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Rachel Schoner

@rjschoner.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of political science @ Tulane | Interested in intl orgs & law, human rights, soccer & dogs (she/her) | Website: rjschoner.com

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I could not be happier to start my month-long stay as a visiting researcher at Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), Radboud University. It is wonderful to be part of such a welcoming and intellectually stimulating community. Thank you to @jkrommendijk.bsky.social & all for the warm welcome!
university campus with several green trees, a bike path, and academic building in the backgroundkeyboard, mouse, glasses, and mug on office desk
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We are hiring! @tulanepolisci.bsky.social Flowerree Professorship in Environmental Studies and Public Policy Adv Assistant/Associate Professor (TT) joint Political Science and Environmental Studies. Focus on US and public policy. Apply and come to New Orleans!
tulane-ibqejb.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
Assistant Professor
David and Jane Flowerree Professorship in Environmental Studies and Public Policy
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Soccer & politics!
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We have a great panel tomorrow afternoon in Belfast for @epssnet.bsky.social! Looking forward to meeting new folks and reconnecting with old friends. Send me a message if you're here in Belfast and want to meet up!
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
How much longer must we suffer with Alexi Lalas??
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone has lost count of the cards. For players and coaches. Brazil down to playing with 9. Sheer absolute chaos
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The professors are not okay. The students are mostly fine, but are unaware what they’re missing and of how much better it could be.
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Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📑 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝖱𝖺𝖼𝗁𝖾𝗅 𝖩. 𝖲𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗋 (𝖳𝗎𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝖴𝗇𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗒) Read this interesting chapter on analyzing individual petitions in the UN human rights system in our book, Innovations in Human Rights: doi.org/10.4337/9781....
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It’s comforting to know that as many things change, some things remain the same. We still have manels.
Sign posted in grass at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business.
Freeman Futurist Series: Private Equity in the Age of AI. 
Featuring four men
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I am physically sick. I already called my three congressional reps this morning, urging them to de-escalate, take back war powers, impeach Trump, and prevent this genocide.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Miso chocolate chip cookies to help with the post spring break Monday blues
Piles of golden brown chocolate chip cookies with flaky salt on a wire rack
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wish I was teaching "soccer & politics" class this semester...
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is where I grew up. Impossible to count how many times I was on ODU's campus. Gun violence has touched everyone in this country. No one is safe. Yet, these preventable horrific acts remain. We needed gun reform long ago, but let's not that that stop us today or tomorrow.
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Law & Courts Women @judicialwomen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Interested in access to justice, children's rights, or IR? Check out @andreavilan.bsky.social & @rjschoner.bsky.social's fantastic new work in the Journal of Human Rights "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations."🔥🔥 doi.org/10.1080/1475...
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Recent scholarship in international relations has shown that nonstate actors’ access to international institutions has expanded, including for victims of human rights abuse. Yet, although children are protected by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and are considered ideal victims, they face significant barriers to justice. In 2011, children gained direct access to submit petitions to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Who are these children, and what do they petition about? We introduce novel data on children’s petitions, including country targets, topics, ages, legal representation, and decisions. We find that migration is a dominant topic of petitions and that young children are unlikely to be the authors of petitions. In contrast to scholarship for other treaty bodies, we also find that children are overwhelmingly accompanied by lawyers and family members in the Committee on the Rights of the Child. This article centers children themselves as active participants in international governance and provides meaningful insights into both academic and policy debates over children’s agency and nonstate access to international institutions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026
KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Sports sprinkled into my international law class today: Opening with FIFA peace prize awarded to DJT. and talking about Iran: women's soccer players in Australia seeking asylum.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
For my future soccer & politics class....
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A little moment of zen My new office plant is *thriving*
Pathos plant in a blue pot on a inside window ledge with large bright green leaves, extended to adjacent window ledge.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
About to teach the use of force today, in international law course... Naturally, thinking why didn't I get a PhD in 18th century English literature instead?
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American Society of International Law @asilorg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
One of the great joys of life has been seeing Flavor Flav over the years... from watching Flavor of Love as a teen to see him become the ultimate champion of women's sports.
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Tulane Political Science @tulanepolisci.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Assistant Professor @rjschoner.bsky.social has published her article "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations" with @andreavilan.bsky.social in the Journal of Human Rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations
Recent scholarship in international relations has shown that nonstate actors’ access to international institutions has expanded, including for victims of human rights abuse. Yet, although children ...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“Are we going to war?” Senate Majority Leader: “I don’t know the answer to that.” The Article I Crisis, wearing a suit and tie.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🚨New publication with @andreavilan.bsky.social in The Journal of Human Rights🚨 We explore individual petitions *by children* in the United Nations. We center children as active participants in global governance & find prior concerns over their agency were valid. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations
Recent scholarship in international relations has shown that nonstate actors’ access to international institutions has expanded, including for victims of human rights abuse. Yet, although children ...
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Everyone should buy and read this awesome book! If you're interested in regional organization, IOs, international law, IR theory, governance in the Global South, human rights, self-determination, norms... 👇Just out in Cambridge 👇
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 11/02/2026
New Regional Authorities by Katherine M. Beall Explores how regional authority become a central, taken-for-granted feature of human rights and global governance. 📚 cup.org/45QT3ct
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Axel Dreher @adreher.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Check out the papers of the 18th PEIO (@the-peio.bsky.social, IE University) at www.peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, on January 7-9, 2027. Thanks to Dan Nielson et al. for hosting us! @rwellhausen.bsky.social, @natemjensen.bsky.social
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I had the misfortune of meeting this guy on multiple occasions in New Orleans. His demotion is long overdue. He should be fired alongside so many others. ABOLISH ICE
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A++++++++
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 20/01/2026
omg the original post, not as the printout version (for ease of reading)
Paul Musgrave twitter post on January 12, 2017

