ACTIVITIES

Elizabeth Bennion, political science professor, Indiana University, South Bend, moderated a forum for candidates seeking seats on the South Bend Common Council. The forum was sponsored by the IU South Bend Political Science Club, the American Democracy Project, and the League of Women Voters.

Cheryl Boudreau, associate professor of political science, University of California, Davis, presented a workshop on American politics titled “Racial or Spatial Voting? The Effects of Candidate Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Endorsements in Low-Information Elections” in April at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Christine Ingebritsen, director of the Center for West European Studies and chair of Hellenic studies program, University of Washington, discussed contemporary political and social developments in Norway in February, as well as ways to connect the universities in Norway to the Seattle community.

Mike Henderson, assistant professor of research and director for the Public Policy Research Laboratory, Louisiana State University, conducted a public discussion titled, “What do the people want? Findings from the 2015 Louisiana Survey,” in April at Louisiana Tech University.

Matthew Holden, Jr., Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science, University of Illinois, Springfield, and former APSA president (1998–1999) presented the keynote address for the 2015 Abraham Lincoln Association.

Guy Lachapelle, Secretary General of the International Political Science Association, and professor, political science department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, presented a guest lecture on “The Global Development of Political Science” at Ball State University in March.

Adria Lawrence, assistant professor, political science, Yale University, presented a public lecture in the Historiography of the Middle East Series at University of California, Los Angeles in March.

Peter Lawler, Dana Professor of Government, Berry College, presented a guest lecture “The Blessing of Technology as an Intricate Trial of our Free Will” at Lee University in March.

J. Patrice McSherry, professor of political science, Long Island University, and visiting professor, Alberto Hurtado University (Santiago, Chile), presented “Operation Condor and Human Rights in Chile and South America” in the international academic study abroad program “IHP Human Rights Chile” of Observatorio Ciudadano in coordination with World Learning and the School of International Training in Santiago, Chile, in both October 2014 and April 2015. She also recently published “The Víctor Jara Case and the Long Struggle against Impunity in Chile” in Social Justice.

S. N. Nyeck, assistant professor of political science, Clarkson University, delivered a presentation titled “Contractual Schemes in Africa’s Political Development: Conceptualizing Old Practices and Establishing Relevance with New Governance Models in the 21st Century” to the general assembly meeting of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, in early June.

APPOINTMENTS/PROMOTIONS

Mneesha Gellman, assistant professor of comparative politics, Liberal Arts Institute, Emerson College.

Sean Kelly, professor, political science, California State University, Channel Islands, will be one of 10 scholars serving on the Dirksen Congressional Center’s National Advisory Council, a national council designed to help Americans get a deeper understanding of how the US Congress works.

Daniel T. Kirsch, associate professor of political science, Valley Forge Military College in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Sergei Kostiaev, acting deputy chair of the department of applied political science, Financial University in Moscow, Russia.

AWARDS

Christopher Alcantara, associate professor, department of political science, Wilfrid Laurier University, has been awarded the 2014 International Council for Canadian Studies Pierre Savard Award and the 2014 Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes Prize for the best book in Canadian studies. The winning book, entitled Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada (University of Toronto Press), was also a finalist last year for the Canadian Political Science Association’s Donald Smiley Prize.

David Fott, professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has received the William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the social sciences from the UNLV College of Liberal Arts.

John Gould, professor of political science, Colorado College, has been named a 2016 Fulbright Scholar and will travel to Slovakia to research the politics of nationalism and sexual minorities in that country and beyond. He also will teach at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations at Comenius University.

Ravi Perry, an assistant professor in political science at Mississippi State University, was recognized as a 2015 Hero Citizen by The Andrew Goodman Foundation in January.

Carsten Vala, associate professor, Loyola University, Maryland, has been awarded a grant through the Core US Fulbright Scholar Program to study the politics of China’s rapidly growing investment in Latin America, with a specific focus on China’s influence on the copper industry in Chile. Vala will travel to Chile for his research from August to December 2015. During that time he will also teach two courses on Chinese politics and Chinese globalization at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago and offer public presentations on the contemporary politics of China.

Christian Welzel, chair, political culture research, Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University, received both the Stein Rokkan Prize (awarded by the European Consortium of Political Research) and the Alexanxder L. George Award (awarded by the International Society of Political Psychology) for his monograph Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation (Cambridge University Press 2013).