The George Rabinowitz Seminar meets on Fridays during the academic year from noon–1:00 pm in Hamilton 271, unless otherwise noted. If you do not receive the weekly email to access the corresponding paper, please contact Emily Ommundsen at ommundsen@unc.edu.

Spring 2024 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/12	SPSA — NO MEETING
1/19	Beth Leech	Rutgers	HM 271
1/26	Chris Wlezien	UT Austin	HM 271
2/2	Brendan Nyhan	Dartmouth	HM 271
2/9	Alan Wiseman	Vanderbilt	HM 271
2/16	Ali Masood	Oberlin	HM 271
2/23	John Aldrich	Duke	HM 271
3/1	Michael Lynch	Georgia	HM 271
3/8	Marc Hetherington	UNC	HM 271
3/15	SPRING BREAK — NO MEETING
3/22	Elizabeth Coggins	Colorado College	HM 271
3/29	HOLIDAY — NO MEETING
4/5	MPSA — NO MEETING
4/12	Masters Presentations	UNC	HM 271
4/19	Taylor Carlson	Washington University in St. Louis	HM 271
4/26	Sharece Thrower	Vanderbilt	HM 271

 

Past Semesters

Fall 2023 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/25	Emily Ommundsen	UNC	HM 271
9/1	APSA — NO MEETING
9/8	Colin Case	UNC	HM 271
9/15	Jon Green	Duke	HM 271
9/22	25th Anniversary Event		Toy Lounge
9/29	Jason Roberts	UNC	HM 271
10/6	Kevin McGuire	UNC	HM 271
10/13	Katherine Einstein	Boston University	HM 271
10/20	FALL BREAK — NO MEETING
10/27	Steve Rogers	Saint Louis	HM 271
11/3	Max Allamong	Duke	HM 271
11/10	Justin Kirkland	UVA	HM 271
11/17	Liz Suhay	American	HM 271
11/24	THANKSGIVING BREAK — NO MEETING
12/1	Adam Bonica	Stanford	HM 271

 

Spring 2023 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/13	SPSA — NO MEETING
1/20	NO MEETING
1/27	Sean Theriault	UT Austin	HM 271
2/3	Susan Webb Yackee	Wisconsin	HM 271
2/10	Geoff Sheagley	Georgia	HM 271
2/17	Kevin Munger	Penn State	HM 271
2/24	UHLMAN SEMINAR — NO MEETING
3/3	Nate Monroe	UC Merced	HM 271
3/10	Laurel Harbridge-Yong	Northwestern	HM 271
3/17	SPRING BREAK — NO MEETING
3/24	Derek Epp	UT Austin	HM 271
3/31	Andrew Proctor	University of Chicago	HM 271
4/7	HOLIDAY — NO MEETING
4/14	MPSA — NO MEETING
4/21	David Cottrell	Georgia	HM 271
4/28	Yanna Krupnikov	Michigan	HM 271

 

Fall 2022 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/26	Michael Greenberger	UNC	HM 271
9/2	Patricia Kirkland	Princeton	HM 271
9/9	Isaac Mehlhaff	UNC	HM 271
9/16	APSA — NO MEETING
9/23	Tim Ryan	UNC	HM 271
9/30	Kathleen Searles	LSU	HM 271
10/7	Dave Peterson	Iowa State	HM 271
10/14	Christian Fong	Michigan	HM 271
10/21	FALL BREAK — NO MEETING
10/28	Julia Payson	NYU	HM 271
11/4	Allison Anoll	Vanderbilt	HM 271
11/11	Kaneesha Johnson	Harvard	HM 271
11/18	Megan Mullin	Duke	HM 271

 

