Faculty Coordinators: Hoyt Bleakley, Mark Dincecco, Iain Osgood

Fall 2019

9/17: Jieun Lee, Political Science, "Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence" 

9/24: Jason Davis, Political Science, "Taxability and Trade Policy"

10/8: Nicole Wu, Political Science, "Mass Attitudes Toward Globalization and Automation"

10/22: Todd Lehmann, Political Science, "Alliance Commitments, Limited Security Partnerships, and International Crisis Responses"

11/5: Eduardo Montero, Ford School of Public Policy, "Religious Festivals and Long-Run Economic Development"

11/19: Chiara Ferrero, Ford School of Public Policy, "The Political Economy of Transfers"

Winter 2020

1/21: Michael Lerner, Political Science, "Political Institutions and the Durability of Environmental Policy"

2/4: Marlous van Waijenburg, Economics, "Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity and Forced Labor"

2/11: Hoyt Bleakley, Economics, "The Economic Effects of American Slavery, Redux: Tests at the Border"

2/18: Kenneth Scheve, Stanford University, "Foundations of a Democratic Culture:  Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic"

2/25: Roya Talibova, Political Science, "State Repression and War-Making: Raising an Army of Dissidents "