FALL 2011 Political Science
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? An Update on Our Emeritus Professors
Since most of the readers of this newsletter are former students in our department, we thought you might like to hear about your professors from your Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, college years. home of the political science department
William Baugh retired in 2003 and continued teaching part-time for the next five years. In retirement, he entered the University of Oregon architecture program. He lives near Junction City with his wife, Cheryl.
James Davies lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is a bit older than ninety. Perhaps his best known publication is “Toward a Theory of Revolution,” appearing in The American Sociological Review. The “J- Curve” suggests that revolution is more likely when people have experienced a fairly long period of satisfaction of their needs and then they are faced with a sharp downturn in satisfaction. He is also the author of When Men Revolt and Why: A Reader in Political Violence and Revolution and Violence in America (New York: Signet Books, 1969). A reflection on the work of James Davies, coauthored by John Orbell and Roshani Shay, is forthcoming in Politics and the Life Sciences.
Daniel Goldrich remains active in the Community Alliance of Lane County, doing educational events promoting peace, justice, and policies to confront climate change via a revitalized locally and regionally based economy. Key question: how to break through denial to animate the effort to realize these changes? He and his wife, Hannah, consider themselves fortunate to have a decent public employee pension that allows them to spend a few winter weeks every year in Oaxaca, Mexico, swimming, reading, and visiting friends, including local artisans. They also are in Portland a lot, where three of their four children and four of their six grandchildren live. They also get together whenever possible with their son and his family who live in Juneau, Alaska.
Arthur Hanhardt retired in 1993 and continued to teach part-time for five years. He lives in Eugene with his wife, Cornelia.
Dick Kraus retired in 2008. He moved to Portland, where he sleeps late and eats well. He continues to teach occasionally, and has written a new book, The Cultural Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012). 2 Political Science • Fall 2011
Jerry Medler retired in 2002 and continued to teach part-time for four years. His wife, Mary Beth, passed away in 2005. He recently remarried and now divides his time between Florence and Venice (that’s Florence, Oregon and Venice, Florida).
John Orbell retired in 2003 and continued to teach part-time for three years. He has worked on several projects since 2003: 1) With former graduate student Oleg Smirnov, now an associate professor at Stony Brook University and several others, he published an article in The Journal of Politics; 2) With former student Tomonori Morikawa—now at Waseda University, an article in Political Psychology; 3) With former student Tim Johnson, now at Willamette University, and Misha Myagkov, an article forthcoming in Political Psychology; (4) with Roshani Shay, a UO PhD student, now retired from Western Oregon University, a reflection on the work of James C. Davies, forthcoming inPolitics and the Life Sciences. John is also involved in a four-year, NSF-supported project to simulate the human response to climate changes as predicted by current, worldwide climatological models. His wife, Sandi, is now retired, but keeping very busy with some voluntary work for, among others, the local HIV-AIDS Alliance; Matthew (thirty-two) is completing a PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Georgia; and Paul (twenty-eight) is making it in New York City as a musician of jazz, rock, and various genres.
Richard Suttmeier retired in 2006 and continued to teach until last spring term. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Keene Valley, New York, in the midst of the “high peaks” of the Adirondack mountains with a lovely view of Mount Marcy, New York’s highest peak. His paper (with Yao Xiangkui), “China’s IP Transition: Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights in a Rising China,” was published as a “Special Report” by the National Bureau of Asian Research. His article, “China’s Management of Environmental Crises: Risks, Recreancy, and Response,” just appeared in Jae Ho Chung (ed.). China’s Crisis Management (Routledge). He is also serving on a National Academy of Sciences committee studying “Intellectual Property Management in Standard Setting Processes.”
George Zaninovich retired in 2000 and lives in Eugene.
