New Books
Death of the Chesapeake by Richard Albright, MS ’80 (Wiley-Scrivener)
Lobbying the New President: Interests in Transition, by Heath Brown, PhD '05 (Routledge)
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Denver Brunsman, Denver Brunsman (University of Virginia Press)
Crisis, Disaster, and Risk: Institutional Response and Emergence by Kyle Farmbry, MPA ’94, PhD ’99,(M.E. Sharpe)
Bounded Bureaucracy and the Budgetary Process in the United States, by Jay Eungha Ryu, MPA ’98 (Transaction Books)
Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures, by Burt Barnow, Amsterdam Professor of Public Service, with John Trutko and Jaclyn Schede Piatak (W.E. Upjohn Institute)
State Tax Policy: A Political Perspective, by David Brunori, research professor of public policy (Urban Institute Press)
Regulation: A Primer, by Susan E. Dudley, Director of the GW Regulatory Studies Center, with Jerry Brito (Mercatus Center)
Awards and Recognition
U.S. News and World Report ranked the American Politics doctoral program 16th and the Political Science doctoral program 36th in this year’s national ranking of graduate programs.
Karen Ahlquist received the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for her article “Musical Assimilation and the German Element at the Cincinnati Sängerfest, 1879”.
Elizabeth Chacko, Chair of the Department of Geography, will spend six months at the National University of Singapore as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to research the integration of new and old streams of immigrants from South Asia.
Liana Chen, assistant professor of East Asian languages and Literatures, has been awarded a year-long research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to work on her monograph ‘Staging the Empire: A History of Qing Court Theatre, 1662-1924”.
Doctoral candidates in political science Kerry Crawford and Julia Macdonald published the article “Establishing a Marketplace of Women in Peacekeeping: An Analysis of Gender Mainstreaming and Its Viability in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” in the most recent edition of Air & Space Power Journal.
Anthropology students Vance Powell and Kelly Ostrofsky, and alumna Heather Dingwall, BS ’12, were awarded 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. In addition, master’s candidate Evy Vourlides received a Fulbright Fellowship, and Heather Dingwall, BS ’12, and doctoral student Kevin Hatala are lead authors on a peer-review article in the Journal of Human Evolution.
Communications students Valerie Berg, Alisa Occhiuzzi, Emily Willhoft, and Colette Rosenhaus will present senior theses at the Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference. Jennifer Gorfine and Alexander Griffith will present their theses at the James McCroskey and Virginia Richmond Undergraduate Scholars Conference.
Thomas Richards, BA ’10, has been named one of six winners in the Metropolitan Opera’s annual young singers competition, one of the opera”s most prestigious events.
Julia Sittmann, a history doctoral candidate, was one of 17 individuals out of 442 applicants to receive a CLIR-Mellon Fellowship for dissertation research on the encounters between Iraqi university students and the Ba’thist regime.
Silvio Waisbord, professor of media and public affairs, authored “Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration” in the inaugural issue of Global Health: Science and Practice.