News for Students & Alumni

Professor Myint published a paper written with a multidisciplinary groupof scholars, titled “Public Participation in Tropical Conservation andEnvironmental Management Research: Toward a Locally Grounded andReflexive Practice” in Biotropica: Volume 58,…

(ABC 6 News) – The last few weeks have seen a number of instances with the Trump administration and legislators on both sides butting heads, leading to the question, how…

Professor Myint published a review article in tribute of the late Yale Professor James C. Scott whose lifetime of scholarly works was inspired by social ecological issues in Southeast Asia.…

Tun Myint, professor of political science,  wrote the forward for the second edition of the book Two Cheers for Anarchism by the late Yale professor James C. Scott. The book with his forward will be available on June 10, 2025, from Princeton University Press.

Laurence Cooper, professor of political science, published an essay titled, “The Philosopher as Natural Man” in the edited volume, Natural Man, Citizen, and Philosopher: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited…

Professor Al Montero was interviewed on the nightly news program of Argentine Public Television (TPA) to discuss Trump’s immigration policies and Latin America. The video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkBxbKlwj4E

Christina Farhart, associate professor of political science, and Ethan Struby, assistant professor of economics, co-published a paper titled, “Inflation Expectations and Political Polarization: Evidence From the Cooperative Election Study” that was voted best paper (out of 27 presented) at the 2024 Liberal Arts Macroeconomics Conference. It was also presented earlier in the summer at the Western Economics Association meetings. They were also both quoted in a related Newsweek article on the partisan divide in voters’ perceptions about the US economy.

Off-Campus Studies has featured POSC major Tori Gray, who spent last summer at the London School of Economics, on its website homepage and its OCS Blog: Voices & Views.

Faculty Director Dr. Tun Myint, who leads Political Economy and Ecology in Southeast Asia, shares highlights of this winter’s study-abroad trip as well as the unique insights into themselves and the world around them that students will gain through their experiences

“Dawkins, the Carleton College professor, said Phillips may be building his brand in anticipation of some future political…”