Department of Political Science Bulletin, September 30, 2019
WELCOME TO AUTUMN QUARTER 2019.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Political Science’s Health & Safety Plan is located on our website. Instructors and Teaching assistants should review “Instructor Information”. Found at https://www.polisci.washington.edu/sites/polisci/files/documents/forms/instructor_information.pdf
FACULTY GOING ON LEAVE FOR 2019–20 ACADEMIC YEAR:
- Megan Francis
- Elizabeth Kier
- Jonathan Mercer
FACULTY RETURNING FROM LEAVE STATUS:
- Lance Bennett
- Jack Turner
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVANCEMENTS:
Congratulations to the following graduate students:
NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS:
GRADUATE STUDENT AND POST-GRADUATE POSITIONS:
POLITICAL SCIENCE STAFF:
FACULTY ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
Mathieu Dubeau's article "Species-Being for Whom? The Five Faces of Interspecies Oppression" has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Political Theory.
Congratulations to department graduate student alum Hind Ahmed Zaki, whose 2018 dissertation has been selected as co-winner for the 2019 Comparative Democratization Best Fieldwork Award by APSA. The award is fitting recognition for Hind's courageous, diligent, rigorous field research for her PhD thesis, titled "In the Shadow of the State: Gender Contestation and Legal Mobilization in the Context of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia." Following post-doctoral positions at Harvard and the Brandeis Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Dr. Ahmed Zaki secured a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, starting this past summer.
UW Phd 1990 Alec Stone Sweet, Governing with Judges
POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:
The Center for Environmental Politics presents Deborah Sunter (Tufts University), “Race to Solar: Disparities in Rooftop Photovoltaics Deployment in the United States by Race, Ethnicity, and Income”. Friday, October 4, 2019, 12:00–1:30pm, Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room).
The Department of Political Science presents Rose Kapolczynski (President, American Association of Political Consultants) and Glen Bolger (Republican Party political strategist and pollster), “Election 2020: Will the Candidate or the Strategy Win the Day?” Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 6:30–8:00pm, Gowen Hall, room 301.
The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with co-sponsorship from American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, CHID, English, Geography, Political Science, the Jackson School of International Studies, and the Harry Bridges Labor Center, present Jean Comroff (Harvard University) and Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame), “Neoliberalism and the (Dis)integration of the Political”. Thursday, October 24, 4:00–6:00pm, Communications Building, room 120.
OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS:
The University of Washington Department of Classics presents Emily Greenwood (Yale University) “Thucydides on Diversity, and Vice Versa: Unlikely Dialogues”. Friday, October 18, 2019, 3:30pm, Paccar Hall, room 295. This paper opens up a dialogue between Thucydides’ analysis of ethnic stereotyping in the Atheno-Peloponnesian War and insights from the interdisciplinary field of diversity scholarship. At the heart of this dialogue are questions about the knowledge that is “proper” to individual academic disciplines, how disciplines reproduce themselves, and what it means to do diversity in the contemporary academy.
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