During the first week of the Spring 2017 semester, the Department of Political Science hosted its first visiting scholar from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ), a university located in Central Mexico. Svetlana Maksymenko, a master’s degree student at UAZ, conducted research for her thesis at Texas State’s Alkek Library and also interviewed several professors in the Department of Political Science and other departments for assistance with her thesis. During part of her visit to Texas State, Ms. Maksymenko was accompanied by Dr. Martín Beltrán Saucedo, a professor at the law school of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, another university in Central Mexico. Ms. Maksymenko was the first visiting scholar under a 2015 Memorandum of Understanding between Texas State and UAZ that is designed to promote scholarly and cultural exchanges between the two universities.
