Faculty News

• Gretchen Bauer, together with Aili Mari Tripp, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected to organize the 2010 American Political Science Association Africa Workshop for junior African scholars. The workshop will be held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda for three weeks during summer 2010. It will be organized around the theme: Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender.
• Philip Jones joined the Department as Assistant Professor in September 2009. Professor Jones has a PhD from Harvard University.
• 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 2009.
• Mark J. Miller served as co-director for academic affairs for the Study of the United States Institute on US National Security Policymaking: National Security in the post-9/11 World, which convened at the University of Delaware from January 3 to February 15, 2009. The University of Delaware received a grant from the US Department of State to defray expenses for hosting the event which brought 17 experts, mainly professors of international relations and foreign policy, from around the world to Newark.
• Ann Towns' forthcoming book, Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in International Society (Cambridge University Press), was selected as the International Studies Association Northeast Book Circle Honoree for ISA-Northeast 2009.
• Marian Palley delivered four lectures in October 2008 at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea under the auspices of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program.