Professors Sonia Alvarez, Barbara Cruikshank and Charles Hale (University of Texas at Austin) have received a Mellon Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Seminars Initiative Award to support their continued research aimed at theorizing protest movements.

The recent street protests in places like India, Turkey, and Egypt are generating sharp challenges to existing scholarship on protest, and protests in the Latin American region— dating back to at least 1989—offer a provocative set of experiences for theorizing protest, they say.

Students interested in a legal career are often warned that lawyers have an overwhelming workload that results in long hours and high stress. Legal Studies alumna Stefanie Krantz (’89), however, is proof that one can have a satisfying and successful legal career as well as a healthy lifestyle.

As a disability rights attorney and owner of KrantzWellness, a health coaching and Reiki business, Krantz has been able to answer the demands of her career and avoid the stressful, unhealthy lifestyle associated with it.

As a State Representative, Aaron Vega (MA 5^th Hampden District) is always up for a challenge. And he is always looking for ways to connect with his larger Western Massachusetts community.

This fall, Rep. Vega has combined both goals by teaching a course in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“Massachusetts Legislature” explores the life of a legislator, from the campaign trail to the State House.

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the National Center for Digital Government, has released a report "Examining Constraints To, and Providing Tools For, Cross-Agency Collaboration" through the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), a public-private partnership whose goal is to make government work more effi