PAST EVENTS

Fall 2007

Thursday, October 11, 2007
6:30 pm, Room 5200.07
Political Theory Colloquium
“Can(n)ons of Masculinity: The Hidden History of Masculinities in the Classic Texts of Western Political Theory”
Harry Brod, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa (Bio)
Co-Sponsored by the Feminist Studies Group and the Social and Political Theory Students Association

Thursday, October 18, 2007
6:00-8:00, Room 9206
Human Rights Seminar Series
“Discrimination? That's So Gay.”
Marty Rouse, National Field Director, Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
“Lobbying Legislatures for Social Reform: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage in New York State.”
Daniel R. Pinello, Prof. of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Friday, November 2
1:00 pm., Room 5200.07
Professional Development Workshop
"The Academic Job Market in Political Science: A Discussion with Recent Survivors"
Dr. Erin Ackerman, Assistant Professor at John Jay College, Dept. of Government
Dr. Joshua Wilson, Assistant Professor at John Jay College, Dept. of Government

Friday, November 9, 2007
6:00 pm, Room 9205
Political Theory Colloquium
"The Third Space of Sovereignty: Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations" (Read more)
Kevin Bruyneel, Assistant Professor of Politics, Babson College

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
6:00-8:00 pm, Room TBA
Human Rights Seminar Series
“The Death Penalty in the United States: Why Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished.” 
Robert Nave, State/Regional Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator and National Steering Committee Vice-Chairperson, Amnesty International.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
6:00-8:00 pm, Room TBA
Human Rigths Seminar Series
“Right to Health Advocacy: Comparative and Critical Perspectives from the Ground”
Jeremy Perelman, Skirball Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School.

Friday, December 7, 2007
1:00 pm. Room 5200
Professional Development Committee
Ms Ilene Kalish, NYU Press
"How to Get Published"

Friday, December 7, 2007
6:00 pm. Room 5200.07
Political Theory Colloquium
"Suspect Citizenship:  Virtue, Vice, and the Political Identity of Women"
Jocelyn Boryczka
Assistant Professor of Politics and Director of Peace & Justice Studies, Fairfield University

Spring 2007

Friday, February 23rd
5:30 pm
Room 9206
Political Theory Colloquium & the Colloquium on American Political Development
Barack Obama and the Politics of Immigrant and Racial Difference in the United States
Victoria Hattam, Professor of Political Science, The New School for Social Research
Disscusant - Anne Norton, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Friday, March 16th
3:00 pm
Room 8201
The Paradoxes of Segregation: Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multi-ethnic America
Eric Oliver, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Friday, March 30th
5:30 pm
Room C201
Political Theory Colloquium and cosponsored by The Center for Sexuality and Public Policy at Hunter College
Fixing Bodies: Tracking Transgender Identities in the Post 9/11 US
Paisley Currah, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College

Thursday, April 12th
3:00 pm
Room 8201
Asian Pride or Ambiguous Identities: Immigration Policy and the Construction of Racial Political Identity
Jane Junn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, Eagleton Institute of Politics

Thursday, April 12th
5:30 pm
Room C203
Political Theory Colloquium
Is the European Union Democratic? Between Political Theory and European Studies
Muriel Rouyer, Professor of Political Theory, Nantes, France

Wednesday, April 18th
7:00 pm
Room 5200.07
Colloquium on American Political Development
A Crisis of Control Model of American Political Development:
An Overview, and an Application of the Model to the Development of the Use of Demographic Analysis in Politics
Arthur Beckman, doctoral student of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center

Wednesday, April 25th
7:00 pm
Room 9205
From Post-Zionism to Post-Citizenship: Israel's Emerging Immigration and Citizenship Regime
Yoav Peled, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University

Friday, May 4th
6:00 pm
Room 9205
Political Theory Colloquium and cosponsored by The Center for Sexuality and Public Policy at Hunter College
Hate Crime and the Politics of Difference: The Case of Queer Citizens in the United States
Morris Kaplan, Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Purchase

Fall 2006

Friday, September 29
5:30 pm
Room C203
Political Theory Colloquium
"A Patria to Die For"
Professor Nick Xenos, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Wednesday, October 11
6:30 pm
Room 5414
Human Rights Seminar -- Women and Human Rights
"Outsiders, Insiders, and Outsiders Within; Feminist Strategies for Global Transformation"
Professor Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies
Professor Joyce Gelb, Political Science at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center, will act as commentator

