American Politics Graduate Student Workshop | Center for the Study of American Politics

The American Politics Graduate Student Workshop is supported by CSAP and provides a forum for Yale Ph.D. students focusing on American politics to present their work for peer review in an informal setting.

The workshop is currently meeting in person on selected Mondays and Tuesdays from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in ISPS Room A001, 77 Prospect Street. Lunch will be served.

To join the group and receive regular email announcements for this series, please contact Graduate Student Organizers Fiona Kniaz or Taran Samarth.

2024-2025 Schedule

DATE	SPEAKER & TITLE
OCT 7	Gabe Batista, PhD Student in Political Science (2029) “Bureaucratic Capacity and Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act”
OCT 15* (TUES)	Tylir Fowler, PhD Student in Political Science (2027) “Populism and Vote Choice: A Meta-Analysis”
OCT 21	Pam Greene, ISPS Staff and CSAP Coordinator Info Session on CSAP Graduate Student Research Accounts
OCT 28	Eric Scheuch, PhD Student in Political Science (2028) “Advancing Understanding of the U.S. Climate Public Opinion”
NOV 11	Nick Ottone, PhD Student in Political Science (2026) “The Policy Influence of Non-Profit Service Providers in Local Politics: Evidence from Qualitative Case Studies”
DEC 2	Kim Moxley, PhD Student in Political Science (2028) “A Congressation: Measuring Legislative Productivity & Process Change”
JAN 27	Kathleen Weldon, Director of Data Operations & Communications, Roper Center “Roper Public Opinion Data: An Overview” Hybrid event cosponsored by ISPS, DISSC, and Yale University Library Registration required at this link by noon on Friday, January 24, 2025
FEB 10	Justin Greenman, PhD Student in Political Science (2030) “A No Man’s Land Somewhere Between the Legislative and Executive Branch: John C. Calhoun, John Nance Garner, and the Creation of the Modern Vice Presidency” Lucas Kreuzer, Postgraduate Associate and CSAP Predoctoral Fellow, ISPS “From the Industrial to the Knowledge Economy: The Fine-Grained Geography of Secular Partisan Realignment”
FEB 24	Isabelle Aboaf, PhD Student in Political Science (2028) “Aspirational or Futile State? The Regulation of Cultural Norms on the Body” Taran Samarth, PhD Student in Political Science (2029) “Aspirational or Futile State? The Regulation of Cultural Norms on the Body”
MAR 31	Kim Moxley, PhD Student in Political Science (2028) Title TBD Juliana Mothersbaugh, Postgraduate Associate and CSAP Predoctoral Fellow, ISPS “Federal Intervention and the Effect of Expanding Interpreter Provision on Case Outcomes in North Carolina Courts”
APR 7	Zagreb Mukerjee, PhD Student in Political Science (2028) Title TBD
APR 28	Austin Jang, PhD Student in Political Science (2026) “Applications of the Influence Functions to Political Science”
MAY 5	Fiona Kniaz, PhD Student in Political Science (2029) “Economic Populism in U.S. Politics: Media Narratives and Legislative Networks”

* Indicates workshops scheduled on Tuesdays. (All other workshops are scheduled on Mondays.)