Student Honors & Publications

Abdelhamid Abdeljaber
Presented "Revival of Arab Nationalism: Institutional Manifestations and Challenges" at the ISA Convention in San Diego, CA, on March 23, 2006 at a Panel entitled "Southern Idea-logies and Northern Discontents," chaired by Professor Braveboy-Wagner of GC. Gave a lecture at Hunter College on March 20, 2006 entitled: Iraq, Unique History, Land and People: Prospects for Recovery. Gave a keynote address at Old Dominion University entitled: UN and the New Challenges of a Globalized World.
Presented "Interim Arrangements in Iraq since March 2003" at Postgraduate Navy Academy in Monterey, CA, July 2005 at a Panel on "Interim Governments."

William Adler
Presented "Selection of the Vice Presidential Nominee at National Party Conventions" at the 2005 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Co-presented “Presidents and the Military in the Early Republic: Jefferson and the Building of a Republican Regime” at the 2006 New York State Political Science Association with Johnathan Keller.

Nirit Ben-Ari
Received the University Student Senate Collegiate Merit Award.

Tatiana Carayannis
Published, with Herbert F. Weiss, "Reconstructing the Congo ," Journal of International Affairs 58 (2004).
 With Thomas Weiss, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly, UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).

Diana Cassells
Presented "Cuba, the Bolivarian Ideal and the Future of Caribbean Regional Relations" at the First International Workshop "Cuba in the Caribbean" sponsored by UNESCO, CRIES, and the Catedra del Caribe at the University of Habana, Cuba, 2005.
Selected for participation in the 10th Annual Winter Foreign Policy Institute, Program in Foreign Policy Decision-making at the Texas A and M University, Jan.11-15, 2006.
Presented "Incorporating Transnational in Global South Organizations: Latin America and the Caribbean " at the 46th Annual International Studies Convention; and "Diasporas and Caribbean Domestic and Foreign Relations: New(er) Actors Confronting Age Old Problems" at the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference. Appointed Policy Sector Leader for the Jamaica Diaspora Northeast United States Advisory Council.

Jamie Chandler
Received a U.S. Department of State Invitational Travel Grant for travel to Cambodia and the Philippines . Lectured to academic, professional, and political audiences on the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. Spoke to the Cambodian Senate on the Electoral College; and briefed Cabinet Members of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on the presidential campaign."Endpaper: Dear Mr. President," New York Times, November 7, 2004.

Jen Gaboury
Was awarded the Nina E. Fortin Dissertation Proposal Award from the Center for the Study of Women and Society.

Peter Hoffman:
Received 2006 Mellon Dissertation-Writing Fellowship in Security and Humanitarian Action.
Received 2006 Ivo Duchacek Award. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss, Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Aaron Ibur:
Presented "The Responsibility to Protect: The Dangerous Potential of an 'Emerging' Norm" at the New York State Political Science Association (NYSPSA) 61st Annual Conference in Poughkeepsie, NY at Marist College, April 21st, 2007.

Miriam Jiménez
Mexico-North Transnational Fellowship, summer 2004 . v Presented "Transnational Concerns, How Responsive Can Members of Congress Be?" at the IV Forum on U.S.-Mexico Transnationalism and Transnational Communities.

Annelies Kamran
Seltzer Memorial Scholarship, 2004-05, 2005-06. 
Presentations and Workshops: CUNY Political Science Graduate Student Conference, New York, NY, presented the paper “Structure of a Transnational Network: The Response to Nuclear Proliferation,” May, 2007; International Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, presented the paper “Structure of a Transnational Network: The Response to Nuclear Proliferation,” March, 2007; Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems, at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Warwick, presented the paper “Structure of a Transnational Security Network: The Response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26-12-04,” September, 2006 ; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Workshop: An Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Ann Arbor, MI August 2006; New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference, presented the paper; “Structure of a Transnational Network in World Politics,” April, 2006; International Studies Association-Northeast Annual Conference, presented the paper “The American Metanarrative of Sovereignty," November 2005; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Workshop: Social Network Analysis: Theories and Methods, Bloomington, IN, July 2005
Publications: “What You See Depends on Where You Look: A Theory of Global Governance” with Thomas G. Weiss (forthcoming); “Global Governance as International Organization” (book chapter) with Thomas G. Weiss (forthcoming, Palgrave "Advances" series); Civics: An Interactive Approach, v. 1.0 and v. 1.0.0(web), WorldView Software, forthcoming 2008; “Structure of a Transnational Human Security Network: The Response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004,” Proceedings of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and ONCE-CS conference on Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems, 18 – 21 September 2006, University of Warwick, UK, http://phoenixweb.open.ac.uk/complexity/MITSOCS%2706b.pdf.; U.S. Government: An Interactive Approach, v. 2.1 and v. 1.3.0.1(web), WorldView Software, 2005

