The Department of Political Science at Fordham University will be hiring two Assistant Professors this fall: one in Judicial Politics and one in Comparative Urban Politics. Both positions will be at Fordham's Rose Hill location in The Bronx.

FYI - this Element is currently free to read online until the 29th of June 2026 - cup.org/3SmqL5x

Congratulations to Prof. Helen Rabello Kras on the publication of her new @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org elements "Perceptions of Danger: How Risk Assessments Underpin Attitudes on Crime and Intimate Partner Violence"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Happy graduation day from the Department of Political Science!

Congratulations to Prof. Casey McNeill on receiving tenure!

The Department of Political Science is very excited to announce that Profs. Christina Greer and Annika Hinze have both been promoted to full professor. Congratulations to Dr. Greer and Dr. Hinze!

To add excitement to everybody's Presidents Day; @davidryanmiller.com and I have a new article out today in American Politics Research in which we engage with the 1916 shark attacks debate. journals.sagepub.com/share/YQAM7F...

Congratulations to Prof. Christina Greer on the publication of the book AMERICA AT 250: At Home and Beyond - which includes her chapter "America at 250: A Nation Still in Pursuit"! The book is available here; www.psqonline.org/APSBooks.cfm....

Congratulations to Prof. @borisheersink.bsky.social and Prof. @davidryanmiller.com (at @au-spa.bsky.social) on the publication of their article "Beaches or Boarding?: Shark Attacks, Tourism, and the 1916 Presidential Election" in American Politics Research! journals.sagepub.com/share/YQAM7F...

Happy to report that I have a new article out with Sid Milkis in Presidential Studies Quarterly: "Through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall: Barack Obama, the Gay Rights Movement, and the Formative Relationship Between Presidents and Social Activists" (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)!

Congratulations to Profs. Boris Heersink and Sidney M. Milkis on the publication of their new article "Through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall: Barack Obama, the Gay Rights Movement, and the Formative Relationship Between Presidents and Social Activists"!

Prof. Christina Greer published an op-ed in the @nytimes.com on the legacy of former New York mayor Eric Adams: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o....

Prof. Annika Hinze discusses the inauguration of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani on German news program Tageschau; www.tagesschau.de/video/video-....

New article on Fast Track by Olena Nikolayenko, “Emotional Contagion and Labor Mobilization in an Autocracy,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny... @fordhamposc.bsky.social

With my former student William Harrison @fordhamposc.bsky.social, I wrote this blog post on our research on student debt relief and the path forward for the Democratic Party. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

I'll be on WNBC's livestream doing election coverage from around 7:30-10:30 PM Eastern tonight. www.nbcnewyork.com/watch/

On November 10, David Silver will be discussing his book Corporations and Persons: A Theory of the Firm in Democratic Society with Nicholas Tampio and Joanne B. Clulla at Fordham University - Rose Hill.

Congratulations to Prof. Jacob Smith (@jacobfhsmith) on the publication of his book Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy through the University of Michigan Press! www.fulcrum.org/image-servic...

I spoke with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book Waves of Discontent, which is out from @uofmpress.bsky.social on the 21st. newbooksnetwork.com/waves-of-dis...

Now on FirstView ft. @jacobfhsmith.bsky.social and William Harrison! In our survey, students at a large private university who thought that President Biden had done enough on student loan relief were more likely to support him than those who thought he did too little. doi.org/10.1017/S104...

I have an op-ed in @thehill.com where I argue Dems need a message on corruption in 2028 because @electionstudies.bsky.social data shows voters who think government is corrupt have swung heavily R in the age of Trump. (Thank you to @scholars.org for help with editing!) thehill.com/opinion/5410...

Congratulations to Prof. Ida Bastiaens and her co-author Nita Rudra on the publication of "Democracies Still in Peril: Reexamining Revenue Mobilization in Liberalizing Developing Economies" in PS: Political Science & Politics! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Department of Political Science at Fordham is hiring an adjunct instructor to teach Political Psychology in the Fall semester at its Rose Hill location. We are also able to offer them the opportunity to teach a second course – Introduction to Politics – though this is not a requirement.

