Marquette University, Great Lake Week and The Future of Ecology, a critical discussion on the future of the Great Lakes as seen through the lens of ecological justice was held on September 11, 2013. Professor McGee Young played a key role as organizer and panelist.
Professor Julia Azari commented on the situation in Syria and how it has a major influence on the race for the White House.
Professor Duane Swank has won the 2013 J. David Greenstone Award of the American Political Science Association's organized section in Politics and History for his book The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth and Equality (Cambridge University Press, 2012), coauthored with Cathie Jo Martin of Boston University. The Greenstone award honors the best book published in the previous two years in the broadly defiend area of politics and history.
On April 27th, Prof. Risa Brooks published an op-ed article in the Boston Globe titled "Homegrown Terrorism is Not on the Rise." The article complements her previous work on the level of threat to Americans posed by "homegrown" Muslim terrorists. The text of the op-ed piece is available here.
On April 19th and 20th, Political Science Department Chair Lowell Barrington was interviewed regarding the backgrounds of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on WISN-12 and WTMJ-4. Barrington, whose research focuses on the territory of the former Soviet Union, discussed the suspects' connections to the Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan. The video of the WISN-12 interview is available here.
Dr. Susan Giaimo, Director of Graduate Studies for the Political Science and International Affairs M.A. programs, participated in a panel about health care exchanges and whether they will help Wisconsinites find affordable medical insurance. The interview appeared on Fourth Street Forum. Prof. Giaimo is currently teaching a course on comparative health care and will be offering a course on the politics of American health care policy in the fall.
Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken, Marquette Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin, and political reporter Craig Gilbert will discuss “how ‘local’ should politics be?” in an upcoming “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” The event will take place on Monday, October 7th, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Eckstein Hall. The forum will address balancing roles of federal, state and local government.
Questions addressed will include When should federal policies trump state preferences, and when should state governments trump city choices? Wisconsin has recently exemplified this tension, as the state has asserted its right to resist federal direction on health care while simultaneously exercising jurisdiction over matters from permissible levels of property tax levies to municipal-employee residency requirements to the size of soft drinks. Is there a contradiction in these developments? Should different preferences among voters in different geographies lead to different policies? How far “down” should the idea of federalism go?
Heather Gerken is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale University. Charles Franklin is a former professors of political science at UW-Madison and is currently Professor of Law and Public Policy at Marquette University and Director of the Marquette Law School Poll. Craig Gilbert is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, author of the Wisconsin Voter blog, and Lubar Fellow for Public Policy Research at the Law School during the fall semester. Mike Gousha is Distinguished Fellow in Law and Public Policy, an award-winning journalist, and host of the “On the Issues” series.
Seating is limited; registration is available online. For those who can’t attend in person, all “On the Issues” events are streamed live online.
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The Marquette University Center for Transnational Justice is pleased to offer funding for research conducted by graduate students enrolled in the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences. The Center will be awarding two Graduate Student Research Grants of up to $2,500 to support work on an issue of economic, political, or social justice that crosses national borders. The application deadline is November 15, 2013. Details are available on the Center's website.
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