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

DatePresenterTitle/PaperDiscussant(s)
9/08/2025 Introductory Meeting    
9/15/2025 No Meeting 
9/22/2025Dahyun Choi"Application of Scientific Research in Policymaking is Shaped by
Partisan Bias, Yet High-Quality Studies Remain Resilient" 
Job Talk
9/29/2025Isaiah Johnson"Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Multiracial Politicians and Political Representation."Job Talk
10/06/2025Darius Cozart"Revisiting the War on Crime: Federal Dependence and Local Punitive Spending Under Fiscal Duress" Corrine  McConnaughy
10/13/2025 No Meeting (Fall Recess) 
10/20/2025Yun ChoiDomain Knowledge-Guided Semi-Supervised Cluster-Then-Label Approach for Political Object
Detection in the Wild
Nolan McCarty
10/27/2025Ke LiangEnforcement as Message: A Dynamic Theory of Legitimacy and ComplianceChuck Cameron
11/03/2025Ayse EldesProspectusJohn Kastellec
11/10/2025 No Meeting (Job Talk) 
11/17/2025Lucas OphoffProspectus Hye Young You
11/24/2025 Amy JeonProspectusNolan McCarty
12/01/2025Joshua LimpertProspectus  Paul Frymer

 

SPRING 2026

 

 

DatePresenterTitle/PaperDiscussant(s)
1/26/2026Haodi DongDissertation Chapter 
2/02/2026Adrian PietrzakDissertation ChapterJonathan Mummolo
2/09/2026Gavin MedinaDissertation ChapterIsmail White
2/16/2026Ren MuellerDissertation ChapterFrances Lee
2/23/2026

Nia Atkins

Alisson Ramos

Zhen Huang

591 APSA Style PanelLaFleur Stephens-Dougan
3/02/2026

Ilana Keusch

Luchuan Deng

Cynthia Hou

591 APSA Style PanelFrances Lee
3/09/2026 No Meeting (Spring Break) 
3/17/2026 Prospective Graduate Visit 
3/23/2026Jasanté HowardDissertation Chapter 
3/30/2026Jeron Fenton591 PaperMarkus Prior
4/06/2026Kodiak SauerDissertation ChapterTali Mendelberg
4/13/2026Kaiyla DarteyAdaptive Ambition: How Black women candidates strategically navigate U.S. house electionsHye Young You