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Congratulations to Jessica Sahota! She is the winner of the 2024 Best Paper Award of the Department of Political Science!

Congratulations to Kaitlyn Zarecor ('BA '22)! Her article "Sex Appeal and Flex Appeal: Gendered Media Portrayals of Female Athletes" has been published in the Fall 2024 issue of Critique: A worldwide student journal of politics. about.illinoisstate.edu/critique/files…

Our new graduate student Showrav Paul recently published his co-authored article "Revisiting the Causes and Effects of Recurrent Floods in the Haor Region of Sunamganj, Bangladesh: Evidence from the 2022 Flash Flood," in Asia Social Issues: so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/asi/….

Congratulations to Dr. Dursun Peksen! His chapter “The Use, Effectiveness, and Unintended Consequences of Sanctions by IOs” (co-authored with Jin Mun Jeong) is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of International Organizations.

Congratulations to Dr. Dursun Peksen! He has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association’s Foreign Policy Analysis Section.

Panel Discussion, Wednesday, October 9, at 2:30 in the UC 338 (Iris Room), on the issues of abortion, January 6th, and populism led by Dr. James Fahey, Dr. Matthias Kaelberer, and Dr. Sharon Stanley. Please join us for the discussion.

Today’s panel on issues in the 2024 elections with Dr. James Fahey, Dr. Sharon Stanley, and Dr. Matthias Kaelberer.

We will have our next election event on Wednesday, October 23, at 2:00 in the UC 261 (Senate Chamber). Dr. Wellman will show and discuss the documentary film "Orange Revolution," which looks at the political movement in Ukraine in response to the fraudulent 2004 election.

Tuesday, October 29, 2:30,UC 350 (Fountain View Room): panel discussion "Memphis and the 2024 Election: National Results, Local Impact" with Dr. Davia Downey (School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy), Dr. Brooke Shannon (Political Science), and Tikeila Rucker (Memphis for All).

Congratulations to our alum Josiah Hoss, BA'20/MA'22! He recently started a new job as a policy analyst at the Sycamore Institute. He just published his first paper on income and poverty in Tennessee with the Institute: sycamoretn.org/2023-income-po….

Congratulations to Dr. Davia Downey. She and her longtime collaborator Dr. Bill Myers, University of Tampa, have been appointed as the next Book Review Co-Editors for Publius: The Journal of Federalism, starting January 2025.

We will have our Post-Election Panel today, November 13, at 2 pm, in the UC 308, Poplar Room. Dr. Matthias Kaelberer, Dr. Dursun Peksen, and Dr. Brian Kwoba will discuss "What Now? Making Sense of the 2024 Election."

Pictures from our Post-Election Panel today with Dr. Matthias Kaelberer, Dr. Dursun Peksen, and Dr. Brian Kwoba discussing "What Now? Making Sense of the 2024 Election."

We will host a Law School Info Session on Tuesday, November 19, 12:30-2:30 pm, in the UC Shelby Room (342). Our guests from the UofM Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law will be Dean Jim Strickland, Assistant Dean Dr. Sue Ann McClellan, and Interim Assistant Dean Jacqueline O'Bryant.

Congratulations to the incoming chair of the Political Science Department, Dr. Nicole Detraz!

Congratulations to two recipients of College or Arts and Sciences Travel Enrichment Grants: Dr. Brooke Shannon and Hamed Nikookalam!

Today's induction ceremony of our Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society with new members Dhekra Al Awdi, Anita Sadat, Luis Lopez Gamez, Blake Dexter, and Jason King!

PDAs for Dr. Sharon Stanley (project "Toward a Liberal Socialist Feminism in the United States" ) and for Dr. Beth Wellman (Visiting Fellow at the EUI in Florence, Italy, for work on her project "Voting Beyond Borders: Diaspora (Dis)Enfranchisement in Africa")!