April 8, 3 to 5 p.m. Jonas Clark Hall, room 001 The Boston NSLI-Y Alumni Association invites all interested Clark University students and faculty to the first NSLI-Y (National Security Language Initiative for Youth) Networking Event: Department of State Careers and Opportunities. This event seeks to give Clark students and faculty the opportunity to meet…
“A key element of Vladimir Putin’s legitimation strategy has been the cultivation of a macho image,” writes Clark University Political Science Professor Valerie Sperling in a recent blog post titled, “Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!” To read more about Sperling and her new book, “Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia,” click here.
Co-author and political science professor Kristen Williams announces the publication of the 6th edition of World Politics in a New Era (Oxford University Press). According to the publisher’s website, the book provides historical coverage from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the present day, along with competing threads of globalization and fragmentation, as context…
Valerie Sperling, professor of political science at Clark University, recently lectured at the University of Helsinki’s Aleksanteri Institute as part of a seminar on Gender, Activism, and Political Legitimacy in Russia. The seminar was organized by the Doctoral School for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (REEES), the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, and the…
Members of the Clark University Model UN team excelled at conferences, earning several individual awards at each competition. At the UPenn Model UN Conference (UPMUNC), Nov. 8-11 in Philadelphia, Doga Bilgin ’16 won the title of Outstanding Delegate, Shane D’Lima ’14 and Jake Kailey ’14 received Honorable Mentions, and Mayya Abdullaeva ’13, Dylan Sansone ’14,…
