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Past Lansing B. Lee, Jr./Bankard Seminar in Global Politics

Past Series

2024-2025

Associate Professor, University of VIrginia

Nuclear Weapons and National Prestige

Associate Professor, University of VIrginia

Associate Professor, Georgia Tech

(When) Can Politicians Influence Citizens’ Uptake of Government Welfare Programs? Evidence from a Field Experiment in North India

Associate Professor, Georgia Tech

Associate Professor, Georgia Tech

epartment Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

epartment Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Professor, University of Gothenburg

Professor, University of Gothenburg

Professor, University of Gothenburg

Associate Professor, Columbia University

Associate Professor, Columbia University

Associate Professor, Columbia University

Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Politics, International Studies Area, Yale University

Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Politics, International Studies Area, Yale University

Variation in Wartime Sexual Violence: What We Know, What We Don’t Know

Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Politics, International Studies Area, Yale University

Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Frontiers in Global Development

Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Contingency Access: The Overlooked Pillar of Military Cooperation

Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Contingency Access: The Overlooked Pillar of Military Cooperation

Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Inadvertent Expansion

Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Inadvertent Expansion

Assistant Professor, The George Washington University

Professor, University of Virginia

National Identity after Conquest

Professor, University of Virginia

National Identity after Conquest

Professor, University of Virginia

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Risk Attitudes and Political Participation Under Autocracy

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Risk Attitudes and Political Participation Under Autocracy

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Two to Tango, More to Mosh: Interstate Entangling Relations and Intrastate Conflict Management

Professor, Duke University

Professor, Duke University

Two to Tango, More to Mosh: Interstate Entangling Relations and Intrastate Conflict Management

Professor, Duke University

Senior Lecturer, Australian National University

Power Shifts, Multiple Audiences, and Cheap Talk Reassurance

Senior Lecturer, Australian National University

Senior Lecturer, Australian National University

2021-2022

Kelebogile Zvobgo

Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary

Janice Gallagher

Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-Newark

Lauren MacLean

Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Vipin Narang

Professor, MIT

Rachel Whitlark

Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech

Erica Dobbs

Assistant Professor, Pomona College

Emily Ritter

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

Diana Fu

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Pavi Suryanarayan

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Vipin Narang

Professor, MIT

Volha Charnysh

Assistant Professor, MIT

Olyvia Christley

PhD Candidate, University of Virginia

Joshua Kertzer

Professor, Harvard University

Melissa Lee

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Benjamin Helms

PhD Candidate, University of Virginia

2020-2021

Yuhua Wang

Elite Kinship Networks and State-Building Preferences in Imperial China

Associate Professor, Harvard University

Susan Stokes

Is 'Direct Democracy' Good for Democracy?

Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

Joshua Alley

Public Opinion Towards Military Alliances

Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia

Mia Hassan

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

David Victor

The New International Politics of Climate Change

Professor, University of California San Diego

Chen Wang

Educating the Newcomer: Leadership Turnovers and the Targeting of Militarized Challenges

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia

Debra Thompson

Return: Race, Democracy, and the Boundaries of Belonging in North America

Associate Professor, McGill University

Paul Avey

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

Amy Verdun

Professor, University of Victoria

Reid Pauly

The Assurance Dilemma in Coercive International Politics

Assistant Professor, Brown University

Gretchen Helmke

Upending Impunity: Explaining Post-Tenure Presidential Prosecutions in Latin America

Professor, University of Rochester

Aycan Katitas

Campaigning for Protectionism: Determinants of Anti-Trade Advertising in Elections

University of Virginia

George Ofosu

When do Partisans Cross the Party Line?

Assistant Professor, the London School of Economics and Political Science

Danielle Lupton

Military Service and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Associate Professor, Colgate University

Megan Stewart

Micro-Foundations of the Vanguard: The Origins of Rebel Groups for National Liberation

Assistant Professor, American University

Jason Jackson

Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Post-War Brazil and India

Assistant Professor, MIT

2018-2019

Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly

Professor, Duke University

Smoke and Mirrors: Did China's Environmental Crackdowns Lead to Persistent Changes in Polluting Firm Behavior?

Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Information Saturation and Electoral Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Facebook in Mexico

Assistant Professor, Columbia University

The Illogic of Nuclear Superiority: A Review Essay

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Dirty Politics: Electoral Pollution Cycles in Mexico

Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Virginia

Making Treaties

Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia

The Four Worlds of Carbon Politics

Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Why are there so Few Basin-wide Treaties?

Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, University of California Riverside

Secessionist Conflict and Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia

Associate Professor, Georgetown University

The Changing Face of Nuclear Proliferation

Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary

Tying the Big Man's Hands: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes

University of Virginia

Repression in the China Field

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Divide and Conquer: Fifth Columns and Hybrid Welfare

Professor, University of Virginia

How International Post-Conflict Reforms Improve Public Opinion of State Bureaucracies: Experimental Evidence with the Liberian National Police

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Patronage by Credit: International Sources of Patronage Politics

Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary

2023-2024

Shelley Liu

Assistant Professor, Duke University

Ana de la O Torres

Associate Professor, Yale University

Christina Davis

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University

Noah Nathan

Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alisha Holland

Associate Professor, Harvard University

Dan Smith

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

William Spaniel

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Adria Lawrence

Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Tariq Thachil

Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania

Rachel Myrick

Ellen Lowey Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University

Daniel Posner

James S. Coleman Professor of International Development, UCLA

Lindsey O'Rourke

Associate Professor, Boston College

Melle Scholten

Graduate Student, University of Virginia

2022-2023

Marcus Holmes

College of William and Mary

Natália Bueno

Emory University

Fiona Cunningham

University of Pennsylvania

Isabela Mares

Yale

Jonathan Renshon

The Generalizability of IR Experiments Beyond the U.S.

University of Wisconsin

Nicola Nonnes

The BRICS Acronym as a Heuristic Device in Sovereign Bond Markets

Graduate Student, University of Virginia

Denise Walsh

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Nicholas Samabanis

Misperceiving Nationalism: Beliefs About Others’ Beliefs and Group Conformism in Foreign Polic

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Firat Kimya

Political Repression and Party Institutionalization

Graduate Student, University of Virginia

Michael Albertus

The Political Price of Authoritarian Control: Evidence from Francoist Land Settlements in Spain

Professor, University of Chicago