Scholarship and Milestones, 2021

December

• Jessica Edelson (T '22) is one of three Duke students who will join the new class of Schwarzman Scholars, reports Duke Today

November

• Mark Dudley (Ph.D. '16) has accepted the position as Director of Merit Scholarship Programs at Duke OUSF
• Rachel Myrick and Jeremy Weinstein. 2021. "Making Sense of Human Rights Diplomacy: Evidence from a US Campaign to Free Political Prisoners." International Organization.

October

• Terrence L. Chapman, Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky and Scott Wolford. 2021. ""Leakage" in International Regulatory Regimes: Did the OECD Anti-bribery Convention Increase Bribery?" Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
• Peter Feaver accepts the 2021 Morris Janowitz Achievement Award for senior scholar whose career most demonstrates excellence in the study of armed forces and society and important service to the discipline, from the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

September 

• Curtis Bram, Elliot Mamet, Harunobu Saijo, and Jasmine Smith are awarded competitive fellowships for their research from the Duke Graduate School
• Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto (Ph.D. '07) will be the next dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas
• Edmund Malesky and Phan Ngoc Tuan are awarded the $250,000 Laser Pulse Grant from USAID for experimental research on the relationship between business productivity and corruption in Vietnam 
• Leann McLaren and Zoe Walker are awarded an APSA Centennial Center Grant for their Summer 2021 project, "Effects of Protest Activity on Support for Social Movements"
• Michael Munger. 2021. The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises. Institute for Economic Affairs
• Quynh Nguyen and Edmund Malesky. 2021. "Fish or steel? New evidence on the environment-economy trade-off in developing Vietnam." World Development.
• María Sánchez-Domínguez and Luis Guirola Abenza. 2021."The double penalty: How female migrants manage family responsibilities in the Spanish dual labour market." Journal of Family Research. 

August

• Michael Hawley. 2021. "Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric as a Tool for Political Motivation." Journal of Politics.
• Edmund Malesky and Jason Douglas Todd. 2021. "Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature." Journal of Politics.
• Ana María Montoya has accepted a position as Director of Data Analytics at the World Justice Project
• Michael Munger. 2021. "Populism, Self Government, and Liberty." Independent Review.
• Jasmine Smith receives a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
• Jason Douglas Todd, Edmund Malesky, Anh Tran, and Anh Le. 2021. "Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly." Journal of Politics.

July

• Ben Broman and Georg Vanberg. 2021. "Feuding, arbitration, and the emergence of an independent judiciary." Constitutional Political Economy.
• Brian Guay and Jesse Lopez. 2021. "Partisan Bias in Bipartisan Places? A Field Experiment Measuring Attitudes Toward the Presidential Alert in Real Time." Public Opinion Quarterly.
• Zeren Li accepts a postdoc at Yale University
• Antong Liu accepts a position as Lecturer in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program in the Department of Philosophy at University of Maryland, College Park
• Elliot Mamet. 2021. "Representation on the Periphery: The Past and Future of Nonvoting Members of Congress." American Political Thought.
• Richard Salsman. 2021. Where have all the Capitalists Gone? Essays in Moral Political Economy. AIER.
• Candis Watts Smith is selected for the Duke University Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, 2021-22
• Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) received honorable mention for the 2021 Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award for his dissertation from the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics

June

• Pablo Beramendi and coauthor Francesc Amat receive an honorable mention for the Michael Wallerstein Prize, a prize for the best article published in the previous year in Political Economy (Section 25)
• Janina Dill and Livia Schubiger. 2021.  “Attitudes Toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles and International Law.” American Journal of Political Science.
• Kerry Haynie is the winner of the 2021 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for best book in Legislative Studies (Section 3)
• Livia Schubiger. 2021. "State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru." The Journal of Politics.
• Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) receives honorable mention for the Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Award for best dissertation in European Politics and Society (Section 21)

May

• Anisha Datta and David Siegel. 2021. "Inclusive and Non-Inclusive Networks." PS: Political Science & Politics.
• Pawel Charasz and Jan Vogler. 2021. "Does EU funding improve local state capacity? Evidence from Polish municipalities." European Union Politics.
• Brendan Daly (T '84) is named Vice President of Communications for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, reports Radio Online

