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Department of
Political Science Bulletin
February, 2009
Political
Science News
Grants
and Awards
Richard Ruderman
received a $5000 UNT Learning Enhancement Grant to
develop a partially on-line course on “The American Quest for Justice.”
Cullen Hendrix and Idean
Saleyhan will receive
$500,000+ as part of a UNT/UT Austin
collaborative project on “Climate Change, State Stability,
and Political Risk in Africa.” They will be funded
for five years.
Steven Forde
has been granted a Faculty
Development Leave to be taken during the 2009-2010 academic year.
His project is entitled, “Two Cheers for Human
Rights,” will
examine the philosophic basis for human rights.
Andrew Enterline
has been granted a Faculty
Development Leave to be taken during the 2009-2010 academic year.
His project is entitled “Nation-State
Origins and International Relations.” It will build
on the work that Andrew has done with Michael Greig on imposed
polities, developing a more general theory of origins.
Acceptances
Mathiew
Turgeon's “A Matter of Distinction: Candidate Polarization
and Information Processing in Election Campaigns” (co-authored with
Danny Hayes), was accepted for publication in American
Politics Research.
In Print
Valerie Martinez'
new book is out this month
from Oxford University Press. The title is Perspectives on Race,
Ethnicity and Religion: Identity Politics in America.
John Booth's
new book, The
Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in
Eight Nations,
(co-authored with Mitchell A. Seligson) has
just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Appearances
Professor Paul
Collins
presented “Cognitive Dissonance on the U.S. Supreme
Court” at the Workshop on Law, Economics, and Politics at the
University of Texas School of Law, February 2, 2009.
Valerie Martinez
will be giving a
guest lecture at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque,
NM on February 13, on “Latinos and Presidential Politics.”
Richard Ruderman
was invited to participate
in a series of conferences at Princeton University's Tikvah Program on
the Passover Haggadah.
Moot Court News
The University of North Texas Moot Court
team participated January 16 and 17 in the National Moot Court
Competition at Chapman Law
School in California. Over 200 teams from 30
states across the nation competed for 64 slots to compete in Nationals.
UNT was able to obtain four spots and the top alternate position for
competition and did very well at nationals. Graduate Emily Ownby and
graduate Allie Hallmark competed in the semi-final round where they
lost to the team that went on to win the tournament. Junior Rodney
Bernal placed as the 11th speaker in the competition out of 128
speakers. UNT Students, junior Melisa Lui, senior Elisa Starky, Senior
Bekah Kopsky, graduate Laura Lois, graduate Lorrain Birabel and
freshmen Shelby Henderson, were also national finalists in the
competition. The UNT Moot court team is currently prepping for their
last competition of the year, which will be held at the
University of
North Texas March 6 and 7.
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