Navigating the Climate: Tackling Challenges in Political Science

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

In 2019-20, the Committee on the Status of Graduate Students is conducting a climate survey of graduate students about their economic conditions and the diversity of the discipline and their institutions. In 2020-21, the Committee will be conducting a climate survey of graduate students about harassment in the profession. This panel will address all three issues (economic conditions, diversity and inclusion, and harassment), featuring panelists who will speak to concrete challenges these issues pose (e.g., how to advocate for improved economic conditions, how to budget, etc.) and the larger issues of equity and fairness in the profession that they raise.

Sub Unit

• APSA Panels and All Meetings and Receptions

Cosponsor

• Status Committees / Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession

Chairs

• Rachel Torres James Madison University

• Tanya Brooke Schwarz Pi Sigma Alpha

Presenters

• Kiela Crabtree University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Princess H Williams Amherst College

• Periloux Peay University of Oklahoma

• Sophie Hill Harvard University