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UA Mock Trial Wins Super-Regional, Earns Bid to National Championship

UA Mock Trial’s A team won the American Mock Trial Association Super-Regional tournament held in Greenville, South Carolina the weekend of March 16-17. This super-regional field is comprised of teams that all had to win their regionals, so it is a tournament full of proven teams, and it is predictably tough to advance to the National Championship Tournament. Alabama’s squad came out on top of a field comprised of teams from Duke (x2), Emory (x2), Furman (x2), Georgia Tech (x2), […]

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Undergraduate Political Science Research Collaborator Awarded Mitchell Scholarship

Honors College student Owen Emerson was selected as one of only 12 students nationally (out of 350 applicants) to receive the U.S.-Ireland Alliance’s George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Owen is a double major in economics and music and a member of the University Fellows Experience, directed by Dr. Dana Patton. In 2022/23, Owen was Dr. Alessandro Del Ponte’s undergraduate research collaborator. In the spring of 2023, Owen presented a research poster on a vignette experiment with Dr. Del Ponte at the UA Undergraduate Research […]

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Dr. Lina Benabdallah to Speak at UA Feb. 16

Dr. Lina Benabdallah of Wake Forest University will visit the department on Friday, February 16, 2024 from Noon to 1:30pm in ten Hoor 346. The event is co-sponsored by the Program for Middle East Studies and the Department of Political Science. Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects States and state actors often engage in infrastructure and landmark restoration, construction, and reconstruction abroad for a variety of strategic reasons, including reviving imperial nostalgias. This presentation examines the power […]

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Disciplining the Poor wins Wildavsky Award

Disciplining the Poor wins Wildavsky Award   Congratulations to University of Alabama Political Science Professor Richard Fording and his co-authors, Joe Soss (University of Minnesota) and Sanford Schram (Hunter College), whose book, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberalism and the Persistent Power of Race (2011, University of Chicago Press ) has been selected for the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. This award is recognizes scholarship that continues to influence the field many years after its […]

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Emma Kenny Receives a Fulbright Grant

Emma Kenny, a senior pursuing a double major in Political Science and History, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright grant to teach English in Kosovo for a 9-month program. As a Fulbright awardee, Emma will be working as an assistant to university professors in teaching English and teaching U.S. History.   Emma also plans to use her time in Kosovo to engage with local human rights NGOs, such as the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo, through a supplementary project. […]

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“21st Century Diplomacy: The Demands on the Modern Diplomat – War zones, the NSC, and Dissent”

   The International Studies Program of the Department of Political Science invites you to a presentation by TIMMY T. DAVIS   Ambassador of the United States to Qatar “21st Century Diplomacy: The Demands on the Modern Diplomat – War zones, the NSC, and Dissent” Wednesday, March 1, 2023   6:30 pm to 7:45 pm   108 ten Hoor Hall      Timmy T. Davis is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Qatar. Before joining the Foreign Service, Ambassador Davis attended the […]

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UA Students Working to Help Restore Voting Rights

https://news.ua.edu/2022/10/ua-students-working-to-help-restore-voting-rights/   UA Students Working to Help Restore Voting Rights  October 26th, 2022 Two UA students who are passionate about social justice are getting an experiential learning opportunity working with Return My Vote and UA’s chapter of Vote Everywhere. Their tenacity is not only building up their resumes but preparing them to be leaders now and after graduation. Maddie Minkoff and Sam Robson are the only two college students on the advisory board of Return My Vote, a go-to virtual vote […]

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Civil Wars in Lebanon and Syria – Michael Gasper

Dr. Gasper will give a guest lecture on “Civil Wars in Lebanon and Syria” in Dr. Hazbun’s PSC 449 International Relations in the Middle East class, Tuesday October 11, 11 am to 12:15 pm in TH 113.      Michael Gasper is Associate Professor of History at Occidental College in Los Angeles California. He is author of “The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants and Islam in Egypt” (Stanford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of “Is there a Middle East: The Evolution of a […]

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