Creating Spaces for Democracy: Civil Discourse for Civic Life Begins on Campus
Dr. Tim Shaffer, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Chair of Civil Discourse and SNF Ithaca Initiative, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, will explore how higher education can cultivate civil discourse and strengthen democratic life amidst polarization.
Truman Scholarship in Public Service
Are you interested in a career in public service? Are you currently a junior? Thinking about going to grad school in order to prepare? If so, you may want to apply for the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship! The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation's mission is to help students achieve a career in public service by providing them a scholarship to attend graduate school.
Dr. Patterson spent time during summer 2022 conducting research in Liberia on mental health policy with a colleague from Tulane University. She worked with the Carter Center's mental health program in that country.
As Osgood Program Associates, students listened, asked questions, and wrote concise and clear briefs on premier think tanks and Congressional events on U.S. foreign affairs for the Osgood Center President.
Politics alum Livia Karoui, C'20, presented a revised version of her Sewanee senior honors thesis at the 2022 European Conference on Politics and Gender in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Livia recently graduated with Distinction from the University of Cambridge, UK, earning her MPhil in African Studies.
Lakeisha Phillips, Michaelyn Preston, and Lucas Carvalho were selected to represent Sewanee at the Oxford Consortium of Human Rights.
Dr. Paige Schneider's Politics of Poverty and Inequality class partnered with Dr. Jennifer Michaels Literature and Composition class and traveled to Montgomery, Alabama on November 10 2019, to visit the Legacy Museum, and the Peace and Justice Memorial.
The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress is pleased to announce the publication of the 2019-2020 Fellows Review.
Carter Ware's (C'20) paper,
"FROM THE WAR ON DRUGS TO THE OPIOID CRISIS: A COMPARISON OF THE NIXON APPROACH AND THE TRUMP APPROACH IN COMBATTING DRUG USE IN AMERICA"
was selected for publication in the Presidential Fellows Review, the house journal of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. Carter served as Fellow at the CSPC 2019-20.
Alexa Fults, a senior politics major from Morrison, Tennessee, has been awarded one of the most prestigious fellowships in international relations, a James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was nominated by the University for placement in the Fellowship's Russia and Eurasia Program, and was selected for that program.
Aaron Gold Publishes Article
Professor Aaron Gold has a forthcoming article, "Moral Hazard at Sea: How Alliances Actually Increase Low-Level Maritime Provocations," in International Interactions.
