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- Jorge Bravo selected for 2006-07 Bass Instructorship Award
Diane M Dunn, 2005/12/19 15:00:17
Jorge Bravo has been selected by the Graduate
School to receive a 2006-07 Bass Instructorship
Award. Jorge will teach a course titled "The
Comparative Political Economy of Contemporary
Migration," and will receive a full graduate
fellowship from the Graduate School.
Congratulations Jorge!
- Congratulations to Professor Paula McClain
Diane M Dunn, 2005/12/16 10:33:23
Professor McClain will be giving her Presidential
Address at the Southern Political Science
Association meetings on Friday, January 6 at
5:45pm, in the Windsor D room of the
Intercontinental Hotel-Buckhead in Atlanta,
Georgia.
You may still register to attend at the following
address: http://www.spsa.net/preregistration.htm.
- Congratulations Candis Watts
Diane M Dunn, 2005/12/07 11:54:02
Ms. Candis Watts, a senior Political Science
major, has been selected to receive an APSA
Minority Graduate Fellowship! Thanks to her
letter writers for support: Prof. McClain, Prof.
Wilkinson, and Prof. Haynie. Congratulations
Candis.
- Kevin Morrison and Victoria DeFrancesca-Soto awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Award
Diane M Dunn, 2005/07/22 11:43:43
Kevin and Victoria have been awarded a National
Science Foundation Dissertation Award.
Congratulations Kevin and Victoria!
Congratulations to Professor Remmer who
is Kevin's advisor.
- Congratulations to Professor Steven Wilkinson
Diane M Dunn, 2005/07/01 11:52:58
Congratulations to Steven Wilkinson, who is co-
winner of the American Political Science
Foundation's
2005
Woodrow Wilson Award, for
his book
"Votes and Violence:
Electoral
Competition and Ethnic Riots in India".
The Award, made annually since 1947, is given
to "the best book published in the United States
during the prior year on government, politics or
international affairs," and carries a cash prize
of $5000. Previous winner's include Duke's own
Herbert Kitschelt, whose book "The Radical Right
in Western Europe" won in 1996.
- Congratulations to Edmund Malesky
Diane M Dunn, 2005/07/05 08:43:15
Edmund Malesky's dissertation has been selected
as the winner of APSA's 2005 Gabriel A. Almond
Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the
field of Comparative Politics. The award will be
presented at the the annual APSA conference.
- Recent Duke Ph.D elected to House of Representatives
Pete Camagna, 2005/04/12 14:04:51
Congratulations to Duke Political Science Ph.D.
'98 Dan
Lipinski (D.-IL-3rd) on his November 2004
election to the House! He joins faculty member
Representative David Price
(D.-NC-4th) and political science alumna Senator
Elizabeth Dole'58 (R.-NC) in Congress. Other Duke
grads currently in the House include Reps. Robin
Hayes (R-NC-8th) History '67, Bob Inglis
(R-SC-4th) '81, Ron Paul (R-TX-14th) MD '61 and
two out of three West Virginia representatives
(Nick Rahall (D-WV-3rd) '71, Shelley Capito
(R-WV-2nd) M.Ed.).
- Placement Success 2004-05
Pete Camagna, 2005/04/12 14:03:03
This year's Duke Ph.D.s have accepted tenure-track
jobs at UC Berkeley, St. Olaf College, UC San
Diego, Loyola-Chicago, Haverford College, Meredith
College, Georgia Southern, and James Madison.
Congratulations to all!
- Recent Faculty Publications
Pete Camagna, 2005/04/12 14:02:16
Five Department members have published books in AY
2004-05. Scott De Marchi's Computational and
Mathematical modeling in the Social Sciences was
published by Cambridge
in July 2005. Steven Wilkinson's book Votes
and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic
Riots in India was published by Cambridge in 2004.
- Professor Paula McClain elected President of SPSA
Diane M Dunn, 2005/07/01 11:27:37
Congratulations to Professor Paula McClain on her
election to the 2004-2005 President of the
Southern Political Science Association! This is a
presidential year for the department: Professor
John Aldrich is the current President of the M
idwest
Political Science Association.
- Guillermo Trejo, expert on religion and politics, to join department in Fall 2005
Diane M Dunn, 2005/06/27 09:39:59
Guillermo Trejo, an expert in religion and
politics in Latin America who currently teaches at
CIDE
in Mexico City, will join the Duke department
in Fall 2005.
- David Rohde, expert on Congress and party politics, joins department in Fall 2005
Pete Camagna, 2005/04/12 13:58:40
Professor David Rohde, a nationally known expert
on Congress and party politics, has accepted an
offer to join our department from MSU in Fall
2005. We look forward to welcoming him to our
department, as well as to participating in our
collaborative research in the Duke
UNC American
Politics Program.
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