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Getting Ink Brian Calfano's "Keystone State Christianity and Parish Politicking: Culture and Abortion Politics in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives" will be included in the spring journal of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Andrew Enterline's "Balancing Theory versus Fact, Stasis versus Change: A Look at Some Introductions to International Relations", appears in the latest issue of International Studies Perspectives. |
Alumni News: Curtis Copeland (1980 UNT Ph.D) has been selected as the Department's Alumnus of the year to be honored at the spring UNT Alumni Banquet. Curtis has worked for the General Accounting Office and is currently working at the Congressional Research Service within the US Library of Congress. David McClure, (1983 UNT Ph.D). David served for about 25 years in the General Accounting Office, and is now Vice President for E-Government at the Council for Excellence in Government. Appearances Steve Forde attended the Southern Political Science Association meetings in New Orleans, Jan 8-10, and delivered the paper, "John Locke's Natural Theology." Events The Annual Pi Sigma Alpha Banquet for graduating political science seniors will be Friday, April 23rd at 5:30 pm at Fremaux's Metropolitan Catering on 932 West University in Denton. There will also be a silent auction to benefit the Frank Feigert Scholarship Fund. More Awards! UNT Political Science and the ‘Fessor Graham Award by Dean Woodard The most prestigious award for excellence in teaching is the ‘Fessor Graham Award. What many of you do not know is how well the UNT Political Science Department has fared with this award. Started in 1958 by the United Students of North Texas (forerunner to the present day student association), the award was given to and named in the honor of Professor Floyd Graham. Professor Graham gave 47 years to UNT and was director of the “Aces of College land” stage band and also directed the Saturday night stage shows for 34 years. The selection process is entirely student driven with no faculty or administration input. The winner does not have to be of the professorial ranks. Gladys Crawford M.S. won just a few years ago. She taught multiple generations of biology student’s freshman and sophomore labs. But how has our Department fared? Actually Political Science has won the award significantly more than any other department. We have won the award nine times!! The nearest competition is Music which has won six times. It drops fast after that with most departments winning only once or twice. Our winners include: Sam B. McAlister 1960 Chester A. Newland 1964 William R. Garner 1966 Clovis Morrison 1967 James Riddlesperger 1972 Milan J. Reban 1976 Jerry L. Yeric 1983 Valerie D. Martinez 1991 Kenneth Godwin 1993 Our domination of this award is clear. What many of you do not know is whom from the department has been nominated and was close to winning: John Books, Steve Poe, Stephen, Forde, Alex Tan, John Booth, and James Meernik, to name a few. With the exception of Alex Tan, I don’t think these faculty members were even aware they were nominated. Our own David Mason is also highly recognized for his teaching ability from Memphis State. I am very fortunate to have served as a teaching assistant for three winners. The message is clear to the junior faculty and graduate students: teaching does count! And we must continue to dominate this award!
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