News & Announcements Archive

The Structural Foundations of Racism

Please join the International Studies Leadership Council for the first event of the Summer Speaker Series on the Structural Foundations of Racism with Professor of Political Science Robbie Shilliam and […]

How Overpoliced Communities Become Politically Engaged

How Overpoliced Communities Become Politically Engaged

Vesla Weaver on Niskanen Center Podcast, How Overpoliced communities Become Politically Engaged.

Congratulations to Professor Richard Katz!

Congratulations to Professor Richard Katz!

We are pleased to announce that Dick Katz has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from APSA’s Conference Group on Italian Politics (CONGRIPS).

Congratulations to Professor William Connolly!

The Western Political Science Association has inaugurated a new William E. Connolly Award for the best political theory paper presented at yearly Western meetings.  The WPSE announced the award with […]

Black Lives Matter, Police, and America’s Democracy

Black Lives Matter, Police, and America’s Democracy

Vesla Weaver on No Jargon podcast by Scholars Strategy Network Episode 225:  Black Lives Matter, Police, and America’s Democracy

How a 50-Year-Old Report Predicted America’s Current Racial Reckoning

How a 50-Year-Old Report Predicted America’s Current Racial Reckoning

Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Vesla Weaver, in The Vox.

How Black People Really Feel About the Police, Explainted

How Black People Really Feel About the Police, Explainted

Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Vesla Weaver, in .

Can Protest Yield Police Reform?

Can Protest Yield Police Reform?

Vesla Weaver has been listening in on long distance conversations between people in heavily policed neighborhoods in six cities on WYPR.

We Listened to People in Highly Policed U.S. Communities

We Listened to People in Highly Policed U.S. Communities

Vesla Weaver in The Washington Post

A History of Police Funding

A History of Police Funding

Vesla Weaver, Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, in Financial Times.