2018 George S. Parthemos Lecture

presented by Dr. Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

“The Importance of Studying Difference and Change in the Social Sciences”

Baldwin Hall, Pinnacle Room (480)
Thursday, February 22, 2017
3:30 – 4:30 pm

The Department of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs welcomes Dr. Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology by courtesy at The Ohio State University. She is an award-winning scholar of political methodology, a member of the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former President of the Midwest Political Science Association and the Political Methodology Society. Box-Steffensmeier directs the Program in Statistics and Methodology at OSU and was an inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology.  The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is named after her in recognition of her contributions in political methodology and her support of women in the field.