By: Shelby Steuart Financial incentives provided by pharmaceutical companies may be changing the way doctors prescribe opioids. As SPIA Professor David Bradford’s article in Addiction shows, there is a high correlation
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Jan 2019
SPIA professor awarded prestigious fellowship
By: Shelby Steuart Assistant Professor Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit was recently awarded a Luce/ACLS Fellowship in Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs. According to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Jan 2019
New study shows SPIA professors among the most cited in their fields
By: Shelby Steuart Cambridge Press recently published a study completed by two researchers at the University of California, Irvine, ranking the 4,089 currently tenured or tenure-track political science faculty in
Jan 2019
Experiment shows context matters when negotiating pay
By: Shelby Steuart The gender pay gap remains a pervasive problem across occupations in the United States. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, women earned 82 percent of what
Nov 2018
Shane Singh has article published in APSR
SPIA researcher and professor Shane Singh recently had an article published online by the American Political Science Review. Singh’s article, “Elections Activate Partisanship across Countries,” explores the effects that elections
Nov 2018
New Faculty Friday: Q&A with Dr. Emily Lawler
Emily Lawler received her PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses include health economics, development economics, and applied microeconomics. Lawler is particularly interested in analyzing the effects of
Nov 2018
Head of International Affairs Wins Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award
By: Shelby Steuart Dr. Amanda Murdie, Professor and Head of the Department of International Affairs, recently won the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association (ISA). According
Nov 2018
New Faculty Friday: Q&A with Geoffrey Sheagley
Geoffrey Sheagley received his PhD from the University of Minnesota where he has since been an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching focuses on political behavior, public
Nov 2018
Visiting Speaker Discusses Education and Economic Inequality in Korea and the U.S.
Dr. Hyun-A Kim is a Senior Economist at the Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF). Last week she visited SPIA to give a talk on how public policy can help
Oct 2018
SPIA Researchers Showcase Opioid-related Work in Interdisciplinary Symposium
Last weekend the UGA Law School hosted an interdisciplinary Opioid Symposium to bring together researchers from various fields with expertise on the Opioid Epidemic. Topics ranged from social work perspectives
