Featured Faculty News from our 2018 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Professor George Andreopoulos’ article “Whither Accountability? Counterterrorism and Human Rights at the United Nations Security Council” will appear in Contracting Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2018). Professor Andreopoulos spent the Fall 2017 Semester at the Free University in Berlin as a Visiting Professor under the auspices of a Mercator Fellowship. In April he delivered the keynote address at an international conference organized by the University of Macedonia in Greece. The topic of his address was Do We Need the United Nations?

Professor Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner organized the Third International Studies Association- Global South Caucus Reunion in Havana, Cuba under the theme “Exploring the Local in International Relations.” Professor Braveboy-Wagner also delivered the keynote address at the Brazilian International Affairs Sixth Encuentro in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, entitled “Re-Imagining IR: Assessing Current Efforts to Counter the Marginalization of the Global South.” Professor Braveboy-Wagner also co-authored Historical Dictionary of United States-Caribbean Relations (Rowman and Littlefield 2017) with Clifford Griffin.

Professor Mitchell Cohen’s book, The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton 2017), won the 2018 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts, from the Association of American Publishers. Professor Cohen also lectured about politics and opera at the 92nd Street Y and at an evening devoted to his book at the New York Institute for the Humanities. He was interviewed by “Thinking Aloud” (Brigham Young University) and lectured at the Princeton Public Library as part of the “Princeton Festival.”

Professor Bruce Cronin published his new book Bugsplat: The Politics of Collateral Damage in Western Armed Conflicts (Oxford 2018), offering a new theory on these civilian casualties through examination of five major conflicts since 1989. 

Professor Emerita Joyce Gelb co-authored an article with alum Naoko Kumagai (2009) in the edited volume Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy titled “Gender Equality in Japan: Internal Policy Processes and Impact and Foreign Implications Under Prime Minister Abe’s Womenomics” (Routledge 2018). Kumagai is Associate Professor at the International University in Japan. Professors Gelb and Kumagai also delivered a paper on the topic at the International  Public Policy conference in Singapore. 

Professor Thomas Halper had three articles published by the British Journal of American Legal Studies, “Marshall’s Voice,” “Felix Frankfurter and the Law,” and “Lying and the First Amendment.”

Distinguished Professor Uday Mehta was featured on the podcast “Resistance Dashboard” discussing Political Theory in the Age of Trump in December 2017. 

Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf provided insights from the experiences of New York, Paris, and Berlin at a conference on Immigrant Integration and Gateways for Growth: Comparative Perspectives​ at the University of California, San Diego.  In mid-December, he also attended the inaugural meeting of the European Union-funded International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities’ Survey Data Network that brings together social scientists from 20 different countries in Europe and North America.

Professor Emerita Jill Norgren published Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law (NYU Press 2018). This volume is the third in a series of books by Professor Norgren about women lawyers in the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Check out “Facebook Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers” for short bios of the one hundred women featured in the book. 

Professor Corey Robin issued a second edition of his book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (Oxford 2017), updating his title and analysis to the present political moment. 

Professor Joe Rollins published his new book, Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage (NYU Press 2017), using analyses of key U.S. judicial opinions to discuss the complications that accompany the expansion of access to legal marriage. 

Professor Jillian Schwedler has given numerous interviews to the media on the war in Yemen, particularly following the assassination of the former president last December. She contributed the lead article, “What is Activism?” to a special issue of Middle East Report about activism in the region, for which she also served as guest editor.

Professor Charles Tien published “The Racial Gap in Voting Among Women: White Women, Racial Resentment, and Support for Trump” in New Political Science, Special Issue Fall 2017. 

Professor John Wallach published his new book, Democracy and Goodness: A Historicist Political Theory (Cambridge 2018). 

Presidential Professor Thomas G. Weiss published Would the World Be Better Without the U.N.? (Polity Books 2018).

Professor Till Weber published a paper in Journal of Politics entitled “Restrained Change: Party Systems in Times of Economic Crisis,” co-authored with Fernando Casal Bértoa. The paper shows how economic crises have affected European party systems since the 1920s and develops a new theory of party-system change.

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