Professional Development Workshop
The Professional Development Workshop is intended to foster graduate students in all aspects of preparedness for their future profession.
Faculty Leader: Kris Ramsay
Location: 127 Corwin unless otherwise specified
Time: Fridays, 1:30pm to 3pm
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Speaker
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Topic
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| Aug. 10 | Kris Ramsay | Job Market One Day Workshop |
| Oct. 6 | Winston Chou and Cassandra Emmons | Preparing Your Prospectus |
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Oct. 13 *Wallace 348*
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All day, 9am-6pm, sign up at Kris Ramsay's WASS page | Marathon Practice Job Talk Day I |
| Oct. 20 *Wallace 348* | All day, 9am-6pm, sign up at Kris Ramsay's WASS page | Marathon Practice Job Talk Day II |
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Nov. 10
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Kris Ramsay | Report on Graduate Student Survey & Performance Reform |
| Dec. 1 | Brandice Canes-Wrone | Publishing in Political Science |
| Feb. 9 *JRR 301* | Keren Yarhi Milo and Brandon de la Cuesta | Running a Research Project |
| Mar. 2 | Melissa Lee | Career Development off Campus: Conferences, Networking, and Professional Activities |
| Apr. 27 | Kris Ramsay | Job Market Advice and Preparation for 2018 |
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Responsible Conduct of Research: Academic Misconduct
Required Readings: APSA Guide to Professional Ethics, Rights and Freedoms http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/ethicsguideweb.pdf
APSA Style Manual http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPSA.html
Princeton guide to academic integrity http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/intro/index.htm
Princeton academic regulations in Rights, Rules and Responsibilities
Further Reading:
John Hardwig, “The Role of Trust in Knowledge,” The Journal of Philosophy 88 (1991): 693
J. Couzin, “Truth and consequences: After making a difficult decision to turn in their advisor for scientific misconduct, a group of graduate students is trying to recover,” Science 313 (2006): 1222-1226.
C Raymond, “Allegations of plagiarism of scientific manuscript raise concerns about intellectual theft,” Chronicle of Higher Education , July 19, 1989.
Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report on Plagiarism, December 17, 2004
Ben R. Martin, “Keeping Plagiarism at Bay – A Salutary Tale,” Research Policy 36 (2007): 905
Kevin T. McGuire, “There Was a Crooked Man(uscript): A Not-So-Serious Look at the Serious Subject of Plagarism,” PS 43 (2010): 107
Miguel Roig, “Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing,” http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/
Daniel Hemel and Lauren Schuker, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source,” Harvard Crimson, September 27, 2004 http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/9/27/prof-admits-to-misusing-source-harvard/
David Henige, “Discouraging Verification: Citation Practices across the Disciplines,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37 (2006): 99.
Drew Foster, "Will Academia Waste the Michael LaCour Scandal?," NY Magazine (June 5, 2015) http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/06/will-academia-waste-the-michael-lacour-scandal.htmlDavid Kurtz, "More on that Montana Political Science Project Gone So Wrong," Talking Points Memo (May 13, 2015) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/montana-stanford-dartmouth-political-science Richard Van Noorden, "Political Science's Problem with Research Ethics," Nature (June 29, 2015) http://www.nature.com/news/political-science-s-problem-with-research-ethics-1.17866
Responsible Conduct of Research: The Role of Political Science in a Democracy
Required Reading:
Charles Lindblom, “Another State of Mind,” APSR 76 (1982): 9
Rogers Smith, “Political Science and the Public Sphere in the 21st Century,” Public Sphere Forum (2011) http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/smith-political-science-and-the-public-sphere/
Further Reading:
Robert Dahl, “The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest,” APSR 55 (1961): 763
Theodore Lowi, “The State in Political Science: How We Became What We Study,” APSR 86 (1992): 1
Rogers Smith, “Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science,” Daedalus 126 (1997): 253
Robert Putnam, “The Public Role of Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 1 (2003): 249
Jonathan Cohn, “Irrational Exuberance,” The New Republic (Oct. 25, 1999): 25
Jeffrey Isaac, “Social Science and Liberal Values in a Time of War,” Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004): 475
Wilson Carey McWilliams, “Political Arts and Political Sciences,” in Power and Community, ed. Philip Green and Sanford Levinson (New York: Random House, 1969).
