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  • Amy Erica Smith on Venezuela’s food fight

    What does authoritarianism have to do with Venezuela’s food fight? Everything. Hungry people fare better in democracies.

    February 26, 2019

  • Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968

    Bonar Hernandez, assistant professor of history, published Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968. The book is an account of the resurgence of Guatemalan Catholicism during the twentieth century. Read more about the book here.

    January 31, 2019

  • Performance review of Rude Mechs’ Fixing Troilus and Cressida

    Cason Murphy, assistant professor of theatre, was recently published in Shakespeare Bulletin, with his performance review of the Rude Mechs’ Fixing Troilus and Cressida included in the Winter 2018 volume of the journal. Shakespeare Bulletin is an internationally-renowned peer-reviewed quarterly journal which publishes articles at the cutting edge of Shakespearean and…

    January 28, 2019

  • A New Analysis of Antonine Statuary Groups in Roman Spain

    In this study, Meyers combines an investigation of visual representations with imperial ideology to learn more about provincial towns in the Spanish provinces of the Roman Empire. Portrait statues played a major role in the creation and reinforcement of imperial ideology. The ubiquity of portraits of the emperor and his…

    January 22, 2019

  • What Trump’s Draft Deferments Reveal

    January 15, 2019

  • Desert Dreams of Drinking the Sea, Consumed by the Cold War: Transnational Flows of Desalination and Energy from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf.

    Abstract: During the Cold War, from the early 1950s through the 1970s, the US Office of Saline Water was instrumental in spearheading the basic research and development that incubated the desalting techniques we see today. American technical assistance programs were fundamental to the growth of desalination capacity in the Middle…

    November 26, 2018

  • Smith publishes multiple pieces in Vox

    Amy Erica Smith, associate professor of political science, recently published three pieces to Vox’s Mischiefs of Faction blog: Did Brazilians vote against democracy on Sunday? Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors. Top Pentecostal…

    November 11, 2018

  • Smith published in The Washington Post

    Amy Erica Smith, associate professor of political science, was published in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog on Nov. 2, 2018: In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro’s victory may mean further shifts in tolerance and moderation…

    November 11, 2018