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PhD & Placements
JOSEPH COLL PhD 2022 THESIS: “A Group Resource Model of How State Election Reforms Affect Voter Turnout for Black, Hispanic, and Young Americans” PLACEMENT: Assistant Professor of Politics at Sewanee: The University of the South LINDSEY GOLDBERG PhD 2022 THESIS: “More than child bearers or sex machines’ - How Gendered Ideologies Affect Reproductive Violence Against Rebel Women” PLACEMENT: Assistant Professor of International Relations specializing in Feminist IR at the University of Florida SI-AE KIM PhD 2021 THESIS: “The Impact of Pension Coverage on Senior Citizens’ Political Attitudes and Behavior in Non-Western Countries” CASSANDRA TAI PhD 2022 THESIS: “Public Trust and Governance Challenges” PLACEMENT: Post-Doc at the Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA) at Penn State
Fred Boehmke was named Marvin and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in Political Science by CLAS. He also received an NSF for “Collaborative Research: State Policy Responses to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Patterns, Context, and Secondary Impacts on Health.” The funding will be used to collect data on state governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently model the adoption and diffusion of those pandemic-related policies across the states. David Greenwood-Sanchez joined the department as a Post-Doc Scholar. Kelly Kadera was named the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar by the Interntional Studies Association, ISA Midwest. Elizabeth Menninga received an NSF grant that will help fund a research project examining the evolution of cooperation within and across government-rebel group dyads in multi-dyadic civil conflicts. Sara Mitchell has a courtesy appointment in the University College of Law (March 2022) and was the recipient of the 2023 FPA Distinguished Scholar Award by the ISA FPA’s Executive Committee, as well as a recipient of the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence and the 2021-22 CLAS Collegiate Teaching Award. Sara Mitchell and Elise Pizzi received an NSF grant for “How Government Policies Reduce Security Threats from Environmental Shocks” Bill Reisinger received the International Engagement Teaching Award from CLAS. Caroline Tolbert , Julianna Pacheco , Cassidy Branch, and Frederick Boehmke , received an NSF grant as part of Cornell University’s Collaborative Midterm Survey to study political attitudes during the 2022 midterm election. Caroline Tolbert , Scott LaCombe, and Karen Mossberger received the Goldsmith Prize: Best Academic Book for Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity, awarded by the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
AHMAD QABAZARD PhD 2022 THESIS: “Trusting Partisans: How Political
Parties Influence Political Support” PLACEMENT: Assistant Professor at Kuwait University
BYUNG-DEUK WOO PhD 2022 THESIS: “Re-Examining the Origins of Policy Related to Violence Against Women: The Role of Women’s Descriptive Representation in Achieving Substantive Representation” PLACEMENT: Research Professor, Comparative, Pohang University of Science and Technology YUFAN YANG PhD 2022 THESIS: “Information Manipulation and Rebellion in Autocracies” PLACEMENT: Assistant Professor at Augusta University
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