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AwardsCongratulations to Professor Emile Sahliyeh, winner of the 2005, UNT Service Award for the enormous amount of service he contributes to the entire campus. Congratulations also to Prof. Gloria Cox on being named Dean of the Honors College! Books PublishedProf. John Booth's Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion and Change (4th edition) with co-authors Christine J. Wade and Thomas W. Walker has been published by Westview Press. Prof. Elizabeth Oldmixon's, Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex and the U.S. House of Representatives will be published next month by Georgetown University Press. Acceptances Prof. Elizabeth Oldmixon's, "Affiliation, Salience, Advocacy: Three Religious Factors in Public Policy-Making," (with David Yamane) was accepted for publication at Legislative Studies Quarterly. Prof. James Meernik's "The Rehnquist Court and its Support of Federal Agencies (co-authored with Prof. Joe Ignagni and Prof. Rebecca Deen, UT-Arlington" will be appearing in a special issue of Judicature on the legacy of the Rehnquist court. Articles Published Prof. Elizabeth Oldmixon's and Brian Calfano's, "Religious Lobbies and the Texas Legislature," (with Peter VonDoepp) is published in Representing God at the Statehouse: Religion and Politics in the American States, (eds. Edward L. Cleary and Allen Hertzke). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Jun-deh Wu's and Alex Tan's (Canterbury University) "The Presidential Election in Taiwan, March 2004." was published in Electoral Studies.
GrantsBrian Calfano has won two dissertation grants totaling $6000: The Constant H. Jacquet research award from the Religious Research Association and the Jack Shand research award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Dasha Radin has received a Global Supplementary Grant for completing her PhD from the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) in the amount of $3,000. |
Appearances At the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington D.C. over Labor Day weekend, the department was well represented: Brian Calfano and Prof. Elizabeth Oldmixon presented "Catholic Clergy Activism in the 2004 Elections: Tipping the Scales with Gay Marriage". Prof. David Mason presented "Durable Peace After Civil Wars? Civil War Outcomes and the Duration of Peace". Prof. Michael Greig presented "Softening Up: Making Conflicts More Amenable to Diplomacy". Prof. Steve Forde presented "The Moral and Rational Requirements of Locke's Liberalism". Prof. Corey Ditslear presented "Building New Measures of Supreme Court Ideology: Clerk Selection as an Indicator of Preferences." At the Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, in Istanbul, Turkey, June 8-12, 2005, Prof. Emile Sahliyeh presented, "Terrorism: Old and New". Jun-deh Wu presented “To Vote or Not to Vote, That Is the Question: An Exploratory Analysis of the Presidential and Referenda Vote in Taiwan." (co-authored with Alexander C. Tan) at the International Conference on Taiwan’s Election and Democratization Study, May 21-22, 2005, Taipei.
Prof. David Mason and Prof.
Andrew Enterline were invited participants
in the Mellon Seminar on "The Quality of the Peace: A Conference on
Post-Conflict Environments" sponsored by Gettysburg College
(Gettysburg, PA), August 29-31.
Prof. Dave Mason also participated in meetings of the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Political Violence and Terrorism. As a member of the Task Force, Mason is contributing to the writing of a report that will present what knowledge, findings, information political science research has produced on issues of political violence and terrorism that the general public and the policy community would be interested in learning. Mason is chairing the task force committee addressing issues of how civil conflicts are brought to an end. Events The conference "Emerging Democracies and Democratic Values: The Experiences of Taiwan and East Asia" hosted by the UNT Political Science Department and generously supported by a grant from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy was held August 27-28, 2005 in Wooten Hall 322. For more details click here. The Peace Studies Program hosted a series of events with the Honourable Jeffrey Donaldson, an member of the British House of Commons from Northern Ireland and a key participant in the peace process in Northern Ireland. Dr. John Books arranged for Donaldson's visit and hosted both an evening lecture by Donaldson on "The Prospects for Peace in Northern Ireland" and an Friday afternoon roundtable "Perspectives on the Peace Process: the Case of Northern Ireland" that included current and former UNT Peace Professors Steven Poe, John Booth and David Mason, along with Donaldson. Thanks to Eddie Meaders, Corey Ditslear, Steve Forde, Kimi King, Richard Ruderman and Wendy Watson for hosting the Traveling Constitution Show on September 19 at the Lyceum. The Fall Department party will be Saturday, September 24 beginning at 7:30 pm at the Meernik/King home on 3105 Broken Bow.
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