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The 8th Annual Politics Department Graduate Student Conference will be held on Thursday, February 23 in Gibson S296.

The Graduate Council is now accepting submissions for the 8th Annual Politics Department Graduate Student Conference from all sub-fields. Proposals must include a cover page with your title, name, and the sub-field under which the paper falls. The text of the proposal should be a 250-500 word overview of your question/puzzle, argument, methods, and evidence in descending order of emphasis. Submit proposals via email to pol.grads.council@gmail.com by January 21, 2012, with notification of acceptance approximately one week later.

Changes coming in order to declare a Politics Major

We are writing to alert you to some changes pending in our undergraduate major requirements. If you have already declared a major in the Politics Department, you may ignore this message.

The Politics Department is in the process of changing its prerequisite to declare a major in our Department.

Government Ph.D. Richard DeMartino

Dr. Richard DeMartino, 1997 UVA Government Ph.D., has been appointed to the Simone Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rochester Institute of Technology for a three-year renewable term starting in the academic year 2011-12.

Congratulations to Adam Hughes

his article "Socializer or Signal? How Agency Accreditation Affects Organizational Culture" has been accepted by Public Administration Review. 

A member of the Politics Honors Class of '10, Anna Jacobs, has won a Fulbright.

Anna Jacobs, 23, is a 2010 graduate of U.Va.'s politics honors program, where she concentrated on foreign affairs and government, as well as studying French language and literature.

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Graduate Student Greta Snyder publishes in Polity

Greta Snyder's article, "Self-work and the Reproduction of Privilege: Reading Beloved against Antigone" is forthcoming in Polity.

Graduate Student Chris Ferrero accepts faculty position

UVa Politics graduate student Chris Ferrero has just accepted a term faculty position for the 2011-12 academic year in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Congratulations Chris!

Graduate Jonathan Crowe Wins Scholarship
Jonathan Crowe '10, a Foreign Affairs major, has received a Rotary International Global Grants Scholarship for the coming academic year.  He will use the scholarship to study at the London School of Economics.  Congratulations Jonathan!
Graduate Student Lindsay Flynn wins APSA Best Poster Award

Lindsay Flynn won the award for the best poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in 2010, for her poster, "The Work-Family Tradeoff: How Some Countries are Managing Better than Others."  Congratulations Lindsay!

Faculty News

Congratulations to John Owen

just had an op-ed published in the New York Times. 

OPINION   | January 07, 2012 
Op-Ed Contributor:  Why Islamism Is Winning 
By JOHN M.

Congratulations to Bill Quandt

who's piece "Can US adjust to Islamist Mideast" was featured on POLITICO.

Congratulations to Jeff Jenkins

who just had his  paper "Buying Negative Agenda Control in the US House" (coauthored with Natan Monroe) accepted by the American Journal of Political Science.

 

Congratulations to Sid Milkis

who was interviewed on National Public Radio about the election of 1912 http://www.npr.org/2012/01/03/144633244/presidential-election-of-1912-saw-viable-third-party

Congratulations to Lawrie Balfour

Her Book Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois, was reviewed in the most recent New York Review of Books.   

Congratulations to Lawrie for this recognition.

Congratulations to Todd Sechser

for his article that was just published in Conflict Management and Peace Science.  

Two new books just arrived:

Congratulations to Allen Lynch "Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft" and Bill Quandt "Troubled Triangle: The United States, Turkey and Israel in the New Middle East".

Congratulations to Jeffrey Legro

for receiving a Fulbright-Nehru Research Grant in India this Fall.

Congratulations to Dan Gingerich

for  recently being awarded $145,000 by the National Science Foundation to study how the introduction of the Australian ballot in Brazil in the 1960s affected the fundamental structure of party politics.

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Congratulations to Lynn Sanders

who was awarded a Learning Assessments Grant from the Office of Institutional Assessment. 

Emeriti News

Matthew Holden, Jr. elected to Mississippi Historical Society Board of Directors

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.

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