The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that three new professors joined its faculty in the fall of 2011.
Dr. Amber Wichowsky received her Ph.D. from UW-Madison in 2010. She spent the past academic year at the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University on a postdoctoral fellowship. Her research interests include urban politics, state and local government use of federal funds, competition and electoral accountability in the United States, and American mass attitudes and ideology.
Dr. Dongwook Kim received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. He served as the Hewlett Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He also taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago before coming to Marquette. His research and teaching interests include international law and organizations, human rights, and transnational activism.
Dr. Paul Nolette received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2011. He also has a law degree from Georgetown University and subsequently served as the legal counsel for the Labor and Workforce Development Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. His research and teaching interests include public and constitutional law, American federalism, and the role of courts and litigation in American political development.
On February 16th, the Political Science Graduate Students Association and the Political Science Department jointly sponsored a town hall meeting on recent events in Egypt. Speakers included Prof. Phil Naylor, the Marquette History Department's North Africa and Middle East specialist who recently returned from Cairo, Prof. Risa Brooks, our security expert whose book, Shaping Strategy, examines the Egyptian Military, and Ms. Riman Barakat, an International Affairs graduate student who lived in Cairo for six years and has published work on related topics. The speakers discussed Egyptian history, the military, and youth and new media. A lively discussion followed the presentations.
