📢 New Paper Alert!

Happy to share that our article “Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion & Containment” — co-authored with @drpowell.bsky.social — is forthcoming in International Studies Review.

Are coups actually contagious, and if so, how?

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Examining the number of days soldiers held power after a coup in the last 2 decades, we can pinpoint a dramatic shift. Between 2002-2020, the median number of days soldiers held power was only 22 days. Post-2021, that number has jumped to over 1,000 days. That's 50 times longer. 4/

And just like that, dissertation successfully defended & I’m officially a polisky doctor! Couldn’t be more relieved and excited for the future. Now to move to Houston to join Rice University as a postdoc this Fall!

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Happy to share that APSA's Grad Student Committee is starting a virtual Professional Development series targeted towards polisky grad students! Join us this Thursday at 2 pm EST for our first entry: unpacking the hidden curriculum of conferences!

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I finally passed over 20 citations on Google Scholar! Might not be much, but it’s a milestone I could’ve never envisioned for myself years ago.

Anyway hire me, Polisky

QT with your favorite book as a kid

Happy for the time spent with the 2023-2024 USIP Peace Scholars cohort. A rich and rewarding experience as we learned to synthesize and offer insights from our research to the policy world. We also cleaned up nicely