New Books
Dameon Alexander, assistant professorial lecturer in sociology authored The Imprint of Business Norms on American Education.
Erin D. Chapman, assistant professor of history, authored her first book, Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s.
Barry Chiswick, chair of the Department of Economics, edited Recent Developments in the Economics of International Migration, Volume One.
Charles Freericks, BA ’83, authored the book My Imaginary Friend Was Too Cool to Hang Out With Me.
Daniel Marschall, professorial lecturer in sociology, authored The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society.
Graduate teaching assistant Wesley J. Reisser, MA ’07, authored his first book The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson's Secret Plan for Peace.
Gregory D. Squires, professor of sociology and public policy and public administration, co-edited the book Warfare Welfare: The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America’s Permanent War Economy.
Awards and Recognition
Kelly Bauer, a graduate student in political science, received a U.S. Student Fulbright award for 2012-13 to conduct fieldwork in Chile.
History students Carly Gibbs and Robin Pokorski represented GW at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference last month at Towson State University. Pokorski’s paper, "The Nobility of the Mind: Isotta Nogarola, Laura Cereta and the Question of the Appropriate Forum for Female Humanists," won second place.
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, written by Suleiman Osman, assistant professor of American studies, won the Hornblower Award from the New York Society Library.
Elizabeth Saunders, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, received a Wilson Center Fellowship to work on her project "Power Projection in International Relations."
Martin Schwartz, visiting professor in sociology, received the 2012 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award.
Susan Sell, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, received a Wilson Center Fellowship to work on her book Cat and Mouse: Forum Shifting and the Battle over Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement.
Graduate student in anthropology Anna Stewart received a Critical Language Scholarship from the Department of State to travel to Jaipur, India where she will study Hindi for 10 weeks this summer.
Courtney Wallin, graduate student in psychology, received a $30,000 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship to compare younger and older adults in judging the absolute distance of objects seen in a natural indoor environment.
Selected Published Works
Stephanie Cellini, assistant professor of public policy and public administration, authored a study featured in the Boston Globe on how for-profit schools who receive federal financial aid set higher rates for their tuition than those who go without government support.
Martin D. Schwartz, visiting professor in sociology, co-authored “Left Realism” in Handbook of Critical Criminology.
The late Lee Sigelman, former professor of political science, and Robert Goldfarb, professor emeritus of economics and political science, authored "The Influence of Economics on Political Science: By What Pathway?" in Journal of Economic Methodology.
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, authored “Rapid, Non-Targeted Discovery of Biochemical Transformation and Biomarker Candidates in Oncovirus-Infected Cell Lines Using LAESI Mass Spectrometry” in Chemical Communication.
Paul Wahlbeck, professor of political science, co-authored "The Origin and Development of Stare Decisis at the U.S. Supreme Court" in New Directions in Judicial Politics.
Assistant Professor of Art Therapy Elizabeth Warson authored the article “Exploring American Indian Adolescents’ Needs through a Community-Driven Study” in The Arts in Psychotherapy.