Selina Gallo-Cruz Honored as O’Hanley Faculty Scholar
The associate professor of sociology researches global conflict, policy change and social movements.
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Huber Cited in ABC News Article on Republicans Making Misrepresentations on Climate Policies
Playing into those politics are gasoline prices, which have become a partial barometer of economic security, says Matthew Huber, professor of geography and environment. He also notes that that the oil and gas industry has history of funding research that contradicts climate science.
See related: Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, Political Parties, U.S. Elections, United States
Sultana Discusses the Political Situation in Bangladesh and Misinformation in The Hill and SCMP
“The installation of [Nobel Laureate Muhammad] Yunus as interim head is what Bangladesh needs at this time. His first speech called to ensure the protection of all religious and ethnic minorities, prevent violence and strengthen democratic processes to keep rebuilding Bangladesh,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
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Sultana Speaks With Al Jazeera and DW News About the Devastating Floods in Bangladesh
“This is a massive flooding event...and the floods were quite rapid in their onset. There are over 5 million people who are marooned or stranded and devasted across 11 districts, 23 reported deaths now but those figures will rise and relief cannot reach many people,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Government, Natural Disasters, South Asia
Huber Quoted in The Guardian on How Renewable Energy Tax Credits Disproportionately Help the Wealthy
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment spoke, spoke to The Guardian on the Inflation Reduction Act’s residential tax credits and how the programs have disproportionately benefited wealthier Americans.
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Taylor Shares Insights on Ukraine’s Recent Military Successes in Russian Territory with LiveNOWFox
New Book by Hromadžić, ‘Riverine Citizenship,’ Featured in Novosti Article
“The 2015 protest against the construction of a mini hydropower plant on the Una River in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina was the moment when the Una become a key political word,” says Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology and author of “Riverine Citizenship” (CEU Press, 2024).
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Sultana Article on the Threats to Bangladesh’s Interim Government Published in The Diplomat
“The country’s democratic revolution is being targeted by both external and internal sources of misinformation and propaganda,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
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Sultana Talks to TRT World News About the Political Situation in Bangladesh
“This revolution movement was led by very young students, the youthful generation. And they have called upon Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus to be the chief advisor of this interim, caretaker government. And they've called for peaceful transition,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
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Taylor Quoted in Vox Article on the US-Russia Prisoner Swap
“Putin wanted to bring home a Russian assassin...and other spies, to show people who work in the Russian intelligence services that their government will try to bring them home if they get caught. The U.S. government and its allies wanted to free innocent people being held hostage in Russian prisons,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science.
Kristy Buzard Selected for Minneapolis Federal Reserve Residency
The associate professor will join her research counterparts to advance their study of invisible labor and the mental and economic toll of tasks disproportionately carried out by women.
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Rubinstein Discusses Lead Poisoning in Onondaga County on WCNY’s CONNECT NY
“We can show the overlapping of areas of lead poisoning with poor educational performance, with teen pregnancy, with entry into the criminal justice system, and so on. So there's a whole set of ramifications,” says Robert Rubinstein, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology.
See related: Children, Adolescents, Health Policy, Infrastructure, New York State, Urban Issues
Sultana Comments on Academic Publishers Partnering With AI Companies in Chronicle of Higher Ed Piece
Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, concerned about how her work may be repurposed, says, “All this occurs while our intellectual property is woefully inadequately compensated, since there is abuse and profit off our mostly free intellectual labor by private corporations reaping profits in the billions of dollars annually from the sale of our books.”
See related: Autonomous Systems, Education, Labor, United States
Cleary Weighs In on Whether or Not Biden Dropping Out Was a Coup in PolitiFact Article
“Calling Biden’s decision a ‘coup’ does not clarify anything about all of this. It does not accurately reflect any part of what has happened here,” says Matthew Cleary, associate professor of political science.
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Huber Quoted in Cronkite News Article on the Paris Olympics as a Blueprint of Sustainability
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment, highlights the infrastructural advantage France has to promote sustainability. “France is known for having one of the most decarbonized electric grids in the world because they have about 70% of their electricity coming from nuclear power, which is zero carbon energy,” Huber says.
