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The Journal investigates a controversial Guatemalan presidential candidate.
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Rachel Lim ’12 is spending the summer interning with the Cliveden House of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Philadelphia.
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Matthew Cebul ’13 and Hannah Solomon-Strauss ’12 are working as research interns at the Foreign Policy Research Institute this summer with support from the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.
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Gemma Donofrio '12 is researching children's health care this summer with a CPGC funded internship at Children's HealthWatch in Boston.
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Sam Gant '13 is spending the summer working with a community affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
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The political science professor and Guatemala expert comments on a Mexican drug cartel's incursion into northern Guatemala.
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Seth Kennedy '12 spent the summer of 2010 working with the Unite HERE! Local 1 in Chicago. This summer, he will join Local 75 in Toronto, Ontario to continue the struggle to improve workers’ rights.
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With a recently published policy piece on Tanzania and a Haverford symposium, political scientist Harvey Glickman looks at Islamism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Join us on Friday, March 25 for an inter-disciplinary symposium examining the ideas and practices in country studies of Islamism in the contemporary political, social and cultural context of Africa south of the Sahara.
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As an intern at Panama's largest newspaper, La Prensa, Annie Mendez '11 spent the summer investigating the human rights violations committed by the country's former dictators. She also had the opportunity to interview Panama's president.
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During the spring semester, a reading group started by political science professor Harvey Glickman and sponsored by the Hurford Humanities Center looked at the diversity of thought in the Muslim world.
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Wed., April 28th at 4:30 PM, Multicultural Center (Stokes 106): Join us for presentations by students in Political Science 237, Latin American Politics. Organized by Prof. Anita Isaacs.
More info: aisaacs@haverford.edu. Sponsored by the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center.
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The senior has been accepted into the prestigious Princeton-in-Asia program, and will spend next year teaching at Universiti Sains in Malaysia.
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Prof. Barak Mendelsohn discusses the latest terror cases in the New York Times.
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Join us for a symposium on Thurs., March 25 and Friday, March 26, 2010.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science and Al-Qaeda expert Barak Mendelsohn has published three journal articles and a book this year, all examining aspects of terrorism around the world. Aiding Mendelsohn in his research for these works: the Global Terrorism Resource Database, which he and his Haverford students created.
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Assistant Professors of political science Craig Borowiak and Barak Mendelsohn conducted the first in a series of public discussions, sponsored by the CPGC, dubbed "The Borowiak-Mendelsohn Debates."
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Center for Peace and Global Citizenship intern Kaia Davis '10 is spending the summer in South Africa assisting on a reality TV show with a social justice theme.
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A press wrangler for the Obama campaign, Tubman is featured in a group shot of the President's advance team taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz. Her shots of Obama staff, advisers and cabinet members are part of a 15-page spread in the March Vanity Fair.
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Political Science major Michael Novinson '10 blogs from his semester abroad at the American University in Cairo.
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Spring 2009 placements.
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A fellowship established by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship allows one faculty member per year to attend the seminar, continuing the center's efforts to globalize the Haverford community. Susanna Wing was the 2008 recipient.
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Wing's book, published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2008, is based on extensive fieldwork in Mali.
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David Burstein '11 and Jon Delano '71 chat about what's next for the Democratic campaign.
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John Harkins ’58 and political science professor Sid Waldman discuss Waldman’s recent book, America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness.
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Political Science professor Barak Mendelsohn shares his thoughts about the future of terrorism in a piece for the New York Times.
Read Prof. Mendelsohn's essay "An Outsider to Al Qaeda" as featured in the NYT >
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Political Science Assoc. Prof Anita Isaacs is quoted in the New Yorker article A Murder Foretold. For the past decade, Prof. Isaacs' research has focused on Guatemala.
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The new program of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship brings scholar/activists from abroad to campus to co-teach classes with Haverford faculty and participate in a series of forums.
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Associate professor of political science Steve McGovern, author of The Politics of Downtown Development, offered his insights on the challenges of urban redevelopment in an article in the Rochester (New York) Democrat and Chronicle.
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Craig Borowiak (Political Science), Bret Mulligan (Classics), and Iruka Okeke (Biology) have been recognized for their classroom innovations with the Life Cycle of the Student Scholar Award.
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Borowiak has published three pieces in 2007-2008.
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Professor McGovern has publications included in Urban Affairs Review and the Journal of Planning History.
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In March 2008, a group of 19 students traveled to Guatemala as part of a course on the legacies of civil war and revolution. Watch the film documenting their journey.
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The associate professor of political science discusses the reappointment of Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and his new deadline to form a unity government in Mali.
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The associate professor of Political Science was interviewed about the Tuareg rebellion in Mali. An expert on African politics, Wing is the author of Constructing Democracy in Africa: Mali in Transition.
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Join Pierre Englebert, an expert on political and economic development in Africa and the author of the widely-recognized "State Legitimacy and Development in Africa". Monday, April 2 at 4:30pm in Gest Center 101.
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The political scientist discusses the coup in Mali.
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The associate professor of Political Science was featured on a segment (which starts at 18:40) on the recent clashes between Tuareg separatists and the Malian government.
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Brendese's book, to be published by the University of Rochester Press, explores the question of what relationships to memory invigorate, or threaten, democratic futures.
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On Thursday, November 3, 2011, PHAN (Philadelphia Haverford Alumni Network) presented Professor Barak Mendelsohn speaking on the topic: Al Qaeda and Global Governance.
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The associate professor of political science returns to the country that was the subject of her recent book to discuss the role of women in politics.
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A team of student researchers and their professor launch a new website focused on global terrorism that offers a unique opportunity to analyze statements issued by Al-Qaeda.
