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McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin), examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes. Dr. Shortle has served as a Public Fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute (2023-2025) and the Alliance on Research for Regional Colleges (2023-2024). Her public research aims to increase civic engagement and improve local communities’ physical and mental health. Her research and political commentary have been featured across national and international news outlets such as The Conversation, The Hill, Newsweek, CNN, ABC Australia, and France 24. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1753336991440-46TGEHEOGH9KM1ONE5JR/photo.jpeg Events - Pulaski Institution Summit: American Made Authoritarianism - Holly Berkley Fletcher Holly Berkley Fletcher is a Ph.D. historian, author, essayist, and former intelligence analyst. 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Craig’s analysis and recommendations have been cited by members of both parties in Congress and were incorporated in the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022. His work has appeared in outlets including the Washington Post, Fox News, MSNBC, The Nation, and Politico. He is a regular columnist for The UnPopulistand has testified on election law to state legislative committees around the country, in addition to communications and strategic consulting for campaigns ranging from presidential candidates to local races. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1753337137359-8IO1PT0CD7VWHM7VFM8G/picture-3431-1693706693.jpg Events - Pulaski Institution Summit: American Made Authoritarianism - Kevin Elliott Kevin J. Elliott is a political scientist and Lecturer in Ethics, Politics, & Economics at Yale University. His main research interests are in political theory, particularly democratic theory, and focus on the ethics of democratic citizenship, political epistemology, and the normative justification and design of political institutions. Much of his research investigates questions at the intersection of normative and empirical inquiry, and so draws from both. He is author of Democracy for Busy People (University of Chicago Press). His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Theory, Critical Review, Contemporary Political Theory, CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy) and Res Publica. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2015, a Master’s in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, and his BA from UCLA (Summa Cum Laude; Dept & Collegiate Honors). His research has been supported by the U. S. Department of Education, Princeton University’s University Center for Human Values (UCHV), Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Institute for Humane Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1754884369960-W30J1POAP1IF5YL6ZQKH/IMG_4419.JPG Events - Pulaski Institution Summit: American Made Authoritarianism - Michael Li Michael Li is senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, where his work focuses on redistricting, voting rights, and elections. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Li practiced law at Baker Botts L.L.P. in Dallas for 10 years. In addition to his election law work, Li previously served as executive director of Be One Texas, a donor alliance that oversaw strategic and targeted investments in nonprofit organizations working to increase voter participation and engagement in historically disadvantaged Black and Latino communities in Texas. Li was the author of a widely cited blog on redistricting and election law issues that the New York Times called “indispensable.” He is a regular writer and commentator on election law issues, appearing on PBS Newshour, MSNBC, and NPR, and in print in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Roll Call, Vox, National Journal, Texas Tribune, Dallas Morning News, and San Antonio Express-News, among others. Li received an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin and his law degree with honors from Tulane Law School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/8ba37208-8a04-452e-b54a-c18f707636ba/IMG_4361.jpg Events - Pulaski Institution Summit: American Made Authoritarianism - Austin Gelder Austin Gelder is the editor of The Arkansas Times. There, she primarily covers government, politics, and education. Austin has over two decades of experience in journalism and editorial work, including at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Heifer International’s World Ark magazine. https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/events/tzuzehu2uwmyy9e6b0h89o9lmuf73v monthly 0.5 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/162b5b4d-0161-4b6e-ae89-f0b012e54bd4/2022+OU+website+headshot.jpeg Events - Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation About The Election And American Democracy - Dr. Allyson Shortle Dr. Allyson Shortle is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Political Science department at the University of Oklahoma, where she researches group identity in the context of American political behavior. She runs OU’s Community Engagement + Experiments Laboratory (CEEL), Oklahoma City’s Community Poll (Exit Poll), and OU’s Democracy Survey of OU freshmen. Dr. Shortle is currently serving as a 2024-2025 Public Religion Research Fellow, where she engages in public scholarship at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics. Her co-authored Cambridge University Press book, The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2022 – w. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin), examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes. Her book was named one of the American Library Association's "Choice Reviews" for 2023. She is also part of multiple trans-disciplinary and cross-university research teams that employ community-engaged approaches to assist with rural renewal efforts in Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/9bea7053-1269-4dae-abe5-1dc3c12557c8/IMG_5331.JPEG Events - Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation About The Election And American Democracy - Austin Gelder Austin Gelder is the editor of The Arkansas Times. There, she primarily covers government, politics, and education. Austin has over two decades of experience in journalism and editorial work, including at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Heifer International’s World Ark magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/8ea3ddf4-abbe-497a-bc19-34b80104195e/IMG_2613.jpeg Events - Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation About The Election And American Democracy - Matthew Moore Matthew Moore is the senior producer and cohost of Ozarks At Large, a daily hour-long newsmagazine from KUAF Public Radio in Fayetteville. Matthew's reporting covers local and state politics, civic engagement, as well as arts and culture. https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/events/event-one-gza48 monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/258331ad-c1a4-49bd-b352-806adddfdcd7/hendrix+map.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - VENUE: Worsham Hall, located in the Student Life and Technology Center Our conference and reception will be held in Worsham Hall. The most convenient parking lots are located off of Harkrider. Check in will begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Day-of registrations are welcome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/6553adaf-d851-47cc-9081-14bc70e56e63/Pulaski+Institution+Regional+Summit+Place+and+Democracy+in+the+Mid-South+Day+1+-+Saturday%2C+October+19+9+am+Welcome+from+Hendrix+President+Dr.