Faculty Leader
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
Meeting Day/Time
Mondays 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM
Location
127 Corwin
Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.
2025-2026 Schedule of Presentations
Fall 2025
| Date | Presenter | Title/Paper | Discussant(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/08/2025 | Introductory Meeting | ||
| 9/15/2025 | No Meeting | ||
| 9/22/2025 | Dahyun Choi | "Application of Scientific Research in Policymaking is Shaped by Partisan Bias, Yet High-Quality Studies Remain Resilient" | Job Talk |
| 9/29/2025 | Isaiah Johnson | "Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Multiracial Politicians and Political Representation." | Job Talk |
| 10/06/2025 | Darius Cozart | "Revisiting the War on Crime: Federal Dependence and Local Punitive Spending Under Fiscal Duress" | Corrine McConnaughy |
| 10/13/2025 | No Meeting (Fall Recess) | ||
| 10/20/2025 | Yun Choi | Domain Knowledge-Guided Semi-Supervised Cluster-Then-Label Approach for Political Object Detection in the Wild | Nolan McCarty |
| 10/27/2025 | Ke Liang | Enforcement as Message: A Dynamic Theory of Legitimacy and Compliance | Chuck Cameron |
| 11/03/2025 | Ayse Eldes | Prospectus | John Kastellec |
| 11/10/2025 | No Meeting (Job Talk) | ||
| 11/17/2025 | Lucas Ophoff | Prospectus | Hye Young You |
| 11/24/2025 | Amy Jeon | Prospectus | Nolan McCarty |
| 12/01/2025 | Joshua Limpert | Prospectus | Paul Frymer |
SPRING 2026
| Date | Presenter | Title/Paper | Discussant(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/26/2026 | Haodi Dong | Dissertation Chapter | |
| 2/02/2026 | Adrian Pietrzak | Dissertation Chapter | Jonathan Mummolo |
| 2/09/2026 | Gavin Medina | Dissertation Chapter | Ismail White |
| 2/16/2026 | Ren Mueller | Dissertation Chapter | Frances Lee |
| 2/23/2026 | 591 APSA Style Panel | LaFleur Stephens-Dougan | |
| 3/02/2026 | 591 APSA Style Panel | Frances Lee | |
| 3/09/2026 | No Meeting (Spring Break) | ||
| 3/17/2026 | Prospective Graduate Visit | ||
| 3/23/2026 | Jasanté Howard | Dissertation Chapter | |
| 3/30/2026 | Jeron Fenton | 591 Paper | Markus Prior |
| 4/06/2026 | Kodiak Sauer | Dissertation Chapter | Tali Mendelberg |
| 4/13/2026 | Kaiyla Dartey | Adaptive Ambition: How Black women candidates strategically navigate U.S. house elections | Hye Young You |