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Pompeo to Visit Minsk: Why Is the US Defrosting Ties With Belarus?

SIGS Professor, Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich, wrote an article titled “Pompeo to Visit Minsk: Why Is the US Defrosting Ties With Belarus?” where she discusses the significance of Mike Pompeo's visit to Belarus.

January 31, 2020Department News

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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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Florida Gubernatorial Fellow Wins Award

Political Science Undergraduate Student Ella Biggins received the Governor's Washington, DC Fellowship Award for Outstanding Leadership.

April 1, 2019Honors and Awards

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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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Camara Silver Receives Award

To conclude Black Heritage Month, Camara Silver was a recipient of the Black Faculty & Staff Award at the Sankofa Celebration.

February 28, 2019Honors and Awards

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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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