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Patel Speaks With the Washington Post About the Use of Sanctions as Economic Warfare by the US
“It was a pivotal moment,” Kristen Patel, Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Practice in Korean and East Asian Affairs, says of President George W. Bush's targeting of a North Korean bank in 2003. “Treasury got the go-ahead to start pounding things with this hammer.”
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Prema Kurien Recognized as Maxwell’s Daicoff Faculty Scholar
The designation was created with a generous gift from alumna and longtime advisory board member Cathy Daicoff.
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Thompson Talks to CNY Central and WSYR About President Biden’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris
Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, says that Biden’s endorsement of Kamala Harris means she will more than likely be the Democratic nominee in the November election. “Already we are hearing a lot of calls for unity, statements of enthusiasm, and a lot of speculation frankly about who might be the vice president. But I do not see a lot of noise around the candidate at the top,” she says.
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Taylor Speaks With ABC News About Evan Gershkovich, Possible Prisoner Trade
Russia has maintained that discussions about trades for Gershkovich can only start in earnest after the trial is over, says Brian Taylor, professor of political science. “So the quicker the trial and the inevitable verdict, the quicker they can offer Evan as a piece in a possible trade,” Taylor says.
See related: Crime & Violence, International Affairs, Russia
Taylor Speaks with Spectrum News About the NATO Summit, President Biden
“...NATO member states are aware of it that a Trump presidency might mean quite a shaky time period for the alliance going forward,” says Professor of Political Science Brian Taylor. “President Biden has decades of experience with respect to dealing with NATO member countries and understanding the alliance. And President Trump has a much more negative and hostile attitude towards the alliance.
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Labor Studies Working Group Tenth Decade Project Graduate Research Symposium
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Featuring presentations by last year's grant recipients and a keynote address by Angela Stuesse entitled “Scratching Out a Living: Activist Research for Immigrant Worker Justice.”
Agenda:
1-1:05pm INTRODUCTION
1:05-1:55pm PANEL 1
“‘Happy soldier, happy family’: Exploring Militarized Relations of Production Among Military Spouses” by William Oliver, PhD candidate in Sociology
“Producing Americans: Industrial Education at The Ford Motors English School” by Vincent Portillo, PhD candidate in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Faculty Respondent: John Burdick, Professor and Chair of Anthropology
2-2:50p PANEL 2
“The Politics of Distress: Drought and Migration in Maharashtra” by Natasha Koshy, PhD candidate in Social Science
“Milking Cows, Draining Workers: Labor, Resistance and Cultural Moral Economy in New York’s Dairy Industry” by Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, PhD candidate in Anthropology
Faculty Respondent: Cecilia Green, Associate Professor of Sociology
2:55-3:45 PANEL 3
“From citizen to surplus, Madonna to Marx: Towards a retheorization of homelessness” by Brian Hennigan, PhD candidate in Geography
“Dollar Store Economy: Employee Criminalization and the Liability Model of Work” by Tracy Vargas, PhD candidate in Sociology
Faculty Respondent: Matt Huber, Associate Professor of Geography
3:45-4: BREAK
4-5 KEYNOTE TALK
"Scratching Out a Living: Activist Research for Immigrant Worker Justice” by Angela Stuesse, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill
If you require accommodations, please contact Deborah Toole by email at datoole@syr.edu or by phone at 315.443.2367.
The Work, Labor, and Citizenship Initiative nurtures interdisciplinary study of the many fundamental trends now at play in the broad field of labor studies. Over the past four decades, the world has experienced a precipitous increase in income inequality, fueled in part by the global restructuring of labor markets and the collapse of organized labor. At the same time, rights and entitlements traditionally associated with employment have been undermined by a shifting worker/employer power balance, with effects on job security, benefits, pensions, and wages. Across the globe, labor markets are characterized by mass unemployment, disruptive migration, and a burgeoning informal sector. These trends have direct implications for political participation and workers’ sense of of their own citizenship. This workshop will explore the shifting terrain of work and labor and its implications for citizenship.
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