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The Political Current The Political Current www.clas.wayne.edu/PoliticalScience SUMMER 2010 Dr. Brad Roth, Professor in the Classical Tradition You seem to have a broad definition of the duties and responsibilities of scholars share their research and a university professor. How did your professors shape the teacher that insights on matters of societal concern. you are now? I feel a responsibility to give talks, on Having acquired four degrees from four very different institutions, campus and off, about current issues I have had exposure to the widest range of role models, but my in international law and politics, and undergraduate mentors at Swarthmore College stand out. The faculty to organize on-campus events on were dedicated to extensive interaction with students, and students, political topics. I do my best to attend in turn, were motivated to make sure that their work product did not events organized by my colleagues, in disappoint their professors. I recall, in particular, spending hours in part to encourage student attendance Professor Tom Bradley’s office discussing politics, political philosophy, by example. It is difficult to get our students, who often have job Anthropologyand history. I still visit him frequently, and recently contributed an and family responsibilities, to addNews this dimension to their studies. essay to a volume celebrating his career. However, if they do not seize whatever opportunities they have to avail It is impossible to reproduce my undergraduate experience, but I do themselves of the intellectual life that a major University has to offer, see my mission as “bringing a little bit of Swarthmore” to Wayne. As they are missing out on a major aspect of a college education. a Teaching Assistant at the University of California at Berkeley, I had Can you tell us a bit about WSU’s Learning Communities—a project exposure to a very different model of undergraduate education: one you have participated in? in which undergraduates were often treated as second-class citizens. I The Learning Communities project is based on the idea that learning have had positive role models to emulate, but also negative role models is a collective and participatory enterprise that extends beyond whose example I seek to avoid. the classroom and requires the building of a web of relationships. I Another area of have contributed to this mission through our Legal Studies Learning What’s inside… academia you treat Community, taking advantage of my connections to the Law School, very seriously is to the legal community, and to former students who are now in participation in the law school or law practice -- sixteen of whom have shared their 2 Undergraduates of public forum. Do you experiences with current students this semester in various Learning Excellence see this as an integral Community sessions. 3 Alumni News part of student life? Along with our Peer Mentor, Eric Fleury, I have programmed Commuter schools weekly sessions that have focused on topics of interest to students 6 Graduate Student News often lack a felt considering a career in law, including: law school admissions; the Onda Latinasense of academic LSAT; first-year law school exams; student experiences from all of the community. Students region’s law schools; the path from student to practicing lawyer; and Wayne State University Board of Governors come to see the the experience of litigation practice. Depending on the feedback we Richard Bernstein, chair; Tina Abbott, vice-chair; university as nothing receive, we will determine whether and how our one-semester pilot Debbie Dingell, Eugene Driker, Diane L. Dunaskiss, more than the venue project can be sustained. Paul E. Massaron, Annetta Miller, Gary S. Pollard, for their classes: Can you talk about your scholarly work? Jay Noren, ex officio almost literally, they I describe my scholarly work as the application of political view the university theory to problems in international and comparative public law. My as a “drive-through.” early scholarship focused on controversies over the recognition of A major research governments in international law (i.e., When is a de facto regime institution such as not a “government”?), and on the related question of the existence, ours is much more specifications, and consequences of an internationally-mandated “right than that. It is a place to democratic governance.” I have explored a range of topics involving where prominent human rights and state sovereignty. My recent work examines (and, Continued on page 3 a publication of the WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES SUMMER 2010 www.clas.wayne.edu/PoliticalScience A Look at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies For twenty years, the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) education. Recently, it has hosted delegations of Middle Eastern and has been a neighbor of the Department of Political Science, both European students with funding from the US State Department and physically (the center is located down the hall) and through shared the German Marshall Fund. courses, instructors, interests, and goals. During this period, the