Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The Price of ‘Paying Your Debt to Society’ Extends Well Beyond Incarceration
here’s a fact Cynthia Golembeski learned while researching criminal justice reform and teaching college classes in prisons: the reason the transition to life outside the corrections system is so hard is that there are more than 44,000 indirect consequences of a criminal conviction.
What Kind of Moment Are We In?
Are we on the cusp of a vibrant social movement that will produce major transformations in our practices and policies? Or are we fated to see the communal expressions of grief and calls for change dissolve into contentious policy debates that may result in relatively modest reforms unequal to the fervent hopes now spinning in the streets?
They Don’t Want You to Know That Not All Conspiracy Theories Should Be Treated the Same
Ever since the coronavirus spread across the world, suspicions have proliferated about what is really going on. Questions arose about the origins […]
Free Webinar: Having Conversations About Race in the Classroom
Stephanie A. Jirard, professor of criminal justice at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and author of Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach, […]
Allies As Drivers of LGBTQ Inclusion
Noting the value of straight and cisgender allies in LGBTQ inclusion effort, David Glasgow describes his NYU center’s model for a three-stage process of developing allyship.
How Can Wise Graphics Use Cut Through the Complexity of COVID-19?
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
In Search of Today’s Fannie Lou Hamers and Martin Luther Kings
Vincent Adejumo says that his scholarship in the discipline of black politics can explain why there aren’t any national African American leaders at this moment, filling roles like Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and others once did.
