Spring 2022 Speaker Series and Professionalization Seminars:

Friday, April 29, off-campus via Zoom, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

• "Polling Difficult to Reach Populations," hosted by New England AAPOR (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Wednesday, April 20, via Zoom, 3:00 p.m. EST

• Conference paper presentation by Dr. Bill Franko: "Class Politics in the United States: Unions, Policy Attitudes, and Voting"

Thursday, April 14, off-campus via Zoom, 2:00 p.m. EST (12:00 p.m. MST)

• "From To Do to Done: Roadmap to Effective Project Planning for Dissertation and Book-scale Undertakings Webinar," hosted by APSA (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)
  

Friday, April 7, via Zoom, 5:00 p.m.

• "The Job Market and One Year Later: the Real World," featuring recent program graduates with academic and non-academic positions, hosted by GSAPS

Friday, February 25, via Zoom, 12:00 p.m.

• "Student Research and Navigating the IRB Process," hosted by the Office of Graduate Education and Life (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Friday, February 18, via Zoom, 11:00-12:15 a.m.

• Writing seminar papers

Friday, January 21, via Zoom, 2:30 p.m.

• "Geography and Gerrymandering," hosted by the Department of Geology and Geography at WVU (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Varying Dates, via Zoom

• WVU Library workshops.  See the list of workshops here.  Further information provided by email.
  

Friday, January 7, off-campus via Zoom, 1:00 p.m.

• "From To Do to Done: Roadmap to Effective Project Planning for Dissertation and Book-scale Undertakings Webinar," hosted by APSA (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Fall 2021 Speaker Series and Professionalization Seminars:

Thursday, November 11, via Zoom, 10:00-11:00 a.m.

• Writing seminar papers

Thursday, October 14, via Zoom, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

• Careers in the Foreign Service/Talk on Afghanistan, hosted by the Eberly College of Arts and Science (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Wednesday, October 13, off-campus via Zoom, 3:00-4:30 p.m

• Junior Americanists Workshop Series (JAWS) workshop (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Wednesday September 15, Downtown Library, Room 136, 3:30-4:45 p.m.

• Introduction to Federal Policy and Legislative Resources, presented by Matt Steele of WVU Libraries (assignment required for colloquium credit)
  

Friday, September 3, Department Seminar Room, 10:00-11:15 a.m.

• The academic job market

Thursday, August 26, Department Seminar Room, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

• "How to Grad School," presented by GSAPS
  

Spring 2021 Speaker Series and Professionalization Seminars:

Friday, April 30, via Zoom, 12:00-1:15 p.m.

• Job talk
  

Thursday, April 22, off-campus via Zoom, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

• USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative Regional Workshop (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Friday, April 9, via Zoom, 11:00-12:30 p.m.

• Practice MPSA conference presentations

Friday, March 26, via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• Advice on (Virtual) Conferences, presented by GSAPS and departmental faculty
  

Friday, January 29, via Zoom, 11:30-12:30 p.m.

• Experiences with the Job Market, presented by GSAPS and departmental faculty

Tuesday, January 19, off-campus via Zoom, 3:00 p.m.

• "Immigration Policy Ideas for the Biden Administration," co-organized by the Global Migration Center, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Tuesday, January 12, off-campus via Zoom, 4:00 p.m.

• "Women of Color and the Future of U.S. Democracy," organized by The Politics of Race, Class, & Ethnicity Initiative (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)
  

Fall 2020 Speaker Series and Professionalization Seminars:

Tuesday, November 17, via Zoom, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

• Diversity Statement Workshop, presented by the Office of Graduate Education and Life (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Friday, November 13, via Zoom, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

• Data visualization with R and Stata

Friday, November 6, off-campus via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• "Religion and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: A Panel discussion," organized by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit) 

Friday, November 6, via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• Teaching on-line, presented by GSAPS and departmental faculty

Friday, October 30, off-campus via Zoom, 3:00 p.m.

• "#StillWePersist: Organizing Resistance in the Streets and On the Hill," panel at Northeastern University symposium on gender and the 2020 elections (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Thursday, October 15, off-campus via Zoom, 12:00 p.m.

• “White Supremacism and World Politics: Present at the Creation, Persistent to Today," a talk by Errol Henderson (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Wednesday, October 14, off-campus via Zoom, 8:00 p.m.

• “More Consequential, Less Influential: The Conundrum of Latinos in the 2020 Election,” a talk by Gary Segura (assignment required for professionalization seminar credit)

Friday, October 9, via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• Writing and defending prospectuses, presented by GSAPS

Friday, August 28, via Zoom, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• "How to Grad School," presented by GSAPS

Spring 2020 Speaker Series and Colloquia:

Thursday, April 23, via Zoom, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

• The use and interpretation of interaction terms
  

POSTPONED (previously scheduled for Friday, March 27)

• Practice conference presentations

Wednesday, February 5, Department Seminar Room, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• Comparative Politics Working Group (reading required for colloquium credit)

Wednesday, January 29, Department Seminar Room, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

• Discussion regarding Public Policy job search
  

Monday, January 27, Monongahela Room, Mountainlair, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

• Job Talk: Public Policy

Wednesday, January 22, Monongahela Room, Mountainlair, 9:00-10:00 p.m.

• Job Talk: Public Policy

Wednesday, January 15, Monongahela Room, Mountainlair, 9:00-10:00 p.m.

• Job Talk: Public Policy

Fall 2019 Speaker Series and Colloquia:

Friday, December 6, Department Seminar Room, 11:00-12:15 p.m.

• Common problems in graduate and undergraduate writing
  

Thursday, November 21, Department Seminar Room, 11:00-12:15 p.m.

• Comprehensive exams

Friday, October 25, Department Seminar Room, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

• STATA tips, presented by GSAPS

Thursday, October 24, Department Seminar Room, 11:00-12:15 p.m.

• Writing high-quality seminar papers
  

Friday, October 18, Downtown Library, Room 136, 2:00-3:30 p.m.

• Data and Donuts: First Steps with Data Sources, presented by Matt Steele of WVU Libraries (assignment required for colloquium credit)

Tuesday, October 15, Downtown Library, Room 136, 3:00-4:00 p.m.

• Finding Funding for Faculty and Graduate Students, presented by Matt Steele of WVU Libraries (assignment required for colloquium credit)

Thursday, August 22, Department Seminar Room, 11:00-12:15 p.m.

• The academic job market
  

Spring 2019 Speaker Series and Colloquia:

Thursday, April 25, Department Seminar Room, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

• The book publication process
  

Tuesday, April 9, Department Seminar Room, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

• Preparing for comprehensive exams, presented by GSAPS
  

Friday, March 1, Department Seminar Room, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

• Practice teaching demonstration for job interview
  

Wednesday, February 27, Department Seminar Room, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

• More STATA tips, presented by GSAPS

Friday, February 22, Downtown Library, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

• Data and Donuts: First Steps with SPSS, presented by Matt Steele of WVU Libraries (assignment required for colloquium credit)

Thursday, February 21, Department Seminar Room, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

• Teaching Online

Wednesday, February 13, Department Seminar Room, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

• Comparative Politics Working Group, Presentation by Dr. Krehbiel

Thursday, January 24 , Department Seminar Room, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

• Comparative Politics Working Group: Presentation by Dr. Herron