Faculty News

Patrice Mareschal and Patricia Ciorici (Public Affairs Ph.D. candidate), presented a co-authored paper: “Against All Odds: Civic Engagement and Power Building in an Invisible Workforce,” at the International CRIMT (Research Centre on Globalization and Work) Conference, in Montreal, Canada, October 2012.  This paper examines how home care workers in Oregon, a predominantly female, geographically dispersed, and economically under-valued workforce were… continue reading

Maureen M. Donaghy investigates how one community in Rio de Janeiro is taking on Olympic redevelopment plans that threaten to displace large numbers of the urban poor. 

Marie Isabelle Chevrier has just published Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues, a focused study of how arms control agreements are negotiated and implemented that concludes with an analysis of the contemporary challenges facing treaty-making.