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

Jill Gross (1999) had an article published in the Roosevelt House Faculty Journal (2017), “Facing the Realities of Geo-Political Division in the Age of Trump: The Metropolitan Future and the Need for Collaborative Models of Governance.” She also participated in a podcast with Susan Clarke and Allison Bramwell at Urban Affairs Review (2017), which also published her article, “The Hybrid Opportunity for Constructive Conflict – Accomplishing Agonism in Urban Governance.” Additionally, she gave two presentations, “European Cities and International Migration in the 21st Century: Crisis, Framing and Super Diversity” at the Internationalising Cities workshop in Paris and “The Role of Networks in Metropolitan Development” at the University of Rome. 

Anthony Maniscalco (2014) was quoted in an article in Architect Magazine, “Public Space in the Trump Era” (2017). 

John McMahon (2016) had an article published in philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism (2017):  “Emotional Orientations: Simone de Beauvoir and Sara Ahmed on Subjectivity and the Emotional Phenomenology of Gender.” 

Patrice McSherry (1994) presented her paper “Constructing Silence, Terror, and Dread: Operation Condor and State Terror in Latin America” at the International Pierre du Bois conference in Geneva. In November, she visited Santiago, Chile and participated in a roundtable discussion held in the National Library on the Chilean New Song movement, her current research focus. 

Rose Muzio (2008) had a book published on militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City, Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York (SUNY Press, 2017).

Sobukwe Odinga (2016) was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, his article “’We Recommend Compliance’: Bargaining and Leverage in Ethiopian-US Intelligence Cooperation” was published in The Review of African Political Economy (2017).

Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton (2017) had a chapter, “A Problem Grows in Brooklyn,” published in the anthology We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israelʼs Critics, eds. William Robinson and Maryam Griffin (AK Press, 2017).

Jason Schulman (2009) presented a paper, “Conceptualizing the Future: Marx’s Value Theory and the Contours of a Socialist Economy,” at a conference at Hofstra University in April.

Michael J. Thompson (2005) had two books published, The Domestication of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory, ed. ​(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Mark Woodcock (1981) had his documentary, “Report from World 3: Snapshot in Time,” released by Vimeo On Demand (2017). Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, this never-before-released account from the ‘70s examines the unresolved issues and missed chances in Algeria’s struggle for independence and development.

This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.