Upcoming Program: Thursday, November 7, 2024

Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.

This event is in-person only. It will not be livestreamed or recorded.

Open Forum on the 2024 Election

Dickinson Community Forum with Faculty Panel

Russell Bova, political science & international studies
Katie Marchetti, political science
Ed Webb, political science & international studies
Sarah Niebler (moderator), political science

Dickinson Faculty will discuss observations and analyses of the recent US Presidential election and take questions.

The program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.

Biographies (provided by the panelists)

Russell Bova is Professor of Political Science and the J. William Stuart & Helen D. Stuart ’32 Chair in International Studies. Bova teaches a variety of courses on international relations and comparative politics. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Russian politics and comparative democratization. He is also the author of How the World Works, an introductory international relations textbook.

Katie Marchetti (forthcoming)

Ed Webb (forthcoming)

Sarah Niebler is Associate Professor of Political Science. Professor Niebler’s research and teaching interests are in the area of American politics, specifically campaigns and elections, political behavior, and public opinion. She teaches courses on those topics as well as Mass Media and American Politics, Polarization and American Politics, and Research Methods. Her scholarly work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Communication, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, American Politics Research, and the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. Additionally, her research and analysis has been featured on NPR’s “Hidden Brain”, and in The Hill and Roll Call, among others. Currently, Professor Niebler is working on a project examining the nationalization of American political campaigns, asking how much coordination and incidental compatibility is taking place between campaigns at the presidential, congressional, and state legislative levels in 2020.