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News & Research Updates
The ‘Third Rail of American Politics” is Still Electrifying – November 3, 2021 in NYTimes
René Flores (CISSR 20-21 Faculty Fellow) – Assistant Prof. of Sociology
Ariel Azar (CISSR 21-22 Dissertation Fellow) – Sociology PhD Student
Punishment and Politicization in the International Human Rights Regime – November 2, 2021 in American Political Science Review
Rochelle Terman (CISSR Book Fellow) – Assistant Prof. of Political Science
Joshua Byun – Political Science PhD Student
Aukus is Awkward, But Not Abnormal: How U.S. Foreign Policy Experts Think About America’s Alliances – October 26, 2021 in War on the Rocks
Paul Poast (CISSR Board Member)
Associate Prof. of Political Science
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict – October 21, 2021 in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Maryam Alemzadeh (CISSR 17-18 Dissertation Fellow)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
The New Black Internationalism – October 2021 in Dissent
Adom Getachew (CISSR Book Fellow) – Neubauer Family Assistant Prof. of Political Science
Aid as pan-Islamic solidarity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Toward an anthropology of universalism – August 2021 in American Ethnologist
Darryl Li (CISSR 19-20 Faculty Fellow)
Assistant Prof. of Anthropology & Associate Faculty in Law
Negotiating exclusion: Regulatory barriers in preferential trade agreements – July 6, 2021 in Economics & Politics
Robert Gulotty (CISSR Book Fellow) – Assistant Prof. of Political Science
İpek Çınar (CISSR 21-22 Rudolph Field Research) – Political Science PhD Student
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ICYMI
October 4, 2021
UChicago Aims of Education Address 2021: Kimberly Kay Hoang
Professor Kimberly Kay Hoang delivers the annual Aims of Education Address from Rockefeller Chapel.Latest CISSR Digest
January 11, 2022 Digest
Prof. Paul Staniland Examines Civil Conflicts in New Book, Ordering Violence
