DEPARTMENT NEWS
Ron McMullen visited Georgia and South Caucasus region as background for his fall class POLI:3426, Outliers: Comparing Odd Countries. He also traveled to Pristina, Kosovo, where he provided lectures and simulations at Kosovo International Summer Academy Sara Mitchell was awarded the FPA Distinguished Scholar Award at the ISA 2023 Annual Convention and is now a Collegiate Fellow. She also received a 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association.
Julie Pacheco was promoted to full Professor and received a Seeding Excellence Initiative Grant from the Iowa Office of the Vice President of Research. The grant will help fund a project exploring voter turnout and civic engagement for Latinos across Iowa’s 99 counties. Elise Pizzi was promoted to Associate Professor and recently worked on natural disaster relief research with support from the Public Policy Center Summer Scholars Series. Alex P. Smith joined the department as a lecturer this fall.
Fred Boehmke received a 2023 CLAS Collegiate Teaching Award for his outstanding contribution to research.
David Greenwood-Sanchez was promoted to Assistant Professor.
Martha Kirby received the 2023 Staff Award for Distinguished Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from UI Staff Council. In July, she began her role as Chair of the Pre-Law Advisors National Council (PLANC). She left the department in September for an opportunity in Iowa Law Admissions.
PhD & Placements
SAERA LEE
HYEIN KO
Dissertation: “How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination” Placement: Northwestern University
Dissertation: “A Picture’s Worth: Visual Framing, Social Media, and Protest Perceptions” Placement: University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign
WILLOW KREUTZER
HOSHIK NAM
Dissertation: “The Role of Internal Actors’ Interests in UN Arms Embargo and the US Arms Sales Policies” Placement: Jacksonville State University
Dissertation, “Patriarchal Problems, Feminist Solutions: Incorporating Feminist Design Into Rationalist International Interventions“ Placement: U.S. State Department: Conflict, Stabilization, and Operations Bureau
ERICO YU
DARIA KUZNETSOVA
Dissertation: “Individual and Beyond Individual: Mechanisms of Compliance with Injustice” Placement: Data Analytics and Computational Social Science Program (DACSS), University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dissertation: “The Weaponization of Digital Communication Spaces: How Authoritarian Regimes Use Information Control to Suppress Contention” Placement: University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
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