Activities

Paul F. Diehl, professor, department of political science, University of Illinois, has been appointed the new director of the Correlates of War (COW) Project.

James H. Mittelman, professor, school of international service, American University, was elected vice president of the International Studies Association for 2006–2007.

William D. Richardson, chair, department of political science, and director, W. O. Farber Center, University of South Dakota has been named a member of the 2005–2006 class of American Council on Education Fellows.

Administrative Appointments

Philip Mauceri, head, department of political science, University of Northern Iowa.

Bert A. Rockman, head, department of political science, Purdue University.

New Appointments

Ann Herbert Bodansky, assistant professor, department of international affairs, University of Georgia.

H. Lee Cheek, Jr., associate professor, department of political science, Columbus State University.

Kelly Greenhill, assistant professor, department of government, Wesleyan University.

Eric A. Heinze, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Oklahoma.

Daniel K. Kapust, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Georgia.

Jana Morgan Kelly, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Robert O. Keohane, professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Keiko Ono, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Oklahoma.

Vaughn Shannon, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Northern Iowa.

Stephen Shellman, professor, department of international affairs, University of Georgia.

Patricia Sullivan, assistant professor, department of international affairs, University of Georgia.

Teena Wilhelm, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Georgia.

Promotions

Judith Grant, professor, departments of political science and women's studies, Ohio University.

Audrey A. Haynes, associate professor, department of political science, University of Georgia.

Angela High-Pippert, associate professor, department of political science, University of St. Thomas.

M. V. Hood, associate professor, department of political science, University of Georgia.

Carole Kennedy, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, San Diego State University.

David C. Kimball, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Gallya Lahav, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, Stony Brook University.

Visiting and Temporary Positions

Louis W. Pauly, Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor, department of political science, Northwestern University.

Awards

Pita Agbese, professor, department of political science, University of Northern Iowa was awarded the 2004 Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence.

H. Lee Cheek, Jr., associate professor, department of political science, Lee University, won the University's Excellence in Advising Award for 2004.

Martha Crenshaw, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor of Global Issues and Democratic Thought and professor, department of government, Wesleyan University, is winner of the 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Crenshaw's project is “The United States as a Target of Terrorism.”

James H. Mittelman, professor, school of international service, American University, received the University's 2005 Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Contributions.

Ernesto Verdeja, assistant professor, department of government, Wesleyan Univerisity, received the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics for the best dissertation in poltical science at the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research. His dissertation is entitled “On Reconciliation after Extreme Political Violence and Atrocity.” In addition, Verdeja's “Derrida and the Impossibility of Forgiveness” won the prize for best article in Volume 3 (2004) of the journal Contemporary Political Theory.

David Vogel, professor, department of political science, University of California, Berkeley, has been named distinguished alumnus by the department of political science, Queens College, City University of New York.

Miscellaneous

Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley has received an endowment of $12 million from Charles T. Travers (Class of 1932). Income from the Endowment will be used for graduate fellowships and to support departmental programs and faculty. The Department will henceforth be known as the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science.

American Academy of Arts & Sciences' 2004 Member Class

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders. On October 9, 2004, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences inducted 202 new Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members into its 224th class. The 12 listed below are political scientists.

James E. Alt, Frank G, Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Jonathan Bendor, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Political Economics and Organizations, Stanford University.

Jean F. P. Blondel, executive director of the European Consortium for Political Research.

David Collier, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.

William Arthur Galston, Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement, University of Maryland, College Park.

Norman Jay Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute.

William B. Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius Professor of Politics, University of Virginia.

Nancy Lipton Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University.

William Sewell, Max Palevsky Professor of Political Science and History, University of Chicago.

Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, Yale University.

Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University.

People in Political Science

Theodore M. Vestal, professor, department of political science, Oklahoma State University, will hold the Hiob Ludolf Endowment Professorship in Current Issues of Ethiopian Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Hamburg University, Germany, during summer 2005. Vestal has served abroad as associate director of the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, as resident director of the University of the State of New York's Educational Resources Center in New Delhi, and as Director of OSU-Kyoto. Vestal was a dean at Austin College and Briarcliff College and was president of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Linda Chen, associate professor and chair, department of political science, Indiana University, South Bend, received the University's 2005 Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award. Chen has received several earlier awards in recognition of her mentoring efforts, including induction into the University's Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching and the University's Teaching Excellence Recognition Award. Chen's research focuses on Latin American politics, comparative politics, and women and politics.

