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”