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 […]
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Faculty Achievements: Late Fall 2024
Dr. Pressman – along with co-authors Erica Chenoweth, Soha Hammam, and Jay Ulfelder – recently published “Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024” in Social Movement Studies. The article characterizes the movements based on their Crowd Counting Consortium data. For example, the article addresses size, frequency, and the largely non-violent protestors. It […]
Faculty Achievements: Early Fall 2024
Dr. Stephen Dyson is co-principal investigator and Dr. Jeffrey Dudas is senior personnel on an NEH grant awarded to UCHI to investigate how legacies of slavery are shaping the perception and reception of conversational artificial intelligence. Dr. Beth Ginsberg is the recipient of the University Honors Faculty Member of the Year. Dr. Sam Best and […]
Faculty Achievements: Late Spring 2024
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 […]
Faculty Achievements: Early Spring 2024
Prof. Beth Ginsberg (accompanied by Prof. Jane Gordon) took several POLS students to New Hampshire in January after receiving a generous grant from UCONN Provost Anne D’Alleva. The purpose of this trip was to explore and better understand the 1st in the country presidential primary process in NH. The group was able to meet with […]
Faculty Achievements: Late Fall 2023
Prof. Jeremy Pressman and his coauthor, Ehud Eiran, published “US recognition of Israeli territorial claims in the Golan and Jerusalem: Implications for the norm against acquisition of territory by force” in The Middle East Journal. Prof. Jeremy Pressman also published two recent blog posts, “Religious-Nationalist Obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian Political Talks” and “Israelis and Palestinians: It […]
Faculty Achievements: Early Fall 2023
Prof. Zehra Arat, who is a 2023-24 UConn Humanities Institute Fellow working on a book manuscript on human rights norms in Turkey, was nominated for the Ann Snitow Prize, for an outstanding feminist intellectual/artist and activist working in the United States (Decision will be made in December). Prof. Arat also published an article with Prof. Shareen […]
Faculty Achievements: Early Spring 2023
Talbot Andrew’s paper, Preferences for prevention: People assume expensive problems have expensive solutions won the award for best paper published in Risk Analysis in 2022. Prof. Andrews also had new work coauthored with a large international team studying climate impacts, published in iScience: Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake. Finally, she talked […]
Faculty Achievements: Late Fall 2022
Christine Sylvester spoke on “Memorialized War Women in the USA, Vietnam, and the UK” at a program on Gender, Sexuality, Memorialisation held at York University on September 13, 2022. On October 24 she spoke on “The Present Re-dux, Re-IR’d, and Maybe Re-curating”, at Central European University in Vienna. Finally, Dr. Sylvester spoke on “Who Owns […]
Political Science Professor named CLAS Accessibility Fellow
Professor Kimberly Bergendahl was recently named an inaugural CLAS Accessibility Fellow. She will receive funding for research, professional development, or a course release and will work on projects related to accessibility issues around campus for the CLAS Dean’s Office. More About CLAS Accessibility Fellows CLAS is introducing a program to allow its faculty and staff to develop […]