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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. I am a poster child for the English major. In my own career, I leveraged what I learned studying English.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). government’s own assessment that global democracy is in a state of decline.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Human rights experts and activists have named the situation in Palestine “ scholasticide ” or “ educide ,” terms that refer to the systematic destruction of a people’s educational system. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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