Maxwell School News and Commentary

History Undergrads Participate in 2021 Phi Alpha Theta Conference

The 2021 Western/Central New York Phi Alpha Theta Conference featured five Syracuse students and a recent graduate.
April 28, 2021

See related: Awards & Honors, Student Experience

Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

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." 
April 27, 2021

See related: Civil Rights, Crime & Violence, Race & Ethnicity, Social Justice, State & Local, United States

Keck talks to PolitiFact about court packing

Thomas Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, says a court expansion can be justified. "If it’s the case that Sen. McConnell and other Republican leaders engaged in illegitimate court packing of their own from 2016 to 2020, then from the Democrats’ perspective, an additional round of court reform is necessary to correct for those earlier rounds," he says.
April 26, 2021

See related: Congress, Law, Political Parties, SCOTUS, United States

Lopoo, Wolf cited in The Atlantic article on declining fertility rates

April 26, 2021

Ethan Coffel awarded three-year NSF grant to study climate-crop cycle

Coffel, professor of geography and the environment, hopes to use crop-climate cycles as a way to assess the future risk of climate-driven food insecurity.
April 22, 2021

See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, Grant Awards

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

"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."
April 21, 2021

See related: Crime & Violence, Law, United States

Prepare for crises, speakers tell Humphrey Fellows

The global pandemic kept Humphrey Fellows from gathering at Syracuse University for an annual workshop on crisis management. But a virtual program taught lessons relevant to the ongoing public health crisis as well as strategies to prepare for future crises.
April 19, 2021

See related: Student Experience

Heflin research on housing insecurity cited in Common Dreams article

April 19, 2021

Thompson discusses 19th century distrust of nuns in Global Sisters Report

April 19, 2021

See related: Religion, United States

Michelmore provides insight on child tax credit in Gender Policy Report

April 19, 2021

See related: Child & Elder Care

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