Robert Downes (PhD Candidate)’s conference paper on radical ecology and indigeneous thought “Natural Dialectics: Māori & Sioux Ecosophy Encounters the Rule of Law” was published in the open-access/peer-reviewed Journal of International Relations, Peace, and Diplomacy Studies. Robert Downes (PhD Candidate)’s article “Green Anarchy & Red Praxis: An Anarcho-Indigenous Dialouge Towards a Democracy of Species” was […]
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Alumni Notes: Early Fall 2024
Michael Hernandez (‘22) was profiled by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy for their admission materials. Michael is pursuing a Masters in Public Policy and a Master of Divinity at the University of Chicago. Daniel Fata (‘94) was the ‘24 Commencement Speaker for the Masters Ceremony at UConn last spring. Sherlynn Vendome […]
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 […]
Student Successes: Late Spring 2024
M. Aynal Haque (Ph.D. Candidate) won CETL’s 2024 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. Bieu Tran (Ph.D. Candidate) has been awarded the CUNY Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Instructor of the Year Award) and the accompanying $2000 prize. He was also recently selected as a finalist for the University Citizen Award, UConn’s most prestigious […]
Alumni Notes: Late Spring 2024
Former graduate student and instructor Susana Ulloa (MA ‘95) passed away. We remember her fondly in our department and will carry on her legacy. You can find an interview with Matt McMahon (POLS ‘89) who runs the Sports Diplomacy Division at the US State Department in the recent UConn Magazine Yazmin Garcia Trejo (Ph.D. ‘14) […]
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 […]
Alumni Notes: Early Spring 2024
Sercan Canbolat’s (‘23 Ph.D) book (co-authored with Dr. Özgür Özdamar) Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2023) has received the International Studies Association’s (ISA) 2023 Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Award. Daniel Fata (CLAS ’94) and Jeffrey Dressler (CLAS ’08) were appointed by […]
Student Successes: Early Spring 2024
Aidan Caron (CLAS ’24) won a Fall ’23 Change Grant from the UConn Co–op Legacy Fellowship Program for his project entitled “Promoting Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Method Approach to Identifying Socioeconomic Disparities in Urban Park Systems”. Gloria Dickson (CLAS ’24) won the 2023 Curt F. Beck Law and Public Service Opportunity Fund to pursue an internship […]
Student Successes: Late Fall 2023
Many of our students – Robert Downes (POLS PhD student), Alexander Gray (POLS PhD student), Micah Press (PPC MA student), Ilia Medina (IIREP MA student), Archiwal Ahmadullah (POLS PhD student), Rohan Naik (5th Year POLS MA student), Evenin Lucas-Moran (5th year MA student) and Brooke Bigda (POLS honors student) – attended the Northeastern Political Science […]