Department of Political Science Bulletin, September 28, 2022
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Political Science main office has resumed normal operating hours M-F, 8AM-12PM & 1-5PM.
New Faculty
Welcome Assistant Professor Margaret Brower who specializes in American Politics. Margaret will finish a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Inequality in America Initiative at Harvard University during the 2022-23 academic year and will physically join us next September, 2024.
FACULTY GOING ON LEAVE FOR 2022–2023 ACADEMIC YEAR:
- George Lovell (all year)
- Rachel Cichowski (all year)
- Sophia Wallace (all year)
- Geoffrey Wallace (all year)
- Christopher Adolph (Autumn 2022)
FACULTY RETURNING FROM LEAVE STATUS:
- Megan Francis
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVANCEMENTS
Congratulations to the following graduate students:
Spring 2022
Masters: Sandra Ahmadi, Jihyeon Bae, Brian Huang
Final: Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, Bree Bang-Jensen, Grace Reinke, David Lucas
Summer 2022
Final: Jonathan Beck and Carolyn Dapper
NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS
Please welcome the following new graduate students:
Jihyeon Chung, Elizabeth Echavarria Taborda, Cole Nathaniel Fairbairn, Zhaomin Li, Cody Tyler Little, Robert Louis (Bobby) Maxwell, Kayla Ellen Morton, Anna Diep Nguyen, Joshua Stanley (Josh) Sturman, and Tongtian Xiao
GRADUATE STUDENT POSITIONS
Lead TA: Ryan Goehrung
Writing Center Director: Rutger Ceballos
POLITICAL SCIENCE STAFF
Meera Roy, Director of Academic Services, Smith 215B, 543-9456
Ellen Gregoire, Graduate Program Assistant, Smith 215D, 543-1898
Tamara Sollinger, Academic Counselor, Smith 215C, 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
Rachel Erstad, Research Coordinator, Center for Labor Studies, 543-7946
Ling Fu, Fiscal Analyst, Gowen 123, 543-8189
Natalie Martinez, Administrative Assistant, Gowen 101, 543-2780
Ann Buscherfeld, Administrator, Gowen 107, 543-2783
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
Caitlin Ainsley, Graduate Admissions Committee Chair
Aseem Prakash, Graduate Placement Director
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
Jake Grumbach and Christopher Warshaw, “In many states with antiabortion laws, majorities favor abortion rights.” The Washington Post, Monkey Cage. June 25, 2022.
Jake Grumbach, “The Supreme Court Just Rolled Democracy Back. You Can Measure How Much.” Politico. June 30, 2022.
Victor Menaldo and James D. Long, “With Trump’s role on Jan. 6 becoming clearer, and potentially criminal, GOP voters are starting to look at different options.” The Conversation. July 13, 2022.
Jake Grumbach’s book, “Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics,” was the subject of the Seattle Times article, “UW professor outlines how states went from the laboratories of democracy to working against it.” The Seattle Times, August 22,2022.
Margaret Brower has been awarded the APSA Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in the field of public policy. Title: “How She Reconfigures the State: Intersectional Advocacy & The movement to End Violence”
James Long talked with Ilya Marritz in “The Democracies That Prosecuted Their Presidents” from the “Lock Him Up?” episode (September 9, 2022) of “On the Media” (WNYC Studios)
POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:
The Department of Political Science is hosting our fall reception, Friday, October 7, 3-4:30PM in the Smith Room, Suzzalo Library. RSVP at https://forms.gle/1m2UFGYVaMM8LRA67.
The Department of Political Science presents “Ugly Freedoms” featuring Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University). Please join Professor Anker for a discussion of her new book Ugly Freedoms (Duke University Press, 2022). Wednesday, October 12, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm in the Petersen Room, Allen Library. Also sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities; Program on Ethics; Hilen Endowment in American Literature and Culture; and Department of Law, Societies & Justice.
The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality & Race is hosting a “Book Club” discussion of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives. Friday, October 14, 2022, 12PM, Olson Room- Gowen 1A. Free lunch and a copy of the book will be provided. RSVP to Noga Rotem. Hartman will be giving a lecture on October 26th in the Walker Ames Room.
The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality & Race presents Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz (UC Berkeley Sociology). Friday, October 21, 2022, 12PM, Olson Room- Gowen 1A.
The UW Office of Public Lectures presents “Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part 1” featuring Jake Grumbach. Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 6:30PM, Kane Hall, Room 120. RSVP at https://www.washington.edu/lectures/events/democracy-and-the-2022-midterm-elections-part-i/
The Department of Political Science is hosting a faculty panel on “Assessing the 2022 Midterm election results with Implications for the next two years and 2024”. This panel will feature John Wilkerson and Mark Smith. Monday, November 14, 2022. 5-6:30PM, via Zoom. RSVP at https://events.uw.edu/event/327e14ff-014f-4c87-b262-e9f85dbd91db/summary.
OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS:
The UW Japan Studies Program presents Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University) to contextualize revelations about links between the Unification Church and politicians as he surveys ways religions and religion-adjacent activists in Japan exert a decisive impact on vote-gathering, policymaking, and other political activities. Monday, October 3, 2022, 3:30-5PM. THO 317. No RSVP required.
The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and the Center for West European Studies | European Union Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington present Katja Kammerer speaking on “Multiple challenges, the European Union and the prospects for international development cooperation”. Thursday, October 6, 2022. 3-4:20PM. SMI 306. No RSVP required.
Please send newsletter items to Natalie (nc9927@uw.edu) by noon on Thursday