Political Science Brown Bag

2023-2024

October 4
Examining Political Discontent and Electoral Volatility before Polling
Presenter: Jacob Smith, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Daniel Klinghard, Professor of Political Science, the College of the Holy Cross

November 1
The Poetry of Resistance in Modern Iran: Women’s Writings and Popular Empowerment
Presenter: Nojang Khatami, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Jeff Flynn, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University

December 6
Autocracy and Repression: Regime Features, Regime Types, and Repertoires of Repression
Presenter: Jose Aleman, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: TBC

2022-2023

October 5
“Parties Are the Supreme Mentors of the Nation”: Appreciations of Parties and Partisanship in China, 1898-1920
Presenter: Dongxian Jiang, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University
Discussant: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

November 2
The First Campaign: Mobilization and Counter-Mobilization Effects of William Jennings Bryan's 1896 Campaign Visits
Presenter: Boris Heersink, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University (co-authored with Nicholas G. Napolio and Jordan Carr Peterson)
Discussant: Jeffrey Cohen, Professor-Emeritus of Political Science, Fordham University

December 7
Shaping and US Foreign Policy in Africa
Presenter: Casey McNeill, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Anjali Dayal, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

February 22
The Logic of War on Deforestation. A Military Response to an Environmental Problem
Presenter: Juan Corredor-Garcia, Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center, and Adjunct, Fordham University (with Fernando López Vega)
Discussant: Meir Alkon, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

March 22
The Not-So Silent B: Bisexuality, from Cultural Movement to Political Praxis
Presenter: Zein Murib, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Isabel Felix Gonzales, Assistant Professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Virginia

April 19
The Will to Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Pragmatist Tradition
Presenter: Nicholas Tampio, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Mark Chapman, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Fordham University

2021-2022

 October 6
Innovation and Complex Dependencies in State-Sponsored Cyber Espionage
Presenter: William Akoto, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Casey McNeill, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

November 3
Power in a Union: Tracing the Creation of the Alliance between LGBT Activists and Labor Unions in the U.S. and U.K.
Presenter: Boris Heersink, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University (co-authored with Matt Lacombe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College)
Discussant: Chloe Nicol Thurston, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

December 1
The Grim Reaper: Extrajudicial Violence and Autocratic Rule
Presenter: Jose Aleman, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Olena Nikolayenko, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

February 9
White Racial Identity, Racial Attitudes and Latino Vote Choice in Congressional Elections
Presenter: Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Baruch College

March 23
The New Conservative Anti-Woman Discourse
Presenter: Zein Murib, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: William Akoto, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

April 20
Political Demonstration Effects: Authoritarian Informational Statecraft and Public Support for Democracy
Presenter: Meir Alkon, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Discussant: Jose Aleman, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University