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Dr. Kissi's New Book "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples"

Department of Africana Studies and SIGS Professor Dr. Edward Kissi covers the Holocaust’s impact on surrounding regions in his new book “Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples.”

January 7, 2020Department News

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Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia website

SIGS professor Dr. Tatisana Kulakevich wrote an analysis titled “Belarus and the U.S. Decided to Restore Ties After 11 years of “Frozen” Relations. Here’s Why” on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia website.

October 16, 2019Department News

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Murid Partaw Interviewed by BBC World News

SIGS Ph.D. student Murid Partaw was interviewed by BBC World News regarding the elections in Afghanistan.

October 1, 2019Department News

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Dr. Bernd Reiter in The Conversation

Dr. Reiter, SIGS faculty member and director of ISLAC, wrote an article titled "If Germany atoned for the Holocaust, the US can pay reparations for slavery" in The Conversation.

July 31, 2019Department News

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Dr. J. Edwin Benton on Voting

Dr. Benton, SIGS faculty member, wrote a piece titled "When Americans go to the polls, they look to the past – not the future" in The Conversation.

May 14, 2019Department News

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SIGS Professors featured in an article on Gov. DeSantis' Free Speech Policies

SIGS Professor Dr. Steven Tauber and SIGS Distinguished Professor Emerita Dr. Susan MacManus discuss the Governor’s free speech proposal in the article “William March: USF faculty weigh in on proposed 'free speech' policies at state universities.”

April 18, 2019Department News

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Dr. J. Edwin Benton in The Conversation

Dr. Benton discuses "What happens to rural and small town Trump voters after Trump is gone?" in an article written in The Conversation.

March 29, 2019Department News

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Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich Pens Op-Ed

Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich, SIGS Visiting Professor, writes an op-ed for The Globe Post regarding how Belarus' launch of a new cryptocurrency trading platform may affect Russian influence over the Eastern European country.

February 16, 2019Department News

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Dr. Manu Samnotra Discusses Ghandi in Radio Interview

Dr. Manu Samnotra, SIGS Assistant Professor, discusses Gandhi’s conception of a Truth arrived at through spiritual experimentation.

January 8, 2019Department News

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Susan Macmanus explains Florida ‘pitiful’ polling problem

Susan MacManus, University of South Florida distinguished professor, spoke at the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections’ mid-winter conference on Tuesday and labeled polling in the Sunshine State as "downright pitiful."

December 18, 2018Department News

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Dr. Omotayo Jolaosho Presents Staged Reading of her Ethnographic Play

Dr. Omotayo Jolaosho, a SIGS faculty member, presented a staged reading of her ethnographic play, Three Women (Break The Silence), in South Africa at Johannesburg's historic Market Theatre Laboratory.

June 1, 2018Department News

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