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Jake Weisenthal and Daniel Salem (both ’13) worked with Professor Anita Isaacs as summer research assistants and accompanied her on a trip to Guatemala.
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Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing has been awarded a U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant by the State Department.
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Read Prof. Mendelsohn's essay "A Devastating Blow" as featured in the NYT >
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Prof. Barak Mendelsohn discusses 'What We Still Don't Understand' about identifying and tracking domestic terrorist groups in the New York Times.
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Featuring the voices of students at Haverford College in conversation about what peace means to them. Conversations ranged from a student from Tunisia reflecting on recent political developments there, to remarks focused on Haverford's Quaker heritage and its approach to conflict resolution.
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Associate Professor of Political Science Cristina Beltrán, whose new book examines the elusive “Latino vote,” shares her passion for politics with her students.
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Political Science Assoc. Prof Anita Isaacs is quoted in the WSJ article Guatemala Declares a State of Siege. Prof Isaacs research for the last decade has focused on Guatemala.
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With help from students Christine Letts ’12 and Cameron Scherer ’11, Assistant Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak has developed a new web resource for the research seminar he teaches on Solidarity Economy Movements.
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Strange and unsettling turns of events further roiled the already-troubled waters of Guatemalan political life in 2009, driving the crime-ridden country’s shaky democracy to the brink.
Read More in Journal of Democracy April 2010, Volume 21, Number 2
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Barak Mendelsohn argues that a crucial element in responding to such a threat and winning the war against terror in the twenty-first century is the hegemon—a powerful state that takes the lead and generates cooperation among states to fight jihad.
Combating Jihadism on University of Chicago Press site
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Craig Borowiak's book, Accountability and Democracy: The Pitfalls and Promise of Popular Control, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
This book examines the concept democratic accountability through different historical and theoretical lenses and then applies the concept to contemporary debates over democracy and globalization.
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Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, Cristina Beltrán challenges the existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda by taking an innovative, theoretically informed approach to the realities of Latino protest and electoral politics.
The Trouble with Unity on Oxford University Press
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Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Science and Associate Professor of Political Science Anita Isaacs travels to Guatemala with student research assistants Juliana Morgan-Trostle '12, Alejandro Rettig y Martinez '12, and Rachel Schwartz '11 to study the country's struggle for justice and reparations in the wake of its 36-year civil war.
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Rachel Lim '12 is spending the summer in Seoul, Korea teaching English, learning about the divide between North and South Korea and exploring her identity as a Korean American.
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Like all South Korean men ages 18-35, Kim is required to serve in his country's military. The political science major will begin training as an Air Force Interpreting Officer in September.
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The award is given for the best book in the field of African Politics.
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Nick Lotito '10 will be working with the Nigerien Movement for the Defense and Promotion of Democratic and Human Rights (MNDHP).
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The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship has awarded the following Political Science majors with summer internships.
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Professor Steve McGovern's seminar "Grassroots Politics in Philadelphia" provides a service learning component by having students intern with local nonprofits.
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Ron Christie '91 and Neal Grabell '77 are just two of numerous Haverford alumni who return to campus to stand before the classroom.
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In October, Anirudh Suri ’06, a double major in economics and political science, received a rare opportunity for undergraduate students: He joined a panel of distinguished scholars—a professor emeritus from McGill University, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Ohio, and the head of the political science department at the University of Baroda, India—in presenting papers at the 34th Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Anirudh Suri '06 won a Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellowship this year, and will be going to Washington, D.C., to work with Ashley Tellis, a Senior Assistant in the Carnegie Institute South Asia program.
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Professor Steve McGovern's "325" class gets the troops into the field
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James Zoshak '01, Ron Tola, Amy Steinberg, John Lombardi, Erin Johansen, Faye Sandra Halpern, Lynne Butler, and Craig Thomas Borowiak join Haverford's faculty and staff.
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In March, a group of 15 Haverford students, along with Associate Professor of Political Science Anita Isaacs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Center for Peace and Global Citizenship Program Director Leslie Dwyer, and Associate Professor of Spanish Roberto Castillo-Sandoval, had the opportunity to spend 10 days in Guatemala.
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The Conference for the Comparative Study of Conflict will examine the similarities among Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and Northern Ireland, which according to Anirudh Suri ‘06 are “the three major conflicts in the world today.”
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We asked faculty from the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities at Haverford to give us their thoughts about the upcoming year by responding to the following question: "What do you think will be the most significant development or trend in your field of study in 2004 and why?"
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Anita Isaacs reports on her research of peace and civil war in Guatemala.
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During the 32nd Conference on South Asia, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Oct. 24-26, several distinguished scholars from all over the world offered their opinions on the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan. And Haverford’s own Anirudh Suri ’06 was among them.
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Register online now for Oct. 3-4: Cornel West to speak Friday night, Humanities Center Dedication Ceremony scheduled for Saturday at noon.
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Political Science major Seth Kennedy '12 is interning with a union in Chicago to help mobilize campaigns for workers' rights.
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Political Science major Janna Frieman '11 is examining abortion policy and the election cycle with NARAL Pro-Choice in Boston.
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Anderson is one of six fellows selected for their commitment to social justice and community action.
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Fourteen political science majors receive Center for Peace and Global Citizenship internships this summer.
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Political scientist Anita Isaacs, an authority on the history of civil war and reconciliation in Guatemala, just returned from a visit to the country. In this Q&A she discusses the recent assassination of a lawyer who had taped a video blaming the country's president should he be murdered, and the growing strife that has resulted.
The Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences was interviewed about the arrest and impending trials of Guatemalan soldiers following the shootings of indigenous demonstrators earlier this month.More >
The associate professor of political science writes about the aftermath of the recent coup in Mali.More >