My article at Critical Inquiry on the Walpole rebellion is now in print! Winter 2018 issue is available here, and my article is here.
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To learn more about my current research, take a look at this video abstract from the UVa Department of Politics. (A special thanks to Mark Edwards, the Communications Coordinator for the Department, for shooting, editing, and producing such a polished and professional video.)
Ahead of APSA next week, I’ll be attending an all-day workshop on the Youth and Participatory Politics Survey Project. Aug. 30, San Francisco.
I’ll be presenting a new chapter of my book manuscript on a panel at the Western Political Science Association annual conference in the spring. April 13-15 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Starting in July, I’m a visiting scholar at The Newberry in Chicago. I couldn’t ask for a more fitting place to finish the final leg of my dissertation ahead of the move to Charlottesville.
Starting at the end of August, I’ll be a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law (PPL) at the University of Virginia. The position is for two years, potentially renewable for a third. I’m eager to be a part of the vibrant intellectual community at UVa, to write and to teach, and to extend the research agenda developed in my dissertation. [Linked here.]
I’ll be defending my dissertation next month. New York City, August 15.
Great news! My article on the Walpole prison rebellion — “On Prison Democracy: The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison” — has been accepted for publication at Critical Inquiry.
I’m visiting Carnegie Mellon University in a week to learn more about networks and network analysis. I’ll be learning new methods while working with the sociometric data from my boarding school case study — a perfect way to start the summer!
I was just informed that I’ve won a dissertation fellowship in the Social Science Division’s William Rainey Harper Fellowship competition.
Christopher D. Berk 