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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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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

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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Learn More About: Toward Queer Climate Justice

Political Science Now

They have published in Energy Research & Social Science and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume. in political science, with a doctoral emphasis in feminist studies, from the University of California, Santa Barbara and their A.B. They received their M.A.

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Jennifer Rich is an associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University and the executive director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. S tudents revealed that they were eager to spend more time with the experience.

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. We are developing problem-solvers, entrepreneurs and leaders from a hundred nations, weaving them together as one community to overcome the greatest challenges facing humanity. I am a poster child for the English major.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. Challenges of 21st-Century Learning.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

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). In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.