Jody Baumgartner

This Day in History, 1587: Mary, Quessn of Scots, Beheaded

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“Mary Stuart was Queen of Scots from 1547 until she was deposed in 1567. She spent the next twenty years of her life in exile or imprisoned. After she was deposed, she sought the assistance of her first cousin once removed, Elizabeth I, who reigned over England.

“This complicated matters however as Elizabeth perceived Mary as a threat and had her imprisoned while a commission of inquiry investigated whether she was responsible for the death of her first husband, which had been the proximate cause of her overthrow.

“She spent eighteen and a half years imprisoned in England, and several plots to replace Elizabeth with Mary or have her marry other European royalty came to nothing. On August 11, 1586, Mary was arrested after being implicated in the Babington Plot, another scheme to overthrow the protestant Elizabeth and replace her with the catholic Mary.

“She was found guilty on October 25 and sentenced to death. Elizabeth hesitated to sign the death warrant, fearing the precedent it set, and asked her custodian to find a way to “shorten the life” of Mary, but he refused. Elizabeth eventually signed the warrant and the execution was set for February 8.

“Mary was not executed with a single blow – the first missed and hit her in the back of the head, the second did not completely sever her head, and only after the third did the executioner raise her head to the crowd. Mary was wearing a wig however, and the head fell from his hands, revealing that she had very short, grey hair” (from https://www.onthisday.com/photos/mary-queen-of-scots-executed).

New Research from Dr. Kassab!

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Dr. Kassab has just published a new article titled “What Is the Indo-Pacific? Genealogy, Securitization, and the Multipolar System.”

Abstract: Language is a clear indicator of political change. As China continues to rise and expand its influence in the South China Seas, threatened neighboring states will balance against it. One step in this process is the formulation of persuading language and concepts to accept the threat posed by China. This is demonstrated by the invention and use of the term Indo-Pacific, an area from the eastern part of Africa in the west to the United States in the east. This article traces the genealogy of the term Indo-Pacific as it relates to the securitization of this region given the rise of China. The article will first trace the genealogy of the term Indo-Pacific to then highlight the processes of securitization given changes in the structure of international relations.

See: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41111-023-00233-z

This Day in History: Gandhi Assassinated.

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“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu extremist on January 30, 1948.”

See more: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu extremist on January 30, 1948.”

See more: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

New Research from Dr. Fleming

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Dr. Casey Fleming has a forthcoming article in “Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance” that examines the capacity of nonprofit sector elites, such as leadership coalitions and other nonprofit infrastructure organizations, to use strategic messaging to influence donor intentions and decisions to support human service nonprofits engaging in varying mixes of direct service and policy advocacy activities.

A couple of key punchlines from this experimental study are (1) that strategic messaging emphasizing the importance of root causes of societal issues and missions of social change can increase donations to particular nonprofits engaging in policy advocacy work; and (2) that strategic messaging focused on calls for direct service activities fail to influence donor intentions.

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