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Weidenbaum Center Speaker Peter Kastor discusses how college students can debate changes they would make to the US Constitution

5.20.26 | KMOX Radio

WashU History Professor Peter Kastor and WashU Law Dean Stefanie Lindquist discuss the upcoming Model Constitutional Convention on KMOX podcast. Conversation starts at timestamp 01:15.

Weidenbaum Center Speaker John Inazu wins religion scholar award

5.14.26 | WashU The Source

Professor Inazu, the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion at WashU Law, received Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance 2026 Senior Scholar Award.

New study by Weidenbaum Center grant recipients reveals when and why political parties engage voters in multiple languages

5.13.26 | WashU The Source

The authors analyzed 4 million Facebook posts made by political parties between 2016 and 2022 to develop the first classification of monolingual and multilingual parties around the world.

Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Dan Butler publishes new article discussing 2024 primary election study

5.11.26

The Primary Election Study (PES) is a survey dataset designed to "facilitate the study of voter behavior, attitudes, and decision-making in U.S. primary elections."

Former Weidenbaum Center Graduate Affiliate Alejandro Gonzalez to work as research economist at the Central Bank of Peru

5.11.26

We wish Dr. Alejandro Gonzalez the best of luck in his new role!

Weidenbaum Center Postdoctoral Fellow Hwayong Shin examines Americans' trust in political institutions and how it varies across political and social cleavages

5.7.26

Data from the Weidenbaum Center Survey (Waves 6-8; May 2025, October 2025, and February-March 2026) reveal how much Americans trust political institutions and whether that trust diverges across partisanship, region, and employment status.

Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Michael Strawbridge named 2026 Andrew Carnegie fellow

5.6.26 | The Ampersand

As the first WashU recipient of the Andrew Carnegie fellowship, Professor Strawbridge plans to study what unites Black Americans politically, and how this cohesion has been sustained across generations despite the polarization of American politics.

Weidenbaum Center Director of Survey Research Taylor Carlson receives the 2026 AAPOR Book Award

5.5.26

Taylor Carlson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies, has received the 2026 American Association for Public Opinion Research Book (AAPOR) Book Award for "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America," which Carlson co-authored with Jaime E. Settle, Cornelia Brackenridge Talbot Professor of Government at William & Mary.

Weidenbaum Center Research Fellow Travis Crum comments on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to gut a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act

5.4.26 | Stateline

Crum says he thinks we’re definitely going to see the impact of the decision at the state level after 2030.

Congratulations to Weidenbaum Center Speaker Liz Chiarello on being selected as a Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Fellow

5.4.26 | Institute of Advanced Study website

Congrats to Weidenbaum Center Speaker and Associate Professor of Sociology Liz Chiarello for being selected as a 2026–27 Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Liz will be in residence at Princeton for the upcoming academic year.

Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Caitlyn Collins comments on the big business of breastfeeding

4.30.26 | Marie Claire

Collins says products and services do not make a community. They help ease the hurt of living without one.

Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Youngseok Shin comments on AI adoption at work

4.30.26 | St. Louis Magazine

Shin says employees often need time set aside by their bosses to experiment with tools or formalized AI training.