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Asst. Prof at London School of Economics, Non-resident Fellow @ISPSYale . @Columbia PhD, @UChicago AB. Political economy, lotteries, turning history into data
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I'm thrilled to announce I have accepted a faculty position at the London School of Economics, jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and the Government Department, to start summer 2024.
@LSEPublicPolicy
@LSEGovernment
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I didn’t get accepted to the PhD program at UChicago and THEY ARE DEAD TO ME NOW.
I didn't get accepted to the CS PhD program at Michigan, I am a professor in the same department now. Don't give up
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I’ll see this, and raise you “professor slowly realizes she’s somehow lost all her students in the process of sending them to breakout rooms... while Zoom was recording it all...”
Recording asynchronous lectures means I have a growing collection of outtakes like this:
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CORRECTION -- best questions to ask job market candidates:
1) Can I get you a coffee?
2) Would you like to take a walk?
3) Can I show you where the bathroom is?
4) I'm glad you're here, I'm excited to learn about your research.
(Ok, last one is cheating, but necessary!)
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Amazing methods resource alert -- draft textbook on TWFE / generalized DiD, by
@CdeChaisemartin
and Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, free on SSRN. Send to students/colleagues!
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Excited that the review
@TomPepinsky
and I did on "Historical Persistence" is now available online at the Annual Review of Political Science. Featuring potatoes, Protestants, the wild west, and zero rainfall. (It's a great one for grad syllabi, too!)
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Excited to receive the
@APSAtweets
2022 Jack Walker Best Article Award
@APSA_POP
!
#APSA2022
@cornellgov
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EPSA 2023 is now accepting submissions! June 22-24 in Glasgow, Scotland.
@europsa
is a top GENERALIST conference w/ great social events + Scotland in summer is gorgeous (see my evidence).
I'm the Political Economy track chair, send me your papers!
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For those interested in historical political economy, either for fall semester syllabi (courage!) OR advising grad students, I have resources for you!
1) My Oxford Handbook of HPE chapter on Historical Data is now out: or
(1/3)
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Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining the government department at Cornell as an assistant professor in Fall 2018.
Thanks to the many friends, colleagues, and family for the support along the way!
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Did you know that all-female scholar teams represent 2.4 percent of all polisci journal articles? Really proud of this one -- our article is now out at
@The_JOP
!
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Other academics: While under lockdown, I’ve completed no less than 5 papers on covid and a new book proposal
Me: LOOK AT THE PAINT BY NUMBERS I DID
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Thrilled that our paper received an 🎉Honorable Mention🎉 for the
@APSAtweets
Mary Parker Follett prize for best article in Politics and History!
@BVanCoppenolle
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In memoriam, NYU is permanently naming the conference on experimental political science after Becky Morton! I'm not crying, you're crying. RIP.
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Excited to announce that AY 23-24 I’ll be on leave from Cornell, and a visiting faculty fellow in the Democratic Innovations program at Yale ISPS!
@ISPSYale
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I think we need to go back to this style of abstract.
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When you are a visiting professor and trying to fill the new office space
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Important story: when I was nobody, before I was even accepted to a PhD, I was working as a RA/RM at Harvard and taking classes on the side. Jim Robinson LET ME TAKE HIS Economic History PhD class. I ran my first regression ever in that class. I will never forget that kindness.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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We just got the Norwegian equivalent of the NSF! I’m very proud to be on this team, and insanely excited about the chance to keep my Norwegian affiliation for a few more years 🎉🎉
"The dynamics of political selection" got 12M NOK from
@forskningsradet
(aka 🎅). I look forward to working on this project with
@AliCirone
, Gary Cox,
@ProfDanSmith
,
@RuneJSorensen
, and
@dawn_teele
!
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Really thrilled that work by
@TomPepinsky
and I on historical persistence was cited in the Economics Nobel Prize briefing document!
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PSA: Google Datasets is now active!
For all my historical political economy & historical scholars, this looks to be an invaluable resource!
#HPE
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Poliscirumors is absolute garbage, and serves as a platform to anonymously attack junior, female, and minority scholars (among others). Who even runs this website?? It should be destroyed.
