🎉New book alert! 📢Do female combatants shape foreign support for rebel groups? My new @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org book shows that groups with women fighters receive more foreign backing because they’re seen as more democratic, gender equal and less violent. 🔓Free to read for 2 weeks👇

I’m lucky to teach a wonderful group of postgrads studying gender & politics at Bath 💫 Send your excellent gender & politics students our way 😊 They can find out more about our MSc in International Relations with Gender Politics at the Virtual Open Day on 12 Nov 👇 www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/ex...

📢Bilkent IR Department is hiring!📢 We have two open-rank faculty positions available 1) Open specialization in IR 2) Historical IR / Historical Political Economy Deadline is: 15 December. Link: ir.bilkent.edu.tr?page_id=3396 #polisky #poliscijobmarket #poliscijobs #psjminfo #academicjobs

Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

Grateful for the recognition of our article “Unique Offerings: Ideological Competition and Rebel Governance” by @apsa.bsky.social 2025 Conflict Section Best Paper Award. It has recently become online first. If you are inquiring about rebel strategies, then: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ISA's Women's Caucus (WCIS) is accepting nominations for 3 awards! 📢 The deadline is Oct 1, 2025. Help us spread the word! 🌟 Susan S. Northcutt Award – honoring service 🌟 Gerner Grant – early-career 🌟 Grad Student Best Paper – for WCIS members at ISA 2025. Link: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

Thrilled that the first paper in my PhD thesis “State Action and Moral Attitudes toward Sexual Consent”, co-authored with Francesca R. Jensenius and @oskorge.bsky.social , has been accepted for publication in the @thejop.bsky.social! 1/

Hi friends! I am collecting submissions for the Best Women in Politics Paper Award for WPSA! Send your nominations to ejdavies [at] uci [dot] edu. Self nominations are welcome!

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
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In economics, men are tenured aren't punished for coauthoring. Women, however, are less likely to receive tenure the more they coauthor.

Nice girls don't get angry. They smile more 🤬

📢 Call for Papers WORKSHOP: Gender, Peace, and Security: Resistance and Resilience Nairobi, 1-3 December, hosted by British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) with @rvinews.bsky.social ➡️ Application deadline 13 August! @statsvitenskap.bsky.social #resilience #gender #climate #peacebuilding

Why do rebel groups perpetrate GBV against their own members? Check out my latest article published with @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social, "Women's Roles and Reproductive Violence Within Armed Rebellions." This work debuts my original dataset on reproductive violence against rebel women. Please share!

A good read on manosphere – a growing community of men who promote traditional masculinity and an opposition to feminism. Published 2 years ago but still, unfortunately, very relevant: www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

And the whole world watched.

Excited to see my new Annual Review w. @dzobrien.bsky.social out this summer & open access! Special thanks to our editor @bashleyleeds.bsky.social & all the scholars doing research on gender & the executive branch. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Honored to be on this list from @forbes.com. "Taylor packs a wealth of analysis and interesting facts into a compact book.. The book is ideal for anyone who wants a better context for understanding news reports about Putin and Russia." www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Powerful writing by Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts who was detained by the US authorities because she called a genocide a genocide in a student newspaper

Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Adios Madrid! Had great time at #EPSA2025 and, most importantly, survived the maze of @uc3m.es Toledo Campus! 😄 Useful discussions, good feedback & great food! Thank you @epssnet.bsky.social

I am incredibly proud that my book, co-authored with Andrea Aldrich, is published. Using an original party leadership dataset from 11 parliamentary democracies, Andrea and I show that women candidates face a glass ceiling for leadership and quickly sink once elected (the quicksand theory).

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Attending #ISA2026? Apply to #PayItForward, a women's mentoring program! Open to #EarlyCareer women in #InternationalStudies. This one-day workshop will cover topics related to #Professional and #Career development, #Networking, #Publishing, #Research, and more. Learn more & apply: buff.ly/Cg0aCrR