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Boyce Upholt ’06 recounts a perilous trip atop a record-breaking flood—and an attempt to understand what we’ve done to America’s iconic river.

Read "The Kamikaze Canoe" from the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

Over the past four years, journalist Boyce Upholt has paddled more than a thousand miles of the Mississippi in the company of the river's "foremost evangelist" John Ruskey. Photo by Rory Doyle. 

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COOL CLASSES: "Refugees and Forced Migrants"

COOL CLASSES: “Refugees and Forced Migrants”

Taught by Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Sciences Anita Isaacs, this political science course integrates diverse disciplinary approaches—legal, political, sociological and anthropological—to explore the causes of migration, the dynamics of assimilation and incorporation of migrants in the U.S., and the process and impacts of deportation and (re)incorporation in Mexico and Central America.

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. See what other courses the Department of Political Science is offering.

Professor Anita Isaacs interviews "Ben" in Mexico City as part of the Migration Encounters Project. Photo by Patrick Montero. 

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
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Faculty – Susanna Wing

A course on Francophone African literature as an undergrad led Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing to an M.A. in African area studies and a Ph.D. in political science. She joined the Haverford faculty in 2002, and has become an internationally recognized and widely published expert on Mali.

Read Office Hour in the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

Wing's office in Hall Building features a hand-drawn map of Africa, papers from a 1960 conference in West Africa that belong to Professor Emeritus of Political Science Harvey Glickman, and these toy cars and trucks that were handmade in Mali. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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