Dr. Corinne Blake, Faculty Advisor of the Year, 2017

We are delighted to announce this year's Faculty Advisor award goes to Dr. Corinne Blake, Associate Professor of history, Rowan University.

Without equivocation, we can claim Dr. Blake has been among the most active, positive, and engaged advisors in the Society. Beyond initiating her Chapter's formation, we have be impressed by her commitment - from encouraging students to seek to publish their work in SIR journals, to having a custom-made cake for her SIR inductees!

Thanks for everything, Dr. Blake!

Special Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on April 7, 2017, at the Second Annual Student Research Conference in International Relations hosted at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House. SIR is committed to promoting academic discourse in international relations and providing this platform for excellent undergraduates from our various chapters is a mission we value dearly. 

Special shoutout to the following presenters who traveled near and far to share their research:

• Erin Davison from St Joseph's University
• Lauren Dolinsky from Bucknell University 
• Katherine Thomas-Canfield from University of California, Berkeley
• Kevin Trimmer from St. Joseph's University
• Diana Hartford from Duquesne University 
• Veronica Francis from Rhodes College
• Winnie Thaw from Kenyon College

Helping Students Prepare for a Global Marketplace

The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) invites you to join us on Tuesday, April 11 to explore "Helping Students Prepare for a Global Marketplace." 

Academic, career, faculty, and other student advisers are invited to join APSIA Executive Director Carmen Mezzera and Stephanie J. Jackson, Assistant Director of Advising and Professional Development for the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, for a webinar.

Explore how to advise students on:

• Channeling interests into careers
• Building skills to be competitive
• Selecting, preparing for, and affording graduate school
• Finding career opportunities

Register Here

If You Advise Students...

Please share APSIA's resources, including their Career Guide and Fellowship Directory. At their in-person and online graduate school fairs, students can learn about the members' PhD and masters programs. APSIA also hosts a monthly webinar with best practices in applying to graduate school. Details at www.apsia.org/events

Call for Papers! SIR's 2nd Research Conference

SIR's 2nd Research Conference is organized around regional and subject matter panels, feature career development briefings, networking opportunities, and a keynote address by Dominic Tierney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and author of The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts.

STUDENTS OF SIR CHAPTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE!

Submit a working title for your proposal (250 character limit), a brief overview (250 character limit), and an abstract if available (1250 character limit to national@sigmaiotarho.org

DEADLINE IS MARCH 7, 2017.