Spring 2022 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/14	SPSA — NO MEETING
1/21	Snow cancellation
1/28	Graeme Robertson	UNC	HM 271
2/4	UHLMAN SEMINAR — NO MEETING
2/11	Ray Block	Penn State	HM 271
2/18	Steven Greene	NC State	HM 271
2/25	Charles Stewart	MIT	HM 271
3/4	Danielle Thomsen	UC Irvine	HM 271
3/11	Jordan Carr Peterson	NC State	HM 271
3/18	SPRING BREAK — NO MEETING
3/25	Eric Hansen	Loyola	HM 271
4/1	Christina Wolbrecht	Notre Dame	HM 271
4/8	MPSA — NO MEETING
4/15	HOLIDAY — NO MEETING
4/22	John Sides	Vanderbilt	HM 271

 

Fall 2021 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/20	NO MEETING
8/27	NO MEETING
9/3	Marc Hetherington	UNC	HM 271
9/10	Michael Shepherd	Vanderbilt	HM 271
9/17	Andrew Engelhardt	UNC Greensboro	HM 271
9/24	Rachel Porter	UNC	HM 271
10/1	APSA — NO MEETING
10/8	Will Patton	UNC	HM 271
10/15	Tyler Steelman	UNC	HM 271
10/22	FALL BREAK — NO MEETING
10/29	Bryant Moy	Washington University in St. Louis	Zoom
11/5	Mirya Holman	Tulane	HM 271
11/12	Chris Bail	Duke	HM 271
11/19	David Rueda	Oxford University	HM 271

 

Spring 2021 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/22	Dominic Nyhuis	UNC	Zoom
1/29	No Meeting
2/5	Joanne Miller	Delaware	Zoom
2/12	No Meeting
2/19	Uhlman Seminar
2/26	Mara Suttmann-Lea	Connecticut College	Zoom
3/5	Corrine McConnaughy	Princeton	Zoom
3/12	Wellness Day — No Meeting
3/19	Michael Minta	Minnesota	Zoom
3/26	Jessica Trounstine	UC Merced	Zoom
4/2	Holiday — No Meeting
4/9	David Lewis	Vanderbilt	Zoom
4/16	MPSA — No Meeting
4/23	Master’s Presentations	UNC	Zoom
4/30	Ray Block	Penn State	Zoom

 

Fall 2020 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/14	Alexander Agadjanian, John Carey, Yusaku Horiuchi, and Tim Ryan	UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, Dartmouth, UNC	Zoom
8/21	NO MEETING
8/28	Jacob Smith	Duke	Zoom
9/4	NO MEETING
9/11	APSA — NO MEETING
9/18	Rachel Porter	UNC	Zoom
9/25	NO MEETING
10/2	Andrew Engelhardt	UNC Greensboro	Zoom
10/9	Charles Stewart	MIT	Zoom
10/16	Shana Gadarian	Syracuse	Zoom
10/23	Frances Lee	Princeton	Zoom
10/30	Austin Bussing	UNC	Zoom
11/6	Andrew McCall	Chicago	Zoom
11/13	Anna Bassi and Tyler Steelman	UNC	Zoom

 

Spring 2020 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/10	SPSA — NO MEETING
1/17	Matthew Hayes	Rice	HM 355
1/24	Richard Pacelle	Tennessee	HM 355
1/31	Justin Grimmer	Stanford	HM 355
2/7	Uhlman Seminar	UNC	TBA
2/14	Hahrie Han	Johns Hopkins	HM 355
2/21	TBD	TBD	TBD
2/28	Matthew Hall	Notre Dame	HM 355
3/6	Ruth Bloch Rubin	Chicago	HM 355
3/13	SPRING BREAK
3/20	UNC Recruitment —  Patrick Wohlfarth	UMD	HM 355
3/27	Kathleen Searles	LSU	HM 355
4/3	Sean Theriault	UT – Austin	HM 355
4/10	HOLIDAY — NO MEETING
4/17	MPSA — NO MEETING
4/24	Master’s Presentations	UNC	Zoom

 

