November 6, 2007
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SPA welcomes National Academy of Public Administration leadership
(Photo by Jeff Watts)
AU President Neil Kerwin and School of Public Affairs (SPA) dean William LeoGrande hosted leaders from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) last Tuesday to discuss current issues and possible research collaborations. Some of AU’s 40 NAPA fellows also attended the lunch.
“AU, SPA, and NAPA share a common drive for excellence in public service,” said LeoGrande. “We encourage our students to shape the future of our public life by innovating and creating solutions. We also happily share our faculty and their scholarship to serve public needs through NAPA’s work.”
NAPA, an independent, nonpartisan organization chartered by Congress, assists federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness and accountability. The organization boasts about 500 fellows nationwide.
From left, NAPA VP William Shields Jr., SOC/BA ’95, SPA/MA ’97; SPA distinguished adjunct in residence emeritus and NAPA fellow Bernard Rosen; SPA professor and NAPA fellow Robert Durant; SPA scholar in residence and NAPA fellow Beryl Radin; dean William LeoGrande; NAPA president and CEO Jenna Dorn; AU President and NAPA fellow Neil Kerwin; SPA distinguished professor and NAPA fellow David Rosenbloom; SPA Roger Jones Committee member and NAPA fellow Harold Finger; SPA professor emeritus and NAPA fellow Murray Comarow.
Honors/Awards/Appointments
Larry Engel, SOC: was a judge for the Best Writing Category for the biannual Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, October.
Claudia Martin, WCL: appointed a member of a working group to discuss the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Legal Implementation Index (ICCPR Index) by the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, July.
Lectures/Presentations
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: discussed, with President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, “Economic Development, International Relations and Prospects for Peace in Africa,” Voice of America Straight Talk Africa show, August.
Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “TESOL, Inc., and Its Benefits for EFL Teachers,” for the Sub-Saharan EFL Teachers Program at the University of Buffalo, Alexandria, Va., August.
Joseph Campbell, SOC: gave a presentation at the University College of Oslo and spoke to journalism students at the journalism program at the University College of Volda on a tour hosted by the U. S. Department of State, September.
Erran Carmel, Kogod: coauthored “Why ‘Nearshore’ Means that Distance Matters,” cover article for Communications of the ACM, October 2007.
Daniel Marcus, WCL: “The 9/11 Commission, the White House, and Executive Privilege,” Rockefeller School of Public Policy, SUNY-Albany, July.
Fernanda Nicola, WCL: “The Role of Cities in EU Law,” Global Law in Comparative Perspective Conference, Harvard Law School, June.
Matthew Nisbet, SOC: “Indirect Truths: The Social Impact of Documentary Film,” Pre-Conference on Science Communication, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, August.
Matthew Pascocello, WCL: “Ready to On-Ramp?” National Association of Women Lawyers, at Wilmer Hale, Washington, D.C., May.
Victoria Phillips, WCL: panelist, “FCC Outlook: Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in 2007,” Fourth Annual Digital Media Conference, Sponsored by Digital Media Wire, Silver Spring, Md., June.
David Rosenbloom, SPA: “The Legal Basis of Contemporary Public Administration,” seminar, University of Utah, Washington, D.C., September.
Papers Presented
Robert Blecker, economics, CAS: “Stolper-Samuelson After Kalecki: International Trade and Income Distribution with Oligopolistic Mark-Ups and Partial Pass-Through,” Annual Political Economy Workshop, Queen Mary University of London, London, June.
Alina Israeli, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Russian Conjunctions: Two Types of Uncertainty,” annual meeting, Slavic Linguistic Society, Berlin, August.
Published Works
Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: “Founders Famous and Forgotten,” Intercollegiate Review 42, no 2, fall 2007.
Robert Lerman, economics, CAS: coauthored “How Do Marital Status, Work Effort, and Wage Rates Interact?” in Demography, vol 44, no 3, August 2007.
Binny Miller, WCL: Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions, LexisNexis 2007.
Chris Palmer, SOC: “Pondering Nature: Do No Harm,” in Realscreen magazine, October.
David Sadker, SETH, CAS: “An Educator’s Primer on the Gender War,” in Classic Edition Sources: Multicultural Education, second edition, McGraw Hill, 2007.
Richard Sha, literature, CAS: “Physiology of the Romantic Imagination,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, July.
Media
Gordon Adams, SIS: his appointment at SIS was noted in the Washington Examiner, September.
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed on CBC Radio One’s program The Current regarding the 25th anniversary of emoticons, September.
Liz Boals, WCL: interviewed by WTTG, Washington, D.C., on the overturning of the convictions and the change in charges for the members of the Jena Six, September.
Robert Durant, SPA: was interviewed for a feature article in the UK’s Defence Management Journal (DMJ) on how militaries around the world are trying to incorporate environmental, natural resource, and energy conservation values and management into their operations.
Charlene Gomes, WCL: was interviewed for the article “Sonnenschein Builds Interest in Pro Bono Through Scholarships,” Legal Times, July.
Alan Kraut, history, CAS: was a guest on NPR’s All Things Considered for the show “Barriers Abound for Immigrants Learning English,” September.
Peter Kuznik, history, CAS: quoted in an article in Reuters regarding the reasons the numbers of anti-war protestors seems to be decreasing even though more and more Americans have turned against the war, October.
William LeoGrande, dean, SPA: quoted in an article in the Miami Herald regarding Cuban interim president Raul Castro’s call for open criticism as a means to fix the country’s problems, October.
Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: appeared on CNN and Hearst Television to discuss South Carolina’s decision to move its Republican presidential primary to January, August.
Howard McCurdy, SPA: interviewed by USA Today on the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik I into space, September.
Diane Orentlicher, WCL: was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor regarding the challenges to prosecuting genocide, April.
