Division of Social Sciences
- Political scientists find that partisan divide shrinks among governors who are responding to economic downturns.
- In newly published book, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ economics alumna Susan Averett analyzes whether STEM fields offer an equal path to prosperity for all women.
- In his upcoming book, ‘Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,’ William Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses.
- 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder doctoral student examines how an unconventional social media campaign worked in 2020 to make Joe Biden more appealing—or at least less unappealing—to progressive voters.
- A 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder poet considers the socioeconomic and political environment of the turn of the 20th century through the history of her own family.
- Carole McGranahan, a 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder anthropology professor who has long studied the Tibetan perspective of China’s invasion and occupation of Tibet, joins the Tibetan community to commemorate the location on June 9 at Camp Hale, Colorado.
- However, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder scholar Lorraine Bayard de Volo notes that electing a female president may not guarantee a more feminist mode of governing.
- Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power.
- Sports gambling creates a windfall, but raises questions of integrity, says 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder researcher Jared Bahir Browsh.
- In new book, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder researcher Liam Downey argues that different forms of violence produce both consent to the social order and divisions among subordinate social groups, which helps to maintain the power and wealth of economic and political elites.