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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her research spans human rights and democratization in Latin America and globally. In December 2024, APSA awarded 22 projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics for a combined amount of $44,000. Read about the funded projects.

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JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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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. See all 2024 RBSI Scholars. The post Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Maya Mikelson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor appeared first on.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Her writings have appeared in the Journal of Democracy , Foreign Policy , Nikkei Asian Review , The Diplomat , and the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. Tang holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Amherst College.

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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. The post Lotem Bassan-Nygate Receives the 2024 Merze Tate Award for “Who is Watching? Lotem Bassan-Nygate is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the John F.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

She is a Fulbright Scholar, International Peace Scholar, recipient of the Associated Federation of Teacher’s Cesar Chavez Human Rights award, and one of University of London’s 2022 Contemporary Woman Philosophers. The post Farhana Loonat Receives the 2024 APSA Community College Faculty Award appeared first on.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 4, 2024

Larissa Beckman (she/her) is a Brazilian lawyer and holds two master’s degrees in law, the first from the Judicial School of the State of Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ-Brazil) in public and private law and the other from the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL-UK) in human rights law. As a political science Ph.D.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the organization, effective September 16, 2024. The Search Committee and Process In early 2024, APSA President Mark Warren formed a search committee chaired by former APSA President Paula D. Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy’s biography and LinkedIn profile are available upon request.

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Political Science Now

MAY 22, 2024

Angela’s research interests span human rights, conflict studies, peace studies, African studies, and politics of the Global South. APSA has once again awarded a new cycle to provide support for PhD students currently in their first or second year as of Spring 2024.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Jair Peltier, Bear clan of the Anishinaabe, is currently enrolled at the Catholic University of America in a Human Rights Master’s program with their Institute of Human Ecology. Please join us in congratulating the 2024-2025 class of fellows.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships. Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. These efforts have been built without the warmth of tinto, the stick of hot plastic chairs, or the pulse of broader human presence.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Deadline: December 18, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET. Books must have been published in the previous calendar year to be eligible for the current awards cycle (books for the 2025 award must have been published in 2024). Nominations are now open! It is not compulsory that authors be political scientists.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

APPLYING TO FORM A STUDY GROUP If you are interested in forming a Teaching for Black Lives study group for the 2024–2025 school year or throughout the 2024–2026 school years, please carefully read the sections below. Applications for 2024–2025 study groups are open.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024. We are confirming continued co-sponsorship for 2024. The situation is urgent. Coordinators Co-sponsors Below are the 2023 co-sponsors.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

” – Vision Statement The Committee will establish its presence at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia by hosting a panel entitled, “Rethinking Disability as a Universal Experience,” which will feature a discussion of how to define disability and explore a variety of issues facing the disabled members of the profession and discipline.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 APSA awards ! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service.

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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. Half American chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in World War II and in the war against racism in the United States.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Chicago students organized “peace talks” at high schools across the city in the wake of a walkout protest demanding a ceasefire to the war in Gaza in January 2024. The post Students Defend Human Rights appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Student Activism See more examples of youth organizing.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

In June 2024, our editorial team put out a call for submissions of anthropological poems of resistance, refusal, and wayfinding. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights where Abalajon served as a translator. They reveal the multitude of ways in which resistance, refusal, and wayfinding might take shape.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In February 2024, a man walked by Gaza City’s Islamic University, which was destroyed by Israeli military strikes. Unfortunately, Hage’s experience is far from unique right now. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Dr. Barakat is a physician, humanitarian, and advocate for social and human rights. Benjamin, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, is widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to the intersection of race, justice, and technology, earning her a 2024 MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellowship.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

We try to publicize our efforts as much as we can (most recently, we did a roundtable on this at NPSA 2024). For example, I recently published a piece in the Journal of Human Rights interrogating current US policy on asylum for LGBTQ+ folks. And we share our syllabi with anyone who wants it!

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

While Israeli media boasted the images depict “Hamas terrorists surrendering in Gaza,” Palestinian and international organizations reacted with horror over the flagrant human rights abuses. A Palestinian woman rests in Rafah, Gaza, after her release from an Israeli occupation prison in January 2024. This is not far from reality.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

On March 6, 2024 , I woke up to the horrific news that the Israeli military had bombed the building of the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) in Gaza City, part of the ongoing war on Gaza that began last October.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education. Projects and Organizations Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Adalah (“justice” in Arabic) is an independent human rights organization and legal center.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Ross, the renowned human rights activist who’s now a professor at Smith College. [Loretta Ross] What is happening is that they’re generally not joining the legacy feminist organizations, and they’re developing their own ways of being active according to the conditions that they’re dealing with.

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