+Karen+Petersen+915-1045+-+Arkansas+Politics+Panel+%28Nat+%287%29.png Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/f2b826a4-d422-4870-838c-5bc7434c16c7/Screenshot_2-10-2024_161748_x.com.jpeg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Nate Bell Nate Bell is the Chair of Arkansas Citizens for Transparency, the ballot question committee who's working to pass a constitutional amendment protecting the right of Arkansas citizens to access public documents and participate in public meetings. When he's not volunteering, he's a managing partner at Liberty Strategies. LLC where he provides government affairs, strategy, lobbying and campaign services to clients in multiple states. In his spare time, he also consults on commercial and off grid solar power projects. Nate served in the Arkansas House from 2011-2017 where he chaired the State Agencies and Government Affairs Committee, served as House Chair of the Legislative Audit Subcommittee on State Agencies and served as House co-chair of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Amendments. He resides in Lincoln, AR with his wife of 34 years. They have 2 grown daughters and one grandson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/3ab6d89b-6fcf-41a4-a83c-47c2e2194e4a/IMG_4190.JPG Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Matt Campbell Matt Campbell spent more than a decade writing Blue Hog Report on the side while a full-time attorney. In 2023, he left the practice of law and started working as an investigative reporter for the Arkansas Times. Originally from Missouri, Matt currently lives in Little Rock with his fiancée, his daughter, and three dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/07bb93b2-285e-4570-9577-30efbdb42e6f/Brent+Orrell+AEI.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Brent Orrell Brent Orrell is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), specializing in job training and workforce development with a special focus on disconnected and disadvantaged populations, including youth, justice-involved, veterans, and neurodivergent persons. His recent work has focused on the workforce opportunities and challenges resulting from generative AI and automation, as well as strategies for improving economic mobility in rural, redeveloping, and non-metropolitan areas throughout America. Brent has spearheaded AEI’s involvement with the Workforce Futures Initiative, in collaboration with the Brookings Institution and the Harvard Kennedy School, which has produced multiple reports, working group sessions, and interest from communities across the US. He has written, coauthored, and edited multiple reports for AEI, and frequently contributes to the popular press, including The Bulwark, Deseret News, The Dispatch, Law and Liberty, The Hill and RealClearPolicy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/e74f6b9d-7f05-4764-b9a2-6be13f83cbdd/Screenshot_30-8-2024_111357_www.brookings.edu.jpeg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Anthony F. Pipa Tony Pipa is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. Tony launched and leads the Reimagining Rural Policy initiative, which seeks to modernize and transform U.S. policy to better enable equitable and sustainable development across rural America. He also launched and leads the Local Leadership on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, which explores the approach cities and local institutions are taking to solve local problems while driving progress on global policy and transnational issues. Tony has three decades of executive leadership experience in the philanthropic and public sectors addressing poverty and advancing inclusive economic development in the U.S. and globally. He served as chief strategy officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development and held multiple senior policy positions at the agency. He also led the U.S. delegation at the U.N. to negotiate and adopt the SDGs, serving as U.S. special coordinator for the Post-2015 Agenda at the U.S. Department of State. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/9ce2d7f2-5fdb-4b46-b260-9c2f0ad7c723/240425_Jessica_023-Edit.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Jessica Pishko Jessica Pishko is the author of The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy. She is a non-resident fellow at The Pulaski Institution, a 2023 New America Fellow, and, previously, a fellow at the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina, researching sheriff accountability. She has received grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and Type Investigations. Her work has appeared in the New York Times op-ed section, Politico, Slate, the Atlantic, and the Appeal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/038291de-6921-404b-bc87-d1745b6ab8e6/profile+pic.PNG Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Jim Hendren James (Jim) Hendren served for eight years as an F-15 fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. He returned to service with the Missouri Air National Guard following the 9/11 attacks and retired from the Arkansas Air National guard in 2019 with the rank of Colonel. Hendren is also a businessman and former public official who served the state of Arkansas for decades in elected office. First elected in 1996, Hendren was a member of the Arkansas State House of Representatives for six years, serving as House Minority Leader for four. Elected to the Arkansas State Senate in 2012, he went on to serve four years as Senate Majority Leader and then two years as President pro tempore. Originally a Republican, Hendren became the Arkansas Senate’s only sitting Independent in 2021. He left office after the 2022 elections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/58fbbfd5-ae7e-496a-a159-9b856bfa993c/J+Horpedahl+headshot+1.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Jeremy Horpedahl Jeremy Horpedahl is an associate professor of economics and the Director of the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics at the University of Central Arkansas. His academic research has been published in Econ Journal Watch, Constitutional Political Economy, and Public Choice. He has also written for numerous local and national popular media publications such as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Business, as well as appearing on local television programs such as Arkansas Week, Capitol View, and local nightly news shows in Arkansas. He has also been quoted in or had his research featured in major national publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Hill, and Financial Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/6ff8f927-7b47-47e3-90cd-448556157a85/Katie1-1.