You are here

Week of September 27, 2021

Department of Political Science Bulletin, September 27, 2021

 

Today’s bulletin is also posted on our website:

https://www.polisci.washington.edu/newsletter

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

Welcome back to campus! We hope that you’re excited for the start of classes on Wednesday, September 29th.

 

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. You must fill out the COVID-19 attestation in Workday on each day you come to campus. 

 

FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:

 

Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash. Oil industry’s fluctuating fortunes: Recent wins and losses in climate policy. Forbes.com, May 30.

Scott Lemieux. The Supreme Court is poised to gut campaign finance laws over donor privacy demands. NBC News, April 27.

 

Sijeong Lim and Aseem Prakash. "Pandemics and citizen perceptions about their country: Did COVID-19 increase national pride in South Korea?" Nations and Nationalism, https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12749 
We compare data from surveys conducted in August 2019 and April 2020. Using regression on matched samples, we find a significant increase in general national pride. More importantly, we find an increase in positive assessments of their country in domains directly related to the COVID-19 response (civic awareness and international leadership) but not in domains less directly related to the pandemic.

Graduate Student Paper Awards:

Rachel Castellano, Takaranath Das Prize for Best Paper in Comparative & International Politics, “Opportunities and Obstacles: How Consulting Civil Society Organizations Can Affect Human Trafficking Policy”

 

Megan Erickson & Lucas Owen, Linden A. Mander Prize for Best Paper in International Relations, “Blood Avocados: Trade Liberalization and Cartel Violence in Mexico,”

 

Zhaowen Guo, Political Science Department Best Graduate Paper Prize, “Livestreaming Pollution: Information Provision and Civic Engagement in Authoritarian Regimes”

 

Grace Reinke, Philo S. Bennett Prize for Best Paper in Democratic Politics, “Social Reproduction as Political Resistance”

 

Xin Peng (Cinema and Media Studies) it the 2021 recipient of the Hartsock Graduate Student Award.  Peng's essay, "Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa: Racial Performance, Ornamentalism, and Yellow Voice(s) in Daughter of the Dragon (1931)" provides orignial contributions to feminist theory and engages powerfully with the production of gendered bodies, racial formation and imperial orders.

 

James Long, Mark Smith, and Victor Menaldo. “Why nobody will ever agree on whether COVID lockdowns were worth it”. The Conversation, Jun 16, 2021.

 

The American Political Science Association’s Science, Technology & Environmental Politics section awards the Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award to Peter May. This award is given to an individual in recognition of their lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics. The committee consists of Matto Mildenberger (Chair), Aseem Prakash, Deserai Crow

 

Jake Grumbach has been awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the APSA. The Emerging Scholar Award recognizes a scholar who has received their PhD within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

 

Tony Gill. “Economists Explain the Taliban”. The Wall Street Journal, Aug 25, 2021.

 

 

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:

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

Share