Assistant Professor of Sociology Eric Bonds recently published an article in the journal Sociology Compass on elite think tank approaches to climate change. While sociologists have paid a great deal of attention to think-tank driven climate denialism — or efforts to mislead the American public about the realities and costs associated with global warming — […]
Steven E. Harris, Associate Professor of History, was recently awarded an A. Verville Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The 12-month fellowship will allow Harris to work full-time on his second book project, “Wings of the Motherland: Soviet and Russian Cultures of Aviation from Khrushchev to Putin” while in residence at […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a research paper titled, “The Barack Obama Presidency and the Rise of the Diffident Presidential Style,” in Chicago at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. The paper includes findings from Dr. Farnsworth’s latest […]
Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe, received the Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians for her book, Founding Friendships (Oxford, 2015). The prize, awarded annually, recognizes the most original book in U.S. women’s and/or gender history. The prize committee commended the book’s “remarkable body of evidence” and […]
Marcel Rotter presented his paper, titled “‘… as one only knows from animals’ — Racial CommunicationStrategies in the Olympiazeitung,” at the conference The Nazi Games: The Berlin Olympics after 80 Years at Florida Gulf Coast University on March 29, 2016.