Jonathan Keller
Co-presented “Presidents and the Military in the Early Republic: Jefferson and the Building of a Republican Regime” at the 2006 New York State Political Science Association with William Adler.

Volker Lehmann
Presented "Laboratories of Glocalization: Biotechnology in the United States " at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference.

Cori Madrid
Presented "The Evolving Relationship between the FMLN and Unions in El Salvador: Implications for Democracy" at the MIRAD AS DESDE EL SUR/VIEWS THE SOUTH 5th Annual Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Students Conference, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Stony Brook University, April 21, 2006.

Rich Meagher:
Presented "Building a Movement: Ideology and Politics in the American Right" at Toward a Comparative Discussion on "Rightist" Movements, a conference sponsored by the GC's Center for Humanities, Department of Anthropology, and Center for Place Culture and Politics on March 14, 2008. 
Participated in the panel, "Is the Christian Right Dead?" at the Left Forum 2008, Cooper Union, New York, NY, March 15, 2008.

Yekaterina Oziashvili:
Presented “National Unity in Multinational States: Nation-Building in an Ethnofederal Context,” April 2008, Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association (Chicago).
Presented “Turkish National Unity: Theory and Reality,” May 2007, Political Science Graduate Student Conference, Graduate Center, CUNY (New York).

Steven Pludwin
Presented "Litigation and the Woman's Rights Movement: A Critical Analysis" at Thinking Gender, sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. (2007)
Presented "Beyond the Tower of Babel: Feminism(s), Subjectivity and Resistance" at the Midwestern Political Science Association. (2007)

Dawn Plummer
Presented "Poor People's Movements in Transnational Networks: Implications for Two Movements of the excluded in Brazil and the United States" at the XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (March 15-18, 2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico).
Recipient of award from Graduate Research Grants Program for research titled "Maintaining Social Movement Vitality Against Cooptive Pressures: Institutionalized Political and Technical Education in Brazil's Landless Workers Movement."
Completed research and report for the Howard Samuels Center titled "Aging Services in Upstate New York: Case Studies of Five Cities."

Domenico Romero
Domenico Romero presented the paper "Venezuela's development analyzed through a Rights-Based Approach" at the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) Annual Meeting on November 10, 2007, as part of the panel "Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Political Model in Venezuela".

Jason Schulman
Joined the editorial board of the journal New Politics in the summer of 2004.
Published review of Nelson Lichtenstein's State of the Union in New Political Science, Summer 2007. Published review of Jonathan Joseph's Marxism and Social Theory in the Fall 2007 edition of NPS. "The 'War on Terror' and the Class War at Home," New Politics, Summer (2006). "Wrangling over Zionism," New Politics, Winter (2005).
Presented "Workers Without Parties? The Changing Class Character of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Labor Parties" at the How Class Works conference sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY, Stony Brook on June 9, 2006.

Utku Sezgin
Came in second and received honorable mention in the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) essay contest Changing Demographics: Migration Flows from or to Germany in May 2008 for essay entitled, "Going Beyond Culture While Assimilating Immigrants.". See http://www.daad.org/?p=essay.
Presented “The Right Move: The Impact of the Radical Right on the Political Mainstream in Western Europe” at Toward a Comparative Discussion on "Rightist" Movements, a conference sponsored by the GC's Center for Humanities, Department of Anthropology, and Center for Place Culture and Politics on March 14, 2008.
Presented “The Right Move: The Impact of the Radical Right on the Political Mainstream in Western Europe” at the Political Science Department Graduate Student Conference, Graduate Center, CUNY on March 7, 2008.
Presented "The State and Cultural Pluralism in France Compared to the Anglo-American Tradition: The Headscarf Affair as an Example," at the NPSA Conference in Philadelphia, November 2007.
Presented "Race Relations and Immigration Control: British Immigration Policy from Attlee to Thatcher (1948-1990)," at the NPSA Conference in Boston, November 2006.

