Sarah Kreps, professor of government, says, “It’s more that I think there’s no alternative. It is nearly hopeless to think that there’s an alternate universe where we just try to put this genie back in the bottle.”

Magnus Fiskesjö, associate professor of anthropology, discusses extrajudicial show trials in China in this opinion essay. 

The article cites Prof. Fiskesjö's research on how China in the past decade or so has brought back show trials, with staged, coerced confessions, borrowing both from the Mao era and reaching back to Joseph Stalin’s show trials of the 1930s. 

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 election.

Prof. Kassam has been awarded this honor in recognition of his contributions to the culturally grounded community-based research on climate adaptation in Central Asia, and sponsoring and supporting students at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). 

Prof. Kassam had been invited to deliver the Commencement Address to the Graduates of 2023 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Through his address, entitled “Once You Know, You Become Responsible”, he specifically spoke to students from diverse ethnicities and nationalities from countries at war with each other. It was an audience of future leaders from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Syria, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

This also concluded a major research on climate change and coincided with the first graduates of the Zeenab Kassam Scholarship.

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, appears on The Big Take podcast to discuss the geopolitics and security interests in moving chip innovation forward in the United States.