The first of my dissertation papers is officially out in @psjeditor.bsky.social! I started this paper in 2023, so I am happy it’s finally out! 🎉
I wrote about it in this post for the North Central College Political Science Bulletin!
Congratulations to @camarnzen.bsky.social on his appointment as Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! His research examines how education policy & institutions shape democratic participation, governance, & public life. We’re excited to see this work continue.
Thanks! And that is exciting news—for both hanging out and collaborating! 🙂
Couldn’t have done it without your support! Thanks, David! 😊
I feel happy and lucky to come out on the other side of this academic journey.
Looking forward to connecting with colleagues and friends in the Chicago area!
I am especially thankful for the support of @jhenig.bsky.social, Susan Moffitt, @cohodes.bsky.social, @michaelgmiller.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen, @dmhouston.bsky.social, and, the one who has supported me since my very fist college seminar, Jasper LiCalzi.
I am excited to share that this fall I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College! 🎊
As a proud graduate of a liberal arts college, I’m happy to be heading to an institution committed to rigorous, democratic, and student-centered education.
Increasingly, the students we teach are already familiar with education politics from their own K12 experiences! Many of them have chaotic “school board” or “school district” politics stories. This often makes for easy, tangible connections with many of the themes and concepts we teach!
Excited to share a new @annenberginstitute.bsky.social working paper, co-authored w/ Rebecca Jacobsen. We’ve been exploring what happens when national partisan politics reach one of the most local arenas of American democracy—school board elections?
edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1360
How do administrative designs shape access to democracy? We analyze U.S. school district websites and meetings to show how bureaucracy and group mobilization facilitate access to school board info and the democratic process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jonathanecollins.bsky.social
Given education's essential role in shaping democracy and its recent drift into general, partisan politics, we argue that poli sci should take seriously studying the broader political dynamics of education & offer suggestions as to how to do so.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.
As I start my read of 107 Days, I have to remind myself that 77.3 million people voted for Trump and 75 million voted for Kamala, but 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote at all… 🗳️
Destroying Fed independence is almost the perfect example of latent opinion. Polls won’t tell you the effect on public opinion because most people don’t think about and/or understand monetary policy basics. But if you cause inflation or stagflation, future public opinion will be very disapproving.
Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution Fall 2025 Session Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom* Meeting Dates & Times: Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk SEMINAR DESCRIPTION: As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? From the Founders’ long-standing relationships with Native nations to the grievances lodged regarding ‘merciless Indian savages’ into the Declaration, Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution. The Northwest Ordinance laid the “blueprint for empire” for federal imperial expansion from thirteen states clinging to the Eastern seaboard to a nation that stretched “from sea to shining sea,” while the United States Constitution excluded “Indians not taxed” from American polity—in so doing, also codifying the specific subordination of a people by name within constitutional text. Despite this deep entanglement, Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development. Topics include the role of Native peoples and “Indian affairs” in the Constitution’s initial drafting and ratification and the legal architecture of colonial expansion. The seminar will also explore how centering Native peoples allows for a rethinking of United States constitutional history and American public law more broadly.
Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution.
To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m
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So excited for this!
The book comes out next month! You can preorder now from SUNY or that other place that sells books on the internet.
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Jerry Min Receives the 2025 APSA Best Poster Award for “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties”
The APSA Best Poster Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best poster presented by a graduate student or…
looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
In our 2024 U.S. Post-Election Reflection via
@apsa.bsky.social, Rebecca Jacobsen and I preview some of our ongoing research on how partisanship and nationalization influence on-cycle local school board elections.
All of the “let’s revisit this in June” convos are coming to roost. 😵💫
This is so, so important: these smaller-in-size regional protests. It's not just big cities! It's people in small towns, too.
Back home:
Hi! I’m looking for a few more doctorate holding reviewers for AERA Division L - Section 1 (governance and politics). Reviewing will take place later this summer. If you’re interested, drop a comment here or message me. Thanks for considering.
🚨Attention Job Seekers: We're hiring a quantitative researcher for a 1-year (possibly renewable for 2nd yr) position to study Career & Technical education! While not technically a postdoc, this would be a great fit for a recent PhD graduate! 🧵 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Saw the first academic job market posting (so early?!) of the season... Hello existential stress, my old friend.
Screenshot of Donald Trump’s Truth Social post that reads, “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I hate Taylor Swift,’ she’s no longer ‘hot?’”
Apparently the vibes for the re-release of Reputation (TV) are going to be fueled the President of the United States’ weird obsession with Taylor Swift. 🐍
🚨 Essential Politics of Education Reading 🚨
This piece so perfectly captures how education governance has changed in the recent decades, and it would be particularly excellent for graduate education policy/politics courses!
