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

Jeffrey Broxmeyer (2014) had his article “Roscoe Conkling’s Wartime Cotton Speculation” published in New York History: A Quarterly Journal 96:2 (February 2016). His forthcoming article “Political Capitalism in the Gilded Age: The Tammany Bank Run of 1871 will appear in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Jennifer Corby (2015) edited Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman which will be published by Urban Research. The book examines various perspectives on Marshall’s work and includes his heretofore unpublished essay “Emerging from the Ruins.”

Margaret Groarke (2000) will have her forthcoming article “The Impact of Voter Fraud claims on voter registration Reform Legislation” published in Political Science Quarterly.

Fanny Lauby (2014), Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University recently published “Leaving the ‘Perfect Dreamer’ Behind? Narratives and Mobilization in Immigration Reform,” in Social Movement Studies, and “’Because She Knew That I Did Not Have a Social’: Ad Hoc Guidance Strategies for Latino Undocumented Students,” in the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. 

Patrice McSherry (1994) will have her forthcoming article entitled “La Operación Cóndor: sistema transnacionalizado de terror estatal” published in Signos, the journal of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. She was also interviewed about Operation Condor, for a mini-documentary by El Ciudadano TV (Chile), in November 2015. McSherry wrote the Preface for a new book edited by Pablo Leighton and Fernando López, Forty Years Are Nothing: History and Memory of the 1973 Coups d’ètat in Uruguay and Chile (London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). Also in 2015 her chapter “Estados Unidos, Contrainsurgencia y la Operación Cóndor,” was published in Centro Internacional para la Promoción de Derechos Humanos (CIPDH), 40 años de la Operación Cóndor. Elaboración, edición e impresión de un informe conmemorativo.

Jason Shulman (2009) had his article “Bernie Sanders and the Dilemma of the Democratic Party” as well as his review of Unfinished Leninism by Paul Le Blanc appear in the Winter 2016 issue of New Politics. Last year, his book Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response: The Politics of the End of Labourism was published by Palgrave Macmillan UK. He also published a book review of Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason by Werner Bonefeld in the June 2015 issue of New Political Science.

Michael J. Thompson (2005) authored The Domestication of Critical Theory. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016 and Constructing Marxist Ethics: Critique, Normativity, Praxis. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016. He was also co-editor with G. Zucker of Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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