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Posted on August 26th, 2020 in Faculty, Teaching by Aaron Dusso

Preparation checklist for teaching our new hybrid-traditional classes (that’s IUPUI jargon for a class that has both in-person and synchronous online teaching). Step 1: Canvas Class Page Get the page published and let students know how this is going to work. Step 2: Zoom Half the class will be watching and participating from home through …

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Posted on August 24th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Be sure and check out Chalkbeat Indiana’s piece on the lack of an endorsement by the Indiana Political Action Committee for Education (which is connected with the Indiana State Teachers Association) in this year’s gubernatorial election. One might expect an organization like a teachers union to always endorse a candidate, but there are often more …

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Posted on August 18th, 2020 in Faculty by Dr. Christopher Kulesza

The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled universities and colleges to expand their online instruction offerings at an unprecedented rate. The shift, however, did not impact all instructors equally. On the one hand, most faculty members had to transform their in-person seminars into online classes within weeks quickly. In-person courses that were meticulously crafted through years, if …

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Posted on August 10th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

We’re less than two weeks away from the start of the Fall 2020 semester and we’re ready for the challenge of delivering our classes in new formats. All of us in the Department of Political Science are diligently working to build our new hybrid classes, whether they are synchronous online or have both online and …

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Posted on August 4th, 2020 in Faculty, Featured by Aaron Dusso

As the November 3rd elections continue to get closer, we asked members of the department a very simple question. Why vote? Here are our answers in 200 words or less. Bill Blomquist I vote (and recommend that others do so too) for a few reasons. First, elections really matter. No matter your philosophy or party, you …

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Posted on July 23rd, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Dr. Pegg recently published an interesting article “Socially Distanced School-Based Nutrition Program under COVID 19 in the Rural Niger Delta,” in the journal Extractive Industries and Society. Here is the abstract: Abstract The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is widely recognized as a complex and contentious space for oil exploration and production. Over the past …

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Posted on July 16th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Our colleague, Dr. John McCormick, recently published the 3rd edition of his highly respected text, European Union Politics. Dr. McCormick literally wrote the book (actually multiple books) on E.U. politics. Here is a full description: Cutting through the jargon of EU politics, the third edition of this engaging and informative textbook examines the history, institutions, …

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Posted on July 9th, 2020 in Faculty by Aaron Dusso

Our colleague Dr. Amanda Friesen’s fascinating work on the shared genetic connection between political attitudes and religiosity was cited in a recent article in the New York Times. The research referred to in the Times is a piece Dr. Friesen co-authored with Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz and was published in the journal Political Behavior. They also recently …

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