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Katie Milligan Katherine (Katie) Milligan currently serves as the Program Manager for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Heartland Forward. Katie previously served as the Chief of Staff for Start Co., a venture development organization based in Memphis, TN and as the Director of Small Business and Entrepreneurship for the Delta Regional Authority (DRA), a federal agency that works to improve regional economic opportunity in the eight-state Delta region. While at the DRA, Katie launched the Delta Entrepreneurship Network, a competitive fellowship program to identify entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship support organizations in the Delta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/854bcd51-0d4e-40e0-9ef4-ace24949602f/Image.jpeg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Nathaniel Thomas III Nate is a distinguished leader with expertise in entrepreneurship, educational leadership, communication, and business management. He is currently the Grants Manager at the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in Arkansas, focusing on equity and community development. Previously, he served as Deputy Director of Impact and Design at the Clinton Foundation in New York. Nate holds a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Hendrix College and an MA in Museum Studies & Nonprofit Management from Johns Hopkins University. He is a proud alumnus of Leadership Arkansas Class X and a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson and Shafik Gabr Fellowships. Known for his commitment to social impact, Nate’s journey this year has been challenging, but he feels blessed to embrace new opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/a6f5b0f6-e052-47bb-a100-acb6166b80ad/Cary+Aspinwall_TMP.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Cary Aspinwall Cary Aspinwall is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. Much of her investigative reporting focuses on the effects of the criminal legal system on women and their children. She also won a Gerald Loeb Award for reporting on a Texas company's history of deadly natural gas explosions and is a past Pulitzer finalist for her work exposing flaws in Oklahoma's execution process. She previously worked at The Dallas Morning News and is a co-founder of The Frontier, a nonprofit devoted to investigative journalism in Oklahoma. She is a proud alumna of Oklahoma State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/d8ba5282-0933-486f-ba31-02a09dc1e950/SLT+headshot.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Dr. Steven L. Taylor Steven L. Taylor is a recently retired Professor of Political Science and college dean who studies the institutional design of democratic systems. His work is comparative in nature and his recent work is focused on understanding the challenges of US democracy in a comparative context. His published work includes being a co-author of A Different Democracy: American Government in a Thirty-One-Country Perspective from Yale University Press and contributing to The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Studies. His cv can be viewed here. He writes regularly for the blog, Outside the Beltway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/56f6c5ff-faad-4cac-bcb2-d33f2fb276b9/Dr.+Quintessa+Hathaway+Professional+Photograph.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Dr. Quintessa Hathaway Dr. Quintessa Hathaway is an advocate for education. She was the 2022 Democratic Nominee for the United States Congress for Arkansas’ Second District (AR-02). She is an academic honors graduate of Glencliff Comprehensive High School in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science degree from The Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi; as well as a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum and Instruction, Specialist in Education (Ed.S.) in Administration and Supervision, and Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership degrees from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her dissertation, The Common Core State Standards Initiative and the Achievement Gap, was an educational analysis of all fifty (50) states plus the District of Columbia and United States territories. Her research is steeped in scholarship and supports better policymaking, practicum, and pedagogy in its approach to curriculum implementation and shrinking the racial achievement gap. Dr. Hathaway is the founder, CEO, and lead consultant of her self-titled organization, Q. Hathaway & Associates, LLC, a results-driven education and business consultancy and professional development provider. In that capacity, she is responsible for providing strategic, financial, and operational leadership with a team of consultants who have over 120 years of combined expertise. Together, they bring transformative solutions and evidence-based strategies to schools, districts, colleges and universities, and business entities across the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/d6e613b7-68c4-4102-9314-b3bc06f895bf/William-Haden-Chomphosy.png Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - William Haden Chomphosy William is a non-resident fellow at The Pulaski Institution and Assistant Professor of Economics and Business at Hendrix College. His research focuses on environmental economic issues in the state of Arkansas, including ecosystem service valuation and renewable energy policies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/ca4de65c-f3c5-4d42-bb97-ec25c4c5d126/JaneAdamsNew.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Jane Adams Jane is a member of The Pulaski Institution’s board. She is currently the Government Relations Director for the Alabama Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. She is a ninth-generation Alabamian and lives in Huntsville, Alabama. She earned a master’s degree in theological studies M(TS) from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., where she studied the ethical implications of public policy. Jane previously worked at Alabama Arise, Bread for the World, the Department of Health and Human Services, Share our Strength, Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, U.S. House of Representatives office of Vic Snyder, Barack Obama 2008 campaign, and the Alabama Statehouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/2bab7f5b-172c-4e58-b8f9-5d0bcdbcf90f/BaileyFairbanksNew.jpg Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Dr. Bailey R. Fairbanks Bailey R. Fairbanks is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas and a non-resident fellow at The Pulaski Institution. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2021 from Georgia State University with concentrations in Public Law and American Politics. Her research and teaching focus on constitutional law, civil liberties, American institutional behavior, and judicial behavior. She is particularly interested in how diversity and identity, broadly defined, affect judicial decision-making and opinion writing in state appellate courts and state courts of last resort. Some of her other work looks at the impact of art on attitudes towards the criminal justice system as well as pedagogical development in higher education post-COVID-19. She is also a devoted teacher and currently serves as the Pre-Law advisor for UCA. Her work has been published in Social Sciences Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, and New Political Science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/eaae8b45-9148-445c-b3ce-ac74e7b77f89/Pulaski+Institution+Regional+Summit+Place+and+Democracy+in+the+Mid-South+Day+1+-+Saturday%2C+October+19+9+am+Welcome+from+Hendrix+President+Dr.