We are excited to announce that the 9th edition of the Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science (SoWEPS) will take place at Tulane University on Friday November 7th.
The SoWEPS-9<https://www.soweps.org/> workshop organizers invite submissions of (1) completed papers, (2) detailed research designs, and (3) expressions of interest in being a discussant or session chair. Note that at time of submission only an abstract is required, but if your proposal is accepted you will need to submit a full draft two weeks before the meeting. Graduate students and faculty (esp. junior faculty) are both encouraged to submit their work. Priority will be given to graduate students on the job market. We anticipate having 4-5 papers presented during the plenary sessions. In addition, applicants whose proposals are not accepted to the main agenda are invited to participate in a poster session during the happy hour.
Please submit here: https://forms.gle/48DoQzBHrogfHyvd8
Submission deadline: September 19, 2025
In line with the workshop's mission to support rigorous and creative empirically focused research, priority will be given to submissions that use or propose innovative methods or innovative types of data across all subfields of Political Science. We are particularly interested in work that is pushing the frontier of both empirical causal work (field experiments, natural/quasi-experimental methods, etc.) as well as the frontier of empirical descriptive or predictive work (machine learning, text analysis, etc.). We also invite submissions utilizing new types of data (novel administrative data, remote-sensed data, historical data) and beyond.
As a workshop that is feedback-focused, we prefer the submission of completed papers that have not already passed through review at a journal. However, work that is having trouble finding a home in a journal is still very welcome.
Financial support is available for graduate students.
Key SoWEPS-9 (Fall 2025) Dates:
September 19, 2025: Submission deadline
October 3, 2025: Announcement of the accepted papers and program
October 24, 2025: Final papers are due from program participants for circulation
November 7, 2025: SoWEPS-9 Conference occurs in person
To sign up for SOWEPS mailing list, click here: https://forms.gle/WrvnaxRt3Cz6Ewzd8
SoWEPS-8 Conveners: Allison Grossman (Tulane), Maggie Macdonald (University of Kentucky), Rachel Schoner (Tulane), Alexis Palmer (Tulane)