Friday, October 27
5:30 pm
Room 5200
Political Theory Colloquium
"Prophecy and Race in Baldwin and Morrison"
Professor George Shulman, New York University/Gallatin School for Individualized Study

Friday, November 3
5:30 pm
Room 9207 
Political Theory Colloquium
"Rights of the Body in Times of War"
Distinguished Professor, Rosalind Petchesky, Political Science and Women's Studies, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
Cosponsored with Feminist Studies Group Speakers Series

Wednesday, November 8
6 pm
Room 5414
Human Rights Seminar -- Women and Human Rights
"Trafficking and Slavery in the 21st Century"
Professor Donna M. Hughes, University of Rhode Island, Prof. Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair, Women's Studies Program

Thursday, November 16
5:30 pm
MA Thesis Room 5200.01
Political Theory Colloquium
"Politics, Ethics, and Education"
Tony Monchinski, PhD Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center

Thursday, December 7
5:30 pm
Room 5200.07
Political Theory Colloquium
“The Spectator of Ancient Comedy: Strauss, Arendt and Aristophanes”
Rachael Sotos, Adjunct Professor, The New School

Wednesday, December 13
6 pm
Room 5414
Human Rights Seminar -- Women and Human Rights
"Palestinian Women and the Hundred Year Struggle for Personal and National Rights"
Dr. Nadia Hijab, Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies

Spring 2006

Friday, February 10
5:30pm
Political Theory Colloquium, Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professor Richard Wolin
"What is Heideggerian Marxism?"

Friday, February 17
1:00-2:30pm
Professional Development Committee, Thesis Room (52007.07)
Ms. Rebecca Blanton, Ph.D Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
"Educating Americans: Multiculturalism and Citizenship"

Wednesday, February 22
6:30pm
The Student-Led Distinguished Political Science Speaker Series, Room 9207
Dr. Richard Betts, Leo A. Shifrin Professor and Director of the Institute of War
and Peace Studies at Columbia University
"Intelligence Reform"

Thursday, February 23
7:00pm
American Political Development Colloquium, Skylight Room
Professor Ken Kersch, Princeton University
"Conceptual and Categorical Shift in American Constitutional Development"

Thursday, March 2
6:30-8:00pm
The Dankwart Rustow Commemorative Lectures on Contemporary Dilemmas in
the Middle East, Skylight Room
Dr. Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International Affairs at Columbia
University, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations
"Democracy in the Middle East: To Whom is it Important and Why?"

Friday, March 3
5:30pm
Political Theory Colloquium, Thesis Room (5200.07)
Gerasimos Karavitis, MA Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center

Thursday, March 30
7:00pm
American Political Development Colloquium, Room C203/204
Professor Corey Robin, Brooklyn College & CUNY Grad Center
"Louis Hartz at 50: On the Varieties of Counterrevolutionary Experience in
America"

Thursday, April 6
6:30-8:00pm
Public Square, Skylight Room (9100)
Barabara Bennett Woodhouse, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law and
Director, Center on Children and Families
“Children's Right and American Valuest”

Friday, April 7
2:00-3:30pm
Professional Development Committee, Thesis Room (5200.07)
Dr. Saul Fisher, Director of Fellowship Programs, American Council of Learned
Societies
“How to Get a Research Grant”

5:30-7:00pm
Political Theory Colloquium, Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professor Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science, University of
Pittsburgh
"Democracy As Human Rights: Freedom And Equality In The Age Of
Globalization"

Thursday, April 27
7:00pm
American Political Development Colloquium, Room TBA
Professor Stephen Amberg, UT San Antonio and The New School
"Explaining Changes in the Status of American Workers: Innovation and
Intercurrence in the Institutions that Regulate Labor"

Friday, April 28
5:30-7:00pm
Political Theory Colloquium, Room C201
Professor Andreas Kalyvas, The New School for Social Research
"The Tyranny of Dictatorship: When the Greek Tyrant Met the Roman Dictator"

Tuesday, May 2
6:30pm
Annual Alumni Awards Night
Professor Kathleen Jones, Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
"Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Woman's Journey with Hannah Arendt"

