American Politics Seminar

The American Politics Seminar is a year-long speaker series that features leading scholars in American Politics. Invited scholars present cutting-edge research and engage in lively debate with faculty and graduate students. The seminar is made possible partially through a generous grant from the Bankard Fund for Political Economy at the University of Virginia. The Seminar is organized by Rachel Potter and Albert Rivero. Papers are generally sent to invitees in the week or so prior to each talk.

Current Series

Laurel Harbridge-Yong | Associate Professor, Northwestern University

Thursday, August 3, 2023 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM |

Daniel Hopkins | Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 3, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM |

Ashley Jardina | Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Friday, September 15, 2023 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM |

Nicholas Valentino | Professor, University of Michigan

Friday, February 2, 2024 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM |

Efren Perez | Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Friday, March 15, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM | Monroe Hall

Elizabeth Connors | Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina

Friday, March 29, 2024 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM |

Neil Malhotra | The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University

Friday, April 19, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM | Monroe Hall

Kenneth Lowande | Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Friday, April 26, 2024 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM |

Current and Past Series

2023-2024

Daniel Hopkins

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Valentino

Professor, University of Michigan

Efren Perez

Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Elizabeth Connors

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina

Neil Malhotra

The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University

Kenneth Lowande

Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Ashley Jardina

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Laurel Harbridge-Yong

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

2022-2023

Deborah Beim

University of Michigan
Setting the Supreme Court's Policy Agenda

Erika Franklin Fowler

Wesleyan University
Unveiling CREATIVE: Unpacking and Understanding Online Advertising Beyond Candidates

Mary Kroeger

University of North Carolina
Partisan Commenting: Evidence from State and Local Government Involvement in Federal Rulemaking

John Sides

Vanderbilt University
Body Politic: Disgust, Partisanship, and Public Opinion on Viral Outbreaks

Chloe Thurston

Northwestern University
The Political Development of American Debt Relief

2021-2022

Srinivas “Chinnu” Parinandi

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado - Boulder
Social Welfare Returns to Legislative Capacity: Evidence from the Opioid Epidemic

Sarah Anzia

Associate Professor, University of California - Berkeley
Does Receiving Government Assistance Shape Political Attitudes? Evidence from Agricultural Producers

Patricia Kirkland

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Jonathan Kastellac

Associate Professor, Princeton University

Susan Haire

Professor, University of Georgia

Christina Kinane

Assistant Professor, Yale University

LaGina Gause

Assistant Professor, UCSD

Ian Turner

Assistant Professor, Yale University

Sharece Thrower

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

Richard Burke

PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Spotlighting the Economy: Media Coverage and Mayoral Evaluations

Craig Volden

Professor, University of Virginia
Unification of Powers: When Effective Lawmakers Sponsor Presidential Proposals in Congress

2016-2017

David Bateman

Cornell University
Gilded Age Doughfaces and Reluctant Reformers: The Northern Democratic Party and Civil Rights at the Turn of the Century (cancelled)

John Patty

Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Talk title

Craig Volden

University of Virginia
Do Constituents Know (Or Care) About the Lawmaking Effectiveness of their Representatives?

Jeff Jenkins, Boris Heersink, and Brenton Peterson

University of Virginia
Natural Disasters, 'Partisan Retrospection,' and U.S. Presidential Elections

John Holbein

Brigham Young University
Making Young Citizens: Rethinking Schools' Role in Students' Civic Development

Chris Warshaw

MIT
Policy Preferences and Policy Change

Molly Reynolds

Brookings Institution
Who Fights the Good (Party) Fight? Individual Incentives to Engage in Partisan Messaging in the U.S. Senate

Pamela McCann

University of Southern California
Decentralizing Pork

Andrew Reeves

Washington University in St. Louis
The Public Cost of Unilateral Action

2018-2019

Ellie Powell

Northwestern Universty
Talk by Ellie Powell

Richard Fox

Loyola Marymount University
Talk by Richard Fox

Nicholas Winter

Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Ambivalent Sexism and Election 2016

Sid Milkis and Nick Jacobs

University of Virginia
Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power

Yanna Krupnikov

Stonybook University
Support the Poor or Punish the Rich? How People Consider Inequality

Jim Morone

Brown University
George Washington’s Regret: How American Politics Turned Tribal (1800-1944)

2019-2020

Jim Morone

John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy & Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies, Brown University
George Washington's Regret: How American Politics Turned Tribal (1800 - 2044)

Yanna Krupnikov

Associate Professor of Political Science, Stony Brook University
Support the Poor or Punish the Rich? How People Consider Inequality

Sid Milkis and Nick Jacobs

University of Virginia
Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power

Nicholas J.G. Winter

Associate Professor, University of Virginia
The Two Faces of Sexism: Hostility, Benevolence, and American Elections

2020-2021

Michelle Margolis

Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Persecuted Christians? Understanding Evangelical Support for Trump

Jaime Settle

Associate Professor, William & Mary
What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America

Yamil Velez

Assistant Professor, Columbia University
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment During WWII America

Candis Watts Smith

Associate Professor, Penn State
Upcoming talk by

Keneshia Grant

Associate Professor, Howard University
Black Migration in American Politics: 1915-1965

Matthew LaCombe

Assistant Professor, Barnard College
Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force

Hakeem Jefferson

Assistant Professor, Stanford University
“You’re Making it Harder for the Rest of Us!”: In-group Policing and Perceptions of Collective Costs

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