VIP pleased to announce our call for spring 2026. Submit abstracts by December 5th: forms.gle/Xz8vrW77sdoK... Workshops will be on Feb. 4th, March 4th and April 8th. We meet at 8am PST/11am EST/4pm GMT. You can also use this form to express your interest in VIP-sponsored programming at APSA.

How does migration diplomacy shape attitudes towards immigrants? Cameron Mailhot and @ninaobermeier.com explore a theory of bilateral reciprocity in the context of Kosovo. Read more: buff.ly/tT3hPwJ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

Angie Torres-Beltran receives the 2025 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for Mentoring of Graduate Students The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award is presented annually by the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession to recognize the exemplary mentoring of Latino y…

New #firstview: @uazsgpp.bsky.social's Cameron Mailhot and @gsslab.bsky.social @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social on public perceptions of and support for international state-building, with evidence from conjoint experiments in Liberia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's 🌟Staff Spotlight🌟 time! Dr. Angie Torres-Beltran (@angietorres.bsky.social) is an incredible faculty consultant for the lab. She is starting as an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at @uarizona.bsky.social this fall and we could not be more proud!! Read more ⤵️

In this public facing piece in the Mexican magazine Nexos, @ucmerced.bsky.social Prof. @marco-alcocer.bsky.social and coauthor @angietorres.bsky.social discuss their recent publication analyzing whether women mayors in Mexico reduce violence against women. seguridad.nexos.com.mx/las-mujeres-...

as the semester approaches, I’m happy to share that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona this fall! I’ll miss my MSU colleagues but I look forward to this new adventure 🌵

Couldn’t ask for a better workshop in a better city with a better group of brilliant scholars 😊

We had an amazing time in ITAM in Mexico City for the 17th Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) workshop! Our workshop brought together scholars from around the world to discuss projects on gender and power, get feedback, and build community. Look at this group of amazing scholars 🤩

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

A huge thank you to @mhayes.bsky.social and the organizers of MARGIE for an excellent conference with great company!

Today is MARGIE @ WashU! Thank you to @mhayes.bsky.social for hosting the Mid-American Conference for Race, Gender, Immigration and Ethnicity Politics Conference w/ great talks from Marques Zarate, @shortle.bsky.social, @angietorres.bsky.social, Allison Anoll & @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social!

Folks, @angietorres.bsky.social is on 🔥 *Three* ISA paper awards! "Punishment Preferences in Gendered Settings: Evidence from Mexico." - Women’s Caucus Graduate Student Best Paper Award - Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Best Graduate Student Paper Award plus

Incredible resources for grad students made available by @angietorres.bsky.social . I benefitted tremendously from applications made available by others and have since shared my materials with many others. Very rewarding

new year, new ways to help graduate students! :) during graduate school, I found grant/fellowship applications overwhelming & it was hard to know where to start. Hopefully having access to some successful examples can help: www.angietorresbeltran.com/service

Applications are now open for IPSI 2025! June 8-12, 2025 Washington, DC. IPSI is a five-day professional development program for professors and post-docs in the field of international affairs who want to build the tools and networks to produce and disseminate policy-relevant academic research.

The USIP fellowship was an amazing experience: it provided the time & support to make dissertation progress, connections to incredible minds at USIP & a network of brilliant junior scholars working on peace & conflict research. Also: it took me *multiple* application attempts. Apply! PSJMInfo

Hispanic Heritage Month! @angietorres.bsky.social is a PhD candidate @ Cornell PoliSci, USIP & HKS Fellow. Mexi-Amer from Central FL. 1st-gen. Award-winning (APSA MFP, EGEN Prize, etc) & pub scholar. Research: gender, violence, institutions & behavior in conflict settings (angietorresbeltran.com)

Excited (and a tad nervous) about taking on this new endeavor! More than anything else, I am eager for the resources and opportunity this affords me to do the enduring work of making this world a more just place. news.cornell.edu/stories/2023...

Thank you, Salah, for the shout-out! My USIP/Central Floridian twin is also on the market and doing amazing work on civil-military relations, coups, and authoritarianism! Be on the lookout for him 🫡