Thursday, May 4
6:30-8:00pm
The Dankwart Rustow Commemorative Lectures on Contemporary Dilemmas in
the Middle East, Segal Theater
Dr. Gary Sick, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University, Former Director of
the Middle East Institute
"Iran and the United States: Conflict in Search of a Relationship"

Friday, May 19
5:30 to 7:00 pm
Political Theory Colloquium, Room 9204
Guest Speaker: Peter Euben, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
“Thomas More: Necessity and Utopia”

Fall 2005

Friday, September 30, 1:00-3:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professional Development Committee
Seeing Your Name in Print. The Ins and Outs of Getting Yourself Published in a Scholarly Journal
Guest Speaker: Professor Andrew Polsky, Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
Respondent: Professor Irving Leonard Markovitz, Political Science, Queens College and the Graduate Center

Wednesday, October 19, 7:00pm, (Room 5200.07)
New York American Political Development Colloquium
Reforming the Jim Crow State: Race, Region and American Political Development
Guest Speaker: Professor Kimberly Johnson, Department of Political Science, Barnard College

Friday, October 28, 1:00  to 3:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room  (5200.07) Professional Development Committee
How to Get a Research Grant
Guest Speaker: Dr. Saul Fisher, Director of Fellowship Programs, American Council of Learned Societies
*Please note that this event has been cancelled*

Friday, October 28, 5:30 to 7:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room  (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
Rhetoric and Hegemony in Gramsci
Guest Speaker: Professor Benedetto Fontana, Department of Political Science, Baruch College

Friday, November 11
 10:30am
 Awards Committee Meeting,  Thesis Room  (5200.07)
 Note: Committee members only
 1:30pm
 First Exam Drafting Meeting, Thesis Room (5200.07)
 Note: Committee members only
 3:00pm
 First Exam Committee Meeting with Students, Thesis Room (5200.07)
 4:00pm
 Wine and Cheese Hour, 5200
 
 Monday, November 14
 6:30 to 8:30 pm
 Political Theory Colloquium, Sky Light Room (9100)  
 Reconfigurations of Sovereignty and Democracy:  Neoconservatism and
 Neoliberalism
 Guest Speaker: Wendy Brown
 This talk explores some of the tensions and  convergences between neoliberal
 and neoconservative political rationalities in the United States in order grasp their
 joint erosion of democratic citizenship and legitimation of anti-democratic state
 actions.
 
 Tuesday,  November 15
 5:00pm
 Deadline to apply for admission or re-admission for the Spring 2006 semester

Friday, November 18
 10:00  to 11:30 pm
 Professional Development Committee, Thesis Room, 5200.07 Preparing A
 Syllabus: A Workshop for New Instructors
 Guest Speaker: Professor Thomas Halper, Political Science, Baruch College and
 the Graduate Center
 
 Thursday, November 24-Friday, November 25
 Thanksgiving Recess - No Class
 
 Thursday, December 1
 5:30 to 7:00 pm
 Political Theory Colloquium, Thesis Room  (5200.07)
 On Critical Theory and Antisemitism: Horkheimer and Adorno in Exile
 Guest Speaker: Professor Jack Jacobs, Political Science, John Jay College and
 the Graduate Center

6:00-8:00 pm
Human Rights Seminar Series, Skylight Room (9100)
Panel discussion on Transitional Justice in the Americas
Chair: Margaret Crahan, Dorothy Epstein Distinguished Professor of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center,  CUNY
Catalina Diaz, Program Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice Marifeli Perez-Stable, Vice-President, Inter-American Dialogue and Florida International University
Peter Winn, Professor of History, Tufts University
Commentator: Katherine Hite, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vassar College
 
 Friday, December 2
 1:00  to 2:30 pm
 Professional Development Committee, Thesis Room (5200.07)
 Writing to Learn
 Description: Involving students in classroom work.  A workshop for instructors (and prospective instructors).
 Guest Speaker: Professor Anne Humphreys, English, Lehman College and the Graduate Center
 
