Recent Events.  Posted with the student’s permission; listed most recent, first.

 

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• Ben Roberts, undergraduate Political Science major, has received a CLAS (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) Scholars Award for AY 2024-2025.

Congratulations!  The proposed research relates to survey construction (e.g., word choice and question design strategies) for measuring religiosity in the case of Judaism in Israel.  Limiting the research to a few survey instruments, the research will compare survey choices for measuring religiosity in Israel, the U.S., and Europe.  Mr. Roberts is an undergraduate senior thesis hopeful; it is intended that the research will provide the basis for his senior thesis.  The fellowship places Mr. Roberts in the AY 2024-2025 CLAS Scholars Research Cohort.

 

• Long Xiao, doctoral candidate in Political Science, has received a Tedder Family & Rothman Doctoral Fellowship for dissertation writing, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF, 2024.

Congratulations!  The proposed research relates to securitization (e.g., the development of security narratives) and U.S.-China relations.

 

• Anqi Yang, a doctoral candidate in Political Science, published an article under my supervision: “Why Late-Development Breeds Authoritarianism.” In E-International Relations, July 5, 2024.

 

• Hayley Scalabrin, undergraduate Political Science major, was a Congressional Intern, Washington, D.C., as part of the UF – Washington, D.C. Internship Program, organized by the Bob Graham Center, Spring 2024.

Congratulations!  Her duties included collecting and distributing relevant news, giving tours, and attending hearings and briefings.

 

• Shadi Heidarifar (Department of Philosophy). Department of Political Science Best Graduate Paper Award, AY 2021-2022, for a paper on the Iranian women’s movement. The paper was written for the graduate seminar, CPO 6407 Politics of the Modern Middle East (Sohn).