I don't know
@nataliemj10
but I appreciate her courage so much.
I felt too self conscious to call this out when it happened to me incessantly. I - with use of my full name - have been subject to vile sexualized, racialized, Islamophobic attacks on this disgusting website /1
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PSA: For folks with newer iPhones or any phones with e-sims — I’ve been using the Airalo app lately when traveling, where you can buy and download the e-sim for any county you are traveling to. Takes two seconds, and so much cheaper than the US provider travel rates.
#FYI
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@APSAtweets
This statement is highly problematic, and substantively incorrect. It was also written without consulting APSA membership, or even APSA leadership; it does NOT reflect the views of the experts in this field. Please retract immediately.
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University course evaluations back, from this term's covid disrupted graduate methods course.
Students' responses were along the lines of 'this survey question is badly worded' and 'question is biased, I'm not answering this.'
Looks like I taught 'em something!
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Also, as a junior faculty member invited to seminars + workshops this term, it's much LESS stressful for you to cancel on me than it is for me to have the "career versus coronavirus" internal debate.
(NOT a subtweet, everyone has been very supportive so far!)
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"Pay it forward" is an important norm in academia.
Got a request from a non-phd student who works full time, degree part time, and wants to take my small, PhD-level seminar. (1/2)
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Columbia PhD defended! No revisions. (and picture missing Torun Dewan, who Skyped in)
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I read three books! And you should, too. Check out my review essay on "How to Save Democracy" in the JOP:
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The HPE handbook is out! 🎉 thanks to
@jaredcrubin
and
@jaj7d
for putting it together!
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Thanks to a tiny mistake with a drop down menu, our new postdoc in political economy is called Baroness on all her HR forms...
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Great to convene the 2021 meeting of the Historical Political Economy Working Group! Co-organized with
@Pavithra_Suri
This is a workshop for drafts-in-progress (so papers not always public), but I'm still going to tweet about the great work of these junior scholars! (1/N)
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For my third (!) 8am
#APSA2023
panel, I’ll be presenting on witchcraft trials!
Coauthored with
@FrancesCayton
and on a great Saturday morning New Agendas in HPE panel (details in next tweet)…
*for folks who see this but rightly prefer sleeping, email me to see the slides!
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Our article is now available online! We're very proud of this one, and many thanks to
@World_Pol
and anonymous reviewers for giving us the time and space to explore the historical origins of lotteries.
@cornellgov
@UniLeidenNews
@womenalsoknow
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So last year, in the midst of pandemic craziness, we created a blog! To connect all those interested in political economy.
@BlogBroadstreet
We’ve now had over 100 posts, thousands of views, and we were featured in the NYT as “what we’re reading now.” 🎉
Happy Saturday! We're very pleased to report that we crossed 100 blog posts this month
@Broadstreet
. Tons of interesting topics written by the 14 editors along with a series of fantastic guests.
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Because once upon a time, I was working full time, taking classes part time, and was not even in a grad program yet... and Jim Robinson randomly said YES and let me take his class on history and economics. (If you know my work, you know this mattered).
Welcome to the class!
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#PandemicDating
in NYC:
1. *Match*
Me: How was your weekend?
Him: Just flew to Florida for two days to party on the beach, back in the city tomorrow
2. *Un-match*
3. Repeat
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2020 might have been hell, but we accomplished this!
New in
@JHPE_journal
: "Turning History into Data: Data Collection, Measurement, and Inference in HPE" by
@AliCirone
&
@arthur_spirling
. Free access with registration.
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Goodbye Glasgow and
#EPSA2023
!
Was proud to be the Political Economy track chair this year, and huge thanks to
@kenbenoit
,
@dalexiad
, Mel Sawers, and the whole
@europsa
team for organizing!
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Very excited and honored to be a part of the editorial board, for a new journal devoted to
#HPE
. Great things coming, stay tuned!
Coming soon: a second PE journal from Now Publishers that will complement JPIPE:
Historical Political Economy (HPE)
It will focus on papers at the intersection of history, politics, and economics.
