{"id":14722,"date":"2023-10-19T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:54:16","slug":"faculty-spotlight-november-3rd-dr-kelly-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2023\/10\/14722\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight November 9th \u2013 Dr. Kelly Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Brown Center invites you to our Faculty Spotlight on\u202fThursday,\u202fNovember 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u202fat\u202f12:00 PM\u202fon Zoom. The spotlight series is\u202fa showcase of research, creative inquiry, and other scholarly engagement of the campus community. Stop by and learn about the research of our talented Stetson community!\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sign-Up Link:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/zvb3A1r81b\">https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/zvb3A1r81b<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"958\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14723\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7828810020876826;width:306px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-3.png 750w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-3-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kelly Smith \u2013 Associate Professor of Political Science&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Political Science&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamiltonia is a simulation that puts students in the driver&#8217;s seat of creating the government of a fictional, 51<sup>st<\/sup>\u202fAmerican state- Hamiltonia.\u202f Students answer a series of questions to design Hamiltonia&#8217;s legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.\u202f When this is completed, students role play as members of the cabinet or legislature to pass policies in the state of Hamiltonia.\u202f This helps students better understand the ways in which institutional arrangements can structure policymaking.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Kelly Smith<\/strong> is an assistant professor of political science at Stetson University.\u202f She received her PhD and MA in political science from Brown University. She has published work on policy diffusion and policy learning among state legislatures and state bureaucracies. Previously, Smith was a postdoctoral research associate on the education standards research team at the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brown Center invites you to our Faculty Spotlight on\u202fThursday,\u202fNovember 9th\u202fat\u202f12:00 PM\u202fon Zoom. The spotlight series is\u202fa showcase of research, creative inquiry, and other scholarly engagement of the campus community. Stop by and learn about the research of our talented Stetson community!\u202f\u00a0 Sign-Up Link:&nbsp; \u202fhttps:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/zvb3A1r81b Dr. Kelly Smith \u2013 Associate Professor of Political Science&nbsp;&nbsp; Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14740,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions\/14740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}