My article "The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," co-authored with Eugenia Artabe and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Midafternoon writing workshop walk-around-du-lac break on a gorgeous day at Notre Dame. cc: @mirya.bsky.social @samchapa.bsky.social

Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration” We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress. 🧵1/4

Meet the 2025 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipients The APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship’s primary goal is to encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure…

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lucía López (@llopez.bsky.social) on being awarded the 2025–26 Early Career Fellowship from the APSA Experimental Research Section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social)! 🎉 Lucía is on the academic job market this year -- learn more about her research at lucia-lopez.com.

The MPSA (soft) submission deadline is approaching! Submit your work to 77. Midwest Latino/a Caucus so we can showcase your amazing work. We are interested in work on immigration, identity, and Latino/as and the economy, but are thrilled to receive anything you submit!

Why don't you continue the momentum from APSA and present your work at JAWS? We are still taking submissions! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.

Also, you don't need to live in Texas to attend! You just need to be willing to travel here!

TAMU will be hosting the Texas American Behavior Conference on Nov. 7-8 this year. Apply by Aug. 31 using the link below. Let me know if you have any questions! tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Watch out for @llopez.bsky.social on the job market this fall!

I’m very excited to be a member of Texas Tech’s TEACH Program this year!

Seems like a good time to boost States of Belonging, where we (me, @yuenhuo.bsky.social, Tomás Jiménez, and Jack Dovidio) show that welcoming policies have broad effects re: belonging. @russellsagefdn.bsky.social www.russellsage.org/publications...

🚨Exciting Opportunity for junior scholars interested in local politics! The Local Politics and Policy Lab at Emory University is recruiting a pre/post doctoral fellow. Applicants with strong quantitative skills are encouraged to apply: apply.interfolio.com/168743

Make that a hat trick! A 3rd Notre Dame grad, Benjamin Garcia-Holgado @bgarciaholgado.bsky.social, won the 2025 Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law. (Also: all 3 of our awarded students are just lovely people). Send you best students to ND! Hire an ND PhD!

We are excited to announce the placements of our amazing PhD students and recent graduates. Please join us in celebrating their next steps! 👇

It's that time of year again when I can share the fantastic infographics that students in my American Identity seminar made to accompany their final papers. Check them out here: sites.tufts.edu/deborahschil...

Gente headed to WPSA next week. This looks like a great way to spend your Wednesday afternoon in Seattle. Really cool lineup of diverse projects. #WPSA2025 Let's be honest, it'll probably be raining outside.

The paper from @mzarate.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1086/734681) investigates the impact of political opportunism on candidate evaluations. Candidates running in a district they did not grow up in are found to be more likely to be considered to be pandering, and also to be less authentic 7/12

📢 Udani & Wedding show how accompaniment scholarship allows political scientists to work alongside asylum seekers rather than studying them. They demonstrate how this approach strengthens political skills and policymaking participation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Professional update: I will join The University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill as an assistant professor of public policy starting January 2026. I am excited about working with amazing people at my home department and the School of Data Science and Society.

We are hiring for a teaching professor in American politics! Deadline 1/15 Big needs are: -Intro American politics + occasional AP electives -Quant methods -Urban/suburban politics This is the same type of full-time, ranked NTT position I have; I'm happy to talk about my experience. #PSJMinfo

My paper on the effect of emigration on presidential approval in El Salvador is out on RLOP. I want to give thanks to Óscar Picardo and El Centro de Estudios Ciudadanos.

Very excited to announce I’m officially ABD! Many thanks to my committee @moriahjharman.bsky.social @timnokken.bsky.social and especially to my wonderful advisor @jsievert.bsky.social

Big congrats to @stephmathiasen.bsky.social, who defended her prospectus today and is now officially ABD!

Re-upping this summary of my research on support for internment post-9/11: theconversation.com/will-donald-...