The 51st News article covers how the women’s soccer team’s games have become a site for protesting Trump’s deployment of federal troops in D.C. Professor Parkinson comments on the protests and on the relationship between soccer and politics. Her work on the politics of the lead-up to the World Cup in Qatar is quoted.

The Lippincott Award honors exceptional work by living political theorists that are still considered significant after a time span of at least fifteen years since the original publication. This award is for Bennett’s Vibrant Matter, published in 2010 by Duke University Press.