Advancing Citizenship and Public Leadership
Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Featured Lecture:
The New Jim Crow: A Moderated Conversation
Michelle Alexander, a civil rights attorney, advocate, legal scholar, and author of The New York Times best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness will present for the Tanner Lecture Series. In this moderated dialogue, Michelle will discuss breaking the silence about racial injustice in the American legal system. In her book, The New Jim Crow, she explores the cultural biases that still exist and how segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration. Currently, there are more African Americans in prison than were enslaved in 1850. She blames the drug war for many of these, as people are then labeled as felons and stuck in an endless cycle of discrimination. How can they improve their lives when they can’t get a job, housing or health benefits? During this conversation, the acclaimed civil rights lawyer explores the myths surrounding our criminal justice system from a racial and ethical standpoint and offers solutions for combating this epidemic.
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 4 p.m. | Maxwell Auditorium
Featured Research
"Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment" Jenn Jackson shows how Black women have resisted the fungibility of their bodies through processes of self-formation and self-reclamation and how that resistance might help us understand Black women’s social and political life worlds today.
Public Culture, 2020
"To Appeal and Amend: Changes to Recently Updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps" In this article, Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science, and her co-author examine whether there are discernible trends or patterns in alterations to Flood Insurance Rate Maps.
Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2021
Building Robust and Ethical Vaccination Verification Systems
Johannes Himmelreich and his co-authors propose guidelines for deploying vaccine record verification (V.R.V.) systems that align with vaccine prioritization decisions; uphold fairness and equity; and are built on trustworthy technology.
The Brookings Institution, 2021
Recent Faculty Books
Action anthropology and public policy change: Lead poisoning in Syracuse, NY
Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein, Occeana Fair, Katie Farkouh, Melaica Delgado, Tanya S. McGee, Kinley Gaudette, Paul Ciavarri, Maureen Thompson, Md Koushik Ahmed
Annals of Anthropological Practice, 2023
Black, Children, Adolescents, Disability, Education, Housing, New York State, U.S. Health Policy
The Constitution’s Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America’s Basic Charter
Dennis Rasmussen
University Press of Kansas, 2023
Government, United States
Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, editor
W. W. Norton and Co., 1997
Baobao Zhang has received up to $200K to research the role of citizens in the governance of artificial intelligence systems.
Gadarian, professor of political science and senior research associate with the Campbell Institute, is the 3rd Maxwell faculty member to earn this prestigious research award in four years.
This policy brief examines the root causes of partisan polarization in order to propose effective solutions for remedying the damaged political system in the United States.
Lecture Series
Campbell's lecture series bring together people with a diverse range of perspectives and interests to open dialogue, foster understanding and give the power of knowledge.
Bantle Symposium on Business and Government Policy
Phanstiel Lecture Series on Leadership
State of Democracy Lecture Series
Tanner Lecture Series on Ethics, Citizenship and Public Responsibility
Campbell Conversation Spotlight
In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings, Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State legislature passed a set of new gun control laws. Then, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned New York's concealed carry permitting process. In response, the governor and the legislature, in a special session, passed another set of laws.
On this episode of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher speaks with NYS Assemblyman Robert Smullen, a Republican representing the 118th assembly district and Senator Rachel May, a Democrat representing the 53rd senate district.
July 9, 2022
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