Activities

Luke Bierman, director, justice center, American Bar Association, has been named associate editor of Justice System Journal, effective at the end of 2005.

Lloyd S. Etheredge, director, International Scientific Networks Project, The Policy Sciences Center, was elected to the World Academy of Art and Science in July 2004. There are 500 Academy members “chosen for eminence in the arts, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities” and a demonstrated commitment to use knowledge on behalf of all humanity.

Roxanne L. Euben, associate professor, department of political science, Wellesley College, became a 2004–2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to work on her project, “Travel, Theory and the Search for Knowledge: Western and Islamic Journeys to ‘The Other Shore.’”

Oleksandr Fisun, associate professor, department of political science, Kharkiv National University of Ukraine, became a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

Paul Gronke, associate professor and chair, department of political science, Reed College, has been appointed to the Trust and Development Board of the American Political Science Association.

Ibrahim Karawan, associate professor, political science department, University of Utah, was named the University's first Sam Rich Scholar for International Affairs. He was also selected to be a member of the Brookings Institution's Task Force on U.S. Policies Toward the Muslim World and member of the Advisory Board of Directors for the Institute of Global Peace and Policy Research at the University of Hawaii.

Arend Lijphart, research professor emeritus, department of political science, University of California, San Diego, received an honorary Doctor of Social Science degree from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in recognition of his studies of power-sharing. The ceremony was presided over by Senator George Mitchell, former Democratic majority leader of the U.S. Senate and now Chancellor of Queen's University.

Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, became a 2004–2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to work on her project, “In Praise of Less Accountable Representation.”

Rosemary O'Leary, professor, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University was appointed a member of a task group advising NASA on implementing the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board; she also sits on a NASA long-term advisory committee.

Rob Reich, assistant professor, departments of political science and education, Stanford University, became a 2004–2005 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is currently working on the moral status of children in liberal democracies as well as topics in ethics, public policy, and philanthropy.

Stephen L. Wasby, professor emeritus, department of political science, University of Albany, has been named the next editor-in-chief of Justice System Journal, effective at the end of 2005.

Administrative Appointments

Pierre M. Atlas, director, Franciscan Center for Global Studies, Marian College.

Sylvia Bashevkin, vice-principal, University College, University of Toronto.

Nathaniel Beck, acting director of graduate studies, department of politics, New York University.

Paul Allen Beck, dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State University.

Youssef Cohen, director of undergraduate studies, department of politics, New York University.

Mark R. Daniels, chair, department of political science, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Henry Flores, dean, Graduate School, St. Mary's University (Texas).

Daniel S. Geller, chair, department of political science, Wayne State University.

Howard Gillman, chair, department of political science, University of Southern California.

Vicki L. Golich, dean, college of arts and sciences, California State University, San Marcos.

Alex Landi, major-gifts officer, Spring Hill College.

Kevin Lasher, chair, department of political science and geography, Francis Marion University.

Ann M. Lesch, dean, humanities and social sciences, American University in Cairo.

Thomas K. Lindsay, executive vice president and provost, Seton Hall University.

Nicholas P. Lovrich, interim chancellor, Washington State University, Spokane.

Cecelia M. Lynch, director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

Stacia L. Haynie, chair, department of political science, Louisiana State University.

Nancy Hirschmann, vice chair, department of political science, University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen McGraw, interim chair, department of political science, Ohio State University.

T. Wayne Parent, associate dean, college of arts and sciences, Louisiana State University.

Victor L. Profughi, director, Bureau of Government Research and Services, Rhode Island College.

Sister Susan M. Sanders, vice president, University mission and heritage, Saint Xavier University.

Robert A. Schuhmann, department of political science, University of Wyoming.

Ian Shapiro, director, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University.

Alastair Smith, associate chair, department of politics, New York University.

Dorothy J. Solinger, co-director, Center for Asian Studies, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

New Appointments

Andrew Baker, assistant professor, department of political science, Northeastern University.

Katherine Barbieri, associate professor, department of political science, University of South Carolina.

Matthew N. Beckmann, assistant professor, department of political science, University of California, Irvine.

Anthony M. Bertelli, assistant professor, department of public administration and policy, University of Georgia.

Michael Butler, assistant professor, department of political science, East Carolina University.

Runa Das, lecturer, department of political science, Wayne State University.

Peter Francia, assistant professor, department of political science, East Carolina University.

Bryan Garsten, assistant professor, department of political science, Yale University.

Jeff Gill, associate professor, department of political science, University of California, Davis.

Terrence Guay, assistant professor of international business, Smeal College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University.

Henry Farrell, assistant professor, department of political science, George Washington University.

