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     Dr. Regina Bateson has always harbored a very keen interest in civil and especially human rights. As an undergrad, she was a history major but took a lot of political science classes, enticed by the human-focused
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    Dr. Siegel’s work uses original datasets of hundreds of millions of social media posts, text and network analysis, machine learning methods, and experiments to study mass and elite political behavior in the Arab World and other comparative contexts
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    Professor of Political ScienceFor Jaroslav Tir, coming to the University of Colorado has been a long-term goal. Graduating from the University of Illinois and spending an early part of his career at the University of Georgia, Tir jumped at the
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    Krister Andersson became a professor in the Political Science Department in 2005 after a career with the United Nations. Andersson worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, focusing on issues of forest conservation.“During my
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    Assistant Professor“I think college is an opportunity for people to become broad-minded citizens; students should get an exposure to all kinds of ways of thinking and disciplines and learn how they fit together. I think it’s
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    Senior InstructorSince she was a little girl, politics has always fascinated Dr. Janet Donavan. “In Kindergarten, I was really interested in the 1980 presidential election”, she explained, “and when I was in 3rd grade, I got a subscription to
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    Professor Steinmo recently returned to the University of Colorado after working in Florence, Italy since 2007.  We asked him how this international experience influenced him as a teacher and a scholar.  “I have been lucky to have
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    Associate Professor“I am an army brat. I actually spent most of my childhood living in Western Europe,” Professor Ferguson says. Between the ages of three and 13, she lived in West Germany and the Netherlands. “I was living outside the United States
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    Assistant ProfessorDr. Sarah Wilson Sokhey’s life in academia is a tale of two worlds. Not only has she been a part of the Boulder faculty since 2009, she is affiliated with the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow,
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    Professor in Political Science and International AffairsDavid Bearce, both a Political Science and International Affairs professor, says his earliest memories were of his time spent in Kenya when his father joined the Peace Corps
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