Michael Sharpe
Michael Sharpe won a spot to participate as a fellow to participate in the National Humanities Center and  Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) Summer Institute on Citizenship and Migration Fellow during the summers of 2007-2008. Summer 2007 was at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany and next summer will be held at Stanford University, California.
Received Pollis Dissertation Year Fellowship (2006-2007); Ford Foundation Research Award (2006-2007); and Dean K. Harrison Award (2006-2007).
Presented papers “Globalization and the State: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Post-Colonial Citizen and Ethnic Returnee Migration”, at the International Conference on Comparative Social Science (ICCSS) - Probing the Frontiers of Comparative Inquiry-, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, July 15-16, 2006 and “Globalization and Migration: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Post-Colonial Citizen and Ethnic Returnee Migration”, at the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on International Migration, a collaborative project with the Social Science Research Council, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, June 19-23, 2006.  
Article published entitled “Globalization and Migration: Post-Colonial Dutch Antillean and Aruban Immigrant Political Incorporation in the Netherlands,” Dialectical Anthropology Volume 29, Issue 3-4, September, 2005.
Presented papers “A Preliminary Qualitative Study of the Political Incorporation of Dutch Caribbean Immigrants in the United States and the Netherlands” at the “Trading Cultures: Migration and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe”, Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers University, December, 2004 and “Globalization and Migration: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan” at Thirteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, February, 2004.

Daniel Skinner
He presented “Ask Your Doctor if it’s Right for You”: The Politics of Medical Necessity, at the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA in March 2008. 
Jen Gaboury and Dan Skinner presented Douglass and Brown: At the Intersections of Race, Manhood, and Women’s Liberation at the American Men's Studies Association, Winston-Salem, NC in April 2008. 
His paper, "New Bodies: Beyond Illness, Dirt, Vermin and Other Metaphors of Terror,” has been accepted as a chapter for Political Linguistics (forthcoming, John Benjamins Publishers) 
Presented "New Bodies: Beyond Illness, Dirt, Vermin and Other Metaphors of Terror" at Political Linguistics 2007, in Warsaw, Poland in October 2007.
Received Fellowship at the Place, Culture and Politics. Received the Murphy Award. Presented “The Language of Necessity in Imperial Rhetoric” at the meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association (2005), the American Political Science Association (2005) and The Historical Society (2006).
Participated on a panel addressing questions of academic freedom entitled “The Third Wave of McCarthyism” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association (2005).
Presented “Updating the Wittgensteinian Moment” at the meetings of the Western Political Science Association (2006) and New York State Political Science Association (2006).

Aleta Styers
Listed in "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975," Edited by Barbara Love, published by University of Illinois Press, December, 2006.
"ETHNICITY AND DEMOCRACY IN MODERN FRANCE”, Northeast Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, November, 2007
“HEGEL’S THEORY OF THE STATE:  ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH IDENTITY POLITICS”, Revised Version, Graduate Center, CUNY, Political Science Students” Conference, May, 2007
  “Hegel’s Theory of the State – Is it Compatible with Identity Politics”, Northeast Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, November, 2006.
“Migration of workers into France & Germany,” Trading Cultures: Migration and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe, Conference, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  December 4, 2004.
"Influence of Defined Benefit Pension Systems on Corporate Capital Decisions," Invited Paper, Eastern Economic Association, 1986 Annual Meeting.
"The Capital Goods Outlook," Invited Papers, The Conference Board Annual Outlook Conference, 1977 and 1980.
"Economic Forces: Their Implications for Research and Development Management in the 1980s," Invited Paper, Industrial Research Institute, 1977 Annual Meeting.
"The Styers Report," a monthly column published in The Metropolitan Purchaser, 1976-1977.
"The Economist's Role in Corporate Planning," Invited Paper, American Natural Gas Symposium, Detroit.
“The Townhouse Report”, an analysis of small building sales in Manhattan, Ashforth Warburg.
"Futures in Economic Planning," Invited Paper, World Future Society Bulletin.
Nearly 80 country studies covering the economic outlook and business potential of 44 countries, published by Harris Bank, Chicago.
Miscellaneous articles on international monetary reform, international trade and international investment published in the American Banker.
DISCUSSANT, Southern Economic Association, 1985 Annual Meeting, Pensions & Benefits; Eastern Economic Association, 1984 Annual Meeting, Research Methodology; Association of Consumer Research, Annual Meeting, Consumer Behavior Constrained by Risk Expectations.