 Friday, December 9
 10:30am
 Faculty Membership Committee  Meeting,  Thesis Room (5200.07)
 Note: Committee members only
  11:30am
 Executive Committee Meeting, Thesis Room (5200.07)
 Note: Committee members only
  1:30  to 3:00 pm
 Professional Development Committee, Thesis Room (5200.07)
 Guidelines for Submitting an IRB Application. A Student's Perspective
 Guest Speaker: Ms. Tatiana Carayannis
 Respondent: Professor Sherrie Baver, Political Science, CCNY and the Graduate
 Center
  5:30  to 7:00 pm
 Political Theory Colloquium, Thesis Room (5200.07)
 The Curious Incident of the Policeman in the Night-time: John Stuart Mill, Speech
 and Respect
 Guest Speaker: Professor Helen Pringle, University of New South Wales
 
 Thursday, December 15
 Last day of Classes

 Friday, December 16
 6:00pm
 End of the Year Party, 5200

Fall 2004

Friday, October 1, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
Globalization and Political Corruption
Peter Bratsis, PhD, CUNY Graduate Center.

Friday, October 8, 12:30 to 2:00 PM, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professional Development Committee
Coping Strategies - The Art of Juggling Multiple Responsibilities
Prof. Ruth O'Brien, Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Thursday, October 14, 4:30 to 6:30 pm, Robert E. Gilleece Lounge (Room 5409)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Rethinking the Agenda for Protection: The Case of Children and Armed Conflict
Massimo Toschi, Associate Adviser, Division for Sustainable Development,UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Thursday, October 14, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Skylight Lounge (Room 9100)
The Public Square Book Series
Changing Times: The Purpose of Government
Jeff Madrick, economics columnist, The New York Times; editor of Challenge.

Wednesday, October 20, 7:00 to 8:30 pm, Room C-197
New York Colloquium on American Political Development
Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox
Eileen McDonagh, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University; Visiting Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and the City College of New York.

Thursday, November 4, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Robert E. Gilleece Lounge (Room 5409)
Human Rights Seminar Series
A U.S.-based NGO in a Changing Human Rights Environment: The Case of Human Rights First
Neil Hicks, Director of International Programs, Human Rights First.
Discussant: Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the Middle East Program, Human Rights Watch.

Friday, November 5, 3:00 to 4:30 PM, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Conversations on Current Events
The 2004 Elections: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Prof. Andrew Polsky, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Friday, November 5, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Room 9204 (note new room)
Political Theory Colloquium
Montesquieu: The Enlightenment on Broadway
Marshall Berman, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center and City College.

Wednesday, November 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre (Room 1218)
The Public Square Book Series
When We Divorce
Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University; Director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project.

Friday, November 19, 12:30 to 2:00 PM, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
PhD Program in Political Science and Sociology
How to Plan a Course - A Workshop for Novice Instructors
Presenters: Professor William Kornblum, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, The Graduate Center, and Professor Pamela Stone, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, The Graduate Center

Thursday, December 2, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Robert E. Gilleece Lounge (Room 5409)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
Julie Mertus, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs Program, American University.
Discussant: George Andreopoulos, Associate Professor of Government, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center.

Friday, December 3, 2:30 to 4:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professional Development Committee
Student Protests and the Framing of Development and Inequality in early New Order Indonesia (1966-1979) - A Mock Job Talk
Stephanie Sapiie, A.B.D.
* Please note that this event has been cancelled at the request of the speaker. *

Friday, December 3, 5:30-7:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
Democratic Virtue and Its Obstacles
Prof. John Wallach, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College

Friday, December 10, 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Room: C-203
Professional Development Committee
Harvesting Expectations: New York Farmworker Advocacy - A Mock Job Talk
Margaret Gray, A.B.D., Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center Candidate

Spring 2005

Friday, February 4, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Room 9206
Political Theory Colloquium
Vicious Circles of Privatized Care
Professor Joan Tronto, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College

Thursday, February 17, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Room 5409  
Human Rights Seminar Series
Challenges to Humanitarian Action after 9/11
Nicolas De Torrente, Executive Director, Medecins Sans Frontieres in the United States.
Discussant: Dirk Salomons, Director, Program in Humanitarian Affairs, School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Thursday, February 17, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, room C-201
American Political Development Colloquium
Re-envisioning the American Welfare State: Policy History from the Bottom Up
Professor Stephen Pimpare, Yeshiva College and Wurzweiler School of Social  Work .

