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Careers in international studies subject of BYU lecture Sept. 13

Brigham Young University’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies will feature Stan Taylor, emeritus professor of political science at BYU, as part of its political affairs lecture series.

Taylor will speak on “Career Reflections: International Studies” Thursday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building. 

This series is sponsored by the BYU Political Affairs Society, the Political Science Department, the College of Family, Home and Social Science and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.

Taylor has been a visiting professor at universities in Wales, England, and New Zealand. He was the founding director of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU, served as chair of BYU’s Political Science Department and was a senior staff member on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Before coming to BYU, Taylor taught at Bentley College in Massachusetts.

He earned a degree in political science from BYU in 1959 and received both a master's degree and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

This lecture will be archived at kennedy.byu.edu/archive. For more information, contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652 or lee_simons@byu.edu. 

Writer: Hwa Lee

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Photo by Jonathan Hardy/BYU Photo

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