Eric Min

If you ever have moments of uncomfortable silence when teaching a class, remember that there was once a 130-minute pause during armistice negotiations in the Korean War.

Our article highlights a nuanced form of discrimination that balanced racism with the exigencies of winning a war. In the case of WWI, White commanders—and the society that they reflected—stripped marginalized Americans of a valuable tool to pursue equality.

Dying in combat is awful, yet this type of "heroic" sacrifice has historically been a way that marginalized communities have made political gains in the fight for equality. In WWI, many Black soldiers died in hospitals and after the war had ended—conditions not seen as valorous.

Forthcoming in @apsrjournal with Connor Huff and Robert Schub: Converting and analyzing over 40,000 U.S. infantry fatalities from World War I, we examine how race and racism influenced who bore the costs of conflict. A thread below for those interested. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Ayoung Chun studies how campaign donors shape congressional lawmaking. Her research examines the influence of “seed donors” — those who back candidates in their first successful primaries — on lawmakers’ careers and legislative behavior in Congress.

Anthony Dean Norton (@AnthonyDeanNorton) examines the historical evolution of peoples' right to self-determination. His dissertation reveals how the sedimentation of competing understandings of collective self-determination fuels interstate and domestic conflict.

As #APSA2025 begins, we are excited to tell you about some of our excellent UCLA job candidates on the market this year. Please be sure to consider them and share this information widely. #psjminfo