FACULTY

Mala Htun

Awards/Grants

• Collaborative Research: States and Sex Equality: Why Do Governments Promote Women’s Rights? This project offers a new theoretical explanation: it disaggregates gender policy issues and provides a framework for exploring how organized religion, women’s mobilization, left parties, and international NGOs shape different types of policy This data set will cover 70 countries, to be done in collaboration with Laurel Weldon of Purdue University. 

Publications: Book Chapters

• “Gender Equality in Transition Polities: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba,” in Looking Forward: Cuba’s Democratic Transition, edited by Marifeli Pérez-Stable (Forthcoming in English from University of Notre Dame Press and in Spanish edition by Editorial Colibrí).

• “Democracia e inclusión política: La región andina en perspectiva comparada,” in Nadando contra la corriente: Mujeres y cuotas políticas en los países andinos, ed. Magdalena León (Quito and Lima: UNIFEM, 2005).

Publications: Articles

• “Gender, Parties, and Support for Equal Rights in the Brazilian Congress,” Latin American Politics and Society (forthcoming Winter 2007). Coauthored with Tim Power.

• “What It Means to Study Gender and the State,” Politics and Gender 1, no. 1 (Fall 2005).

Aristide R. Zolberg

Invited Lectures

• Invited as the annual guest lecturer on immigration by the Harvard Sociology Department, April 17, 2006. 

• Berlin for the World Policy Institute's conference on migration and security, March 23-25, 2006.

Publications: Books

• In A Nation by Design, out this month from Harvard University Press and Russell

      Sage Foundation.

Nancy Fraser

Fellowships, Endowed Lectureships, and Visitorships

• Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecturer, University of Oslo, September 2006

• Distinguished Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London, March 2006

Keynote and Plenary Addresses

• “Abnormal  Justice.” Invited keynote lecture presented at conference on “Democracy, Rights, and Justice in a Global Context,” Loyola University, Chicago, March 2006.

Publications: Books

Nancy Fraser, Qu'est-ce que la justice sociale? Reconnaissance et redistribution.  Édition établie et introduction par Estelle Ferrarese (Paris: La Découverte, 2005).

Publications: Articles

• “Abnormal Justice,” Critical Inquiry, vol. 32, no. 3 (Spring 2006), forthcoming.

Victoria Hattam
Publications: Books

• Ethnic Shadows:  Jews, Latinos and Race Politics in the United States.  Forthcoming University of Chicago Press.

Professional Activities/Affiliations

• President elect of the Politics and History Section of APSA.

Sanjay Ruparelia

Awards/Grants

• Co-recipient of a $15,000 grant from Columbia University and the London School of Economics to host a collaborative interdisciplinary workshop on “Understanding India’s New Political Economy – Toward Thematic Integration,” London, November 2006.

Publications: Articles

• "Managing the United Progressive Alliance: the Challenges Ahead", an analysis of the present Indian government, Economic and Political Weekly (June 11, 2005). 

• "Rethinking Institutional Theories of Political Moderation: the Case of Hindu Nationalism in India, 1996-2004", Comparative Politics, Volume 38, Number 3, April 2006.

Publications: In Progress

• I am currently preparing a comparative historical analysis of the achievements, failings and lessons of the developmental state in Asia for the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development Programme.

Andreas Kalyvas

Publications: Book Chapters

• "The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp," in Essays on Giorgio Agamben,

         edited by Andrew Norris, Duke University Press. 2005

Publications: Articles

• "The Republic of the Moderns: Paine's and Madison's Novel Liberalism," co-authored with Ira Katznelson, Polity, forthcoming.

• "The Basic Norm and Democracy in Hans Kelsen's Legal and Political Theory," Philosophy and Social Criticism, forthcoming.

• "Popular Sovereignty, the Constituent Power, and Democracy," Constellations, 12:2., 2005

David Plotke

Conference papers

• "Martin Luther King, Jr., America political thought, and the Democratic impasse in the late 1960s" at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association,Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 16-18, 2006.

• "Forms of Representation and Forms of Democracy," at a conference on "Rethinking Political Representation," at the University of British Columbia, May 18-19, 2006.

Publications: Articles

"Democratic Polities and Antidemocratic Politics," Theoria, forthcoming.

STUDENTS

Nida Alahmad
Fellowship: 2005-2006 Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow.  This fellowship is awarded by the United States Institute of Peace.

Presentations: drafts of her dissertation chapter “The Phantom of a State: Insurgency and Political Power in Iraq” were presented at the 2006 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference and at the (2006) Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies.  This chapter was also the basis for a talk that she gave in February 2006 at the United States Institute of Peace.

Laura Balbuena-Gonzalez
Conference Paper: “Women Drawn to Combat: The Peruvian Communist Party-The Shining Path Discourses on Gender” at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Published Encyclopedia Entries: Cook, Bernard A. (Editor), Women and War: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, Santa Bárbara, 2006. - Entries: “Women and the Shining Path” and “Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Women and Political Violence.”

Andrea Carla
Conference Paper: “Pointless Representation.  The Tyranny of the Majority in Proportional Electoral System” at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Eddie Gonzalez
Conference Paper: “A STEP AWAY FROM CLIENTELISM? CAFTA and the U.S. Patron-Client Relationship with Central America” at the 2006 International Studies Association-West’s Annual Conference.

Lisa Nicole Gurley
Co-Editor of Published Book: Editor of Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy along with fellow Political Science student Claudia Leeb and another colleague at the NSSR, Anna Aloisia Moser.  The book was published by the Philosophy & Politics Series of Peter Lang Publishers.

