Karen Beckwith – Funded the work of an undergraduate political science major research assistant on two projects: 1) gender parity cabinets in Europe, engaging in electoral and government quantitative data collection and 2) “venue-shopping” by activist groups in Ohio, involving newspaper archival and bibliographic research

-Support for travel to the University of Uppsala, Sweden, for research consultation, and to Norway, to present a paper, with Professor Marta Regalia, on “Late-Stage Suffrage and the Welfare State in France and Italy,” at the Workshop on Women’s Suffrage and the Making of the Welfare State, Oslo, Norway, May 31-June 1, 2023

-Support for outside expert speakers in Professor Beckwith’s upper-division Special Topics seminar, POSC 391, for Fall Semester 2023

Matthew Hodgetts –  Presented “The roles of fear and hope in digital misinformation” at New England Political Science Association (NEPSA), Newport

Kelly McMann – Delivered paper “Democracy’s Benefits: Why Particular Regime Types Tackle Certain Problems Better” at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

– Funded the work of three undergraduate research assistants on two projects:  1) Democracy’s Advantages and 2) Democracy Saves Lives:  How Lower Levels of Corruption Prevented COVID Deaths

Matthew Lacombe – Delivered papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal

– Attended the Midwestern Political Science Association conference, Chicago

Girma Parris – American Political Science Association (APSA), Montreal

Elliot Posner – Presentation of “Stranded in Ohio: Bankruptcies, Bailouts and Buyouts of Coal and Nuclear Power Plants” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal

Laura Tartakoff – Research for POSC 364, Dominican Republic

Justin Buchler – American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle

– Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago

Matthew Hodgetts –  Presented “Digital Speech and the Value of Free Expression: Why is COVID-19 Misinformation Different Than Climate Change?” at New England Political Science Association (NEPSA), Bretton Woods

– Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Portland

Girma Parris – Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago

– Pacific Northwest Political Science Association (PNWPSA), Portland

– Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Portland

Matthew Hodgetts –  Presented “Regulating Climate Speech on the Digital Frontier” at New England Political Science Association (NEPSA)

Elliot Posner – Participation in “Author Meets Critics: Abraham Newman and Elliot Posner’s Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Power and Finance” at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Kyoto

Matthew Hodgetts – Western Political Science Association (WPSA), San Diego