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Paasha Mahdavi and Julia Morse join the Council on Foreign Relations’ Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program

The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program, established to cultivate the next generation of foreign policy leaders, encourages promising young women and men from diverse backgrounds to engage in a sustained conversation on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Each year, a new class of term members between the ages of thirty and thirty-six is elected to serve a fixed five-year membership term.

Get to know Paasha Mahdavi

Visit UC Santa Barbara’s Social Science’s page for Five Things to Know About: Paasha Mahdavi.

2019 Political Science Awards

The Department of Political Science had the honor of recognizing several undergraduate and graduate students who received campus and department awards for the 2015-2016 academic year. A full listing of students who were recognized at the awards presentation on June 9, 2016 are listed in this PDF.

Department award winners include:

Undergraduate Awards

Louis Lancaster Scholarship

Stephanie Arentz

Joseph Ebrahim

Yasamin Salari

Identity Workshop: Amit Ahuja

Event Start: May 30, 2019 07:30 AM

Event End: May 30, 2019 07:30 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

The Color of Belonging: Skin Tone and Attitudes Towards Ethnic Voting in India

Guest Speaker Gabriela Seghezzo: Security Against Democracy in the Neoliberal Return in Argentina

Event Start: May 16, 2019 07:30 PM

Event End: May 16, 2019 09:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room Ellison Hall 3824

Gabriela Seghezzo, PhD.
Director of Program of Foucaultian Studies (PEF-IIGG-UBA)
Director of Program of Studies on Social Control (PECOS-IIGG-UBA)
Researcher of CONICET
Professor at UBA and UNAJ  

Security Against Democracy in the Neoliberal Return in Argentina

Identity Workshop

Event Start: May 09, 2019 07:30 PM

Event End: May 09, 2019 09:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

The Identity Group in Political Science is hosting the second speaker for the Identity Workshop. Workshops aim to provide a venue in which graduate students and faculty interested in Identity issues from across campus can share their research.  The workshops are available to present drafts of articles, books, dissertation chapters and prospectuses, conference papers, job talks as well as ideas about future research. 

Identity Workshop

Event Start: May 09, 2019 07:30 PM

Event End: May 09, 2019 09:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Guest Speaker: Credible or Confounded? Applying sensitivity analyses to improve research and its evaluation under imperfect identification

Event Start: May 03, 2019 07:30 PM

Event End: May 03, 2019 09:00 PM

Chad Hazlett
Assistant Professor
Statistics and Political Science
UCLA

Credible or Confounded? Applying sensitivity analyses to improve research and its evaluation under imperfect identification