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Alumni Updates

We love to hear from our alumni!

Please use this form to update us on your professional activities. There are so many ways to stay connected with the Department.

  • Visit campus: Come talk to our students about your educational and professional experiences. 
  • Contribute to our classes: Have an idea for a class, a lecture, a presentation, let us know!  
  • Research: Have a research idea? Let us match you with a research team. 
  • Mentoring: Connect with current students to discuss career, graduate and professional school experiences.

If any of these opportunities interest you, or if you would like to pitch another way of connecting to the Department, please let us know here.  

Alumni Gifts

Events Supported by the Ann and Michael Hankin Fund during Academic Year 2024-2025

Through a generous gift from Emory alums Ann and Michael Hankin 79C 79G, several events were held this past year that enriched the intellectual environment of the department for our faculty and students. These included:

 

Speaker Series on Local Politics and Policy: During the 2024-2025 academic year, the department hosted a speaker series focused on local politics and public policy. The series included leading scholars in American and Comparative Politics working on local politics and policy and also provided an opportunity for our undergraduate and graduate students to engage with world-class researchers, build connections, and learn how the skills they are developing at Emory can be used to address real-world policy problems. Lead faculty who organized this series included Natalia Bueno, Kiela Crabtree, Danielle Jung, Zachary Peskowitz, and Michael Leo Owens.

 

Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science: SOWEPS is an annual workshop that brings together scholars in the Southeastern region who use rigorous, creative empirical methods to study important topics in political science. The meeting originated at Emory in Fall 2019 and has since been hosted by Duke, Rice, the University of Georgia, Florida State University, and Vanderbilt. In Fall 2024, Emory again hosted the workshop, bringing together PhD students and faculty from dozens of institutions around the South. Emory faculty Renard Sexton and Natalia Bueno organized the workshop.

 

Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting: The departments of Political Science and Quantitative Theory and Methods co-hosted the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology. This is the premier research event for scholars of political methodology. More than 230 faculty and graduate students (in addition to a small number of undergraduates) from leading research universities around the world attended the July 2025 conference. Emory faculty who assisted in organizing the event included Nahomi Ichino, Adam Glynn, Pablo Montagnes, Zachary Peskowitz, and Cliff Carrubba.

 

Lane Lamure 96C 96G Gift Funds Southeastern Rights Network Workshop

This year, a gift from alumni Lane Lamure funded the The Southeastern Rights Network (SERN) Workshop at Emory. SERN is an organization aimed at connecting scholars who do human rights-related research and are based at institutions and organizations in the southeastern United States. SERN workshops give human rights scholars in the region the opportunity to present their work and get feedback in a friendly, constructive environment.