Activities

David Leheny, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, received an Abe Fellowship to support his reseach on “The U.S.-Japan Alliance and War on Terrorism in Asia.”

Saadia Pekkanen, assistant professor, department of political science, Middlebury College, received an Abe Fellowship to support his research on “National Courts and the Rule of WTO Law in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.”

Susan Sterett, associate professor, department of political science, University of Denver, received a Fulbright to teach in China for the spring semester.

Administrative Appointments

Eric Herzig, interim dean, college of arts and science, University of Nevada, Reno.

Jeanne A. K. Hey, associate professor, department of political science, Miami University, was appointed Director of the International Studies Program.

Mark Lichbach, chair, department of government and politics, University of Maryland, College Park.

John T. Woolley, acting dean, department of social sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.

New Appointments

Donna L. Bahry, professor, department of political science, Pennsylvania State University.

Jeffrey R. Dudas, assistant professor, department of government, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Michael Ensley, assistant professor, department of political science, Indiana University.

Benjamin Goldfrank, assistant professor, department of political science, University of New Mexico.

Ron Hassner, assistant professor, department of political science, University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Howell-Moroney, assistant professor, department of government, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Angela K. Lewis, assistant professor, department of government, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Eric Otenyo, assistant professor, department of politics and government, Illinois State University.

Stephen M. Saideman, associate professor, department of political science, and Canada research chair in international security and ethnic conflict, McGill University.

Amber Seligson, assistant professor, department of political science, Indiana University.

Ken I Kersch, assistant professor, department of politics and James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.

Kam Shapiro, assistant professor, department of politics and government, Illinois State University.

Jeffrey Sosland, assistant professor, program of international business and trade, American University.

Bernard Tamas, assistant professor, department of politics and government, Illinois State University.

Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, assistant professor, department of history and political science, Hood College.

Craig Volden, assistant professor, department of political science, Ohio State University.

Robert P. Watson, associate professor, department of political science, Florida Atlantic University.

Matthew Woessner, assistant professor, school of public affairs, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg.

Neustadt Honored for “Portrayal of the Presidency”

Richard E. Neustadt, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government emeritus at Harvard University, was named the inaugural winner of the National Portrait Gallery's Paul Peck Presidential Award for his influence on the American presidency. The award was presented as part of a ceremony in October at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

Neustadt was a familiar face in the White House over a career spanning five decades. From 1950–1953 he served as a special assistant on the Truman White House staff and later advised Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton. His seminal work Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership (MacMillan 1960) remains the core of academic study of the American presidency. It has also become standard reading for sitting presidents. His later work, Thinking in Time (1986 with Ernest May), won the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

Neustadt joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1954, after earning his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1951. He returned to Harvard in 1965 as a professor of government and associate dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He was previously honored by APSA with the Charles Merriam and Hubert Humphrey Awards.

The “Portrayal of the President” award honors an indiviudal who has represented the presidency in a literary or visual manner. Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to Presidents Ford and Bush, won the other Peck Presidential award, for “Service to a President.” The Peck Presidential Awards will be presented annually by the Smithsonian Institution.

Promotions

Michael Baum, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Marni Ezra, associate professor, department of political science, Hood College.

Gregory Gleason, professor, department of political science and public administration, University of New Mexico.

Abigail Jahiel, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, Illinois Wesleyan University.

William Munro, associate professor with tenure, department of political science, Illinois Wesleyan University.

Margaret Pearson, professor, department of government and politics, University of Maryland, College Park.

Miranda Schreurs, associate professor, department of government and politics, University of Maryland, College Park.

W. Rand Smith, Irvin L. and Fern D. Young Presidential Professor, department of politics, Lake Forest College.

Anwar Ul-Haq Ahady, professor, department of political science, Providence College, is serving as the Governor General of the Central Bank of Afghanistan. He is also serving as Director of the Afghan government's State Office for Privitization. Ahady was a delegate at the Bonn conference that resulted in the creation of the Afghan state's structure and timeline. He is the leader of the Afghan Mellat, the Social Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

Richard Pierre Claude, professor emeritus, department of government and politics, University of Maryland, was honored in a “Human Rights Day” ceremony on December 10, 2002 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his new book, Science in the Service of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press), and with a citation thanking him for sharing “time, talent, and lifelong commitment to human rights with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program.”

Lori Cox Han, was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure in the department of political science, Austin College. She is author of Governing From Center Stage: White House Communication Strategies during the Television Age of Politics (Hampton Press, 2001) and is currently working on two book manuscripts, A Presidency Upstaged: The Public Leadership of George Bush and Women and American Politics: Leadership Strategies in the Political Arena.

Susan Herbst, professor, department of political science, Northwestern University, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. Herbst has authored several books on public opinion and the political process, including Reading Public Opinion: Political Actors View the Democratic Process (University of Chicago, 1998) and the co-authored Public Opinion (Perseus Group/Westview, 1999). She is co-editor of the University of Chicago Press series on Communication, Media, and Public Opinion.

