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: Matt Pietryka
Graduate Student Coordinator: Natalie Smith (nlsmith6@wisc.edu)
Please email Natalie if you are interested in joining the APW email list or presenting at APW in the 2025-2026 academic year.
September 15: Introductory Session (Graduate Students Only)
September 22: Clint Rooker (UW Madison)
Title: "Democracy or Dictatorship? Workplace Governance and the Concrete Trade"
Discussant: Fawziyah Laguide
September 29: Kathy Cramer, Larry Czeponis, Acadia Gilchrist, Natalie Jones-Kerwin, Fawziyah Laguide, Matthias Lopez, Cody-Ann Lynn, Emily Matthews, Isabel McMullen, Jacqueline Qiu, Riley Rice, and Peyton Woley (UW Madison)
Title: "Democracy Work: Understanding Workers' Contributions to Civil Society"
Discussant: Jess Esplin
October 6: Jessie Munson (UW Madison)
Title: "Talking About Blocking: How Senators Discuss Filibustering"
Discussant: NA, Practice Job Talk
October 13: Isabel McMullen (UW Madison)
Title: "Civic Effects of Closed Colleges"
Discussant: Acadia Gilchrist
October 24: Alex Coppock (Northwestern University), cosponsored with the Models, Experiments, and Data (MEAD) Workshop
Discussant: NA, MEAD format
October 27: Anand Sokhey (UC Boulder)
Discussant: Riley Rice
November 3: Ana Oaxaca Carrasco (UW Madison)
Discussant: Emily Matthews
November 10: Andrew Trexler (UW Madison), cosponsored with the Models, Experiments, and Data (MEAD) Workshop
Title: "New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research"
Discussant: Jacqueline Qiu
November 17: Ben Schneer (Harvard University)
Discussant: Cody-Ann Lynn
November 24: No Meeting
December 1: Cody-Ann Lynn (UW Madison)
Title: "The Case of Echo Chambers: Examining User Sensitivity to Social Media Company Efforts to Depolarize Platforms"
Discussant: Matt Kim
December 8: Susan Moffitt (Brown University)
Discussant: Natalie Smith
January 26: Speaker TBD
February 2: Speaker TBD
February 9: Speaker TBD
February 16: Speaker TBD
February 23: Speaker TBD
March 2 : Patricia Posey (University of Chicago), cosponsored with the Political Economy Colloquium (PEC)
Discussant: NA, PEC format
March 9: Ismail White (Princeton University)
Discussant: Isabel McMullen
March 16: Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis)
Discussant: Larry Czeponis
March 23: Justin Gross (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
April 6: Speaker TBD
April 13: Speaker TBD
April 20: Speaker TBD
April 27: Speaker TBD