Esther M. Skelley, graduate student, school of public and international relations, University of Georgia was named the recipient of the 2005 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award by the University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The award recognizes Skelley's academic achievement and publication record throughout her enrollment in the School. Skelley analyzes the methods and results of U.S. democracy programs abroad, concluding that because developing democracies often alternate between progression and regression for several decades, U.S. intervention necessitates a long-term commitment to the consolidation process.

Amılcar Antonio Barreto, associate professor, department of political science, Northeastern University, won the University's 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award. Barreto is author of Vieques, the Navy, and Puerto Rican Politics (University Press of Florida, 2002), The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 2001), the first book in English to analyze the controversial language policies passed by the Puerto Rican government in the 1990s and the first to explore the connections between language and cultural identity and politics on the Caribbean island, and Language, Elites and the State: Nationalism in Puerto Rico and Quebec (Praeger, 1998).

In the News…

Alan Wolfe, Boston College, Washington Post, on the Bush administration's go-it-alone foreign policy tendencies.

Darrell West, Brown University, Christian Science Monitor, on President Bush's declining approval ratings.

David Bositis, Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies, USA Today, on the Republican Party's attempts to regain credibility among African-American voters.

Joe Hoefler, Dickinson College, Kansas City Star, on the increase in will-to-live directives in the wake of the Terri Schiavo case.

Dario Moreno, Florida International University, Sun-Sentinel, on hispanic legislators in Florida, who are political opposites, fighting for common goals.

Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson College, Marketwatch, on the Bush administration's skirting of finance laws by spending over $2 million campaigning to overhaul Social Security.

Josephy Cheng, City University of Hong Kong, Monterey Harold, on the Chinese boycott of Japanese-made products.

Aubrey Jewett, University of Central Florida, Sun-Sentinel, on Senator Mel Martinez's (R-FL) first 100 days in office and the memo that originated in his office regarding the potential political gains for Republicans in the Terri Schiavo case.

Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois University, Arizona Republic, on a symposium that argues faith vs. science.

Dennis Goldford, Drake University, Guardian, on the 2008 presidential hopefuls putting out feelers in Iowa.

Abraham Diskin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Los Angeles Times, on Israeli leftists siding with Sharon.

Stephen Wayne, Georgetown University, Dallas Baptist Standard, on the future of tax exemption for churches and their involvement in politics.

Kent Redfield, University of Illinois-Springfield, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on the problem of unrestricted political donations in Illinois elections.

John Pitney, Claremont McKenna College, San Francisco Chronicle, on Rep. Maxine Waters not supporting Mayor Hahn in upcoming race because of Hahn's lack of commitment to the African-American community.

Ross Baker, Rutgers University, New York Times, on how Republican intervention in the the Terri Shiavo case will be remembered fondly by their conservative base though the general public is turned off by the intrusion.

James Guth, Furman University, Washington Post, on U.S. Catholic Bishops launching a campaign against use of the death penalty in the United States.

Pamela Starr, Institute Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Los Angeles Times, on Mexican President Vincente Fox pardoning Mexico City's popular mayor for an infraction that could keep him from running for president next year.

Merle Black, Emory University, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on how redistricting to help incumbent Republicans may also help Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) keep her congressional seat.

Peverill Squire, University of Iowa, Kansas City Star, on Sam Brownback (R-KS) possibly running for president in 2008.

Theda Skocpol, Harvard University, American Prospect, on the need for universal coverage under the Bush administration's Social Security plan.

Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Christian Science Monitor, on the nomination of William Myers to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as a warmup for Supreme Court nominations.

Joel Bloom, University of Oregon, Register-Guard, on the lukewarm polling results for Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski.

D. Roman Kulchitsky, American University of Beirut, Kansas City Star, on Syrian intelligence forces leaving Beirut.

Calvin Jillson, Southern Methodist University, Christian Science Monitor, on the possibility that Karen Hughes will improve the U.S. image abroad.

Joe Lowndes, University of Oregon, Scripps Howard News Service, on the American Dream as a way of bringing new generations into American society.

Richard Murray, University of Houston, Fort Worth Star Telegram, on President Bush's continuing support of House Leader Tom Delay (R-TX) despite increasing allegations of Delay's ethics violations.

Janelle Wong, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Times, on Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn's campaign strategy to blunt challenger Antonio Villaraigosa's support among African Americans by linking him to former police chief Bernard C. Parks.