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Columbus Program in State Issues Internships Fall 2022 Ohio AFL-CIO Ohio Judicial Conference Ohio Senate Premier One Health Ohio Student Association/Ohio Organizing Collaborative Legal Aid Society of Columbus Washington Program in National Issues Spring 2023 Internships The American Wood Council The National Security Institute at George Mason The DC Center for the LGBT Community The Office of Senator Sherrod Brown Johnson Lambert, CPA The Office of Congressional representative Donald Payne, Jr. The Department of Defense The National Resource Defense Council The U.S....

PhD candidate and adjunct instructor Laura Mendez visited Pristina, Kosovo August 10-20, 2022, to participate in the Kosovo International Summer Academy for Peace Building in Post-Conflict Areas. Mendez spent her professional time there attending workshops and lectures on Kosovo’s peacebuilding efforts, diplomacy, etiquette, and negotiation. According to Mendez, “the experiences shared by the Kosovar [presenters and instructors] dedicated to peacebuilding and state-building elucidated the nuances of grassroots activism in local peacebuilding, as well as the intricacies of advancing women’s pol...

Department chair Dr. Tony Molina led a group OF undergraduate students on a study abroad trip to Amsterdam, the Netherlands in March 2023, during which the class visited the Hague, the International Criminal Court, and the International Court of Justice, which is considered the home of international law and arbitration. Students also explored Amsterdam’s system of canals and public transportation, visited the Anne Frank and Van Gogh museums, and learned about Amsterdam’s bike culture and relaxed public policies toward drugs. ...

Where were you working before Kent? Before my position at Kent, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Arizona where I was part of a large interdisciplinary team composed of natural and social scientists working on several projects related to ecoclimate teleconnections. The team simulated, for example, how large-scale forest die-off on the West Coast impacts agricultural output in the Midwest. My part of the project involves examining how institutional, political, and network features predict the motivation or capacity of forest service personnel to adapt to these ecoclimate ...

Why were you drawn to Kent? I actually had three job offers. But what brought me to Kent was a couple of reasons. My wife [Claudia] is from Ohio. She grew up in Cincinnati, so this was a way to bring her back to her family. Happy wife, happy life; that was one of the biggest reasons. Also, I went to school at the University of Akron [for my master’s], and I had friends who were doing their undergrads [at Kent] at the time, so I used to come to Kent once or twice a week, so I already had an indirect affinity with Kent. When the opportunity to apply to Kent came, I said okay, I know what Ken...

Dr. Steven Wallace Hook passed away, peacefully, on September 24, at the age of 63 in Kent, OH as a result of frontotemporal dementia. At his death, Dr. Hook was the preeminent writer of American foreign policy textbooks in the English language. He also loving mentoring young minds through his teaching, and traveling to share his knowledge in places like China, India, Turkey, England, and Qatar. Steve received Kent State University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and served as the chair of the Political Science Department from 2008 to 2012. He retired in 2019 as Professor Emeritus and i...

The Kent State Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta (PAD), the international law and pre-law fraternity, was formally reactivated at a ceremony on March 28th, 2023. International Chief Tribune of PAD Ronald J. Winter came from Buffalo New York to swear in the five members of the new executive board: President Emma Scherer, Vice President Meredith Blair, Treasurer Alex Karpowicz, Secretary Purva Chauhan, and Recruitment Chair Miguel Cruz.  ...