Shawna M. Brandle
(she/her)
Professor of Political Science at KCC
Professor of Political Science and the Open Education Coordinator at Kingsborough Community College and a member of the faculty of the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research areas include human rights, media coverage of human rights and refugee issues, and Open Educational Practices in higher education. In Fall 2021, Dr. Brandle was a Fulbright Scholar at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She is the author of Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised (Routledge 2015); her current book project is co-authored with Dr. Janet Reilly. She spends her spare time making art with her family.
Social
Academic Interests
human rights, political communications, refugee studies, open educational resources
Education
PhD, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
MA, Brooklyn College
BSFS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
Positions
Publications
Worth the time: Exploring the Faculty Experience of OER initiatives. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. co-authored with Stacy Katz
The Book Costs How Much??? Textbook Cost & OER Awareness in Political Science, Journal of Political Science Education.
It’s (Not) in The Reading: American Government Textbooks’ Limited Representation of Historically Marginalized Groups. PS: Political Science & Politics
“Seldom, Superficial, and Soon Gone: Television News Coverage of Refugees in the US, 2006-2015” co-authored with Dr. Janet Reilly, Refugee Survey Quarterly
Brandle, Shawna M, and Stacy Katz, Amy Beth, Cailean Cooney, Jacqueline DiSanto, Anne Hays, Linda Miles, and Abigail Morrison. “But What Do the Students Think: Results of the CUNY Cross-Campus Zero-Textbook Cost Student Survey.” Open Praxis.
Brandle, Shawna M. “Games, Movies, and Zombies: Making IR Fun for Everyone.” Journal of Political Science Education https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2019.1568880
Brandle, Shawna M. 2018. “Opening up to OERs: Electronic Original Sourcebook Versus Traditional Textbook in the Introduction to American Government Course.” Journal of Political Science Education. doi:10.1080/15512169.2017.1420482.
Brandle, Shawna M. 2018. “Media Coverage of Human Rights in the USA and UK: The Violations Still Will Not Be Televised (or Published).” Human Rights Review 19 (2). doi:10.1007/s12142-018-0495-5.
Brandle, Shawna M. 2015. Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK : The Violations Will Not Be Televised. New York: Routledge.
