I am currently attending the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. As I was walking to a panel today I saw a man sitting and read his name tag: David Kinsella. Dr. Kinsella is my academic hero. A paper that I read of his during my first year of graduate school is what put me on the path to studying arms transfers.
I didn't have the guts to just go up to him and say hello and tell him how much his early work has inspired my own career. I probably should have.
I ran into two Iowa students at the poster session this morning (September 3rd). They were both young graduate students when I was finishing up. Now they are both getting close to the end of their graduate work. They are both doing interesting work and had well-prepared posters.
I didn't have the guts to just go up to him and say hello and tell him how much his early work has inspired my own career. I probably should have.
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I saw a few interesting posters this morning. One is related to my own arms sales research. It is a test of arms data that shows that states that export weapons spend less on their own defense. This is an interesting finding and one that I need to look more at before I do much more on my own project.
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