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If you're going to San Francisco...
... Visit us at APSA Booth #904! Look for MPSA in booth #904 in the APSA expo hall where we'll be busy answering questions about the MPSA conference, the new Twitter chat series, and your MPSA membership. Plus, MPSA will hold THREE drawings during the APSA conference. (You can enter even if you…
Recap of MPSA Chat (Work-Life Balance #PSBeWell)
Many thanks to our co-hosts for the discussion: Todd Curry, Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at El Paso, Jacqueline Sievert, Research Fellow with YWCA Niagara, and Adnan Rasool, Doctoral Candidate at Georgia State University. Look for the extended conversation on…
An Invitation to Participate: MPSA’s Inaugural Twitter Chat #PSBeWell
A healthy work-life balance is important regardless of where you are in your academic career. Every PhD has the first-hand experience with Grad School struggles. Every tenured professor can remember the feeling of going on the job market. PhDs in non-academic careers know how difficult the…
The sun…MPSA Career Roundtable on What to Do/Not Do at a Job Talk (audio)
Listen in as Elizabeth A. Bennion of Indiana…
(The Lack of) Diversity in Trump's America
By Adaobi Duru, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Q&A with Emily Farris re: The TCU Justice Journey
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slfLGQewr6A?rel=0&controls=0] MPSA member Emily Farris is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, TX where she and a colleague run an interdisciplinary civil rights course and an annual Spring Break…
Next Steps in the Fight to #SavetheNEH
Two days before President Trump’s inauguration, we awoke to reports that the transition team was contemplating a proposal to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). On March 16, after almost two months of near silence on…
To rule by distraction is a time-tested tool of autocratic and authoritarian…This Is the Best Time Ever to Study Political Science
This post originally appeared on Tom Pepinsky’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Here are ten questions that might be interesting to Americans these days. Is the Trump administration’s immigration executive order constitutional? Is the United States a democracy? How do we know? How does…