SPOTLIGHTS Allen Returns to Harvard as Faculty and Director of Center for Ethics
Political theorist Danielle S. Allen has been appointed both to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as a professor in the government department and to Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics as its director.
“[Allen’s] many intellectual achievements and engagement with multiple academic disciplines, as well as the broader public, make her an ideal candidate to direct [the Center’s] work,” said Harvard University Provost Alan M. Garber.
As director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Allen will expand on the center’s work to encourage teaching and research about ethical issues in public and professional life. Allen said she looks forward to joining the faculty in the government department, as well as taking on her new role as director.
“The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics represents a seriousness about ethical life that I value immensely,” said Allen. “I … could not be more excited to have the opportunity to work with faculty and student colleagues to identify and build conversations around matters of pressing ethical significance.”
An active APSA member for nearly 15 years, Allen has served on the council of the Foundations of Political Theory Organized Section, and she has been an active participant at APSA annual meetings. Allen is the author of four books, and her most recent book is Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014). She also has written numerous scholarly articles and reviews.
Among her many distinguished honors and awards, Allen was a MacArthur Fellow from 2002 to 2006 and currently serves with the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics. Allen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and she chairs the Pulitzer Prize Board, on which she has served since 2006. Allen will join the FAS and begin her duties as director of the center in July.
Those interested in learning about the center can visit their website at http://ethics.harvard.edu/fellows-in-residency.
Carroll Receives Lifetime Award
Susan J. Carroll, professor of political science at Rutgers University and senior scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, was presented with a Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies award by the Political Studies Association.
The judges noted that “there will be few UK gender and politics scholars who have not benefited from the pioneering work on women and US politics written by Carroll. Her advising and mentoring of junior scholars is one of her most important legacies that has also led to increased numbers of gender and politics scholars.” Carroll’s most recent books are More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures (Oxford University Press 2013), co-authored with Kira Sanbonmatsu, and Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, Third Edition (Cambridge University 2014), co-edited with Richard L. Fox.
Emily R. Gill, Caterpillar Professor of Political Science at Bradley University, will retire in May after 43 years there. She holds a BA from Scripps College and an MA and PhD from Claremont Graduate University. She taught one year at California State University, Long Beach before assuming her current position.
Her major teaching areas are political philosophy and normative political theory, although she has also taught American government and urban politics. She has published a number of articles in such journals as Western Political Quarterly (now Political Research Quarterly), Journal of Politics, Polity, Perspectives on Politics, and Review of Politics. She has contributed many book chapters. Her own books are Becoming Free: Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity (Kansas 2001); Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good, coedited with Gordon A. Babst and Jason Pierceson (Lexington 2009); and An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality (Georgetown 2012). As a longtime member of APSA, Gill has served on the editorial board of PS and has been involved in the Organized Sections on Foundations of Political Theory, Religion and Politics, and Sexuality in Politcs.
Despite a heavy teaching load (now 3/3 but for many years 4/4), she has been active in a service capacity, both within Bradley University and outside. In the community, she has served on the boards of Planned Parenthood Heart of Illinois, The Central Illinois Chapter of The Interfaith Alliance (also president for two years), the Peoria Chapter of the ACLU, and Friends of People with AIDS. She has also been active in her Episcopal Church, serving on the chapter or vestry twice. She and her husband James Temples have been married for 36 years. Their son and his wife in the South Bend area of Indiana have two daughters and a son.
Duncan Named Dean
Christopher Duncan has been named the next dean of Saint Louis University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Duncan comes to SLU from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he has served as the provost and professor of political science since 2011. His academic appointment will reside at SLU’s department of political science.
Ellen Harshman, interim vice president for academic affairs, said Duncan is “the person who will take the College of Arts and Sciences into the future as it continues to educate women and men as those who not only lead, but also follow the ideals of serving a higher purpose, while seeking a greater good.”
At Wittenberg, Duncan led a number of collaborative initiatives resulting in the creation of 15 new majors, minors, and programs. Before Wittenberg, Duncan was dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh from 2009 to 2011. From 2001 to 2009, he was a professor and chair in the political science department at the University of Dayton, where he helped design the nation’s first undergraduate BA in Human Rights Studies.
After receiving his PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1992, Duncan taught at Mississippi State University, winning a number of university‐wide teaching awards. Duncan has published two books on American political thought: The Anti‐Federalists in Early American Political Thought (1995) and Fugitive Theory: Political Theory, The Southern Agrarians and America (2000). His published work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review; the Journal of Poverty, Listening, Polity; the Review of Politics; Public Administration Review; and numerous other journals as well as the magazine Commonweal. Duncan has been a longtime APSA member who has participated in the Religion and Politics section as well as the Foundations of Political Theory section.
Gleditsch Receives Research Award
Kristian S. Gleditsch has received the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as visiting scholar of the University of Konstanz. Gleditsch, professor, University of Essex, and associate researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), has been granted the award and prize money to focus on reasons for violent conflicts and how to predict them. The aim of the award is to promote the internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany. Also, Gleditsch will actively contribute to the promotion of young researchers at the University of Konstanz during the next five years.
An APSA international member, Gleditsch is one of the internationally leading social scientists in the field of conflict and democratization research. Gleditsch is the first political scientist receiving the Anneliese Maier Research Award, a prize which has never been given to the University of Konstanz before.
ACTIVITIES
Frank Bryan, former chair, political science, University of Vermont, presented a lecture entitled, “Small is Beautiful: How America Benefits from Vermont’s Senatorial Presence” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, VT in January, 2015.
Victoria Hui, associate professor and faculty fellow of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame, testified in November 2014 before a Congressional Executive Commission on China during a hearing titled “The Future of Democracy in Hong Kong.”
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Paul S. Adams, chair, behavioral sciences division, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
Amílcar Antonio Barreto, director, master’s program in international affairs, Northeastern University
Luis Ricardo Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Institute of Latino Studies and professor, department of political science, University of Notre Dame
Edward J. Harpham, dean, Honors College, University of Texas, Dallas
Aaron Ley, assistant professor, department of political science, University of Rhode Island
Kimala Price, co-director, Bread and Roses Center for Feminist Research and Activism, San Diego State University
PROMOTIONS
Jason Brownlee, professor, department of government, University of Texas, Austin
Terri Givens, professor, department of government, University of Texas, Austin
AWARDS
Timothy W. Burns, professor, department of political science, Baylor University, received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2014 recognition for his book Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom.
Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin won the Political Book of the Year award at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015 for their book Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain.
Barbara Geddes, professor, comparative politics, University of California, Los Angeles, has been awarded the first UCLA Graduate Mentorship Award by the Political Science Graduate Student Association for 2014. The award will now be presented to one full-time faculty annually in recognition of “outstanding mentorship.”
Clarence N. Stone was the inaugural winner of the Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs Award. Given annually by the Urban Affairs Association, this award recognizes individuals for significantly shaping the field of urban affairs.
Jerold Waltman, professor, department of political science, Baylor University, received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2014 recognition for his book Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty.