+Karen+Petersen+915-1045+-+Arkansas+Politics+Panel+%28Nat+%287%29.png Events - Regional Summit: Place and Democracy in the Mid-South - Make it stand out Two-Day Conference Agenda https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/home daily 1.0 2026-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/003502d0-bf44-4d54-93f3-11df4d35a8d5/60f36e0e-f459-457c-9cfa-9fcef2f877e3+%281%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1612936024327-6O8U71FV6XOJTFN6E0K0/globe+orange+.jpg Home - Program: Liberal Democracy and Place Around the world, once-strong liberal democracies face a set of serious challenges. Even in the most robust liberal democratic societies, what matters is how strong the institutions of and commitments to liberal democratic principles are in the regions, states, and municipalities where a person lives. We seek to promote and defend liberal democracy by emphasizing place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1608626556424-1P8YR0LMM7115PTPGU0D/pexels-julius-silver-753331.jpg Home - Program: The Future of Prosperity To build a durable global economy for the 21st century, free trade is only a starting point. Global commerce needs to produce more winners and fewer losers, and real work needs to be done to bring the people and places left behind into that process. https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/donate daily 0.75 2024-04-21 https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/staff daily 0.75 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/e75fd26e-e41d-43f9-b311-7c8034ac57b8/Shortle+Sept+2022+headshot.png Staff - Allyson Shortle, Ph.D. Allyson Shortle is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, where she studies group identity in the context of American political behavior. She runs OU’s Community Engagement + Experiments Laboratory (CEEL), Oklahoma City’s Community Poll (Exit Poll), and OU’s Democracy Survey of OU freshmen. Dr. Shortle’s Cambridge University Press book, The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2022 – w. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin), examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes. Dr. Shortle has served as a Public Fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute (2023-2025) and the Alliance on Research for Regional Colleges (2023-2024). Her public research aims to increase civic engagement and improve local communities’ physical and mental health. Her research and political commentary have been featured across national and international news outlets such as The Conversation, The Hill, Newsweek, CNN, ABC Australia, and France 24. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/91108847-1e1b-431c-b97d-353e39dac8a7/IMG_9560.jpg Staff - K. Adele Okoli, Ph.D. Dr. K. Adele Okoli is Associate Professor of French in affiliation with the Africana Studies and Gender Studies Programs at the University of Central Arkansas, where she directs the UCA Global French Collective. She holds her Ph.D. in African American Studies and French from Yale. Her scholarship centers on discourses of race, gender, and desire, particularly in Haitian, Louisianan, and nineteenth-century French literature, art, and culture of French and Creole expression. She also works on place-based oral history, worldmaking, and service-learning pedagogy for multilingualism. Okoli’s scholarship has been published in academic journals including Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Études Francophones, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, the Journal of Haitian Studies, and the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, as well as public-facing venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/c2598937-a5af-4405-b6dc-6018a392c0f7/photo.jpeg Staff - Holly Berkley Fletcher, Ph.D. Holly Berkley Fletcher is a PhD historian, author, essayist, and former intelligence analyst. Her second book, The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism, due out in August 2025 from Broadleaf Books, examines the place of missions in white evangelical identity through the eyes of missionaries' children, of which she is one. Her first book, Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century, was published in 2007 by Routledge. She spent 19 years working as an Africa analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and also publishes on related topics. She writes on Substack at A Zebra Without Stripes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/f39f262e-7862-4e4a-a6de-1a3d1ced0fde/Christopher+Tyler+Burks+Headshot+2023.png Staff - Christopher Tyler Burks, Ph.D. Dr. Christopher Tyler Burks is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He teaches in the public administration, nonprofit management, and political science programs. His research focuses on urban policy and regional governance for sustainable development. He is the founder of Urban Analysis, a management consulting firm for changemaking through policy, planning, and politics. He holds a doctorate in public administration and policy from American University in Washington, DC. He serves on the boards of the Public Administration Theory Network and the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/d2958c14-0c7b-4ae1-8e1a-309ad8303c99/Screen-Shot-2023-07-25-at-4.30.52-PM.png Staff - Leland Harper, Ph.D. Leland Harper is jointly appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Associate Professor of Race, Justice, and Equity Studies at Siena Heights University. His current research is in philosophy of race, with a particular focus on anti-Black racism in contemporary North America. He is the author of Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism (co-authored with Jennifer Kling), Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World, as well as articles in Res Philosophica, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, Humanities Bulletin, Forum Philosophicum, the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, and several edited volumes. He is the editor of The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution, and is the series editor of the Philosophy of Race series at Vernon Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622681289949-L74ZUUJK0YHVQASG1E56/Weaver_PhotoBio.jpg Staff - Christopher Weaver, Ph.D. Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/b8da9ab1-e7d5-40d9-9af1-c28854cfe2de/jessica+pishko+new+photo.jpg Staff - Jessica Pishko, J.D. Jessica Pishko is an independent journalist and lawyer who has been writing about the criminal legal system for a decade with a focus on the political power of law enforcement officials. Since 2018, she has been focused on American sheriffs and their role—past and present—in perpetuating mass incarceration and white supremacy as well as how sheriffs present a growing threat to democracy in the United States. Previously, Pishko was a fellow at the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina, researching sheriff accountability. She has received grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and Type Investigations. Her work has appeared in the New York Times op-ed section, Politico, Slate, the Atlantic, and the Appeal. She is writing a book for Dutton on the history and growing political power of sheriffs entitled "The Highest Law in the Land," and is a 2023 New America Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622681342161-2HBQH8R9T3Q2DQ59NBCP/SylviaMaier_Headshot.jpeg Staff - Sylvia Maier, Ph.D. Sylvia is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Center for Global Affairs at New York University where she directs the MSGA Concentration in Global Gender