Joel Sievert

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

Big congrats to @stephmathiasen.bsky.social!

Stephanie is on the job market this year and would be a fantastic colleague. You should hire her!

I would like to thank Rep. Boebert for helping write the introductory anecdote for my APSA paper with @moriahjharman.bsky.social

Note to self, assign Mirya's work for every week of class...

Gonna miss watching the nicest man in football 😢

“Surely we will be safe if we comply in advance…” university presidents across the country

Job Description: The Department of Justice, Law & Criminology in the School of Public Affairs at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position beginning in Academic Year 2026-2027. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor. For this position, the department is seeking a scholar with substantive expertise in political violence and terrorism. The search is open regarding specialty, but the Department is especially interested in a scholar whose research and teaching interests include terrorism, political violence, radicalization, extremism, or cybersecurity.

We're hiring!

The @au-spa.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor specializing in political violence and terrorism.

Deadline: September 22nd.

Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

See below for the job ad and application.

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Nothing makes me feel old faster than seeing how much new research is out there that I haven’t read

Update: I will not be keeping my sanity

Notre Dame is about to bring a revolution to the discipline. Can’t wait for the Swiftie takeover of political science.

The eternal struggle of writing a grad syllabus: how much of the new, cool research do I assign? vs how much of what I’ve already read do I assign so I keep my sanity?

When voters think about congressional elections, they increasingly think first about the president | USAPP Voters now evaluate candidates in the context of how they feel about whoever is in the White House.

When voters think about congressional elections, they increasingly think first about the president.
(Jamie L. Carson, @jsievert.bsky.social and ‪@ryandane.bsky.social‬, @lseusablog.bsky.social‬)
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

We’re hiring a junior colleague in AP @au-spa.bsky.social

Please share broadly & questions can come to me! (I’m chair!)

american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

A nice write up from my co-author about our article exploring the growing connection between presidents and congressional candidates.

When voters think about congressional elections, they increasingly think first about the president | USAPP Voters now evaluate candidates in the context of how they feel about whoever is in the White House.

When voters think about congressional elections, they increasingly think first about the president write Jamie Carson of @universityofga.bsky.social @jsievert.bsky.social of @ttu.edu‬ and @ryandane.bsky.social of the University of Wyoming blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

I don't even do that in my full length manuscripts!

I think @ryandane.bsky.social told me once that they ended up with a 20-30 page appendix on a research note thanks to reviewers

I think we will have to put 2024 in the context of the post-pandemic global anti-incumbent wave.

Also... not all economic indicators pointed in the same direction, which makes the economic story potentially more complicated.

It’s gotta be @ryandane.bsky.social’s acknowledgements from our book.

It’s gotta be @ryandane.bsky.social’s acknowledgements from our book.

I thought writing a book was hard, but it turns out final edits so the book can go into production are even harder.

Someone send me extra motivation! Thanks.

JD clearly didn’t listen to the Access Hollywood tapes.

And Iowa politicans thought the brain drain was bad before…

Congrats to Zaur Kapanadze, one of our grad students, on receiving a dissertation research grant from the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies.

Zaur is on the job market this year. Give his file a good look if you are hiring!

aseees.org/news/2025-as...

We are hiring at @opensecrets.org! If you are interested in working with and analyzing large datasets - and you care about government transparency and accountability - apply now to join our research team. www.opensecrets.org/about/jobs?1

What a dumb time to be a Congress scholar

a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show ALT: a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show

Theory?!

Now out at Presidential Studies Quarterly, we find that the public’s understanding of party politics is becoming more president‐centric, which significantly influences the perceptions of candidates.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Measuring Conflict in Local Politics Mirya Holman1 , Rebecca Johnson2 , and Tyler Simko3

It’s publication day!!🎊 In a new Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social piece, Rebecca Johnson, Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social & I ask: How do you measure conflict in local politics in the United States?
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