Capitol Hill Insights: Voices from the Congressional Fellowship Program

Introduction

Kara Abramson, guest editor

Practice and Theory: How Experiencing the Political Process Can Inform Scholarship

Laura Blessing

The Value of Time in the US Senate: A Fellow’s Perspective on Obstruction

Ian Ostrander

A Health Professional’s Political Science Education: Lessons from a Congressional Fellowship

Nadine Braunstein

An APSA Fellow’s Journey from Down Under to the Hill

Jonathan Swan

The Value of the APSA Congressional Fellowship in an Era of Dysfunction

Jake Haselswerdt, Jeffrey Fine, Emily Lynch, and Lindsey Herbel

Capitol Hill Culture Shock: A Perspective from an Asian Fellow

Sa-ngopkarn Moungthong

A Political Science Assessment of the House Democratic Gun Violence Prevention Task Force

Kevin H. Wozniak

Lest Congress Forgets: A Fellow’s Walk and Institutional Partisanship in Contemporary Representational Politics

Tyson King-Meadows

New Blood: Policy-Making in a Freshman Congressional Office

Amir Fairdosi

Making Sense of the Hill: A Political Scientist in Politics

Joshua Carstens Huder

APSA Fellowship with the Congressional Research Service

Anthony Madonna

Of Bridges and Borders: An APSA Congressional Fellow’s North American Tale

Matthew K. Asada

A Woman on the Hill: A Front-Row Seat to Women’s Impact in Congress

Kelly E. Dittmar

The Broad Value of a PhD in Political Science

Michael H. Murakami

A Troika of Fellows

Harun Dogo, David Sklar, and Chris Tausanovitch

Providing Science to Improve the Public’s Health: A Fellow’s View from the Office of the US Surgeon General

Dawn Alley

A Window Seat on American Politics: Reflections on the GMFUS/APSA Congressional Fellowship

Sebastian Bruns

Nuclear Weapons in the 112th Congress: Politics and Policy after New START

Thomas Karako

The Senate Budget Committee: The Impact of Polarization on Institutional Design

Joseph Bafumi

Teaching Students about Congress and Civic Engagement

B. Welling Hall

Congress from the Inside: US–Africa Foreign Policy and Black Ethnic Politics

Menna Demessie

Invisible Black Politics: An Analysis of Black Congressional Leadership from the Inside

Katrina L. Gamble

A ‘Hill Speak’ Primer: Explaining the Legislative Jargon of Congress

Dan Schill

The Complexities of Lobbying: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Profession

Lee Drutman

Senate Subcommittee Probes Causes of Financial Crisis

Kevin Wack

A Glimpse of History: Working for the House Majority Whip in the Early Days of the 111th Congress

Bryan W. Marshall