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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:

Dean E. Mann, 1927-2014

Emeritus Professor Dean E. Mann passed away on April 21, 2014 at the age of 84. Born July 22, 1927 in Ogden, Utah, Dean Mann received his Ph.D. in 1958 from the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in American Politics and was an early pioneer in the field of Environmental Politics.

Internal Affairs: The Structure of Transnational Human Rights Campaigns

Event Start: December 07, 2012 12:00 AM

Event End: December 07, 2012 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824 (Lane Rm)

Speaker:
Wendy Wong

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Mobilizing Identities: Religious Practice and Political Action in India

Event Start: June 12, 2013 07:00 PM

Event End: June 12, 2013 07:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Pradeep Chhibber, UC Berkeley, Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies and Professor of Political Science

Digitally Enabled Collective Action in the Global South

Event Start: January 22, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 22, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Steve Livingston, Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs, George Washington University

Graduate Students Receive Best Paper Award

Jessica Feezel (Ph.D. 2009), Meredith Conroy (Ph.D., 2010), and Mario Guerrero (Ph.D. candidate) received a best-paper award at the APSA Annual Meeting, 2010. Their paper, "Facebook is . . . Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation," won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

Bimber's New Book Receives Award

Professor Bruce Bimber's book, Collective Action in Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Andrew Flanagin and Cynthia Stohl) received the Book of the Year Award from the Organization Communication Division of the National Communication Association at its 2013 Annual Meeting.