Faculty News: Fall 2017

Faculty News: Fall 2017

Featured Faculty News from our 2017 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.
Professor Susan L. Woodward gave invited talks on her new book, The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails (Cambridge, 2017) in the United Kingdom at the Royal United Services Institute; St. Antony’s College, Oxford; Reading University; the UK Department of International Development and the Foreign Office; the London School of Economics and Political Science; and Cambridge University. In the United States, Professor Woodward was invited to speak at the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. In addition, she will speak at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo.
Professor Mark Ungar published 21st Century Fight for the Amazon: Environmental Enforcement in the World’s Biggest Rainforest (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2017). This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. The Department of Political Science will be hosting a book launch in Spring 2018.
Professor Charles Tien was interviewed by the Gothamist about the electoral college, and was invited to present a paper on polling in the 2016 election at UC Riverside. Professor Tien also has an article titled, “The Racial Gap in Voting Among Women: White Women, Racial Resentment, and Support for Trump” forthcoming in the 50th anniversary edition of New Political Science.
Professor Sanford Schram published this past August a volume co-edited with Marianna Pavlovskaya, Geography, Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime (Routledge, 2017); and published a co-authored article with his long-time collaborator Rich Fording, “The Cognitive and Emotional Sources of Trump Support: The Case of Low-Information Voters” in New Political Science, October 2017. 
Professor Zachary C. Shirkey published Uncertainty, Threat, & International Security: Implications for Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2017) with Ivan Savic; “Going Beyond the Existing Consensus: the Use of Games in International Relations Education,” co-authored with Michael Lee, in PS: Political Science and Politics; and “Military Intervention in Interstate and Civil Wars: A Unified Interpretation” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, William R. Thompson (ed.) (Oxford University Press), 2017.
Professor Peter Ranis gave the keynote address at the Canadian Association for the Studies on Co-operation at Ryerson University, Toronto, May 30-June 2, 2017 entitled “The Alienated Working Class and the Trump Phenomenon.” 
Professor Keena Lipsitz published an article in Political Behavior titled “Playing with Emotions: The Effect of Moral Appeals in Elite Rhetoric,” in which she argues that the moral appeals in political advertising elicit explicitly emotional reactions from viewers. 
Professor Peter Liberman published “Revenge in US Public Support for War Against Iraq” in Public Opinion Quarterly’s Fall 2017 issue, in which he uses integrated data from two unrelated surveys to measure the impact of the American public’s desire for revenge for the 9-11 attacks on their willingness to go to war.  
Professor John Krinsky published a new book, Who Cleans the Parks? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City (University of Chicago Press, 2017). The book examines the intersections of welfare, civic engagement, criminal justice, and public/private cooperation through the lens of maintenance of the city’s parks. 
Professor David Jones had his chapter, “Party Brands, Elections, and Presidential-Congressional Relations” published in the 6th edition of Rivals for Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).  On April 25, his commentary, “This Is Why the ‘First 100 Days’ is a Ridiculous Standard for Judging Presidents,” appeared in the Washington Post.
Professor Jack Jacobs delivered invited lectures in April on racism and antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, and also delivered lectures in Sweden this August, at Södertörn University and at the Workers’ Educational Association of Stockholm, on matters related to Jews and the Left. 
Professor Thomas Halper’s “A Right to the City?” appeared last year in Urbanization and Political Development (also on SSRN). He has briefed scholars and diplomats from Indonesia, Israel, and Azerbaijan on American federalism for the State Department, and spoken to visiting Fulbright scholars at NYU on American civil liberties.
Professor Carol Gould presented an invited paper entitled “Solidarity between the National and the Transnational: What do we owe to ‘Outsiders’?” to the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University, March 2017. Gould also gave a paper “The All-Affected Principle and Labor Rights” at the Workshop on Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World held at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Harvard University in June 2017. 
Professor Janet Gornick, in her role as Director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, directed the third annual one-week workshop on inequality research held at the Graduate Center, titled “Inequality by The Numbers” in June 2017. Professor Gornick also directed the Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) in July, 2017.
Professor Stephanie Golob published an op-ed entitled, “Memoria sin excepciones” [“Memory, Without Exceptions”], comparing political controversies over historical monuments in Spain and New Orleans, in El País, Spain’s major national newspaper.  Professor Golob also presented her research report entitled “Inside Out:  Transnational Legal Learning and Mass Grave Exhumation,” at the annual meeting of the Subtierro/Below Ground Research Team based at the Spanish National Research Council. 
Professor Leonard Feldman’s article “Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity,” was published in the journal Theory & Event (April 2017). Professor Feldman’s chapter “Police Reform and Neoliberalism,” was published in Rethinking Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2017) edited by Sanford Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya. Professor Feldman also gave an invited talk on “Realist Political Theory and the Police Power” at the University of Virginia, Program in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law.
Professor Forrest Colburn published “The Left that Never Was,” an essay about Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, in the winter 2017 issue of Dissent
Professor Mitchell Cohen was interviewed by the Princeton University Press blog, “Mind Over Matter Since 1905” about his new book, The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Professor Sherrie Baver published the second edition of her co-edited book Latinos in New York: Communities In Transition with Angelo Falcón and Gabriel Haslip-Viera (Notre Dame Press, 2017), a comprehensive reader on the experience of New York City’s diverse Latino population.
Professor George Andreopoulos organized a research workshop with GC alum Shawna Brandle (2013) on Media and Human Rights in June. The papers from the workshop will appear in a special issue of the journal Human Rights Review which Andreopoulos will guest-edit. Professor Andreopoulos was also awarded a Mercator Fellowship by the German Government and is spending the fall 2017 semester in Berlin as a Visiting Professor at the Free University.