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CONGRATULATIONS Andrew Martin receives grant to update Supreme Court database Andrew Martin has received a grant entitled "Collaborative Research: Updating the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database," This four year project will involve collecting and coding data about every Supreme Court case from the Court's Founding through 1952, which will result in a comprehensive Supreme Court Database. This project will be a collaborative project involving scholars at Northwestern, Michigan State, Penn, Princeton and Stony Brook. posted: 2009-09-18 CONGRATULATIONS Xun Pang Awarded NSF Dissertation Research Grant Congratulations to Xun Pang (ABD graduate student) for being receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant! Xun’s dissertation, “Discrete Time-Series Cross-Section Models of Political Economy” describes and applies a new approach she developed to more accurately model international political data that accounts for cross-sectional heterogeneity and temporal dependence for many types of outcome variables. This innovative project has already received many accolades from the discipline and signals the start of an illustrious career for Xun, who enters the academic job market this fall. posted: 2009-09-11 CONGRATULATIONS Robert Walker Wins Miller Prize Robert W. Walker (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Applied Statistics) and coauthors [Curtis Signorino (University of Rochester), and Muhammet A. Bas (Harvard University)] were awarded the Warren Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis (Volume 16). Their article, ``Statistical Backwards Induction: A Simple Method for Estimating Recursive Strategic Models'', simplifies the statistical analysis of a broad class of extensive form game-theoretic models by combining, in appropriate ways, common techniques that are already familiar to many empirical political researchers. Political Analysis currently ranks #1 of 99 political science journals, according to 2008 ISI Journal Citation Reports. posted: 2009-09-11 ANNOUNCEMENT Guillermo Rosas’ Book Now Available Guillermo Rosas’ (Assistant Professor of Political Science) book, “Curbing Bailouts. Bank Crises and Democratic Accountability in Comparative Perspective,” was released by the University of Michigan Press in August. The book, part of the Press’ New Comparative Politics series, presents Guillermo’s analysis of banking crises that arose around the globe in the late-twentieth century and the relationship between political regime type and government response. His research reveals an unexpected pattern that could shed light on current economic policy making. posted: 2009-09-11 ANNOUNCEMENT Jeff Gill Tapped as President of the Society for Political Methodology Jeff Gill (Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Applied Statistics) is the new President of the Society for Political Methodology, the Political Methodology Section for the American Political Science Association (APSA). Not surprisingly, Jeff has been very active in the Society, which encourages and facilitates collaboration among the political methodology community at all levels through annual conferences, awards, and an extensive, resource-filled website. He joins a list of accomplished political methodologists who have led the Society, which is sure to thrive under his tenure. posted: 2009-09-11 WELCOME Department Welcomes New and Returning Faculty and Students We are pleased to see faculty and students returning for the new school year, and are especially eager to welcome newcomers to the Department! Maggie Penn and John Patty have already begun settling into their offices and their new home in St. Louis. Our six new graduate students have arrived to campus and are learning their way around the Department as well as the city. Most of us remember how challenging it can be to get oriented to a new school and living environment, so we hope the newcomers feel free to ask for help along the way. The Department is also glad to welcome back two faculty members who were away last year: Mona Lena Krook, who was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a Fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Frank Lovett, who was a Laurence S. Rockefeller visiting fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Here’s to an illuminative and productive year for all! posted: 2009-08-19 ANNOUNCEMENT An Active Year for Jim Gibson James L. Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government and professor of African and African American Studies, has had quite a bit to say lately about politics. In the summer of 2009, he published two books: Gibson, James L. 2009. Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press. Gibson, James L., and Gregory A. Caldeira. 2009. Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Overcoming Historical Injustices is the final entry in Gibson’s “overcoming” trilogy of books on the South African transition to democracy (Overcoming Intolerance, Cambridge; Overcoming Apartheid, Russell Sage Foundation), and the book was launched in August in a public talk in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, in 2008 and 2009, Gibson published six articles in the political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics. Gibson also recently co-authored an article on the trials of the Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia that was published in JAMA – the Journal of the American Medical Association – in August. Gibson received two grants in 2009 from the National Science Foundation on issues of law and politics in the United States, and he will be teaching at the Stanford Law School for the Fall 2009 term. posted: 2009-08-19 CONGRATULATIONS Gary Miller to Receive “Best Article” Award Congratulations to Gary Miller (and co-author Jack Knott) for receiving the Best Article award for “When Ambition Checks Ambition” from the American Review of Public Administration (ARPA)! The article, which presents trust theory as an alternative to principal-agency theory, was published in ARPA in December 2008. posted: 2009-08-18 ANNOUNCEMENT