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The Gap Decade!
Many Political Science professors inspired Velazquez, including Dr. Mike Evans. “I learned at least as much from Joey as he did from me,” said Dr. Evans.

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Throton’s Paper on Partisanship Soon on APSRThe American Political Science Review (APSR) will soon publish a paper coauthored by Dr. Judd Thornton, Assistant Professor of Political Science, on the causal effects of election salience on partisan attachments. Along with Shane Singh, Associate Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, Dr. Thorton finds strong evidence that election salience increases… more »
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Naim Appointed to the Board of National Model United NationsDr. Rashid Naim, Principal Senior Lecturer of Political Science, got appointed as the new member of the National Model United Nations (NMUN) Board of Directors. Established in 1927, NMUN is the world’s largest intercollegiate Model UN conference with a Board of Directors composed of nine voting members changing every two years. Dr. Naim has been… more »
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Political Science Alumnus Receives Prestigious Fellowship, Joins Harvard Hainer Sibrian, a Political Science alumnus and a winner of the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, spoke at the convocation of the Honors College 2022 class. Sibrian is attending Harvard University’s Kennedy School to pursue his master’s in public policy as part of his already promising academic and career journey with an eye… more »
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GSU Interns “Inside Atlanta’s Immigrant Cages”The Project South and Georgia Detention Watch released a 105-page report on the conditions for detained immigrants in Georgia. GSU interns, Trevont Johnson and Pedro Ortiz, were among the team that produced the “Inside Atlanta’s Immigrant Cages” report involving a year-long documentation process and interviews with 38 detained immigrants and several immigration attorneys. Among other… more »
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Is Trump Master Negotiator or Malleable Amateur? Hankla’s Take Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, explains the dangers of Trump’s inconsistent and aggressive trade policies in an opinion piece published by The Conversation. “Inconsistent and aggressive trade policies, whether produced by a master negotiator or a malleable amateur, risk poisoning the mutual trust necessary to make such a system function,” Hankla argues. The… more »
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GSU Students to Take Part in Democratic Erosion ConferenceThree GSU students will be taking part in the Democratic Erosion Conference organized by Brown University in August 2018. The students were selected out of those who successfully completed courses on Polarization and Democratic Erosion, taught be Dr. Jennifer McCoy, as part of cross-university collaboration programs over the Spring of 2018. Sam Sharman (Political Science),… more »
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Goldberg’s Research Cited in the NY TimesThe work of Zach Goldberg, a GSU PhD student of Political Science, is featured in a New York Times opinion piece by Thomas B. Edsall. The author referred to Goldberg’s research on the ideological trends among liberal, moderate and conservative whites in the US to support his argument that white liberals have been moving sharply… more »
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Pariah to Pulitzer: Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey Discusses Rap Music’s PathWriting to The Conversation, Associate Professor Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey discusses how Rap music made it to the Pulitzer Prize after being fought for years. “While some have attempted to silence rap because of its raw portrayal of life in inner-city communities, people increasingly see its value. Like slave narratives, rap music has given an authentic… more »
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Go Back to Basics in the Middle East
Chair Carrie Manning introduced Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Dr. Chris Brown before the student-faculty discussion on war in the Middle East.