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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
