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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">#TheHeartofKU</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">News from Blake Hall, University of Kansas<span style="color:#1F497D">,</span> Political Science<span style="color:#1F497D">,
</span>Fall 2019<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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enrollments and number of majors has increased by more than 15 percent over recent years and our faculty and graduate students have continued to publish and present their work at accelerated level</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">s.
A few of the highlights from the past year:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are pleased to announce the promotion of Professors
<b>Hannah Britton</b> and <b>John Kennedy</b> to Full Professor in August, and Professors
<b>Nazli Avdan</b> and <b>Patrick Miller</b> were promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. We welcomed a new faculty member to our department, Assistant Professor
<b>Jiakun (Jack) Zhang</b>. Professor Zhang’s research and teaching is focused on International Relations with an emphasis on security in East Asia.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0051BA">Kevin Mullinix<br>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Kevin Mullinix
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">has been named as the inaugural<b>
</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Ethan and Martha Allen Research Chair in American Politics for the 2019-20 academic year. This fund supports research in American politics and was established by Martha Allen to honor
her father, former long-time KU Political Science Professor Ethan Allen. This research chair award will be a revolving chair position going forward. Congratulations Professor Mullinix!</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Ketzel Series: Professor Christina Wolbrecht</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks to continued support from our donors we have been fortunate to sponsor or co-sponsor a number of high-caliber scholar visits to campus in the past year. As part of the
<b>Clifford P. Ketzel Speaker Series for the Expression of Minority Opinions</b> and the
<b>Political Science Lecture Series</b> we had the pleasure of hosting<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">or co-sponsoring a number of speakers on campus in 2019. Our most recent speaker was part of a series of events and activities celebrating the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary
of women’s suffrage. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Christina Wolbrecht
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">presented research from her forthcoming book</span></strong></span>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, </span></strong><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fbooks%2Fcentury-of-votes-for-women%2F773D75DD40FA858F0412D8F2EE322B5C&data=02%7C01%7Cdhmarkel%40ku.edu%7C4341406dc0e549feee6008d76ab378b2%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637095191371144649&sdata=kHHFYYaev%2B8eMEJOQK7gJC%2BfisjMQqk%2FemRYqeQXtM8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A
Century of Votes for Women</span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, and met with students and faculty during her visit.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In November we also co-sponsored a campus visit and talk by KU alum
<b>Carlos Centeno</b> with CGIS. He talked about his journey from UN Field Operations to Economic Development Developer, and is one of the College’s
</span><a href="http://blog.college.ku.edu/hawks-to-watch-carlos-centeno-economic-prosperity-community-lead/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hawks to Watch</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks to Ketzel funds we also hosted
<b>Professor Gary Uzonyi</b> in October, who presented “Commitment Problems and Mass Killing during Civil War.”
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Also in October we also co-sponsored
<b>Professor</b> <b>Michael Gorham</b>’s talk on “<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Trolling, Power, and Political Communication in Putin’s Russia” with several KU departments and programs</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.
</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Along with the Hall Center and WGSS, we co-sponsored the Humanities Series Lecture by Associate Professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University,
<b>Dr.</b> <b>Brittney Cooper</b> in September. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> In August we co-sponsored a convocation visit by journalist
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Terrell Jermaine Starr</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"> along with the KU School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures.
