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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Professor John Moser, the seminar facilitator, asked the participants if there were aspects of the Cold War era they missed. Our political opinions shouldnt define our identities.

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Call for Applications: 2025 Research Development Group for Early-Career Scholars from Southeast Asia | Deadline: February 16

Political Science Now

Prior to the start of the conference, selected participants will attend a full-day seminar on Wednesday, September 10, to discuss and receive critical feedback on an article-length manuscript in progress. All topics, subfields, and methodologies within political science will be considered.

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Katherine Thrailkill’s Mentor Led Her to MAHG

Teaching American History

Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

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Call for Applications: 2025 MENA Professional Development Grants | Deadline: March 30, 2025

Political Science Now

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Professional Development Grants program for the 2024 MENA Workshops Alumni.These grant programs support research and networking activities and promotes collaboration between scholars and institutions across the Arab MENA region.

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Counting your way to a college A

The Hechinger Report

Inferring learning gains from their current coursework is complicated across subjects as varied as political science and computer programing. In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. No one is asking these students to take additional, outside assessments to measure their learning gains. million points.

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Short Course: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Political Science Now

We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. At EUI, he offers seminars on international relations theory, international institutions, qualitative methods, and philosophies of social science.

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Colleen Shogan Receives the 2024 Hubert H. Humphrey Award

Political Science Now

Humphrey Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor notable public service by a political scientist. Humphrey Award honoring notable public service to political scientist Colleen Shogan. The Hubert H. A native of Pittsburgh, Shogan holds a B.A.