Dr. Bill Meadows (Sociology and Anthropology) served as the keynote speaker for the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony at Laguna Pueblo, NM on July 29. The event was held to recognize Mr. Joseph R. Day Sr., a Laguna Code Talker who served with fourteen other natives from several tribes in a radio net in the Pacific Theater of WW II. On September 4 Dr. Meadows reported on his … [Read more...] about Native American Code Talkers
On April 11, 2016 a meeting was held at the Defense and Strategic Studies facilities, in Fairfax, with the 30-member NATO Parliamentary Assembly. This meeting was requested by the NATO delegation; we were one of only three local WDC sites the NATO delegation visited during this trip. The NATO group was chaired by Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (British Labor MP). Dr. Keith … [Read more...] about DSS hosts NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Congratulations to sociology program coordinator John Harms for receiving the Missouri Conference of the Association of Academic Union Professionals (AAUP) 2015 Tacey Award for outstanding and continuous service. Picture with Dr.Harms are past and current presidents of AAUP. … [Read more...] about John Harms receives Tacey Award
Dr. Dennis Hickey, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Master's in Global Studies, delivered a guest lecture to an overflow crowd at the State University of New York at Cortland on November 5. He discussed why Taiwan occupies the best piece of real estate in the South China Sea and why both Washington and Beijing are pushing, in opposite directions, Taipei … [Read more...] about Dennis Hickey lectures at State University of New York