Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosts third-annual conference at a pivotal moment in the national conversation about firearms More than 100 scholars, practitioners, and students from across…
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Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosts third-annual conference at a pivotal moment in the national conversation about firearms An opening panel on current legal cases, Alinor Sterling…
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Friday, October 18, 2024 9:30am – 11am (please arrive 5 minutes early) Meeting Place: Corner of High Street and Wyllys Avenue, Middletown (GPS: use 281 High Street, Middletown) A prime…
Fall 2024 This project-based course provides a unique cross-disciplinary opportunity to study important historical questions surrounding firearms. Combining quantitative methodology in data science with qualitative research methods in history, students…
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Introducing CSGS postdoctoral researchers Brennan Gardner Rivas and Evan Turiano CSGS is thrilled to welcome two outstanding historians as postdoctoral researchers. Brennan Gardner Rivas and Evan Turiano will contribute to…
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On October 13–14, the Center for the Study of Guns & Society (CSGS) at Wesleyan University, hosted its second-annual fall conference, “Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society.”…
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In June 2023, the podcast “Our Body Politic” broadcast a panel, recorded live at the Center for the Study of Guns & Society’s May 2023 symposium, “Lessons from History on…
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Latonya Smith ’24 and Emma Tuhabonye ’24 are studying guns in political advertisements through the Wesleyan Media Project. Their research aims to gain insight into how candidate traits—such as gender,…
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A U.S. Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi has cited a book co-edited by Jennifer Tucker, founding director of the Center for the Study of Guns & Society, in…
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In 2022, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to support the Carceral Connecticut Project (CCP) at Wesleyan University, an interdisciplinary project to investigate the state’s…