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

Elizabeth Eisenberg (Ph.D. 2018) defended her dissertation and is working as a research analyst in the New York City Office of Labor Relations.

Ben Epstein (Ph.D. 2011) is an assistant professor in political science at DePaul University. He recently published his first book The Only Constant is Change: Technology, Political Communication, and Innovation Over Time (Oxford 2018).

Heather Katz (Ph.D. 2016) accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of political science at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Jeffrey Kraus (Ph.D. 1988) is now the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Wagner College.

Naoko Kumagai (Ph.D. 2009) is a tenured associate professor at the International University of Japan, based in Niigata, Japan. She recently co-authored a chapter “Gender Equality in Japan: Internal Policy Processes and Impact, and Foreign Implications under Prime Minister Abe’s Womenomics” in the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Foreign Policy (Routledge 2018).

Adam McMahon (Ph.D. 2018) was recently hired as an assistant professor of political science at Rider University. 

John McMahon (Ph.D. 2016) published “‘Vital Forces’: Marx and Tension of Capitalist Affect” in Lateral. He also published “The Pedagogy of Feminist Theory,” a symposium on The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, ed. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth (2016) in Politics & Gender. 

Patrice McSherry (Ph.D. 1994) recently published “Chile: A Return to ‘Guardian Democracy?’” on the NACLA Report on the Americas website.

Michael Miller (Ph.D. 2017) was accepted into the eighth annual cohort of Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows. The Fellowship includes a two-year, full-time position with the Social Science Research Council as a program officer with their Media and Democracy Project.

Guy Padula (Ph.D. 1999) recently published Colorblind Racial Profiling (Routledge 2018), which outlines the history of racial profiling practices and policies in the United States from 1974 to the present day. He recently published a law review article “Utah v. Strieff: Lemonade Stands and Dragnet Policing,” in the West Virginia Law Review (available via Lexis Nexus).

Bernd Reiter (Ph.D. 2003) recently edited Constructing the Pluriverse (Duke 2018) and co-edited The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca (MSU 2018). 

Jacqueline Anne Ross (M.A. 2018) is starting a Ph.D. program in Sociology this fall at the University of Bristol in Britain where she was awarded the University Studentship.

Jason Schulman (Ph.D. 2009) recently published a book review of Heather Gautney’s Crashing The Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement in New Politics. 

Hamideh Sedghi’s (Ph.D. 1992) 2017 article “Trumpism: the Geopolitics of the United States, the Middle East and Iran” in Socialism and Democracy was also catalogued in International Political Science Abstracts/ Documentation Politique Internationale in 2018. 

Jill Simone Gross (Ph.D. 1998) is the President Elect (2019-20) for the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She recently co-authored “The Role of Governance Networks in Building Metropolitan Scale” in Territory, Politics, Governance. She contributed a chapter “The Governance of Superdiversity: A Tale of Two North American Cities” in The Routledge Handbook to the Cities of Migration (Routledge 2018). In the spring 2018 she was invited to participate in a program titled “Scholars as Bridge Builders” sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Urban Clinic at Hebrew University. 

Michael J. Thompson (Ph.D. 2005) is a Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University. His co-edited book Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy was recently released (Penguin 2018). 

Weiting Wu (Ph.D. 2014) is an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute for Gender Studies, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. Wu recently published a book review article of Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China, Hong Kong in the Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies.

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