Fall 2019 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/23	TBD
8/30	APSA — NO MEETING
9/6	Matthew Hall	Notre Dame	HM 355
9/13	Betina Wilkinson	Wake Forest	HM 355
9/20	Vincent Hutchings	Michigan	HM 355
9/27	Leah Christiani	UNC	HM 355
10/4	Hye Young You	NYU	HM 355
10/11	Rahsaan Maxwell	UNC	HM 355
10/18	FALL BREAK — NO MEETING
10/25	Kevin Roach	UNC	HM 355
11/1	Melinda Ritchie	UC Riverside	HM 355
11/8	Hans Hassell	Florida State	HM 355
11/15	Nathan Kalmoe	LSU	HM 355
11/22	Emily Wager	UNC	HM 355

 

Spring 2019 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/11	Pam McCann	USC	HM 355
1/18	Daniel Kreiss	UNC	HM 355
1/25	Scott de Marchi	Duke	HM 355
2/1	Sunshine Hillygus	Duke	HM 355
2/8	Paul Sniderman	Stanford	HM 355
2/15	Navin Bapat	UNC	HM 355
2/22	Uhlman Seminar	UNC	TBD
3/1	David Broockman	Stanford	HM 355
3/8	Kevin McGuire	UNC	HM 355
3/22	UNC Recruitment — Jennifer Wolak	TBD	TBD
3/29	Jaime Settle	William & Mary	HM 355
4/12	Luc Bovens	UNC	HM 355
4/26	Lilliana Mason	UMD	HM 355
4/29	Master’s Presentations	UNC	HM 355

 

Fall 2018 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
9/7	John Curiel	UNC	HM 355
9/14	Jacob Smith	Duke	HM 355
9/21	Paul Sniderman	Stanford	HM 355
9/28	Larry Evans	William & Mary	HM 355
10/5	Joe Soss	Minnesota	TBD
10/12	Sunshine Hillygus	Duke	HM 355
10/26	Jeff Spinner-Halev & Elizabeth Theiss-Morse	UNC & Nebraska	HM 355
11/2	Leah Christiani	UNC	HM 355
11/9	Antoine Banks	Maryland	HM 355
11/16	Jim Curry	Utah	HM 355
11/30	Molly Reynolds	Brookings	HM 355

 

Spring 2018 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/12	Candis Smith	UNC	HM 355
1/19	Sarah Binder	GW	HM 355
1/26	Uhlman Seminar	UNC	HM 355
2/2	William Howell	Chicago	HM 355
2/9	Michael Jones-Correa	Penn	HM 355
2/16	Sarah Treul and Rachel Surminsky	UNC	HM 355
2/23	Gerald Gamm	Rochester	HM 355
3/2	John Curiel and Tyler Steelman	UNC	HM 355
3/9	MA Theses	UNC	HM 355
3/23	Christopher Faricy	Syracuse	HM 355
3/28 (W)	Terry Moe	Stanford	GEC (4th floor)
4/13	Marc Hetherington	Vanderbilt	HM 355
4/20	Rachel Potter	UVA	HM 355
4/27	Santiago Olivella	UNC	HM 355

 

Fall 2017 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/25	Jacob Smith	UNC	HM 355
9/8	Kelsey Shoub	UNC	HM 355
9/15	Cindy Kam	Vanderbilt	HM 355
9/22	Steven Sparks	UNC	HM 355
9/29	Ryan Williams	UNC	HM 355
10/6	Andrew Tyner	UNC	HM 355
10/13	Anthony Chergosky	UNC	HM 355
10/27	Christopher J. Clark	UNC	HM 355
11/3	Joanne Miller	Minnesota	HM 355
11/10	Chris Johnston	Duke	HM 355
11/17	Emily Carty and Pamela Conover	UNC	HM 355
12/1	Ismail White	George Washington	HM 355

 