April

• Carlee Golberg (T '22) is selected as a 2021 Truman Scholar, with an announcement by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and commendation by Duke President Vincent Price
• So Jin Lee accepts a postdoc at MIT and Harvard as a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow
• Zeren LI is offered a tenure-track position at University College London and won a Leitner Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University
• Devin McCarthy accepts a position as a Redistricting Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union
• Marco Morucci accepts a postdoc as a Moore-Sloan Faculty Fellow at the NYC Center for Data Science
• Eric Mvukiyehe joins the department as an Assistant Professor and will contribute new research dimensions across multiple fields, in an announcement by Trinity College
• Rachel Myrick is selected among 30 young professionals as part of the Aspen Strategy Group's Rising Leaders Program
• Hannah Ridge will be joining the University of Chicago Pozen Center for Human Rights as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Geneviève Rousselière. 2021. "Can Popular Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism from Radical Democracy to Populism."American Journal of Political Science.
• Nura Sediqe (Ph.D. '19) accepts a position as Assistant Professor at Michigan State University

March

• Serkant Adiguzel received a pre-doctoral fellowship from Harvard’s Belfer Center
• Caitlin Ainsley, Cliff Carrubba, and Georg Vanberg. 2021. “The Future Matters: Judicial Preferences over Legal Rules and Decision-Making on Collegial Courts.” Journal of Law and Courts.
• Chong Chen and Kyle Beardsley. 2021. "Once and Future Peacemakers: Continuity of Third-Party Involvement in Civil War Peace Processes." International Peacekeeping.
• Ruth Grant. 2021. “Reflections on a Career.” Perspectives on Political Science. 
• Edmund Malesky and Helen Milner. 2021. “Fostering global value chains through international agreements: Evidence from Vietnam.” Economics & Politics.
• Michael Munger and Georg Vanberg. 2021. “Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo.”Public Choice.
• Emily Myers receives a 2021 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
• Thomas Spragens. 2021. Capitalism and Democracy: Prosperity, Justice, and the Good Society. Notre Dame UP.
• Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) accepts a position as assistant professor at the University of Konstanz

February

• Haohan Chen accepts a tenure-track position at the University of Hong Kong
• Moohyung Cho accepts a position as Assistant Professor at Ewha Womans University
• M. Taylor Fravel and Melanie Manion and Yuhua Wang. 2021. “A ‘China in the World’ Paradigm for Scholarship.” Studies in Comparative International Development.
• Edmund Malesky and Layna Mosley. 2021.  “Labor upgrading and export Market opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam.” Economics & Politics.
• Javier Osorio, Livia Schubiger, and Michael Weintraub. 2021. “Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico.” Comparative Political Studies. 
• David Price. 2020. The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed. Fourth Edition. Routledge.

January

• Joe Brown and Dean Dulay. 2020. “Barracks and barricades: how internal security threats affect foreign basing access in the Philippines.” Asian Security. 
• Asli Cansunar (PhD ’18) accepts an offer as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Washington
• DevLab@Duke 2020 Summary: 11 published/forthcoming papers, dozens of policy reports/presentations, research with 21 undergrads, 31 M.A., 22 Ph.D., and 28 external policy partners, 39 workshops, 15 paid internships, and $1.4m in new funding
• Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics is chosen by Political Violence @ A Glance as one of the best books of 2020
• Libby Jenke, et al. 2021. “Using Eye-Tracking to Understand Decision-Making in Conjoint Experiments.” Political Analysis.
• Melanie Manion. 2020. “The Information Politics of COVID-19 in China,” in The Coronavirus: Human, Social, and Political Implications. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Devin McCarthy and Jack Santucci. 2021. “Ranked Choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics.” Politics & Policy.
• Emily Rains accepts a job as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University
• Hannah Ridge. 2020. “Just like the Others: Party Differences, Perception, and Satisfaction with Democracy.”Party Politics.
• Juan Tellez accepts a job as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis
• Nicholas Valentino, Kirill Zhirkov, Sunshine Hillygus, and Brian Guay. 2020. “The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion.” Public Opinion Quarterly.