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Genealogies of Chimurenga (Self-Liberation) Music: Re-writing Zimbabwean Nationalism Through Song

Talk by Mhoze Chikowero, Assistant Professor of African History, UCSB Department of History

New Graduate Student Orientation

Orientation for New Political Science Graduate Students

Ahuja Receives Fellowship for Study in India

Assistant Professor of Political Science Amit Ahuja has received a senior research fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies for the academic year 2012-2013. It will support fieldwork for up to nine months in India for a project on how ethnic diversity is managed within India’s military. He is one of four long-term senior fellows chosen this year.

Lauren Copeland to have article published

Lauren Copeland, a graduate student, along with Professor Bruce Bimber and a colleague will have their article, “Political consumerism: Civic engagement and the social media connection” published in a forthcoming issue of New Media & Society. 

Identity Speaker Series "Empirical Intersectionality: A Tale of Two Aproaches"

Event Start: April 25, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: April 25, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Ange-Marie Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California

Poster for Professor Hancock Talk

As a part of the Research Focus Group on Identity's Speaker Series, Professor Ange-Marie Hancock will present on her forthcoming publication in the University of California, Irvine Law Review.

What is Your Race? -- And Why the Government Should Ask

Event Start: November 14, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: November 14, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Mosher Alumni House

Speaker:
Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and Director, The Scholarly Knowledge Project, Columbia University

Do "Law and Order" Characters Affect Political Attitudes?

Event Start: June 02, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: June 02, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: SSMS 2135

Speaker:
Magdalena Wojcieszak, Associate Professor, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam

Dean Chen Publishes Book on Taiwan Policy

Dean Chen has just published his first book, U.S. Taiwan Strait Policy: The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity (FirstForumPress, a Division of Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012), based on his dissertation.  The publisher's description of the book is as follows: