News and Events

Student News

• Stacie Pettyjohn awarded a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace as well as an Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Fellowship. During the 2006-2007 academic year, she received a fellowship from the Brookings Institution and was a research fellow in the Foreign Studies Program. She is currently writing a dissertation examining U.S. policy toward nationalist terrorist organizations. Specifically, she seeks to identify when the U.S. will begin a dialogue with a nationalist terrorist organization and when a policy of engagement will help to convince such a group to permanently disarm and join a political system.
• Ed Burnett, Lieutenant (j.g.), Navigator, USS MITSCHER (DDG 57)
  
• Mark Haas (phd 00) has published an article in INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (Winter 2006/07) entitled, "The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reactions to Shifts in Soviet Power, Policies, or Domestic Politics?"and "A Geriactic Peace? The Future of U.S. Power in a World of Aging Populations," International Security 32(1): 112-47. He received The 2007 Best Faculty Paper Award at of the APSA Foreign Policy Section.
• Frank Sellin (phd 03) was admitted into the US Foreign Service.
• Thomas Ambrosio (phd 2000 but employed since 98) has just received a University Award from North Dakota State University (Fargo; his institution) for outstanding accomplishment after the publication of his second sole-authored book (he also has two edited volumes, a dozen articles and a comparable number of book chapters) .
• Alison Millett McCartney (Politics 2001) just received tenure at
  Towson University (MD)
• Whitney Blake, UVA Undergraduate published an article in Weekly Standard
• Mine Eder (UVa PhD 1993, currently a professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul) is the Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at Yale University this year
• Rick Mayes, UVA Ph.D. 2000 new book forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins University Press in November entitled "Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S.Health Care," co-authored with Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the Urban Institute.

Faculty News

• George Klosko's Political Obligations book, has been awarded this
  year's David and Elaine Spitz Prize, for the best book in liberal or democratic theory (published two years earlier, and so in 2005). The prize is given out by
  the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
• Dan Gingerich received the Leonard D. White prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation in the field of public administration. The award is supported by the University of Chicago.
• Denise Walsh received the Best Dissertation Prize for the Women in Politics Research Section.
  
• Herman Schwartz was awarded the Society for Women in International
  Political Economy 2007 mentor of the year award.

Emeriti News

• Matthew Holden, Jr. was elected, at the 2007 annual meeting in Jackson, March 1-3 , to a three year term on the Mississippi Historical Society Board of Directors.
• Matthew Holden, Jr. was the keynote speaker at the annual ceremony of the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center for the Study of the 20 th Century. Holden was presented a citation that reads “‘For My People’ Award Presented to Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia, Who Has Made Outstanding Contributions Through Scholarship, January 12, 2007, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi.”
• Matthew Holden, Jr., delivered the graduation address at Roosevelt University, December 22, 2006 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.
• Two of Martha Derthick's books from Brookings Institution Press, Policymaking for Social Security (1979) and Agency Under Stress (1990) will be translated into Chinese and published next year by Peking University Press.