Congratulations to our @HMonzima who was awarded Best Graduate Student Paper ("Dialectics of Precarity: The Farmers' Protest in India") at the @DOPEUKY conference!
I you'd like to learn about economics from a political economy perspective — which is the true roots of economics — this is the absolute primer.
It's accessible, fun, and honestly the first book I'd recommend to anyone who wants an introduction to economics.
A new @NDI paper authored by SIS professor Samantha Bradshaw and PhD candidate Monzima Haque explores how strategic authoritarian narratives are shaping conversations about democracy in the Sahel.
Read more about their research in this new Q&A: https://t.co/5yAKfzycAo
📸: The original manuscript of the UN Charter preamble, complete with handwritten notes.
On this day 79 years ago, 50 nations came together in San Francisco, California, to create a new organization for peace, prosperity & human rights. https://t.co/RjYS2sQ7SD #CharterDay
Announcing 2024 PhD Program award winners! First is @HMonzima who won the "Excellence in Research Assistance" award, nominated by her supervisor @TazreenaSajjad who writes "Monzima has been invaluable in my ongoing project on Rohingya reception in Bangladesh." 👏👏👏
This semester I asked my UGs to critique a ChatGPT4 critique of an academic paper. This has been a great way to encourage students to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs while also getting them to think critically about an academic paper. 10/10 would assign again.
Is #democracy backsliding in #Asia?
In a new article @cps_journal, @AndrewIYeo & I argue: No, actually.
What look like signs of democratic regress are part of a distinct & less obvious--but no less important--phenomenon we call democratic ceilings.🧵/1
https://t.co/GVFHNHH5rY
Call for Submissions!
We are inviting proposals for full papers (6000-9000 words) on various themes. Please visit our website for more details.
Submit an abstract of 500-1000 words by September 20th, 2023.
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Congratulations to our @HMonzima who passed her prospectus defense this morning! Her project is titled "Transboundary Waters as Discursive Battlegrounds." Thanks to her excellent committee @KenConca @AmitavAcharya and @ProfYangZhang
"Expert in their field" = Spent so many years immersed in a narrow topic that they've forgotten how to converse with people. Yet, just like everyone else, they also cringe at the word “expert”.