Dr. Matthew Singer’s paper “This Crisis Is Different: Weakened Economic Accountability During the COVID-19 Pandemic” was published in Presidential Studies Quarterly on Jan 15, 2025.
Dr. Zehra Arat, Dr. Jason Byers, and Dr. Sandy Grande were winners of the 2024-2025 Course Development Grant Competition to create new courses. Dr. Arat’s course will be “Women’s Rights in Law & Advocacy”, Dr. Byers will work on “Data Visualization for the Social and Behavioral Sciences”, and Dr. Grande will develop “Native Nations CT II”.
Dr. Shareen Hertel, together with her co-authors and Dr. Eleanor Shore-Ouimet (UConn Department of Anthropology)was integral to a recent grant awarded to create a mapping tool for addressing socioeconomic and demographic disparities in power outage impacts. Funds were awarded competitively through the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Weather Innovation and Smart Energy and Resilience (WISER) jointly run by UConn and U-Albany.
Dr. Shareen Hertel presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting in Chicago in March 2025 as part of a roundtable on Wendy Wong’s 2023 award-winning book We The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age . Also in March (6-7), she co-hosted the Human Rights Institute’s bi-annual Economic & Social Rights Group (ESRG) Workshop. And in June 2025, she will co-host the 4th Connecticut-Baden Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium Conference on “Human Rights in the Balance: Safeguarding Social & Environmental Sustainability” to take place at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany.
Adjunct faculty, Art House‘s op-ed, “Let’s resolve Connecticut’s electricity challenge. Here’s a plan,” was published in the Hartford Courant on February 2, 2025. His previous op-ed “A CT Resident Who Was There Remembers Jimmy Carter” was published in the same newspaper on December 30, 2024.
Dr. Stephen Dyson and Dr. Jeffrey Dudas’ podcast was featured in the New Books Network Newsletter: The Silver Screen. The New Books Network is the world’s largest academic podcast network.
Dr. Evan Perkoski received a grant from the Schmidt Futures Foundation to study how artificial intelligence might soon impact the organization and behavior of terrorist groups. He was also invited to participate in a workshop at ETH Zurich, in February, on the international dimensions of civil war and subnational violence. He presented papers on the link between civil society and the duration and severity of mass violence, and patterns of global conflict between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Dr. Evan Perkoski also published a series of reports for the National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology, and Education Center, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. Some of this data was collected by former UConn undergrad, William Herens (and now University of Maryland PhD student). You can find these here and here.
Dr. Kimberly Bergendahl will be presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in April. The paper is titled: “Supreme Court Nominations and the Senate Judiciary Committee: What to Expect During a Second Trump Presidency.”
Dr. Beth Ginsberg presented her co-authored work (with Prof. Sarah Perez, University of Texas) at the Southern Political Science Association conference in January 2025. Their paper was titled “Mexican American Voting Behavior: Influences on Turnout Since 1980”.
Dr. Beth Ginsberg was awarded a Provost course competition grant to develop a new course. The course will be titled “American Jewish Political Behavior,” and it will be offered during the 2026-2027 academic year. Dr. Ginsberg was also selected by CETL to participate in a Faculty Success Program offered by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) for the Spring 2025 semester.