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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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Upcoming Event: Jan Banning on Pulaski Women’s Prison The Zoukis Research Collaborative invites you to attend a presentation by internationally acclaimed artist Jan Banning on his Law & Order, Pulaski Women’s Prison and the case of Christina Boyer. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 1:00 – 2:30 PM at Langdale, Room 1076, Political Science Department, Georgia State University.… more »
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Feit Awarded Contemporary Political Theory’s Best Paper PrizeThe Contemporary Political Theory journal awards Dr. Mario Feit its 2018 Best Paper prize for his article on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s democratic impatience. The article, described by the committee as “path-breaking,” argues that King demonstrates that impatience is a democratic virtue. It builds on impatient knowledge to argue that democratic impatience aides in… more »
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Lindsay’s New Book: The Craft of University TeachingWhat does university teaching – as a craft – look like? What changes does a craft perspective suggest for higher education? The Craft of University Teaching, published by University of Toronto Press, is Dr. Peter Lindsay’s new book. Lindsay is a Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and the former director of the Center… more »
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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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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.