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Graduate Students Receive Best Paper Award

Jessica Feezel (Ph.D. 2009), Meredith Conroy (Ph.D., 2010), and Mario Guerrero (Ph.D. candidate) received a best-paper award at the APSA Annual Meeting, 2010. Their paper, "Facebook is . . . Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation," won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Bimber's New Book Receives Award

Professor Bruce Bimber's book, Collective Action in Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Andrew Flanagin and Cynthia Stohl) received the Book of the Year Award from the Organization Communication Division of the National Communication Association at its 2013 Annual Meeting.

Communication, Consumption, and Civil Society: Media and Politics at the Checkout Line

Event Start: April 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Event End: April 06, 2013 08:00 PM

Event Location: McCune Room

Speaker:
Prof. Dhavan Shah, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Graduate Student Forums:Info Session on IQMR and Forum on Dissertation

Event Start: October 25, 2013 07:00 PM

Event End: October 25, 2013 07:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 15, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: May 15, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speakers:
Travis Seifman (History) - Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions

Magarita Safronova (Political Science) - Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan

Sponsored by the IHC's Identity Studies RFG.

PS 595 Credit

Recent Papers by Woolley and Weatherford Published in Presidential Studies Quarterly

Two papers by political science faculty appear in the March 2012 (vol. 42, no. 1) issue of the prestigious journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly.  Each one deals with a different aspect of the role of the President in setting and implementing U.S. economic policy.

Spotlight on Faculty Research - Bruce Bimber and Political Consumerism

Professor Bruce Bimber has worked with recent graduate student, Dr. Lauren Copeland, on research pertaining to Political Consumerism, including boycotting and buycotting.

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Geoff Allen, Natasha Bennett, and Magarita Safronova

Event Flier

Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work.

Maggie Savronova will present Does Language Matter? Instrumental Use of Language in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.