Past Colloquia

Spring 2023

• March 30, 12pm EDT: "Competition over Constituency and Territory: A Network Analysis of Militant Group Cooperation and Infighting."

  • Author: Ilayda B. Onder (Penn State University)

  • Discussants: Margaret Foster (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) and Elizabeth Menninga (University of Iowa)

• April 18, 12pm EDT: "What Makes a Leader? A Role Analysis of Latent Policy Diffusion Networks"

  • Authors: Scott LaCombe (Smith College) and Tracee Saunders (University of Iowa) 

  • Discussants: Bruce Desmarais (Penn State University) and Joshua Jansa (Oklahoma State University)

• May 10, 12pm EDT: "Elite Family Networks and the 1891 Civil War in Chile"

  • Author: John Londregan (Princeton University)

  • Discussants: Justin Gross (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) and Naoki Egami (Columbia University)

• May 23, 12pm EDT: "Using Network Theory as an Alternative Approach to Better Understand and Evaluate Interview Samples"

  • Author: Josef Woldense (University of Minnesota)

  • Discussants: Jennifer Larson (Vanderbilt University) and Janet Lewis (George Washington University)

• June 13, 12pm EDT: "Who Follows Whom on Twitter? An Analysis of Homophily Patterns"

  • Author: Alexi Quintana Mathé (Northeastern University)

  • Discussants: Pablo Barberá (University of Southern California) and Lauren Ratliff Santoro (University of Texas—Dallas)

• July 3, 12pm EDT: "Network of Telegram Channels"

  • Author: Daria Kuznetsova (University of Iowa)

  • Discussants: Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (University of California—Los Angeles) and Mónika Simon (University of Amsterdam)