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Posted on July 8th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Tijen Demirel-Pegg, on winning the 2020 IU Trustees’ Teaching Award! It’s well earned. This award is given on the bases of excellence directly related to support for the University College mission and its programs. It includes assessments in the following areas: Outstanding classroom performance in first-year courses Teaching that leads …

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Posted on July 1st, 2020 in Students/Alumni by Eric Virden

Political Science and Me When I was in elementary school, I loved reading books from R.L. Stine’s Give Yourself Goosebumps series. The books were designed to make the reader the protagonist and allow them the ability to choose how the story went. Though some choices were more important than others, all ultimately had some impact …

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Posted on June 23rd, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Pegg for winning the E.F. Byrne Peace and Global Justice Award for Faculty! The award is given for the best essay on what needs to be done to diminish conflictual situations in the world and enhance arrangements conducive to peace. Dr. Pegg will put 100% of the $2,250 award towards socially …

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Joselyne Whipple
Posted on June 18th, 2020 in Students/Alumni by Joselyne Whipple

“A riot is the language of the unheard…Our nation’s summer riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, “The Other America” (Stanford University 1967) Dr. King is one of the most iconic civil rights leaders that I have looked up to. As a child, I remember reading his most …

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Tijen Demirel Pegg
Posted on June 16th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Given the large number of protests occurring across the US, it seems reasonable to wonder just how successful protests can be at influencing public policy. Fortunately, our colleague, Dr. Demirel-Pegg has been studying protest campaigns in Indian, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, and Turkey for her entire career. While the context is different, protest movements often face …

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Tijen Demirel Pegg
Posted on June 12th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Don’t miss Dr. Demirel-Pegg’s interview on WTHR 13 about the recent movement to defund the police. What does it actually mean? Short answer: reducing, but not eliminating, police department budgets and reallocating those funds toward crisis care, healthcare, housing, jobs, and schools. Check it out here For those interested, the city and county budget for …

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BLM
Posted on June 9th, 2020 in Faculty, Featured by Amanda Friesen

This month the American democracy experiment has been bending to break. Just as it has in other moments in American history, a policy window is opening that might usher in justice and movement toward meaningful political, social, and economic equality. That window is built of the protests, actions, donations, statements, and general political activity in …

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Posted on June 8th, 2020 by Aaron Dusso

Our friend and colleague Robert Aponte, in the Department of Sociology, passed away earlier this year. Robert was a tireless social justice scholar and he finished his final piece, co-authored with Sociology graduate student Hannah Hurrle, just 10 days before passing away. We celebrate his research and want to share this final work with everyone: …

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Posted on June 4th, 2020 in Students/Alumni by Aaron Dusso

The Department of Political Science would like to congratulate all of our 2020 award and scholarship winners! We look forward to great things from each of you!   P.E. MacAllister Scholarship Bri Brown Yvonne Carmelo Robert C. Kirch Scholarship Riley Sawyer Christopher Rude James E. Sawyers Memorial Scholarship Jennifer Leeper Winslow Prize in Political Theory …

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Posted on June 1st, 2020 in Faculty by Dr. Tijen Demirel-Pegg

Faculty Publication: Indiscriminate Repression in Nonviolent Resistance Campaign Since the tidal wave of civil resistance campaigns of the Arab Spring in 2010, political scientists and sociologists have turned their focus toward understanding why some of these protests have resulted in regime change or substantial governmental reforms while others have not. In the context of this …

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