3:00 pm Tivoli room 440 Dr. Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, co-founder of The Red Nation, and author of Our History Is The Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline , and Long Tradition of...

The Denver Asian American Pacific Islander Commission Mayor’s Diversity Award is given to recognize leadership in advancing social justice work. Minsun Ji is the Political Science department’s Director of the Center for New Directions in Politics and Public Policy. Minsun was selected this year for her work as a labor...

CU on the Air host Ken McConnellogue spoke with Assistant Professor of Political Science Jim Walsh, who for more than a decade has researched Leadville’s Irish community during the late 1800s silver mining boom. Walsh is working with the Irish government and the Colorado Irish community to have a memorial...

Marty Otañez, Associate Professor of Anthropology (withcollaborator Carlos Jimenez) conducted a public screening of digital stories created by day laborers and domestic workers . The event was part of the research project “Self-Documenting the Everyday Lives of Day Laborers in Denver” with funds from the University of Denver Latino Center...

New Directions in Public Policy Director Minsun Ji of the CU Denver Political Science Department recently published a chapter titled "Limitations of Business Unionism and Co-Op Conservatism: A Case Study of Denver's Taxi Driver Union-Cooperatives" in Employee Ownership and Employee Involvement at Work , the most recent release of the...

Betcy Jose and Christoph Stefes recently published a working paper titled, " Russian Norm Entrepreneurship in Crimea: Serious Contestation or Cheap Talk " with the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. In it, the authors explore how powerful autocratic regimes such as Russia and China have...

Assistant Professor of Political Science Betcy Jose was awarded the 2018 Brodie Prize by the journal of Contemporary Security Policy . The Journal editors award the Bernard Brodie Prize annually to the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in the journal the previous year. Jose won for her article,...

Political Science Assistant Professor Betcy Jose recently published her latest article - titled, " Not completely the new normal: How Human Rights Watch tried to suppress the targeted killing norm ," in Contemporary Security Policy's special August issue on Targeted Killing and International Order. In it, Jose examines the shifting...

In The Modern Legislative Veto , published in July by the University of Michigan Press, Michael J. Berry , Associate Professor of Political Science, uses a multimethod research design, incorporating quantitative and qualitative analyses, to examine the ways that Congress has used the legislative veto over the past 80 years...

On August 7, at 3:00am, Eliza Cummings , regular presenter and panelist in Political Science First-Year Honors and Leadership courses, became the eighth swimmer since 1968 to complete the 20-mile Plymouth to Provincetown open-water marathon swim across Cape Cod Bay. She finished in 9 hours and 37 minutes, beating the 2014 record of 9:43.