{"id":6,"date":"2012-01-20T23:29:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenltaylor.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-06T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:32:30","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ktaylor\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ktaylor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/220815-Kirsten-Taylor-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ktaylor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/220815-Kirsten-Taylor-copy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"K Taylor headshot\" class=\"wp-image-209\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Matthew McConnell\/Berry College.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I am the Dean of the Evans School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Berry College. I teach courses in International Relations and I am faculty advisor to Berry\u2019s Model United Nations club. My research interests include international institutions, global environmental politics, international security, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses I teach:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Contemporary World Issues, Contemporary Global Security,&nbsp;Global Environmental Politics, International Law and Organization, International Relations, International Relations Theory, Model United Nations, and&nbsp;Politics of Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Publications:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirsten Taylor. \u201cThe Pandemic and Pedagogy Experimentation: The Benefits of Ungrading.\u201d Active Learning in Political Science for a Post-Pandemic World, <em>Springer Nature<\/em>, 2022, 79\u201392.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirsten Taylor, &nbsp;\u201cNuclear Weapons: A New Arms Race?\u201d <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Foreign-Policy-Issues-for-America-The-Trump-Years-1st-Edition\/Mansbach-McCormick\/p\/book\/9780815394037\">Foreign Policy Issues for America<\/a>,<\/em> edited by Richard W. Mansbach and James M. McCormick, Routledge, 2019, 133\u2013147.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten Taylor, \u201cThe North Korea Crisis: Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Threat of Nuclear War.\u201d Chapter in Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan, eds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/book\/9789811364617\"><em>Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy<\/em><\/a>. (Gateway East, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan), 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Books:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Introduction-to-Global-Politics\/Mansbach-Taylor\/p\/book\/9781138236653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978113823\/9781138236653.jpg\" alt=\"Introduction to Global Politics: 3rd Edition (Paperback) book cover\" style=\"width:152px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/en-us\/nam\/contemporary-american-foreign-policy\/book240855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/sites\/default\/files\/upm-binaries\/styles\/sage_thumbnail_width_150px\/feed\/72785_9781452287232.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary American Foreign Policy\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/en-us\/nam\/challenges-for-america-in-the-middle-east\/book245460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/sites\/default\/files\/upm-binaries\/styles\/sage_thumbnail_width_150px\/feed\/73236_Mansbach_ChallengesAmericaMiddleEast.jpg\" alt=\"Challenges for America in the Middle East\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the Dean of the Evans School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Charles A. 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