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Sultana explains why climate, COVID crises need feminism in The Hill

May 18, 2021
Instead of analyzing the climate change and COVID-19 crises separately, Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, suggests we learn more by looking at how they intersect.

2021 One University Awards Recipients Include Several from Maxwell

May 10, 2021
Syracuse University announced its 2021 One University Awards, honoring members of the University community for their scholarship, teaching, academic achievement, leadership and service.

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Purser quoted in Law360 article on extended CDC anti-eviction order

April 2, 2021
"The need for rental assistance and a massive influx of cash to deal with this is really, really great," says Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology. "The question now is what will happen [after] June." 

Sultana reviews Global Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka Tribune

March 9, 2021
"Given that climate change impacts the most vulnerable across the world, yet the voices of the vulnerable are always not heard or heeded sufficiently in high-level planning and decision-making, conferences like the Global Gobeshona Conference enhance opportunities to have different voices and positionalities to be present in spaces of global knowledge sharing," writes Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

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Sultana talks to MIT Technology Review about what progress means

February 25, 2021
Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, was interviewed for the MIT Technology Review article, "What does progress mean to you?"

Associated Press: Purser discusses the right for renters to have legal counsel

January 4, 2021
"The push for right to counsel preceded the pandemic, but it’s particularly acute and particularly urgent in light of the pandemic, given just the overall precarity that renters are facing," says Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology.

Stuart Brown and Margaret Hermann publish a study on transnational crime

December 31, 2020

This book examines 80 such safe havens which function outside effective state-based government control and are sustained by illicit economic activities.

Purser cited in Washington Post article on economic relief package

December 15, 2020

According to research by Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology, somewhere between 2.4 million and 5 million American households are at risk of eviction in January alone if Congress fails to reach an agreement on economic emergency relief. 

Alumna Kristen Patel named Gregg Professor of Practice at Maxwell

December 7, 2020

Kristen Patel will teach undergraduate courses in policy studies and graduate courses in public administration and international affairs. 

Sultana talks to Scientific American about Biden, climate justice

November 12, 2020

"The most important action the Biden administration can do is to undertake all its policies and actions through a climate justice lens...and approach action with equity, accountability and justice in mind," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

Sultana comments on Joe Biden's victory in Carbon Brief article

November 10, 2020

"This was a climate election since a large majority of voters noted that they were concerned with climate breakdown," says Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment. "Biden has a climate plan and a mandate and he has promised to listen to scientists…which is vastly different from the last four years of war on science." 

Sultana participates in international event on climate research

October 8, 2020

Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, participated in "Intersectionality and Climate justice: Towards an Emancipatory Climate Research Agenda," an event organized by the Centre for Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University. The international webinar brought together critical scholars interested in climate justice and intersectionality with the aim of exploring common threads between the two concepts.

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Sultana talks to The Sanctuary for Independent Media about divesting from fossil fuels

September 18, 2020

Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, says "a divestment from fossil fuels signals a commitment to ending climate breakdown, to have climate justice, and to think about equitable and just transitions toward regenerative economies and societies that move away from fossil fuels."

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IIAS Study Group on 'Coproduction of Public Services'

Greenberg House, Washington, DC

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This will be the fifth meeting of the IIAS Study Group on 'Coproduction of Public Services.'  Our aim is to create and nurture an intellectual platform for the theoretical and empirical study of coproduction and its implications for the organization and management of public services. The conference will take place at the Syracuse University Greenberg House, which is located at 2301 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC 20008.  The telephone number there is 202.797.4678.  It is located on the corner of Calvert Street and Woodley Place in the Woodley Park area of northwest Washington, DC.  Click here for more information.    


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