Alum News: Fall 2015

Alum News: Fall 2015

Featured Alum News from our 2015 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Regina S. Axelrod (1978), Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University, was awarded the SAGE Cornerstone Author Award to commemorate the 4th edition of The Global Environment; Law, Institutions and Policy, (Washington: Congressional Quarterly). The book, which Regina first co-edited 15 years ago, has remained at the cutting edge of global climate scholarship and was also awarded the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title.
Bruce Altschuler (1980), Professor Emeritus of Political Science at SUNY Oswego, recently published “Is the Pentagon Papers Case Relevant in the Age of Wikileaks?” in Political Science Quarterly.
 
Jill Gross (1999), Director of the Hunter College Graduate Program in Urban Policy and Leadership, was elected to serve as Chair of the Urban Affairs Association in the spring of 2015. The Urban Affairs Association is the international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, and public service professionals.
 
William Friedman (1999), President of Public Agenda, traveled to Adelaide, South Australia, and met with Premier Jay Weatherill.  While in South Australia Dr. Friedman consulted with the state government on the innovative and evolving work they are doing engaging constituents and communities in governance. He recounted his experience in a piece in the Huffington Post South Australia:  Innovators in Democracy and Public Engagement.”
 
João Feres Júnior (2003), Professor of Political Science at IESP-UERJ in Brazil, had his dissertation, The concept of Latin America in the United States misrecognition and social scientific discourse published as a book in four different languages (Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French). He also served as a consultant to the Brazilian Supreme Court on the implementation of affirmative action in public institutions. 
Toni Pole (2005), Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Montclair State, recently co-authored “Life and Death in the Mental Health Blogosphere: An Analysis of Blog Content and Survival” in World Medical & Health Policy, as well as “Segmenting CSA Members by Motivation: Anything but Two Peas in a Pod” in British Food Journal.
Patrice McSherry (1994), Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Long Island University, has recently published Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music (Temple University Press 2015). The book was awarded the Cecil B. Currey 2015 book award from the Association of Third World Studies.
 
Shawna M. Brandle (2013), Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kingsborough Community College, will have her forthcoming book, Television News Coverage of Human Rights in the US and UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised published by Routledge Press in December, 2015.
 
Patricia Stapleton (2012), Director of the Society, Technology, and Policy Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, recently co-edited Biopolitics and Utopia: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Palgrave 2015). Patricia is also co-author, with GC alum Daniel Skinner,  of the forthcoming article “How Will the Affordable Care Act Impact Assisted Reproductive Technology Use?” which will appear in Politics and the Life Sciences.
Christopher Malone (2001) was named Associate Dean of the Lehman College School of Natural and Social Sciences on August 24th. One of Dr. Malone’s objectives in his new position is to expand internship opportunities for Lehman students in the Bronx.
Jeffrey Broxmeyer (2014) received an Honorable Mention for the 2014 Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award from the APSA Politics and History Section, for his dissertation Politics as a Sphere of Wealth Accumulation: Cases of Gilded Age New York, 1855-1888.
Alex Zamalin (2014), Director of African American Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Detroit, Mercy, had his first book, “African American Political Thought and American Culture,” published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2015. (link to book: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/african-american-political-thought-and-american-culture-alex-zamalin/?isb=9781137528094