Recent Scholarship & Milestones

Berfin Baydar (Ph.D. '30) and Asli Cansunar (Ph.D. '18) have been awarded the Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality Award by the Class & Inequality section of the American Political Science Association for, “Homogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination”
Michael Becher, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Vincent Pons, Sylvain Brouard, Martial Foucault, Vincenzo Galasso, Eric Kerrouche, Sandra León Alfonso, and Daniel Stegmueller. 2024. "Government Performance and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries during COVID-19." Journal of Politics (forthcoming)
Jared Clemons (Ph.D. '22) has received the 2024 Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association APE organized section for the dissertation, "“Privatization of Racial Responsibility: A Materialist Analysis of Contemporary White Antiracism under Neoliberal Capitalism”
Abdeslam Maghraoui has been awarded a project grant through Bass Connections as part of the Provost’s Special Initiative on the Middle East
Andrew Trexler and Christopher Johnston. 2024. “An Ideology by Any Other Name.” Political Behavior.

Berfin Baydar (Ph.D. '30) and Asli Cansunar (Ph.D. '18) have been awarded the Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award by the Religion & Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for, "Homogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination"
Edmund Malesky and Trung-Anh Nguyen. 2024. "Historical Communist Party Strength and Modern Party Loyalty: A Replication Study of Barceló (2021)." Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics.
Paula McClain has been selected as an Associate Editor of the National Academy of Sciences journal, PNAS Nexus.

Sunshine Hillygus has been awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Gabriella Levy (Ph.D. '23) has won the Best Dissertation Award for American Political Science Human Rights Section
Elliot Mamet and Austin Bussing. 2024. "Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories." Polity.
Leann Mclaren (Ph.D. '24) has accepted the position as a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University
Brandily, Paul, Eric Mvukiyehe, Lodewijk Smets, Peter van der Windt, and Marijke Verpoorten. 2024. "From Workfare to Economic and Sociopolitical Stability? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in War-Torn Eastern Congo." Forthcoming. The World Bank Economic Review.
Peng Peng (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a postdoc position at the Washington University in St. Louis
Mara Revkin, Ala Alrababah, and Rachel Myrick. 2024. “Evidence-Based Transitional Justice: Incorporating Public Opinion Into the Field.” Yale Law Journal.
Andrew Shaver, Benjamin Krick, Judy Blancaflor, Xavier Liu, Ghassan Samara, Sarah Yein Ku, Shengkuo Hu, Joshua Angelo, Martha Carreon, Trishia Lim, Rachel Raps, Alyssa Velasquez, Sofia de Melo, and Zhanyi Zuo. 2024. "The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis." American Political Science Review.
Andrew Trexler and Megan Mullin. 2024. “Local News Reporting and Mass Attitudes on Infrastructure Investment.” Political Behavior.

John Aldrich has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Matthew H. Graham, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Andrew Trexler. 2024. “Misleading Polls in the Media: Does Survey Clickbait Have Social Consequences?” Public Opinion Quarterly.
Jacob Little. 2024. "Tough Love: James Baldwin’s Artistic Politics." American Political Thought.
Trent Ollerenshaw (T '24) has been awarded a Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Survey Research Grant.
Mara R. Revkin, Ala Alrababah and Rachel Myrick. 2024. "Evidence-Based Transitional Justice: Incorporating Public Opinion into the Field, with New Data from Iraq and Ukraine." Yale Law Journal.
Geneviève Rousselière. 2024. Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France. Cambridge University Press.
Andrew Trexler (Ph.D. '25) has been awarded a Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Survey Research Grant.

Jon Green, Kelsey Shoub, Rachel Blum, and Lindsey Cormack. 2024. "Cross-Platform Partisan Positioning in Congressional Speech." Political Research Quarterly.
Green, J., Shoub, K., Blum, R., & Cormack, L. (2024). Cross-Platform Partisan Positioning in Congressional Speech. Political Research Quarterly
Leann Mclaren. 2024. "Race, immigration, and Black intergroup politics." Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Leann Mclaren and Zoe Walker. 2024. "By Any Means Necessary? How Black and White Americans Evaluate Protest Tactics in Response to a Police Killing." The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
Marco Morucci, Margaret J. Foster, Kaitlyn Webster, So Jin Lee, and David Siegel. 2024. "Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in IRT Models." Forthcoming. American Political Science Review.
Michael Munger has been awarded the Pfizer,Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Professor distinguished professorship from Duke University
Serrin Rutledge-Prior and Edmund Handby. 2024. "Political representation, the environment, and Edmund Burke: A re-reading of the Western canon through the lens of multispecies justice." European Journal of Political Theory.

Pablo Beramendi and Scott de Marchi have been selected to the editorial team of the American Political Science Review
Pablo Beramendi and Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) and George Vanberg. et. al. (edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin). The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Oxford University Press.
Pawel Charasz (Ph.D. '22) has been awarded the Quality of Government Best Paper Award 2023 for the paper, “Burghers into Peasants: Political Economy of City Status in Congress Poland," from the QoG institute at the University of Gothenburg
Craig M. Rawlings, Edgar V. Cook, Kiersten Hasenour, E.K. Maloney, and Lynn Smith-Lovin. "Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)." Annual Review of Sociology.

Suhyen Bae (Ph.D. '26) has been awarded a 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the American Political Science Association
Amy H. Liu and Edmund J. Malesky. 2024. "Cultural Constraints and Policy Implementation: Effects of the Beijing License Plate Lottery on the Environment." Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
Paula McClain has been selected as a Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar by the Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Marco Morucci (Ph.D. '21) has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Michigan State University

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