[Poscgrad] Fwd: share w your dept?

[Farah Godrej]

Hi grads, please see below for the call for APSA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER), to be held in July at UCLA.

Farah Godrej <https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/farahgodrej>
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside 
(she/her/hers)

Author of Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-inside-9780190070090?cc=us&lang=en&> (Oxford University Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/the-charles-taylor-book-award/>; honorable mentions for 2023 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award <https://publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-and-category-winners-for-2023-prose-awards/> and 2023  <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2023/08/2023-LAF-BookAward-HonMention-Citation.pdf>Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence <https://connect.apsanet.org/interpretationandmethod/lee-ann-fujii-award-for-innovation-in-the-interpretive-study-of-political-violence/>

Co-Founding Director, UCR LIFTED <https://education.ucr.edu/ucr-lifted> prison BA program

Personal Zoom Room <https://ucr.zoom.us/j/5399165858> 








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> From: Samantha Majic <SAMANTHA.MAJIC69 at login.cuny.edu>
> Subject: share w your dept?
> Date: February 11, 2026 at 5:33:38 AM PST
> To: Farah Godrej <godrej at ucr.edu>
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> Dear Colleagues:
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> As a co-chair of APSA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connect.apsanet.org/icer/__;!!PxiZbSOawA!OlK1gEH5e93wqigmewU7YaBgp1c_-YaVKd_UQCd0EFwhRjFj-XDl1RYrxgUL-Q9MsyrTn7qRZzThLHcu781p_UaLsN-I8Lp9cw$>, I am writing to encourage you to apply for our annual four-day, residential institute that provides political scientists with training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically engaged research. Up to 20 scholars will be selected as ICER Fellows and invited to attend the 2026 Summer Institute. ICER Fellows will network with other like-minded political scientists, and together, learn best practices for conducting academically robust, mutually beneficial scholarship in collaboration with communities, organizations, and agencies outside of academia.
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> While the program is best suited to early- and mid-career scholars, advanced graduate students nearing completion of their doctoral program are also welcome to apply. We are especially interested in gathering scholars interested in partnering with government officials, policy practitioners, and/or community organizers for CER projects.
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> ICER is organized in partnership with the Center for Community Engagement <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://communityengagement.ucla.edu/__;!!PxiZbSOawA!OlK1gEH5e93wqigmewU7YaBgp1c_-YaVKd_UQCd0EFwhRjFj-XDl1RYrxgUL-Q9MsyrTn7qRZzThLHcu781p_UaLsN9IPohVIQ$> (CCE) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with generous support from The Haynes Foundation <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://haynesfoundation.org/__;!!PxiZbSOawA!OlK1gEH5e93wqigmewU7YaBgp1c_-YaVKd_UQCd0EFwhRjFj-XDl1RYrxgUL-Q9MsyrTn7qRZzThLHcu781p_UaLsN_gDGd3dg$>.
> The 2026 Institute will be held in person at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA from July 13-16. To apply, please complete this form <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openwater-os.secure-platform.com/americanpoliticalscienceassociation/Start__;!!PxiZbSOawA!OlK1gEH5e93wqigmewU7YaBgp1c_-YaVKd_UQCd0EFwhRjFj-XDl1RYrxgUL-Q9MsyrTn7qRZzThLHcu781p_UaLsN9Rd8K23Q$> by April 15, 2026, 11:59 pm PT.
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> FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see the document attached, and don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions!
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> - Samantha Majic  (smajic at gc.cuny.edu <mailto:smajic at gc.cuny.edu>)
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> Samantha Majic, PhD
> Professor | Political Science | John Jay College
> Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice | Ph.D. Program in Political Science | THE GRADUATE CENTER | CUNY
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> Sex Work and Online Platforms Research (Woodhull Freedom Foundation) https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/our-projects/deplatforming-sex-workers/ 
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> Lights, Camera, Feminism? Celebrities and Anti-Trafficking Politics (Available from the University of California Press <https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520384903/lights-camera-feminism>)
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> Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision (University of Pennsylvania Press)
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> Negotiating Sex Work: The Unintended Consequences of Policy & Activism (with Carisa Showden; University of Minnesota Press)
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> Youth Who Trade Sex in the US: Agency, Intersectionality, and Vulnerability (with Carisa Showden; Temple University Press)
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