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The Year of the Fellowship Four of our faculty members have won distinguished fellowships for the upcoming year, so it has been a remarkable year for both the department and the students who work with these faculty members. Deborah Baumgold was awarded a senior Descartes fellowship in Utrecht, Holland, during the spring of 2012. She will lead a research seminar on the seventeenth- century transformation of natural law, as well as its connection with the new scientific thinking and with contemporary colonialism and slave-trading, centering primarily on the thought of Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). Grotius’s philosophy will prove an especially fertile area for research by participants in the seminar. His seminal role in framing what became known as a Hobbesian project—of basing political conclusions on universal propositions about human nature—has been receiving attention outside the Netherlands in the past several decades. An important issue is the relationship between these discussions and his “sociobiological” approach to natural law. Mikhail (Misha) Myagkov received a research fellowship, “2012 Presidential Election in Russia: a step toward democracy or déjà vu a-la-Putin?” from the American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar Program to facilitate his research on elections and election fraud in Russia. Craig Parsons is spending the 2011–12 year in Bordeaux, France, with support from a Fulbright Research Award. He is affiliated with the Émile Durkheim Institute of the University of Bordeaux and Sciences Po Bordeaux, where he will be co-organizing a speaker series on political sociology. His research project focuses on how European political parties have coped—or failed to cope—with divisive debates about the European Union (EU), which tend to cut across Right and Left-based parties much like issues like immigration divides parties in the United States. Parsons is interested in these divisions as an example of what he calls “cross-issue interference” in political representation. Under certain conditions, parties muffle discussion of EU issues to preserve their unity on other issues. He is working on a book with a German co-author, Till Weber of Humboldt University in Berlin, to be titled, Parties and the Problems of Pluralism. Tuong Vu is a visiting research fellow in the Democracy and Development Program based at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University. Vu’s main research project is a book on the Vietnamese revolution as a case of radical politics in the periphery. In particular, he will examine the role played by ideology in revolution and state-making in Vietnam. This book will challenge the conventional wisdom on Vietnamese politics and address broader debates on the importance of ideas and ideology in politics in developing countries. 4 Political Science • Fall 2011
Faculty Deborah Baumgold 2010. Contract Theory in Historical Context: Essays on Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke. Publications, Leiden: Brill. Grants, and 2010. “Slavery Discourse before the Restoration: The Barbary Coast, Justinian’s Digest, and Awards Hobbes’s Political Theory,” History of European Ideas, 36: 412–18. Gerald Berk 2011. “The National Recovery Administration Reconsidered, or Why the Corrugated and Solid Fiber Shipping Container Code Succeeded,” Studies in American Political Development, 25: 56–85; 2010. “From Categorical Imperative to Learning by Categories: Cost Accounting and New Categorical Practices in American Manufacturing, 1900–1930,” Categories in Markets: Origins and Evolution in Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 31:255–292; with Marc Schneiberg. Jane Cramer Forthcoming. National Security Panics: Overestimation, Misperception and Threat Inflation as Sources of Public Fear,Routledge . 2011. Why Did the US Invade Iraq? Edited volume with A. Trevor Thrall, Routledge. Awarded a CAS Rippey Innovative Teaching Award Dennis Galvan Forthcoming. “Grands Travaux and Petits Cadeaux: Public Works and Private Materialism in the 2007 Re-election of Wade in Senegal,” in Vincent Foucher, ed., Le Sénégal de Wade, Paris: Karthala Press. 2010. “Everyday Transnationalism and the Postcolony in West Africa,” Development and Society. 2011. “Precarious Hopes: Labour Remittances, Family Investments and the Effects of the Global Economic Crisis in Senegal,” in Rena Behal, Alice Mah and Babacar Fall, eds., Rethinking Work: Global Historical and Sociological Perspectives, Tulika Books, New Delhi. Alison Gash Awarded a UO Williams Fund Grant (with Dan HoSang and Priscilla Yamin) for a new three-course sequence, Politics and Sexuality. Daniel HoSang “Race and the Mythology of California’s Lost Paradise,” Boom: A Journal of California Studies. “Racial Liberalism and the Rise of the Sunbelt West: The Defeat of Fair Housing on the 1964 California Ballot.” in D. Dochuck and M. Nickerson (eds.) Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and Southwest, University of Pennsylvania Press. Awarded the James A. Rawley Prize by the Organization of American Historians for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States for Racial Propositions: Ballot Measures and the Making of Postwar California. Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Oliver Cox Book Award Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for Racial Propositions: Ballot Measures and the Making of Postwar California. Awarded a UO Williams Fund Grant (with Alison Gash and Priscilla Yamin) for a new three-course sequence, Politics and Sexuality. Joseph Lowndes 2011. “The Past and Future of Race in the Tea Party Movement” in Steep (ed.) The Vertiginous Rise of the Tea Party, University of California Press. Ronald Mitchell 2011. “Developing Next-Generation Climate Change Scholars: The DISCCRS Experience” (with C. Susan Weiler) Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 1:54–62 2010. “The Rescaling of Global Environmental Politics, ” (with Liliana B. Andonova). Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 28: 255–282. 2011. “Transparency for Governance: The Mechanisms and Effectiveness of Disclosure- based and Education-based Transparency Policies,” Ecological Economics, 70: 1882–1890. Political Science • Fall 2011 5
