Planning a wedding is hard. Also tends to make you a touch busy, so this website hasn’t had anything new posted in about 10 weeks. Unacceptable. The internet must hear of my political science brilliance (or something). Anyway, between moving, marriage, APSA, and everything else, it’s been a busy couple months.
However, not without political science goodness. Alek’s and my Working Group went over well at APSA. PS has been contacted about our symposium idea; we’ll see what they say. Slowly but surely I’m gathering, planning, organizing, and outlining my dissertation. It’s not even as hard as I expected, since it’s kind of entertaining when it’s something your interested in. A few more conference proposals (Southern, SPPC, and TLC) have been sent off as well, along with a grant funding request for some more implicit research. Hopefully we’ll get about 1/2 the money we need from the grant, and the rest from faculty. Additionally, I’ve been working hard to make my CV attractive to teaching universities (liberal arts colleges, etc.) since, in all likelihood, I’ll be following my new wife to her job sometime in the next year, and having a good teaching resume should help me expand my possible employment options, even given geographic restrictions (i.e. give me more job options wherever the hell I end up). All in all, busy both personally and professionally, even if I haven’t been posting as much about it. In the coming days and weeks I’ll have far more frequent updates about the state of my research and other professional/academic posts.
As a small preview, this article from PRQ is a really interesting take on pro-immigrant policies from the standpoint of businesses as interest groups (gated: http://prq.sagepub.com/content/64/3/612.abstract). Gave me the idea for my States Politics and Policy Conference (SPPC) proposal, concerning the type of immigration policy businesses should press for, given their labor needs. Hopefully, that’ll end up as a chapter in my dissertation as well.