Ryan Moore Article in Lancet Ryan T. Moore (along with co-authors Gary King and others) saw his article, “Public Policy for the Poor? A Randomised Assessment of the Mexican Universal Health Insurance Programme” published in Lancet this spring. The article describes an experimental design assessment of Seguro Popular, a Mexican program that aimed to expand health care coverage to 50 million uninsured citizens. posted: 2009-08-18 ANNOUNCEMENT APSR Article by Andrew Rehfeld Andrew Rehfeld, one of our Associate Professors and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department, has had an article published in the May 2009 edition of the American Political Science Review (APSR). The article, “Representation Rethought: On Trustees, Delegates, and Gyroscopes in the Study of Political Representation and Democracy,” expands the common theory of political representation to accommodate finer distinctions of political activity and discusses the theory’s applicability to democratic and nondemocratic contexts. posted: 2009-07-20 ANNOUNCEMENT Former Grad Students Depart for Tenure-Track Appointments The Department bids a fond farewell to three former graduate students who are leaving St. Louis this summer for tenure-track appointments. Stephen Haptonstahl and his family are already on their way to California where Steve has accepted an appointment with the University of California – Davis. Christina Boyd is headed east to accept an appointment at the State University of New York – Buffalo. Finally, Ryan Black and his wife are preparing to move back up north for Ryan’s appointment at Michigan State University. Steve, Christie and Ryan, thank you for the service you have each provided to the Department and for the outstanding examples you have and continue to provide on how to begin an academic career. We wish you all the best! posted: 2009-07-20 ANNOUNCEMENT Jeff Gill's research featured in the Wall Street Journal Professor Jeff Gill's work "The Etiology of Public Support for the Designated Hitter Rule" (co-authored with Christopher Zorn of Penn State) was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal on July 16. posted: 2009-07-16 CONGRATULATIONS Nathan Jensen Receives Political Economy Award Congratulations to Nate Jensen, whose paper, “Where Do U.S. Multinationals Pay Taxes?” has been selected to receive the award for best paper of 2008 by American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Organized Section in Political Economy. Nate will formally be awarded the prize in Toronto at the APSA Annual Meeting in September. posted: 2009-06-30 ANNOUNCEMENT Gary Miller Elected to the MPSA Council We are pleased to announce that Gary Miller has been elected Council Member for the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Gary, whose service to the profession already includes a position on the APSR Editorial Board, will help guide the MPSA for a three-year term (2009 – 2012). posted: 2009-06-30 CONGRATULATIONS Dawn Brancati Awarded NSF Grant The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a two-year grant to Dawn Brancati, who will use the funds to support her research on the effects of the formation of the European Union (EU). Specifically, Dawn will be examining whether EU economic integration has stimulated separatist movements and parties in European countries. Congratulations, Dawn! posted: 2009-06-30 CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Jeff Gill Congratulations to Jeff Gill for winning the 2009 Gosnell Prize. (Along with John Freeman) This prize is presented by the Society for Political Methodology for best work presented on political methodology at a conference in the preceeding year. Gill and Freeman won for their paper entitled "Dynamic Elicited Priors for Updating Covert Networks" posted: 2009-06-24 CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Xun Pang Xun Pang of Washington University has been awarded the John T. Williams Dissertation Prize. This prize has been established by the Society for Political Methodology for the best dissertation proposal in political methodology. Pang won for her paper entitled "A Bayesian Probit Hierarchical Model with AR(p) Errors and Non-nested Clustering: Studying Sovereign Creditworthiness and Political Institutions." posted: 2009-06-24 ANNOUNCEMENT Graduate Student Publication Yael Shomer’s article, “Candidate Selection Procedures, Seniority, and Vote-Seeking Behavior,” appears in the July 2009 issue of Comparative Political Studies. The article is related to Shomer’s dissertation research on the effect of electoral systems on legislative behavior. posted: 2009-06-19 CONGRATULATIONS Jim Spriggs Named Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government The Department is pleased to announce that Jim Spriggs has been named the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences at WU. This professorship has a term of three academic years (2009 - 2012) and will contribute to Jim's productive research agenda. Please join us in congratulating him on this well-deserved honor! posted: 2009-05-14 ANNOUNCEMENT Department Ranked No. 7 in Political Methodology US News & World Reports released its annual ranking of graduate and professional programs in April and placed Washington University at No. 7 in the sub-field of political methodology. The report ranked the Department among the top 15 in American politics and overall political science programs for graduate students posted: 2009-05-11 CONGRATULATIONS Heather Sloan-Randick Receives Outstanding Staff Award The Department’s Office Manager, Heather Sloan-Randick, received an Outstanding Staff Award in May for her exemplary performance on the job. Sloan-Randick, one of six Award recipients campus-wide, was cited for her success in filling-in for the unplanned departure of two co-workers while also training for her position and managing the Department’s move to a new building. We salute you, Heather! posted: 2009-05-11 ANNOUNCEMENT Department is No. 1 in Public Law Faculty and graduate student productivity have elevated the Department’s public law program to the top ranking according to a study published this Spring in Law & Courts. The study examined the number of publications in the top political science journals and the number of National Science Foundation grants awarded to faculty and graduate students in the sub-field between 1997 and 2008. posted: 2009-05-11 ANNOUNCEMENT Ph.D. Program Graduates Featured in PS: Political Science & Politics Five of the Department’s former graduate students—Frances Henderson, Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Meg E. Rincker, Marshall Thompson, and Erica Townsend-Bell—shared their experiences conducting field research in the April edition of PS: Political Science & Politics. Their articles were published as part of a symposium co-edited by Rinker that examined the impact of researchers’ gender, race, class, religion and/or age on the process and product of research conducted abroad. posted: 2009-05-11 CONGRATULATIONS Faculty mentor Award Jim Spriggs and Mona Lena Krook have been selected to receive the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award this year. posted: 2009-04-11 CONGRATULATIONS Faculty mentor Award Jim Spriggs and Mona Lena Krook have been selected to receive the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award this year. posted: 2009-04-11 ANNOUNCEMENT New Publication! Steve Smith and Melanie Springer's edited volume /Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process/ is being released by Brookings Institution Press on May 10, 2009. posted: 2009-03-26 ANNOUNCEMENT Welcome John Patty and Maggie Penn! The Department is delighted to announce that John Patty and Maggie Penn, both from Harvard University, will be joining our faculty this fall. Their area of expertise is formal theory. We look forward to having them as colleagues. posted: 2009-03-16 CONGRATULATIONS Mona Lena Krook's latest book is now available Mona Lena Krook's new book entitled "Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide" has just been published by Oxford University Press. posted: 2009-03-10 CONGRATULATIONS Graduate student publications Ryan Black and Ryan Owens (PhD. 2008) just had their article "Agenda-Setting in the Supreme Court: The Collision of Policy and Jurisprudence." accepted at the Journal of Politics posted: 2008-08-27 CONGRATULATIONS Gabel and Martin receive NSF Grant Professors Matt Gabel and Andrew Martin recently received a grant from the Law and Social Science program at the National Science Foundation to support a project titled "A Cross-National Study of Judicial Institutionalization and Independence." e project aims to understand why some courts exert influence over policy outcomes while others do not, and the extent to which institutional design affects judicial influence. During this two-year pilot study the research team will collect and code decisions made by constitutional courts in 60 countries for a single calendar year. posted: 2008-07-21 CONGRATULATIONS Martin honored at the Ninth Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards Andrew Martin has been selected by the Graduate Student Senate to receive recognition for excellence in mentoring as part of their ninth annual Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards. The award, which will be presented by the Graduate Student Senate and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was presented on April 23rd, 2008. posted: 2008-07-21 CONGRATULATIONS Christina Boyd receives NSF Grant Graduate student Christina Boyd received a dissertation improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for her dissertation titled "Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy." posted: 2008-07-21 CONGRATULATIONS Boyd and Martin receive Pi Sigma Alpha Award Christina Boyd and Andrew Martin, along with their collaborator Lee Epstein, received the Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper delivered at the 2007 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association meeting for their paper "Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging." posted: 2008-07-21 CONGRATULATIONS Christina Boyd receives AWF Award Christina Boyd received the an award for excellence from the Associate of Women Faculty at Washington University for the 2007-2008 academic year. posted: 2008-07-21 ANNOUNCEMENT Xun Pang Congratulations to Xun Pang for winning the Best Graduate Poster Award at the 25th Annual Political Methododology Summer Meeting. Her title was: Binary and Ordinal Time Series with AR(p) Errors: Bayesian Model Determination for Latent High-Order Markovian Processes. posted: 2008-07-16 WELCOME New Graduate Students The Political Science Department would like to welcome 14 new graduate students to our program. posted: 2008-05-29 CONGRATULATIONS Randy Calvert becomes chair of American Culture Studies Randy Calvert, Professor in Political Science, has agreed to serve as the new Director of AmCS and will take on the directorship effective July 1. He has already been working on his plans to continue and expand upon the strong foundation AmCS enjoys. He will bring exciting, new interdisciplinary ventures during a time when the study of American culture will touch upon the significant challenges facing the nation and the world today. posted: 2008-05-29 CONGRATULATIONS Norman Schofield Norman Schofield has received an NSF grant for his project "Activist Coalitions: Modeling Elections and Regime Change" posted: 2008-05-29 WELCOME Dawn Brancati Dawn Brancati wil join the department for the fall semester. Dawn will teach Comparative Politics and her research focuses on intra-state conflict and elections. In April, she testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding her work on decentralization. posted: 2008-05-28 WELCOME Ryan Moore Ryan Moore will join the department in the fall of 2008. He will teach American Politics and Political methodology. posted: 2008-05-28 WELCOME Margit Tavits Margit Tavits will join the department in the fall of 2008. Her area of expertise is Comparative Politics. posted: 2008-05-28 CONGRATULATIONS Mariana Medina Congratulations to Mariana Medina for receiving the Deans award for Teaching Excellence. posted: 2008-05-28 |
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