Studies, the annual Global Field Intensive to the United Arab Emirates. Her principal fields of interest and expertise are women’s rights in the Middle East, South Central Asia, and the Gulf States, with a particular focus on the United Arab Emirates, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Afghanistan, where she has taught and conducted extensive field research. Sylvia is especially interested in women’s culturally-situated modes of resistance to patriarchy in deeply traditional societies, the “globalization-empowerment nexus” in the Gulf States, feminist urbanism, gender and migration, and the politics of integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe, chiefly the legal responses to cultural diversity and honor-based violence against women. She has spoken extensively and published on these and related subjects. Her co-edited book, titled EU Development Policies: Between Norms and Geopolitics was published by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2019. She is currently working on a comparative research study of feminist urbanism in global cities (Vienna, Berlin, Abu Dhabi, Delhi, and New York), on a field research project on biotrade, food security and women’s empowerment in Perú with her CGA colleague Jens Rudbeck, and, with another CGA colleague, Christopher Ankersen, on a book manuscript on the role of Monarchies in Global Affairs. Sylvia’s teaching interests bridge the fields of gender studies and international politics and include Gender and International Affairs: Sex, Power and Politics, Gender and Migration, Women’s Rights in the Middle East and South Asia, International Relations Theory, The Geopolitics of Afghanistan, Ethics in International Affairs, and Analytic Skills. Complementing her academic work, Sylvia currently serves as VP and Director of Education Programs as well as on the board of The Peace Project, Inc. Prior to joining the CGA, Sylvia Maier was on the faculty of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where she worked on Islam-state relations and the politics of integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe. Sylvia received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/d51591a6-dca5-46aa-a77d-ae5875f04b64/Stecula+headshot.JPG Staff - Dominik Stecuła, Ph.D. Dominik Stecuła is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado State University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University. He received his PhD in political science at the University of British Columbia. Stecula’s research focuses on the news media environment and its effects on society, as well as how forces like populism, anti-intellectualism, as well as political identities shape how people process information. He has published over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics, including in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, American Journal of Public Health, among other venues. He has also co-authored a book on political polarization in the United States. His research has been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, NBC News, and other outlets in the United States, Canada, and abroad. He has also published over 35 public facing articles and commentaries, including in the Washington Post, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as prominent outlets in his native Poland.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/623672ff-a375-4ca9-b67a-ffb31a2e2059/IMG_1869.jpeg Staff - Bailey Fairbanks, Ph.D. Bailey R. Fairbanks is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2021 from Georgia State University with concentrations in Public Law and American Politics. Her research and teaching focus on constitutional law, civil liberties, American institutional behavior, and judicial behavior. She is particularly interested in how diversity and identity, broadly defined, affect judicial decision-making and opinion writing in state appellate courts and state courts of last resort. Some of her other work looks at the impact of art on attitudes towards the criminal justice system as well as pedagogical development in higher education post-COVID-19. She is also a devoted teacher and currently serves as the Pre-Law advisor for UCA. Her work has been published in Social Sciences Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, and New Political Science. She also serves on the editorial board for the Mid-South Political Science Review. In her spare time, Bailey is an avid reader, baker, and cook. She can often be found listening to Broadway show tunes at an unnecessarily loud volume. She is thrilled to be working with the Pulaski Institution as a non-resident fellow and looks forward to the opportunities to improve civic engagement and knowledge in the broader community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/0423beba-04bc-415b-bf91-1cc7d21c68c4/IMG_6438.JPG Staff - Hanah Stiverson, Ph.D. Hanah Stiverson is an Extremism Researcher at Human Rights First where she provides expertise on misogyny and militarization within the U.S. antidemocratic far-right. She completed her PhD in American Culture at the University of Michigan with a focus on far-right extremism in the United States. Her research and past teaching are concerned with the rising fascist movement and how it has integrated into mainstream spaces through digital recruitment, branding, and social networking. She has worked with a variety of organizations focused on inequity as a fellow and mentor, including the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). She has likewise acted as a senior member of the Digital Inequalities Lab at the University of Michigan where she coordinated a co-authored publication on the COVID crises. Her co-authored book, titled "Racist Zoombombing," details the racist hate speech and online harassment faced by users of the platform Zoom during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/3c6472f0-965c-4c9b-91f6-c75b74f51254/IMG_5697.jpg Staff - Justin Ellis, Ph.D. Dr Justin Ellis is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Newcastle School of Law and Justice and the editor-in-chief of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, the journal of the Institute of Criminology at the Sydney Law School. Justin’s research examines the relationship between digital media technologies, institutional trust and politically vulnerable populations such as LGBTQ+. Justin’s research into queer geography in regional areas such as the Hunter Valley in New South Wales speaks to some of the issues defining and affecting identity negotiation in regional and rural areas across western liberal democracies. His scholarship is regularly published in high-ranking internationally peer- reviewed journals. Justin’s 2021 monograph Policing Legitimacy: Social Media, Scandal and Sexual Citizenship critically analyses the relationship between LGBTQ+ identity- based rights claims, police accountability, and the regulation of digital platforms. Justin’s forthcoming monograph Representation Resistance and the Digiqueer: Fighting for Recognition in Technocratic Times (Bristol 2023) draws on debate over gender, procreation, religion, nationalism and tech-regulation to explain the resurgence of representational harms against LGBTQ+ identity – harms that denigrate, misrepresent, misrecognize, erase, omit, or covertly surveil minority communities. This resurgence is despite decriminalization of same-sex conduct in a growing number of jurisdictions, the