Prof. Cameron & Prof. Kastellec will present a book talk titled "Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020. Immediately following the talk will be a reception in 300 Wallace Hall. Registration is required. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or…
Please join us on Thursday, December 5 from 5:00-6:30pm in Schultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall for an Environmental Policy Mixer! Come out for a fun evening of networking at the end of the semester and get to know grad students, researchers, and faculty who are working on environmental topics from scientific, engineering, and…
Why are some foreign policy advisers more influential than others? A new wave of scholarship illuminates how advisers gain influence generally but says little about which advisers get their way. We argue hawkish advisers have two built-in advantages in foreign policy decision-making in the United States. First, hawks make…
Mary L. Dudziak is a leading scholar of legal history and the United States and the World. She works at the intersection of US domestic law and international affairs. She is currently writing about war and political accountability in American history. Her earlier scholarship examined the intersection of race, civil rights, and…
This talk will examine how current discourse, clinical interventions, medical technologies, and policy responses to the opioid epidemic are racialized in the U.S., highlighting the role of whiteness and racial capitalism. We will trace how technologies of whiteness operated to respond to rising overdose deaths among whites…
