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Futures Lab Student Research Included in UN Report on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity

Graduate student researchers in SIS Professor Jonathan Crock’s Futures of Democracy, Tech & Human Rights Lab received international recognition in a report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on advancing human rights and cultural diversity.
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Arman Azedi, Selective attention? Human rights organizations and Anti-state naming and shaming, 1995–2018

Postdoctoral Fellow Arman Azedi's new research article examines why human rights organizations choose to shame and criticize some states over others for human rights abuses.
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Carolyn Gallaher, Building a Green Wall: Irish America’s Resurgence Post-Brexit

Carolyn Gallaher's new co-authored book with SPA Professor Kimberly Cowell-Meyers explores how the Irish-American lobby reemerged post-Brexit to shape the U.S. foreign policy approach.
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Rethinking Human Rights Politics: The ‘Reverse Savages, Victims, Saviors’ Metaphor

SIS professor Shadi Mokhtari answers a few questions about her new research article on the “Reverse Savages, Victims, Saviors” metaphor of human rights.
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Grace Benson, PhD, Awarded Inaugural Cosmos Scholars Prize

Dr. Grace Benson, SIS PhD '24, was awarded the inaugural Cosmos Scholars Prize from the Cosmos Club Foundation.
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Sara Nawaz and Giulia Belotti, Engaging Coastal Communities on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement

Sara Nawaz and Giulia Belotti's new report for the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal serves as a guide on how to engage coastal communities on ocean alkalinity enhancement.
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Adan Mandelbaum SIS '28, Olivia Lappin SPA/SOC '27, Daneille Kiminyo SOC

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Introducing the AU Research Storytellers

AU’s new Storytellers program empowers students to share the impact of research through film, writing, and media—turning their unique perspectives into stories that spotlight innovation at American University.
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Sumitra Badrinathan, Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India

Sumitra Badrinathan's new co-authored article in American Political Science Review is "Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India."
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Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz, From East Timor to Gaza: How the United States Contributes to and Distances Itself from the Atrocities of Others

Jeff Bachman and Esther Brito Ruiz's new article in the Journal of Genocide Studies explores how the United States contributes to and distances itself from the atrocities of others, and how genocide studies lets the US get away with it.
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer Wins Peace Educator-Scholar Award

Mohammed Abu-Nimer has been awarded the Peace Educator-Scholar Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association.
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