This is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, Melanie D. Newport Penn Press | Reviewed by Anna Gunderson at doi.org/10.1093/psquar…

New piece on DARE for Inquest my book on the subject is out April 2! UNC Press

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Blue First and Foremost: Female Descriptive Representation, Rape, and the Justice Gap Perspectives on Politics Anna Gunderson Dr. Laura Huber

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*VOLUME 22, ISSUE 1 is OUT!*

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Incl. work by Tarah Williams, Dr. Hannah Chapman, Valery Dzutsati, Paul DeBell, Sandra Håkansson, Dr. Kaitlin Sidorsky, wendy schiller, Mirya R. Holman, Nathan Kalmoe, Dr. Laura Huber, Anna Gunderson, Mikael Persson,...

Thrilled to welcome new faculty - Joseph Maguire, Anna Gunderson, Herschel Thomas, Emily Bhandari, Evan Smith, Isabel Laterzo - to the LBJ School! Their expertise will drive impactful research and enrich our academic community. Exciting times ahead!
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Attention! Political Sci @ LSU is hiring in American politics to start in the fall! The department is wonderful and you get days off for Mardi Gras, what could be better?? Apply below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0240-W…

In personal + professional news, I will be starting as an associate professor of public affairs at The LBJ School UT Austin in the fall! I'm sad to leave colleagues LSU, but excited for the new opportunity (and the tacos 🌮!)

Thanks to Jeff Jenkins and the terrific audience at today's PIPE Collaborative workshop who gave helpful feedback on my joint work with Joshua Boston Anna Gunderson and Kirsten Widner on how prosecutors can shape public perceptions of judicial legitimacy!

Local offices–like city councilors, mayors, and county legislators–are the most common elected offices in the US. But what determines local election outcomes and what are the consequences of these elections? Our paper out today should help answer those Qs: nature.com/articles/s4159…

I’m super honored that our paper on racial bias in police shootings has received the Joseph Bernd Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Politics this year. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Reposting this since our deadline of 11/20 is fast approaching. Please apply and share our judicial politics position!

We (Elise Blasingame @enblasingame on bsky, Christina L. Boyd, Roberto Carlos, Joe Ornstein) are eager to share 'How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging,' now American Political Science Review FirstView. The findings and implications are important. 1/10 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

JOB ALERT! 🚨🚨 Political Sci @ LSU is hiring in judicial politics + public law, with a deadline of 11/20. I'm the search committee chair - reach out with any questions and spread the word!! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0240-W…

Happy to review this excellent new book on jail politics in Chicago melanie newport!

Men incarcerated at Angola filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees.

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Check out Emory Political Science policing lab's newest publication: does providing information about local police shootings change support for police reform? We find, largely, the answer is NO. Read on for more 👇👇

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Louisiana to remove all children from the nation's largest adult maximum security prison, Angola, by September 15, finding the state's treatment is cruel and unusual punishment.