by Kiel Downey | Jul 1, 2019 | Publication
Liminal Sovereignty examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the...
by Kiel Downey | Apr 12, 2019 | ROLC News
Recently, ROLC Core Faculty Dr. Breanne Grace was named one of fourteen 2019 Breakthrough Stars by the University of South Carolina’s Office of the Vice President for Research. Dr. Grace holds a PhD in Sociology from Michigan State University and is currently...
by Kiel Downey | Mar 8, 2019 | ROLC News
Happy International Women’s Day! Since September 2018, the Rule of Law Collaborative (ROLC) has been working with the Task Force on Justice, an initiative of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. Through that partnership, ROLC is focused on...
by Kiel Downey | Feb 21, 2019 | ROLC News
In the article “Empowered by Hip-Hop,” USC highlights Noella “Binda” Niati, a former ROLC Graduate Assistant and current doctoral candidate in the Educational Foundations and Inquiry program of the College of Education. The article...
by Kiel Downey | Dec 7, 2018 | Publication
Racial disparities in officer-involved shootings have dominated the national discourse recently. Unfortunately, we have yet to identify an appropriate benchmark, or at-risk population, to put these observed racial disparities into context. In this article, we use...