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Choose the setting, session option, and next step. For adult students, young professionals, faculty, groups, and audiences.
Plan an engagement →Hakawati Institute
A public intellectual’s practice.
The Hakawati Institute is the home of Professor Hakawati’s writing, scholarship, and direct work with people. Coaching, teaching, briefings, and speaking draw on the same practice: listen, examine the evidence, connect ideas, and make understanding useful.
The Five Spaces describe the connections within that work. Individuals, groups, and audiences can engage through one Institute.
Work with me →One Institute · connected work
The hub is Hakawati.
Think of the Institute as a wheel. Professor Hakawati’s scholarship and experience sit at the center. The spokes connect that work to what you need: individual support, shared learning, public conversation, or resources to explore on your own.
Start with what you need →Briefings
See how a question becomes a talk, working seminar, or place-based learning experience.
Explore the formats →Public Scholarship
Follow the ideas through essays, investigations, and sustained public discourse.
Read the work →Library
Find the assets: published essays, Space Coast material, and special-topic collections that inform the briefings.
Browse the collection →Program Catalog
Explore subjects that can anchor a group engagement, from civic life to Florida and the Space Coast.
Find a topic →Conversations
Podcasts and conversational audio: listen to the ideas develop, then explore episode notes, transcripts, and related resources as they become available.
Explore the audio space →About
Meet Professor Hakawati and explore the teaching, scholarship, and experience behind the practice.
Meet the Hawk →Five Spaces of the Institute
Five ways of seeing the same world.
Each space is distinct. The Institute becomes useful when the connections between them become visible.
01 · Scholarship
Books, essays, research.
The Empires Strike Back and related essays examine how civilizations become subjects of the systems they create—and how stewardship might restore the proper relationship.
Explore public scholarship →02 · Teaching
Knowledge becomes encounter.
More than two decades teaching political science, international relations, comparative politics, and government while building civic-learning infrastructure beyond a single classroom.
See the record →03 · Civic Interpretation
Ideas addressed to public life.
Public scholarship, speaking, and civic storytelling translate political science into shared understanding without reducing complexity to commentary.
Invite Professor Hakawati →04 · Professional Practice
Scholarship made useful.
Individual coaching, faculty support, group learning, and professional briefings bring experience and scholarship to practical questions in study, work, and public life.
Explore ways to work together →05 · Field & Space
The landscape is evidence.
Field observation, the Space Coast, Florida geography, aerospace, ecology, infrastructure, and systems become visible when place itself is treated as a primary document.
Explore briefings →Change Altitude
The same evidence looks different from a different height.
Use these levels of analysis to move between human experience and system-scale interpretation.
Individual
Choice, memory, identity, perception, and lived experience.
Institution
Organizations, rules, incentives, professional cultures, and governance.
System
Political economy, technology, geography, ecology, and interacting institutions.
Civilization
Long memory, legitimacy, inherited structures, stewardship, and historical continuity.
Put the perspective to work.
Start with your question. We will identify the setting and scope together.