Zaryab Iqbal, assistant professor, department of political science, University of South Carolina.

Jolene Kay Jesse, program director, cross directorate activities, National Science Foundation.

Pauline Jones-Luong, associate professor, department of political science, Brown University.

Nathan J. Kelly, assistant professor, department of political science, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Wonik Kim, assistant professor, department of political science, Louisiana State University.

Jon Krosnick, professor, departments of communication, political science, and psychology, and associate director, Methods and Analysis Program in the Social Sciences, Stanford University.

Ulrich Krotz, assistant professor, department of political science, Brown University.

Daniel Lake, lecturer, department of political science, Wayne State University.

Gina M. S. Lambright, assistant professor, department of political science, George Washington University.

Eric D. Lawrence, assistant professor, department of political science, George Washington University.

Zeev Maoz, professor, department of political science, University of California, Davis.

Nikolay Marinov, assistant professor, department of political science, Yale University.

Helen Milner, professor, department of politics and international affairs, Princeton University.

Jennifer Mitzen, assistant professor, department of political science, Ohio State University.

Massimo Morelli, associate professor, department of political science, Ohio State University.

Jessica Pérez-Monforti, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Texas, Pan American.

Dennis Plane, assistant professor, department of politics, Juniata College.

Adolph Reed, professor, department of political science, University of Pennsylvania.

Nancy Scherer, assistant professor, department of political science, Ohio State University.

Mark H. Setzler, assistant professor, department of political science, High Point University.

Jessica Seddon Wallack, assistant professor, graduate school of international relations and pacific studies, University of California, San Diego.

Oxana S. Shevel, assistant professor, department of political science, Purdue University.

Mark Slater, assistant professor, department of public administration and policy, University of Georgia.

Jeffrey Sluyter-Beltrao, lecturer, department of political science, Wayne State University.

David Sobek, assistant professor, department of political science, Louisiana State University.

Robert S. Taylor, assistant professor, department of political science, University of California, Davis.

John D. Van Doorn, assistant professor, department of political science, Columbus State University.

Michael Wallerstein, professor, department of political science, Yale University.

Alexander Wendt, professor, department of political science, Ohio State University.

Andrew Whitford, associate professor, department of public administration and policy, University of Georgia.

Elisabeth Wood, professor, department of political science, Yale University.

Promotions

Roberto Alejandro, professor, department of political science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Gregory Domin, associate professor, department of political science, Mercer University.

James W. Douglas, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, University of South Carolina.

Martha Finnemore, professor, department of political science, George Washington University.

Jean A. Garrison, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, University of Wyoming.

James M. Goldgeier, professor, department of political science, George Washington University.

Steven W. Hays, Charles L. Jacobson Professor of Public Affairs, department of political science, University of South Carolina.

Nancy Hirschmann, professor, department of political science, University of Pennsylvania.

Fiona McGillivray, associate professor, department of politics, New York University.

Jonathan Nagler, professor, department of politics, New York University.

Bruce F. Nesmith, Joan and Abbot Lipsky Professor, department of political science, Coe College.

Nicholas Sambanis, associate professor, department of political science, Yale University.

Kira Sanbonmatsu, associate professor, department of political science, Ohio State University.

Retirements

Jerome M. (Jerry) Mileur, professor, department of political science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Visiting and Temporary

Stephanie Anderson, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, University of Wyoming.

Eric Baker, visiting instructor, department of political science, East Carolina University.

Jorge Castañedo, Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribean Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University.

Joseph Corrado, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Catherine Edwards, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, Westminster College, Missouri.

Thrainn Eggertsson, visiting professor, department of politics, New York University.

Sean D. Ehrlich, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Anke L. (Jeannie) Grussendorf, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, East Carolina University.

Casiano Hacker-Cordon, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, Reed College.

Matthew Murphy, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, Reed College.

Pasquale Pasquino, visiting professor, department of politics, New York University.

Thomas Seitz, visiting assistant professor, department of political science, University of Wyoming.

Lynn Tesser, visiting assistant professor, school of international service, American University, effective spring 2005; visiting scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, fall 2004.

Stephen L. Wasby, visiting scholar, department of politics, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Awards

Paul Allen Beck, professor, department of political science, Ohio State University, received the University's Distinguished Scholar Award.

Jean Blondel, professor, European University Institute, Florence, was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2004. Blondel was honored for his outstanding contribution to the professionalisation of European political science, both as a pioneering comparativist and as an institution builder.

Richard Gunther, professor, department of political science, Ohio State University, received the University's Distinguished Service Award and the Joan Huber Award.

