Hilldale Undergraduate Research award for her work with Gillian McBride on the project, “A Microcosm of Global Insecurities: Community and Landscape Changes in El Salvador Following the 1973 Oil Crisis.”
Year: 2016
PS 948 Political Violence
Although violence is an ancient social phenomenon, the study of violence is increasingly common in political science and related disciplines. Within the past 15 years, an exciting field of study has emerged, bringing together experienced …
PS 933 Concepts and Categories: Feminist Political Thought and Practice
Taking Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s definition of queer—”the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone’s gender, of anyone’s sexuality aren’t made (or can’t be made) …
PS 904 Macro Theories of American Politics
In-depth examination of selected topics on American politics and governmental institutions.
PS 900 Economic Inequality in Modern Political Thought
Economic inequality is a topic that dominates contemporary political debate. Yet long before Bernie Sanders opined about the moral injustice of economic inequality theorists in the eighteenth and nineteenth century grappled with the political and …
PS 857 Theories of International Relations
This course offers a graduate-level introductory survey of the field of international relations. The primary purpose is to understand the development of the field, and to understand and be able to evaluate the main theoretical …
PS 856 Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
This seminar is designed to serve five goals: (1) To acquaint students with many of the leading theories within the field of comparative politics. Students will be made aware of the relevant literatures so that they will be able to …
PS 836 Formal Models of Domestic Politics
This course presents an overview of formal models of domestic politics. It builds directly on the material covered in PS 835, which provides the tools used in applied modeling. The course should be of interest to political …
PS 826 The Legislative Process: Classic Questions and New Approaches
This is a graduate course designed to introduce students to research and theoretical approaches to studying the U.S. Congress. We will examine different explanations for and models of the sources of institutions, discuss their internal organization and governance, and consider the effects of …
PS 818 Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Social Sciences
The course is really split between two components: maximum likelihood estimation and a variety of models to which it can be applied. Many of these models fall into a larger class known as generalized linear …