🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight PhD candidate Preeti Nambiar. Preeti focuses on Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. Website: preetinambiar.com Preeti's research focuses on three topics: - How large-scale crises transform local state capacity - The durable networks among bureaucrats, politicians, and citizens that shape local state functioning. - 18 months of fieldwork across four Indian states, including surveys of over 3,000 citizens, bureaucrats, politicians, and social organisations, alongside over 100 elite interviews.

🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight Patrick Buhr, a Ph.D. Candidate studying Congress, the presidency, and separation-of-powers policymaking. Website: patrickbuhr.com/ - Patrick's dissertation assesses how the nationalization of congressional elections affects legislative negotiations between Congress and the president. - He argues that nationalization undermines the president's legislative agenda by giving the opposition party electoral incentives to see this agenda fail. - He develops and tests this argument using formal theory, quantitative methods and new data collection, and interviews with Members of Congress, their staff, and former White House officials. You can learn more about his dissertation or read his other working papers in legislative politics and administrative policymaking by visiting his website: patrickbuhr.com

🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight PhD Nguyen (Thao-Nguyen) Ha. Nguyen focuses on International Relations. Website: thaonguyen-ha.com Nguyen's research focuses on the microdynamics of civil war and political violence - Her JMP explores how territorial competition in civil wars can shape civilians' decisions to protest or flee. - She also examines how network interdependencies shape violence and cooperation between armed actors. - Her portfolio includes a wide range of methods: statistical inference, formal theory, spatial and network analysis, text-as-data, interviews, archival research, and agent-based modeling.

🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight PhD candidate Martín Gou Durante. Martín works in Comparative Politics, with a focus on Latin America Website: martingou.com Martín's research focuses on: - How citizens interpret and enforce the boundaries of democracy in Latin America - Why democratic violations become politically consequential when citizens expect others to punish them too, tested in preregistered experiments with over 6,000 respondents across Mexico and Argentina - Whether institutional arbiters, such as courts and electoral authorities, shape how citizens respond to violations - How democratic institutions shape citizens on the ground, in ongoing work on Mexico's poll workers, using a natural experiment in how they are appointed, and on participatory budgeting in Mexico City

🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight PhD candidate Lucas Borba. Lucas focuses on Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. Website: lucas-borba.com Lucas's research focuses on three topics: - How spatial inequalities erode citizens’ tax compliance and local state capacity (link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…) - How local politics and institutions shape the consequences of policies designed by national governments (link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…) - Economic informality and voter politician linkages (link: drive.google.com/file/d/1wNr…)

🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight PhD candidate Guilherme Fasolin. Guilherme focuses on Comparative Politics. Website: guilhermefasolin.com Guilherme's research focuses on three topics: - The roots of uneven rural state development and how 20th-century agricultural mechanization shaped disparities in rural state capacity in Brazil (job market paper) - The political consequences of variation in local institutions and state capacity (Link: tinyurl.com/3s64fexp) - Climate-change beliefs and political behavior across Latin America (Links: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…, nature.com/articles/s41467-0…)

🌟 It's Job Market Season! 🌟 Over the next week we're highlighting all of our amazing PhD candidates, postdocs, and recent alumni entering the job market. You can learn more about the candidates and their research on their websites. Today we highlight PhD candidate Colette Marcellin. Colette focuses on American Politics. Website: colettemarcellin.com Colette's research focuses on three topics: - What conditions mobilize members of marginalized groups, with a focus on American women (using survey and field experiments). Link: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7m… - How group identity and political context (e.g., social movements, policy changes, elite discourse) shape individuals' political attitudes and behavior (using observational data). Link: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3e… - What explains variation in public opinion on issues related to gender, race, and partisanship (using original survey data). Link: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab…

Congratulations to our PhD students Sofia Berrospi and Martín Gou for receiving Dissertation Enhancement Awards from @VanderbiltU -- and to Sofia for also winning an @APSAtweets Indigenous Politics Award!

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student @Patrick_Buhr who has won a big university award for his work as a graduate student mentor! news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/12/…

Congratulations to Vanderbilt political science Ph.D. student Lucas Borba on receiving an @APSAtweets Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant! politicalsciencenow.com/2025…

REU students will be presenting their research projects at APSA on Friday (9/12) at 3:00PM, and read more about the REU program here—news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/08/…

Grateful to win our department’s graduate student teaching award for leading the stats course for our summer REU program! (and even more fun to share the award w/ @csmarcellin for her work w/ CSDI!)