Sheldon Wolin, “Political Theory as a Vocation,” APSR 63 (1969): 1062
James Bryce, “The Relations of Political Science to History and to Practice,” APSR 3 (1909): 1
Gabriel Almond, “Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science,” PS 21 (1988): 828
Raymond Seidelman with Edward Harpham, Disenchanted Realists
James W. Ceaser, Liberal Democracy & Political Science
Responsible Conduct of Research: Mentoring, Teaching Assistants, and Research Assistants
Required Reading:
Sandra Stith, et al., “Student-Faculty Collaborative Research,” Family Relations 41 (1992): 470
John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, and Martin J. Finkelstein, “Teaching Performance Norms in Academia,” Research in Higher Education 33 (1992): 533
Further Reading:
Bill Williamson, “(Ab)using Students: The Ethics of Faculty Use of a Student’s Work Product,” Arizona State Law Journal 26 (1994): 1029
Sandip Patel, “Graduate Students’ Ownership and Attribution Rights in Intellectual Property,” Indiana Law Journal 71 (1995): 481
“A Feminist Perspective on Graduate Student-Advisor Relationships,” Feminist Teacher 10 (1996): 17
Edward Tenner, “The Pitfalls of Academic Mentorships,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2004
John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, and James A. Noseworthy, “Students as Tenuous Agents of Social Control of Professorial Misconduct,” Peabody Journal of Education 77 (2002): 101.
Joanne Jones and Gary Spraakman, “A Case of Academic Misconduct: Does Self-Interest Rule?” Accounting Perspectives 10 (2011): 1.
Patricia Keith-Spiegel, et al., The Ethics of Teaching (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002).
The Art of Writing a Research Proposal Workshop, co-sponsored with the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Readings: Ellis Sandoz, “The National Endowment for the Humanities and Political Science after 25 Years,” PS 23 (1990): 455
Christian Davenport, et al., “Political Science at the NSF,” PS 33 (2000): 895
Anne Moffat, “Grantsmanship: What Makes Proposals Work?” Science 265 (1994): 1921 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2884681
Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon, The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1998). http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/7A9CB4F4-815F-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70/
Grant Proposal Handout http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/grant_proposals.html
Responsible Conduct of Research: Responsible Research and Funding
Required Reading:
Catherine Lutz, David Engerman, David Nugent, Ron Rubin and Conor Gearty on the Minerva Project at http://essays.ssrc.org/minerva/category/all-essays/
Robertson v. Princeton Lead Plaintiff: “It’s the [donor trust] economy stupid!” http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2008/07/robertson-v-pri.html
Further Reading:
Ithiel De Sola Pool, “The necessity for social scientists doing research for governments,” in The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot, ed. Horowitz (1967)
L. Sandy Maisel and Walter Stone, “The Politics of Government-Funded Research: Notes from the Experience of the Candidate Emergence Study,” PS 31 (1998): 811
Risa L. Lieberwitz, “Corporatization of the University: Distance Learning at the cost of Academic Freedom,” Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 12 (2002): 73
Stephen Walt, “The Search for a Science of Strategy,” International Security 12 (1987): 140
Rebecca Goolsby, “Ethics and Defense Agency Funding: Some Considerations,” Social Networks 27 (2005): 95
Donald Downs, “When Donors Pick the Courses,” Minding the Campus, March 25, 2008 http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2008/03/an_interesting_news_item_caugh.html
Erin Strout, “Provosts Object to Antiterrorism Language Added to Foundations’ Grant Agreement,” Chronicle of Higher Education (May 14, 2004): A29.