In May POLS PhD alum </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor
<span style="color:#212121">Mahalley Allen</span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"> visited campus to share her wisdom on what she has learned in the academy with students and faculty. In April, along with
the Kansas African Studies Center, we supported a visit by <b>Professor</b> </span>
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tim Longman</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, and other events, to remember the victims and survivors of the genocide in Rwanda
that occurred 25 years prior.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> In April 2019 we were also a major supporter of an academic conference at KU</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
organized by <b>Professor Hannah Britton </b>and others<span style="color:black">,
<b>Beyond Discourse: Critical and Empirical Approaches to Human Trafficking</b>. Support from the Ketzel fund covered some expenses including those of
<b>Dr.</b> <b>Kamala Kempadoo</b>, Professor of Social Sciences at York University, who delivered the conference keynote address.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> In February, along with the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity, we co-sponsored the 2019 Jana Mackey Distinguished
Lecture, “We Won’t Go Back: Why Title IX Matters to You,” by <b>Fatima Goss Graves</b>, CEO and President, National Women's Law Center. And in January we hosted
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<b>Hank Jenkins Smith</b>’s talk “Volatility in Individual Beliefs about Climate Change over Time: The Role of Political Ideology,” and PhD student
<b>Matthew Lacombe’s </b>talk, "The NRA's Political Weaponization of Gun Owners."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> Also thanks to support from our donors we were able to provide a number of awards for collaborative research between students
and faculty through the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Allan J. Cigler Academic Enrichment Fund</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> and the
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lance F. Johnson Award</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">, including:<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color:#212121">spring 2019 Cigler Award to work with Professors Avdan and Omelicheva on a project entitled
</span><span style="color:black">“When Do Insurgent Groups Engage in Human Trafficking?"</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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media coverage of the Transgender issues.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color:#212121">fall 2019 Cigler Award to work with Professor Miller on a media coverage in politics</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="color:#212121">received a fall 2019 Cigler Award to work with Professor Webb on a project entitled: “</span>Modeling Cross Sectional Dynamic Heterogeneity in International Political Economy Data.”<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Joel Dominguez</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> a spring 2019 recipient
of a </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Allan J. Cigler Academic Enrichment Fund Award<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Abagail Vegter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"> received fall 2019 Lance F. Johnson Awards for collaborative
work with Professor Haider-Markel on a project examining misinformation about guns, gun violence, and gun owners.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<h2 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> You can continue to get updates about the department on our webpage (
</span><a href="http://kups.ku.edu/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://kups.ku.edu/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> ), at
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on </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Facebook</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">, on
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">LinkedIn</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> group“KU Political Science” and on
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Twitter</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> (@KUPoliticalSci) where we’ll post more day-to-day news about items of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> In April 2019
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">we</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> honor</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ed</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> our
outstanding undergraduate and graduate students with monetary and distinction awards at our
</span><a href="http://today.ku.edu/2019/04/18/political-science-department-honors-top-students-honor-society-initiates"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pi Sigma Alpha</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<b>Honor’s Recognition Ceremony</b></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. We will hold a similar event in 2020 and in May 2020 we will be hosting the 9th annual
<b>Political Science Graduation Recognition Ceremony</b> (founded by Emeritus Professor
<b>Elaine Sharp</b>) for all graduating political science majors and their families. You can find pictures of these events on our webpage and our Facebook page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Professor Amii Castle</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> (POLS Class of 1994) addressing the
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2019 Political Science Graduation Recognition Ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> I invite you to contact me or any of the faculty with news that you would like to share with us and with other department alumni (<a href="mailto:dhmarkel@ku.edu">dhmarkel@ku.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A special shout-out to our
<b>major donors</b> from the last 12 months that were also willing to be identified. Your donations help our students and faculty excel!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Martha S. Allen<br>
John H. Beisner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Donald R. Brada Sr., MD<br>
Carolyn Cromb Brada<br>
LaRisa R. Chambers<br>
Beverly A. Cigler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kent Crawford<br>
Stuart J. Doner<br>
Robert N. Enberg, MD<br>
Linda Kirkpatrick Enberg<br>
John Mark Hansen<br>
Belinda L. Holmes<br>
Selina Jackson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Marc A. Ketzel<br>
Lisa C. Ketzel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jane E. Lages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Julie W. Langton<br>
Gary A. Langton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Barbara P. Lukeert, MD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Scott D. McClurg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Jane McClurg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Gary C. Meltz<br>
K. Gayle Osterberg<br>
