Ari Weil

Back at a physical archive after a while. Excited to collect some documents for the dissertation!

Excited to share my latest article, examining how the anti-govt movement managed its narrative during the Trump administration. I examine a novel corpus of Oath Keepers statements and follower comments to trace these narrative changes. Check it out here: jstor.org/stable/27185089

also shout out to this cygnet who took their parents on a family trip to the archive entrance yesterday.

Just finished up a fantastic trip to the National Archives. After starting the PhD online, it felt great to dig into documents for three weeks.

Hey @CornellPress, I love my stack, but I should add a few more before my comp this summer! #StackAndSave

Starting in an hour--come on out to our panel!

@josh_byun @BostonCollege Congratulations Josh!

I am delighted to announce that I’ll joining @BostonCollege as an Assistant Professor of Political Science!

@AlexCecylia @BushSchool @AlbrittonCGS Great news, congrats Alex!

After taking the weekend to let it sink in, I want to share that in August 2022 I'll join Texas A&M's @BushSchool and @AlbrittonCGS as an Assistant Professor! I'm so excited to work with awesome new colleagues and teach students pursuing the "noble calling" of public service.

fall in hyde park

Excited that the panel Austin and I organized got accepted for ISA! We have a cool project on maps and leaders during conflict, and got a great group of folks doing fascinating work on maps and geography.

IR folks: are you doing new research about maps or using maps as data? I’m organizing a panel submission for #ISA2022 with @AriWeil and we’d love to hear from you, esp grad student and junior faculty. DM us with details if interested in presenting a paper

@JuliaLodoen @MIT_SSP Congrats Julia!!

I’m really stoked to share that I’ll be starting a PhD in Political Science this fall at MIT! I’m excited to join @MIT_SSP and to study nuclear weapons and political violence, with a focus on South Asia

winter in hyde park

this evening's project: building back better

me: why is my computer running slowly? academic quarter begins:

"gestures wildly at months of planning for this rally*

There are at least 2 reasons why we should be talking about white supremacy re what happened at the Capitol yesterday. The first is the structural racism & bias in the Capitol police response to violent white rioters esp in comparison to their “readiness” & actions yesterday, 1/

also i just missed my flight because i was distracted by democratic backsliding and fascist mobs, so i guess more time for doomscrolling?

This is so frightening. Trump spent years priming his supporters to doubt elections and elected GOP humored him and challenged the results. He used that to incite supporters to storm the seat of government. And now we have an armed standoff in the House chamber. Sickening.

@owasow Thanks for sharing. I'll have to look more at early cases. An incredibly brave girl: "Everyone scattered except that girl; she stood her ground. She had just gotten fed up, she was not going to be abused anymore, she was going to defy this Jim Crow racism" deyoung.famsf.org/three-voices-h…

Perhaps of interest @AriWeil: ”A large group of Civil Rights activists demonstrated at the segregated pool in 1962, which spawned a white racist to deliberately drive his pickup truck into the demonstration, severely injuring a young African-American girl” legendsofamerica.com/il-cairo/2/

For anyone interested in protests and countermobilizations, check out this podcast on ”using a vehicle as an instrument of terror.” Ari Weil, who studies vehicular attacks, discusses the rising trend in US & ~72 attacks against #BlackLivesMatter protests. thewaroncars.org/2020/08/03/veh…