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Lena Surzhko Harned is a Ukrainian American political scientist. As a specialist in Eastern Europe, she has evaluated this war over the past year from her professional perspective. Yet this war is also deeply personal.
The authors argues that there is a bias against qualitative research, and yet not every type of data can be handled using quantitative, and human behavior cannot always be reduced to numbers.
What can German history since 1871 tell us about the relationship between nationalism, democracy, and authoritarianism, both in Germany and […]
A concern for Orientalist thinking should lead us to ask what British and American elites are doing with their representation of this imagined “Asia.”
Therapeutic culture plays a central role in societies around the world. From self-help books to mental well-being workshops to conversations […]
Henri Bergeron et al. Covid-19: Une Crise Organisationelle Sciences Po: Les Presses, 2020. 9782724626650Jean-Paul Gaudillière et al Pandémopolitiqiue La Découverte, […]
While book bans themselves remain sadly frequent across the United States, increasingly those efforts have zeroed in on campuses.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced a $3 million donation to a group of scientific organizations aiming to rebuild global scientific infrastructure in Ukraine on Oct. 24. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Polish Academy of Sciences will lead the organizations, which will include groups from Ukraine, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France and Australia.
Have sociologists better understood some of Adam Smith’s cautions than have economists?
When the fixed categories of a census erase the diversity of a population, the gross miscalculations that result may harm a country’s ability to appropriately respond to the needs of its people.
In the report “Post-Baccalaureate Bridge Programs: An Underutilized Tool for Strengthening Faculty Diversity,” authored by Senior Advisor Eugene Tobin, Senior Researcher Daniel Rossman, Senior Analyst Christy McDaniel, Vice President of Educational Transformation Martin Kurzweil and Managing Director Catherine Bond Hill, the underrepresentation of diversity in academia and mechanisms to increase it are discussed.
The annual award ceremony for the Golden Goose Award will take place on September 14, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. […]