Mikhail Myagkov Faculty Forthcoming. “Distinctive Preferences Toward Risk in the Substantive Domain of Sociality” (with John Orbell and Tim Johnson), Political Psychology Publications, 2011. “Benford’s Law and the Detection of Election Fraud,” with Joseph Deckert and Peter Grants, and C. Ordeshook, Political Analysis, 19: 245–268 2010. “Ukraine 2010: Were Tymoshenko’s Cries of Fraud Anything More than Smoke?” Awards, with Peter Ordeshook, Post-Soviet Affairs continued 2010. “Metastasized Fraud in Russia’s 2008 Presidential Election,” with Evgenya Lukinova and Peter Ordeshook, Europe-Asia Studies Craig Parsons Forthcoming, “Cross-Cutting Issues and Party Strategizing in the European Union,” with Till Weber, Comparative Political Studies. 2010. “Revisiting the Single European Act (and the Common Wisdom on Globalization),” Comparative Political Studies, 43:706–734. 2010. “How—and How Much—Are Sociological Approaches to the EU Distinctive?” Comparative European Politics, 8:143–159. Priscilla Southwell Forthcoming, “A Backroom Without the Smoke? Superdelegates and 2008 Democratic Nomination Process,” Party Politics, Vol. 17. Forthcoming, “Recent Controversies in Electoral Redistricting: The Case of Oregon,” in Gary Moncrief (ed.), Redistrictring in the West. Rowman Littlefield, pp. 199–218. 2011. “Letting the Counties Decide: Voter Turnout and the All-Mail Option in the State of Washington,” forthcoming in Politics & Policy, 39: 1–18. 2010. “Voting Behavior in Vote-by-Mail Elections,” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 10: 106–115. Daniel Tichenor Forthcoming. “Reform’s Mating Dance: Presidents, Social Movements, and Racial Realignments,” in Journal of Policy History 2011. “Tocqueville’s America: Civic Association and Washington Lobbying from the Jacksonian Era to the Gilded Age,” (with Jeremy Strickler) in Burdett Loomis and Dara Stralovich, eds., Congressional Quarterly’s Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying, Congressional Quarterly Press 2011”Immigration and the Transformation of American Unionism,” International Migration Review, Volume 44, No.4. Forthcoming, “Immigration Reform in a Polarized Polity,” in Wayne Cornelius and James Hollfield, eds.,Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective. Stanford University Press. Forthcoming, “Median Voters, Intraparty Conflict, and the Politics of Immigration Reform,” in Martin Shapiro and Martin Levin, eds., The Dilemmas of Majority Party Coalitions. Johns Hopkins University Press Awarded a CAS Rippey Innovative Teaching Award Sebastian Urioste 2011. “Pensar la despolitización”(Interpreting Depoliticization), Análisis Político, Volume 15. Tuong Vu 2011. “Epidemics as Politics with Case Studies from Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam,” Global Health Governance Journal, 4:1–22. His 2010 book, Paths to Development in Asia, has been awarded the Bernard Schwartz Prize Honorable Mention administered by the Asia Society. Priscilla Yamin Forthcoming, American Marriage: A Political Institution, University of Pennsylvania Press Awarded a UO Williams Fund Grant (with Dan HoSang and Alison Gash) for a new three-course sequence, Politics and Sexuality. 6 Political Science • Fall 2011
Graduate Daniel Andersen was awarded the Thomas Hovet Award for outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Fellow instructors. Samuel Bernofsky, Brent Commerer, Timothy Durant, and Jeremy Strickler were News all awarded the William C. Mitchell Summer Research Award. Clayton Cleveland was awarded the John L. and Naomi Luvaas Graduate Fellowship by the UO College of Arts and Sciences. He was also awarded a scholarship to attend the Bosch Foundational Archival Seminar for Young Historians 2011. Joseph Deckert’s article with Misha Myagkov and Peter Ordeshook, “Benford’s Law and the Detection of Election Fraud,” was published in Political Analysis, 2011, 19:245–26. Brian Guy's and Dennis Galvan’s chapter, “Climate Change Effects in the Mano River Union (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone),” was published in Daniel Moran, ed., Climate Change and Regional Security, Georgetown University Press, 2010, pp. 320–333. Leif Hoffmann’s article, “Becoming exceptional? American and European exceptionalism and their critics: A Review,” was published in a fall 2010 special edition on “Federalism, Democracy and Europe” of L’Europe en formation, 359:83–106. Kelley Littlepage was awarded a Graduate School Research Award. Evgenya Lukinova’s article with Misha Myagkov and Peter Ordeshook, “Metastasized Fraud in Russia’s 2008 Presidential Election,” was published in 2010 in Europe-Asia Studies. Kathryn Miller was awarded a Graduate Research Award for the 2010 summer by the UO Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC) and the Graduate School. Jeremy Strickler's and Dan Tichenor’s coauthored article, “Tocqueville’s America: Civic Association and Washington Lobbying from the Jacksonian Era to the Gilded Age,” forthcoming, Burdett Loomis and Dara Stralovich, eds., Congressional Quarterly’s Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying, Congressional Quarterly Press.
