Sally Bonsall

Some photos from my trip to Portugal. As you can see, I made sure to build quite a bit of relaxation time around the research…

I’m having a delightful short research trip in Lisbon 🌞 I even had my first (very broken) conversation in Portuguese today, thank you Duolingo 🐦

Nice to finally meet you IRL!

En route to MPSA 🚂 tomorrow, I’ll be presenting on the legacies of dictatorship in Spain and Argentina, and their effects on the contemporary far-right. Hope to see many of you in Chicago soon!

Just arrived in Alexandria for APSA’s Teaching and Learning Conference. Safe travels to everyone — hope the weather related delays aren’t too bad — and see you soon!

First day of the Spring 2025 semester, and it’s a chilly one. (For Americans — that’s celsius, still v cold though!).

Has anyone else seen The Brutalist? I saw it last Thursday and can’t stop thinking about it. Although the cinematography was stunning & I was absorbed by the story, I felt disappointed by the end. But the more I think about it, the more I appreciate the film.

Using Art and Literature to Teach Populism Populist parties, populist leaders, and threats to democracy are significant phenomena often studied and taught in Political Science. This resource provides a background to introducing these topics an...

Thanks to the APSA Teaching Comparative Politics symposium in DC last summer, I developed a resource for using literature (Shakespeare) to teach populism, just published here a few days ago on APSA Educate’s website:
educate.apsanet.org/resource/01-...

Okay, I finally got this thing, but now I feel like I got here too late after the mass exodus from The Other Place, and I can’t find anybody. Anyway, hello to my currently 0 followers!