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FREDRICK HARRIS PUBLISHED A PIECE ON RACISM IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE

Dean Fredrick Harris (Political Science) authored an article in Foreign Affairs explaining how structural racism in the United States has contributed to recent racialized violence and how racial polarization might be understood in a broader historic context.

Article can be found here. 

IRWGS Core Faculty member Lila Abu-Lughod was cited in an amicus brief challenging President Donald Trump’s “Muslim and refugee ban”. Muslim Advocates, along with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and law professor Aziz Huq of the U. of Chicago Law School relied extensively on Abu-Lughod’s scholarship in the case, documenting the ways in which references to the term “honor killings” in the ban can only be properly understood as reflections of anti-Muslim animus.

The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. NSF encourages early-career faculty to apply. For more information, please click here.

Economist Navin Kartik published a co-authored piece on the LSE Government blog, based on a forthcoming paper, "Electoral Ambiguity and Political Representation," accepted by the American Journal of Political Science.