Alumni Anthony Warren ’06 works in communications doing public relations on behalf of Microsoft. He spent the past few years before that working for the Bush administration at News the White House in the Office of the Press Secretary and Presidential Correspondence. Kimberly N. Burton ’96 earned a master’s degree in education, teacher certification, and English as a Second Language endorsement, and has taught first grade for ten years in the Seattle area. Forbes W. Williams ’50 completed a doctorate at Stanford and then taught at Portland State University until retirement in 1987. Williams also served PSU as dean of undergraduate studies. Mark Schiveley ’70, after 26 years on the bench, Schiveley retired as a Jackson County Circuit Court Judge, effective January 1, 2011. W. Kay Gilley ’91 recently joined NASA Headquarters as its senior organizational development consultant serving headquarters senior executives. Deborah Abingdon ’84 fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming a pilot. She continued in this field of study to become an aviation ground instructor. Deborah now teaches aviation basics to young people who want to become air traffic controllers; currently, she is teaching at Eastern New Mexico University, Roswell. Political Science • Fall 2011 7 Alumni: Keep in Touch
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Department of From the Department Head Political Science I begin my second year as department head, and, believe it or not, I also celebrate my thirtieth anniversary in this department. Much has changed since 1981—we no longer use Newsletter mimeograph machines, and, thankfully, we now have a working elevator! In addition, we have twice as many political science majors. To quote from the film,Crazy Heart: “This ain’t no place for the weary kind.” * Inside this issue All of my 1981 colleagues are no longer in the department, but they are still flourishing 1 Where are they now? An Update (See “Where are They Now?” above). And, our deceased colleagues—Jim Klonoski, Bill on Our Emeritus Professors Mitchell, Tom Hovet, and Joe Fiszman—have left a remarkable legacy. Each year, our 3 The Year of the Fellowship department gives out the Hovet award for teaching excellence among our graduate student instructors, and the William C. Mitchell award is given to four or five graduate students to 4 Faculty Publications, Grants, and Awards facilitate their summer research. The Klonoski graduate student fellowship is given annually by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. 6 Graduate Student News I wish to offer special thanks to those of you who have contributed to our department in Alumni News 6 recent years. This year we were especially pleased to offer a year-long speaker series. Such 7 Keep in Touch contributions made this speaker series possible and have also facilitated a considerable 8 From the Department Head portion of the faculty and graduate student research described in this newsletter. We are delighted to welcome two new faculty members to our department this fall— David Steinberg from Northwestern University, and Anita Chari from the University of Chicago. David teaches courses in international political economy and our graduate methodology sequence. David’s expertise is in the subfield of international relations—he examines the political factors that influence exchange rate mechanisms. Anita teaches undergraduate and graduate political theory classes, and her research focuses on the reconstruction of philosophical problems and concepts in the history of political thought in order to illuminate and provide new perspectives on contemporary impasses and dilemmas in political theory and practice. This year we also look forward to our searches for two new assistant professors with expertise in Latin American politics and in environmental politics.
*The song, The Weary Kind, was written by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett. Priscilla Southwell