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Brockway Discusses the Need for a Framework to Describe the Far-Right in NBC News Piece

July 22, 2022

"January 6, Trump and the rise of America's dangerous 'shadow gospel'," co-authored by Mark Brockway, a faculty fellow in political science, was published by NBC News. 

Thompson Reviews New Book on History of Black Catholic Nuns in Global Sisters Report

May 19, 2022

Associate Professor Margaret Susan Thompson reviewed a new book by Shannen Dee Williams titled "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" in Global Sisters Report.

See related: Black, Religion, United States

Thompson Quoted in Times Union Article on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines

October 8, 2021
Whether the religious belief is "sincerely held" is a primary metric used by employers when determining whether to grant the requests, says Thompson, associate professor of history and political science.

Thompson quoted in The Hill article on banning communion for Biden

June 21, 2021
"There really is a tension between bishops and that tension has always existed in the USCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops), it’s always been there. It’s just a question of what is predominant," says Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science.

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