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

Professor George Andreopoulos is currently completing a book on Justice and World Order (with Henry Carey) to be published by Routledge and on a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice on Human Trafficking (with Jana Arsovska). In February, he was interviewed in The Security Brief program on CBS Radio to discuss The Real Story behind GITMO. In June, he was a discussant on a panel at the CISS/ISA Conference on Boundaries and Borders in an Evolving World Order: Challenges and Prospects, in Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Professor Braveboy-Wagner’s new book, Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South: The Search for Leadership (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) is now out. She will speak on the topic  of the integration of the Global South into the academy at Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main on October 6th and 7th. Professor Braveboy-Wagner has also been asked to co-chair a Task Force on the Global South for the International Studies Association with Professor N. Behera from the University of New Delhi.

Professor Forrest Colburn lectured on the political organization of interest groups and strategies for lobbying on May 26th to representatives of the Cámara de Industria in Cuenca, Ecuador. Additionally, on September 9th, Professor Colburn gave a talk on the U.S. elections in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for the convention of industrialists from Jalisco, Mexico. 

Professor Benedetto Fontana published a chapter, “Intellectuals and Masses: Agency and Knowledge in Gramsci,” in Antonio Gramsci (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Professor Mitchell Cohen has had two books published: The Wager of Lucien Goldmann (Princeton University Press, 2015), and the French edition of Zion and State has been republished as Du Reve sioniste a la reality israelienne (Editions la Decouverte, 2015). Professor Cohen was also interviewed by FoNet, the oppositionist news agency in ex-Yugoslavia about American and Middle East politics. 

Professor Stephanie Golob gave a keynote lecture at the Instituto Cervantes in New York on May 6th, 2016, entitled “Democracy’s Future in Spain and North America,” closing the Second International Congress on Historical Linkages between Spain and North America:  Past, Present and Future, co-sponsored by CCNY Division of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Spain. Fall 2016 marks the start of her second year as Associate Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where she convenes the Bunche Forum series of events.  

Distinguished Professor Carol Gould is currently President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association and served as the section’s Program Chair for the 2016 annual conference in Philadelphia. On June 3rd, 2016, she gave a plenary talk entitled “Relational Diversity, Structural Injustice, and Participatory Institutions” at the Conference on Diversity, Technische Universität München, Germany.

Professor Janet Gornick has led the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality since 2009. This past September it was awarded a $2.5 million gift from James and Cathleen Stone, after whom the center has been renamed, to research multiple forms of social and economic inequality. The gift will fund public, student-led talks, a lecture series, a one-week intensive course on inequality in June, and its mission with the LIS in Europe to collect and archive data used by researchers worldwide. 

Professor Jack Jacobs is serving as the Louis and Helen Padnos Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor during the Fall 2016 semester. His book, The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism, recently published in paperback by Cambridge University Press, was the subject of a forum in the German Quarterly. An interview with him about his book has been posted as a podcast on the New Books Network. Jacobs was the keynote speaker at a conference in Berlin last semester and also delivered a talk about his current research at the University of California, San Diego. 

Professor Keena Lipsitz was invited to speak at a conference on the 2016 election at the University of California, Berkeley in April. She also participated in a roundtable, “The Authority of Aesthetics in Contemporary Politics,” at MoMA PS1 in March. In addition, Lipsitz was quoted in a U.S. News & World Report article about the presidential primary.

Professor John Mollenkopf has co-edited with Professor Manuel Pastor a book addressing the incorporation of immigrants at the metropolitan level, Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civil Leadership for Immigrant Integration (Cornell University Press, 2016). Additionally, the Center for Urban Research (CUR) has become the institutional home of Metropolitics, a peer-reviewed online journal of public scholarship about cities and urban politics that Professor Mollenkopf co-edits. 

Professor Ruth O’Brien has published a chapter, “Progress and Good Governance in Domestic Policy” in Debating the Obama Presidency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). Additionally, O’Brien has a contribution in American Governance (Macmillan Reference USA, 2016) on President Barack Obama.

Professor Emeritus Peter Ranis was interviewed on Richard Wolff’s WBAI program “Economic Update” on September 16, 2016 concerning his recent book Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy (University of Chicago Press, 2016). 

Professor Stanley Renshon has three contributions in books out this year: “Doing Well vs. Being Great: Comparing the Bush and Obama Doctrines,” in The George W. Bush Presidency: Constitution, Politics, and Policy Making, Vol. 1 (Nova Science Publishers, 2016) and “The Immigration and Nationality Act” and “Naturalization” in the Encyclopedia of American Governance (Macmillan, 2016).  

Professor Charles Tien was quoted in The Washington Post in an article discussing prediction models in the race for the White House. 

Professor John Wallach has published a contribution in the Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, “Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory.” Additionally, he has a chapter in Scientific Statesmanship, Governance, and the History of Political Philosophy entitled “The Platonic Moment: Transpositions of Power, Reason, and Ethics.” In November, he was invited to give a talk on “Thucydides as a Political Theorist” at a conference on the political thought of Sheldon Wolin at York University, Toronto, CA. Last fall he presented talks at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Cowell College. 

Presidential Professor Thomas G. Weiss has just published updated versions of three books: What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (3rd edition, Polity, 2016), Humanitarian Intervention (3rd edition, Polity, 2016), and his textbook The United Nations and Changing World Politics (co-author, 8th edition, Westview, 2016). He also edited a special edition of the Third World Quarterly, “The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015” (2015). He gave public lectures at the World Economic Forum, the UN University, the University of Geneva, the University of Oklahoma, the UN Staff College, and the University of Minnesota. His research project on the Future UN Development System co-sponsored with the 1-for-7-billion civil society initiative effort included three public forums with candidates to become the next UN Secretary-General, one in London and two in New York; Weiss moderated one of these forums at the Graduate Center in July. Book chapters appeared in four edited collections and journal articles in International Studies Perspectives, International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Horizons. Great Decisions 2016, IPI Global Observatory, and Democracy Journal. In July, he began his two-year term as Andrew Carnegie Fellow, which will result in the book tentatively titled, Would the World Be Better without the UN? 

Professor Richard Wolin’s essay, “Heideggers Schwarze Hefte: Nationalsozialismus, Weltjudentum, und Seinsgeschichte” was selected by the editors and readers of Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte as Best Essay of 2015. Additionally, he had an article published in The Nation in August, “France’s National Front Draws Strength from Brexit,” and in the Chronicle Review on “Donald Trump: Prophet of Deceit,” this October, and a contribution to Heideggers Schwarze Hefte: Eine philosophische Debatte (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2016), “Vernunftkritik nach den Schwarzen Heften.” Wolin was invited to give several lectures this year: “Words That Kill: Rhetoric and Reality in the Discourse of the French National Front” and “Arendt and Heidegger: Technology, Mass Society, and the Banality of Evil,” in September at the University of Denver and in Israel in January, on Heideggers’s ‘Black Notebooks’, Gadamer, and Hermeneutics.

Professor Susan Woodward was chair on one panel, discussant on a second, and a member of another panel on the book by Veljko Vujacic, Nationalism, Myth, and the State in Russia and Serbia, at the Association for the Study of Nationalities’ annual convention at Columbia University in April 2016.