Featured Alum News from our Spring 2020 department newsletter, Homo Politicus. Access the newsletter archive here.

Bruce Altschuler (Ph.D., 1980) published Lights, Camera, Execution! Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment (Rowman & Littlefield 2019), which looks at depictions of the death penalty in cinema.

Shawna Brandle (Ph.D., 2013) will officially be a tenured professor at Kingsborough Community College, New York starting in September 2020. Shawna was also featured on the APSA blog where she shared her experiences as a community college professor.

Rachel Brown (Ph.D., 2016) published “Thinking with the Intimacy Contract: Social Contract Critique and the Privatization of US Empire” in Political Theory.

Jeffrey Broxmeyer (Ph.D., 2014) published “Bringing The ‘Ring’ Back In: The Politics of Booty Capitalism” in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Jonathan Keller (Ph.D., 2014) published “Ambiguities of Prophecy: Old Testament Rhetoric in the American Founding Era” in Politics and Religion.

Fanny Lauby (Ph.D., 2014) published “Diversity, Leadership, and Authenticity in the Undocumented Youth Movement” in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Anthony Maniscalco (Ph.D., 2014) published  “A Little Island on Pier 55: Urban Austerity and the Eclipse of Publicly Made Public Space” in Urban Transcripts.

Patrice McSherry (Ph.D., 1994) spoke at the Catholic University in Santiago on Chilean New Song (Temple 2015) and its relevance to the current protest movement in Chile. She published “Operation Condor and Transnational State Violence against Exiles” in the Journal of Global South Studies; “La dictadura y la música popular en Chile: Los primeros años de plomo,” in Resonancias; “¡Compañero Víctor Jara Presente!” in Jacobin; and “Explaining the 2019 Social Rebellion in Chile” in New Politics.

Milton D. Ottensoser (Ph.D., 2019) published “Fifty Years Since the Brussels Conference” in the New York University Environmental Law Journal.

Nayma Qayum (Ph.D., 2014) received tenure at Manhattanville College.

Sofia Sedergren (M.A., 2019) is overseeing the “CUNY Census Corps” for the entire CUNY community alongside Tyler Olsen (level I) who is coordinating the efforts at the Graduate Center.

Amy Schiller (Ph.D., 2019) received a postdoctoral fellowship with the Dartmouth Society of Fellows.

Dan Skinner (Ph.D., 2009) published his first book Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making (Minnesota 2019) where he argues that sustained political engagement with medical necessity is essential to developing a health care system that meets basic public health objectives.

Michael J. Thompson (Ph.D., 2005) co-edited An Inheritance for Our Times: The Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism (O/R Books 2020), a reader that includes original essays in the form of both personal accounts and intellectual arguments from activists and theorists advocating a democratic socialist outlook.

Puangchon Unchanam (Ph.D., 2017) published his first book Royal Capitalism: Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand (Wisconsin 2020), which examines the reign of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX (1946–2016) and how the crown thrived by transforming itself into a distinctly “bourgeois” monarchy that co-opted middle-class values of hard work, frugality, and self-sufficiency.

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