Kim Quaile Hill was elected to the position of president-elect of the Southern Political Science Association at its annual meeting in Atlanta in January 2010. Professor Hill will assume the presidency of the association at its 2011 annual meeting. The SPSA is a professional organization of political scientists that publishes the Journal of Politics, hosts an annual conference, and presents awards for outstanding academic contributions. Hill is the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He previously served as the editor of the American Journal of Political Science from 2002 to 2005 and as director of Texas A&M's graduate program in public administration in the Department of Political Science. Over the years, he has served in consultant and advisory capacities for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the U.S. Presidential Management Internship Program, the Texas Legislature, the Texas Department of Human Services, the Menil Foundation, and the City of Galveston, Texas. He has authored, co-authored, and edited several political science textbooks and original research, including The Criminal's Image of the City (1979), Democracies in Crisis: Public Policy Responses to the Great Depression (1988), and Democracy in the Fifty States (1994).
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
H. Lee Cheek, Jr., associate vice president for academic affairs and professor of political science, Athens State University.
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Leonard Feldman, associate professor, department of political science, Hunter College, CUNY.
Jeremy Kedziora, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Minnesota.
Robyn Marasco, assistant professor, department of political science, Hunter College, CUNY.
Yves Winter, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Minnesota.
Samuel Workman, assistant professor, department of government, The University of Texas at Austin.
PROMOTIONS
Kenneth Greene, associate professor, department of government, The University of Texas at Austin.
Roger Karapin, professor, department of political science, Hunter College, CUNY.
Eric McDaniel, associate professor, department of government, The University of Texas at Austin.
Patrick McDonald, associate professor, department of government, The University of Texas at Austin.
Ami Pedahzur, professor, department of government, The University of Texas at Austin.
Bruce M. Wilson, professor, department of political science, University of Central Florida
AWARDS
Scott Abernathy, associate professor of political science, University of Minnesota, received the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, the University's highest honor for undergraduate teaching.
Marianne Githens, Distinguished Professor of political science, Goucher College, received the Caroline Doebler Bruckerl Faculty Award, given to a faculty member whose accomplishments in the areas of teaching, scholarly activity, and service deserve special recognition.
Andrew J. Polsky, professor of political science at Hunter College, CUNY, received the Northeastern Political Science Association 2009 Distinguished Service Award for his work as Polity editor.
Edward Sidlow, professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University, received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association. He was also recognized earlier in 2009 as Honors College Faculty Member of the Year.
IN THE NEWS
Ross Alexander, associate professor of political science, North Georgia College & State University, quoted in Gainesville Times, “Census Results May Alter Districts, Delegates.”
Ross Baker, professor, Rutgers University, quoted in the AP article, “Facing Ethics Probes, Rangel Drops Tax Leadership.”
Jody Baumgartner, assistant professor of political science, and Jonathan Morris, associate professor of political science, East Carolina University, quoted in “The Effects of Social Networking on Political Behavior” on New Hampshire Public Radio.
Rodolfo Espino, assistant professor of political science, Arizona State University, quoted in USA Today, “Senator John McCain's Re-Election Bid Faces Hurdle.”
James Fowler, professor of political science, University of California San Diego, quoted in the San Diego Union Tribune, “Funding Key to Growth of Scientific Innovations.”
Donald Green, professor, Yale University, quoted in the Boston Globe, “Who's Still Biased? Diversity Training has Swept Corporate America. Just One Problem: It Doesn't Seem to Work.”
Marc Lynch, associate professor and director of Middle East Studies, George Washington University, spoke on U.S. involvement in Iraq in the Washington Post, “U.S. Plans for Possible Delay in Iraq Withdrawal.”
Doug Muzzio, professor, Baruch College, quoted by NPR, “When Politicians Refuse to Leave the Stage.”
John Pitney, professor, Claremont McKenna College, quoted in Politico, “Big State Busts: Govs Hit the Skids.”
Larry Sabato, professor of American politics, University of Virginia, were quoted in the Reuters article, “In Texas Governor Showdown, Nice Doesn't Cut It” on the Republican primary electorate.
Stephen M. Saideman, associate professor, department of political science, McGill University, appeared via CBC Syndicated on radio stations throughout Canada to discuss the effects of Canada's military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2011.
Randall W. Stone, director of the Peter D. Watson Center for Conflict and Cooperation and director of the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, University of Rochester, quoted in the New York Times, “I.M.F. Help for Greece Is a Risky Prospect.”
