Associate Professor Juan Tellez and PhD candidate Anya Stewart published "Economic Subversion in Civil Wars: Evidence from the Colombian Armed Conflict" in International Studies Quarterly. The paper introduces the concept of 'economic subversion'—rebel attacks that disrupt normal economic activity and impose large costs on the state and civilians—and tests its logic using historical data from Colombia's armed conflict (1993–2010).

Professor Hanno Hilbig has published "The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination" in the British Journal of Political Science with coauthors Nourhan A. Elsayed, Sascha Riaz, and Daniel Ziblatt. Using a regression kink design, the paper shows that exposure to authoritarian education in the GDR reduced support for democratic capitalism and reunification. Three decades later, these attitudinal effects persist only among men, not women, revealing gender disparities in the long-run legacies of authoritarian indoctrination.

Juan Tellez and Braeden Davis's new research published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution examines public attitudes toward ethnic federalism — a system that organizes subnational governments along ethnic lines — in Ethiopia. Using survey experiments with Ethiopian university students, the study investigates two core tensions: where ethnic group members should live relative to their designated state, and how power should be divided between central and regional governments.

Soon-to-be PhD Julian Haddad has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Political Science position at Solano Community College, starting this fall. Congratulations, Julian!

Recent PhD Yu-Shiuan (Lily) Huang has published an article in the British Journal of Political Science, entitled "Love Blinds? Winners, In-Party Favoritism, and Support for Violations of Democratic Norms." In this article, Huang asks why electoral winners are more willing to support democratic norm violations.

Ph.D. Candidate Alice Malmberg has accepted a multi-year postdoctoral fellowship at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she will be working with Lilliana Mason in her Democracy and Division Lab. The position also affords Alice the time and resources to continue work on her own research agenda while mentoring graduate and advanced undergraduate students with their research. Congratulations, Alice!

Recent PhD graduate Jill Laufer has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Politics of Education Lab at Stanford University. Congratulations, Jill!

PhD Candidate Alice Malmberg has been awarded $4,500 from APSA's Experimental Politics Section and the Institute for Humane Studies to support her ongoing computational research exploring how AI and large language models can be used to enhance research on public opinion and political behavior.