AWARDS
Michael K. Fauntroy, associate professor, political science, Howard University, received one of several Virginia Leadership Institute Decade awards recognizing leadership in politics. The awards were presented at a reception in the National Press Club on September 22.
Matt Golder and Sona N. Golder, both associate professors of political science, Pennsylvania State University, along with William Roberts Clark, the Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts and chair, department of political science at Texas A&M University, received the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science for their study, “An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics.”
Michael C. Horowitz, associate professor, international relations, University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2017 recipient of the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award. This award is presented annually to a scholar in international relations who is under age 40 or within ten years of defending his or her dissertation, and who is judged to have made (through a body of publications) a significant contribution to the study of IR and peace research. It is the most prestigious mid-career award in the field of international relations.
Stephen Stambough, professor of political science, California State University, Fullerton, received the Leadership Award for launching the Cal State DC program in 2006 to help students gain experience working in the US capital.
Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science, is No. 11 on the Politico 50 list, a collection of “some of the smartest, most provocative minds in America.” He is being honored for his work on how white racism has long been a potent force in American politics, explored in part in his recent book, Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race & Politics in the Obama Era.
Dvora Yanow, guest professor at Wageningen University’s communication, philosophy, and technology sub-department (Netherlands), has received a Rockefeller Foundation award for a writing residency at their center in Bellagio, Italy. She will be working on her book manuscript “Counting and the State: Inclusion and Exclusion by Category.”
APPOINTMENTS
Amilcar Antonio Barreto, associate professor, department of cultures, societies and global studies, Northeastern University
Kim Fridkin, Foundation Professor, Arizona State University
Patrick Kenney, Foundation Professor, Arizona State University
ACTIVITIES
Stephen J. Farnsworth, professor of political science, University of Mary Washington, participated in the 2016 National Security Lecture Series at the University of Mary Washington’s Dahlgren Campus Center for Education and Research, in September 2016. His talk was “The 2016 Presidential Election: Clinton, Trump and Their Contrasting Views on National Security.”
Christian Reus-Smit, professor of international relations, University of Queensland, delivered a lecture on “Cultural Diversity, Shifting Power, and the Future of World Order” as part of the UQ Global Leadership Series.
Stephen L. Wasby, emeritus professor, University at Albany-SUNY, presented the Constitution Day talk as the Warren Weinstein Memorial Lecture at SUNY-Oswego on September 14, 2017. He has also been giving talks on “After Scalia, Now What?” to Rotary Clubs, church men’s groups, and audiences at town public libraries.
Earlier this year, he participated in the screening panel for the Congressional Fellowship Program, of which he had been a part in 1965–1966.
Jacob Hacker, professor, political science department and director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, participated in a conversation—moderated by senior associate dean Anjani Jain and Douglas Rae—about inequality in the United States, at the Yale School of Management, in October 2016.
Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, discussed his book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis at a public event at Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts, in September 2016.
Nicholas Pyeatt, associate professor of political science at Penn State Altoona, talked about the electoral college and presidential elections at a town-hall meeting hosted by Pennsylvania state representative Paul Schemel, in October 2016.
Robert Saldin, associate professor, political science, University of Montana, provided political analysis on the “Campaign Beat” radio program for Montana Public Radio during the 2016 election season.
