Awards and Kudos

Dr. Dursun Peksen has received a $795,576 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Government-imposed Restrictions on International Economic Relations.” The three-year project will put together a new cross-national dataset on international sanctions by the United States, European Union and the United Nations from 1992-2022.

Dr. Eric Groenendyk has been awarded a Dunavant Professorship for 2022-2024.

Recent and forthcoming faculty publications:

Detraz, Nicole (2023) Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North. MIT Press.

Peksen, Dursun (with Blanton, Robert, Shannon Blanton) (Forthcoming) “Resource Wealth: A "Curse" for Labor Rights?” Comparative Political Studies.

Peksen, Dursun (with Kate Perry) (Forthcoming) “Economic Sanctions and Labor Rights Abuses in Target Countries,” European Journal of Political Research.

Wellman, Elizabeth Iams, Nathan W. Allen, and Benjamin Nyblade (2023) "The extraterritorial voting rights and restrictions dataset (1950–2020)." Comparative Political Studies 56, no. 6: 897-929. (Best Article Award, APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, 2023.)

Wellman, Elizabeth Iams. (2021) "Emigrant inclusion in home country elections: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa." American Political Science Review 115, no. 1: 82-96. (Best Article Award in African Politics, African Politics Conference Group, 2022; Best Article Award (Honorable Mention), APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, 2022.)

Chevannes, Derefe (Forthcoming) "Black Liberation And The Valorizing of Thought." Comparative Education Review.

Stanley, Sharon (with Kathryn Hicks) (Forthcoming) "Weight Stigma, Citizenship, and Neoliberal Democracy." Polity.

Groenendyk, Eric (with Erik Kimbrough and Mark Pickup) (Forthcoming) "How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." American Journal of Political Science.