Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her colleagues, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Libby Sharrow (UMASS), Stella Rouse (U of Maryland), and the #MeTooPoliSci Collective, have been given the the 2019 Jane Mansbridge Award for service to women in the discipline of political science by the Women's Caucus for Political Science.

Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology)  was quoted in an article in USA Today  titled "Endless Fear: Undocumented Immigrants Grapple with Anxiety, Depression Under Trump."

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) has published the single-author article "The Myth of Polarization among Taiwanese Voters: The Missing Middle" on Journal of East Asian Studies. This article analyzes the history and current development of the political polarization in Taiwan, and the importance of non-partisans to understanding Taiwan…

Barb Brents (Sociology) co-authored the article "EXPOsing Men’s Gender Role Attitudes as Porn Superfans," which recently was published in Sociological Forum. The authors found that pornography fans were no less supportive of gender equality than the population as a whole and actually more supportive on a couple of questions. The results are…

Nerses Kopalyan and Jeremy Bowling (both Political Science) published "Review of CFR College and University Educators Workshop" in the Journal of Political Science Education. The article reviews the Council on Foreign Relations 2019 College and University Educators workshop, with selective comparisons to the same workshop organized in…

Joanne Goodwin (History) had a recent article, "Nevada's Campaigns for Woman Suffrage," published in the journal Western Legal History: The Journal of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society.  The article is included in a special issue on woman suffrage in the West. The western states were the first in the country to end…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and Kate Eugenis, '17 PhD Political Science, have published in the London School of Economics American Politics and Policy blog. In their essay, they discuss the findings of their recent article "Do Voters Prefer Women Judges? Deconstructing the Competitive Advantage in State Supreme Court Elections," which…

Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) just received some advance copies of his new book, On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair, published by Oxford University Press in Britain. This is a “trade book,” aimed at educated laypersons, as well as specialized scholars. Accordingly, it is a summary, synthesis, and…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) published a paper in American Journal on Addictions, "Psychopathology and Hypersexuality among Veterans with and without Histories of Alcohol‐use Disorders." The paper examined differences among U.S. military veterans with lifetime alcohol use disorder compared with those without on select measures of psychopathology,…

Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) will read selected poems from the book Everyone in His Own Paradise (Vodoley Publishing, Moscow, 2015), as well as more recent texts gathered under a working title A Canary in a Mineshaft, next month at the Tompkins Square Public Library in New York. The event is organized by…

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) published his fourteenth book, and eighth with Oxford University Press, "Helping Families of Youth with School Attendance Problems: A Practical Guide for Mental Health and School-Based Professionals." The book is the first in a special series by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (the ABCT…

Kenneth Miller (Political Science) published an article "The Divided Labor of Attack Advertising in Congressional Campaigns" in The Journal of Politics showing that candidates outsource the role of negative advertising to Super PACs and other outside groups, and as a result of the substitution campaigns become more issue-…