In this episode, Dr. Toni Haastrup of the University of Stirling joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Dr. Haastrup was born in Aberdeen, but moved to Nigeria when she was very young. She talks about primary and then secondary school there, the decisions she had to make early on about language training in the schools, and then her family’s move to California during the last part of high school. She discusses going to Las Positas in California,...
Kathleen R. McNamarais Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on globalization and the European Union, with a special interest in how politics, culture, and identity shape markets. She is the author of The Politics of Everyday Europe: Constructing Authority in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union (Cornell University...
Tana Johnson is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Politics, Review of International Political Economy, and International Organization.
Heather Smith-Cannoy is an associate professor of political science at Arizona State University. She directs ASU’s Global Human Rights Hub and directs the undergraduate degree program on Social Justice and Human Rights. She has published two books and has a third under review titled Sex Trafficking and Equity: The Status of Women and State Responses. She has also published 15 peer reviewed articles and book chapters on sex trafficking, human...
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Professor Leeds is the Radoslav Tsanoff Professor of Political Science and the Chair of the Political Science Department at Rice University. She specializes in the study of international relations, and particularly in the design and influence of cooperative agreements and international institutions. Much of her research has focused on the politics of military alliances. She is also engaged in research on the effects of domestic political change...
Dr. Georgina Holmes is a Research Fellow in the War Studies Department, King’s College London, where she conducts research on gender, global security governance, peacekeeping and security sector reform.
Grad students who weren’t schooled at elite universities face real challenges in a squeezed academic job market. But many talented grad students do reach tenure when they receive the same support and guidance offered in elite universities.
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