Perspectives

From civil rights and women’s suffrage to the Tea Party movement and #MeToo, moral crusades can shape an era. Arts & Sciences anthropologist and psychologist Pascal Boyer investigates why people get involved, how movements gain traction and what happens when they succeed.

Business schools must study their markets carefully to determine how they can push themselves in wholly new directions. Benjamin Akande, senior adviser to the chancellor and director of the Africa initiative, writes a piece in BizEd.

Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes in the journal Religion & Politics about Southern Baptists’ views on gender roles and the denomination’s political influence.

How does Shakespeare fit together with business? This spring, as Henry Schvey of Arts & Sciences writes, Olin Business School brought the two together for an event almost unimaginable elsewhere in the United States.

Supreme Court scholar Lee Epstein co-writes an op-ed in The New York Times about President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination and how judges’ voting has become more predictable over time based on who appointed them.

Terence Crofts, a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Medicine, writes a piece on The Conversation website about research in the lab of Gautam Dantas into drug-eating bacteria — and how they could actually help humans.

Lance Jenott, a lecturer in classics and in religious studies in Arts & Sciences, describes in a “Hold That Thought” podcast how the apostle Peter is portrayed much differently throughout the Bible — depending on whose Gospel people are reading.

Sociologist Ariela Schachter, of Arts & Sciences, writes in an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her research indicates white Americans took issue, and believed they had little in common, with undocumented immigrants well before Donald Trump became a politician.

Andrea Godshalk is a doctoral candidate in Sustainable Urbanism at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She participated in the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (“COP23”) held at U.N. Campus in Bonn, Germany, as a Washington University delegate. She writes this perspective based on a recent climate summit […]

Andrea Godshalk, a doctoral candidate in sustainable urbanism at the Sam Fox School, shares her perspective on climate change and how we all are called to action.