Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University

This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools, the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins communications offices.

Seminar Series Starting Friday Aims To Expose, Explain Threats to U.S. Democracy

A group of political science scholars is launching a webinar series on Friday to highlight escalating threats to democracy that have been percolating for decades and boiling over ever since Donald Trump’s election.

June 24, 2020 Tags: 2020 Elections, American Democracy Collaborative, Black Lives Matter, Cornell University, Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences

Advisory: JHU Experts Can Discuss Race, Political movements, Inequality

The following Johns Hopkins University experts — political scientists, economists, historians and sociologists — are available for interviews on topics of race, inequality and political movements:

August 17, 2017 Tags: Adam Sheingate, Andrew Cherlin, Black Lives Matter, Christian right, civil rights, conservatives, Daniel Schlozman, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin, Lester K. Spence, Nathan Connolly, political movements, race, Stephen L. Morgan, Steven Teles, Vesla Weaver
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences