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Jack Wright Memorial Speaker Series
Dissertation defenses and practice job talks

Publications and Awards

Our Political Science faculty and students publish regularly in top tier journals and presses and have won numerous grants and awards. For student publications and awards, click here. Recent faculty accomplishments include:

Publications

• James M. Goldgeier (and Derek H. Chollet), America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (Public Affairs Books, 2008).
• Susan K. Sell, "What Role for Humanitarian Intellectual Property? The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights" Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology Vol. 6:1 (2005: 160-180).
• Forrest Maltzman (coauthored by Michael Bailey and Brian Kamoie), "Signals from the Tenth Justice: The Political Role of the Solicitor General in Supreme Court Decision-making." American Journal of Political Science 49:72- 85 (January 2005)
• David Shambaugh,"China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order," International Security, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Winter 2004/2005).
• Martha Finnemore (and Michael Barnett), Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004)
• Steven J. Balla (and William T. Gormley), Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2004)
• Melissa Schwartzberg, "Athenian Democracy and Legal Change," American Political Science Review, 98:2, 311-325 (May 2004)
• James M. Goldgeier (and Michael McFaul), "Russians as Joiners: Realist and Liberal Conceptions of Postcommunist Europe," in After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition, edited by Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• Harry Harding (and Francine R. Frankel) eds., The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (Columbia University Press, 2004)
• Sarah A. Binder and Forrest Maltzman, "The Limits of Senatorial Courtesy." Legislative Studies Quarterly 24: 5-22 (February 2004)

Awards

• Steven Kelts has been awarded the 2008 Bender Teaching Award in recognition of dedication and innovation in the classroom.
• Lee Sigelman has been awarded the 2008 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for University Service by George Washington University.
• Kimberly Morgan has been named a Wilson Center Fellow for 2008-09 by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
• Steven Kelts has been selected as the 2007-08 recipient of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Freshmen Advising Award.
• Henry Hale has been awarded the 2007 Leon Epstein Prize by APSA's Political Organizations and Parties Section for Why Not Parties in Russia?
• Lee Sigelman has been given the 2007 Frank Goodnow Award for service by the American Political Science Association.
• Emmanuel Teitelbaum has been awarded the 2007 Gabriel Almond Award for the best dissertation in comparative politics.
• Zsuzsa Csergo has been awarded the Braudel fellowship at the European Union University in Florence, Italy for fall semester 2006.
• Bruce Dickson, and a co-investigator have been awarded a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a project on "Private Entrepreneurs as Agents of Political Change in China."
• Kimberly Morgan, and a co-investigator have been awarded a major grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for work to be done on a project titled: "The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003: Ideologies, Interests, and Policy Feedbacks in the Contemporary Politics of Medicare."
• James Goldgeier, AY 2005-2006, Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress.
• James Goldgeier, 2004 Lepgold Prize for Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War (Brookings Institution Press). The award is for the best book on international relations published in 2003.
• Sarah Binder, 2004 Richard Fenno, Jr. Award for Stalemate (Brookings 2003) by the Legislative Studies Section of APSA.
• Martha Finnemore, 2004 Woodrow Wilson Award for The Purpose of Intervention (Cornell University Press). The award is for the "best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics, or international affairs"
• Bruce Dickson, $130,000 Smith Richardson Foundation grant for his project, "Privatization and Democratization in China: The Growing Influence of Red Capitalists."