Samantha Chapa

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!

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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...

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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🚨Exciting Opportunity for junior scholars interested in local politics!

The Local Politics and Policy Lab at Emory University is recruiting a pre/post doctoral fellow.

Applicants with strong quantitative skills are encouraged to apply:

apply.interfolio.com/168743

Make that a hat trick! A 3rd Notre Dame grad, Benjamin Garcia-Holgado @bgarciaholgado.bsky.social, won the 2025 Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law. (Also: all 3 of our awarded students are just lovely people).

Send you best students to ND! Hire an ND PhD!

We are excited to announce the placements of our amazing PhD students and recent graduates. Please join us in celebrating their next steps! 👇

It's that time of year again when I can share the fantastic infographics that students in my American Identity seminar made to accompany their final papers. Check them out here: sites.tufts.edu/deborahschil...

Two brunette white women stand on a condo balcony. They are both wearing white shirts that are airbrushed with "Mirya & Emily" and a sheriff merman in yellow and blue, surrounded by underwater air bubbles

Happy birthday to @emayfarris.bsky.social - I highly recommend that you find yourself a coauthor who is not only smart and kind but also one who will do weird nerdy stuff with you like getting custom merman sheriff tshirts

Screenshot of an email "sent with high importance" Subject: PROFESSOR Mirya Holman Sent to the Hobby school faculty list from Jim Granato Body: Congratulations to Mirya. The Provost just sent the news that Mirya will be recommended for promotion to Full Professor.

Some professional news:

Gente headed to WPSA next week. This looks like a great way to spend your Wednesday afternoon in Seattle.
Really cool lineup of diverse projects.
#WPSA2025
Let's be honest, it'll probably be raining outside.