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Every year I make my third year Bachelor students read Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the...
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On Indigenous Political Thought in Video Games
In something of a departure from my typical work, I recently published an article in...
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How Russian economic policy is gender
Every year I make...
How the Iran War harms U.S. deterrence
President Donald...
6+1 Questions about Resilient Statehood
Why did some states successfully avoid conquest by European empires? Logan Cochrane’s new, co-edited volume tackles this puzzle.
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What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate
I have a new open-access article out in Global Studies Quarterly, “What’s at Stake in the...
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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) recently published results of a survey of historians on the...
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The Hayseed Scholar podcast has come to a close. In this farewell episode, Brent's brother...
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Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega
Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me...
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I choose to celebrate Eurovision
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Reacting to a recent event on the study of religion, conflict and peace
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When I was in graduate school, my training included the methods and theories of international...
6+1 Questions about Exit from International Organizations
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6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy”
What is the name of the journal article (or book) and what are its coordinates? Miray Philips....