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• Guillermo Trejo in APSR Congratulations to Guillermo who had the lead article in the current issue of APSR. To view the article click here.  This is a very important achievement.  Congratulations Guillermo!

   

• Congratulations to Joe Grieco, Chris Gelpi, and Camber Warren A slightly late congratulations to our friends Joe Grieco, Chris Gelpi, and Camber Warren for their paper in the April 2009 International Organization.   The link to the abstract....   This paper is many of the things that makes our program a success.  A long-term collaborative effort between two very productive faculty members, in one of the top journals in the discipline. And it also involves work with one of our best graduate students.  Further, it is a really interesting and well-executed paper with important policy implications.
• Ralph Bunche Summer Institute renewed for three years The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $404,000 to Duke University to continue the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute for the next three summers, beginning this year. The institute encourages highly competitive minorities to pursue graduate programs in political science. "I am pleased that the National Science Foundation remains impressed with the work we are doing here at Duke," said Paula McClain, a political science professor and the institute's director. "Bunche is considered a cross-directorate program of the Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, which means the proposal is reviewed twice by two different panels and both reviews were stellar." The five-week summer program is designed to simulate the academically intensive graduate school experience as well as provide mentoring for African-American, Hispanic and American Indian students. The program's top students are given the opportunity to present their research at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting. "The success of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute is unmatched by any other pipeline program in the country," McClain said. "For example, six former Bunche students will receive their doctorates this spring and will move into faculty positions in the fall. There are another 25 that are writing their dissertations, and numerous others in graduate programs around the country." Sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA), the institute is funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke. The institute, named in honor of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner and first black American to receive a doctorate in political science in 1934, moved to Duke in 2000 from the University of Virginia when McClain joined the Duke faculty.
• Welcome: Dr. Michael D. Ward The Department is pleased to announce the successful recruitment of Dr. Michael D. Ward, Professor of Politcal Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has been an affiliate of the Cemter for Statistics and Social Sciences for some time.  Dr. Ward's primary interests are in international relations (spanning democratization, globalization, international commerce, military spending, as well as international conflict and cooperation), political geography, as well as mathematical and statistical methods.   Dr. Ward's hiring is a very significant addition to the International Relations and Methods offerings at Duke, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
• Welcome: Dr. D. Sunshine Hillygus We are pleased to announce that Dr. D. Sunshine Hillygus, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, has accepted our offer to take a tenured Associate Professor Position in the Department of Political Science.  Dr. Hillygus has research and teaching interests in political behavior and elections, and is the author of many articles, as well as the recent book The Persuadable Voter, published by Princeton University Press.
• Mike Munger in the N & O Mike had a small piece in the Sunday Opinion section, on regulation, also in the N&O, in a little discussion of policy: ' Is more regulation the answer?'.
• Feaver and Gelpi in the News & Observer Peter and Chris in the February 27th issue of News and Observer - 'The Weight of War Casualties'.
• Congratulations to Donald Horowitz On February 17, 2009, Donald L. Horowitz received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. A panel was convened to discuss his work as part of the award celebration.
• Erik Wibbels in The San Diego Union-Tribune Erik's and Jonathan Rodden's article "A federal bailout for the states?" is in today's San Diego Union-Tribune.
• 2009 Dean's Awards for Excellence in Mentoring goes to Karen Remmer Congratulations to Karen, for her extraordinary service in working with graduate students in our department. This is an award well deserved! Congratulations Karen!
• David Siroky's op-ed in N&O David Siroky's very interesting op-ed was in Tuesday's N & O on the conflict in Georgia. 

  David also has spoken to at least one radio interviewer about this. Congratulations to David!

• Aldrich Receives APSA’s 2008 Eldersveld Career Achievement Award ! Our own John Aldrich has been selected to receive the 2008 Samuel Eldersveld "Career Achievement Award," given annually by the American Political Science’s Political Organizations and Parties Section, “honoring a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field." Congratulations John!
  John is the third member of our department to receive this award. Alan Kornberg won it in 1989 and Herbert Kitschelt in 2006. Duke faculty represent 1/6 of all the Eldersveld career achievers in the entire discipline. No other university has even won TWO, and now we have THREE.!
  For more information: http://www.apsanet.org/~pop/awards.htm and Political Organizations and Parties Section Award Winners
  
  
• Erik Wibbels in the N & O Erik's op-ed, "Why it's so unlikely" was in the August 8th issue of the N & O.
• Chris Gelpi in the News and Observer "Good news from Iraq is a boost for McCain" by Chris is in the May 26th issue of N & O.
• Bruce Jentleson in the N & O Bruce's op-ed, "Saving lives when governments won't" was in the May 25th N & O.
• Alexander Downes' new book 

  In this book, Downes asks why states engage in civilian victimization -- military strategies that target an enemy's civilian population in wartime. He argues that such strategies are employed in two circumstances: to coerce an adversary to give up when leaders become desperate to win or to reduce their military casualties in costly wars of attrition, and to eliminate actual or potential resistance by the population in wars to conquer and annex an enemy's territory. http://www.duke.edu/~downes/publications.htm

  Congratulations Alex!

• Honoring Professor Allan Kornberg After 43 years of distinguished service to Duke, Professor Kornberg will officially retire from the university at the end of next academic year. In recognition of his many contributions to our department and the university, we are happy to announce that our conference room (Room 317) has been officially named the Allan Kornberg Conference Room! Please join me in congratulating Professor Kornberg for this most deserved honor and recognition. We will have a formal naming reception in early September in which Professor Kornberg and his wife, Pat, will join us for this wonderful occasion. Thanks to Provost Lange and Dean McLendon for their efforts in getting formal university approval for this honor.
• Ruth Grant on Community Radio Listen to Ruth on community radio on a talk show about Moral Values sponsored by the North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture talking about Goodness and Evil. Congratulations Ruth!
• Gabriel Sheffer quoted in the Washington Post 

  Gabriel has been quoted in an article "Official Panel Accuses Israeli Leaders Of Multiple Failures in Lebanon War" in the May 1st issue of the Washington Post. Congratulations Gabriel!

• Congratulations to Claire Lauterbach Claire Lauterbach, a Junior Political Science Major with an IR concentration, had a paper accepted for publication in International Studies Perspectives. The paper, entitled "The Costs of Cooperation: Civilian Casualty Counts in Iraq," was originally written when Claire was a Sophomore in Professor Tim Buthe's course on Non-State Actors in World Politics (PS 158/PPS 181). Good work Claire and thanks to Professor Buthe for his fine mentorship!
• John Transue in the news! John Transue was quoted in an article in the March 26th issue of the Durham Herald Sun. Congratulations John!
• Dave Rohde in the news! Dave has been quoted in the March 22nd issue of The New York Times, Congratulations Dave!
• Dave Rohde in Congressional Quarterly Dave Rohde was quoted in the March 21st issue of Congressional Quarterly. Congratulations Dave!
• 2006 Graduate Student Research Day 

  Michael Munger has been invited to participate in the 2006 Graduate Student Research Day as a reviewer on Wednesday, April 5th.

  For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.gradschool.duke.edu/student_life/finding_support/gsa/programs/graduate_student_research_day/

• Congratulations to Professor Chris Gelpi He has won the 2006 Karl Deutsch Award, given by the International Studies Association to the scholar under 40 years of age who is judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most signigicant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research. You can read more about the Kark Deutsch Award at http://www.isanet.org/committee/Deutsch.html You will notice from the list of past winners that Prof. Gelpi joins an august and exclusive company.
• Congratulations to Doug Casson Doug Casson has won the APSA's Strauss Award for best theory dissertation this year.