The Center’s Detroit Council for World Affairs puts the Center in Director of the Center has been Dr. Frederic S. Pearson, a political touch with major foreign policy interest groups and practitioners science professor specializing in international politics. Graduate here and abroad. students in the political science program interested in international Prominent human rights advocate and former president of Ireland politics have studied with him and in many cases have written Mary Robinson delivered the annual Max Mark Cranbrook Peace their dissertations under his guidance. Many of these students have Lecture in April 2010. Robinson, a recipient of the U.S. Presidential engaged in research projects with Dr. Pearson and the Center, both Medal of Freedom and former United Nations High Commissioner for before and after completion of their doctorate. Human Rights, spoke on “Challenges to Global Peacemaking.” The CPCS celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2010. It’s one of the For a more comprehensive look at the Center’s many programs and leading institutions in the nation in developing new approaches academic courses, please visit http://www.clas.wayne.edu/pcs/. n to conflict resolution and cross-cultural conflict management. It supports several undergraduate courses, a co-major, and a newly certified Graduate Certificate in Peace and Security Studies. The CPCS faculty and staff engage in scholarly and applied research initiatives. A newly-endowed post-doctoral program in Science, Technology, Peace and Public Policy—a joint endeavor with the WSU School of Engineering—will host visiting faculty in areas such as nuclear, environmental, biogenetic and related technologies. The “Mind of Peace Experiment” is a new grass-roots dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis. The Center also provides outreach on issues of conflict management and intercultural understanding through community The Middle East Partnership Initiative Students Undergraduates of Excellence Cauli Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in the working in the Rodrigues pool and classroom. He has been named Peer Mentor Bedran All-American seventeen times and held a Program. Eric is a senior national title on the 200 medley relay in was featured student- 2008. He has worked as a student research in 2009’s CLAS athlete from assistant for the Center for Peace and Notes’ Aim Brazil who Conflict studies for two years. He was named Higher. came to to the Dean’s list on two occasions. Amani WSU with Eric Fleury is a senior majoring in Hammoud an athletic political science and Japanese. Under the (sponsored Cauli Rodrigues Bedran scholarship guidance of Dr. Brad Roth, he won an by Dr. Brad to join the undergraduate research grant to study the Roth), Eric Fleury swimming and diving program. For the past international legal aspects of the former Shena Penn two seasons, he served as a team captain Yugoslavia. He presented his research at a (sponsored by Dr. Kyu-Nahm Jun) and as a Student Athlete Advisory Committee conference in Croatia. He has also studied and Sevvora Olalere (sponsored by representative. Last year, he was named in Japan. He is now serving as an intern graduate student Susumu Suzuki) won All-Region Academic and received the Great at the Eastern District Federal Court in Undergraduate Research and Creative Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference the chambers of Judge Avery Cohen and Projects awards. n 2 The Political Current SUMMER 2010 www.clas.wayne.edu/PoliticalScience Alumni News On the Road in Mozambique Dr. Williams Yamkam (PhD with Dr. Deegan-Krause 2009) is an assistant professor Professor Kevin Deegan-Krause, along with WSU President at the University of Arkansas at Emeritus Irvin D. Reid and political science graduate student Fort Smith. Cameron Wimpy, accompanied twelve students and staff members Monica Irelan (MPA 2009) from the Honors College to Mozambique from October 20 to was named Director of the Imlay November 4, 2009. City Downtown Development The trip was the culmination of a semester of collaborative Dr. Yamkam in Arkansas Authority in December 2009. classroom work on the topic of democratization in Africa. While Dr. Jason Booza (PhD in Mozambique, the students interviewed citizens, politicians, and 2009), a demographer in the School of Medicine, co-authored the former president Joachim Chissano. Many of the students blogged article “Incorporating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into about their experiences at www.netvibes.com/adpm. Program Evaluation: Lessons from a Rural Medicine Initiative,” which The African Democracy project was designed to give students a appeared in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. richer understanding and firsthand observation of politics in Africa. Dr. Kelly LeRoux (MPA 2002; PhD 2006) left her position at On completion of the trip, the students put together a short film and the University of Kansas and joined the faculty in the Department of other audiovisual materials in preparation for Joachim Chissano’s visit Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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