
Samantha Vortherms
@s_vortherms
Assistant Professor @UCIrvine
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Congratulations to 2021–22 dissertation fellow Tauhid Bin Kashem (UCI Social Sciences), who was awarded the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Fellowship to support the completion of his dissertation on international protections (and the lack thereof) for refugees.




Guatemalans are showing the world how to defend the most sacred of democratic rights and resist backsliding, even with the entire system against them. Anita Isaacs, Álvaro Montenegro, and I lay out the stakes of their struggle for The New York Times 👇🏼🌱🇬🇹 nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opi…

Join us on 7/27 at 5pm for the Susan Shirk Lecture! Susan Shirk will have a converstaion with Steve Hadley, former national security advisor to Bush 43rd, about #China Strategy & policymaking at the highest level. In-person: ow.ly/GooI50PiyJW Zoom: ow.ly/c7Tb50PiyFH





Women political scientists on the job market! We have an open rank search UI Political Science in Political Economy. Please apply and spread the word! womenalsoknowstuff dropbox.com/scl/fi/cv97sc0…

We are hiring an assistant professor in comparative politics at OSU Polisci! Deadline is 10/1. 2:1 teaching load, lots of research support, growing department (8 new faculty hired last year). Come join us!

Calling all comparative politics scholars who research political violence or political economy! We're hiring for 2 TT lines at the University of Wisconsin-Madison UW Political Science! Please share to help get the word out on this late listing. Happy to answer Qs. I'll post the job links

Samantha Vortherms, Jack Zhang, and Rigao Liu will be presenting a paper entitled “Industrial Policy and Investment Networks in the US-China Trade War” this coming Friday at 1-2PM (EST) / 12-1 PM (CST) / 10-11AM (PST). Pape and Zoom info. are available here: chinesepoliticsresearchinprogress.com/schedule/

Our October 2023 issue (Vol.56, No.1) is now available: ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/c… Contributors include: Laia Balcells, Lesley-Ann Daniels, Fabio Resmini, @Heatherleighba, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Yu Bin Kim / 김유빈 (金裕彬), Samantha Vortherms

🇬🇹 As Guatemalans take to the streets against the MP's latest anti-democratic offensive, happy to share my Journal of Democracy article w/ Anita Isaacs on how an election meant to deepen authoritarianism became a democratic breakthrough Open access here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… 1/5


Congrats to @ucirvine social scientists Danielle Thomsen, Isabel Almeida and @erinkaylockwood, our 2023-24 recipients of the Dean's Awards for Outstanding Teaching! socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/new… #zotzotzot #UCIpride


Re-upping our China Focus essay contest. This year’s topics include Ukraine and migration and winners will get 500-1000 dollars!! chinafocus.ucsd.edu/2024/02/26/chi…

At long last, my paper w/ the brilliant Samantha Vortherms on political risk and foreign MNC exit in the 🇺🇸-🇨🇳 #TradeWar is now open access on RIPE! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Please download and cite 🙏

🔖 Looking forward to the publication of "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship" by UC Irvine's Samantha Vortherms, our former Shorenstein postdoctoral fellow on contemporary Asia! Check out this forthcoming title in APARC's joint series with Stanford Press: sup.org/books/title/?i…
