Join us via Zoom on Tuesday, September 29, at 7:00 PM, for a primer ahead of the debate between President Donald Trump and Senator Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, at 9:00 PM. Faculty from the Political Science Department (Beau Breslin, Patrick Campbell, Feryaz Ocakli, and Natalie Taylor) will discuss how partisanship, the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, and foreign policy will shape the debates.
This pre-debate primer is a public program of Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond and is presented by the Tang Teaching Museum and the Political Science Department. Never Done, co-curated by Rachel Seligman, Malloy Curator, and Minita Sanghvi, Assistant Professor of Management, Marketing, and Business, is a celebration, conversation, and critique of the journey women have taken and have yet to take in the struggle for equality and representation in the U.S.
Register for the primer on this Zoom page.
About the Participants
Beau Breslin is Professor of Political Science. He teaches courses on constitutional law, civil liberties, and the American courts. His forthcoming book, A Constitution for the Living, imagines what America’s constitutions would have looked like if each generation was charged with meeting in Convention and writing its own. It will be released in April 2021 from Stanford University Press.
Patrick Campbell is Assistant Professor of Political Science (Visiting). Prior to teaching at Skidmore, Campbell was an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to his career in academia, Campbell was a member of the United States Department of Justice, serving in three DOJ agencies across the Bush and Obama Administrations. His research focuses on representation from an American political development perspective, the American presidency, political polarization, American political thought, and civil-military affairs. His latest book is the edited West Point volume Democracy and Democratization: Challenges and Opportunities (Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, 2018).
Feryaz Ocakli is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. His teaching and research focuses on comparative politics and the Middle East, with a specialization in the study of Islamist and ethnic politics, democracy, and development. His current research focuses on how Islamist parties broaden their appeal to non-Islamist constituencies and succeed in elections. His recent articles examine how the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party - AKP) incorporated non-core supporters and won local and national elections in Turkey.
Natalie Fuehrer Taylor is Associate Professor & Chair of the Political Science Department. She has taught American political thought and courses in the history of Western political philosophy since joining Skidmore’s faculty in 2002. She is the author of The Rights of Chimera: the Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft and the editor of A Political Companion to Henry Adams. She has also contributed chapters on second-wave feminism and its legacy to volumes such as American Political Thought, You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: Women, Politics, & Popular Culture and Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America.
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