Jeffrey Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor, department of political science, Indiana University, has been appointed chair of his department. He is Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and has published extensively on the topic, including The Poverty of Progressivism: The Future of American Democracy in a Time of Liberal Decline (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Democracy in Dark Times (Cornell, 1998).

Peter Lawler, professor, department of government and international studies, Berry College, has been named a George Washington Distinguished Professor by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia. He received the award in recognition of his teaching, research, publication, and lectures on the founding period of the United States. Lawler has written or edited nine books including Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls (Intesollegiate Studies Inst., 2001).

Robert D. Putnam, professor of public policy, Harvard University, was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. Putnam will serve among several other civic leaders including U.S. Senator and astronaut John Glenn, U.S. Congressman Robert Dole, CEO of The Home Depot Robert Narcelli, former NFL stars Steve Young and Darrell Green, and MLB legend Cal Ripken, Jr. Putnam has published over 30 scholarly works including the highly acclaimed Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Simon and Schuster, 2001).

Jerrold G. Rusk, professor, department of political science, University of Illinois, Chicago, has received two awards for his book A Statistical History of the American Electorate (CQ Press, 2001). Choice Magazine selected the book as its Outstanding Academic Book of 2003 in its January issue and it was chosen Best Reference Source 2001 by the Library Journal in its April 2002 issue.

Hindy Lauer Schachter, professor, department of management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, has received a certificate of appreciation from the New Jersey Department of Transportation in recognition of her research and development work enhancing the role of women in the public transportation community.

Gwyneth I. Williams, associate professor, department of history, politics, and law, Webster University, received the 2001 William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award carries with it a $10,000 stipend. Williams' areas of interest include women in politics and women in society.

Retirements

Harvey Glickman, professor, department of political science, Haverford College, July 1, 2003.

John Oh, professor, department of politics, Catholic University.

Visiting and Temporary Positions

J. Michael Bitzer, visiting instructor, department of political science, Catawba College.

Kirk Buckman, visiting assistant professor, department of politics, Catholic University.

Donley T. Studlar, visiting fellow, Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, May–August, 2003.

Awards

Thad Beyle, professor, department of political science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, recently received the University's Alumni Association's Faculty Service Award for 2003.

J. Michael Bitzer, visiting professor, department of political science, Catawba College, was one of five recipients of the 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Georgia.

Andrew Busch, associate professor, department of political science, University of Denver, received the University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year award for 2002–2003.

Richard J. Ellis, Mark O. Hatfield Professor of Politics, Willamette University, received the University's Lawrence D. Cress Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship.

Stuart Kaufman, professor, department of political science, University of Kentucky, has been named the 2002 recipient of the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order. The prestigious award pays the winners a total prize of $200,000 in five annual installments.

Rosemary O'Leary, professor, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, has been awarded the 2002 Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement at the University. The award recognizes outstanding scholars who have defined, changed, or significantly impacted their field of expertise.

Louis W. Pauly, professor, department of political science, director, Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1).

Mark Peceny, associate professor, department of political science, University of New Mexico, has been awarded the Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences.

George Rabinowitz, professor, department of political science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been named the University's Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He was also recently elected a foreign member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.

Tari Renner, professor, department of political science, Illinois Wesleyan University, was the sole recipient of the University's 2002 Du Pont Award for teaching excellence.

Manfred Steger, professor, department of politics and government, Illinois State University, received the Outstanding University Researcher Award for 2002–2003.

Shibley Telhami, professor, department of government and politics, University of Maryland, College Park, received the University's Distinguished International Services Award.

Vladimir Tismaneanu, professor, department of government and politics, University of Maryland, College Park, received the University's 2003–2004 Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award.

Quansheng Zhao, professor and director, division of comparative and regional studies, American University, received the “Best Academic Book Award” for the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture for his Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy (English version, Oxford, 1996).

KUDOS

Robert F. Durant, professor, school of public affairs, University of Baltimore, received the 2003 Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration. The award, presented jointly by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, recognizes a public administration faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in three major areas of the field of teaching, research, and service to the wider community. The award committee cited Durant as an exemplar of all three of the award criteria.

Durant is internationally known for his research on public management, bureaucratic politics, policy implementation, and environmental policy and management. Two of his three books have won national awards, with The Administrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands, the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution winning APSA's the 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for “the best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy.”

Durant has taught at New Mexico State University, the University of Georgia, Texas A&M University, and the University of Baltimore. He has been awarded three teaching awards for his pedagogical efforts including the 1999 Silver Star Award as the George Bush School of Government and Public Service's Outstanding Professor. He also received the Robert T. Golembiewski Outstanding MPA Faculty Award (twice, in 1986 and 1990) and the Lilly Foundation Faculty Fellowship for outstanding teachers.

Durant has actively and persistently served the profession throughout his career. He currently serves as Chair and Founder of the Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research and Education. The endowment funds small research grants to junior public administration scholars and is part of APSA's Centennial Campaign for which it has already raised over $70,000. He has also held a variety of leadership positions in both ASPA and APSA.