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🚨Job alert!🚨
My former LSE job (which can be predoc OR postdoc) has an opening. Amazing experience + great fit for polisci phd students.
Start date Jan 2022 (but again, predoc). Email/DM me with questions, but APPLY!
#PSJMinfo
@LSEPublicPolicy
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New office! Love the “silent zone” poster outside, but LOL not anymore 😂
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I couldn't resist! Types of
#HPE
papers....
Sometimes HPE scholars use “New 'Old' Data” to “Attack from Below” in order to show the “Received History is Wrong” -- read more about types of HPE papers, from
@AliCirone
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Thrilled that our paper received an award from the
@APSAtweets
Politics and History section.
Thanks to the committee and all who helped this paper succeed, and I hope we can celebrate in person next year! 🍷🎉
Congratulations to
@AliCirone
and
@BVanCoppenolle
!
Mary Parker Follett prize Honorable Mention for best article in Politics and History for World Politics article. Free for a limited time
#APSA2020
#APSA20
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Three academics ignored work for like 8 hours today 🎉🎉
#endofsummer
(Shoreline beach adventure with Emily Sellars and
@vcharnysh
; we missed you
@Pavithra_Suri
!)
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Has Covid-19 cancelled your archival fieldwork? There are lots of free, digital resources for data — and my post will help you find them!
#HPE
#findthatdata
#newpapers
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I always tell my students, coursework does NOT end at year 2!
Spending the next few days taking advanced DiD/TWFE Mixtape Class with
@causalinf
#sendcoffee
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Today is the Political Economy of Europe Pre-conference at
#APSA2023
!
Great lineup, and big thanks to
@TinePaulsen
@miguelmaria
@gemmadipoppa
@mariacarreri
@abwiedemann
for organizing!
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Just noticed this key detail in submission policy: research notes "should be no longer than 10 pages ...Again, this rule will be enforced at acceptance stage only."
No more stressing over cutting individual words just to make the limit for first submission. Well done
@The_JOP
!
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So
@jaj7d
&
@arthur_spirling
both have the patience of a SAINT during these crazy times!
But as a result, Arthur & I have a great paper coming out in a future issue of
@JHPE_journal
.
"Turning History into Data: Data Collection, Measurement, and Inference in HPE"... stay tuned!
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Tired of the
#OscarDrama
?
@willrhobbs
and I have a new paper, out at
@PSRMJournal
-- we show how Russian IRA trolls used ENTERTAINMENT content to distract American Twitter users in 2016 (similar to the "flooding" that happens in authoritarian regimes)
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Job alert! Wonderful news, Cornell is hiring! AP in IR, ad here:
#psjminfo
#poliscijobmarket
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Remember all the stuff you had to memorize for CP comps about the middle class? Well, the reading list just got WAY MORE interesting.
Congrats on the new book,
@brynrosenfeld
!
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In Game Theory class today, it's time to talk about the infamous CONDORCET!
Oh yeah, and her husband, too.
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For a pandemic “stay-at-home” birthday, I did pretty well!
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DONE with first year of professor-ing! My mood...
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Arthur and I wrote something cool! Might be useful for HPE or grad methods classes!
New in
@JHPE_journal
: "Turning History into Data: Data Collection, Measurement, and Inference in HPE" by
@AliCirone
&
@arthur_spirling
. Free access with registration.
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Done with
#polmeth2019
(my first).
PSA for future applicants — PolMeth is a completely accessible + normal conference. Tons of applications, as well as new methods. Not elitist.
More talk about Github during coffee breaks, but c’est la vie!
@womenalsoknow
@POCalsoknow
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After years of pandemic virtual talks, now in Europe for a whirlwind tour!
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Nic van de Walle was an excellent friend, colleague, and generally the most lovely person imaginable. His loss is devastating. He was especially kind and served as a mentor to younger faculty and graduate students — so go check in on a student or junior, in memory of Nic
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Gen Z is gonna be sad to find out academics are currently in sweatpants as they teach online
⚫️'Dark academia' is Gen Z's favourite look – but can a grown-up wear the collegiate trend?