expansion of legitimate categories of vulnerability enshrined in anti-discrimination law, and progress made on marriage equality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/73ed4548-4357-4c66-92bd-c861221dac07/IMG_9975.jpeg Staff - Matt McManus, Ph.D. Matt McManus is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan and the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave) and The Political Right and Equality (Routledge) amongst other books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622572555083-CAIXPEIAS442T9HQPVSN/WilliamChomphosy_Headshot.jpg Staff - William Haden Chomphosy, Ph.D. William Haden Chomphosy is an assistant professor of Economics and Business at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. His research focuses on environmental economic issues in the state of Arkansas, including ecosystem service valuation and renewable energy policies. Working with the Pulaski Institution provides exciting opportunities to support economic development and environmental research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622750888520-6R3I35CH94J5DZ81MCNT/JohnMorris_headshotcolour.PNG Staff - John Morris, Ph.D. Dr John Morris is an Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He is a political economist with research and teaching interests in central banking, international finance and the governance of financial stability and climate change. John holds a PhD in Economic Geography from the Department of Geography at Durham University for a study of the ongoing development of central bank thinking and research on the governance of financial risk, stability and crisis. He previously completed an MSc in Public Policy from University College London and a BA in Philosophy from King’s College London. Recently, John’s research has focused on the expansion of the scope of what is considered to be a "financial stability threat". As such, he is currently devoting his research energies to the international political economy of tail risk, climate finance and the governance of climate change by the financial regulatory community as a financial stability risk and concern. He is currently working on a book (under contract) on the political economy of tail risk. This book will offer an empirically informed theoretical intervention into recent developments in financial regulation and risk management towards the calculation and anticipation of “tail risks” in ways that better prepare financial institutions for low probability-high impact events. John is the author Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk: Money Cultures at the Bank of England (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy) and has been interviewed by BBC World Service and Bloomberg on the Bank of England’s approach to transparency and public engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1623527672129-SEADFPYJ0Y5YGZFU6Q7Q/headshot_eddiegoldberg.jpeg Staff - Edward Goldberg Edward Goldberg is a leading expert in the area of where global politics and economics intercept. He teaches International Political Economy at the New York University Center for Global Affairs where he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor. He is also a Scholarly Practitioner at the Zicklin Graduate School of Business of Baruch College of the City University of New York where he teaches courses on globalization. He is the author of "Why Globalization Works For America: How Nationalist Trade Policies Destroy Countries.” and "The Joint Ventured Nation: Why America Needs A New Foreign Policy”. He is a much-quoted essayist and public speaker on the subjects of Globalization, European-American relations, U.S.-Russian and China relations. He has commented on these issues on PBS, NPR, CBS, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Hill, and the Huffington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1624296348477-O7QEION28JISRZJWBVWD/shaun+casey.jpeg Staff - Shaun Casey, Th.D. Shaun Casey is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Senior Fellow of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding at Harvard Divinity School. He was previously a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a professor of the practice of Religion and World Affairs in Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2017 to 2021. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics at the University of Virginia. He previously was U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. He was Professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., and held positions at the Center for American Progress, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009) and is currently writing Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom: The Future of Religion in American Diplomacy. Casey holds a B.A. from Abilene Christian University, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.Div. and Th.D. in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School. In 2015 he received the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Award from Harvard Divinity School for outstanding contributions to society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/690f5d5c-f5d2-4dcf-9c0a-13b436a4c64e/mohsin+pulaski+profile.jpg Staff - Mohsin Hussain, Ph.D. Mohsin Hussain is a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. His research and teaching focus on armed conflict, sanctions, terrorism, and quantitative political science. He received his Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick in 2022. Mohsin is currently collaborating with Professor Vincenzo Bove at the University of Warwick on a project that explores the effect of domestic conflict on migrants’ well-being in their host societies. He is also investigating the circumstances that motivate war-crime victims to demand apologies from national and international actors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/568b6580-332a-4d6a-81ae-1d40a675ef77/Kisha-Hardwick-photo-684x1024.jpg Staff - Kisha Hardwick, Ph.D. Kisha Hardwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, Public Service, and International Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. She primarily conducts research on the behavior of state and local bureaucrats within various institutional arrangements. She received her PhD in Public Administration and Public Policy from Auburn University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1b2e8acb-be84-4252-99b5-adfb7fb3246f/IMG_5563.jpg Staff - Autumn Alston Born and raised in Charlotte, NC., Autumn attended the University of Connecticut for her undergraduate degree, where she majored in political science with a minor in human rights. She continued her studies at Northeastern University, receiving a Master of Science in Global Studies with a concentration in diplomacy. Her final work in school focused on a lengthy proposal to help solve the Rohingya refugee crisis. She has worked as a freelance writer for two years focusing on political subjects and social and cultural critiques. She has also worked on many political campaigns, from Hillary Clinton to Jon Ossoff, and countless others. The past few years, she has had positions at non-profits in her home state of North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/c9530def-eb94-4818-a6e3-de65fa13dc79/C509DE61-F536-4F1E-A749-B8791714E2D1.jpg Staff - Rose Macaulay Originally from the Scottish Borders, Rose Macaulay attended the University of St Andrews