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

Professor George Andreopoulos spent the fall 2018 semester at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. While there, he gave a presentation at the Center’s faculty seminar on “Counterterrorism and Human Rights at the United Nations Security Council: Revisiting Hegemonic International Law,” based on a chapter from his current book project. In December, he presented a paper on “Humane vs. Inhumane Treatment” at a research workshop on Humanitarianism and Political Space organized by the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Professor Sherrie Baver is continuing her project on environmental democracy in Latin America. As part of the effort, she was invited to present her work on “Chile’s Move to Modern Environmental Governance,” at the International Earth System Governance Conference at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in November 2018. 

Professor Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner contributed a chapter on institutionalism for a report commissioned by the UN Office for South-South Cooperation in the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of the seminal Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries. In addition, the Global South Caucus of the ISA honored her scholarship via a special panel at its annual conference in Toronto in February 2019.

Professor Mitchell Cohen’s book The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton 2017), which won Baruch College’s Presidential Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarship, has just been published in a Serbo-Croatian translation as Politika u Operi (Delfi 2018). 

Professor Forrest Colburn co-authored “Latin America’s Shifting Politics: The Fading of Costa Rica’s Old Parties,” in the Journal of Democracy. 

Professor Emerita Joyce Gelb co-authored “Is Democratic Nomination Good for Women’s Candidacy? Examining the Case of Taiwan,” in the Asian Journal of Women Studies. 

Professor Julie George published a memo for the PONARS Eurasia Group entitled “Territory versus Reform Success: Why Reformers are Better Positioned in Georgia than in Armenia.” She was invited to present “Armenia and Georgia: Popular Protests, Political Crossroads, and Resignations,” at the Warsaw East European Conference, “What’s Going on in Central Asia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus?” in Warsaw, Poland.

Professor Stephanie Golob was invited to present the paper, “Memory Across Borders: Transnational Legal Remembering by Franco’s Victims in Argentine Courts” at the 5th Biennial Conference of the Latin American Society of International Law, “Dialogues of International Law,” held at Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2018.

Professor Janet Gornick contributed chapters to two edited books: first, “The Socioeconomics of Single Parenthood: Reflections on the Triple Bind” in The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment, and Policies to Improve Wellbeing (Policy Press 2018), and second, “Children, Poverty, and Public Policy: A Cross-National Perspective” in the Handbook on Child and Family Policy (Edward Elgar 2018). Her co-authored paper “The Consequences of Decentralization: Inequality in Safety Net Provision in the Post-Welfare Reform Era” won the 2019 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for the “best article” published in Social Service Review. 

Professor Carol Gould gave the keynote address at the launch conference of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity, at the University of Vienna, Austria, in November 2018. She also published “Solidarity and the Problem of Structural Injustice in Healthcare,” in Bioethics.

Professor Jack Jacobs delivered academic talks at Ferrara University in Italy, the Free University of Berlin in Germany, Lund University in Sweden, and Birkbeck, University of London, during the Fall 2018 semester. He recently published “Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Racism in the Era of Donald Trump: The Relevance of Critical Theory,” in Berlin Journal of Critical Theory. Professor Jacobs also published a chapter entitled “The Frankfurt School and Antisemitism,” in The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (Routledge 2018).

Professor David Jones published a chapter titled: “Party Brands, Elections, and Presidential-Congressional Relations,” in Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations (Rowman & Littlefield 2018). He gave an invited talk, “Institutional Context and Accountability for Political Distrust,” for the Stony Brook Political Psychology Speaker Series. His co-authored analysis of the 2018 midterm election exit polls, “How the Democrats Won the House,” appeared on CBS News online.

Professor Keena Lipsitz was interviewed by the Financial Times in “Moment for US national unity comes — and goes.” She was also interviewed by Tamsen Fadal on PIX11 about the apathy of millennial voters just before the midterm election.​

Professor Emerita Jill Norgren launched Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers (NYU 2018) at the Wilson Center in D.C. and she recently appeared to speak about the book at the Stanford School of Law as part of the celebration of Women’s History Month.

Professor Emeritus Peter Ranis’ book Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neo-Liberal Economy (Zed Books 2016) has been translated as Cooperativas Frente al Capitalismo: Desafiando a la Economía Neoliberal (Editorial Cooperativa Callao 2018). 

Professor Stanley Renshon published “The Fight for American Restoration: Understanding the Paradoxical Foundations of the Trump Presidency,” in The Forum. He also contributed a chapter entitled “Unfulfilled Hopes: President Obama’s Legacy” in Looking Back on President Obama’s Legacy (Palgrave/Macmillan 2018). Professor Renshon was recently interviewed twice in China News Daily where he commented on the Democrats taking over the house and on the recent government shutdown. He was also interviewed in The Washington Post, Associated Press, and The Wall Street Journal. 

Professor Sanford Schram was invited to present a lecture entitled “Hard White: Outgroup Hostility and the 2016 Trump Vote” at the Duke University Behavior and Identities Workshop. 

Professor Charles Tien published “Will the Supreme Court Find Its Way Out of the “Political Thicket” of Partisan Redistricting?” in the Roosevelt House Faculty Journal. He also published “Using Survey Data,” in the SAGE Research Methods Cases. Professor Tien was twice a guest on the Graduate Center’s Thought Project Podcast: first, as a general feature interview and second, to discuss the government shutdown.

Professor Mark Ungar was selected to join the council of the International Network of Environmental Enforcement Agencies, led by INTERPOL, in January 2019. 

Professor Till Weber published “Parties, Pluralism and the ‘Crisis’ of American Representation” in the Chinese Political Science Review with Craig Parsons. 

Professor Thomas Weiss gave lectures in London, Seoul, Copenhagen, New York, and Havana based on his book, Would the World Be Better without the UN? (Wiley 2018). He recently published: “Multilateralism and the UN under Attack in the Age of Trump” in Global Summitry, and two articles co-written with an alum and a current student, “Protecting Cultural Heritage in War Zones,” in Third World Quarterly with Nina Connelly (2018) and “The Global South and UN Peace Operations,” E-International Relations with Giovanna Kuele (level I). Since January, he is Co-Chair of the Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust, and will be making a presentation at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Professor Susan Woodward was appointed a Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, effective July 2018 for one year and is renewable.

Professor Ming Xia published his book High Peaks, Flowing Rivers: On Tibet (Snow Land Publisher 2019), a special outlet for studies on the Dalai Lama and Tibet in Taiwan.

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