Fordham University’s faculty and staff remain leaders in their fields, innovating and making meaningful contributions across disciplines. Their dedication and expertise are regularly recognized with prestigious honors and awards. Take a look at the latest achievements from our community below.
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Boris Heersink, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, associate professor of political science, published an article titled “Beaches or Boarding?: Shark Attacks, Tourism, and the 1916 Presidential Election” in American Politics Research in February.
Olena Nikolayenko, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of political science, published the article “Emotional Contagion and Labor Mobilization in an Autocracy” online in Comparative Politics in December; it will appear in their April print issue.
She also discussed her recent book, Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan, in the podcast The Review of Democracy produced by the Democracy Institute at Central European University. Her essay on trade unions and the authoritarian government in Belarus is forthcoming in the April issue of New Labor Forum.
Ebru Turan, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of history, has a new book,The Race for Universal Monarchy: Apocalypticism and the Ottoman–Habsburg Rivalry in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean (Columbia University Press) coming out in April. The book examines how the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires both sought to unite the world under their rule and usher in a peaceful, harmonious age.
