A few of our fantastic grad students have been featured on recent episodes of 1050 Bascom. On their most recent podcast, 1050 Bascom welcomed Rochelle Snyder. Rochelle is a doctoral candidate in Political Science teaching …
Grad Students
Ph.D. Candidate Ned Littlefield’s Report in the News
As a 2021-2022 Research Fellow with the Wisconsin Policy Forum, Ned Littlefield was lead author of Hitting Home: Milwaukee’s homeownership inequities and how we compare to peer cities. The report received coverage in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Black Enterprise, among other …
Congratulations to the Department’s Best Dissertation Prize Winners!
Congratulations to Pete Erickson, Anton Shirikov, and Chagai Weiss for receiving the Department’s Best Dissertation Prizes! Lieutenant Colonel Pete Erickson received the Department’s Best Dissertation Prize in International Relations for his dissertation, “Inescapable: Polarization, Prestige, …
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Ph.D. Candidate Xinzhi Zhao selected by the College of Letters & Science as a Teaching Mentor
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Xinzhi Zhao on being selected by the College of Letters and Science as a Teaching Mentor! Selection of L&S Teaching Mentors is highly competitive and speaks to Xinzhi’s engagement and skills …
PhD student Natalie Jones-Kerwin awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to PhD student Natalie Jones-Kerwin, who was awarded a 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellow is a highly significant national accomplishment and places a student amongst …
Ph.D. Candidate Irène Tombo Awarded M. Crawford Young Research Award
As part of the Symposium in Memory of Professor M. Crawford Young on April 1st and 2nd, Ph.D. candidate Irène Tombo was announced as the recipient of the M. Crawford Young Research Award. The Award provides …
Department of Political Science TA Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Department of Political Science Teaching Assistant Awards – Rebecca Anderson, Valeriia Umanets, and Khasan Redjaboev!
Ph.D. Candidate Kennia Coronado inducted into the Bouchet Society
Ph.D. Candidate Kennia Coronado is a 2022 inductee to the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. This …
Feature on Ph.D. Candidate Chagai Weiss’ Research
Chagai Weiss builds on existing theories in political science and psychology to study how people think about members of an ethnic group that is different than them. Weiss, a PhD candidate in political science at …