Ann M. Lesch, professor, department of political science, Villanova University, was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Research Award. The award is presented to one full professor each academic year at commencement.

FOR THE RECORD

Don Kettl, professor, department of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will leave his professorship in fall 2004 to take a faculty job at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Kettl will assume the directorship of the Fels Institute of Government, one of the oldest public management programs in the U.S. emphasizing state and local government in July 2005.

Kettl is well known for his pubic service work. In Wisconsin he chaired the Governor's Blue-Ribbon Commission on State and Local Partnerships for the 21st Century in 1999–2000 and another governor's select panel on campaign finance reform in 1997. Nationally, he has been executive director of the Century Foundation's Project on Federalism and Homeland Security since 2002 and is the academic coordinator of a multiyear project to assess the management capacity of the American states funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Kettl is author of Team Bush: Leadership Lessons from the Bush White House and The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century. His teaching interests include public administration, public management, public policy, and government reform.

Of the move, Kettle said: “It was an extremely difficult decision. With a base in Philadelphia, I'll be closer to my research base in Washington and New York, but after 14 years here in Madison, it will be very diffi- cult to leave.” While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kettl directed what is now known as the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Mark W. Huddleston, formerly dean, college of arts and sciences, University of Delaware, was elected 15th president of Ohio Wesleyan University. Huddleston has published extensively in the field of public administration, focusing on the senior federal career service and a variety of international issues. He has also worked in Bosnia and Kazakhstan for USAID and the organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sean D. Sutton, visiting professor, department of political science, Rochester Institute of Technology, was awarded the Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2003–2004. Sutton is the first visiting professor to win the Eisenhard Provost's Award. Sutton received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Dallas in 2001.

Ebonya Washington was recently appointed assistant professor, department of political science and economics (joint), Yale University. Washington received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Washington's teaching fields at Yale include public finance, political economy, urban economics, and applied econometrics. Her research interests include public finance and political economy.

Lauren Holland, professor, political science department, University of Utah, received the University's 2004–2005 University Professor Award. Her project will identify factors that correlate with the successful teaching of diversity classes at the University. She also will develop a workshop to train instructors to help students understand the importance of tolerance. Holland's research interests include defense and military decision making, the politics of weapons procurement, and gender and the U.S. Military. She is the author of Weapons Under Fire: Risk and Uncertainty in Military Hardware Development (Garland Publishers, 1997).

Thomas E. Cronin recently announced that he will step down from serving as president of Whitman College in the summer of 2005. Cronin has served as Whitman's president since June of 1993 and previously served as acting president of Colorado College in 1991. He has also served as president of the Western Political Science Association and as president of the Presidency Research Group. He continues to write on the American presidency and American politics, as well as on issues in higher education.

Steven H. Haeberle, associate professor, department of government, University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been appointed chair of the department. Haeberle teaches American government, empirical methodology, and public policy analysis. He has been a member of the UAB faculty since 1982. He is the author of Planting the Grassroots: Structuring Citizen Participation (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1989).

Michael Laver will join the department of politics at New York University in January 2005 as a professor. Previously, Laver was professor and head of the department of political science at Trinity College in Dublin, where he also spent three years as chief academic officer. He has also served on the Irish government's Constitution Review Group and ascted as a consultant to the Irish government on aspects of institutional design. His book Representative Government in Modern Europe is considered the benchmark undergraduate text on Western European Politics.

In the News…

Herb Asher, Ohio State University, Newsday.com, on the emergence of the Midwest as the battleground of the 2004 presidential campaign.

John Green, University of Akron, Christian Science Monitor, on the efficacy of, and public response to, the use of television advertisements in the presidential campaign.

Kathleen Jamison Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Dallas Morning News, on the unusual summer presidential debate taking place over the issue of Iraq.

Fred Harris, University of Rochester, Charleston Post Courier, on the changing role of the southern Black church in guiding the political participation of African Americans.

Peter Feaver, Duke University, Chicago Tribune, on the correlation between current terrorist warnings and American partisan politics.

Susan McManus, University of South Florida, Financial Times, on the perception of John Kerry held by Florida voters and its effects on his campaign's attempts to capture their vote.

Larry Jacobs, University of Minnesota, Newsday.com, on the 2004 Olympics and the possible impacts of anti-American sentiment on the summer games.

Ed Renwick, Loyola University of New Orleans, Boston Globe, on the implications of Louisiana Representative Rodney Alexander crossing to the Republican side of the aisle.

John S. Johnson, Southern Illinois University, St. Louis Dispatch, on the decision of Alan Keyes to run against Barack Obama in Illinois' U.S. Senate race this fall.

