Prof. Lawrence LeBlanc is the new chair of the Political Science
Department.
Prof. Michael Fleet is the new Assistant Chair and Director of Graduate
Studies.
Prof. Raju Thomas has retired and been appointed Professor Emeritus.
Prof. Andrew Barrett has resigned from the Department. We wish him the
best of success in his present position as an aid to Senator Jeff
Sessions.
Prof. Ryan Hanley will be on leave for 2006-07, having received a
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. His project is
a book called "Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue".
Prof. Lowell Barrington is on sabbatical for Fall Semester 2006. He is
working on two projects. The first is the completion of two survey data
analysis projects, examining survey data from Ukraine collected by the
U.S. State Department. The second project is finishing an introductory
comparative politics textbook (Comparative Politics: Structures and
Choices), which will be published by Houghton Mifflin next year.
Christopher Witt has joined the Department as an
Arnold L. Mitchem
Fellow for the 2006-2007. He is finishing his dissertation,
"Unaffordable Outcomes: The Wealth Gap, Black Political Participation
and Public Policy Outcomes in the Black Interest" in the Department of
Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. In
the Spring he will teach POSC198: Race, Wealth and Inequality in
American Politics, M W 3:50pm-5:05pm.
The Department welcomes five visiting faculty: Susan Giaimo, Mark
Armstrong, Jill Budny, Carolyn McCarthy-Rekard, and Jeff Sachse.
The Department wishes success (and hard work!) to three of our recently
graduated MA students who are starting Ph.D. programs this fall. These
are John LeJeune at UC-San Diego, Emanuel Coman at North Carolina,
and Wang Ke at Pennsylvania.
This fall, the Department will be recruiting to fill positions in
American politics and in international politics.
