Annie Tsan, who will be graduating in 2022 from the Department of Political Science at UMass Amherst, has been awarded a 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the Rangel Fellowship supports extraordinary individuals who want to pursue a career in the Foreign Service. The Rangel Fellowship of $84,000 will support Tsan through a two-year master’s degree in an area of relevance to the Foreign Service, providing extensive professional development opportunities such as internships, mentors and skills training.

Andrew March, political science, is scheduled to speak today about the book, “Public Freedoms in the Islamic State,” by Rached Ghannouchi. (Arab America, 12/5/22)

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Amber Vayo’s State Reproductive Autonomy Index has been published in Law and Social Inquiry. A large, original data created using a reproductive justice frame, the Index offers ways to map legal pluralism (multiple systems of law that coexist in the same space) and makes the case for reproductive justice not reproductive rights as the dominant discourse surrounding reproductive politics. Additionally, the article calls for more systematic ways of studying health law and policy issues through public health Law methods like Legal Epidemiology. (The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy, Law and Social Inquiry)