Assistantships

Fall 2016 – Spring 2017. Research Assistant for Prof. Michael D. Martinez, PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Florida.

Conference Presentations

2016. “The Allure and Conceit of the Newest South: Revisiting the Black Belt.” Presented at the Biannual Symposium on Southern Politics, The Citadel, Charleston.

2015. “Away Down South in Dixie: White Voting Patterns and Biracial Coalitions in Southern U.S. House Elections.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah. (Roger N. Pajari Award Winning Paper.)

2014. “The Natural State’s Unnatural Politics, Democratic Dominance in an Otherwise Red State.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah.

2014. “The House Divided: An Analysis of Republican Party Cohesion, Tea Party Factionalism, and Conditional Party Government in the 112th Congress.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah.

Invited Talks

Anchor. “The Constitution, the Continued Democratic Voting Challenge, and the Rise of a New Jim Crow Order.” Valdosta State University, Valdosta; University Center Theater, September 25, 2013.

Non-Refereed Publications

Weekly opinion contributor, Valdosta Today.com, Black Crow Media, articles available upon request.

Rudnik, N. A. (2014, Feb. 20). Methodological issues in university survey [Letter to the editor]. The Spectator, p. 3

Working Papers and Ongoing Projects

Pufong, M. G., and N. A. Rudnik. N.d. “The Best Government Money Can Buy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Campaign Finance Decision-Making in the Supreme Court,” Working paper. Forthcoming.

Two ongoing projects with friend and colleague Keith E. Lee, Jr., Ph.D. candidate, on the interface between southern regional distinctiveness and the black belt in developing a new theory on the legacy of the realignment of the postwar south.  First completed manuscript accepted for conference presentation.  Second manuscript research continuing, likely completed by the conclusion of spring 2016.