Featured Alum News from our 2019 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Sabera Azizi (M.A. 2018) was recently appointed an associate at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations.

Shawna Brandle (Ph.D. 2013) published “Games, Movies, and Zombies: Making IR Fun for Everyone,” in the Journal of Political Science Education. 

Nina Connelly (M.A. 2018) co-authored “Protecting Cultural Heritage in War Zones,” in Third World Quarterly with Professor Thomas G. Weiss. 

Kate Grantz (M.A. 2007) has been named Special Projects Officer in the Office of the President Social Science Research Council. Grantz supports Council-wide initiatives and event planning and coordination, as well as relationships with institutional and programming partners. 

Margaret Groarke (Ph.D. 2000) co-edited a book of essays called Peace and Justice Studies: Critical Pedagogy (Routledge 2018). The book includes her essay, “Learning Justice in the Streets: Community Organizing and Peace and Justice Studies.”

Jill Simone Gross (Ph.D. 1998) published Constructing Metropolitan Space: Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises (Routledge 2019). She is serving on the “2018-19 Robert A. Dahl Award” Committee of the American Political Science Association. Gross is currently in France on sabbatical from Hunter College, as an invited visiting professor at Science Po Bordeaux where she is teaching comparative urban governance and politics as well as doing some research on immigration and integration in Bordeaux, and observing the “Gilets Jaune” as a new manifestation of the social tensions at play in France’s cities.

Robin Harper (Ph.D. 2007) was promoted to Professor of Political Science at York College. Harper recently published “Deconstructing naturalization ceremonies as public spectacles of citizenship,” in Space & Polity and “The meaning of doing: Reflective practice in public administration education,” in Teaching Public Administration. 

Jamell Henderson (M.A. 2019) began working as an adjunct professor for Africana Studies at Brooklyn College.

Allen Hershkowitz (Ph.D. 1985) was appointed the environmental science advisor to The New York Yankees, the first of its kind in professional sports

Neil Hernandez (Ph.D. 2015) began working as an assistant professor at the Baruch College Marxe School of Public & International Affairs in January 2019. Previously, he had served as an asylum officer at the Department of Homeland Security, where he adjudicated the asylum claims of people seeking protection from persecution.

Martin Hochbaum (Ph.D. 1974) was a member of the American delegation to the European Union that hosted Kimberley Process Plenary in Brussels, Belgium, November 2018.

Adrienne Jones (Ph.D. 2015) is an assistant professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta where she directs the pre-law program. She was recently interviewed on NPR to discuss black voters and the election for governor in Georgia.

Patrice McSherry (Ph.D. 1994) contributed a chapter entitled “Constructing Silence, Terror, and Dread: Operation Condor and State Terror in Latin America,” in Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States: Histories of the Unspoken (Routledge 2019). In December 2018 the University of Warwick invited McSherry to introduce her book Chilean New Song in an event in England on Chilean music and poetry. Finally, the Chilean government’s Undersecretary of Cultures and Arts bought 300 copies of the Spanish version of Chilean New Song (Temple 2015), to distribute to public libraries throughout Chile.

Christopher Michael (Ph.D. 2018) is currently associate faculty at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.

Lana Obradovic (Ph.D. 2010) published “Teaching Deterrence: A 21st-Century Update,” in the Journal of Political Science Education. 

Nicholas Pehlman (Ph.D. 2019) is an adjunct professor at Lehman College and he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study security sector reform in Ukraine. 

Joshua Sperber (Ph.D. 2017) published Consumer Management in the Internet Age: How Customers Became Managers in the Modern Workplace (Lexington Books 2019).

Weiting Wu (Ph.D. 2014) published “Adaptive Confrontation? Strategies of Three Women’s Groups in Expanding Political Space in China,” in Issues & Studies.

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