Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I’m celebrating the first day of spring by finalizing grades for this quarter. 020
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeAfrican Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...afpol.org2026 APCG Award NominationsThe 2026 APCG Award nominations are now open and due May 1st! Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book. 0413
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeGuy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Forget soft power; Aid is now just another blunt tool in the arsenal of a transitional president devoid of a moral compass. 0166
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Things are not okay. 1196149254993
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This morning I signed a contract with Cambridge University Press for my book, The Repression Dilemma: Trust, Political Violence, and the Politics of Policing in Uganda. Grateful to everyone who supported this project along the way. @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social 181
Reposted by Travis B. Curticeashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune 111129933465
Reposted by Travis B. CurticePhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat... 19822541325
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators” 12665692642
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/01/2026"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night." They were driving home from a son’s basketball game. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... 15813351
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026For better or worse, public law schools have to account for state politics when making decisions about who to hire as their next dean. But hiring someone and *then* rescinding the offer is something else altogether, and ought to be a huge black eye for the University of Arkansas. 641479323
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The Kenya Human Rights Commission (an independent nonprofit, not the statutory body) now estimates that up to 3,000 people might have been killed by the police and armed forces in post election violence in Tanzania. 21921
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeJosh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Nick Kristof travels to Uganda and shows that the Trump DOGE cuts to foreign assistance and humanitarian aid are killing kids who are dying unnecessarily from hunger and disease b/c Elon needed a tax cut. Many stories of suffering of little children. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy 22819
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 28/02/2025hcn.orgHow DOGE threatens the Forest Service and public lands - High Country NewsWorkers describe projects on wildfire prevention, environmental restoration and trail repair halted by Trump administration terminations. 010
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Couldn’t be more proud of @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social. Here’s the Kirkus Review for her upcoming children’s book. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... 092
Reposted by Travis B. Curticekim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Bumping this back up -- deadline is about 24 hours from now. The application is short. Please consider applying! 12020
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵 39693158
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 18/12/2024It was a joy to review Rebecca Tapscott’s @ox.ac.uk book, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 131
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeEun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024In an explainer for @goodauth.bsky.social, I share some historical and contemporary context to martial law in South Korea and Yoon's botched attempt yesterday. goodauthority.org/news/martial...goodauthority.orgSouth Korea's president briefly declared martial law.President Yoon’s approval rating hit a record low, at just 19 percent, last week. So what's behind his declaration of martial law? 49748
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeMiguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 05/12/2024APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors) 414046
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Just finished my fall quarter teaching intro to comparative politics and the politics of policing. Even with the many challenges in higher education and academia, teaching remains such a privilege. 070
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeBridging The Gap @bridgingthegap.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Applications are now open for IPSI 2025! June 8-12, 2025 Washington, DC. IPSI is a five-day professional development program for professors and post-docs in the field of international affairs who want to build the tools and networks to produce and disseminate policy-relevant academic research.bridgingthegapproject.orgIPSI — Bridging the Gap 02120
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 04/12/2024Want some good news? However bad the next administration is going to be, very few models of strongman authoritarian rule start with the strongman losing publicly on his first picks as minister of war and head of law enforcement 410417
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law. 8885264010538
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeRachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Applications for “Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa”, a conference in honor of Nicolas van de Walle. Abstracts due March 1. Please join @cornellupress.bsky.social w the Center on Global Democracy, the Institute of African Development, & Govt Dept new.express.adobe.com/webpage/VYps...new.express.adobe.comUntitled - November 19, 2024 at 11.34.29See the story 02622
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeAmerican Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024From our new issue: "In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes" by Sabrina Arias (@sabrinabarias.bsky.social) and Christopher Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social). www.cambridge.org/core/service... 0259
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeMacartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!wzb.hr4you.orgPredoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 303)The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ... 06289
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeDr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 10/04/2024The childcare reimbursement form for @APSAtweets 2024 conference in Philly is now open! It is due by August 2nd. It covers $500 of expenses, which can include a Philly based provider OR travel costs for a non-guardian caregiver connect.apsanet.org/apsa2024/chi... 12318
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20/02/2024The Independent has made some major headway on the story of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary OK high schooler who died after being brutally beaten by older teenage girls at school. They've found reason to believe Nex was bullied for being nonbinary, making it likely this led to their death.independent.co.ukOklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is deadNex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they we... 341131415
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeHilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 12/10/2023watch this space! thrilled that "In Love and at War: Marriage in Non-State Armed Groups" will be the inaugural text in the Cambridge Elements in Gender and Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/element... gendersky poliskycambridge.orgIn Love and at WarCambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - In Love and at War 43314
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeUfahamu Africa @ufahamuafrica.bsky.social · 03/10/2023Hi there! We are Ufahamu Africa, a podcast about life and politics on the African continent. Cohosted by @dadakim.bsky.social and @beattyriedl.bsky.social. www.ufahamuafrica.comufahamuafrica.comUfahamu Africa – A podcast about life and politics on the African continent 02815
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 03/10/2023Hi, @profmusgrave.bsky.social can you add me to the Polisky list. Thanks. 010
Reposted by Travis B. Curticekim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/10/2023Colleagues in political science, please share this opportunity for a full-time position at @ucrpolisci.bsky.social for a recent graduate who will support the NSF-funded MSIRA program. Will be especially beneficial for someone considering a PhD in political science!aprecruit.ucr.eduPost-baccalaureate Fellow – Junior SpecialistUniversity of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now! 12941
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Emory's political science department has a junior search for IR and an open search for CP. 087
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Publication day for this co-authored article on the potential limits of human rights related trade linkage. "The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/V7V8N... 061
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeDani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2023My department, Political Science at Northwestern, is hiring in Comparative Politics!! Please check out the ad below and apply!! ⤵️💜 #polisky #PSJMinfo 11712
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeLaia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Security Studies Tenure-line position (Open Rank) at Georgetown: apply.interfolio.com/132869 01514
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 26/09/2023If you're around @notredame.bsky.social tomorrow night Kaitlin will be reading from her latest book, Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day. 000
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeSUPoliSci @supolisci.bsky.social · 24/09/2023We are searching for a tenure-track junior scholar in American Politics: www.sujobopps.com/postings/99908 The search is for political institutions. We are particularly interested in candidates who study public policy, Congress, the bureaucracy, interest groups, and/or race. policy PSJMinfo 01524
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeGuy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2023Accepted last week at #APSR "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" (with Stephanie Zonszein). Ungated draft can be found at osf.io/w2dg8/. 615049
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeOmar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 20/09/2023First post here! Early view of my AJPS article with Leonard Wantchekon on the legacy of African independence movements. We argue that rural insurgencies generated political exclusion & autocratic regimes, while urban protests fostered democratic behavior & institutions. doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 813232
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeClaire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Anyone on Polisky can now post to the PSJMInfo feed. Just use "PSJMInfo", "poliscijobs", "psjobs" or "💼" in your post. 14225
Reposted by Travis B. CurticeKai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Got academic expertise on a country with ongoing political repression/violence, discrimination against minorities, etc? Consider becoming an expert witness for asylum cases. CGRS & LASA have a Zoom workshop November 8 on writing country conditions reports uchastings.zoom.us/webinar/regi... poliskyuchastings.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGRS Expert Witness Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts of Writ...Please join the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) and the Expert Witness Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for a workshop: “The Nuts and Bolts of Writing Country Co... 33927
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Putting final touches on my authoritarian politics syllabus for the fall quarter and it was great to see all the resources at @goodauth.bsky.social. 030
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 21/09/2023With the new academic year right around the corner, it's wonderful to reconnect with many of you. Thankful for this space. 040