and studied International Relations with a focus on human rights, migration, and security. After her degree she worked as a Fundraising and Communications Assistant at the International Lawyers Project, helping to organise pro bono projects on economic corruption, environmental law, and media freedom. She completed an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford specialising in domestic UK resettlement politics in 2022. An aspiring lawyer, she won the David Karmel scholarship from Gray's Inn to complete her law conversion. Rose currently studies law part-time and works for immigration law Turpin Miller firm on deportation and detention matters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/27bed10a-8802-448d-95f7-05dc35dfe524/Photo+for+Pulaski+Institute+2.jpg Staff - Emily Bradley Emily Bradley holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Tennessee and is currently a JD candidate at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's William H. Bowen School of Law. She attended undergrad at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/2ebace00-83df-44d0-bdb0-b62ad95c7741/IMG_0141.jpeg Staff - Bradon Rothschild J. Bradon Rothschild is a researcher with public policy and political science expertise. His policy research focuses on the intersection of urban planning, policy evaluation, and governance. He brings a multidisciplinary approach to understanding how policies shape and are shaped by social, economic, and political forces. With a strong foundation in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, Bradon's work integrates various analytical techniques to explore complex policy issues. Bradon holds a Master of Arts in Community Planning from the University of Washington, Tacoma, where he developed his expertise in qualitative research, urban policy analysis, and community development. This degree provided him with a deep understanding of equity-focused planning, stakeholder engagement, and the impact of urban development on social dynamics. Complementing this background, he earned a Master of Public Policy from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he honed his skills in quantitative analysis, economic modeling, and rigorous policy evaluation methods. These combined academic experiences allow Bradon to approach policy research holistically, balancing qualitative insights and quantitative rigor. Currently pursuing a Doctorate in Public Administration and Policy at Portland State University, Bradon's research is expanding into the comparative analysis of democratic systems and governance structures. His work aims to understand how different political institutions and electoral frameworks influence policy outcomes, governance quality, and the dynamics of political leadership and rhetoric. His research seeks to uncover the factors contributing to effective, sustainable, and adequatly representative policy-making within diverse democratic contexts. With experience across public, academic, and non-profit sectors, Bradon applies his interdisciplinary background in political science, community planning, and public administration and policy to develop comprehensive insights into policy development and governance. His work contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms driving policy success and the structural dynamics that shape democratic institutions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1624236286876-FGN4WAZD78JHBOZ5WX4F/Headshot_MarleeBird.jpg Staff - Marlee Bird Originally from Lawrence, KS, Marlee attended Hendrix College in Conway, AR where she majored in English Literature and minored in Political Science. During her time at Hendrix, she worked on the Veterans History Project in Senator John Boozman’s office, interned with the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty, and was an editorial intern at PBS FRONTLINE. After college, she worked for the Elizabeth Warren Presidential Campaign in New Hampshire, Iowa, and Arkansas. She worked for the Kansas Democratic Party in the Fall of 2020. Currently, Marlee is pursuing a Master’s of Public Administration at American University in Washington, DC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1634575194912-Z2S9LHVI4KNF8SA1REBA/sonny.JPG Staff https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/our-vision daily 0.75 2024-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/23221d26-7f25-4cb8-b53f-cc1c2464d010/Naples+NY+Matter+of+the+Heart+.jpg Our Vision - Welcome to Pulaski At The Pulaski Institution, we often use the word “heartlands” to evoke the places with which we are concerned. In describing them, we allude a range of features that likely span many different categories of place in people’s minds. We talk about farmlands, from the Mississippi Delta and Great Plains to rural Australia. We also talk about post-industrial landscapes, such as the Rust Belt, and the North of England. Our formulation includes small towns and cities; places in the geographical middle (see: Kansas), and those that are very much not (Upstate New York). So this is a guide to how we at Pulaski think about heartland places and what we mean when we say we want to try to bring the local and global together. What I’m putting forward here is a guiding principle of Pulaski: the heartland can be anywhere. What matters is that it’s a place where the place matters. The heartland is where the thick linkages of globalization—the agglomerations of activities and cultural institutions that build up in cities like New York, London, and Milan—thin out. And it is where the politics of place have often become isolationist, populist, and, in many cases, tinged with nativism and illiberalism. Perhaps rural Maine doesn’t immediately appear in your mind? It should. Perhaps your image of these places doesn’t include the English Midlands, the often-overlooked communities of Northern Ireland, Australia’s regional hubs, Canada’s prairie and Atlantic provinces, and cities like Marseille in France or Dresden in Germany. It should. It is our belief at Pulaski that a vision of the world that is pro-globalization—that is to say, pro- immigration, trade, pluralism—can accommodate a sense of place. And it’s our belief that better understanding these places is actually critical to defending the liberal democratic values that underpin a free and fair society. But doing so means injecting that sense of place into our work. It’s partly why we’ve organized our work around the idea of place-based democracy. We want to measure the quality of democracy at the local and regional level because we think that has a lot to tell us about the overall health of a country. And we think it has a lot to tell us about the day-to-day life of millions of citizens. Because, after all, everyone lives somewhere. A failure to diagnose democratic backsliding at the subnational level means a failure to diagnose the erosion in the quality of civic life and liberties for many people otherwise described as living in a free country. We also believe in doing the work from these places precisely because we want to help contribute to reversing some of the magnetic polarity of modern globalization. We want to help these places keep talent and, when possible, to be the ones that draw it from elsewhere. Our decision to launch in Little Rock, Arkansas is central to that mission. We want our physical presence itself to work in concert with our research and action agenda. The key is that sense of place. Working