As we close out another academic year, we have a lot to reflect on as we think about our graduate program. I am amazed at the tremendous accomplishments among our graduate students. From completing coursework to graduating, our students have thrived this year. In this letter, I want to highlight just a couple of the tremendous accomplishments from our students this year.
We had another spectacular year on the academic job market with students headed to tenure-track positions at NYUAD and UNC Charlotte (after a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory), as well as post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt. We are very proud of all of our graduates and look forward to watching their careers grow.
Many of our students also received internal and external recognition for their work. Alex Avery received a prestigious fellowship from the AAUW and won a Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Niko Dawson and Nathan Englehart received APSA Diversity Fellowships, and several of our students advanced their work through the publication process. Lukas Alexander and Jie Ma had articles accepted at the American Political Science Review, and several other students are currently revising and resubmitting articles to APSR by invitation (fingers crossed!). Across our graduate student body, there are dozens of articles that have been published or are under review at many top journals in the field.
We look forward to welcoming a cohort of eight new students to the department in August. These students have interests in American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Methodology. We are thrilled to welcome them! We are grateful to the Office of Graduate Studies, the Dean’s Office, and the Provost’s Office for working with us to admit and matriculate an exceptional cohort.
One thing I love about my job (with and without my DGS hat on) is that I always have the opportunity to learn something new. These days, the DGS hat means that I’m not learning as much from my own research, but I’m learning something new every day from our graduate students. Through teaching, workshops, advising, and walking down the halls, Seigle is filled with discovery. I look forward to welcoming everyone back in August and learning about all of the research they completed over the summer.
