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Lovely Talks to Kotaku and Spectrum News About Trump’s Tariffs

“We’re going to see an impact on both import flows and export flows,” says Mary Lovely, professor emeritus of economics. “For consumers, we’re going to see higher prices. Many people are predicting about a one-percentage point increase on the inflation rate.”

December 23, 2024

Dunaway Weighs In on CNN and MSNBC Postelection Ratings Decline in Wall Street Journal Article

Partisan viewers “turn away in disgust when it’s the other side having that postelection euphoria,” says Johanna Dunaway, professor of political science and research director of the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship. 

 
December 18, 2024

McDowell Contributes Chapter to Gates Forum Report on Economic Statecraft

Daniel McDowell

“The Sources of American Financial Power and its Challengers,” written by Daniel McDowell, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs, was presented at the third annual forum, hosted by the Gates Global Policy Center in partnership with William & Mary’s Global Research Institute.

December 18, 2024

Reforming the Shadow Carceral State

Brittany Michelle Friedman, Gabriela Kirk-Werner, April D. Fernandes

“Reforming the Shadow Carceral State,” co-authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Gabriela Kirk-Werner, was published in Theoretical Criminology.

December 16, 2024

What Is the Legacy of the ‘Fall’ of the Berlin Wall 35 Years On? Woodard Shares Insights

Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, says the event was just one of several across communist Eastern Europe that showed how solidarity among people could foster resistance and bring change.

December 16, 2024

Himmelreich Discusses City of Syracuse’s Surveillance Tech Review Process in Central Current Article

“All communities need to innovate responsibly. The review will give everyone a say,” says Johannes Himmelreich, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs. “I would not want such drones to fly under the radar of public input.”

December 16, 2024

Khalil Talks to The Hill, LiveNOW from Fox and US News About the Fall of the Assad Regime in Syria

“What really needs to happen here is for the Biden administration to work with and ensure—with its European allies, with its Arab allies—Syria's territorial integrity, ensure transition to a democratic government, and ensure that all Syrians will be protected,” says Osamah Khalil, professor of history. 

December 13, 2024

Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Supports Catherine Herrold’s Study of Locally Led Development

The associate professor will spend three months in Serbia as she continues her research on civil society and grassroots development initiatives.

December 13, 2024

Purser Piece on the Need for Syracuse to Adopt the Good Cause Eviction Law Published on Syracuse.com

“Landlords would still be able to evict tenants who are behind on their rent or who have violated the terms of their lease, but this law would give tenants the presumptive right to stay in the property otherwise. It would be a mechanism for both contributing to housing stability and prohibiting landlord retaliation against tenants who play by the rules,” says Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology.

December 12, 2024

McDowell Discusses Trump’s Plans to Maintain Dollar Dominance in BBC, Bloomberg, Wash Post Articles

“The idea that you’d use political coercion to bind countries, or bind market actors within countries, to use the currency is not how the dollar ascended to this place in the first place,” says Daniel McDowell, professor of political science. “If that’s what’s needed to maintain dollar dominance, that shows there’s a real fundamental problem with the economic appeal.”

December 11, 2024

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