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SPA’s Karen O’Connor honored
The largest professional association in public administration has honored Karen O’Connor, School of Public Affairs, for her contributions to the advancement of women in public administration. O’Connor, above right, was awarded this year’s Joan Fiss Bishop Award from the American Society for Public Administration, which recognizes innovative leadership and a strong commitment to increasing involvement by women in the public sector. It was presented on Mar. 26 at the ASPA conference by former AU faculty member Claire Felbinger, chair of the Section for Women in Public Administration (SWPA), which gives the award. O’Connor, a widely published scholar, is the Jonathan N. Helfat Distinguished Professor of Government and director of the Women and Politics Institute. —SA |
Honors/Awards/Appointments
James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: named to the Editorial Advisory Board of Campaigns and Elections magazine Lectures/Presentations
Muneer Ahmad, WCL: “No Right to Have Rights: Reflections on Litigation at Guantanamo Bay,” Temple Law School Faculty Workshop, Philadelphia, February. Heather Bupp-Habuda, WCL: panelist for “Evidence and Jury Instructions in Employment Law Cases,” a CLE course sponsored by the American Law Institute of the American Bar Association and Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., February. Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: “The Forgotten Founders on Church and State,” at the conference “Religion and the American Founding,” George Fox University, Newberg, Ore., March. Kathleen Duignan, WCL: guest lecturer for the panel “Ensuring Contractor Accountability in Complex Contingency Operations: UCMJ, MEJA, and the Way Forward,” sponsored by the International Peace Operations Association, Washington, D.C., February. Walter Effross, WCL: “Navigating Through the ‘Deepening Insolvency’ Doctrine,” at the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, Philadelphia, February. Christine Farley, WCL: “The Feminine Mystique of the Brand in Trademark Law Today,” at the Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Philadelphia, February. Robert Marshak, SPA: “Organizational Change and Covert Processes,” at the Society for Psychologists in Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March. Colman McCarthy, SIS: lectured on the need for peace education, Oberlin College, February. Jennifer Oetzel, Kogod: presented “Multinational Enterprise Strategic Response to Violent Conflict: The Role of Conflict Characteristics,” (based on a paper coauthored with Kathleen Getz, Kogod, and Stephen Ladek, International Solutions Group), at the “International Business Research Seminar Series,” George Washington University, March. Lucinda Peach, philosophy and religion, CAS: presented “Feminist Theory,” via video-teleconference from the U.S. Department of State to a women’s studies class at the University of Jordan, Amman, in honor of International Women’s Day, Washington, D.C., March. Papers Presented
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: copresented “The Imperative of Good Governance and Strong Democratic Institutions in Africa,” 2006 Association of Third World Studies Annual Meeting, Winston Salem University, N. Car., November. Elizabeth Auciello, Erin Danner, Jennifer Carpio, and Colleen Lawler, MA students, language and foreign studies, CAS: presented papers on Latin American cultural movements on a panel organized and chaired by Jack Child, LFS, CAS, who in a later panel presented “The Malvinas–Falkland Islands 25 Years after the Conflict,” annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, Albright College, Reading, Pa., March. Published Works
H. Kent Baker, Kogod: coauthored “The Perceptions of Dividends by Canadian Managers: New Survey Evidence,” for the Survey Research in Finance issue of the International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol 3, no 1, 2007. Susan Carle, WCL: “Power as a Factor in Lawyers’ Ethical Deliberations,” 35 Hofstra Law Review, 117, 2006. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: included in Poetas en la Casa de la Luna, Editorial Verdahalago de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2005. Alina Israeli, language and foreign studies, CAS: has published a review article of A. Timberlake’s A Reference Grammar of Russian (Cambridge University Press) in the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Gemma Puglisi, SOC: “Is Three a Charm? Running the Nightly Network News,” in Women’s Media Center online publication, March. Media
Maryam Ahranjani, WCL: published a profile of the Law and Government LLM program, “Post-J.D. Programs Allow Students to Further their Education and Get a Leg Up on the Competition,” in Law Crossing, February. Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed on the new Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show about language, And Sometimes, regarding the impact of computer-mediated language on written culture, January. Robin Barr, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by the Associated Press on the proper pronunciation of the word “Babel,” February. Angela Davis, WCL: interviewed for NPR’s The Michel Martin Show about the Genarlow Wilson Case, February. Robert Durant and Dan Fiorino, SPA: their book (with Rosemary O’Leary), Environmental Governance Reconsidered, is quoted extensively in the European Union’s newly released report, Environmental Policy Integration and Modes of Governance: State of the Art Report. Randall Eliason, WCL: appeared in Part Two of the PBS Frontline series “News War: Secrets, Sources and Spin,” addressing reporters privilege and the BALCO investigation; quoted twice in the Washington Post regarding the Scooter Libby trial, February. Arturo Porzecanski, SIS: was interviewed on CNBC about President Bush’s trip to Latin America; on Telemundo discussing turmoil in the U.S. stock market; and on Bloomberg TV about the Federal Reserve’s latest decision, March. Judith Shapiro, SIS: interviewed on Voice of America Radio (China branch) on China’s “green” Olympics, March. Lenny Steinhorn, SOC: appeared on PBS’s The Boomer Century, which aired nationally, March. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on the U.S.-Iran crisis on CNN, NBC, CNN Radio, Radio Emisora de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Radio Guado (New York), KYRM Radio (Phoenix), National Spanish Radio, National Swiss Radio, February.
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