The Department of Political Science hosts several speakers each year to give thought-provoking talks on various research topics. Below are listed speakers for the current academic year as well as speakers that we have hosted in the past.

Additionally, Dr. L. Jason Anastasopoulos (Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy) and Dr. Joseph Ornstein (Assistant Professor of Political Science) host the SPIA Methods Colloquium, featuring methods talks that sometimes include outside speakers.

2024-25 Political Science Speaker Series

TBA- Dr. Julie Rose (Dartmouth College)

UPCOMING SPIA Methods Colloquium Speakers:

Tuesday, November 26- Dr. David Cottrell (Assistant Professor of Political Science) “Incumbent Pairings in the 2021 Redistricting Cycle” 12:30 in the Pinnacle Room

PAST SPEAKERS
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  • Dr. Tiffany Barnes (University of Kentucky) Where are all the women? Legal careers, political careers, and the leaky pipeline of women to office in the United States.
  • Dr. Greg Bovitz (CEO, Bovitz, Inc.) Who’s Taking Your Survey? An Inside Look at Online Panels
  • Dr. Chelsea Coe (University of California, Merced)
  • Dr. Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago) Why is Mercenarism Wrong?
  • Dr. Jason Davis (Florida State University) Targeted Sanctions and Redistribution. [SPIA Methods Colloquium]
  • Dr. Bernard Fraga (Emory University) Reversion to the Mean, or their Version of the Dream? An Analysis of Latino Voting in 2020.
  • Dr. Greg Goelzhauser (Utah State University) The Constitutionality of Police Shootings. 
  • Dr. Mark Graber (University of Maryland Carey School of Law) Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment: Our Questions, Their Answers.
  • Dr. Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside) Bridging Political Divides: Can Values Messages Decrease Shape Affective Polarization and Support for Compromise?
  • Dr. Rebecca Reid (University of Texas at El Paso) Does Familiarity Matter? The Effect of Exposure to Indigenous Issues and Federal Indian Law on Judicial Decisions.
  • Dr. David Vinson (24-7 Intouch)
PAST SPIA METHODS COLLOQUIUM SPEAKERS
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  • Dr. Kosuke Imai (Harvard University) Does AI Help Humans Make Better Decisions?: A Methodological Framework for Experimental Evaluation.
  • Dr. Carlisle Rainey (Florida State University) Power Rules: Practical Statistical Power Calculations.
  • Gabriel Soyer (UGA PhD Student) Access to Rural Credit as Non-Programmatic Politics: Municipal Elections in Brazil.
  • Dr. Garrett Vande Kamp (Assistant Professor of Political Science) Time Series Made Easy.
  • Megan Wall (UGA PhD Student) Opt-in or Opt-out? Automatic Voter Registration Method and The Implications for Voter Participation.
  • Dr. Laura Zimmermann (Associate Professor of International Affairs) A Multi-Modal Approach to Estimating Prevalence: The Case of Labor Trafficking.

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