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NEH lauds Vanderbilt’s Jon Meacham for humanities achievements
Nov. 14, 2024—Vanderbilt Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham has been awarded a National Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for contributions to the humanities. Meacham, who holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency, was among 19 NEH medalists recognized by President Joseph R. Biden and NEH...
Research Professor Samar Ali to present talk at TED Democracy event, Nov. 15
Nov. 15, 2023—On November 15, 2023, Research Professor of Political Science and Law Samar Ali will be giving a talk at the TED Theatre in New York City presented by the TED Democracy Initiative. This talk will be part of an event bringing together democracy experts who are working to advance specific solutions for reform and showing...
Amy Zhang wins the 2022 Avery Leiserson Award for her paper “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Interpersonal Trust in Latin America”
Aug. 2, 2022—The department bestows the Avery Leiserson Award for the best undergraduate paper in political science. Amy’s paper explores what happens to interpersonal trust when disaster strikes. Through careful statistical work, she shows that not only did the pandemic not erode trust in Latin America as we might have expected; but that in instances of high...
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