The Minerva Controversy http://essays.ssrc.org/minerva/
Mark Solovey, “Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus,” Social Studies of Science 31 (2001): 171
Adam Liptak, “From One Footnote, A Debate over the Tangles of Law, Science, and Money,” NY Times (Nov. 25, 2008), A16
Kris Hundley, “Billionaire’s role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions,” St. Petersburg Times (May 10, 2011)
Jeevan Vasagar and Rajeev Syal, “LSE head quits over Gaddafi scandal,” The Guardian (March 3, 2011)
Elizabeth Redden, “Return to Sender,” Inside Higher Ed (Feb. 22, 2016) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/22/uc-irvine-moves-reject-endowed-chair-gifts-donor-strong-opinions-about-study
Josh Logue, “Unstaged,” Inside Higher Ed (Feb. 22, 2016) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/22/oklahoma-state-professor-says-play-censored-over-transgender-identity-themes Mark Solovey, Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America Richard Munch, Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence Responsible Conduct of Research: Human Subjects
Required Reading:
Shareen Hertel, et al., “Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running,” PS 42 (2009): 305
Joan Cassell, “Ethical Principles for Conducting Fieldwork,” American Anthropologist 82 (1980): 28
Further Reading:
Laura Woliver, “Ethical Dilemmas in Personal Interviewing,” PS 34 (2002): 677
James Carroll, “Confidentiality of Social Science Research Sources and Data: The Popkin Case,” PS 6 (1973): 268
Shareen Hertel, et al., “Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running,” PS 42 (2009): 305
Elisabeth Jean Wood, “Field Research,” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics
Sheila Carapico, “No Easy Answers: The Ethics of Field Research in the Arab World,” PS 39 (2006): 429
Caleb Wall and John Overton, “Unethical Ethics? Applying Research Ethics in Uzbekistan,” Development in Practice 16 (2006): 62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4029860
Erica Townsend-Bell, “Being True and Being You: Race, Gender, Class, and the Fieldwork Experience,” PS 42 (2009): 311
Carl Schneider, The Censor’s Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research
Robert Klitzman, The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe Gina Perry, Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments A.G. Miller, The Obedience Experiments: A Case Study of Controversy in Social Science Responsible Conduct of Research: Institutional Review Boards
Required Reading:
CITI Online Training Module (complete the certification) https://www.princeton.edu/ria/human-research-protection/training/
Princeton University Institutional Review Board (look at Questionnaire A and B) http://www.princeton.edu/orpa/irb.htm
Further Reading:
Philip Hamburger, “Getting Permission,” Northwestern University Law Review 101 (2007) 405
Judith Jarvis Tomson, et al., “Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board,” Academe 92 (2006): 95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40253500
Kevin Haggerty, “Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics,” Qualitative Sociology 27 (2004): 391 http://www.springerlink.com/content/p802537wh2112r31/
B. Bozeman and P. Hirsch, “Science Ethics as a Bureaucratic Problem: IRBs, Rules, and Failures of Control,” Policy Sciences 38 (2006): 269 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4532668
Susan Fiske, “Institutional Review Boards: From Bane to Benefit,” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4 (2008): 30 http://pps.sagepub.com/content/4/1/30.full
Mitchell Seligson, “Human Subjects Protection and Large-N Research: When Exempt is Non-Exempt and Research is Non-Research,” PS 41 (2008): 477
Office for Human Research Protections (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/)
Michael Zimmer, “But the Data is Already Public: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook,” Ethics of Information Technology 12 (2010): 313 http://www.springerlink.com/content/q1v7731u26210682/
John Kifner, “Scholar Sets of Gastronomic False Alarm,” NY Times (Sept. 8, 2001)
Testing the Limits to the Responsiveness to Authority http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w
Adam Hedgecoe, “Reputational Risk, Academic Freedom, and Research Ethics Review,” Sociology (2015): 1.
Zachary M. Schrag, Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965-2009 Responsible Conduct of Research: Advocacy, Objectivity, and Professionalism in Political Science
Required Reading:
Further Reading:
Robert George, “Shameless Acts Revisited,” Academic Questions 9 (1996): 24 http://www.springerlink.com/content/81383l4002051660/
Randall Kennedy, “Reconstruction and the Politics of Scholarship,” Yale L. Journal 98 (1989): 521 (READ 538n70 ONLY) http://www.jstor.org/stable/796628?seq=18
Howard Becker, “Whose Side Are We On?” Social Problems 14 (1967): 239
Christian Bay, “Politics and Pseudopolitics: A Critical Evaluation of Some Behavioral Literature,” APSR 59 (1965): 39
Ernest Wilson, “Is There Really a Scholar-Practitioner Gap? An Institutional Analysis,” PS 40 (2007): 147
Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, “Restoring the Tradition of Rigor and Relevance to Political Science,” PS 39 (2006): 27.
