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19 October 2016
By jennifer

Fredrick C. Harris in Brookings Podcast and Published UNESCO Essay

Fredrick C. Harris wrote an essay about racial inequality in UNESCO's World Social Science Report. He also explored minority voting rights in the 2016 election in a podcast for Brookings.

PODCAST

Minority voting in the 2016 election

Adrianna Pita, Fredrick C. Harris, and Fred DewsFriday, October 7, 2016

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19 October 2016
By jennifer

Gregory Wawro Interviewed about Swing States and Election

Political scientist Gregory Wawro was interviewed about swing states and the election by AM New York.

Swing states explained: What they are, why they matter in the 2016 election

By Nicole Brown   nicole.brown@amny.com October 12, 2016

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06 September 2016
By eric

New directors appointed at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

David Madigan, Executive Vice President for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Science, are pleased to announce that Professor Thomas DiPrete and Professor Matthew Connelly have been appointed as co-directors of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) as of July 1, 2016. Thomas DiPrete is Giddings Professor of Sociology and Matthew Connelly is Professor of History.

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18 August 2016
By eric

Does Terrorism Work? An Interview with Political Scientist Page Fortna

In her recent paper, “Do Terrorists Win? Rebels' Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes,” Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy and Chair of Political Science Page Fortna questions the effectiveness of terrorism. The paper, published last month in International Organization, has generated an important dialogue about the seemingly simple question at the center of Fortna’s research: does terrorism work?

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18 August 2016
By eric

On the Papal receipt of The Poor and the Perfect: Five Questions with Neslihan Şenocak

In an interesting turn of events this past winter, Associate History Professor, Neslihan Şenocak, found her book in the hands of Pope Francis. Originally from Turkey, and an engineer, Şenocak's path to teach at Columbia was an unconventional, if not destined journey. Underscoring the importance of exposure to scholarship and study outside certain prescribed boundaries, Şenocak describes how an important grant for non-Christians who study Christianity in Rome took her from working as an engineer to studying medieval Franciscan history and eventually to Columbia. 

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