Jobs and Vacancies

The Rothermere American Institute at Oxford is recruiting for the Churchill Associate Professor of United States Politics, looking especially for a colleague with expertise in American political development. The application deadline is May 6. See the job listing here:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

2026 WILS Conference Application When: Saturday, October 10-Sunday, October 11, 2026 Where: Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia (near Richmond) Participants should plan to arrive on Friday, October 9. Panels will be held all da...

The deadline is approaching to send in your proposal for the 2026 WiLS conference. Please fill out the form by March 31 even if you plan to attend as a discussant/chair/participant. Hope to see in in Virginia in October!

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2026 WILS Conference Application When: Saturday, October 10-Sunday, October 11, 2026 Where: Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia (near Richmond) Participants should plan to arrive on Friday, October 9. Panels will be held all da...

Proposals are now being accepted for the 2026 WiLS Conference! Details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Caregiving in the Academy: An APSA Status Committee Virtual Workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. According to the AARP, about 48 million Americans, mostly women, provide unpaid caregiving. It may be to an aging parent, who may or may not be in the same country, children, a child or adult child wi...

Our monthly professional development seminar will be held on Friday, March 20, 2:00pm ET. The session is titled "Caregiving in the Academy." We are cosponsoring this event with two other excellent APSA committees.

Learn more and register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Birthright Citizenship Is a Constitutional and Historical Fact How much longer will birthright citizenship remain a constitutional right?

An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/

Very cool RFP for research on Election and Institutional Reforms in Legislatures and the Courts. Details here:

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Research article titled "Who Gets to Speak? How Institutions and Political Careers Shape Gender Bias in South Africa's Parliamentary Debates" by Edalina Rodrigues Sanches and Ana Espírito-Santo.

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In "Who Gets to Speak?", Edalina Rodrigues Sanches & Ana Espírito-Santo investigate gender bias in speechmaking in South Africa 🇿🇦

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BJPolS abstract discussing the influence of women's pre-election experiences on their behavior in government, with a focus on Uganda and Zimbabwe, and topics related to wartime experiences.

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Acting Out and Speaking Up: The Parliamentary Behavior of Ex-Rebel Women - https://cup.org/4oUHGqY

- Elizabeth L. Brannon & Nikolaos Frantzeskakis

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New Cambridge Element, Legislating Peace, by Elizabeth L. Brannon and Jakana Thomas, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
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Employment Opportunities

The Center for Cyclone Civics is pleased to announce an opening for a postdoc interested in conducting research on civic engagement and civic education, starting August 1, 2026. Apply by March 13, 2026.

More Info: jobs.iastate.edu

Our February protessional development seminar is coming up this Friday, February 13 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.

The topic is Consulting and Coaching for Academics and you can register here: csus.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Lawmaking under Authoritarianism Cambridge Core - Latin American Government, Politics and Policy - Lawmaking under Authoritarianism

Why are legislatures in some authoritarian regimes more powerful than others? @emisimison.bsky.social (@qmulsse.bsky.social) and Alejandro Bonvecchi (UTDT-Conicet) tackle this question Lawmaking under Authoritarianism

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The University of Missouri, Columbia is seeking a Hicks and Martha Griffiths Endowed Chair in American Politics.

Details and application here: hr.missouri.edu/job-openings (Job Opening ID 58208)

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Call for papers: Conference on ”Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy,” August 14th, Vanderbilt University

Apply here by March 1st: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Legislature Size and Party Unity: Evidence from Historical US State Legislatures | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 1 The size of a legislature is one of its most fundamental features, yet there is little consensus on how large legislatures should be. Furthermore, many modern-day reformers are dissatisfied with the c...

Very cool new piece out from @jkaslovsky.bsky.social and Michael P. Olson in @thejop.bsky.social: "Legislature Size and Party Unity: Evidence from Historical US State Legislatures"

Check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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New from Rosalyn Cooperman in the Journal of Policy History: "Gender and Party Polarization in the US Congress: Hypervisibility and Invisibility"

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Call for Papers: The Comparative Politics of Gender Deadline February 8, 2026

Check out the call for papers for a special issue of the Italian Political Science Review (published in English), focusing on the comparative politics of gender.

The call is provided here: ipsrbrief.substack.com/p/call-for-p...

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Representing ‘Women’s Interests’ in 2025: Senate Messaging at the Intersection of Party, Gender, and Race Lawmakers from historically marginalized groups often emphasize unique political messages from their counterparts that hinge on their identities or those of their constituency. Because symbolic repres...

Sarah Allen Gershon and @brownphdgirl.bsky.social use the case of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s nomination hearing to examine Senate messaging at the intersection of party, gender, and race.

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Model Legislation and the Diffusion of LGBTQ Policies The past decade has seen a dramatic surge in state LGBTQ policymaking, rising from a few dozen policies a year to hundreds of expansive and restrictive proposals, raising questions about what drives t...

Scott LaCombe, Margot Audero and Avery Spicka analyze the diffusion of LGBTQ policies in the states, with a focus on the influence of model legislation.

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The 2024 Rainbow Wave: Tracking LGBTQ+ Representation in State Legislatures Following the 2024 election, LGBTQ+ representation in state legislatures increased, yet, at the same time, 2024 also marked a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation being introduced in the st...

@hannabrant.bsky.social and @jordanmbutcher.bsky.social track LGBTQ+ representation in state legislatures in the 2024 election.

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Dartmouth College invites applications for a Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Program in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.

Details: apply.interfolio.com/178487

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Politics & Gender is currently soliciting abstract proposals for a collection on Abortion Storytelling in State Politics. Details here:

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Register for this month's professional development seminar, "Teaching Political Science in Turbulent Times."

Date: January 16
Time: 11:00 a.m. Pacific
Registration: csus.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hope to see you there!

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Check out "Predicting Support for the Christian Democrats in the 2025 German Bundestag Election: A State-Level Approach" in the most recent issue of PS, by @marystegmaier.bsky.social and Kamil Marcinkiewicz

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New article: "Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" in @lsqjournal.bsky.social w/ Dan Butler and @steverogersinfo.bsky.social. GOP leadership doesn't shy away from policies where GOP constituencies disagree with the party platform, impairing dyadic representation!

Spring 2026: Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group The Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group is now soliciting papers for the Spring 2026 semester. If you are interested in presenting, serving as a discussant, or simply upd...

The Consortium on the American Political Economy Junior Working Group is soliciting papers for their spring workshop, which focuses on the relationship between markets and governance in the United States, broadly construed.

Details + submit by Jan 16: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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"Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence" by @jkaslovsky.bsky.social, Tabitha Koch, and Michael P. Olson in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social!

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It's pretty cool that my Human Trafficking Research Lab at Millikin will be featured on a professional development panel "Academic Entrepreneurship: Launching and Leading Centers, Labs, and Institutes" for Women in Legislative Studies @winls.bsky.social with others from Dartmouth and Arizona State!

Dartmouth College invites applications for a Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Program in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences (Rocky).

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/178487

A team of scholars is soliciting abstracts on Abortion Storytelling in State Politics. The collection will be featured in a Critical Perspectives proposal for Politics & Gender.

🗓️Deadline: February 1, 2026.

Read the call in the link below:

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