Political Science Fall 2024 Newsletter

Political Science Department Newsletter

Staff Updates and Accomplishments

Dr. Jose Aleman received a 2022-2023 Beacon Exemplar Award from the United Student Government of Fordham University for "outstanding service to the Fordham community."

Dr. Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina is now Associate Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at Fordham University. She was awarded a 2024 APSA Spring Centennial Center Research Grant to fund her project titled "Measuring Mestizaje Ideology in Latinx Politics" and selected to be a 2024 Fellow in the APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research. Dr. Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina was appointed as the newest member of the SPSA Committee on the Status of Latinos and Latinas and will serve as Co-Chair of the Public Opinion Section for the 2025 SPSA Annual Conference. She was also elected for a two-year term as Treasurer of the MPSA Latino/a Caucus.

Dr. Anjali Dayal is now cohosting a weekly podcast on the United Nations called “To Save Us from Hell,” designed to help more people learn about what’s happening at the United Nations. It’s stayed in the top 10% of downloaded podcasts on Apple Podcasts in the US since launching over the summer and was featured on Spotify as a notable new podcast in July.

Dr. Annika Hinze has a visiting fellowship at the Russell Sage Foundation this Fall 2024. Dr. Annika Hinze’s project on the social, political, and local impact of U.S. border fortification policies is described on her visiting fellowship page.

Dr. Zein Murib was awarded the 2024 Sexuality & Politics LGBTQI+ Best Book Award for Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity by the American Political Science Association section on Sexuality & Politics.

Dr. Olena Nikolayenko was a Foreign Visitor Fellow at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC) at Hokkaido University from July to August 2024. Based in Sapporo, the fifth most populated city in Japan, SRC is a leading research center in East European Studies located in East Asia. Dr. Nikolayenko conducted research on the labor movement in Belarus and made research presentations about women's activism before and during the Russia-Ukraine war.

Dr. Nick Tampio will be the Associate Editor of the Journal of Politics starting January 1, 2025.

Faculty Publications

Dr. Ida Bastiaens published an article in Political Studies Review titled “Economic Hardship and Welfare Policy Preferences: What can the COVID-19 Pandemic tell us?” The article is now available to read. She also recently published an article in Global Social Policy titled “How Trade Openness Divides the Poor: A Survey Experiment on Tax Preferences in Brazil.” Read more about the article.

Dr. Anjali Dayal published an article in the Washington Quarterly titled “Preventing Mass Atrocities with a Divided UN Security Council.” The first version of the piece was written for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum while Dr. Anjali Dayal was on fellowship with the United States Institute of Peace. Read more about the article.

Dr. Boris Heersink published an article in Studies in American Political Development titled “Reconsidering the “Southern Veto”: The Two-Thirds Rule at Democratic National Conventions, 1832-1936”. The article is now available to read.

Dr. Nick Tampio published an article in American Journal of Political Science titled “The Right to Dream: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Pragmatist Argument for Racial Progress.” The article is available to read.

Student Updates

William (Billy) Harrison (FCRH '24) won a Fordham Undergraduate Research Grant and worked with Assistant Professor of Political Science Jacob Smith to conduct a representative survey of Fordham undergraduate students (both campuses) on a variety of topics. Billy presented his findings at the FCRH Undergraduate Research Symposium. After graduating, Billy and Assistant Professor Smith co-authored a paper on views of the Biden administration’s actions on student loan debt and support for Joe Biden in the 2024 election (when Biden was still a candidate). This paper, "The Albatross: Student Loan Debt and Support for Joe Biden in the 2024 Election” is currently under review at a political science journal.

Events

Previous Events

"Anti-Scientific Americans" Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Management, Matt Motta of Boston University talking about his new book 3 p.m in the Law School Tiered Lecture Hall 4-09, Lincoln Center Read more about "Anti-Scientific Americans".

October 11, 4:15 p.m., Dealy Hall 206 Rose Hill Campus
Alben W. Barkley Professor Emeritus Alan Abramowitz of Emory University will speak about his "time for change" model of the 2024 election. He is also an expert on political polarization.
Read more about Alan Abramowitz.

Upcoming Events

October 30, 4 - 5:30 p.m., Lowenstein room 713, Lincoln Center Campus
Professor Casey McNeill and the Africanist group are presenting “Afropolitan Insecurities: Kairological Time and Urban Geographies.” Brittany Meché (Williams College) will give a talk on the urban geographies of two West African capitals: Dakar, Senegal and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Email [email protected] to RSVP.

October 31, 12 - 1 p.m., Location TBD
Professor Boris Heersink, Professor Monika McDermott, and Professor Jacob Smith will hold a lunch Q&A discussion about the 2024 election. Students and members of the Fordham community are welcome to attend. Pizza will be provided.

November 20, 5:30 p.m., South Lounge of the Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center Campus
Professor Nojang Khatami will moderate and discuss at a roundtable panel: “Democracy: Disruption and Resurgence.” This roundtable panel will bring together political theorists thinking about liberal democracy and representations of the people today.