Members of the Chicago community, including Alderperson Byron Sigcho-Lopez, will be sharing their experiences with recent immigration enforcement activity at MPSA. Don't miss it!

Looking to connect with scholars in Latino politics and beyond at MPSA? Stop by our business meeting from 7-8:30pm on Friday, April 24th to build community, share ideas, and celebrate the work happening across the field! Location TBA.

☕️Caffeine + a little chit-chat in Chicago?

Who doesn’t need a coffee in the middle of the conference?
Comep sip, chat, and recharge with WCPS at Ground Up Coffee+Bites (right by the Palmer House)!

Call for Applications: 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) | Deadline: April 15, 2026 - Now Live: Applications for the 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER), a four-day, residential institute offering political scientists training to conduct ethical and rigorous…

The 2026 APSA #ICER applications close on April 15th!

Participate in the 2026 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research #ICER, a 4-day, residential institute offering political scientists training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically-engaged research. #polisky

Apply Now! buff.ly/hOGrEQJ

Shared Morals by Jae-Hee Jung
This book examines how moral rhetoric is a crucial – and potentially unifying – part of how we experience democratic representation.
📚 https://cup.org/3PFyA4V

The overlooked threat of democratic neutrality in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour Hall et al. document ‘democratic neutrality’ (neither agreement nor disagreement with undemocratic practices) as prevalent and as consequential as outright support for undemocratic practices in shapin...

Americans don't oppose democracy... but a lot of them are on the fence.

Check out our new article at Nature Human Behaviour!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Train Dreams was amazing. I thought about it for days.

Awards The MPSA Latino Caucus is seeking nominations for the 2025-26 Early Career Award, Graduate Student Paper Award, and Graduate Student Travel Grants. The Best Graduate Student Paper Award will be...

Friendly reminder to nominate yourself and your colleagues for MPSA Latina/o/x Caucus awards (early career, best grad paper, and conference funding)! The nomination deadline is Friday, February the 13th. More info on our website here: mpsalatinocaucus.weebly.com/awards.html

The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts - Eugenia Artabe, Alex Badas, Lucia Lopez, 2025 State supreme courts have become increasingly salient as the U.S. Supreme Court has deferred more politically contentious questions to the states. Yet, despite ...

My article "The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," co-authored with Eugenia Artabe and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly.

doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Midafternoon writing workshop walk-around-du-lac break on a gorgeous day at Notre Dame. cc: @mirya.bsky.social @samchapa.bsky.social

Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.

Def the little baby opossum vibing at the top!

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

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Meet the 2025 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipients The APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship’s primary goal is to encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty). Grants for the 2025 cycle were made to those individuals whose purposes most clearly match the goals of the Fund, and whose proposals most persuasively demonstrate capacity for successful completion.

Meet the 2025 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship Recipients

The APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship’s primary goal is to encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure…

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Lucía López (@llopez.bsky.social) on being awarded the 2025–26 Early Career Fellowship from the APSA Experimental Research Section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social)! 🎉 Lucía is on the academic job market this year -- learn more about her research at lucia-lopez.com.

The MPSA (soft) submission deadline is approaching! Submit your work to 77. Midwest Latino/a Caucus so we can showcase your amazing work. We are interested in work on immigration, identity, and Latino/as and the economy, but are thrilled to receive anything you submit!

Why don't you continue the momentum from APSA and present your work at JAWS? We are still taking submissions!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.

Also, you don't need to live in Texas to attend! You just need to be willing to travel here!

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TAMU will be hosting the Texas American Behavior Conference on Nov. 7-8 this year. Apply by Aug. 31 using the link below. Let me know if you have any questions!
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Watch out for @llopez.bsky.social on the job market this fall!

I’m very excited to be a member of Texas Tech’s TEACH Program this year!

Seems like a good time to boost States of Belonging, where we (me, @yuenhuo.bsky.social, Tomás Jiménez, and Jack Dovidio) show that welcoming policies have broad effects re: belonging. @russellsagefdn.bsky.social

www.russellsage.org/publications...