Activities

Amy Gutmann, president, University of Pennsylvania, was named one of Glamour magazine's Women of the Year.

S. Suzan J. Harkness associate professor, University of the District of Columbia, will take a leave of absence from UDC and join the staff of The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars as the managing director of Academic Affairs.

The Lord Norton of Louth (Philip Norton), professor, government, University of Hull, was one of five nominees for the 2007 Peer of the Year Award by The House Magazine, the journal of both Houses of Parliament in the UK.

Ricardo Ramírez, assistant professor, political science and American studies, University of Southern California, named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

Administrative Appointments

Deborah Avant, director, Program in International Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Bernard Grofman, director, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

Gale A. Mattox, professor, political science department, U.S. Naval Academy, has been named the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair at the Roosevelt Institute in the Netherlands for 2009.

Christopher Zorn, professor, department of political science, Pennsylvania State University, has been elected to a four-year term on the Governing Council of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

New Appointments

Deborah Avant, professor, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

Erica Chenoweth, assistant professor, department of government, Wesleyan University.

David E. Cunningham, assistant professor, political science department, Iowa State University.

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, assistant professor, political science department, Iowa State University.

Bernard Grofman, inaugural Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

Ginger L. Elliott-Teague, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Oklahoma.

Erika Franklin Fowler, assistant professor, department of government, Wesleyan University.

Jonathan Havercroft, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Oklahoma.

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, joint appointment-professor, department of political science; associate director, Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma.

Kyu-Nahm Jun, assistant professor, department of political science, Wayne State University.

Diana Kapiszewski, assistant professor, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

Scott Lamothe, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Oklahoma.

Fabrice Lehoucq, associate professor, department of political science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Michael Nelson, assistant professor, department of government, Wesleyan University.

Carol L. Silva, associate professor, department of political science; associate director, Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma.

Charles Anthony Smith, assistant professor, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

Heather Turcotte, assistant professor, department of political science and women's studies program, University of Connecticut.

Yu Zheng, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Connecticut at Stamford.

Visiting and Temporary Positions

Banu Eligur, Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Assistant Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University.

Richard Sobel, visiting professor, Medill School, Northwestern University.

Promotions

Kevin Bruyneel, associate professor of politics with tenure, history and society division, Babson College.

Sue Davis, associate professor of political science, Denison University.

Christopher Howard, Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy, department of government, College of William & Mary.

Awards

Leslie E. Anderson, professor, department of political science, University of Florida, has been awarded a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship for outstanding accomplishment and anticipated trajectory in scholarly research.

Joel L. Fleishman, professor, departments of law and public policy, Duke University, received the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action's Distinguished Achievement and Leadership Award.

Melinda Gann Hall, professor, political science department, Michigan State University, has been selected for the Distinguished Faculty Award.

Kim Quaile Hill, professor, department of political science, Texas A&M University, was the recipient of two awards. He received a College of Liberal Arts Research Award for “distinguished achievement in the study of empirical democratic theory and American politics.” He was also named the outstanding instructor of a Writing Intensive Course in a Universitywide competition.

Ronald King, professor and chair, political science department. San Diego State University, was awarded an honorary degree, “Profesor Onorific de Stiinte Politice,” by Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) for his contributions in fostering political science research and curriculum development in Romania.

Brian Mc Kenzie, assistant professor, political science department, Texas A&M University, received the APSA's Ralph Bunche Award for his book (with Frederick Harris and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman) Countervailing Forces in African American Civic Activism, 1973–1994.

Kenneth Meier, distinguished professor, political science department, Texas A&M University, is the recipient of the Accenture International Journal of Public Management award for his paper (with Larry O'Toole) “Networking in the Penumbra” and the 2007 Herbert Kaufmann award for his paper “Management Theory and Occam's Razor: How Public Organizations Buffer the Environment.”

Ronald G. Shaiko, senior fellow and associate director for curricular and research programs, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, received the Linda '82 and Paul Gridley Faculty Fellow Award for 2006–2007.