With blazers, mini kilts and sweater vests enjoying a TikTok renaissance, it's never been cooler to embrace 'geek chic'
#Thread
👇
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Ouch, desk reject. "High volume of submissions" = much tougher to publish anything right now = no feedback = terrifying for pre-tenure scholars.
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So, where in our tenure package do we put “pandemic pictures”? Asking for everybody.
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All star HPE panel at
@SIOEcon
2023!
Featuring
@jaredcrubin
Federica Carugati Emily Sellars
@sgehlbach
@gerardrolanducb
(Political scientists who do HPE, this is a great conference for you — next year it’s at
@UChicago
hosted by
@sgehlbach
!)
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Bacon rolls were invented for 7am LHR flights. And, in other news, my PhD was conferred today!
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Happy to announce that the conference I organized on "Lotteries and Democracy" at
@ISPSYale
was recorded, and you can access the videos online!
See the conference writeup here:
Check out the panel on the future of democracy:
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My third year review is due this week; can I submit it on “doomscrolling” and “strategies for urban warfare” because that is all I’m researching right now
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My chair just saw our new WP article, and wrote me an email to say he saw it and congrats!
#FirstYearAsstProfGoals
#MyChairIsFamous
#NiceEmailsMatter
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I told my undergraduate students to stop writing essay introductions that began with Plato, and democracy since the dawn of time, and how everything matters, blah blah blah.
Now for a first sentence I get "Misinformation is concerning."
#success
#assignment2
#onlygetsbetter
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I have a new post up at
@BlogBroadstreet
, on how to find historical data using repositories and Google. Might be particularly useful for students or those new to
#HPE
!
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In my defense, like five other sets of eyes missed this too...
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Emily Sellars is not on Twitter, but she is the best. That’s the tweet.
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Cornell has junior IR and AP lines this year!
Not on the committees (and on leave) but happy to chat if folks have questions!
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Wow, got my vaccine at
@javitscenter
- in and out in 20 minutes tops! Well done NYC, and thank you science!
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Great to see
@cornellgov
’s own
@SergioGarciaRs
, Director of Polling and Data at
@UnivisionNews
, doing election night polling coverage!
@CornellCAS
@Cornell
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Great LSE Political Economy group tradition -- drinks for accept, R&R, or reject (celebrate the triumphs; mourn the losses). But it's an R&R negroni for me today!
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Terrible news.
He visited Cornell Econ. Myself + 3 full Econ profs went to dinner at a fancy steak place. I ordered risotto, which bizarrely came in a carved out tomato. Looks me in the eye & tells me NEVER order risotto in America. Pauses. Winks. Running joke the whole dinner.
RIP. A distinguished economist and alumnus has departed. We will deeply miss both the man and his work. Professor at
@Harvard
and visiting professor at
#Bocconi
,
#AlbertoAlesina
will be remembered by generations of students and colleagues.
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All the cool kids are moving to the LSE! Apply! 🎉
@LSEGovernment
is hiring in political economy (broadly defined). IMO, LSE is one of the best homes for work on PE -- not least because of my many brilliant and supportive collegues in this area (including outside the dept).
#psjobs
#psjminfo
@pspe_lse
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This is my fighting stance, apparently 😂
.
@AliCirone
kicks off today's conference on Political Lotteries at Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall. Join us for a panel at 4PM on how incorporating lottery-based selection in politics and tech companies may be the next big democratic innovation.
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Today is the inaugural HPE Horizons conference!
Cohosted with
@jaj7d
(and many thanks to
@carsonaust
for helping us to host at
@UChicago
!)
Lineup is amazing, and here's a tweet thread summary of each paper in ONE historical picture...
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Best dissertation in Political Economy! Pavi wins the Mancur Olson award, well deserved.
@Pavithra_Suri
@isabelaanda
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Preparing for this week’s
#EPSA2023
!
@europsa
(Yes,
@FrancesCayton
and I are presenting a paper on witchcraft)
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PSA: With Covid absences, I have started recording my IN-PERSON lectures for ill students. PSA, best way is to start Zoom, share slides, start recording, and then project the full screen view to the class. Audio is much clearer, no mirror issues, students aren't recorded.
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