Three Political Science Grad Students Present at PolMeth 2026

Three graduate students (Nicholas, Yuhang and Youngbin) represented our department at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Political Methodology (PolMeth 2026) in East Lansing, MI, from July 15–18, presenting their research during the graduate poster sessions:

• Nicholas Brouwer: “Power Without Capacity? Local Self-Governance and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations”

• Yuhang Zhu: “Measuring Elite AI Discourse: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage”

• Youngbin (Ben) Kim: “Not One Story: Multiple Historical Trauma and the Politics of Remembering”