Welcome to the website of the American Politics Workshop (APW) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Political Science. This workshop invites outside speakers, faculty members, and graduate students to present their work and obtain feedback from others in the discipline. This website contains information on the schedule and who to contact if you are interested in presenting at the workshop.
Our meetings are held in-person on Mondays from 12 to 1:15 PM in the Ogg Room (422 North Hall), unless otherwise specified.
Faculty Director: Andrew Trexler
Graduate Student Coordinators: Riley Rice (riley.rice@wisc.edu) & Katherine Hueston (katherine.hueston@wisc.edu)
Please email Riley & Katherine if you are interested in joining the APW email list or presenting at APW in the 2026-2027 academic year.
September 14: Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University)
Title: "Collective Costs and the Politics of Ingroup Punishment"
Discussant: TBD
September 21: Jess Esplin (UW-Madison)
Title: TBD
Discussant: NA, Practice Job Talk
September 28: Jessie Munson (UW-Madison)
Title: TBD
Discussant: NA, Practice Job Talk
October 5: Clint Rooker (UW Madison)
Title: TBD
Discussant: NA, Practice Job Talk
October 12: Natalie Jones-Kerwin (UW Madison)
Title: TBD
Discussant: NA, Practice Job Talk
October 19: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
October 26: Annelise Russell (University of Kentucky)
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
November 2: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
November 9: Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (Harvard University)
Co-sponsored by the Political Economy Colloquium (PEC)
Title: TBD
Discussant: Katherine Hueston
November 16: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
November 23: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
November 30: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
December 7: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
January 25: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
February 1: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
February 8: Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis)
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
February 15: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
February 22: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
March 1: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
March 8: TBD
Title: TBD
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March 15: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
March 22: No Meeting
March 29: No Meeting
April 5: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
April 12: David Broockman (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
April 19: Christopher Federico (University of Minnesota)
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
April 26: TBD
Title: TBD
Discussant: TBD
Spring 2026 Speakers
Jacqueline Qiu (UW-Madison)
Rachel Porter (University of Notre Dame)
Kaiping Chen and Larry Czeponis (UW-Madison)
Anton Strezhnev (UW-Madison)
Fawziyah Laguide (UW-Madison)
Patricia Posey (University of Chicago)
Ismail White (Princeton University)
Justin Gross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Barry Burden and Jacqueline Qiu (UW-Madison)
Evan Fleshman (UW-Madison)
Larry Czeponis (UW-Madison)
Nicholas Valentino (University of Michigan)
Fall 2025 Speakers
Clint Rooker (UW-Madison)
Kathy Cramer, Larry Czeponis, Acadia Gilchrest, Natalie Jones-Kerwin, Fawziyah Laguide, Matthias Lopez, Cody-Ann Lyn, Emily Matthews, Isabel McMullen, Jacqueline Qiu, Riley Rice, and Peyton Woley (UW-Madison)
Jessie Munson (UW-Madison)
Alex Coppock (Northwestern University)
Anand Sokhey (University of Colorado Boulder)
Ana Oaxaca Carrasco (UW-Madison)
Andrew Trexler (UW-Madison)
Ben Schneer (Harvard University)
Cody-Ann Lyn (UW-Madison)
Susan Moffitt (Brown University)