{"id":63,"date":"2023-04-07T13:46:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:32:08","slug":"about-dr-nina-kasniunas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"About Dr. Nina Kasniunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Kasniunas is an Associate Professor in Political Science and chairs the Department of Political Science and Int&#8217;l Relations at Goucher College.\u00a0\u00a0She regularly teaches courses in American politics including: The American Political System; Congressional Politics; Presidential Politics; Organized Advocacy; The Election 2024; and Education Policy. Dr. Kasniunas\u2019 research interests center on organized interests within the American political system.\u00a0 She has written on the campaign strategies of organized interests, using re-enactment of Supreme Court oral argument in the classroom, gay rights, and how the Bush administration used the courts to advance religion.\u00a0 Democratic engagement is a core concern for Professor Kasniunas; she leads a range of efforts on and off campus to engage students.\u00a0 Her efforts in improving student voter engagement on campus led to her receiving the faculty standout award from the ALL In Democracy Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kasniunas can be contacted at nina.kasniunas@goucher.edu<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/files\/2023\/04\/Head-shot1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/files\/2023\/04\/Head-shot1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/files\/2023\/04\/Head-shot1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/files\/2023\/04\/Head-shot1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/files\/2023\/04\/Head-shot1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/files\/2023\/04\/Head-shot1.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Kasniunas is an Associate Professor in Political Science and chairs the Department of Political Science and Int&#8217;l Relations at Goucher College.\u00a0\u00a0She regularly teaches courses in American politics including: The American Political System; Congressional Politics; Presidential Politics; Organized Advocacy; The Election 2024; and Education Policy. Dr. Kasniunas\u2019 research interests center on organized interests within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/kasniunas-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}