Professor Timothy Longman of Boston University joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. He speaks about his decision, eventually, to focus on Rwanda as the basis for his dissertation.
Episode 19 – Tim Longman
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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
Episode 18 – Tony Lang
Tony Lang discusses philosophy, writing, and why the International Ethics section of the ISA developed into such a friendly environment for junior scholars.
Episode 17 – Laura Shepherd
Professor Laura Shepherd is an iconic and authoritative voice in International Relations, and yet, she didn’t start out planning for a career in academia.
Episode 16 – Aida Hozic
Professor Aida Hozic discusses her journey from Sarajevo to studying, writing on, and teaching IR in the United States.
Episode 15 – Matt McDonald
Professor Matt McDonald of the University of Queensland chats about guitars, craft beers, and IR theory.
Episode 14 – Harry Gould
Harry Gould of FIU talks punishment and IR, his career, and coping with loss.
Episode 13 – Luke Ashworth
Professor Lucian Ashworth talks about growing up in England and Wales, his decision to go to Keele, and his major influences.
Episode 12 – Priya Dixit
Professor Priya Dixit talks about being born in Thailand, growing up in Nepal, college and her master’s in Australia, working for the United Nations, and life as an academic.
Episode 11 – Maria Mälksoo
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.
Episode 10 – Juliet Kaarbo
rofessor Juliet Kaarbo of the University of Edinburgh and Brent go way back to their days as colleagues at the University of Kansas in the mid-late 2000s. Julie shares with Brent her growing up in Kansas and Oklahoma, her graduate studies at the Ohio State University and developing her research program in Foreign Policy Analysis, getting the job at KU and the challenges of the tenure process especially being the first person in the department to have a baby. She discusses taking a visiting position in Geneva at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, the decision...