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

Professor George Andreopoulos was invited to participate in a research workshop on “Contracting Human Rights” at UC Santa Barbara in January and to give the keynote address at the Model UN Conference at the University of Macedonia in Greece in April. At the most recent International Studies Association Convention in Baltimore, he was re-elected as president of the Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies Section of ISA.

Professor Mitchell Cohen’s book The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi through Mozart was published in April (Princeton University Press, 2017). His review of David Ben-Gurion was also published in the Times Literary Supplement (2017). 

Professor Benedetto Fontana had a chapter published in Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2017), entitled “Machiavelli and the Gracchi: Republican Liberty and Class Conflict.” Additionally, he had three articles published: “Notes on Gramsci and the State” in Review of Italian Studies (2016), “Bia and Logos: Power and Rhetoric in Antiquity” in History of Political Thought (2017), and “Philosophy and Rhetoric in Vico’s Thought” in Italian Culture (2016). 

Professor Joyce Gelb delivered a lecture on gender equality in November in Japan at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies. She was quoted in the Nikkei newspaper in December on this topic. 

Professor Janet Gornick, director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, co-organized and co-hosted with GC Public Programs three events as part of the GC’s “First 100 Days” series: “Economic Policy,” “The Fragile Social Safety Net,” and “Trade, Jobs, and Inequality.”

Professor Jack Jacobs is currently serving as the 2017 Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Professor Robert Jenkins’ book, co-authored with James Manor, was published: Politics and the Right to Work: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Oxford University Press, 2017). In February, he was invited to give a lecture on this topic at the University of Chicago. 

Professor Keena Lipsitz had an article published in Political Behavior (2017), “Playing with Emotions: The Effect of Moral Appeals in Elite Rhetoric”. She was also interviewed on Marketplace and participated in a workshop on the 2016 election at Wesleyan University.

Professor Mojúbàolú Okome participated in a roundtable discussion on “Drug Trafficking and its Impact on the State and Society in West Africa,” on December at the African Studies Association in Washington, D.C. Together with Don Robotham of the Advanced Research Collaborative, she organized the University of Ibadan, Nigeria-CUNY Graduate Center inception conference that initialized the academic exchange program between both institutions, made possible in part by her 2015 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. Additionally, she was presented with a proclamation from the NYS Assembly for her work on the #BringBackOurGirls struggle.

Professor Alexander Reichl gave an interview with The Atlantic CITYLAB to discuss the High Line and issues of social equity and urban revitalization, “The High Line’s Next Balancing Act.”

Professor Charles Tien had an article published in the Roosevelt House Faculty Journal (2017) issue on President Trump’s first 100 days: “President-Elect Trump Needs to Tell Congress to Do Its Job and Fix the Dysfunctional Budget Process.” With Michael Lewis-Beck, he published two blog posts on election-forecasting.

Professor John Wallach had an article published in POLIS (2016), “Deconstructing the Ancients/Moderns Trope: Historical Reception in Political Theory.” Additionally, his article, “The President as Demagogue” was published in the Roosevelt House Faculty Journal (2017).

Professor Thomas Weiss’s book, The UN and the Global South, 1945 and 2015 (ed.) (Routledge, 2017) was published in January. He spent the month of February in the archives of the United Nations in Geneva as a Carnegie Fellow doing research for an upcoming book. His collaboration with two students resulted in published research: with Nick Micinski, Level-III, “International Organization for Migration and the UN System: A Missed Opportunity,” a Future UN Development System Project briefing (2016), and Tatiana Carayannis, Level-III, “Windows of Opportunity for UN Reform: Historical Lessons for the Next Secretary-General,” in International Affairs (2017).

Professor Richard Wolin gave a series of invited lectures in February: “From Beyond the Grave: Heidegger as Preceptor of the German Neue Rechte” at Colorado College, “Words that Kill: Rhetoric and Reality in the Discourse of the Front National” at Cambridge and the University of London, and “Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics” at Oxford. Additionally, his book, The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s (Princeton University Press, 2012), was translated into Chinese (Sansui Culture Shanghai, 2017), and a revised edition of The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016) was published with a new preface. 

Professor Susan Woodward’s book, The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was published in March, featuring a cover photo located by Drake Logan (Level I). Professor Woodward also gave a series of lectures at the European University of St. Petersburg in April. 

Professor Ming Xia edited a book, The Age of Plunder: The 2008 Economic Crisis as a Turning Point in Chinese History and World Civilization (iSun Affairs Limited, 2016) . Additionally, he published an article for the Journal of Chinese Governance (2016), “Triangulating Human Political Conditions and Reorienting Political Development in China,” and reviewed The Politics of Controlling Organized Crime in Greater China by Sonny Shiu-Hing Luo, for The China Quarterly (2016). 

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