{"id":2401,"date":"2021-09-08T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:39:57","slug":"welcome-on-board-professor-candace-sobers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/2021\/welcome-on-board-professor-candace-sobers\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome On Board, Professor Candace Sobers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Welcome On Board, Professor Candace Sobers!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>LACS is excited to have Dr. Candace Sobers join our growing faculty team!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/people\/candace-sobers\/candace-sobers-400x402-240x239\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Candace-Sobers-400x402-240x239-1-160x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Candace-Sobers-400x402-240x239-1-160x160.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Candace-Sobers-400x402-240x239-1-240x240.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Candace-Sobers-400x402-240x239-1-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Candace-Sobers-400x402-240x239-1-360x360.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/Candace-Sobers-400x402-240x239-1.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sobers is Associate Professor at the Bachelor of Global and International Studies program. She is an historian of international history and modern international relations, specializing in twentieth century decolonization, movements of national liberation, and the global reach of Third World revolutionary internationalism, with a specific focus on African independence movements and United States (U.S.) foreign policy. She has written on foreign policy analysis, intelligence studies, revolutionary theory, and international history. Her current book in preparation traces the global efforts to support, and to obstruct, Angolan independence from Portugal in the 1970s. To learn more about her work, please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/people\/candace-sobers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LACS is excited to have Dr. Candace Sobers join our growing faculty team! &nbsp; Dr. Sobers is Associate Professor at the Bachelor of Global and International Studies program. She is an historian of international history and modern international relations, specializing in twentieth century decolonization, movements of national liberation, and the global reach of Third World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lacs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}