APSA’s Commission on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop –

Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for the third submission to their 2024 Virtual Workshop Series.

Friday May 3, 2024 | 3:00 PM | Register here

This workshop will help graduate students better deal with the challenges and considerations of fieldwork. Our speakers will discuss questions about positionality in the field, personal safety and limited resources. Register here!

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Meet the panelists:

Dr. Diana Kapiszewski is an associate professor of government and director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Her research interests include public law, comparative politics and research methods. She has published several books (author and co-editor) and several articles on comparative law and courts, as well as on field research and research transparency. Her ongoing work includes a co-edited book on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America and how research methods are used in political science. Kapiszewski heads SIGLA (the database of States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America, www.sigladata.org), is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series ‘Methods for Social Inquiry’, is co-director of the Emerging Methodologists Workshop (http://sigla.georgetown.domains/emworkshop/), and co-director of the Georgetown University Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute (https://government.georgetown.edu/ps-psi/#).

Dr. Estefania Castañeda Perez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, and received her Ph.D. and a master’s degree from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science. Her research examines how Latinx communities experience the law through policing and surveillance systems, and the consequences of these experiences on their racialization, well-being, and legal consciousness. In particular, she focuses on the perspectives of cross-border commuters, U.S. citizens and noncitizens who live in Mexican border cities but regularly cross the border into the U.S. for work, education, or commerce. She has conducted fieldwork in three border regions, Tijuana-San Diego, Ambos Nogales-Tucson, and El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, and has expertise in conducting mixed-methods research including ethnography, in-depth interviews, and original in-depth interviews. field studies. Her research has been supported by numerous associations such as the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities and in academic blogs such as NACLA and the NYU Latinx Project Intervenxions Blog.

Dr. Sarah E. Parkinson is the Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines organizational behavior and social change in war- and disaster-affected environments, with a focus on Southwest Asia and North Africa. Parkinson has published research on the decision-making and internal dynamics of militant organizations, political violence, refugees’ access to health care, humanitarian aid, ethics and research methods. She recently conducted research on public safety and disaster preparedness in multiple locations. Parkinson’s work included extensive fieldwork in Lebanon, Iraq and Qatar, as well as shorter assignments in Tunisia, Turkey and the UAE.

The scholarship of Dr. Parkinson has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Comparative Political Studies and Comparative Politics. outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Monkey Cage and Good Authority. Parkinson is co-founder of the Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium. She received her PhD and MA in political science from the University of Chicago and has held fellowships at Yale University, George Washington University, the University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University in Qatar. In her spare time, she is an active first responder.

Dr. Misbah Hyder is currently a visiting professor at the US Naval War College Teaching Excellence Center. Prior to this position, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center and received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Political Science. Dr. Hyder uses interdisciplinary research from International Relations, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Peace Studies to explore how persecuted religious minorities persevere despite hardship to thrive in their humanitarian and service work. Her current book project, The Subaltern is International: the Politics of Agency and Heresy, is based on her ethnography of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, during which she conducted three years of digital and personal fieldwork in North America and Ghana.

The APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession mission is to promote, support, and advocate for graduate students within political science. The committee achieves this mission by informing APSA of graduate student concerns and developing dynamic approaches to address them. For more information about the committee and to view current projects and resources, visit: https://connect.apsanet.org/graduate