“[W]hen you go through them one by one by one, they raise complex and genuine questions like ‘What is the meaning of punishment?’ and ‘What is freedom?'” —Vesla Mae Weaver, […]
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PJ Brendese featured in JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly
Describe your primary research or scholarship, and tell us what is most exciting about your current project. My research centers on how the politics of time and memory function to […]
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Velsa Weaver featured in the New York Times
Vesla Weaver is featured prominently in the New York Times, for the American Prison Writing Archive, a “Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light
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Iván Ruiz-Hernández, Graduate Student, named APSA Diversity Fellow, Spring 2023
Iván Ruiz-Hernández, Graduate Student, has been named an APSA Diversity Fellow for Spring 2023. Congratulations Iván!
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The American Prison Writing Archive (APWA)
Vesla Weaver and her team launch The American Prison Writing Archive’s (APWA) new, fully searchable digital archive of writings by those impacted by the criminal legal system. The APWA is the largest […]
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Nicolas Jabko featured in JHU Arts & Science Weekly
Describe your primary scholarship or research, and tell us what is most exciting about your current work. I am currently a faculty fellow at Harvard University’s Warren Center for Studies […]
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Graduate student David Johnson received grant from Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
Graduate student David Johnson has received a grant from Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries to cover research travel expenses. He plans to use it to spend substantial time in the […]
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Professor Ang Discusses the “Revolution in How China is Governed”
Professor Yuen Yuen Ang was a guest on the Ezra Klein show to discuss changes in how China is governed, and that understanding China as an “autocracy with democratic characteristics” […]
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Professor Sarah Parkinson awarded Best Article Award
Aronson Assistant Professor Sarah Parkinson has been awarded the Best Article Award from the Middle East and North Africa Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association for her […]
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Ronay Bakan awarded 2022 Summer Centennial Research Grant/APSA
PhD student Ronay Bakan has been awarded a 2022 Summer Centennial Center Research Grant from the American Political Science Association. This award will support her fieldwork on the post-conflict socio-legal […]