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Jessica Waters and Madelyn Adams

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Fetal Personhood and Advance Healthcare Directives

SPA professor and graduate student expose unseen legal and health consequences of recent attacks on reproductive rights.
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Silhouettes of Women

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How Does Mobility Impact the Health of Female Sex Workers?

SIS professor Maria De Jesus answers questions related to her research on how mobility impacts HIV care for female sex workers.
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Rachel Sullivan Robinson, The Missing Millions: Uncovering the Burden of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in the African Region

Rachel Sullivan Robinson's new co-authored article evaluates current research and data to establish the burden of COVID-19 infections and mortality in the African region
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Jordanna Matlon wins ISA John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award

Jordanna Matlon's book "A Man among Other Men" was the co-winner of the 2023 International Studies Association John Ruggie Annual Best Book Award.
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Anthony Fontes, “The kidnappers are the police”: Criminal governance and forced migration in Central America

Anthony Fontes' new article in Political Geography maps how collective doubt about where the state ends and its underworld begins structures criminal predation and forced migration in Central America.
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Thomas Zeitzoff & Grace Gold

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What Happened to the Radical Environmental Movement?

In collaboration with undergraduate Grace Gold, SPA Associate Professor Thomas Zeitzoff published an article on attitudes towards cyber tactics in eco-activism.
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Angela Pashayan, Political trust in the age of coronavirus: experiences in Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya

Angela Pashayan's new article in Frontiers in Political Science examines declining political trust at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the informal settlements of Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Institute for Macroeconomic and Policy Analysis Releases Brief to Inform Tax Bill Debate

Analysis finds repealing clean energy credits would significantly reduce GDP, employment, and wages
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Josh Rovner, Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Aftermath of War

Josh Rovner's new article in the Journal of Strategic Studies explores how victors and losers in war adapt their strategies and grand strategies.
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Sarah Snyder Awarded National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship

Sarah Snyder has been awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to support the writing of her current book project.
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