{"id":9173,"date":"2025-12-11T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:37:57","slug":"graduate-student-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/graduate-student-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h3\" id=\"h-graduate-student-research\"><strong>Graduate Student Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our PhD students traveled to academic conferences this year.&nbsp;Pictured to the left is <strong>Ahmet Ergurum<\/strong> and friends after their panel at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting where Ahmet presented his research using computational text analysis to consider the salience of emerging tech (AI, drones, semiconductors) on the United Nations Security agenda.&nbsp; Ahmet also presented research at a couple of International Studies Association meetings AND published two peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters this year! (When does he sleep?)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter uwm-c-img--center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/14-Ahmet-from-LinkedIn-e1765488412448.webp\" alt=\"A young man and two friends stand on either side of a projector screen showing an image of the man's research project.\" class=\"wp-image-9157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/14-Ahmet-from-LinkedIn-e1765488412448.webp 720w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/14-Ahmet-from-LinkedIn-e1765488412448-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Political science PhD student Ahmet Ergurum (second from right) presented his research at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/13-POL-SCI-935-collage-200x300.webp\" alt=\"A young man and two friends stand on either side of a projector screen showing an image of the man's research project.\" class=\"wp-image-9158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/13-POL-SCI-935-collage-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2025\/12\/13-POL-SCI-935-collage.webp 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption>Graduate students presented original research as part of their POL SCI 935 course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our PhD and MA students in <strong>Visiting Assistant Professor Kyle McWagner&#8217;s<\/strong> POL SCI 935 course presented their research stemming from an original survey and set of survey experiments they designed and implemented in a public forum in 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s new Chemistry Building. They have uncovered some important findings and we are excited to watch them ready their papers for publication! Big thanks to Bradley Brin for funding the survey and for joining us for the presentations!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h3\" id=\"h-publications\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Graduate student&nbsp;<strong>Chan-Song Kim (Political Science)&nbsp;<\/strong>and Gi-Woo Roh. 2025. The More The Worse: Effects of Childcare Burdens on Parents\u2019 Pro-Environmental Attitudes.&nbsp;<em>Social Science Quarterly<\/em>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/ssqu.70018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Online first<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h3\" id=\"h-graduates\"><strong>Graduates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"uwm-c-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Doctor of Philosophy Graduates<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Master of Arts Graduates<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Enes Ayasli<\/td><td>Tijesu Ojeade<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chan Song Kim<\/td><td>Vanessa Oladipo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jacqueline Sirovina<\/td><td>Adaline Powell<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Noah Sisson<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Student Research Our PhD students traveled to academic conferences this year.&nbsp;Pictured to the left is Ahmet Ergurum and friends after their panel at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting where Ahmet presented his research using computational text analysis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":9150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[83,77],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news-newsletter","category-newsletter","tag-fall-2025"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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