Around the department:
Americanists: how bad can it be really?
Comparativists: dictatorship, purges
International relations: nuclear war

Follow up post

Americanists: haha but seriously
IR and comparative: who is joking
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You should make these olive oil chocolate chunk cookies. They’re (accidentally) vegan and (intentionally) delicious!
A mound of chocolate chunk cookies with pools of chocolate and flaky salt on top.
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 14/01/2026
We are at the point this week where IR scholars are mentioning things like "WWIII"
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The EPA is no longer going to consider how many potential lives a pollution regulation would save -- just the costs to industry. This is directly counter to EPA's mission. And it will kill Americans. Great (depressing) scoop from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 12/01/2026
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Reminds me of this map: The children's rights treaty, all but one...
Convention on the Rights of the Child. Map of the world. All countries dark blue as "State Party" except one: United States is the only country in light blue as "Signatory"
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It’s Friday, and things are bad. And the semester starts on Monday. But, this chocolate babka king cake is fabulous. Made better by sharing with good friends. These are good things.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It should have long scared us all shitless that agents of the state can kill citizens w/ near-total impunity. It should scare us even more that this power now extends to ICE & other federal officials in our cities. If there was ever a time for mass mobilization to abolish ICE, it is now.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: What we saw today was a horrific act of violence. What we have seen and are now seeing is that ICE has not just become an anti-immigrant force—it is becoming an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization. People are being taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Siv Cheruvu @sivcheruvu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its spring seminar series on zoom! Submit by January 12 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psworkshop
docs.google.com
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Jan 6th has multiple significances. Today, I am focusing on the start of Carnival season, which means king cakes!
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship. There are no constraints.
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
One gift you can give *any* day of the year is blood. 🩸
Left arm with needle in elbow covered by gauze. Hand holding foam, blood line coming out of arm Left arm elbow wrapped with red tape. In front of black shirt with “American Red Cross” with “give blood,” festive winter decorations including snowflakes and snowman, red droops of blood, and two people with red arm bandages
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE if we choose it into being Godammit
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Rachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Speaking as a professor during finals week: this is rude.
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