Faculty News

• The Department welcomed two new faculty members in fall 2011: Kara Ellerby, PhD 2011, University of Arizona and Jennifer K. Lobasz, PhD 2011, University of Minnesota. In the fall Ellerby is teaching an Honors Introduction to International Relations and Introduction to Gender and Politics and Lobasz is teaching International Organization.
• James Magee served as co-director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative Summer Institute on American Studies and Leadership at the University of Delaware during summer 2011.
• Gretchen Bauer was awarded an International Research Award from UD's Institute for Global Studies to conduct research in Botswana during summer 2011 on women chiefs and substantive and symbolic representation effects.
• Stuart Kaufman, on a Fulbright Scholar grant, was the Fulbright-Diplomatic Academy Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy at the University of Vienna in Austria, during spring 2011. He taught courses on US Foreign Policy and Ethnic Conflict.
• Mark J. Miller served as academic director for a Study of the United States Institute on US National Security held at UD during winter session 2011. The Institute was supported by a grant from the US Department of State and brought security studies scholars and practitioners from around the world to UD for the six week course. The Institute was a collaboration of the Department and UD's Institute for Global Studies.