Christopher P. Palmer <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Lynette C. Palmer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Joseph E. Pierle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Lori Lovell Pierle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Erin M. Rian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">James F Rian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Nang M. Rives, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">James A. Rives, PhD<br>
Derek D. Simmons<br>
Ann Marie Germes Simmons<br>
Heather Brown Wingate<br>
Brandon T. Woodard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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major in political science with a minor in economics. He’s a </span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">member of the University Honors Program and was selected as a sophomore for the competitive University Scholars Program. Bajwa
has served on a variety of political campaigns and worked in constituent services for Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly. He has been active on campus with Student Senate, the Student Legislative Awareness Board and the Dole Institute of Politics. A former member of
the KU Debate squad, Bajwa has also worked as a debate coach and tutor. Last year he volunteered as an English instructor at the Government High School in Mohlanwal, Pakistan. Saif is a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship. Congratulations, Saif!</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Patrick Gauding</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
published a co-authored chapter with Professor Don Haider-Markel entitled “LGBT Judges in the United States” in an edited volume
<i>Race, Gender and Sexuality, </i>Eds. Sharon A. Navarro and Samantha Hernandez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Gauding and
<b>Abbie Vegter</b> presented co-authored work, with Haider-Markel, “Measuring the Social Identity of Gun Owners in America” at MPSA 2019. He presented “The Political Characteristics of Criminal Justice Jurisdictions Offering Criminal Diversions” at the Great
Plains Political Science Association Conference, and will be presenting research at SPSA 2020, co-authored with Haider-Markel, “Explaining Support and Attributions for State Violence: Authoritarianism and Gun Ownership.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Perception of inequality and media exposure in China, South Korea, and Japan” with
<b>Leeann H. Youn. </b>SPSA “Trust and Tolerance: Social Capital and Political Tolerance in Rural and Urban China”. SPSA, “Party Behavior in Authoritarian Regimes” with
<b>Holly Rains</b> and <b>Rachel E. Finnell</b>.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As a Wilma Mankiller Fellow for Tribal Policy and Governance, Doctoral candidate, Sierra Watt is working this year with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) in Washington
D.C., at the Embassy of Tribal Nations. The program, named for the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, provides emerging professionals with experience in serving Indian Country, working closely with tribal leaders, and learning more about Federal Indian
Law and intergovernmental relations. Placed with NCAI’s data branch, the Policy Research Center, her most recent projects include developing a policy brief on Intellectual Property Law as it relates to tribal governments, research into the new statistical
privacy methods for the 2020 Census, Differential Privacy, and its potential impacts on data from American Indian reservations and Alaska Native villages, as well as compiling data sent to help prepare presidential candidates participating in the first<span style="background:white"> Frank
LaMere Native American Presidential Forum </span>as part of NCAI’s non-partisan Native Vote campaign. She also has assisted on organizational comment letters in response to federally mandated tribal consultations between tribes and various agencies, including
recent comments to the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Census Bureau. She is thankful for the chance to gain a deeper understanding of tribal governance and policy, as well as for the opportunity to bring her research skills to use for her community.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Following the retirement of <b>
Carolyn Johnson</b> after 28 years of teaching constitutional law courses for the department, two of her former students, JD
<b>Amii Castle</b> and JD <b>Clay Britton</b>, are serving as instructors for the con law courses this academic year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alan Arwine</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> teaches classes in American government and international politics. He is writing two books: the first examines political tolerance in advanced industrialized
countries and the second explores determinants of human rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Nazli Avdan </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">is working on two new papers and two data coding projects. One paper, to be presented at the Peace Science meeting at K-State (with Gary
Uzonyi) examines the effects of peacekeeping missions on transnational terrorism. The second paper (with Amanda Murdie), to be presented at ISA-Midwest in St. Louis, explores the effects of economic and political migration flows on human rights conditions
in host states. Dr. Avdan is collaborating with Mariya Omelicheva in coding insurgent groups' participation in human trafficking. She is also collaborating with Jim Piazza and Scott Piazza in coding terrorist groups' criminal activities.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">David Brichoux</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is teaching courses in American politics and political theory. He is also collaborating on public opinion research projects with Mark Joslyn (see
</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Brichoux"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0070C0">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Brichoux</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hannah Britton</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> was promoted to full Professor this year. She is currently in South Africa working on projects related to gender and South African politics, including
the relaunch of the National Gender Machinery, the new National Platform for Action on Gender-based Violence, and national efforts to eliminate human trafficking. She
<span style="color:black">continues to lead the Center for the Study of Injustice (</span></span><a href="http://ipsr.ku.edu/CSI/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://ipsr.ku.edu/CSI/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> ) and direct the
Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Initiative (</span><a href="http://ipsr.ku.edu/ASHTI/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://ipsr.ku.edu/ASHTI/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Brittnee Carter
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">has been working to advance her research on religiously motivated terrorism and cultural/ideological explanations for international conflict. In addition, she recently became affiliate faculty at the Center for Russian
