Alum News: Fall 2016

Alum News: Fall 2016

Featured Alum News from our 2016 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Margaret Groarke (2000) had an article published in Political Science Quarterly (2016): “The Impact of Voter Fraud Claims on Voter Registration Reform Legislation.”

Patrice McSherry (1994) had an article published in Social Justice March, “The Chilean New Song Movement: Far More Than a Relic of the Past.” McSherry joined the Advisory Board of Cantos Cautivos, a project on songs and musical experiences in Chilean centers for political detention and torture during the Pinochet dictatorship. She wrote a prologue for a new book on Operation Condor by Fernando López, Feathers of the Condor: Transnational State Terrorism, Exiles and Civilian Anticommunism in South America (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). McSherry chaired a panel at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in NYC in May, entitled “Repensando la Paz de 1996 a la luz de los extraordinarios acontecimientos de Guatemala en 2015.” http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-feathers-of-condor 

 

Jill Norgren (1999) and a Swarthmore College colleague mounted an exhibit at Swarthmore this past winter. It celebrated the lives and accomplishments of American women who ran for elective office between 1850 to 1920. Norgren’s new book, with the working title “The Only Skirt in the Room: Tales of Twentieth Century Trailblazing American Women Lawyers,” was just sent out for review to publishers. In October, she spoke about Belva Lockwood at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

 

Jason Schulman (2009) is currently an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Lehman College. His recent publications include: “The Mass Strike and Rosa Luxemburg’s Dialectic of Spontaneity and Organization” in Rosa Remix (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2016); two books reviews, “Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class,” (2016) and “Paul Le Blanc, Unfinished Leninism” (2016); and an article on “Bernie Sanders and the Dilemma of the Democratic ‘Party’” in New Politics (2016). On August 22, he presented a paper, “Rosa Luxemburg’s Dialectic of Spontaneity and Organization” at Rosa Remix: New Takes on a Longtime Classic, organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in NYC.

 

Michael Sharpe (2008) earned tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science at York College, CUNY in Fall 2015. He is a scholar at the Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. This past year, he was invited to give several talks: “International Migration: The Multiple Dimensions of Migration in a Globalized World”, at the University of Curacao, July 21, 2016; “Calling the Nation Home and Contesting National Membership: The Political Incorporation of Latin American Nikkeijin in Japan 1990-2008”, May 20, 2016; “The Political Economy of Migration”, Third Global Japan Forum, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and “Inheriting the Liberal State: Postcolonial Citizen and Ethnic Migration from Latin America to the Netherlands and Japan”, March 31, 2016, at Villanova University, PA.

 

Nick Robbins (2014) accepted a one-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Politics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.