Featured Alum News from our 2017 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Michael J. Thompson (2005) published The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory (Palgrave, 2017), an in-depth account of critical thought from the Frankfurt school through today.

Michael Sharpe (2008) co-published an article with James F. Hollifield titled “Japan as an Emerging Migration State” in the journal International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2017.  Professor Sharpe serves as an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Weatherhead East Asian Institute while on sabbatical from York College for the academic year 2017-2018.

Asaf Y. Shamis (2014) published The Media Environment of Political Thought: Rousseau, Marx, and the Politics of Selfies (Lexington Books, 2017), which offers a way of looking at the tradition of political thought by reconstructing the historical media landscapes in which great political texts were produced.  

Antoinette Pole (2005) co-published an article with Lauren Dinour titled “Potato Chips, Cookies, and Candy Oh My! Public Commentary on Proposed Rules Regulating Competitive Foods” in Health Education & Behavior, April 2017. 

Stan Luger and Brian Waddell (1993 and 1989, respectively) published their book, What American Government Does (John Hopkins University Press, 2017), in which they offer a historical analysis of the development of US government, presenting a reading of American political development that dispels the myth of a weak, minimal, non-interventionist state.

Peter Kolozi (2009) published a book Conservative Critiques of Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2017), that examines arguments against capital from the right wing of the political spectrum. 

Sobukwe Odinga (2016) received the prestigious 2017 Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award in recognition of his outstanding scholarship in African politics. The award was presented to Odinga during the American Political Science Conference in San Francisco, California.

Anthony Maniscalco (2014) was named to the Advisory Board of the Howard J. Samuels State and City Policy Center, Baruch College, CUNY.

Joanna Tice-Jen (2017) has been appointed to a tenure track position at Las Positas College in Livermore, California, teaching American Government and Political Theory. 

Peter J. Hoffman (2012), along with Professor Thomas Weiss, published Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018). 

Patrice McSherry (1994) was named “Author of the Month” by Editorial Lom in Santiago, Chile after the publication of the Spanish version of her book on Chilean New Song, La Nueva Canción chilena: El poder político de la música, 1960-1973 (Santiago: Lom Ediciones 2017). Her article “The Political Impact of Chilean New Song in Exile” was published in Latin American Perspectives. A short article she coauthored with Katia Chornik, “The power of Captive Songs” was published by the London School of Economics blog. 

Kevin Van Meter (2014) published Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible (AK Press, 2017), in which he challenges Left assumptions about working and poor people, documenting the history of everyday resistance under slavery, in peasant life, and throughout modern capitalism. 

Adrienne Jones (1982) secured a tenure-track position at Morehouse College in Georgia.

José E. Cruz (1994) published a book Puerto Rican Identity, Political Development, and Democracy in New York, 1960-1990 (Lexington Books, 2017). Cruz also presented a paper “Celebrations of Citizenship: The Case of the Luis Muñoz Rivera Memorial Association in New York,” at the Seminario de Otros Mundos sponsored by the faculty of geography and history at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

Tatiana Carayannis (2017), co-published with Louisa Lombard an edited volume, Making Sense of the Central African Republic, (University of Chicago Press, 2015).  She serves as Director for the Understanding Violent Conflict Research Initiative and Deputy Director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the Social Science Research Council. 

Bruce Altschuler (1981) published Seeing through the Screen: Interpreting American Political Film (Lexington Books, 2017). The book is composed of short essays that examine American political films and their impact on contemporary political issues. 

Kara Alaimo (2015) was quoted in a front-page story in The New York Times and published op-eds in Bloomberg View and CNN Opinion on outrage over the forced removal of a United Airlines passenger and Alabama Governor Robert Bradley’s sex scandal, respectively. Alaimo’s book, Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication (Routledge, 2016), has won praise for its straightforward guidance on how to communicate across cultures.

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