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Meet Caitlin Hyslop-Margison, a bright PhD student whose research focuses on understanding why people engage in acts of violence motivated by political, social, or religious ideas, and helping protect people and communities from that kind of violence. “My goal is for my research to effect meaningful, tangible change, particularly in identifying protective factors that mediate risk factors for individual radicalization and in developing exit pathways and resources for individuals seeking to leave extremist groups.” Learn more about her here: https://ow.ly/VUeE50RTm42

“Cultivated” is doing too much work in this description of the results of toil by men, women, and a child, sentenced to intergenerational forced labor for life, to produce this crop for the economic benefit of one person. To be public history, representations of the past to modern audiences, especially of dehumanization and suffering, must be open, honest, inclusive and intersectional. This is none of that. #publichistory #publichistorypractice

Thrilled and honored to be a part of this panel! Please save the date and join the conversation for an insightful discussion. Details below ☺️

📣 GOHA Affiliate Member and Co-lead of NC State's Citizen Science Campus Caren Cooper is lead author to new publication "A Positionality Tool to Support Ethical Research and Inclusion in the Participatory Sciences". 📄 This paper encourages those in participatory sciences to explore their positionality to manage values for several goals: research integrity, ethical data practices, and equity and inclusion. Positionality refers to the way in which an individual’s worldview, and thus perceptions and research activities, is shaped by the frameworks, social identities, lived experiences, and sociopolitical context within which they live. Learn more about this exciting research below 🔽 https://lnkd.in/gKhrARKz

Associate Professor Amie Thurber, MSW, PhD, recently co-authored, "'You Could Have Did Us Better Than This': Reparative Housing Policies and the Struggle to Right Harms to Black Communities," along with CCF Research Assistants Susan Halverson and Keisha Muia, and Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and in Black Studies Professor Lisa Bates. The paper was published in the Journal of Community Practice. Access the article at: https://lnkd.in/e-vcEYDM

Participated in this thought-provoking session hosted by the Institute for Humane Studies, focusing on the complexities of local self-governance in today's landscape. Discussions revolved around topics including the challenges posed by centralized funding for community organizations; the impact of urban influence on local dynamics, the significance of genuine ownership and decision-making in participation; the global trend of seeking meaning through tradition; the importance of grassroots empowerment for building trust and compromise; and significance of the interconnectedness of institutions and cultures in shaping local self-governance frameworks. #LocalGovernance #CommunityEmpowerment #DecisionMaking #InstitutionalCulture

Want to learn more about the non-college educated members of Du Bois’ Talented Tenth? Join Korie Edwards (Ohio State), Thomas Hibbs (Baylor), moderator, Patricia Wilson (Baylor) & me tomorrow at 2 CST for the webinar “The Emancipation of Democracy.” Scan the QR code below!

Check out our new research about honor cultures and violence in Justice Quarterly! The University of Texas at Dallas School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at UT Dallas

26% of Americans are religiously unaffiliated. To better understand the Nones, we interviewed Dr. Ryan P. Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, pastor, statistician, and author of The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going. Watch the full interview now: https://buff.ly/4dPZs8K.

Explore how your science can inform the work of Congress through the American Physical Society fellowship, part of the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program!