at the connection of heartland areas and global politics and economics means having some sense of where that is. This is a brief guide to where that is. And it’s a small mental map of how our programmatic interests will be driven. We hope you’ll consider supporting, either financially or by engaging with our programs. — Alan Elrod Co-founder, president, and CEO https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/the-future-of-prosperity daily 0.75 2021-07-25 https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/liberal-democracy-and-place daily 0.75 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1656960511225-60LQLI5E96UXE3ZASP9O/IMG_1506.jpeg Liberal Democracy and Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/f490bda2-39e8-460c-a76f-221254a4bbcb/pieter-van-de-sande-_7HKDoGVvog-unsplash.jpg Liberal Democracy and Place - Project: Place-based Democracy Much of the contemporary literature and data on freedom and democracy in the world focuses on the national level. However, both in the United States and abroad there are numerous challenges to the quality of democratic government and the rights and dignities of local populations. In many places, party competition is weak to non-existent, local institutions are hostile to certain minority rights, and public opinion may be out of step with the national level guarantees of rights and dignities. Moreover, in many countries, municipal, state, regional, and even transnational forces overlap and undercut one another in complex ways. At Pulaski, we are determined to help build better, measurable information about the realities of freedom and democracy where people live. https://www.pulaskiinstitution.org/our-board daily 0.75 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/3890856e-8ced-4811-bc33-938f5c9c5d53/craig-calhoun-portrait-01.jpg Our Board - Craig Calhoun, Ph.D. Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. Previously, he was Director of the London School of Economics, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), founder of the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, and a professor there and at UNC-Chapel Hill, Columbia, and Princeton. Social movements, shifting conditions for democracy, and the relation of local community to larger-scale organization have been at the center of his research. He teaches on these themes and on the resources offered by social, political, and cultural theory and is most proud of the 50 remarkable PhD students he supervised who now teach and pursue related work across the US and around the world. Calhoun’s newest book is Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard 2022, co-authored with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor). This takes democracy to be a project, not simply a set of formal arrangements, and looks at the ways disempowerment of citizens, partisan polarization, and politics oriented only to winning and not the public good undermine democracy from within. He has also recently edited The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (Columbia 2022, with Benjamin Fong). This explores ways in which the pursuit of better lives and livelihoods for workers could – potentially – be integrated with environmental justice and action to minimize damage from climate change. Calhoun’s search for practical and intellectual efforts to rebuild solidarity and democracy at local levels in ways that empower citizens to respond to global transformations led him to Pulaski. He is honored to be invited to join the Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622069600748-DK4B0EDRJ055L281NUIG/WesleyBeal_headshot.jpg Our Board - Wesley Beal, Ph.D., Board Chair Raised in Arkansas, Wesley Beal is an associate professor of English at Lyon College, where he teaches a range of courses in American and world literature, researches the academic novel, and holds several administrative roles. He served as a Fulbright US Scholar at the University of Hong Kong in 2018. With his partner, he raises a family in the Ozark foothills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1627327422095-0A6FRBZE690OHSPL2X45/LoanDavid+Headshot.JPG Our Board - David Loan, Board Treasurer David Loan joins the Pulaski Institution board from the professional services industry to bring extensive knowledge of international finance, economic development, and business strategy. David has roots in Central Arkansas as a graduate of the Arkansas School of Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, and has a particular interest in contributing to the economic, social, and cultural development of Arkansas. David has a B.A. from Hamilton College, and an M.A. from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. David has spent the last 10 years focusing on economic development and international trade, with a professional focus on US-China relations. David has worked in New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley advising global US, European, and Chinese firms on corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-cultural organizational strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622568796046-E4VGFP7N9ZU21GGSVCLW/JaneAdams_Headshot.jpeg Our Board - Jane Adams, Board Vice-Chair Jane Adams is a ninth-generation Alabamian and lives in Huntsville, Alabama. She earned a master’s degree in theological studies M(TS) from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., where she studied the ethical implications of public policy. She works as the Government Relations Director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, leading the effort to expand Medicaid in Alabama. Jane previously worked at Alabama Arise, Bread for the World, the Department of Health and Human Services, Share our Strength, Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, U.S. House of Representatives office of Vic Snyder, Barack Obama 2008 campaign, and the Alabama Statehouse. She is the former co-chair of the Save for All coalition, the largest anti-poverty coalition in the United States. She currently sits on the leadership team of the Southerners for Medicaid expansion coalition. Jane has a series of state and federal policy wins, including the passage of the Alabama postpartum Medicaid extension, ARPA Medicaid expansion incentive, passage of the First Step Act of 2019, and other policy wins such as Summer EBT federal funding and implementation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe03b0eff074777c986a4de/1622572208553-HWC9E12VRA9OTP0GKTH4/AlanElrod_Headshot.JPG Our Board - Alan Elrod, Founder, President, and CEO of The Pulaski Institution Alan Elrod is the co-founder, along with the inaugural board, of the Pulaski Institution. He was raised in Searcy, Arkansas and received his undergraduate degree in history at Harding University. Alan received his master’s at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he designed his degree around nationalism and submitted a thesis on the comparative role of territorial currencies in the national identities of Scotland and Hungary. Alan is a former faculty member at The Arkansas Governor’s School and currently teaches courses in political science and history at Arkansas State University-Beebe, a community college in rural Central Arkansas. He is interested in economic institutions, their social and cultural roles, and understanding the dynamics of modern national identity and nationalism. 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