Tower Center Associate Carolyn Smith-Morris was interviewed by KERA News Radio about her upcoming talk at SMU: “The 1918 Flu Epidemic: A 2018 Perspective” Feb. 22. Smith-Morris described her interviews with those who lived in Ebola-affected neighborhoods, and argues that humans essentially respond with the same sort of fear to all epidemic threats.
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TC Associate Directs New Center for China Studies in Manchester
The Tower Center is happy to announce that our associate Peter H.…
James Hollifield: Why Immigration Reform is so Hard
Tower Center Academic Director James F. Hollifield wrote an essay for the…
Freedom protesters in Iran will eventually prevail, but they need our help
SMU Tower Center Board Member Darab Ganji wrote an op-ed for the…
Center Spotlight | Idean Salehyan
Tower Center Associate Idean Salehyan has several research interests, all centered around domestic political conflict. The Tower Center sat down with him to talk with him about his latest projects and goals. Salehyan is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and the co-Director of the Social Conflict Analysis Database project (SCAD).
TC Associate’s Book Wins Rosenberg Prize
Congratulations to Tower Center Associate Erin Hochman! Her latest book, “Imagining a…
Jeff Engel weighs in on tax reform and Flynn’s guilty plea
Tower Center Senior Fellow Jeff Engel was interviewed on Fox 4 about…
Center Spotlight | In the Weeds of Criminal Justice
SMU Tower Center Associate Jenia Turner is a law professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law. For this month’s Center Spotlight we decided to get to know Jenia and ask her about her research and goals.
Tower Center Fellow Conducts Interviews in Norway
Tower Center Fellow Dr. LaiYee Leong is conducting interviews in Oslo, Norway, as part of an oral history project for the SMU Center for Presidential History. The project focuses on transatlantic relations during the George W. Bush administration. This past month, she recorded conversations with Norway’s former prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik and former defense minister Kristin Krohn Devold.
Center Spotlight | Lessons from Bush 41
As a result of a massive 10-year declassification project at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, Jeffrey A. Engel wrote his new book, “When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War.” The Tower Center sat down with Engel, our Senior Fellow and Director of the SMU Center for Presidential History, to discuss his latest project.