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April’s news highlights ranged from commentary on the wars in Sudan and Ukraine to postwar African American music in France.

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin co-authored an op-ed titled “How this wave of African coups differs from previous ones” in The Washington Post on Feb. 25. Her essay explained how military leaders are likely to turn to elections to maintain power.

Three Hamilton professors, Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert, Associate Professor of Government Peter Cannavo and Assistant Professor of Government Erica de Bruin have participated recently in interviews in their areas of expertise with media outlets based in New York, California and London. Here are brief summaries and links to them. 

After studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia, Hillary Kolodner ’14 knew she wanted to spend more time outside the United States.  She chose to work for Taxawu Suñuy Xales, a community center in Yoff, Senegal.  Started by the Belgian non-governmental organization (NGO) Afractie, the center opened in 2002.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was a guest on WFRG Radio Free Georgia to discuss the national elections in Guyana and the Congo.

A packed Red Pit on Thursday March 3, was privileged to hear a “local boy done good,” as Professor Steve Orvis described him. Les Roberts, a native of the Syracuse area and now a human rights epidemiologist, visited Hamilton to talk about three of his conflict surveys.  Roberts led a transfixed crowd through a brief history of violence in war and then on to examples he saw firsthand: Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic, and what is now Congo.