Conference Paper: "Challenging Western Thought: Irigaray and the Concept of Reason" at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Josh Lerner
Published Articles: “Let the People Decide: Transformative Community Development through Participatory Budgeting in Canada,” Shelterforce (Summer 2006) and is online at: http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/146/canadianbudgeting.html; “Why the World Social Forum Needs to Be Less Like Neoliberalism,” Upside Down World, January 16, 2006 and is online at:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/174/1/.

Conference Paper: with professor Daniel Schugurensky, "Learning citizenship and democracy through participatory budgeting: The case of Rosario, Argentina" at the 2005 conference Democratic Practices as Learning Opportunities: Comparing International Experiences & Understandings. The paper is online at:
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ceoi/fall05/DPLOconf/abstracts/Lerner_f.doc.

Marie Mainil
Fellowship: Women's International Leadership Program fellowship at International House for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Ralph Mathekga
Published Article: “Participatory Government and the Challenge of Inclusion: The Case of Local Government Structures in Post Apartheid South Africa,” Colombia International no. 63 (January-July 2006).

Barbara Syrrakos
Fellowship: 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellow to the European Union.  She will be a visiting scholar at the University of Kent-Brussels School for International Studies while in residence in Brussels to
conduct research for her dissertation entitled "Multi-Level Governance, the 2002-2003 Common
Agriculture Policy Reform, and Small States in the European Union."

Sarah Taylor
Honor: American Political Science Association Women's Caucus committee awarded her an honorable mention (second place) in the Alice Paul Award competition for best dissertation proposal in women and politics for her proposal entitled “A Better Peace? Including Women in Conflict Negotiations.”

Natascha VanDerZwan
Scholarship: The NUFFIC (Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education) has awarded her a 2006-2007 HSP Talent Programme Scholarship, financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

Mariela Vargova
Published Article: “Dialogue, Pluralism and Change: The Intertextual Constitution of Bakhtin, Kristeva and Derrida” in Res Publica, a journal of legal and social philosophy.

Myra A. Waterbury
Published Article: "Internal Exclusion, External Inclusion: Diaspora Politics and Party-Building Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary" appeared in the Summer 2006 (vol. 20, no. 3) issue of East European Politics and Societies.

ALUMNI
PUBLICATIONS

Albena Azmanova, Ph.D. 2001
Co-Editor of Published Book: Editor with Marc Pallemaerts, The European Union and Sustainable Development: Internal and External Dimensions, VUB Brussels University Press, 2006.

Karl Botchway, Ph.D. 1998
Co-Editor of Published Book: Karl Botchway and Steve Panford (eds.), Essays in African Government and History, Kendall/ Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa (On contract) Forthcoming.

Published Book Chapter: “The Politics and Apolitics of Development: The Story of a Development Project in Northern Ghana,” in Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford (eds.), Africa’s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent Issues, Opportunities and Challenges, Ashgate International, Aldershort, Hampshire, UK, 2006.

Andrew D. Grossman, Ph.D. 1996
Published Book Review: Journal of American History (Fall 2006) of Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll, Louis Johnson and the Arming of America.

Joseph E. Lowndes, Ph.D. 2004
Published Book: The Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism, Yale University Press, Forthcoming, Fall 2007.

Published Article: “The Inevitably Cultural Politics of Class,” an invited response article in International Labor and Working-Class History No. 67, Spring2005.

Published Book Chapters: “The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Language, Culture and Political Change,” with Victoria Hattam in Formative Acts: Reckoning with Agency in American Politics, edited by Stephen Skowronek, Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press; “From Founding Violence to Political Hegemony: The Conservative Populism of George Wallace,” in Populism and the Mirror of Democracy, edited by Francisco Panizza, Verso Books, 2005.

Phil Triadafilopoulos, Ph.D. 2004
Published Article: “How the Federal Republic Became an Immigration Country: Norms, Politics and the Failure of West Germany's Guest Worker System” is in the Fall 2006 issue of German Politics and Society.

Denise Walsh, Ph.D. 2006
Co-Editer of Journal Volume: Journal of Southern African Studies, Special Issue:  Women and Gender in Southern Africa, 32 (1) 2006.

Journal Articles: Introduction with Pamela Scully, “Altering Politics, Contesting Gender,” Journal of Southern African Studies, 32 (1) 2006:  1-12; “The Liberal Moment: Women and Just Debate in South Africa,” Journal of Southern African Studies, 32 (1) 2006: 85-106; "Second Fiddle to Fear," Phi Delta Kappan, Special Issue: Patriotism and Education, 87 (8) April 2006: 614.

Published Book Review: African Affairs, September 2006 of Amanda Gouws, ed., (Un)thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa, Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Lmtd., 2005.

Published Book Chapters: “Confrontation and Transformation: Customary Marriage in South Africa,” in Gender Societies in Transition, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies, 2003; “Your Culture or Your Rights,” in Jessica R. Feldman and Robert Stilling, eds., Thinking of Reading: A University of Virginia Guide, (under review) University of Virginia Press, 2006.

NEW POSITIONS

Karl Botchway, Ph.D. 1998
Associate Professor*
Department of African American Studies
New York City College of Technology/CUNY
* Effective Jan 01, 2007 

Thomas Gold, Ph.D. 2000
Deputy Director of Analysis and Assessment
Division of Assessment and Accountability
New York City Department of Education

Andrew D. Grossman, Ph.D. 1996
Royal G. Hall Professor of the Social Sciences
Chair, Department of Political Science
Albion College

Patrick Hossay, Ph.D. 1999
Department Chair
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Stockton College, New Jersey

Margot Olavarria, Ph.D. 2002
Program Director
New York Immigration Coalition

For more information on new positions, please click the Recent Placements link on the Political Science homepage.