ilyssa Yahmi
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ilyssa Yahmi
@ilyssa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris | PhD, Temple University | smuggling, borders, violence & (in-)security, identity | Former @USIP @DoDMinerva Peace Scholar & @XCEPT_Research | Sahel & North Africa
100% with you. I felt so much anger. Protecting participants should not be an expectation for academics exclusively…
October 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Angie Torres-Beltran receives the 2025 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for Mentoring of Graduate Students

The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award is presented annually by the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession to recognize the exemplary mentoring of Latino y…
Angie Torres-Beltran receives the 2025 Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award for Mentoring of Graduate Students
The Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentor Award is presented annually by the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession to recognize the exemplary mentoring of Latino y Latina students and junior faculty each year. The award is named in honor of Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, the first Latina to earn a PhD in political science. Dr. Betina Cutaia Wilkinson was awarded for exemplary mentoring of undergraduate students.
politicalsciencenow.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thank you for everything, Alexandra! I hope we meet again soon ☺️
July 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Successfully defended my dissertation and completed my PhD journey 🎉🥂
So grateful to the people who walked this path with me: my amazing advisors, mentors, peers, friends, and family who supported me and reminded me why this work matters. Tysm Temple and Philly for all the memories, I’ll miss you 🦅♥️
July 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is such a shame and truly upsetting.. I loved all the presentations at ASA on this project/grant!
March 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Stay tuned for our super exciting Special Issue (w/ bluesky-less Tanya Irwin)!
Great start to the day in our workshop on Rebel Financing and Rebels’ Use of Economic Instruments for Rebel Governance! @ilyssa.bsky.social @jamesworrall.bsky.social @alexwaterman.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
best title ever 😌
November 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Call for contributions to a fascinating special issue on the finances of insurgency and rebel governance - please share widely across your networks! Deadline 1 August 2024 for proposals:
June 13, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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The Project on Middle East Political Science is thrilled to announce POMEPS Studies 50: The Politics of Migration and Refugee Rentierism in the Middle East! Download the full PDF here! pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
POMEPS Studies 50: The Politics of Migration and Refugee Rentierism in the Middle East - Project on Middle East Political Science
How does the rentier concept apply in the context of the regulation and governance of human mobilities? Given that the hosting of forcibly displaced populations grants political actors the ability to ...
pomeps.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Forever grateful to have met and been published along with such incredible colleagues. You can access the full issue here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
March 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
🔔1st publication! As part of @pomeps.bsky.social volume titled "The Politics of Migration and Refugee Rentierism", edited by @tsourapas.bsky.social and @abuaardvark.bsky.social, my article ‘Not our Burden: a Principal-Agent Analysis of Morocco’s EU-Style Migratory Policies’ has been published!
March 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
bluesky^2
December 26, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Glad you’re safe!!
December 11, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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New in APSR: Journalism isn't/isn't meant to be systematically representative of events; it's not even consistent or constant across time, space, or topic. Using original interviews, I examine the political economy of media & data generation processes. polisky

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November 27, 2023 at 3:53 PM