Friday, February 25, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
Fear: History of an Idea, Politics of a Practice
Professor Corey Robin, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

Friday, March 11, 2:00 to 4:00 pm,  Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professional Development Committee
How to Get a Grant
Ms. Susan Milamed, Assistant Vice President of Development, Hebrew Union College

Friday, March 11 (note new day), 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
A Sea Change: Masculinity and Politics
Jennifer Gaboury, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
The Language of Necessity in Empire
Dan Skinner, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center

Thursday, March 24, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Sky Light Room (9100)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Neoconservative Perceptions on Iran
Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History, Baruch College and
   the Graduate Center
Discussant: Gary Sick, Columbia University

Wednesday, March 30, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, room C-201
American Political Development Colloquium
Racism Revised: From an Individual to a Political Understanding of Racism
Professor Paul Frymer, University of California at Santa Cruz and Princeton University.

Friday, April 1, 2:00 to 4:00 pm,  Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Professional Development Committee
How to Get a Book Contract
Mr. Robert Tempio, Acquiring Editor, Politics and international relations, Routledge 

Wednesday, April 6,  6:30 to 8:00 pm, Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall
The Public Square Speaker-Book Series
Globalization and Political Power
Frances Fox  Piven, Distinguished Political Science & Sociology Professor, the Graduate Center, and author of Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare and Poor People's Movements : Why They Succeed, How They Fail (with Richard Cloward) and, most recently, of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism .

The common view is that the rise of international economic and political institutions undermines the possibilities for democratic influence.  The influence of this idea, that democratic publics are helpless, is undeniable, but it contributes to popular helplessness and resignation.  But the idea does not stand up to careful scrutiny.  Professor Piven shows that the complex and fragile economic and political arrangements associated with globalization are extremely vulnerable to dissent and disturbance, and thus actually increase the potential for popular
 influence.  

Wednesday, April 13, 2:30 to 4:00 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
"Congress, the President, and Partisan Control of the Legislative Agenda, 1945-2000."
David Jones, CUNY Baruch College

Thursday, April 14, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, DS Lounge (5409)
Human Rights Seminar Series
Speaker: Peter Maguire on his new book Facing Death in Cambodia (Columbia University Press, 2005)
Discussant: Craig Etcheson, Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 15, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
The American Empire: Friendly Fascism and Why We Are All 'Good Germans'
Tito Gerassi, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College

Thursday, April 21,  6:30 to 8:00 pm, Sky Light Room (9100)
The Public Square Speaker-Book Series
Why Europe Dislikes America: Anti-Americanism in Historical Perspective
Andrei S. Markovitis, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative
Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of
Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (with Steven Hellerman) and most recently, of Amerika, Dich Hasst Sich's Besser.

There can be absolutely no doubt that the Bush Administration's policies have created an atmosphere in which disliking America has become a sort of global lingua franca. While the antipathies towards the United States in Western Europe have -- on account of the Bush Administration's actions -- entered a hitherto unprecedented acuity and acerbity among many different social groups, antipathies towards America in Europe predate the establishment of the American Republic.  In addition to discussing the historical dimensions of European anti-Americanism, much attention will be given to topics such as food, sports, weather and other non-political phenomena, all highlighting the fact that European anti-Americanism goes much deeper than a legitimate criticism of, and even welcome opposition to, the policies of the Bush Administration, or that of any American government.

Tuesday, May 3, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Sky Light Room (9100)
Annual Alumni Award Night
The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to Stephen K. White, James Hart Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, who will speak on "Uncertain Constellations: Dignity, Equality, Respect and ...?".  The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Thomas G. Karis, Professor Emeritus, CCNY and the Graduate Center.

Friday, May 6, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07)
Political Theory Colloquium
Backlash: A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the Rise of Political Islam in Turkey 
Ozgur Usenmez, PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center 
-and-
The American Metanarrative of Sovereignty
Annelies Kamran, PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center 

Friday, May 13, 2:00 to 4:00 pm,  Room 8301
Professional Development Committee
Student Protests and the Framing of Development and Inequality in Early New Order Indonesia [1966-1979] - A Mock Job Talk
Ms. Stephanie Sapiie, A.B.D.