Announcements Spring/Winter 2024

Member Announcements

Victor Asal published “The Use of Popular Songs and Cartoons in Teaching Introduction to International Relations and Comparative Politics” in International Studies Perspectives (with Inga Miller and Andrew Vitek)

Elizabeth A. Bennion was selected to receive the Roland Kelly Award – an award presented annually during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Recognition Breakfast by the Mayor of South Bend. The Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation of St. Joseph County established the award in 2009 “to honor one of its founders and long term, active Board Member and to recognize a South Bend Citizen who exemplifies the ideals and actions that guided his life. The recipient is recognized for their dedication to the community ideals through the promotion of diversity, love, and respect for all humanity.”

Elizabeth A. Bennion’s new edited book Teaching Experimental Political Science is now available from Edward Elgar Publishing. From the author: “Learn how to spark students’ natural curiosity about the world they live in by using experimental design to test basic intuition, generate and answer ‘what if’ questions, and address real world problems that matter deeply to students, researchers, policymakers, political practitioners, and the community at large. Contributors provide advice for engaging students in survey, lab, and field experiments across course levels and subfields.”

Iva Bozovic published “Misuse of Data as a Teaching Tool” in the Journal of Political Science Education.

Colin Brown published “Setting Expectations: Rubrics as a Formative Tool for Communicating in the Social Sciences” in College Teaching (with George Soroka, Sarah E. James, Matthew Reichert, and Aaron Watanabe).

Daniel Casey published “Bridging the Expectation Gap: A Survey of Australian PhD Candidates and Supervisors in Politics and International Relations” in the Australian Journal of Political Science (with Serrin Rutledge-Prior).

Matthew D. Nelson published The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy at Oxford University Press.

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