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Varieties of Democracy: Different Values of Democracy

Varieties of Democracy: Different Values of Democracy

by jocelynsagemitchell | May 21, 2022 | Grants and Team Projects, Public Opinion, Publications

Image from Lesekreis, Wikimedia Commons  I love this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, when Humpty Dumpty says to Alice: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Now, the political science research is...
Return to the Isle of Ted: Fishing!

Return to the Isle of Ted: Fishing!

by jocelynsagemitchell | May 14, 2022 | Publications, Teaching and Mentoring

Image from “Return to the Isle of Ted,” PS: Political Science and Politics (July 2020) In my team-taught, interdisciplinary course on climate change, my priority in my political science section was to help my students understand collective action problems—when people...
Authentic Learning through Undergraduate Research

Authentic Learning through Undergraduate Research

by jocelynsagemitchell | Apr 21, 2022 | Grants and Team Projects, Public Presentations, Publications, Teaching and Mentoring

Brochure title page from the Her Majlis exhibition, Hamad bin Khalifa University Art Gallery, September 2015. Full brochure accessible here.    Authentic learning is a teaching approach that gets students involved in real-life experiences to promote active...
Teaching American Politics

Teaching American Politics

by jocelynsagemitchell | Feb 17, 2022 | Publications, Teaching and Mentoring

When I was studying comparative politics of the Middle East for my PhD at Georgetown University, one of my professors suggested minoring in American politics because, he said, “Universities always need someone who can teach the intro American politics class.” I cannot...
Qatar and the World Values Survey

Qatar and the World Values Survey

by jocelynsagemitchell | Feb 10, 2022 | Grants and Team Projects, Publications, Teaching and Mentoring

Collaboration and teamwork are my favorite aspects of academia! I firmly believe that knowledge is strengthened by diversity. My research, while grounded in political science, has been greatly enhanced by the interdisciplinary teams of researchers and undergraduate...
Teaching about Climate Change

Teaching about Climate Change

by jocelynsagemitchell | Jan 25, 2022 | Publications, Teaching and Mentoring

Why is it so hard for the world to do something about climate change? This is not an easy question to answer. One of the main reasons is that climate change is a “wicked problem”—a serious problem that is complex and interdisciplinary in nature (Incropera 2016). These...
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