“Primary Elections and Candidate-Centered Campaigns” has been named the Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award winner from the 2018 conference. The SPSA presents this award annually to the best paper presented at the previous year’s meeting. The paper is by Professor James Snyder, Jaclyn Kaslovsky (PhD Candidate), Michael Olson (PhD Candidate), and Professor Shigeo Hirano (Columbia)….
Forty-Eight Seniors in Class of 2018 Chosen for Phi Beta Kappa
Sonya G. Jacobs, Government Andrew F. Miner, Government Romana Pilepich, Government Elena D. Sokoloski, Government http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/27/pbk-senior-48-2017/…
One election winner: the pollsters / The Harvard Gazette
Harvard’s Political Analytics Conference last week included “Measuring & Mapping the Midterms,” a panel featuring Nate Cohn and Amanda Cox of The New York Times’ column The Upshot and moderated by Kirk Goldsberry of ESPN (far left). https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/one-election-winner-according-to-harvard-conference-the-pollsters/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020181121…
King of Spain confers Spain’s highest prize on Michael Sandel
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/king-of-spain-confers-spains-highest-prize-on-michael-sandel/…
Ana Catalano Weeks — 2018 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award Recipient
The American Political Science Association (APSA) will present the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award to Dr. Ana Catalano Weeks at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Ana Catalano Weeks is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages, & International Studies at the University of Bath. Before joining Bath, she was a College…
Professor Dustin Tingley, together with the former graduate students Molly Roberts and Brandon Stewart, was announced as the winner of the 2018 Society for Political Methodology Statistical Software Award
Professor Dustin Tingley, together with the former graduate students Molly Roberts and Brandon Stewart, was announced as the winner of the 2018 Society for Political Methodology Statistical Software Award for stm: An R package for Structural Topic Models. Structural topic models have enhanced and advanced the use of topic modeling for diverse text corpora by encompassing metadata…
Christoph Mikulaschek is the recipient of this year’s APSA Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of international relations, law, and politics
Christoph Mikulaschek is the recipient of this year’s APSA Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of international relations, law, and politics. It is entitled, “The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council.” http://www.politicalsciencenow.com/christoph-mikulaschek-2018-merze-tate-award-recipient/…
Volha Charnysh PhD graduate won the Best Dissertation award from the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, for “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland”
Volha Charnysh PhD graduate won the Best Dissertation award from the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, for “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland”…
Professor Matthew Blackwell, together with Avidit Acharya and Maya Sen, recently published Deep Roots
Professor Matthew Blackwell, together with Avidit Acharya and Maya Sen, recently published Deep Roots. How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Princeton, 2018). The book explores the lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South….