• Michael Morrell (joined by colleagues Robert C. Richards of University of Arkansas, Justin Reedy of University of Oklahoma, and David Brinker) guest-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy on Psychological Phenomena in Democratic Deliberation. In that same issue, Morrell (joined by Genevieve Fuji Johnson of Simon Fraser University and Laura W. Black of Ohio University) co-authored an article entitled “Mini-Public Replication: Emotions and Deliberation in the Citizens’ Initiative Review Redux.”
• Evan Perkoski’s co-authored article, “Honor Among Thieves: Understanding Rhetorical and Material Cooperation Among Violent Nonstate Actors,” has been published in the Winter 2022 edition of International Organizations. The article was prominently featured in a blog post titled “How do we get IR to notice something?” at The Duck of Minerva. Dr. Perkoski also briefed faculty members at the Marine Corps University on patterns of terrorist innovation and its consequences for the US armed forces. 
• Talbot Andrews’ co-authored paper, “Anticipating moral hazard undermines climate mitigation in an experimental geoengineering game,” was published in Ecological Economics. Additionally, the newest report from the 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability) referenced several of Dr. Andrews’ publications. And her co-authored paper entitled “Too many ways to help: How to promote climate change mitigation behaviors” was just accepted at the Journal of Environmental Psychology.
• Zehra F.K. Arat published an article, “Gender Politics and Struggle for Equality in Turkey,” in the Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics. (Oxford University Press, 2022). She also presented two papers at the annual convention of the International Studies Association last month: (1) “Problems with Tolerance” and (2) “What is in a Name? Reclaiming Third World Feminism.”
• Shareen Hertel and Zehra F.K. Arat presented their paper, “Rights Beyond Words: Mapping Human Rights Scholar-Organization Partnerships,” for multiple audiences in February 2022, including UConn’s Human Rights Institute Colloquium Series and the longstanding Columbia University Human Rights Seminar.
• Dr. Hertel, who is a member of the International Studies Association’s Academic Freedom Committee, also presented at the ISA 2022 Annual Conference on a related panel, “Putting Academic Freedom into Perspective: From the Global to Local to Personal.” drawing insights from cases covered by the committee. 
• Jane Gordon delivered a lecture entitled “Reading Rousseau’s Second Discourse as an Invitation to Creolizing Inquiry” to the Directed Studies Colloquium in the Program in Humanities at Yale University. Additionally, Dr. Gordon’s extended book review of Kris F. Sealey’s Creolizing the Nation appeared in Volume 10, Number 1 of Critical Philosophy of Race and her article, “Clasping Together the Magical and the Menial: Decolonizing Aesthetics,” is forthcoming in Interventions.
• Jeremy Pressman (along with co-authors Erica Chenoweth, Tommy Leung, L. Nathan Perkins, and Jay Ulfelder) published an article on “Protests Under Trump, 2017–2021” in the February 3, 2022 edition of Mobilization.
• Lyle Scruggs and former Ph.D. student Gabriela Tafoya ‘19 published an updated version of their Comparative Welfare Dataset at www.cwep.us. The dataset has been used in over 200 peer-reviewed papers over the last 15 years. Associated with this dataset, they published a paper on “Fifty years of welfare state generosity” which is now in pre-print at Social Policy & Administration. Additionally, Dr. Scruggs presented a paper at the Midwest Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting with former Ph.D. student Taesim Kim ‘19 entitled “COVID-19, Technological Unemployment Threat, and Public Attitudes toward Universal Basic Income.” 
• Lyle Scruggs and Oksan Bayulgen have secured a $100,000 interdisciplinary collaboration grant from the New England University Collaboration on Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Their funded project is entitled “CLEAN EARTH: Collaboratory of Environmental Advocacy, Net-zero Carbon and Renewable Technologies.” It features co-principal investigators from three different colleges/schools at UConn (CLAS, Engineering, and CANHR).
• Dr. Bayulgen also received the Provost’s General Education Course Enhancement Grant for her course titled “Sustainable Energy in the 21st Century.”
• Christine Sylvester was quoted in an article by Elena Heimi on women and the war in Ukraine in the Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, on March 10, 2022. She also authored a review forum article in Political Geography entitled “Does Iraq War Art Need ‘The Event’? Reading Alan Ingram’s Geopolitics and the Event: Rethinking Britain’s Iraq War Through Art.” Finally, Dr. Sylvester was a keynote speaker for a conference on “Futurisms and Speculations in World Politics: Re-Thinking IR Imaginaries and Methodologies” at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on March 9.
• Meina Cai received a 2022-2023 international fellowship from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to work on her project on land property rights and urbanization in China.
• Both Elva Orozco Mendoza and Hind Ahmed Zaki were awarded University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year.
• Arthur House, a lecturer in the department, recently authored an op-ed piece in the March 1, 2022 issue of the Hartford Courant titled “Ukraine cyber spillover could hit home.” Dr. House is currently teaching a class in Storrs on National and Cyber Security Issues.
• Evan Perkoski, Oksan Bayulgen, Stephen Dyson, Beth Ginsberg, and Jeremy Pressman all participated in a discussion about Ukraine for UConn students on March 7, 2022.
• On December 14, Professor Emeritus Fred Turner virtually presented a paper on “Approaches and Institutions in the Work of Mattei Dogan” at the Colloque Mattei Dogan: Pionnier de la recherche comparative internationale en sciences sociales held at the Fondation Maison des Science de l’Homme in Paris.