Faculty in the News
Professor Jacqueline Stevens' research was featured in a New York Times article about immigration crackdowns on December 13, 2011. You can read the article here.
Posted December 2011
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Professor Wendy Pearlman’s book, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The book argues that self-determination movements must be internally cohesive if they are to use nonviolent protest, because nonviolence requires coordination and collective restraint. When movements are fragmented, however, their very organizational structure increases motivations and opportunities for the use of force. Pearlman demonstrates this argument across one hundred years of Palestinian history, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. Taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into dynamics of conflict and mobilization.
Winner of Foreign Policy Best of 2011 award
Posted November 2011
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Convention kudos to Bonnie Honig for co-chairing the program The Politics of Rights, headlining the recent successful APSA annual meeting.
September 2011
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Congratulations to Dennis Chong and Jamie Druckman! They have won two APSA prizes for their co-authored paper, "Dynamic Public Opinion: Communication Effects Over Time":
- Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2010 meeting of the APSA.
- Best Paper in Political Psychology Award for the best paper presented in the Political Psychology section at the 2010 meeting of the APSA.
August 2011
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Congratulations to Jim Mahoney! His book, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective, has won four awards from APSA and ASA sections. The awards include:
- J. David Greenstone Best Book Award, Section on Politics and History, American Political Science Association.
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Gregory M. Luebbert Best Book Award, Section on Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association.
Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award, Section on International History and Politics, American Political Science Association.
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Section on Political Sociology, American Sociological Association.
July 2011
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Congratulations to Bonnie Honig! Her book, Emergency Politics, was reviewed in the London Review of Books!
July 2011
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Shakman Hurd! Her book, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations won the Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics (2008-2010), from the APSA!
June 2011
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Congratulations to Jaime Dominguez and Jeff Rice for being named to the 2010-2011 Administrator Honor Roll!
Congratulations also to Daniel Galvin and Ian Hurd for their selection to the 2010-2011 Faculty Honor Roll in Political Science, as well as Paul Friesema in Environmental Policy and Culture!
June 2011
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Congratulations to Professor Larry Stuelpnagel for being named a 2011 Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer!
May 2011
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Congratulations to Professor Jamie Druckman, recipient of a Weinberg College Outstanding Freshman Advising Award.
May 2011
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Congratulations to Professor Karen Alter on the occasion of receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in Law. She was also recently awarded a prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
March 2011
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Professor Wendy Pearlman was featured in several interviews in regards to current events in Egypt and Libya:
El Mercurio (3/3)
Veja (2/26)
BBC World Service (2/24)
Correio Braziliense (2/24)
CBS Radio News (2/23)
Los Angeles Times (2/21)
WGN News (2/13)
ABC 7 News (2/11)
Al Jazeera (2/2)
WGN (1/28)
March 2011
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Professor Jeffrey Winters spoke on Indonesia and Egypt in an interview with Worldview on February 14.
February 2011
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Professor Elizabeth Hurd's writings on current events in Egypt were featured here:
Muftah (2/28)
Huffington Post (2/8)
SSRC's Immanent Frame (2/2)
February 2011
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Professors Ian Hurd and Wendy Pearlman were interviewed about the protests in Libya for the Northwestern News Center. You can find their comments here.
February 2011
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Professor Victor Shih was interviewed about the Chinese economy for TheBrowser.com on February 17. The interview can be found here.
February 2011
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Professors Wendy Pearlman and Elizabeth Shakeman Hurd both had media appearances about the events in Egypt during the week of February 7.
On February 11, Elizabeth Hurd was featured in the following: WBBM-AM, WBT-AM (Charlotte), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), KDKA-AM (Pittsburgh), WBAL-AM (Baltimore), WWJ-AM (Detroit) KRLD-AM (Dallas/Fort Worth), and WCCO-AM (Minneapolis/St. Paul).
On February 12, Wendy Pearlman discussed leadership change in Egypt with WGNtv. A brief article with her comments can be found here. She also had appearances with several other media outlets: WBBM-AM, WLS-TV, CLTV on February 12; KOGO-AM, KFBK-AM on February 14.
February 2011
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Jacqueline Stevens is a co-author of Build a Bigger House, a January 23, 2011 opinion piece in the New York Times. The piece, co-authored with Dalton Conley, can be found here.
She was also featured in the Talk of the Nation on NPR.
Her segment can be found here.
January 2011
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Bonnie Honig will be featured in a conference on April 18-20th 2011 at the University of Nottingham. The Nottingham Centre for Normative Political Theory, with the School of Politics and International Relations, is holding a conference on "Humanism in Agonistic Perspective: Themes from the work of Bonnie Honig." The main focus of the conference will be on an agonistic engagement with humanism, featuring work that explores the human/non-human distinction, examines humanism and tragedy, or engages with thinkers whose work, although not 'traditionally' humanist, offers insights into humanism from a broadly agonistic perspective.
January 2011
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Survey of Economically Successful Americans and the Common Good
Ben Page, Larry Bartels (at Princeton), and a number of colleagues at Northwestern and elsewhere are undertaking a study of Economically Successful Americans and the Common Good. Beginning with a Pilot Study in the Chicago area, they are interviewing people in the top 1% and the top 1/10 of 1% of wealth-holding households, in order to learn about factors that influence economic success; successful people's civic engagement, charitable contributions, and philanthropic behavior; what they see as the most important problems facing the country, and how they should be addressed; and what their views are on many issues of the day, from education and Social Security to regulation, international trade, and tax policy.
October 2010
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Congratulations to Jim Mahoney as the first recipient of the newly-established David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award for distinction in three categories: substantive research, methodological writing, and institutional development. The award was established by the Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods (the co-host of the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research) and is managed by the APSA Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research.
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Jamie Druckman is the recipient of the Paul Lazarfeld Best Paper Award for his paper (with former UMN students and colleagues, Martin Kifer and Michael Parkin) "Timeless Strategy Meets New Medium: Going Negative on Congressional Campaign Websites, 2002-2006." This honor is awarded by the Political Communication Section for the best paper presented in the section at the 2009 annual meeting of the APSA.
Jamie is also the recipient (with NU PhD and colleague, Toby Bolsen) of the Best Paper in Political Psychology Award, for "“Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions about Emergent Technologies." This honor is awarded by the Political Psychology Section for the best paper presented in the section at the 2009 annual meeting of the APSA.
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Jerry Goldman has been named the recipient of the CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Press Award for Teaching Innovation in Political Science. Jerry was acknowledged for creating Pocket Justice, a free technological tool that allows faculty and students broadened access to Supreme Court cases using the iPhone and, eventually, other smart phones. He is also the founder and director of the OYEZ project, a multimedia archive focused on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Michael Loriaux is to be the first recipient of the Charles Taylor Award for the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods, awarded by the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group of the APSA. Michael's 2008 Cambridge University Press book is: European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier. The committee noted Michael's book as "a first-rate scholarly work with a magisterial temporal, archival, and conceptual scope, breaking new ground as a work of interpretive analysis with a highly original thesis that illuminates the historical and discursive interplay among critical geography, identities, and the legitimacy of governing structures."
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Steve Nelson is the recipient of the APSA's 2010 Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of International Relations, Law, and Politics. His Cornell University dissertation is: "Creating Credibility: The International Monetary Fund and the Neoliberal Revolution in the Developing World."
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