Joe Heim, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Duluth News Tribune, on the sentencing of former Minnesota State Senator Gary George to four years in federal prison.

Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, University of South Florida, Tampa Tribune, on the development of an undergraduate political science course which includes participation by students in the New Hampshire primary.

David Birdsell, Baruch College, Reuters, on the looming 1000th death in the Iraq campaign and its effect on the reelection hopes of George W. Bush.

Graham White, University of Toronto, Toronto Star, on the changes in policy expected to take place in Ontario politics under the moderately conservative leadership of John Tory.

Ted Jelen, University of Nevada- Las Vegas, USA Today, on the implications Bush's authorization of a nuclear storage facility 100 miles from Las Vegas will have on his hopes to retain Nevada's political support in the 2004 campaign.

Mohammed Hadi Semati, Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, International Herald Tribune, on the consequences of American foreign policy toward Iraq with regard to the expansion of Iranian political power in the region.

Alberto Alonso Criollo, Vasconcelos University, The Economist, on the electoral comeback of Mexico's former ruling party and the questions it raises about the country's democracy.

Mark Petrarcca, University of California-Irvine, The Mercury News, on the flood of legislation which will confront California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming months.

Tim Vercelotti, Elon University, Star News Online, on the effect that hurricanes Alex, Bonnie, and Charley will have on the reelection chances of North Carolina Governor Mike Easley.

Jeremy Mayer, George Mason University, Cox News Service, on the difficulties that conservative Black politicians have in wooing the heavily Democratic African-American vote.

Francine Jacome, INVESP, Knight Ridder, on the many economic and political difficulties facing Venezuela heading up to the recall referendum of President Hugo Chavez.

Andrea Den Boer, University of Kent, Toronto Star, on the future unrest that China's gender imbalance will have on the country.

Adam Stone, Georgia Perimeter College, Gwinnett Daily Post, on the role that political “lame ducks” play in the remainder of the legislative term at both the local and national levels.

Adeed Dawisha, Miami University (Ohio), NPR's “Day to Day,” on the political and miliatary pitfalls of the U.S. Army's military campaign against political groups in the Iraqi cities of Najuf and Fallujah.

Helmut Norpoth, Stony Brook University, New York Sun, on Norpoth's 2004 presidential election forecast, published in this issue of PS: Political Science and Politics.

2004 Carnegie Scholars Announced

Carnegie Corporation of New York named 15 new Carnegie Scholars this May. Five of this year's scholars are political scientists. Each scholar, chosen in a highly competitive process, will receive up to $100,000 over the next two years to pursue pathbreaking research that expands the intellectual margins of the Corporation's program areas. This year's political science scholars are:

Larry Bartels, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, to pursue work on “Promoting Public Understanding of the American Electoral Process.”

Adeed Dawisha, professor of political science, Miami University of Ohio, to pursue research on “The Resuscitation of Iraqi Democracy.”

Michael Mandelbaum, professor and director of the Department of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University, “America the Hegemon: The United States in the World of the Twenty-First Century.”

Robert A. Pape, associate professor of political science, University of Chicago, to pursue research on “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.”

Douglas S. Reed, associate professor of government, Georgetown University, to pursue research on “Local Control and Federal Reform of Education: The Politics of Implementing No Child Left Behind.”

Woodrow Wilson Center Names 2004–2005 Fellows

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has announced the appointment of 23 fellows for the 2004–2005 academic year. The fellos will spend a year in residence at the Center in Washington, D.C., beginning September 2004. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff. The 2004–2005 class includes six political scientists, listed below.

Alasdair Bowie, associate professor, department of political science and international affairs, George Washington University.

Christian Haerpfer, professor, department of political science, University of Vienna, Austria.

Philip Hopmann, professor and director, program on global security, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.

Jesse Ribot, senior associate, institutions and governance program, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.

Aseema Sinha, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mark Ungar, associate professor, department of political science, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

American Academy of Political and Social Science 2004 Fellows

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) inducted its group of Fellows for 2004 at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C. Among the group were four political scientists (listed below). The fellowship recognizes and honors “social scientists for their distinguished scholarship,…sustained efforts to communicate that scholarship to audiences beyond their own discipline, and professional activities…to promote the progress of the social sciences.”

Lee Epstein Thorsten Sellin Fellow Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law Washington University, St. Louis.

Gary King Harold Lasswell Fellow David Florence Professor of Government Harvard University

Alan B. Krueger Theodore Roosevelt Fellow Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School Professor of Economics & Public Affairs Princeton University

Marta Tienda Ernest W. Burgess Fellow Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University