Teaching

Barbara Howe is a PhD candidate and an instructor at the University of South Florida. She is also a writer and former political communications specialist who has worked on immigration and labor rights, healthcare policy, international affairs and federal budget issues.

Here’s her YouTube channel with short videos explaining various concepts in International Relations (IR) and political philosophy

Barb’s two areas of specialty are international relations and political theory. Her research interests include democratic backsliding, rising authoritarianism, and the role of political communication and information technologies in both of those. Ms Howe is also interested in the related phenomena of populism, polarization and political extremism.

The new class Barb is teaching in the fall is an advanced political theory course for poli-sci majors called Democracy and Propaganda.  The video below is an introduction to it. Previously, Ms Howe taught INR 2002: Introduction to International Relations.