Join us for the next Nuclear Waste Scholar Series webinar on Friday, December 1st at noon PT to hear Shampa Biswas and Anne Harrington present, Decolonizing Nuclear Studies: Incorporating Race, Gender, and the Environment in the Teaching of Nuclear Studies.

With the help of a grant from the Ploughshares Fund to decolonize the nuclear studies curriculum, Shampa Biswas and Anne Harrington collaborated with a group of scholars to build three teaching modules that center questions of race, colonialism, gender, and the environment as they relate to nuclear weapons. This webinar will introduce participants to the resources available in each of the modules, which can be incorporated into efforts to educate students, policy makers, advocates, and activists about nuclear weapons production and use, as well as nuclear arms control and disarmament.

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Shampa Biswas is the Judge & Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Chair of Political Science at Whitman College. She is a postcolonial International Relations theorist whose work examines the inequalities of the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime. She is the author of Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). She is currently working on a project on nuclear memorialization and the global story of Fat Man.

Anne I. Harrington is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University. Anne earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2010. Since then she has held fellowships at major universities in the US and Europe, including the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zürich. In 2013-2014, she worked for the United States Congress as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, first as a National Security Fellow in the office of Senator Kirstin Gillibrand (D-NY) and then at the Congressional Research Service where she co-authored a report on US Department of Defense cyber operations. Her publications have appeared, among other places, in the Nonproliferation Review, Millennium, Critical Studies on Security, Foreign Policy, Task & Purpose, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume (with Jeffrey Knopf), Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons.

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