Spring 2017 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/13	Jennifer Jerit	Stony Brook	HM 355
1/20	Anthony Chergosky	UNC	HM 355
1/27	Tom Clark	Emory	HM 355
2/3	Michelle Whyman	Duke	HM 355
2/10	Kevin (Vin) Arceneaux	Temple	HM 355
2/17	Uhlman Seminar	UNC	HM 355
2/24	Traci Burch	Northwestern	HM 355
3/3	Craig Volden	UVA	HM 355
3/10	MA Theses	UNC	HM 355
3/24	Jeff Harden	Notre Dame	HM 355
3/31	Darren Halpin	ANU	HM 355
4/21	Jason Roberts	UNC	HM 355
4/28	Amber Boydstun	UC-Davis	HM 355

 

Fall 2016 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/26	Eric Hansen	UNC	HM 355
9/9	Pam Conover, Kelsey Shoub, Amy Sentementes, & Leah Christiani	UNC	HM 355
9/16	Jacob Smith	UNC	HM 355
9/23	Eitan Hersh	Yale University	HM 271
9/30	Rebecca Kreitzer	UNC	HM 355
10/7	Jaime Carson	UGA	HM 355
10/14	Frederick J. Boehmke	Iowa	HM 355
10/28	William G. Jacoby	Michigan State	HM 355
11/4	Michael MacKuen	UNC	HM 355
11/11	Vesla Weaver	Yale University	HM 355
11/18	Daniel Q. Gillion	Penn	HM 355
12/2	Brian Schaffner	UMass-Amherst	HM 355

 

Spring 2016 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/15	Brice Acree	UNC	HM 355
1/29	Uhlman Presentations		HM 355
2/5	Richard Fording	Alabama	HM 355
2/12	John Sides	George Washington	HM 355
2/19	Taeku Lee	UC Berkeley	HM 355
2/26	Paul Kellstedt	Texas A&M	HM 355
3/4	Timothy Ryan	UNC	HM 355
3/11	MA Theses		HM 355
4/1	Justin Kirkland	Houston	HM 355
4/22	Julianna Pacheco	Iowa	HM 355
4/29	Ashley Jardina	Duke	HM 355

 

Fall 2015 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/21	Andrea Benjamin	UNC	HM 355
8/28	Efren Perez	Vanderbilt	HM 355
9/11	Kristin Garrett	UNC	HM 355
9/18	Stanley Feldman	Stony Brook	HM 355
9/25	Joshua Jansa	UNC	HM 355
10/2	Barry Burden	Wisconsin	HM 355
10/9	Wendy Hansen	New Mexico	HM 355
10/23	Jennifer Lawless	American	HM 355
10/30	Devin Caughey	MIT	HM 355
11/6	Jason Roberts	UNC	HM 355
11/13	Ange-Marie Hancock	USC	HM 355
11/20	Chris Ellis and Chris Faricy	Bucknell & Syracuse	HM 355

 

Spring 2015 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/9	David Lowery	Penn State	HM 355
1/16	Nicholas Carnes	Duke	HM 355
1/23	Uhlman Presentations		HM 355
1/30	Nathan Monroe	UC Merced	HM 355
2/6	Timothy Ryan	UNC	HM 355
2/13	Caitlin Jewitt	Virginia Tech	HM 355
2/20	Gabriel Lenz	UC Berkeley	HM 355
3/6	MA Theses		HM 355
3/20	Christian Grose              (Dept. Speaker Series)	USC	HM 355
3/27	Jennifer Wolak	Colorado	HM 355
4/10	Michael Cobb	NC State	HM 355
4/24	Sarah Treul	UNC	HM 355

 

Fall 2014 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/22	Nick Howard	UNC	HM 355
9/5	John Lovett	UNC	HM 355
9/12	Fred Boehmke	Iowa	HM 355
9/19	John Lappie	UNC	HM 355
9/26	John Cluverius	UNC	HM 355
10/3	Richard Hall	Michigan	HM 355
10/10	Rodney Hero	UC Berkeley	HM 355
10/24	Mathew McCubbins	Duke	HM 355
10/31	Guy Grossman              (Dept. Speaker Series)	Penn	HM 355 @ 2 pm
11/7	Jennifer Victor	George Mason	HM 355
11/14	Sunshine Hillygus	Duke	HM 355
11/21	Justin Gross	UNC	HM 355

