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Careful Planning: Georgia State Associate Professor Breaks Down Classroom Walls, Encourages Community Involvement

Careful Planning: Georgia State Associate Professor Breaks Down Classroom Walls, Encourages Community Involvement

Dr. Joseph Hacker is a clinical associate professor at Georgia State in the Department of Public Management and Policy, as well as the undergraduate advisor for the department, and he is using his experience as a professional urban planner to enhance policy research and to bring real-world education to students in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

His career in professional planning—including planning city development, transportation development, and things of that nature—began in Philadelphia. “I managed a large group in the greater Philadelphia region, I was in charge of transit—bicycle and pedestrian planning and coordinated human services.”

While having many avenues of research, Hacker said that his studies constantly inform his work. His project management experience through local neighborhood and civic organizations is a key part of his academic instruction at Georgia State.

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A Political Future: Georgia State Associate Professor Researches Women, Intersectionality of Race and Gender in American Politics

A Political Future: Georgia State Associate Professor Researches Women, Intersectionality of Race and Gender in American Politics

Dr. Sarah Gershon is an associate professor at Georgia State and researches gender and racial and ethnic minorities in America’s political atmosphere.

“I’m interested in the participation of different groups in American politics. I study groups that have been historically underrepresented—primarily women, racial and ethnic minorities.”

Her main areas of research are the way gender and race intersect in politics, and more specifically, how women navigate towards and lead political offices.

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Georgia State Professor’s Research on Leprosy and Breastfeeding Illuminates Structural and Cultural Issues

Georgia State Professor’s Research on Leprosy and Breastfeeding Illuminates Structural and Cultural Issues

Cassandra White first studied in Brazil during her Master’s in Anthropology program at the University of Florida. She knew then that she wanted to do work in Brazil, and went on to Tulane University for her Ph.D. But it was the time between her master’s and doctoral programs that she became interested in leprosy, or Hansen’s disease.

“I didn’t really know much about it, and I didn’t know that it was still a big problem there.” Dr. White said she went back to Brazil in 1995, and it set her pursuit and study of leprosy in stone.

While she was at Tulane University, Dr. White begin looking into Carville—the National Hansen’s Disease Center of the 20th century repurposed for modern leprosy treatment. “I spent some time at Carville and conducted oral histories of residents and staff who lived there during the time (before the 1960s) when people diagnosed with leprosy were isolated there. So, when I went to Brazil, I had some experience with the disease and understood it better.”

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Georgia State Professor Explores the Impact of Urban Universities

Georgia State Professor Explores the Impact of Urban Universities

Dr. Jean-Paul Addie has loved geography throughout his academic career, and he focused on the subject as a discipline. During his master’s and doctoral programs, Addie said his interest in geography propelled him through his education.

In his field, urban studies, cities are used to examine different aspects of metropolitan areas such as infrastructure and challenges cities may be facing.

But cities are not the only thing an urban studies researcher may be involved with—the same is true for Dr. Addie. He looks at urban universities—places of higher education rooted in metropolitan areas.

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Representation Matters: Georgia State Professor’s Research Fosters Scientific Curiosity and Recognition in Secondary Education

Representation Matters: Georgia State Professor’s Research Fosters Scientific Curiosity and Recognition in Secondary Education

Renée Schwartz saw a critical need for increased scientific literacy among children and young adults. She took her passion for science, teaching, and development to begin educating future teachers.

“There’s a complete disconnect between how science actually works, what scientists do, and how its presented in the classroom,” said Dr. Schwartz, a professor of science education in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education. This was the pivotal moment when Schwartz knew she needed to reach learners of all ages with scientific knowledge in a way that better reflects how science works.

“If you don’t have an understanding of these claims that are being made in the scientific community, then it’s difficult to make progress—especially in today’s world.”

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Faculty Spotlight: Past and Present – How a Georgia State Professor Analyzes History to Examine Modern American Politics

Faculty Spotlight: Past and Present – How a Georgia State Professor Analyzes History to Examine Modern American Politics

David Sehat is a professor of intellectual and cultural history at Georgia State. He is interested in how changes in cultural and intellectual life have affected American politics throughout the modern period, a critical project that seeks to use the past to understand the present.

Sehat deploys this critical approach in a variety of ways, nowhere more consistently than in the production of his podcast, titled ‘MindPop.’ He asks people from a variety of backgrounds to bring their specialties to bear on contemporary events.

Guests have included scholars such as Timothy Lytton, a Distinguished University Professor of Law at Georgia State who is an expert in gun and product liability; Nadia Hilliard, a politics scholar at University College London; and Tim Hwang, the former Director of the Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative at Harvard and MIT.

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