Yu-Sung Su
Presented "Migrants' Money and the Clientelist Party" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., August 30-September 2, 2007. Presented "Who Receives Foreign Aid and Why" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., April 12-15, 2007. Presented "Decomposing Treatment Effects of Remittances on Regime Democratic Performance" at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL., February 28–March 2, 2007. Presented "Political Determinants of Remittances: Causal Inference Using Matching and Bayesian Additive Trees Model" at the Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Political Science Association, Taipei, Taiwan, October 25–26, 2007. Presented "Electoral Institutions and Choice Models: Evidence from 2004 Taiwanese Legislative Election" at the Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Political Science Association, Taipei, Taiwan, October 25–26, 2006, co-author with Tse-Hsin Chen. Presented "Applied Bayesian Multilevel Modeling: Remittances and Political Liberalization in the Developing Countries" at the Second R User Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 15-17, 2006. Presented "Nonparametric Estimation of the Causal Effect of Regime Types on Foreign Aid" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 20-23, 2006. Presented "Remittances and Democratization" at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association, Harrisburg, PA, March 31-April 1, 2006. Presented "Does Democracy Attract More Aid?" at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association, Harrisburg, PA, March 31-April 1, 2006.
Presented "Remittances and Democratization" at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association, Harrisburg, PA., March 31-April 1, 2006. Presented "Does Democracy Attract More Aid?" at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association, Harrisburg, PA., March 31-April 1, 2006. Presented "Nonparametric Estimation of the Causal Effect of Regime Types on Foreign Aid" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il., April 20-23, 2006. Presented "Applied Bayesian Multilevel Modeling: Remittances and Political Liberalization in the Developing Countries" at the Second R User Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 15-17, 2006.

Bann Seng Tan
"The Consequences of Innovation," The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal 9 (2004).

Jean Baptiste Velut
Authored a forthcoming book section entitled "Free trade, inequalities and social mobilization in the United States (2000-2006)" in the proceedings of a conference on "Equality/Inequality in the Americas" edited by C. Zumello and P. Zagefka (Paris, La Documentation Française, 2007).
Presented a paper entitled "The Lost History of American Labor Advocacy in Trade Politics", at the Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2007.
In March 2008, he will present " EU-U.S. trade relations and the double-edged nature of the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism" at ISA in San Francisco.

Karen Young
Received the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Fellowship in Southeastern European Studies.
Received  Fulbright Fellowship to Bulgaria, 2005 - 06. Received International Research and Exchange Board, pre-doctoral award, 2005. Received American Council of Learned Societies, language training award, 2005.
Received George Schwab Fellowship in US Foreign Policy for dissertation research investigating US Treasury Department advisement in the monetary policies of Ecuador and Bulgaria.
Received the Joseph Murphy Award for best paper presented in a conference 2004-05 entitled, "Empire: Content and Context in the United Nations System" presented at the APSA in September 2004.
Published "Compromise and Credibility: Security Council Reform?" by Thomas G. Weiss & Karen E. Young, Security Dialogue, June 2005.

Sami Zeidan
Member of Article Selection Committee, Harvard International Law Journal (2005-2006). Member of Article Selection Committee, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2005-2006). Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Spring 2006. Senior Honors Thesis Reader and Oral Examiner, Harvard University Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Spring 2006. Visiting fellow, Keele University Department of Law (Gender, Sexuality and Law Research Group), UK, January 2007. "Agreeing to Disagree: Cultural Relativism and the Difficulty of Defining Terrorism in a Post-9/11 World." Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. 29 (1), Winter 2006: 215-232. "Can Abundance and Scarcity Clash? Environmental Security in Lebanon's 2nd Republic." Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, 4 (4), Winter 2005: 1-15. Originally published in The Arab World Geographer 7 (4), Winter 2004: 215-227. "Desperately Seeking Definition: The International Community's Quest for Identifying the Specter of Terrorism," Cornell International Law Journal (2004). Presented "Agreeing to Disagree: Cultural Relativism and the Difficulty of Defining Terrorism in a Post-9/11 World" at University of Virginia symposium.