Tony Robinson, “Service Learning as Justice Advocacy: Can Political Scientists Do Politics?” PS 33 (2000): 605.
Brief of 281 American Historians, Public Historian 12 (1990): 57 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3378199
John Finnis, “Shameless Acts in Colorado,” Academic Questions 7 (1994) 10. http://www.springerlink.com/content/l551247650j05670/
Martha Nussbaum, “Platonic Law and Colorado Law,” Virginia L. Review 80 (1994): 1515
Robert George, “Shameless Acts Revisited,” Academic Questions 9 (1996): 24
http://www.springerlink.com/content/81383l4002051660/
Randall Kennedy, “Reconstruction and the Politics of Scholarship,” Yale L. Journal 98 (1989): 521 http://www.jstor.org/stable/796628
Haskell and Levinson, “Academic Freedom and Expert Witnesses,” Texas Law Review 66 (1988): 1629
Alice Kessler-Harris, “Academic Freedom and Expert Witnessing: A Response,” Texas Law Review 67 (1988): 429
Responsible Conduct of Research: Publishing and Academic Freedom
Required Reading:
John Kekes, “Academic Corruption,” Monist 79 (1996): 564
A. Wuffle, “Uncle Wuffle’s Advice to the Assistant Professor,” PS 26 (1993): 89
http://www.jstor.org/stable/419515
Further Reading:
Craig Lambert, “The Wild West of Academic Publishing,” Harvard Magazine (January-February 2015) http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/01/the-wild-west-of-academic-publishing
Kathleen Hancock and Matthew Baum, “Women and Academic Publishing,” International Studies Perspectives (2013) https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/mbaum/documents/IntStudPers2013.pdf
Eugene Matusov and Robert Hampel, “Two Approaches to Tenure and Promotion Criteria,” Academe 94 (2008): 37
David Pontille and Didier Torny, “The Controversial Policies of Journal Ratings: Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities,” Research Evaluation 19 (2010): 347
Diane Paul, “The Market as Censor,” PS 21 (1988): 31
Chris Harrison, “Peer Review, Politics, and Pluralism,” Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004): 357
Elisabeth Clemens, et al., “Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly Reputations,” American Journal of Sociology 101 (1995): 433
Donald Brenneis, “Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman,” Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 23
Lutz Bornmann, “Scientific Peer Review,” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 45 (2010)
Von Bakanic, et al., “Mixed Messages: Referees’ Comments on the Manuscripts They Review,” Sociological Quarterly 30 (1989): 639
Joshua Guetzkow, et al. “What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences?” American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 190
Thom Brooks, “Guidelines on How to Referee,” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719043
Richard L. Simpson, “The Ethical Responsibilities of Referees,” American Sociologist 21 (1990): 80
Marcia Lynn Whicker, et al., Getting Tenure
Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin, The Academic’s Handbook
Joanne E. Cooper and Dannelle D. Stevens, Tenure in the Sacred Grove
Anonymous and Anonymous, “Tenure in a Chilly Climate,” PS 32 (1999): 91 http://www.jstor.org/stable/420756
John M. Rothgeb Jr. and Betsy Burger, “Tenure Standards in Political Science Departments: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs,” PS 42 (2009): 513
Kay Lehman Schlozman, “External Reviews in Tenure and Promotions Decisions: How Does the Process Work? How Should It?,” PS 31 (1998): 623 http://www.jstor.org/stable/420625
Cameron Thies, “Reflections on Assuming Administrative Responsibilities as an Untenured Assistant Professor,” PS 36 (2003): 447
Cynthia L. Harter, et al., “Changing Incentives and Time Allocations for Academic Economists: Results from 1995 and 2000 National Surveys,” Journal of Economic Education 35 (2004): 89.
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