Maxwell School News and Faculty Media, Opinion and Analysis

Sultana participates in Race, Space and the Environment project

May 5, 2021

Shana Gadarian Earns Prestigious Carnegie Fellowship

April 28, 2021

Gadarian is the third Maxwell faculty member to earn the award in the past four years.

Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

April 27, 2021

Following the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden called for changing policing by "acknowledging and confronting, head-on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly." One such idea is to abolish the police. Proponents think communities can work together to regulate themselves without "anti-Black, white supremacist institutions," like the American criminal justice system and policing—which got its start with slave patrols—according to Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. Read more in the Vox article, "9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing."

Jackson quoted in the Guardian article on the use of tasers by police

April 21, 2021

"The reforms haven’t changed the way that especially black and brown folks experience policing,” says Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "We are still seeing the same violence…Whatever tools that police officers have at their disposal will be used to physically harm those people, whether it’s a billy club, hose, a dog, a Taser or a gun."

Gadarian speaks to City & State about NY State Sen. Rachel May

April 14, 2021

Read more in the City & State article, "Rachel May, a different kind of upstate Democrat."

Yinger quoted in Daily Beast article on diverse communities

April 5, 2021

According to U.S. Census data, there is a 30 percentage-point gap in homeownership between Blacks and whites—larger than it was in the 1960s, prior to when the Fair Housing Act was passed.

Ma featured in Chronicle of Higher Education piece on international students, racism in US

April 2, 2021

"The very fact that six out of eight victims are Asian women definitely makes the violence racialized and gendered," says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology. "And given that 70 percent of all international students in the United States are from Asia, I think that would definitely make them very, very afraid."

Landes speaks to PBS about COVID-19 vaccines for people with IDD

April 1, 2021

"It's not been surprising, on one hand, that states have not prioritized this group, because that's historically been the case," says Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology. "It's been disappointing, because the evidence was there pre-pandemic and the evidence is there now that this group is at higher risk."

Montez discusses state policies, life expectancy on Innovation Hub

March 26, 2021

Faricy piece on Biden's American Rescue Plan published in The Hill

March 15, 2021

"Our recent analysis of public opinion about people’s attitudes toward government assistance shows that Democrats can gain the support of conservative voters for assistance to the poor through smart policy design. And there is no better example than the American Rescue Plan (ARP)," Associate Professor of Political Science Chris Faricy and Christopher Ellis (Bucknell University) write.

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