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The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us

Political Science Now

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us By Geoff Dancy , University of Toronto and Christopher J. Fariss , University of Michigan Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? The answer to both questions, our research suggests, is “yes.” Read the full article.

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

Political Science Now

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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Meet Mary McLoughlin, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Mary holds an M.A.

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From Fleeing to Fighting Back: New Research Explores How People Decide During Violence

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Milliff’s research focus is on Indian Sikhs’ actions during the anti-Sikh pogrom in North India during the 1980s. American Political Science Review , 1–19.

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

The Hechinger Report

In August of that year, Jack Dorsey donated $10 million to Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research — even though Dorsey didn’t finish college and didn’t attend Boston University. 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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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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Learn More About: Resisting the Prohibition of Child Marriage in Latin America

Political Science Now

Her research focuses on international law, human rights, transnational activism, and the impact of domestic politics on international cooperation. The manuscript is based on her dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s award for the best dissertation in the field of human rights.