Scholarship and Milestones, 2022

December

• Curtis Bram (Ph.D. '24) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Texas at Dallas
• Curtis Bram. 2022. "The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime: Focalism and Political Participation." Political Psychology.
• Alexander Kirshner. 2022. Legitimate Opposition. Yale University Press.
• Zeren Li and Melanie Manion. 2022. “The Decline of Factions: The Impact of a Broad Purge on Political Decision Making in China.” British Journal of Political Science.
• Hannah Ridge (Ph.D. '21) has accepted a tenure-track position at Chapman University
• Priscilla Torres has accepted a tenure-track position at Wellesley College
• Candis Watts-Smith and coauthors have won the Outstanding Researcher award for the oral abstract presentation titled, “Prevalent but not inevitable: Mapping contraception deserts across the American states,” from the Society of Family Planning

October

• Trent Ollerenshaw. 2022. "The Conditional Effects of Authoritarianism on COVID-19 Pandemic Health Behaviors and Policy Preferences." Political Behavior.

September

• Edmund Malesky, Jason Todd, and Anh Tran. 2022. "Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam." American Political Science Review. Awarded best paper on Southeast Asia at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association
• Michael Munger. 2022. "A 'Good' Industrial Policy is Impossible: With an Application to AB5 and Contractors." Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy.
• Rachel Myrick has received the 2022 Merze Tate Award (formerly called the Helen Dwight Reid Award) from the American Political Science Association for the best doctoral dissertation in international relations, law, and politics defended in 2021

August

• Curtis Bram. 2022. "A Professional Development Course for Political Science Undergraduates." PS: Political Science & Politics. 
• Kyle Endres, Sunshine Hillygus, Matthew BeBell and Shanto Iyengar. 2022. "A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing." Political Science Research and Method. 
• Hans Hassell, Chris Johnston, Jessica Khan, and Edgar Cook. 2022. “The Nature and Impact of Emotional Content in Congressional Candidate Emails to Supporters.” Electoral Studies.
• Gabriella Levy is the winner of the 2022 Cedric Smith Prize from The Conflict Research Society

July

• Pawel Charasz (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a postdoc at Brown University
• Chong Chen, Jordan Roberts, Shikshya Adhikari, Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, Edward Gonzalez, Nakissa Jahanbani, Patrick James, Steven E Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, Scott Silverstone, and Anne van Wijk. 2022. "Tipping Points: Challenges in Analyzing International Crisis Escalation." International Studies Review.
• Eric Cheng (Ph.D. '19). 2022. Hanging Together: Role-Based Constitutional Fellowship and the Challenge of Difference and Disagreement. Cambridge University Press.
• Kerry Haynie begins term as Dean of Social Sciences for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
• Katelyn Ice (Ph.D. ’22) has accepted a position as a Senior Admissions Officer with Duke Undergraduate Admissions
• Edmund Malesky, Tuan-Ngoc Phan, and Anh Quoc Le. 2022. "Do subnational performance assessments lead to improved governance? Evidence from a field experiment in Vietnam." Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy.
• Elliot Mamet (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a position as a Congressional Fellow and a Steiger Fellow at the APSA Centennial Center for Political Science & Public Affairs
• Elliot Mamet. 2022. "'This Unfortunate Development': Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois." Political Theory. 
• Richard Potthoff. 2022. "Radial Symmetry Does Not Preclude Condorcet Cycles If Different Voters Weight the Issues Differently." Economies.
• Jasmine Smith (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a postdoc followed by the position as assistant professor at George Washington University
• Phan Tuan Ngoc (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a position as a faculty member at Fulbright University

June

• Ashley Jardina and Trent Ollerenshaw. 2022. "The Polls—Trends: The Polarization of White Racial Attitudes and Support for Racial Equality in the US." Public Opinion Quarterly.
• Andrew Kenealy. 2022. "Barack Obama and the Politics of Military Force, 2009–2012." Presidential Studies Quarterly.
• Gabriella Levy has been awarded the Peace Scholars fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Rachel Myrick has won the the Robert O. Keohane Award, which is given annually to the best article published by an untenured scholar in International Organization, for her article, "Do External Threats Unite or Divide? Security Crises, Rivalries, and Polarization in American Foreign Policy”
• Charles Nathan. 2022. “La Loi Primitive: Recovering Benjamin Constant's Transcendent Liberalism.” History of Political Thought.
• Priscilla Torres has been awarded the Peace Scholars fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

