Andy Scerri, Political Science, was awarded a 2019 Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), in collaboration with Dirk Jörke and the Institute for Political Science at the Technische Universität in Darmstadt, Germany, for May through August. The research collaboration focuses on liberal pluralist and social democratic responses to the rise of populism in Germany and the United States.