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

William D. Adler (Ph.D., 2011) and co-author Julia Azari (Marquette) received the Founders Award for “best paper on executive politics” for their 2018 APSA presentation, “The Party Decides (Who the Vice President Will Be).”

Anthony Aggimenti (M.A., 2016) helped to lead a successful unionization movement at Mercy College, resulting in the unionization of all non-tenure track faculty. He was interviewed by local TV station, News 12 Westchester.

Regina Sue Axelrod (Ph.D., 1978) published The Global Environment, Law, Institutions and Policy, 5th edition (Sage Publishing 2019).

Adrienne Fulco (Ph.D., 1981) is Associate Professor of Legal and Policy Studies and directs the Public Policy and Law Program at Trinity College in Hartford. She received the Thomas Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence at Trinity’s May 2019 commencement.

Jill Gross (Ph.D., 1999) was promoted to Full Professor at Hunter College in the Department of Urban Policy and Planning (effective August 27th), and she joined the editorial board of a new refereed journal, Race, Ethnicity and the City. She is also President of the Urban Politics section of the APSA.

Martin Hochbaum (Ph.D., 1974), was reelected chairman of the U.S. Kimberley Process Authority.

Fanny Lauby (Ph.D., 2014) published “Diversity, Leadership and Authenticity in the Undocumented Youth Movement” in Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics and “Transportation and Immigrant Political Incorporation” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

John McMahon (Ph.D., 2016) co-authored with recent alum Amy Schiller (Ph.D., 2019): “Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes: Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence” in New Political Science. He also published “Producing Political Knowledge: Students as Podcasters in the Political Science Classroom” in Journal of Political Science Education.

Patrice McSherry (Ph.D., 1994) presented an address on Operación Cóndor in the UNESCO Human Rights Lecture Series, Metropolitan University of Education Sciences in Santiago, Chile in May 2019. Her chapter “Operation Condor as an International System of State Violence and Terror: A Historical-Structural Analysis,” was published in The Politics of Violence in Latin America (University of Calgary Press 2019). She participated in a panel discussion in Santiago on the legacy of Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Santiago in June.

Nicholas R. Micinski (Ph.D., 2019) published “Everyday Coordination in EU Migration Management: Civil Society Responses in Greece” in International Studies Perspectives. He received the 2019-2020 James N. Rosenau Postdoctoral Fellowship from the International Studies Association and is a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University. 

Joshua Schulman (Ph.D., 2009) published “Lenin as an Original Political Theorist, or Not: Debunking the Textbook Interpretation” in Theory in Action. He also published “Conceptualizing the Future: Marx’s Value Theory and the Debate on Markets and Planning,” in Studies in Political Economy. Finally, he published “Next Labour? Changes in British Union-Labour Party Relations since the Election of Tony Blair” in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal.

Deniz Sert (Ph.D., 2008) received a Jean Monnet grant with the title “Jean Monnet Chair of Migration and Mobility in Europe, CHARM.”

Michael Sharpe (Ph.D., 2008) was recently promoted to adjunct research scholar and appointed for the 2019-20 academic year at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University. He was an invited panelist at the Mansfield Foundation, U.S.-Japan Network for the Future on the panel “Non-Japanese in Japan: Is Japan Becoming a Country of Immigration?” at Evermay Estate, Washington, DC, in June.

Joshua Sperber (Ph.D., 2017)was interviewed by the CBC about his book Consumer Management in the Internet Age (Lexington Books 2019).

Phillip Thompson (Ph.D., 1990), Deputy Mayor for strategic policy initiatives for New York City, was awarded the President’s Distinguished Alumni Medal at the Graduate Center’s 2019 commencement.

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