Department of Political Science Bulletin, October 4, 2021
Today’s bulletin is also posted on our website:
https://www.polisci.washington.edu/newsletter
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Political Science COVID-19 Prevention Plan is also located on our website. If you come to campus, you are required to review the plan and take the UW General COVID-19 safety training.
FACULTY GOING ON LEAVE FOR 2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR:
- Megan Francis
- Chris Parker
FACULTY RETURNING FROM LEAVE:
- Jamie Mayerfeld
NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS
Please welcome the following new graduate student:
- Siyu Yin
GRADUATE STUDENT POSITIONS
Lead TA: Bree Bang-Jensen
Writing Center Director: Carolyn Dapper
POLITICAL SCIENCE STAFF
Meera Roy, Director of Academic Services, Smith 215B, 543-9456
Tamara Sollinger, Academic Counselor, Smith 215D, 543-1824
Mark Weitzenkamp, Academic Counselor, Smith 215, 543-1824
Stephen Dunne, Senior Computer Specialist, Smith 220C, 616-3896
Andrew Hedden, Associate Director, Center for Labor Studies, Smith M266/268, 543-7946
Yasmin Ahmed, Assistant Director of Student and Community Engagement, 543-7537
Ling Fu, Fiscal Analyst, Gowen 123, 543-8189
Ann Buscherfeld, Administrator, Gowen 107, 543-2783
Natalie Martinez, Administrative Assistant, Gowen 101, 543-2780
FACULTY ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
John Wilkerson, Chair, Gowen 106. To set up an appointment, e-mail him at jwilker@uw.edu.
Mark Smith, Associate Chair
Mark Smith, Undergraduate Program Committee Chair
Becca Thorpe, Graduate Program Committee Chair and Graduate Financial Aid Committee Chair
Chris Adolph, Graduate Admissions Committee Chair
Aseem Prakash, Graduate Placement Director
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
Susan Whiting published "Validating Vignette Designs with Real-world Data: A Study of Legal Mobilization in Response to Land Grievances in Rural China," China Quarterly Vol. 246 (2021) (with Xiao Ma).
Beck, Jonathan C. (2021). "Inequality and the Human Right to Tuition-Free Higher Education: Mobilizing Human Rights Law in the German Movement against Tuition Fees." Law & Social Inquiry, 1-25. doi:10.1017/lsi.2021.25
Zhaowen Guo has been awarded a SICSS Research Grant from Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to facilitate her research in computational social science.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation (WIDoMSV) I: Tony Gill took and completed the COVID-19 Safety Training - Back to the Workplace course, earning himself a certificate of completion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:
The UW Center for Environmental Politics' Duck Family Colloquium Series welcomes John Shandra, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Shandra will be presenting a talk titled: "India, Palm Oil, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss" on Friday, October 8th from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. PST over Zoom. Please RSVP at this link.
The UW Center for Environmental Politics presents Lorena Gonzalez and Bruce Harrel, “A Climate Conversation with Seattle Mayoral Candidates”. Friday, October 22, 2021, 5-6PM via Zoom. RSVP at https://bit.ly/SEAClimateConversation
Department Faculty Panel: Noga Rotem, Jack Turner, and Jamie Mayerfeld “Is Democracy Dead?” Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 5:30-7:00PM via Zoom. RSVP coming soon.
OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS:
The Jackson School presents “Talk: A Conversation with Congressman Adam Smith on China”. Join us for a talk on China and U.S. foreign policy with Congressman Adam Smith. This event, to be held virtually, is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in partnership with the East Asia Center and the China Studies Program at the University of Washington. Friday, October 8, 2021, 4:30-6PM via Zoom. RSVP by visiting https://bit.ly/Oct8Talk.
Please send newsletter items to Natalie (nc9927@uw.edu) by noon on Thursday