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Brent Steele

Brent J. Steele is the Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and the co-editor in chief of Global Studies Quarterly. He is the author of the recently published Vicarious Identity in International Relations (with Chris Browning and Pertti Joenniemi), and Restraint in International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which co-won the ISA Theory section book award for 2020.

Recent Posts

Francois Debrix

Francois Debrix

by Brent Steele | 25 June, 2021 | ,

Professor Francois Debrix of Virginia Tech University joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Francois grew up in France, attending college there with degrees in Spanish and English, and then International Law, Political Science and Diplomatic History. An exchange program through the University of Strasbourg brought Francois to the US and Purdue, where he pursued his Master's, and then PhD under the supervision of Cynthia Weber. Professor Debrix talks about his interest in ideology that led to his dissertation and first book, Re-envisioning Peacekeeping. That book in part helped land him the...

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Episode 19 – Tim Longman

Episode 11 – Maria Mälksoo

by Brent Steele | 3 July, 2020 |

Professor Mälksoo talks growing up in a small town in Estonia during and at the end of the Cold War, the decision to go to the University of Tartu, her exchange year in Montana taking the GRE in Helsinki, and getting her picture taken following a rainstorm.

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