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 “Set in Stone? Predicting Confederate Monument Removal,” recently published in PS: Political Science and Politics. Andrea Benjamin earned her…
#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 Science at Marquette University I don't care if you don't like podcasts or even if…
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 is un-gated and free to read through August 2020. “Here’s How to Teach Black Lives Matter” Washington Post,…
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 American protestors, invites scholars, educators and the public to reconsider the standard relationship between state,…
Ajay Verghese discusses foundational texts’ continued importance in the political science classroom.
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 in American national politics before participating in a series of discussion activities. This resource is the result…
Eric Loepp shares his Spring 2020 survey results covering student experiences with the sudden transition to online learning.
Charmaine N. Willis and Reyhan Topal offer graduate teaching assistants strategies to manage their dual role as educator and student.
PhD Candidate Rachel Torres explains how to turn your course into a podcast. More here.
Rebecca Kreitzer offers advice to moving your course online. Read more here.