Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for the third entry to their 2024 virtual workshop series.
Friday, May 3, 2024 | 3:00 PM | Register Here
This workshop will help graduate students better navigate the challenges and considerations of fieldwork. Our speakers will discuss questions about positionality in the field, personal safety, and resource constraints. Register Here!
Featuring:
- Diana Kapiszewski, Department of Government, Georgetown University
- Estefania Castañeda-Pérez, Penn Postdoctoral Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
- Sarah Parkinson, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
- Misbah Hyder, Teaching Excellence Center, US Naval War College
Meet the Panelists:
Dr. Diana Kapiszewski is an Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Her research interests include public law, comparative politics, and research methods. She has published several books (authored and co-edited) and multiple articles on comparative law and courts, as well as on field research and research transparency. Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship. Kapiszewski directs SIGLA (the States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America database, www.sigladata.org), co-edits the Cambridge University Press “Methods for Social Inquiry” book series, co-directs the Emerging Methodologists Workshop (http://sigla.georgetown.domains/emworkshop/), and co-directs the Georgetown University Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute (https://government.georgetown.edu/ps-psi/#).
Dr. Estefania Castañeda Pérez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, and received her Ph.D. and Master’s from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science. Her research investigates how Latinx communities experience the law through policing and surveillance systems, and the consequences of these experiences on their racialization, well-being, and legal consciousness. In particular, she focuses on the perspectives of transborder commuters, who are U.S. citizens and non-citizens that reside in Mexican border cities but regularly cross the border to the U.S. for work, education, or commerce. She has conducted fieldwork at three border regions, Tijuana-San Diego, Ambos Nogales-Tucson, and El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, and has expertise in conducting mixed-method research, including ethnography, in-depth interviews, and original in-the-field surveys. Her research has been supported by numerous associations such as the American Political Science Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, and in academic blogs such as NACLA and the NYU Latinx Project Intervenxions Blog.
Dr. Sarah E. Parkinson is the Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines organizational behavior and social change in war- and disaster-affected settings, with a focus on Southwest Asia and North Africa. Parkinson has published research on militant organizations’ decision-making and internal dynamics, political violence, refugees’ access to healthcare, humanitarian aid, ethics, and research methods. Most recently, she has been conducting multi-sited research on public safety and disaster preparedness. Parkinson’s work has involved extensive fieldwork in Lebanon, Iraq, and Qatar, as well as shorter engagements in Tunisia, Turkey, and the UAE.
Dr. Parkinson’s scholarship has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine, Comparative Political Studies, and Comparative Politics in addition to outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Monkey Cage, and Good Authority. Parkinson is a co-founder of the Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium. She received her PhD and MA in political science from the University of Chicago and has held fellowships at Yale University, George Washington University, the University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University in Qatar. She is an active first responder in her free time.
Dr. Misbah Hyder is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the US Naval War College’s Teaching Excellence Center. Prior to this position, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center and received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Political Science. Dr. Hyder uses interdisciplinary research from International Relations, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Peace Studies to interrogate how persecuted religious minorities persevere through hardship to thrive in their humanitarian and service work. Her current book project, The Subaltern is International: the Politics of Agency and Heresy, is based on her ethnography of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in which she conducted 3 years of digital and in-person fieldwork in North America and Ghana.
The APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession’s mission is to promote, support, and advocate for graduate students within Political Science. The committee achieves this mission by informing APSA of graduate student concerns and developing dynamic approaches to address them. To learn more about the committee and to check out its current projects and resources, visit: https://connect.apsanet.org/graduate
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