!
Our students are the best students and they are fighting for a better University!!!
Congratulations to Prof.
@sally_nuamah
for winning the 2020 AESA Critic’s Choice Book Award! 📚🎉
Nuamah's book, "How Girls Achieve," received many accolades for combining political science, education, and public policy to approach overcoming institutional sexism in education.
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Arjona (
@anamarjona
|
@CesedUniandes
&
@BuffettInst
), who was recently appointed by the President of Colombia to the Mission of the Sages, a team of 43 policy experts brought together to promote human development and equity.
We are proud to congratulate PhD candidate
@safaasaeedi
(
@TGSatNU
) on receiving a DRRC Grant for her research exploring the impact of electronic communication on authoritarian politics.
Congratulations, Safa! 🎉🎉🎉
@DRRC_Kellogg
Please join us in congratulating Professor Reuel Rogers, selected as the McCormick Professor for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University!!!
👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉
Reuel Rogers, associate professor
@PoliSciatNU
with courtesy appointments in
@AfAmNU
and
@LACSprogramNU
, is being honored with the 2023 University Teaching Award. Congratulations!
Read more: .
Congratulations to NU Ph.D.
@nelsen_matt
who will join
@univmiami
as a tenure track assistant professor🎉🎉🎉
An award-winning scholar in civic education, Nelsen will teach Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and Urban Politics at
@ScienceUmiami
.
@PoliSciatNU
is searching for TWO positions in American Politics, one Asst (TT) and one Assoc (w/ tenure), studying problems relating to inequality, power, &/or democracy. Open with respect to particular substantive topic & scholarly lens
#PsJMinfo
Join us in congratulating Laurel Harbridge Yong, William Hurst (
@wjhurst
), Traci Burch, Thomas Ogorzalek (
@Tikayow
), & Reuel Rogers as recipients of 2018 W Awards (
@WeinbergCollege
) to provide seed funding for catalyzing creative exploratory research.
Over the past +2yrs while active on Twitter, we’ve been overwhelmed by your support for our students, faculty, and community!
We’re at 1,975 followers! Just shy of our 50k goal in anticipation of
@isanet
/
@MPSAnet
/
@PGI_WPSA
2020!
Who’s gonna be our lucky 50000th follower?!
PhD candidate
@daragaines_
&
@phwilliams_
(
@AmherstCollege
) investigate Southern identity & attitudes abt race, social & economic issues, challenging the claim that Southern identity among Black Americans isn't as politically relevant as it is for White Americans. 8am @
#APSA2022
Join the Comparative Politics Workshop this Friday to hear PhD student
@danencinasz
present: "Experiments on Case Studies: A Qualitative Approach in External Validity."
⏰ December 4, 2020 at 12PM CT
💡
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sidra Hamidi on a successful defense of her dissertation "The Politics of Nuclearity: Identity Relations in the Global Nuclear Regime"
👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉
In their study of affective polarization, Prof James Druckman and PhD alum
@SamaraKlar
argue that dislike of opposing party members is more illusory than suggested by existing research, which they say doesn't adequately account for ideological moderates.
The Dept of Political Science at Northwestern University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of American Politics who specializes in Political Behavior.
Review is underway!!! Deadline Oct 20th
#PoliSciJobs
#psjminfo
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ethan Busby (
@EthanBusby
|
@TGSatNU
&
@ClemsonCBSHS
) on a successful defense of his dissertation "It's not who you know, it's how you meet: The political effects of interactions with difference"
👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉
PhD candidate Muhammad Fajar argues that sustaining student protests in Indonesia means overcoming both internal and external threats to unity, such as lack of resources and regime repression.
He suggests forming strong networks with other groups.
#APSA18
schedule by the numbers for
@PoliSciatNU
5 Days
21 Faculty
23 Graduate Students
4 Department Affiliates
42 Recent PhDs
127 Sessions, leading
143 Presentations.
The Department of Political Science at Northwestern University seeks applications for a full-time, teaching-track Assistant Professor of Instruction in Computational Social Science.
Review begins Jan. 15th, 2024
Apply Here:
#Poliscijobs
#PSJMinfo
Assistant Chloe Thurston investigates the evolution of abortion politics by focusing on the California State Assembly. She finds that abortion was originally divided by religion, and later shifted to a partisan issue due to social movements.
Join us in congratulating Ph.D. candidates
@asdurso
,
@robinalexandra6
, and
@suji_kang_
who have each won awards from the Rapoport Family Foundation Dissertation Survey Research Grant Program.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉🎉
Wed Sept 9 @ 3pm CT
Laura García Montoya (
@LauraGarciaMo
) & Natalia Garbiras Díaz (
@NGarbirasDiaz
) explore the impact radio schools like Radio Sutatenza on violence and civil war onset, finding that radio education decreased violence
Throughout the coming weeks, we will be sharing information our 2020 political science job market candidates! We’ll share more about each student and their research interests but in the meantime, you can meet all of our candidates on our website:
In honor of TWO!
@PoliSciatNU
recent PhDs, who received tenure at
@ASU
this week, we wanted to take a moment to recognize some of their awesome work!
Congratulations
@SamaraKlar
& Jennifer Cyr! 👏🎉
Join us in congratulating NU Ph.D.
