The American Politics Workshop is hosted by the Department of Political Science. It meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12:30pm to 1:50pm in Pick 506. Graduate student coordinators for the 2023-24 academic year are Kevin Angell and Caroline Ferguson. Faculty advisors are Ruth Bloch Rubin and Jon Rogowski.
The workshop hosts research presentations from graduate students and faculty around campus and visitors to the University of Chicago. The schedule for the 2023-24 academic year is below. We hope you will join us.
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Fall Quarter 2023
October 3: Kisoo Kim (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago): “Lame Duck by Primary:
Effect of Electoral Incentives on the U.S. House Representatives”
October 17: Mark Graber (Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland): “Constitutions as Constraints”
October 24: Mallory SoRelle (Department of Political Science, Duke University): “The New #CancelCulture: Emerging Politics of U.S. Consumer Debt Relief Policy”
October 31: Jared Clemons (Department of Political Science, Temple University): “The Privatization of Racial Responsibility: A Political-Economic Reevaluation of the Principle-Implementation Gap and White Racial Attitudes”
November 7: Hyunku Kwon (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago): “Truncated Occupation and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South”
November 14: Isaac Mehlhaff (Data Science Institute, University of Chicago): “Political Argumentation and Attitude Change in Online Interactions”
November 28: Gabe Foy-Sutherland (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago): “The Submerged Campaign: Citizens United, SpeechNow, and the Transformation of American Campaign Strategy”
Winter Quarter 2024
January 16: Kevin Angell (Department of Political Science & Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago): “Strategic Spender or Controlled Chief? Analysis of Post-Legislature Spending Control”
January 23: Hannah Walker (Department of Government, University of Texas Austin): “‘No Longer a Number’: Testing New Ways to Find and Engage Formerly-Disenfranchised People in New Jersey”
February 6: Bryant Moy (Center for Data Science & Department of Politics, New York University): “Racial Threat and the Emergence of Discriminatory Ordinances”
February 13: Ben Shaver (Department of Political Science & Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago): “Signaling Competence Through Policy Revision”
February 20: Matt Conklin (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago): “The Local Legacies of Wartime Experiences: Evidence from America’s ‘Good War'”
February 27: Jaclyn Kaslovsky (Department of Political Science, Rice University): “Do Local Roots Impact Washington Behaviors? District Connections and Representation in the U.S. Congress”
Spring Quarter 2024
March 19: Chris Warshaw (Department of Political Science, George Washington University): “The Electoral and Policy Effects of Election Timing in City and County Governments”
March 26: Ramon Garibaldo Valdez (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago): “No estan solos, You Are Not Alone: Resisting U.S. Immigrant-Detention from the Inside-Out”
April 9: Kumar Ramanathan (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago): “Constructing Racial Liberalism”
April 16: Ruth Bloch Rubin (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago): “Legislating Rights: Congress and the Making of American Indian Law, 1924-1978”
April 23: Douglas Kriner (Department of Government, Cornell University): “Legal Constraints through Political Means? The Law, Courts, and Executive Action”
April 30: Andrew Proctor (Department of Political Science, University of Chicago): “Collective Identities, Perceptions of Groupness, and Attitudes about Political Parties”
May 7: Claire Jean Kim (Department of Political Science and Asian American Studies, University of California Irvine): “Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World”
Archive
2021-22 workshop
2022-23 workshop