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Travis B. Curtice

@travisbcurtice.bsky.social
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Climber. Assistant Prof Drexel University. Studying police, repression & conflict. Fmr Carter Center, USIP, & Dartmouth Dickey Center. PhD Emory Polisci. Views are my own.

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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I’m celebrating the first day of spring by finalizing grades for this quarter.
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African Politics Conference Group @africanpoliticscg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The 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...
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2026 APCG Award Nominations
The 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.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Forget soft power; Aid is now just another blunt tool in the arsenal of a transitional president devoid of a moral compass.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Things are not okay.
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This 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
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The 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...
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 22/01/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The 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”
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It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
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Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Ana 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...
A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas and stun grenades 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.

Shawn Jackson and his wife, Destiny, both 26, said they were driving home from a son’s basketball game when the family found themselves caught in a clash between protesters and federal agents in North Minneapolis.

The couple sensed the encounter could quickly spiral out of control, they said, but when they tried to turn their car around to exit the blocked-off street, they were surrounded by federal agents.

“From the side, the front and from behind me, it was nothing but ICE,” Mr. Jackson said in an interview on Thursday.

One agent told the couple that they needed to get out of the area. Ms. Jackson said she and her husband responded that they were trying to do exactly that, but their path was blocked by agents coming up the street.

Then, agents let loose on the crowd, the couple said.

The crowd-control grenades went off around them and one tear gas canister rolled beneath the car, Ms. Jackson said. A concussive blast — from the tear gas canister or another device, she wasn’t sure — rocked the vehicle, she said, setting off the airbags and trapping the family as acrid smoke billowed around.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
For 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.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The 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.
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Nick 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...
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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How DOGE threatens the Forest Service and public lands - High Country News
Workers describe projects on wildfire prevention, environmental restoration and trail repair halted by Trump administration terminations.
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Couldn’t be more proud of @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social. Here’s the Kirkus Review for her upcoming children’s book. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Bumping this back up -- deadline is about 24 hours from now. The application is short. Please consider applying!
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
So 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. 🧵
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It 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...
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Almost to winter break.
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Eun A Jo @eunajo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In 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...
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South 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?
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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
APSR 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)
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just 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.
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Bridging The Gap @bridgingthegap.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Applications 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.
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IPSI — Bridging the Gap
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 04/12/2024
Want 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
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Lee 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.
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Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Applications 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...
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Untitled - November 19, 2024 at 11.34.29
See the story
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
From 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...
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Macartan 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!
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Predoctoral 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 ...
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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
The 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...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 20/02/2024
The 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.
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Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead
Nex 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...
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Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
watch 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 polisky
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In Love and at War
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - In Love and at War
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Ufahamu Africa @ufahamuafrica.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Hi 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.com
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Ufahamu Africa – A podcast about life and politics on the African continent
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Hi, @profmusgrave.bsky.social can you add me to the Polisky list. Thanks.
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Colleagues 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.edu
Post-baccalaureate Fellow – Junior Specialist
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Emory's political science department has a junior search for IR and an open search for CP.
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Publication 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...
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Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
My department, Political Science at Northwestern, is hiring in Comparative Politics!! Please check out the ad below and apply!! ⤵️💜 #polisky #PSJMinfo
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Security Studies Tenure-line position (Open Rank) at Georgetown: apply.interfolio.com/132869
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
If 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.
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SUPoliSci @supolisci.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
We 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
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Accepted last week at #APSR "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" (with Stephanie Zonszein). Ungated draft can be found at osf.io/w2dg8/.
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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
First 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...
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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Anyone on Polisky can now post to the PSJMInfo feed. Just use "PSJMInfo", "poliscijobs", "psjobs" or "💼" in your post.
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Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Got 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... polisky
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Welcome! 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...
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Putting final touches on my authoritarian politics syllabus for the fall quarter and it was great to see all the resources at @goodauth.bsky.social.
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Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
With the new academic year right around the corner, it's wonderful to reconnect with many of you. Thankful for this space.
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