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Allegheny Graduating Senior Will Pursue Environmental Research in the Rocky Mountains

by Richard Stanley April 25th 2018

During the summer of 2018, Allegheny College graduating senior Leah Franzluebbers will be working among the high peaks in the Mountain West. She is looking ahead to her summer job as a research assistant at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. This will be Franzluebbers’ second summer in Colorado working at the world-renowned high

Bipartisan Campaign Training Helps Allegheny Students Get “Ready to Run”

by Josh Tysiachney March 7th 2018

Allegheny College junior Dalia Wellens came away from the recent Ready to Run Pittsburgh campaign training program not only with knowledge about seeking elected office, but also newfound confidence. “Knowing that there are women who are pursuing careers in politics despite the male-dominated atmosphere is incredibly inspiring and helped me to see where I want

Political Science Professor Shannan Mattiace Receives Fulbright Award

by Richard Stanley January 29th 2018

Shannan Mattiace, professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Allegheny College, has received a 2018–19 Fulbright Award to teach and conduct research in the South American nation of Chile. Mattiace said she plans to live in Chile for five months beginning in February 2019. “It has been my dream for decades to receive

Allegheny Sophomore Attends Democracy Forum in Greece

by Erica Erwin October 26th 2017

It’s one thing to have classroom discussions about the challenges facing democracy. It’s quite another to have those same discussions in the country where democracy was born. Allegheny College sophomore Jesse Tomkiewicz was one of 23 students representing 11 different countries who participated in the Athens Democracy Forum in Athens, Greece, in September. The goal

Allegheny College Professor to Speak on Governing Rural America

by Erica Erwin October 24th 2017

Allegheny College Assistant Professor of Political Science Zachary Callen will speak on “Governing Rural America: Political Change and Limited Resources’” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Campus Center Room 301/302. The lecture is free and open to the public. Callen will discuss the problems with which rural communities struggle, which range from deindustrialization

Allegheny’s Center for Political Participation Featured on Civic Engagement Education Website

by Josh Tysiachney October 24th 2017

Allegheny College’s Center for Political Participation (CPP), under the direction of Political Science Professor Brian Harward, has been chosen as the first “civic engagement center” to be featured on a special website that focuses on teaching civic engagement. Elizabeth C. Matto, associate research professor and director of the Center for Youth Political Participation and Eagleton

Mattiace Attends Research Workshop

by Erica Erwin October 5th 2017

Professor of Political Science Shannan Mattiace attended a research workshop on September 21 and 22 sponsored by the Kellogg Center for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Latin American Research Review (LARR) on Societal Responses to Criminal Violence in Latin America with co-authors Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley.

Wesoky Publishes Book Examining Political Humor in China

by Erica Erwin October 5th 2017

Professor of Political Science Sharon Wesoky recently published a book, co-edited with Kingfai Tam of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, titled “Not Just a Laughing Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China (Springer Humanities).” The book, a product of a multi-year collaboration, grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and international conference in Hong Kong, collects

Harward Presents at European Consortium for Political Research

by Erica Erwin October 5th 2017

Brian M. Harward, the Robert G. Seddig Chair of Law and Policy, and his co-authors presented their paper “Competition over Issue Agendas: Presidential Signing Statements and Congressional Oversight” at the annual meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research in Oslo, Norway on September 6.

PBS’s Heffner on ‘Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age’

by Erica Erwin September 7th 2017

The “incivility of bigotry” has resulted in a society unable to come together across difference, Alexander Heffner said during a keynote lecture at Allegheny College on Thursday. “The incivility of bigotry does not mean the incivility of purely racism or xenophobia or nativism. The incivility of bigotry is the incapacity of our society to rationalize

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