Fridays, 1.30 – 3.00pm in the Prefunction Room, Department of Political Science, 5769 Haven Hall (unless otherwise noted)
First Half of Fall 2024:
| Date | Presenter | Discussants | Title of Presentation or Workshop Event |
| 9/6* | – | – | No IWCP; APSA Annual Conference |
| 9/13 | Irene Morse (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Silvia Pedraza (Sociology) Student: Derek Lief (Ross School of Business) | Just Another Erdoğan: How Migrants Map Political Beliefs onto New Contexts |
| 9/20 | Jingyang Rui (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Karthik Srinivasan (School of Information) Student: Jun Fang (Political Science) | Distributive Hypocrisy in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Preferential Resource Allocation in China’s COVID-19 testing |
| 9/27 | Derek Lief (Ross School of Business) | Job Market Format, no discussants. | Exploring the Role of Religion in How Organizations Create Firm-Specific Advantage in their Approach to the Labor Market |
| 10/4 | Megan Ryan (Political Science) | Job Market Format, no discussants. | The Politics of Religious Scapegoating: Evidence from Myanmar |
| 10/11* | – | – | No IWCP; right before Fall Break |
| 10/18* | – | – | No IWCP; Emerging Scholars Conference |
| 10/25 | Mostafa El Shawarky (Political Science) and Prof. Pauline Jones (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Christopher J. Fariss (Political Science) Student: Irene Morse (Political Science) | Regulating Terrorism: How States Use and Abuse Religious Regulation Policies |
| 11/1 | Jane Kitaevich (Political Science) | Faculty: Nandini Dey (Center for Emerging Democracies) Student: Mostafa El Sharkawy (Political Science) | Citizens and Soldiers: Taking Politics from the Battlefield to the Streets in Armenia |
Second Half of Fall 2024:
| Date | Presenter | Discussants | Title of Presentation or Workshop Event |
| 11/8 | Prof. Cesi Cruz (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Alain Cohn (School of Information) Student: Patrick Peralta (Political Science) | Campaigning to a Polarized Electorate: Emotions and Information in Real Election Campaigns |
| 11/15 | Rebecca Wai (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Jean Hong (Political Science) Student: Martin Oswald (UM African Presidential Scholars Program) | Maybe in My Backyard: Dynamics of Refugee-Host Cooperation |
| 11/22 | Jeremy Boo (Political Science) and Prof. Pauline Jones (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Mark Tessler (Political Science) Student: Hood Ahmed (Political Science) | Historic State Capacity, Religious Regulation and Autocracy in Muslim-majority Countries |
| 11/29* | – | – | No IWCP; Thanksgiving Break |
| 12/6 | Jun Fang (Political Science) and Prof. Jean Hong (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Cesi Cruz (Political Science) Student: Francy Luna Diaz (Political Science) | Economic Opportunities and the Remaking of Identities |
First Half of Winter 2025:
| Date | Presenter | Discussants | Title of Presentation or Workshop Event |
| 1/24 | Prof. Pauline Jones (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Iain Osgood (Political Science) Student: Irene Morse (Political Science) | Audience Costs in Autocracies: Public Opinion and Regime Survival in Kazakhstan |
| 1/31 | Sujin Cha (Political Science) | Faculty: Edgar Franco-Vivanco (Political Science) Student: Weikun Yang (Ross School of Business) | Firms under the Wing: Industrial Subsidies in the United States |
| 2/7* | – | – | No IWCP; Third Year Conference |
| 2/14 | Tyler Chen (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Brian Min (Political Science) Student: Ken Lohatepanont (Political Science) | Ethnic Population Distribution and Pseudo Urban Effects on Ethnic Voting: Evidence from Malaysia |
| 2/21 | Prof. Anne Pitcher (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Justine Davis (Political Science) Student: Hood Ahmed (Political Science) | Military Participation in the Economies of Developing Countries |
| 2/28 | Siwen Xiao (Political Science) | Faculty: Prof. Ann Heffernan (Political Science) Student: Tyler Chen (Political Science) | Who Watches? Shifting Surveillance and Trust Dynamics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |
Second Half of Winter 2025:
| Date | Presenter | Discussants | Title of Presentation or Workshop Event |
| 3/14 | Martin Macias Medellin (Political Science) | Faculty: Edgar Franco-Vivanco (Political Science) Student: Pedro Luz de Castro (Political Science) | Homogeneous Cities? How Conflict and Politics Shape the Urban Topography |
| 3/21 (2:00-3:30pm) | Prof. Cesi Cruz (Political Science) | Faculty: Anne Pitcher (Political Science) Student: Rebecca Rose (Political Science) | Removing Social Barriers to Women’s Candidacy: A Field Experiment in Cambodia |
| 3/28 | Prof. Karthik Srinivasan (School of Information) | Faculty: Nicholas Valentino (Political Science) Student: Katie Nissen (Political Science) | Moderation Disrupts Echo Chambers |
| 4/4 * | – | – | No IWCP; MPSA Annual Conference |
| 4/11 | Andy Buschmann (Political Science) | Faculty: TBD Student: Jingyang Rui (Political Science) | Political Connections and Organizational Survival in Myanmar |
| 4/18 | Prof. Dan Breznitz (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Political Science, University of Toronto) | [Invited Guest Speaker] | Innovation in Real Places** |
| 4/25 | Prof. Edgar Franco-Vivanco (Political Science) and Collin Sullivan (Political Science) | Faculty: Jim Morrow (Political Science) Student: Jun Fang (Political Science) | Modeling Indigenous Strategies to Colonial Rule |
*No IWCP. ** Title may change.
