POLS faculty gathered with other UConn faculty at the Board of Trustees meeting on April 17 to protest the impending budget cuts and ask the Board and the administration to scrap the five-year plan.
Dr. Meina Cai has a coauthored article titled “Social Embeddedness, Power Balance, and Local Governance in China,” that was recently published in World Development.
Dr. Lyle Scruggs’s article coauthored with former Pols graduate student, Salil Benegal, titled “Blame over blackouts: Correcting partisan misinformation regarding renewable energy in the United States” has been published in Energy Research and Social Science. Dr. Scruggs also received a $150,000 external grant from Eversource to evaluate Connecticut residents’ interest in adopting electrification technologies. Finally, Dr. Scruggs has been named to the Stanford/Elsevier’s top 2% scientist rankings in 2023.
Dr. Yonatan Morse’s article “Unpacking Candidate Selection in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Cameroon” has been published at Party Politics (w/ co-author Fru Norbert Suh I).
Dr. Evelyn Simien was selected as a Purdue University 2024 Distinguished Purdue Alumni Scholar. The award is intended to recognize the doctoral alumni of Purdue who have made significant scholarly contributions within their chosen field and in doing so have contributed extensively to the advancement of women in academia.
Art House (adjunct faculty) published an opinion article titled “Let’s protect Connecticut’s elections from foreign influence” with CT Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, in the CT Mirror on February 16.
Dr. Rob Venator Santiago was chosen as the winner of the 2024 CLAS Strategic Goals: Broader Impacts, Service, and Visibility Award.
Dr. Beth Ginsberg and Dr. Elva Orozco Mendoza were Common Curriculum Grant Awardees for new courses. Dr. Ginsberg will create POLS 36XX LGBTQ+ Politics in the United States, and Dr. Orozco Mendoza will create WGSS 2256W Latin American and Latinx Feminist Theory and Praxis.
Dr. Jeremy Pressman was interviewed on Voice of America’s “International Edition” about US Sen. Chuck Schumer’s call for new elections in Israel on March 14. Dr. Pressman’s letter on Israel-Palestine appeared in the New York Times on March 25.
Dr. David Richards gave a talk at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights on March 14, titled “The Human Right to Rest & Leisure”. Dr. David Richards also spoke at a UN CSW week event hosted by the Teqbahn Labs, FIDA Cameroon, and the Women’s Rights and Health Project on March 13. The title of his talk was “A Data-Based Blindspot: Assessing Legal Frameworks for Women’s Human Rights”.
Dr. Kimberly Bergendahl and Christopher Truedson (POLS ‘24) (undergraduate researcher) presented their work “Party-Poopers? Assessing Senate Judiciary Committee Members’ Lines of Questioning of Supreme Court Nominees in an Era of Party Polarization,” at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association on April 20 in Newport, RI.
Dr. Shareen Hertel published a chapter titled “Educating for Social Change,” in The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy, Heather A. Smith, Mark A. Boyer, and David J. Hornsby, eds. New York: Oxford University Press (2024): 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544891.013.1 Dr. Shareen Hertel also presented her paper, “Human rights due diligence: views of process, from the ground up” (co-authored with Dr. Rachel Chambers and POLS doctoral student Cory Runstedler) at the April 2024 meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco. In May 2024, she will take part in an expert panel convening on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, hosted in Washington DC by the Brooking Institution and Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Beth Ginsberg was nominated for the Faculty Research Mentor Excellence Award; Dr. Evan Perkoski was nominated for the Outstanding Undergraduate Advising Award; and Dr.
Jessamy Hoffmann was nominated for the Outstanding Professional Advisor Award.
Dr. Beth Ginsberg presented her research at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting in April. Her paper was co-authored with Prof. Sarah Perez (UT-RGV) and was titled “Cuban-America Turnout in Presidential Elections.” Also at that conference, Dr. Ginsberg participated in the following roundtables: Work Life Balance as an Academic, Developing New Courses, and Unique Assignments in Political Science Courses.
Dr. Evan Perkoski presented a new research project at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco in April titled “Double Agents: Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and Patterns of Global Conflict.”
There are a number of departmental faculty and staff celebrating milestones working at UConn. We would like to recognize the following individuals and thank them for their dedication!
10 Years- Dr. Zehra Arat, Jessica Deojay, Dr. Thomas Hayes, Dr. Fred Lee, Dr. Paul Herrnson, Dr. Jane Gordon
15 Years- Dr. Jessamy Hoffmann, Dr. Kimberly Bergendahl
20 Years- Dr. Oksan Bayulgen, Dr. Jeremy Pressman
25 Years- Dr. Lyle Scruggs, Dr. Kristin Kelly
30 Years- Christine Luberto