and East European Studies (CREES), and is teaching for the KU Honors Program.<span style="color:black"> (see
</span></span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brittnee_Carter"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brittnee_Carter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Don Haider-Markel</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is chairing the department and published several co-authored articles on LGBT politics, gun politics, and the politics of attributions. He has
a forthcoming volume on <i>Legislating Morality in America</i> and a forthcoming series,
<i>The Oxford Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy</i> (see <span class="MsoHyperlink">
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donald_Haider-Markel">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donald_Haider-Markel</a></span>); follow on twitter @dhmarkel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Paul Johnson</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is half-time in POLS this year and teaching courses on quantitative research methods. We can now call him Grandpa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mark Joslyn</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is conducting research and teaching courses in American politics (see
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">John Kennedy</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> is writing (with
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follow up to their 2019 book, <i>Lost and Found</i>. They are examining the involuntary bachelors in rural China. These men are called "bare branches" because they will not have children and, as a result, their own family tree stops. The project examines
how these "bare branches" influence local governance in rural villages. Kennedy is also contributing a chapter on China to a book focused on the World Values Survey. (see
</span><a href="https://www.johnjameskennedy.com/">https://www.johnjameskennedy.com/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Burdett Loomis</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is officially retired but is (happily for us) continuing to serve as an instructor to oversee the DC and Topeka intern programs (see
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Patrick Miller</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor. He continues to work on various projects related to American
political behavior, and is preparing to take over management of the department internship program in the 2020-2021 academic year.
<span style="color:#212121;background:white">He tweets about politics and political science @pmiller1693</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kevin Mullinix</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> is writing a book in which he tests
<span style="color:black">the effects of wrongful convictions in the American criminal justice system for both public opinion and public policy. In another study he I examines the effects of controversial instances of police use of force – as communicated through
news media and videos – for the public’s attitudes toward law enforcement and the legal system
</span>(see </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Mullinix"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Mullinix</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mariya Omelicheva</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> published her</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> book titled
<i>Webs of Corruption: Trafficking and Terrorism in Central Asia</i> (with Lawrence Markowitz) by Columbia University Press in May 2019. In June 2019, she appeared in a Congressional Hearing of the House Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe on Russia's
counterproductive counterterrorism<span style="color:black"> (see </span></span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariya_Omelicheva"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariya_Omelicheva</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Gary Reich</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is researching immigration policies in the American states for a book project (see
</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary_Reich"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary_Reich</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Robert Rohrschneider</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> completed a volume for Oxford University Press, entitled Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies. He also published
articles in various journals on party competition and EU nationalism in Europe (see
</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Rohrschneider"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Rohrschneider</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Paul Schumaker </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">is retired Emeritus Professor but he continues to write and conduct research. He has a forthcoming book in December 2019 entitled
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Clayton Webb</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> has been conducting research on Time Series Methodology and Foreign Policy Analysis. His recent work has been published in
<i>Political Analysis</i> <i>and Political Research Quarterly</i>. This year Dr. Webb presented his work at the annual meetings of the Society of Political Methodology, the International Studies Association, and the American Political Science Association (see
</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clayton_Webb"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clayton_Webb</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> ).<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top:.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Michael Wuthrich
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">has recently completed a collaborated book manuscript on religion and attitudes in Arabic language countries, and is continuing his ongoing research on the dynamics behind the dramatic rise in the number of women involved
in national politics in Turkey since 2002. His has recently published in <i>Political Research Quarterly</i> and has a forthcoming article in
<i>Journal of Democracy</i> <span style="color:#212121;background:white">(see </span>
</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/F_Wuthrich"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/F_Wuthrich</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;background:white"> ).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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studies. He has been preparing new courses and has been awarded the Center for Teaching Excellence’s Course Transformation Grant to incorporate a simulation of the US-China Trade War into two courses. He also applied for a Minerva Research Initiative grant
on economic interdependence, and applied to several KU Research Excellence Initiative grants. He also presented papers at several conferences around the country (see
</span><a href="http://www.jackzhang.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.jackzhang.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> ).
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