Alumni
Honors & Publications
Kwame
Akonor
Best Dissertation in International
Politics Award from the Ph.D./M.A. Program in
Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center
, for "Ghana and IMF Conditionality: The Unevenness
in Compliance, 1983-2000," 2004.
Bruce Altschuler
He will be the keynote speaker at SUNY Oswego's
annual academic conference, QUEST. Details can be found at: http://www.oswego.edu/academics/opportunities/quest/quest_2008_speaker.html
This talk will be based on an article, "Selecting Presidential Nominees
by National Primary: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?" of mine that was
recently published in /The Forum/ which can be found at: www.bepress.com/forum/vol5/iss4/art5
Anyone can download the article but it requires registration for which
there is no charge. Finally, another article, "A Look Back at the Steel Seizure
Case," will be published in the March 2009 issue of the /Journal of
Supreme Court History.
Has recently received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activity.
Dorothee
Benz
Christian Bay Award from the New Political
Science caucus of American Political Science
Association for "Innovative Labor Organizing
in a Hostile Climate," 2004.Mary
Heaton Vorse Award from the Metro Labor Communications
Council for "Privatization Through Assassination,"
2004.
Jill Blair
Runs a Berkeley-based consulting firm (BTW informing change) that provides information based evaluation and planning services to nonprofits and philanthropy.
Jocelyn
Boryczka
Best Dissertation in Political Theory
Award from the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political
Science at The CUNY Graduate Center , for "Guardians
of Morality: A Conceptual History of Virtue
in Relationship to Women and Moral and Political
Discourse in American Democracy," 2004.
Daniel
Cook
Received a two-year Legacy Postdoctoral
Fellowship with the Center for Tobacco Control
Policy at the University of California in
San Francisco . With Elisa
K. Tong, Stanton A. Glantz, and Lisa A. Bero,
"The Power of Paperwork: How Philip Morris
Neutralized the Medical Code for Secondhand
Smoke," Health
Affairs (in press). With Baba Annamaria,
Thomas O. McGarity, and Lisa A. Bero, "Legislating
' Sound Science': The Role of the Tobacco Industry,"
American Journal of Public Health 95
(2005). With Andrew J. Polsky,
"Political Time Reconsidered: Unbuilding and
Rebuilding the State under the Reagan Administration,"
American Politics Research (in press)
.
Jose Cruz
In September 2005, Jose E. Cruz (1994) was named
Director of the New York Latino Research and
Resources Network (NYLARNet), a consortium comprised
of the Center for Latino, Latin American, and
Caribbean Studies at the University of Albany,
State University of New York, the Center for
Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and
the Institute for Urban Minority Education at
Teachers College, Columbia University.
NYLARNet is dedicated to promoting and sponsoring
policy-oriented research on the issues of immigration,
education, health, and politics as they impact
Latinos in New York state. For more information
on NYLARNet, go to http://www.nylarnet.org/
Arielle
Goldberg
Accepted a one year position as a visiting professor at Tulane University where she hopes to do research on post-Katrina redevelopment efforts. Received a Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
Margaret
Gray
Recipient of the Richard Styskal Dissertation
Fellowship, 2004-05; and a Rockefeller Post-Doctoral
Fellowship. Spending the 2005-06 academic year
at SUNY Stony Brook's Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Center . Her project is titled "Harvesting
Expectations: Low-wage, Immigrant Farmworker
Advocacy in New York ." Received the Outstanding
Graduate Student award of New England Council
on Latin American Studies in 2004. Presented "Latino
Farmworkers in NewYork: Power Constraints Advocacy
and Backlash" at Second Cumbre of the
Great Plains, "Latinos/as in New Spaces: Gender,
Work & Advocacy in New York State" at New
England Council of Latin American Studies;
(with Carlos Decena), "No Documents, No Opportunity:
The Ideal Workforce and Constraints on Advocacy"
at Latin American Studies Association XXV International
Congress, and "Low-Wage Worker Advocacy: Leveraging
Allies and Compensating for Constraints" at
American Political Science Association.
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
Became Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at York College.
Robin
Harper
Received an European Union-sponsored
Regional Training Network Fellowship for two months
of field research on citizenship and immigrantion
in Berlin . "Transformations of Inner and Outer Space: Reflections
on September 11th" in Cities of Europe : Changing
Contexts, Local Arrangements and the Challenge
to Urban Cohesion,. Kazepov, Yuri ed. ( Oxford
: Blackwell Publishing, 2005). "The New ' German:' What
is Really New in the New Citizenship Law?" in Building a New Transatlantic Generation, Szwed,
R. Stefan, ed. ( Stuttgart , Germany : Robert
Bosch Stiftung, 2004).
Douglas
Haugen
Received George D. Schwab Fellowship
in United States Foreign Policy, 2004-05.
Diane Haughney
"Sustainable Development or Sustained Conflict?
Logging Companies, Neoliberal Policies, and
Mapuche Communities in Chile" in Democracy
in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973
edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Fernando
I. Leiva (Brighton, Eng.: Sussex Academic
Press, 2005).
Neoliberal Economics, Democratic
Transition, and Mapuche Demands for Rights
in Chile (Gainesville,
FL: University Press of Florida, 2006).
Ron Hayduk
Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States. New York: Routledge Press, 2006. Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York. Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.
Nancy
Isserman
"Identifying Individual Determinants
of Intolerance in Holocaust Survivors" in Beyond
Camps and Forced Labour , J.D. Steinert
and I. Weber-Newth, eds. ( Osnabrueck , Germany
: Secolo Verlag, 2005). Project Director and editor
of "Challenge and Change: History of Jews in America"
series, and wrote entries on: "Early Settlement
to the Central European Migration;" "Civil War
through the Rise of Zionism;" "The Twentieth Century
and Beyond;" "Early Settlement to the European
Migration, Book 1, Teaching Guide;" "Civil War
Through the Rise of Zionism, Book 2, Teaching
Guide;" and "Twentieth Century & Beyond, Book
3, Teaching Guide."Received Randolph L. Braham Dissertation Year Award,
2004-05.
Andrew Kolin
One Family: Before and During the Holocaust (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003) Promoted to Full Professor at Hilbert College, Hamburg, New York, in 2005.
Lawrence
Ladutke
Presented "Does the Salvadoran Special Law Against Terrorist Acts Matter? A Response to Todd Landsman," at the Latin American Studies Congress in Montreal in September 2007. Freedom of Expression in El Salvador
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,
2004).Guest speaker at the World Affairs Council
of Greater Richmond. His presentation on Latin
America was part of the Great Decisions series.
Joel Lefkowitz
Joel Lefkowitz was named "Teacher of the Year" at SUNY New Paltz in 2006.
Andrew Lawrence
Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics
Award from the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political
Science at the CUNY Graduate Center for "Transitions
to Economic Democracy: Corporations, Collective
Action, Councils and Co-determination in Twentieth
Century Germany and South Africa ," 2004.
Patrice McSherry
Professor McSherry's second book Predatory States: States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006, awarded by Choice, a premier library journal. Among the journal's criteria are excellence in scholarship and presentation, significance of the contribution to the field, and value as an important--often the first--treatment of a subject. Dr. McSherry also was promoted to the rank of Professor at Long Island University in 2006.
Stephen
Pimpare
The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics
and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages ( New
York : New Press, 2004).
Kristin
Prince
Graduated Spring 2005 with Masters in
Public Policy, and moved to Massachusetts where
she is working an adjunct lecturer at North Shore
Community College, teaching State and Local Government
and U.S. History.
Currently a Public Policy Institute Fellow (2007) for the "Voter Participation Project"
Was a Cummings Foundation Community Fellow (2005-2006) for "Program Evaluation for Wellspring House."
Antoinette
Pole
"E-mocracy: Information Technology and
The Vermont & New York State Legislatures," State and Local Government Review 37
(2005). Presented "The Role of
the Internet in Formulating Policy in US State
Legislatures" at the International Political Science
Association, Legislative Specialists Conference
on Sub-State/Sub-National Legislatures; and "Do
Blogs Matter? Weblogs In American Politics" at
American Political Science Association.
Rochelle
G. Saidel
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück
Concentration Camp ( Madison , WI : Terrace
Books, 2004).
Jeffrey D. Straussman
Dr. Straussman was recently reappointed
to a second five year term as Associate Dean
and Chair, Dept. of Public Administration, Maxwell
School of Citizenship & Public Affairs,
Syracuse University.
Ozgur Usenmez
Recently joined the Political Science Department at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey as Assistant Professor.
Lowell F. Wolf
Recently joined the Political Science Department at Dowling College in Oakdale, NY as an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Politics. He is also working for Nassau County Government as the Commute Alternative/Public Transit Program Planner for the County. His responsibilities include introducing ride sharing/car pool programs, employee transitchek, Park'nRides, Bicycle Commuter Safety, and other programs promoting alternatives to single occupancy vehicles in an effort to ease congestion and reduce air pollutant emissions on Long Island.