Power in a Union: How Unexpected Group Partnerships Form Power in a Union: How Unexpected Group Partnerships Form By Boris Heersink, Fordham University and Matthew J. Lacombe, Case Western Reserve University While scholars have focused extensively on the consequences of partnerships between…

Congratulations to Prof. Olena Nikolayenko on the publication of her new book Invisible Revolutionaries: Women's Participation in Ukraine's Euromaidan through Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Prof. Zein Murib has a new piece out on @slate.com: "Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit" slate.com/news-and-pol...

Prof. Christina Greer has an op-ed in the @nytimes.com today; "Black Americans Are Not Surprised by What Trump's Doing" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Attending MPSA and wondering; what to do in Chicago Friday at 5 PM? Come watch @smotus.bsky.social, @juliaazari.bsky.social, and @cwolbrecht.bsky.social explain everything I did wrong (in my book, but also, perhaps, in life); Author Meets Critics: National Party Organizations and Party Brands.

Congratulations to Prof. Ida Bastiaens on being awarded a Women of Distinction Award by New York State District 30 Assemblymember Steven Raga!

Congratulations to Prof. Monika McDermott on the publication of her edited volume (with Dan Cassino) Masculinity in American Politics - out now through NYU Press. nyupress.org/978147983070...

Congratulations to Prof. Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina on receiving tenure!

Got to join @smotus.bsky.social and John Hagner on their Power and Flour podcast to discuss the DNC and what it can and cannot do in the next few years; podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e....

I'll be chairing the committee selecting APSA's Jack Walker Award for the best article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties. If you want to (self-)nominate an article, please send it my way!

State repression is gendered ⛓️ Check out this👀 EJPG piece on "Gender and repression in an autocracy: findings from Belarus" 🇧🇾 where Olena Nikolayenko (@fordhamposc.bsky.social ) explains how! 🤔 📖 ➡️

Congratulations to Prof. Zein Murib (and Samantha Majic) on the publication of their article "The Biggest Decision of Your Life(Time)? Examining the Politics of Married at First Sight" in Social Sciences! www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13...

Hot off the presses! New episode of "To Save Us From Hell," my United Nations podcast w/ @anjalikdayal.bsky.social www.globaldispatches.org/p/let-the-tr...

Congratulations to Prof. Ida Bastiaens (with Lisa Lechner and Evgeny Postnikov) on the publication of her article "Non-trade issues in preferential trade agreements and global value chains" in the Review of International Political Economy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Prof. Christina Greer on the publication of her new Cambridge elements book "How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams"! For the next weeks it is available as a free download here: www.cambridge.org/core/element....

On November 19 Prof. Nojang Khatami will moderate the event "Democracy: Disruption and Resurgence" featuring Profs. Jason Frank, Cristina Beltran, and Jeanne Morefield. Zoom registration is available here; t.co/yjbx2nQGz3.

Prof. Zein Murib published their article "Anti-Trans Attacks: Interrogating “Gender” in Politics and Gender Scholarship" in a recent issue of Politics & Gender. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Prof. Boris Heersink recently published the article "Reconsidering the “Southern Veto”: The Two-Thirds Rule at Democratic National Conventions, 1832–1936" in Studies in American Political Development. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Prof. Nicholas Tampio's article "The right to dream: Martin Luther King Jr.’s pragmatist argument for racial progress" has recently been published in the American Journal of Political Science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dr. Zein Murib's recent book Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity won this year's APSA LGBTQ+ Best Book Award.

Dr. Nicholas Tampio discussed his recent book Democracy and Education: John Dewey on the New Books Network podcast; newbooksnetwork.com/democracy-an....

Dr. Annika Hinze's article "Made for Men: Political Science Departments in the United States as Gendered Institutions" was published in a recent issue of Politics and Gender. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Dr. Christina Greer's (with Christine Slaughter and Chaya Crowder) article "Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party" is out in a recent issue of Politics and Gender. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Prof. Olena Nikolayenko recently published "Gender and repression in an autocracy: findings from Belarus" in the European Journal of Politics and Gender. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Prof. Ida Bastiaens (and Laura Seelkopf) recently published "Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South" in Journal of International Relations and Development. link.springer.com/article/10.1...