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Check out interviews with Political Science Profs. Jana Grittersova and Paul D’Anieri featured in the UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation recent publication "Ukraine One Year After the Invasion." ucigcc.org/publication/uk…

We are co-hosting with Latino & Latin American Studies Research Center a lecture by Anais Passos on "Democracies at War Against Drugs in Brazil and Mexico." Join us at 4PM on Monday, February 27, 2023. See flyer for more details.

We are seeking nominees for APSA's Political Psychology Distinguished Junior Scholars Award. Criteria: promising scholars contributing to pol psych who are in grad school or 7 ≤ years post PhD. Send a short nomination blurb along with CV to Jennifer Merolla, Tony Carey Jr. and me!

Congrats to Eun-A Park(박은아) for successfully defending her dissertation prospectus today. Stay tuned for her exciting work on perceptions + experiences of Korean migrants in #SouthKorea. Big thanks to fellow cmte members Jennifer Merolla, Steven Liao, Marissa Brookes, & Edward Chang.

Our incoming faculty member Dr. Nico Napolio just won the MPSA Kenneth J. Meier award for the best paper on bureaucratic politics, public administration, or public policy. Congratulations, Nico!

Now on FirstView ft. kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social), @zabdiveee, Harry Stoltz, fulya felicity, @okk_melee, @johnmburnett, Kimi!, Allison Wang, @eunapark1227 & others "Multiple RAs noted how their work...in DPERL had changed their perception about what research looks like" cup.org/3M0Vb8q

We are excited to host Andrea Headley next Monday, May 8th as a guest of our Department Speaker Series. She is presenting her paper "Body-Worn Cameras, Police Arrests, and Racial Disparities: Evidence from a Large-Scale Staggered Difference-in-Differences Analysis”!

The USC Predoctoral Institute for 1st-gen Scholars & Scholars of Color is now open for applications. This is a 2.5 day program to teach undergrads about the application process to PhD programs in political science & allied social sciences. Apply here: dornsife.usc.edu/poir/predoctor…

We are hosting another career workshop for political science undergraduates! This workshop will focus on law school and legal careers for political science majors. Join us Friday, May 12 at 12PM in INTS 1128 and Zoom.

We are seeking applicants for the following undergraduate awards and grants: Outstanding Student, Ernest Lopez, and Pay It Forward. All majors were sent an email last week from Kristy Salazar Nugent with application details and instructions. Applications are due May 22, 2023.

We thank Andrea Headley for participating in our Department Speaker Series! Yesterday, she presented her paper "Body-Worn Cameras, Police Arrests, and Racial Disparities: Evidence from a Large-Scale Staggered Difference-in-Differences Analysis”!

We are excited to host Alisa Bierria next Monday, May 15th as a guest of our Department Speaker Series. She will be presenting her paper "Structural Racism Within Reason"!

Congratulations to Political Science Ph.D. Candidate Minhye Joo for winning a Dissertation Research Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation! russellsage.org/news/second-an…

(1/2) Many thanks to our fantastic participants at last week’s Southern California Political Behavior Conference! Pictured: Robert Nyenhuis (Cal Poly Pomona), Guadalupe Madrigal (Guadalupe Madrigal, University of Missouri), and Karen Ferree (UCSD).

(2/2) Pictured: Nathan Chan (Nathan K. Chan, Loyola Marymount University) and Chaerim Kim (USC).

Proud to announce that our affiliate, claudia alegre, is now ABD 🤩 She defended a very promising proposal to study the role of emotions in Latinos’ political mobilization. Thanks a ton to Jennifer Merolla @tylerreny #TiffanyBrannon, and #DavidSears for serving on this committee

Congratulations to our department's newest first-gen college graduate Zabdi R. Velásquez whose achievements and story were featured by UCOP Newsroom! universityofcalifornia.edu/news/first-gen…

#OpenAccess from Politics & Gender - The Effect of Counterstereotypic Gender Strategies on Candidate Evaluations in American Elections - cup.org/447XU5E - Ding Wang, Jennifer Merolla & Arielle Manganiello #FirstView

Please consider the opportunity below for your own work 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽⁦ cc: UCLA’s REPS Lab⁩ Call for Papers - Special Issue on Validating Experimental Manipulations cambridge.org/core/journals/…

In #FirstView by Steph DeMora, Christian Lindke 🧐🐉🎬, Sean Long, Jennifer Merolla, and @cruzita_osorio: "The Effect of the Political Environment on White Women’s Political Ambition" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…