Category: Publications

In winter 2025, Associate Professor Sara Niedzwiecki published “Immigrants’ Barriers to Accessing Social Policy in Argentina and Chile” in International Migration Review. This article systematically maps differences in the hurdles that immigrants face in accessing basic income and healthcare from 1990 to the present. Through 80 in-depth interviews in Buenos Aires and Santiago, it argues that these barriers…

In fall 2024, Distinguished Professor Matt Sparke co-authored the Politics journal article “Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality,” which explores how access to information today is frequently blocked by the interests of political management, corporate monopoly, and surveillance capitalism. At the same time, digital archives, social media, blogs, global communications, and even the tools of authoritarian…

Politics Chair and Legal Studies Program Director Mark Fathi Massoud wrote a book published by Cambridge University Press in 2021 that shares findings from Somalia’s history that upend the conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrate instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule of law.

Professor Dan Wirls wrote a book for University of Virginia Press in 2021 that examines the Senate in relation to our other institutions of government and the constitutional system as a whole, exposing the role of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” in undermining effective government and maintaining white supremacy in America.

Associate Professor Sara Niedzwiecki coauthored a 2022 publication for Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America series that examines the expansion of social policy programs across Latin America and the remaining differences in access and benefit levels, gaps in service quality, and unevenness across policy sectors.