May

• Adriane Fresh's research proposal, "Police Funding and Racial Inequalities in Policing: Evidence from the Post-Civil Rights Era," has been selected for funding through The Duke Endowment initiative to study “Racial Inequality.” 
• Haemin Jee, Hans Lueders, and Rachel Myrick. 2022. "Towards a Unified Approach to Research on Democratic Backsliding." Democratization. 
• Michael Munger has received a Trinity Research Enhancement award to support undergraduate research that leads to graduation with distinction honors for students.
• Rachel Myrick has received a course enhancement grant from the Office of Global Affairs for, “Exploring Global Security Through Multi-Stakeholder Negotiation Simulation.”  
• Chris Johnston and Gabe Madson. 2022. “Negativity Bias, Personality, and Political Ideology.” Nature Human Behavior.

April

• Pablo Beramendi and Melissa Rogers. 2022. Geography, Capacity, and Inequality: Spatial Inequality (Elements in Political Economy). Cambridge University Press. 
• Robert A. Blair, Sabrina M. Karim, Michael J. Gilligan and Kyle Beardsley (2022). "Policing Ethnicity: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence on Discrimination, Cooperation, and Ethnic Balancing in the Liberian National Police." Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
• Kaisheka Capers and Candis Watts Smith have been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2022 Beryl Radin Award for Best Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory for the article, “Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration: Assessing the Link between Passive and Active Representation for Foreign-Born Clients.”
• Brian Guay and Chris Johnston. 2022. “Ideological Asymmetries and the Determinants of Politically Motivated Reasoning.” American Journal of Political Science.
• Melanie Manion, Viola Rothschild Hongshen Zhu. 2022. "Dual Mandates in Chinese Congresses: Information and Cooptation." Issues & Studies.
• Timothy McDade has accepted a position as Director of Research for BlackRock's Retirement Initiative
• Charles Nathan. 2022. "The Urban/Rural Divide in Athenian Political Thought." American Political Science Review. 
• Trent Ollerenshaw and Chris Johnston. 2022. “The Conditional Relationship of Psychological Needs to Ideology: A Large-Scale Replication.” Public Opinion Quarterly.

March

• Pawel Charasz and Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) have won the SAGE Award for the Best Article published in European Union Politics in 2021 for the paper, "Does EU funding improve local state capacity?"
• Nick Eubank and Adriane Fresh. 2022. "Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act." American Political Science Review.
• Rachel Myrick has won the 2022 John McCain Dissertation Award, awarded annually by the Munich Security Conference, the largest international security conference, to a doctoral dissertation in political science, history, or public policy

February

• John Aldrich, Jamie Carson, Brad Gomez, and Jennifer Merolla. 2022. Change and Continuity in the 2020 Elections. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Gabriella Levy. 2022. "Evaluations of Violence at the Polls: Civilian Victimization and Support for Perpetrators after War." The Journal of Politics.
• Sunshine Hillygus delivers the 2021 Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture in Representative Government
• Diego Romero (Ph.D. '22) has won the 2021 Quality of Government Institute's Best Paper Award
• David Siegel, working in concert with Pei-Yu Wei, has been awarded National Science Foundation funding for "Theory-based Measurement of Varieties of Power Using a Novel Semi-supervised IRT Model"
• Candis Watts Smith is a recipient of the prestigious Duke University Langford Lectureship Award for 2021-2022 
• Candis Watts Smith, Rebecca Kreitzer, Kellen Kane, and Tracee Saunders. 2022. "Contraception Deserts: The Effects of Title X Rule Changes on Access to Reproductive Health Care Resources." Politics and Gender.

January

• Samuel Bagg (Ph.D. '17) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina
• Jared Clemons (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University
• Jared Clemons (Ph.D. '22) has accepted a one year postdoc at Princeton University
•  Erik Wibbels and a team of researchers from DevLab launch a new website, Machine Learning for Peace, in collaboration with the USAID Center for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
• James Wirtz, David Siegel, Jacob Shapiro, Amy Zegart, and Loch Johnson. 2022. "INS special forum on David Sherman’s ‘An Intelligence Classic That Almost Never Was – Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: warning and decision’." Intelligence and National Security.