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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. She received her Ph.D.

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Under the Baghdad Sun

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023. During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” Credit: Murtaja Lateef Al-Sinak Street, summer 2023.

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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships.

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OPINION: Legacy admissions are unnecessary, raise moral concerns and exclude deserving students

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Legacy admissions began to get more attention after the Department of Education initiated a civil rights investigation in July 2023 into Harvard’s legacy practice. In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. prisons and jails.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers.

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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In his role as the head of state and government, President Jokowi transcends the identity of a mere political figure or official; he becomes a personification of the nation itself. President Jokowi in Tanimbar attire delivered the 2023 State of the Union Address. However, they do not play a central role in the Merti Dusun rituals.

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Meet Oren Samet, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. Oren was based in Bangkok, Thailand, and worked in the field of international human rights. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. Unfortunately, Hage’s experience is far from unique right now. In Israel, attacks on educators and students critical of the state have intensified since October 7, 2023.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Maya Mikelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Political Science Now

MAY 3, 2024

While at Michigan, she has researched the ratification of human rights treaties with Professor Chris Fariss and developed her knowledge of various quantitative analysis tools including R. She presented her results from this work in a poster session at the 2023 American Political Science Association meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

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Lotem Bassan-Nygate Receives the 2024 Merze Tate Award for “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism”

Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

This dissertation sheds new light on our understanding of the costs and benefits of naming and shaming human rights abusers. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Lotem Bassan-Nygate is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023.

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Member Spotlight: Dr. Cyril Ghosh, Clark University

Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I didnt know they had their own governance structures and bylaws. Over the years, I have come to understand what these divisions are, what they do, how they are governed, and, in fact, found not just one but two intellectual communities for myself! I mean, I wasnt totally clueless. But I couldnt really tell you anything about them.

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Call on NAIS to Correct the Record and Stand Against Hate

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Dr. Barakat is a physician, humanitarian, and advocate for social and human rights. Additionally, leading human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have characterized Israels actions as acts of genocide. Dr. Barakat and Prof.

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How Israeli Prisons Terrorize Palestinians—Inside and Outside Their Walls

Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

CAMERAS ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE In December 2023, as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza entered its third month, the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) released photos and videos of military trucks crammed with Palestinian captives: stripped to their underwear, kneeling, blindfolded, and with hands bound behind their backs. This is not far from reality.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

7, 2023, Hamas attacks — but the unfolding genocide, including the destruction of Gaza’s public health infrastructure and the intentional creation of famine, must be condemned. We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.”

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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

Under the Baghdad Sun

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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

OPINION: Legacy admissions are unnecessary, raise moral concerns and exclude deserving students

Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Meet Oren Samet, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Maya Mikelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lotem Bassan-Nygate Receives the 2024 Merze Tate Award for “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism”

Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Member Spotlight: Dr. Cyril Ghosh, Clark University

Call on NAIS to Correct the Record and Stand Against Hate

How Israeli Prisons Terrorize Palestinians—Inside and Outside Their Walls

Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

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