Emeritus Professor Palmer Passed Away on April 28th
Emeritus Professor David Scott Palmer passed away on April 28th. His long life, eighty years, was well lived. He was a person of strong convictions, unfailing courtesy, and thorough decency and humanity. Additionally, he was a scholar of the first order. He authored six important books and more than sixty articles. He was a thoughtful participant […]
Prof Mayers Publishes on American Diplomats in Cold War
Prof Mayers recently published an article, Crossing to Safety from Cold War America: The Collaboration and Friendship of John Paton Davies, Jr. and George Frost Kennan, in Diplomacy & Statecraft. The piece chronicles the “interwoven careers and lives of two distinguished American diplomats… Foreign Service officers, who rose to prominence in the years immediately after […]
Prof Piston Publishes Book on Class Attitudes
Professor Piston recently published a book, Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications, with Cambridge University Press. This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard […]
Prof Crawford Receives ISA Distinguished Scholar Award
At the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Professor Neta Crawford received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the ISA’s International Ethics Section. This honor was conferred in recognition of her many and vital scholarly contributions through the years to the study of ethics/international relations. Photo courtesy of Professor Jessica Blankshain (Naval War College/BU)
Prof Schmidt Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Professor Vivien Schmidt has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of seventeen-year-old John Simon Guggenheim, the elder of their two sons, who died April 26, 1922, the Foundation has sought from its inception to “add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific […]
Prof Crawford on What We’ve Learned from the Iraq War
In a recent article in Think Progress Professor Neta Crawford discusses what – if anything – the United States learned from its 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Iraq War’s fallout persists, and harsh consequences are still to come https://thinkprogress.org/iraq-war-15-year-anniversary-ac6c5461c69e/
Prof Mayers Publishes Book on Remaking International Society
David Mayers (Professor of Political Science & History). 2018. America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956. Routledge Press. The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with […]
Research on Tap: Inequality in the United States
Inequality in the United States Research on Tap: Meet, Greet, and Learn Series Hosted by Spencer Piston, Assistant Professor, Political Science, CAS This Research on Tap event will bring together faculty from across BU who seek to understand the root causes of inequity in the contemporary United States. Faculty will share their latest research findings […]
Student-Faculty Forum: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The Associate Provost & Dean of Students, Kenneth Elmore, invites BU faculty and students to the upcoming Boston University Student-Faculty Forum: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Learning from Long-Lasting Social Conflicts moderated by Virginia Sapiro, Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts & Sciences Emerita. Panelists: Cornell William Brooks, Visiting Professor of […]
Hariri Meet Our Fellows Talk Featuring Prof Palmer
Please join the Hariri Institute for Computing on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 for a Wednesday@Hariri/Meet Our Fellows event. The presentation will feature Junior Faculty Fellow Maxwell Palmer, an assistant professor in the Political Science Department. Using statistical, geographic, and simulation analyses, Maxwell explores different ways of identifying and quantifying gerrymanders and shows how these techniques […]