@LauraGarciaMo
, who will join
@uoft
’s
@munkschool
as an assistant professor! The scholar researches political economy of inequality and development in Latin America, employing comparative politics and research methodologies.
🎉🎉🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
No list can exhaust all the amazing things our students, graduate workers, faculty, and alums accomplished during the long 2020. But as a way to welcome in 2021, we've gathered together some moments from the past year to celebrate the greater
@PoliSciatNU
community!
Get ready! Because the
@PoliSciatNU
Community is headed to
@APSAtweets
2020. We'll post about upcoming presentations in this🧵throughout the conference, so stay tuned! (all times in Central)
#APSA20
Please join us in congratulating Matthew Lacombe (
@M_J_Lacombe
) on a successful defense of his dissertation, "Beyond Money: The National Rifle Association and Interest Group Power".
👏👏👏🚀🚀🚀
And let us be the first to introduce you to Dr. Matthew Lacombe (
@BarnardCollege
)
Today @ 2pm
#PolMeth18
Using techniques for identifying Type II & higher fuzzy quantifiers (eg, ”about a half,” or ”rather high”) in natural language, Sarah Bouchat (
@sarahbouchat
) proposes a method for measuring uncertainty in text w/ broad applicability to the social sciences.
Just checking on our
#spsa2020
attendees! If you need travel support or assistance in any way please reach out!
Side note: Given the amount of natural disasters taking place at political science conferences, we are adding wilderness survival training to Mathcamp & Orientation
How can scholars best study the influence of identity on political behavior?
PhD alums
@SamaraKlar
and
@thosjleeper
advise them to consider variables' causal order in determining whether covariates should appear pre- or posttreatment.
Professor James N. Druckman, PhD Jeremy Levy, and
@NorthwesternU
alum Natalie Sands explore biases underscoring students with disabilities’ access to accommodations. Their findings suggest bias stemming from perceptions of work ethic.
One of my favorite things - a great dissertation defense!!! Congrats Isabel Castillo.
@womenalsoknow
: important study on suffrage expansion to women in Latin America
Congratulations to
@_MichelleBuenoV
, who has been named as a recipient of the
@APSAtweets
Spring Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) 🎉🎉
We are so proud of you, Michelle!!
Read more about the program and Michelle's research plans here ➡️
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Thomas Ogorzalek (
@TKOPolitics
|
@CSDDatNU
)
THE CITIES ON THE HILL (
@OUPPolitics
) has received the Best Book Prize from APSA
@JournalREP
& Honorarble Mention for the J. David Greenstone Prize from
@APSAtweets
Politics & History
👏👏👏🚀🚀🚀
Mathcamp is about to begin!
Incoming graduate students will spend the week in an intensive program on statistical research methods and responsible conduct of research in the social scientists!!!
The best. Better than the rest.
#yourstudentsinsixwords
Thank you to all of our Graduate Student Teaching Assistants!
Hundreds of hours in one-on-one sessions with students and thousands of pages of mid-terms and final papers to grade, we couldn't do it without you!
.
@OwenR_Brown
(
@TGSatNU
) has received an SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship! Much like the 🇺🇸 Fulbright, the 🇨🇦 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council awards funding to high-caliber students to support their research.
Congratulations, Owen! You've earned it 🎉🎉
@SSHRC_CRSH
Ph.D. candidate
@kumarhk
(
@tgsatnu
) discusses his motivations for studying and teaching American politics, his dissertation on racial liberalism, and his future goals in the field with polisci undergrad
@YunkyoMoonK
.
Click to read the full interview:
Please join us in congratulating Prof. Jean Clipperton (
@jclip4
) for receiving a
@WeinbergCollege
Hewlett Fund for Curricular Innovation grant to support enhancements to Math Camp, a social science & statistical methods intensive for incoming PhD students!!!
👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉
Please join us in congratulating Brianna Willis (WCAS '19, right), who was selected as co-recipient of the 2019 Dianne M. Pinderhughes Mentorship Legacy Award at
#NCOBPS
yesterday evening in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
👏👏👏🚀🚀🚀
#NCOBPSat50
#becauseofncobps
Cody Keenan, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Political Science and speech writer for President Obama, addresses graduates of
#NU2018
at commencement last weekend.
Prof
@AlvinBTilleryJr
studies ways that organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement employ Twitter.
He finds that they frame the movement as a struggle for individual rights more so than one about gender, racial, and LGBTQ identities.
Political Science Ph.D. candidate Rana Khoury published one of the Most Influential Perspectives on Politics articles of 2019! Read "Hard-to-Survey Populations and Respondent-Driven Sampling: Expanding the Political Science Toolbox".
The SSRC is proud to announce the recipients of our Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowships, supported by
@OmidyarNetwork
. Congratulations! See the list of 15 fellows and browse their projects here.
Panelists
@maneesh_arora
,
@dadakim
,
@fulyafelicity
, &
@DrMelissaSimon
will reflect on how COVID-19 has highlighted long-standing racial disparities in the US in: The Dual Pandemic: Racial Inequalities, Racism, and COVID-19
📅Jan 26 at 12pm CT
Register➡️