Upcoming Event on Controversial Executive Order
Professor Sapiro moderates a discussion with BU colleagues on “Muslims, Refugees & Immigrants: Making Sense of the Trump Administration’s Controversial Executive Order” at the Howard Thurman Center on Feb 9 from 7-830pm.
Article by Profs Einstein & Glick in CityLab
An article by Professors Katie Einstein and David Glick (featuring data from the Menino Survey of Mayors) was just published in the Urban Affairs Review (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1078087416674829) and featured in The Atlantic’s Citylab (http://www.citylab.com/politics/2017/01/mayors-and-inequality/510032/).
Prof Kriner’s Work in NY Times Article
Prof Douglas Kriner’s work (with coauthor Francis Shen) is discussed in a recent article in the New York Times on the Vietnam War. Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/vietnam-the-war-that-killed-trust.html
Grad Student Claudia Kim Publishes Article
Political Science PhD student, Claudia Kim has published a peer-reviewed article in The Pacific Review. You can read her article: “War over framing: base politics in South Korea,” here.
Poli Sci Graduate in the Peace Corps
Political Science graduate, Megan Shoemaker, is now serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea. An essay about her was published earlier this year in Peace Corps East.
Grad Student Greg Winger Publishes Article
Graduate student Greg Winger has recently published an article in the most recent volume of Armed Forces and Society: “Prospect Theory and Civil-Military Conflict: The Case of the 1976 Korean Axe Murder Incident.”
Professor Liah Greenfeld Publishes New Book
Professor Liah Greenfeld has published a new book, Pensar con libertad, and has been invited to give a public lecture in Barcelona on: “Nationalism and Democracy.”
Professor Spencer Piston Publishes Two Articles
Professor Spencer Piston has recently published two articles: “The Political Consequences of Latino Prejudice Against Blacks” (co-authored with Yanna Krupnikov) in Public Opinion Quarterly and covered in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/opinion/campaign-stops/the-changing-face-of-urban-power.html “Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black and Female Candidates ” (co-authored with Yanna Krupnikov and Nichole Bauer) in Political Psychology (online).
Professor Doug Kriner Publishes New Book on Presidential Investigations
Professor Doug Kriner has published a new book, coauthored with Eric Schickler of UC-Berkeley, Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (Princeton University Press, 2016).
Professor Neta Crawford Conducts Interview with The Atlantic
Professor Neta Crawford recently conducted an interview with a reporter from The Atlantic re: a new Costs of War study that was released last week. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/cost-wars-iraq-afghanistan/499007/