For the last 12 years, Susan J. Megy, M.A. ’03, has worked in/out of conflict zones and developing countries. Her experience and expertise are now used to help education policies with the Biden admininstration.
From 1:00 to 2:30pm, on Tuesday, November 7th, the Illinois State University Department of Politics and Government held a panel on “The Israel-Palestine Conflict: The History and the Trajectory”, moderated by ISU student Allison Henrichsmeyer, with expert Illinois State University panelists Dr. Ali Riaz, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Politics and Government, Dr. Reecia Orzeck, an Associate Professor of Geography, and Dr. Camille Cole, an Assistant Professor of History.
Dr. T.Y. Wang, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and Government, served as a roundtable panelist at the Conference on Hong Kong Politics held at Princeton University, November 3-4, 2023.
The mock trial team began its 2023-24 season with a series of tournaments hosted by other schools.
This Veterans Day will be the first time in three decades that retired Brig. Gen. Michelle Letcher ’95, who first answered the call to serve and defend the nation as an undergraduate at Illinois State University, is living the civilian life again.
Distinguished Professor, Dr. Ali Riaz was interviewed by local NPR affiliate WGLT about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prior to the Department of Politics and Government’s panel on the conflict on Tuesday, November 7.
Under the mentorship of Dr. Noha Shawki, and in collaboration with several high school teachers in Bloomington-Normal, four political science majors and members of the 2023 ISU Model United Nations (Model UN) team helped coordinate and run two Model UN simulations for students from several high schools in the Bloomington-Normal area in fall semester 2023.
Distinguished Professor Ali Riaz has published a chapter on constitutionalism and politics in Bangladesh in an edited volume titled “A History of the Constitution of Bangladesh: The Founding, Development, and Way Ahead”.
United States Ambassador (retired) Geeta Pasi, the inaugural Donald F. McHenry Visiting Professor in Diplomacy and International Affairs at Illinois State University, participated in a talk entitled “African Democracy in the Balance” at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on October 31st.
The Extending Empathy Project (TEEP) and the American Democracy Project (ADP) will collaborate for the 2023-2024 academic year on a national-level colloquium for the more than 250 colleges and universities associated with the ADP.