 

Spring 2014 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/10	Thad Kousser	UCSD	HM 355
1/24	Dan Hopkins	Georgetown	HM 355
1/31	Kareem Crayton	UNC Law	HM 355
2/14	Casey Klofstad	Duke	HM 355
3/7	MA Theses
3/21	Peter Enns	Cornell	HM 355
3/28	TBD		HM 355
4/11	Claudine Gay	Harvard	HM 355
4/25	Bill Jacoby	Michigan State	HM 271

 

Fall 2013 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
9/6	Derek Epp	UNC	HM 355
9/20	Scott Clifford	Duke	HM 355
9/27	Larry Bartels	Vanderbilt	HM 271
10/4	Bruce Desmarais	UMass	HM 355
10/11	Greg Wolf	UNC	HM 355
10/25	Jake Bowers	Illinois	HM 355
11/1	Jonathan Oberlander	UNC School of Medicine	HM 355
11/8	Josh Putnam	Davidson	HM 355
11/15	Michael Heaney	Michigan	HM 271
11/22	Justin Gross and Brice Acree	UNC	HM 355

 

Spring 2013 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/11	Chris Bonneau	Pittsburgh	HM 355
1/18	Mel Atkinson, John Lovett, and Frank Baumgartner	UNC	HM 355
1/25	Daniel Kreiss	UNC Mass Communication	HM 355
2/1	Sue Tolleson-Rinehart	UNC School of Medicine	HM 355
2/8	Jason Roberts	UNC	HM 355
2/15	Uhlman Seminar		HM 355
2/22	Michael Ting	Columbia	HM 355
3/1	Steve Greene	NC State	HM 355
3/8	MA Theses	UNC	HM 355
3/22	Patrick Wohlfarth	Maryland	HM 355
4/5	MA Theses	UNC	HM 355
4/19	Graeme Boushey	UC-Irvine	HM 355
4/26	David Wasserman	Cook Political Report	HM 355

 

Fall 2012 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
9/7	Kevin Banda	UNC	HM 355
9/14	Frances Lee	Maryland	HM 355
9/21	Jonathan Kropko	Columbia	HM 355
9/28	TBD		HM 355
10/5	Mel Atkinson	UNC	HM 355
10/12	Elizabeth Coggins	UNC	HM 355
10/26	Natalie Masuoka	Tufts	HM 355
11/2	Ellen Gutman	UNC	HM 355
11/9	Ricardo Ramirez	Notre Dame	HM 355
11/16	Christopher Johnston	Duke	HM 355
11/30	Beth Leech	Rutgers	HM 355

 

Spring 2012 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
1/13	Gabe Sanchez	New Mexico	HM 355
1/20	Kevin Banda	UNC	HM 355
1/27	Liz Gerber	Michigan	HM 355
2/3	Georg Vanberg	UNC	HM 355
2/10	Uhlman Presentations	UNC	HM 355
2/17	Jeff Berry	Tufts	HM 355
2/24	Isaac Unah	UNC	HM 355
3/2	Mel Atkinson	UNC	HM 355
3/16	Dave Peterson	Iowa State	HM 355
3/23	MA Theses	UNC	HM 355
3/30	MA Theses	UNC	HM 355
4/20	Anna Bassi	UNC	HM 355

 

Fall 2011 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
8/26	Gary Miller	Wash U	HM 355
9/9	Chris Clark	UNC	HM 271
9/16	Jeff Harden	UNC	HM 355
9/23	Nolan McCarty	Princeton	HM 355
9/30	Jason Windett	Saint Louis	HM 355
10/7	Justin Kirkland	UNC	HM 355
10/14	Bob Erikson	Columbia	HM 355
10/28	Kay Schlozman	Boston College	HM 355
11/4	Michael Gerhardt	UNC Law	HM 355
11/11	Steve Smith	Wash U	HM 355
11/18	Matt Barreto	Washington	HM 355
12/2	Geoff Layman	Notre Dame	HM 355