Highlights & Happenings
CSDI Graduate Affiliates sweep department awards!
Congratulations to graduate affiliates Lucas Borba, Patrick Buhr and Colette Marcellin for being honored with the department's yearly awards. Lucas received the outstanding graduate student paper award for "The Spatial Dynamics of State Capacity."Ìý Patrick and Colette were co-awarded the Erwin C. Hargrove outstanding teaching assistant award. Patrick taught Statistics for Political Science during the summer REU program. Colette taught CSDI's Independent Study on Survey Research and Analysis and TA'd for Participation and Political Representation in America.
The 2025 CSDI Annual brochure is hot off of the presses!
You can read all about the accomplishments and happenings here!
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CSDI graduate affiliate Colette Marcellin has an Opinion Guest Essay published in the New York Times
Graduate affiliate Colette Marcellin as well as CSDI co-director John Sides and Michael Tesler (University of California, Irvine)Ìý had an opinion piece printed in the New York Times on February 27th. The essay, Republicans Really Do Care More About "Masculine Energy can be read here. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/opinion/trump-republicans-masculinity-gender-traditional.html
CSDI co-director, Larry Bartels is awarded the Presidential National Medal of Science From President Joe Biden
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Former CSDI graduate affiliate, Michael Shepherd is quotedÌý in the New York Times
Former graduate allilate Michael Shepherd who studies U.S. Health Politics and Policy work was mentioned in
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CSDI Graduate Affiliates Sara Kirshbaum and Mellissa Meisels Win Department Awards
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Congratulations to Sara Kirshbaum and Mellissa Meisels! Sara was awarded the 2023 Erwin Hargrove Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and Mellissa the 2023 Best Graduate Student Research Paper Award.
CSDI Welcomes 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellows Amna Salam & Rachel Lienesch
Amna received her PhD from the University of Rochester in Political Science. Her researchÌýcenters on strategic behavior in the legal system, and how various actors in the judiciary work to advance their ideological interests.Ìý
Rachel received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. Her research focuses on American political behavior, political psychology, race and ethnicity, and identity. Her book project explores how individuals respond when two salient identities are put into conflict, with a specific focus on how White Democrats navigate a social and political world in which the political party they support increasingly engages in messaging that threatens their racial identity.
The Spring 2023 91ºÚÁÏÍø poll was released on May 3rd
More on the poll and its findings can be found here
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The Fall 2022 91ºÚÁÏÍø poll was released on December 14th
More information on the poll and its findings can be found here.
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CSDI is now accepting applications for 2026-27 Post-docs and Senior Visiting Scholars
Post-doctoral fellowship applicants should submit materials electronically at:
Senior Visiting Scholar applicants should submit materials electronically at:
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, but priority will be given to those received before January 5, 2026
CSDI Graduate affiliate, Michael Shepherd Wins APSA Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Michael Shepherd who has been awarded the APSA Class and Inequality Section best disseratation award for his disseratation,
CSDI Co-Director, Dean John Geer and CSDI Graduate Student, Mary Catherine Sullivan appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe
John Geer and Mary Catherine Sullivan appeared on MSNBC'sÌý Morning Joe to discuss their research on American unity.Ìý
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