Thanks to generous gifts over several years, the department has been able to step in to support faculty research and teaching as a supplement to other funding sources.

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

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