Andrea Benjamin, an associate professor of African and African American studies at The University of Oklahoma, is the author of “Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting.” She is also the co-author of …
#PoliSci Tweets is Educate’s regular round-up of political science resources and discussions. This week features a variety of publicly available resources around the movement for Black Lives.
Julia Azari is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of Political …
Politics, Groups, Identity, managed by the Western Political Science Association, is one of political science’s leading academic journals. The journal editors put together a micro-syllabus and an accompanying introduction, published in the Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage.” The reading list …
The public outcry following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, and countless others, the numerous images capturing police brutality, and the Executive Branch’s activation of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to mobilize federal forces against …
Ajay Verghese, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside
Each summer, political scientists begin thinking about putting together their syllabi for the upcoming academic year. One thing most of us strive to do is update …
This week’s resource, “American Politics: Descriptive & Substantive Representation Discussion” offers lesson plans for in-person, online and hybrid course structures. It invites undergraduate students to engage with two peer-reviewed political science journal articles on descriptive and substantive representation …
Eric Loepp, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
With the spring 2020 term now in the rearview mirror, faculty are (hopefully!) able to take some time to recharge. Yet we will also reflect on our …
Charmaine N. Willis, University at Albany, SUNY
Reyhan Topal, University at Albany, SUNY
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities around the globe to move to remote teaching. Professors are overwhelmed in trying to quickly convert their in-person courses …
Rachel Torres, PhD candidate at University of Iowa’s Department of Political Science and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellow. She was also a 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipient.
As educators are forced to transition their courses online, they …
Rebecca Kreitzer PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Well-designed online classes can be an effective platform for teaching. Faculty making the sudden transition from face-to-face courses to …