Featured Student News from our 2015 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Christopher Michael, a level III doctoral candidate completing a dissertation on the history of worker cooperatives in the United States, recently published “Grantor Trusts: A Path to Employee Ownership” in Tax Notes. The paper outlines a method of transferring ownership of a firm to employees through the use of the Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust (IDGT).

Sarah Kostecki, a level II doctoral candidate majoring in public policy, received an ARC Research Praxis Fellowship to aid her in the development of her dissertation proposal which will focus on the issue of work precocity in a cross-national perspective. Kostecki also was awarded The Gittell Fellowship to facilitate the research for her project entitled “Women’s Employment, Unpaid Work, Government Provided Services, and Economic Inequality.”

John McMahon, a level III doctoral candidate majoring in political theory, published “Behavioral Economics as Neoliberalism: Producing and Governing ‘Homo Economicus’” in Contemporary Political Theory as well as “Training for Neoliberalism” in Boston Review. McMahon is also co-host of the Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast hosted by fellow Graduate Center Political Science students Rachel Brown, B Aultman, and Emily Crandall.

Emily Crandall, a level III doctoral candidate majoring in political theory, was awarded a grant to participate in an NEH Institute at Michigan State University during the summer. The theme of the institute was “Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics, Environment.”

Hugo Barreca, President of National Standard Finance and a doctoral candidate majoring in public policy, had his article “Financial Services Impact on Society” published in The Guardian, Nigeria. The article articulates the need for fair and equitable access to capital at the local level in order to promote infrastructure building and individual entrepreneurship.

Nick Micinski, a level II doctoral candidate majoring in international relations, published two editorials in September: “Seven key proposals to ease the Syrian refugee crisis” in New Internationalist magazine and “The EU Needs a Migration Human Rights Watchdog” in the World Policy Journal blog.

Tom Waters, a doctoral candidate majoring in public policy, recently published his article “New York’s de Blasio bargains with FIRE” in Metropolitics.

Elena Cohen, a level III doctoral candidate majoring in political theory, was elected President of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

Daniel Golebiewski, a doctoral candidate majoring in international relations, co-authored “US Foreign Policy Options to Tackle Migration in the Mediterranean Sea” an options memo submitted to the U.S. Department of State by The Center for International Human Rights (CIHR), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and The Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), Greek Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection. Daniel will also be presenting “Preaching Peace and Human Rights: The Role of Comunità di Sant’Egidio in African Conflicts” at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in March 2016.

Joshua Sperber, a level III doctoral candidate majoring in American politics, will have his article “Israel, BDS, and the World System” published in the winter 2016 edition of the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Flannery Amdahl, a level III doctoral candidate majoring in American Politics, received a Moody Research Grant from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. The grant will fund Flannery’s research to be conducted at the library in Austin, Texas

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