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Department of Helfer awarded NEH fellowship...... 1 Lean appointed associate dean of Graduate School...... 4 656 W. Kirby, 2040 FAB O’Donovan receives NSF grant...... 1 Student successes...... 4 Detroit, MI 48202 Roth named to Academy of Scholars...... 2 Fulbright Scholar focuses on politicians’ office strategies...... 5 Welcome, Detonya Clark...... 2 Alum brings legal services to the homeless...... 6 Marinova receives tenure and promotion...... 3 2018 Lent Upson Lecture and Reception...... 7 In Memorium: Professor Richard Elling...... 3 Professor Ariel Helfer Professor Kristin O’Donovan awarded NEH fellowship receives grant from the riel Helfer, Ph.D., assistant National Science professor of political science, has been awarded Foundation A ommunities attempt to learn from experiencing a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, but often those award carries a stipend of $50,400 Clessons do not lead to policy changes that could The Political Current and will commence for one year reduce future risks. Ariel Helfer beginning in winter 2019. With the help of a $55,000 grant from the National Helfer joined the Department of Political Science in the fall Science Foundation, Kristin O’Donovan, Ph.D., assistant of 2017, and teaches and conducts research in the field professor of political science, will explore the limits on of political theory. He received his Ph.D. in government policy learning about mitigation following a disaster. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His research O’Donovan will also seek focuses on political ambition and statesmanship, especially to understand why one as a theme in classical political thought and Greek history. community may be more Helfer is also trained in quantitative political methodology. vulnerable to a disaster than its neighbor. According Helfer’s recent book, Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato’s Drama to O’Donovan, local of Political Ambition and Philosophy, was published by Alumni news and information for future newsletters governments often attempt the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2017. His major to engage in learning about We’re interested in what you’re doing now. Please take Your current position (title and employer) current project, supported by the NEH fellowship, is a a moment to complete the following information and how to reduce future disaster new book on Plato’s Letters. Plato is famous for advocating return it to us via fax, email or U.S. mail: risks but find it difficult to the political rule of philosophers as a utopian ideal. In his see change enacted. Her Letters — a collection of 13 epistles addressed from Plato Delinda Neal project will aim to identify the Kristin O’Donovan to various Greek politicians — he reveals that he was often Department of Political Science constraints on and proponents 656 W. Kirby, 2040 FAB called upon to implement the political counsel he was of policy-learning after disasters. Detroit, MI 48202 Your news known to espouse in books such as The Republic and Laws. But it appears from Letters that Plato showed much less Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in August 2017, Phone: 313-577-2630 zeal and much greater circumspection than his devoted presents a unique case for understanding the limits on Fax: 313-993-3435 followers when it came to bringing political philosophy to policy learning because of the range of communities it Email: [email protected] bear on practical affairs. Even then, his greatest endeavor affected in southeast Texas. O’Donovan and her team will collect data through interviews with local government Name — an attempt to reform the powerful but decadent Sicilian city of Syracuse — was an utter failure. The conclusion officials — mayors, emergency managers and city Year of graduation cont. on page 7 cont. on page 7 Degree

A publication of the Department of Political Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Professor Brad Roth named to the Wayne State 2018 Lent Upson Lecture and Reception University Academy of Scholars he Annual Lent Upson Lecture awards ceremony, Mossberger received the Distinguished and Reception was held in May. Alumnus Award. Other speakers included Garlin Gilchrist rad Roth, Ph.D., professor of political around the world, including the University of Goettingen, The subject of the evening II, founding director of Social Media Responsibility at the science and law, received a signal the London School of Economics, the University of T event was “Building Smart and Inclusive University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Marc Hudson, co-founder honor from Wayne State University Amsterdam, Oxford University, McGill University and Goethe B Communities: Detroit and Beyond” and CEO of Rocket Fiber; and Katy Locker, Detroit program in 2018 in his selection for The Academy University. The exceptional quality of his scholarship was Karen Mossberger and the featured speaker was Karen director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. of Scholars. The Academy of Scholars recognized by Wayne State University when he was awarded Mossberger, Ph.D., professor at the Brad Roth was founded in 1979 and recognizes a full professorship in 2011 and a Board of Governors Professor Kyu-Nahm Jun, director of the graduate program School of Public Affairs. Mossberger is a graduate of the Ph.D. distinguished research and creative achievement by Faculty Recognition Award in 2012. in , organized this year’s Lent Upson program in political science at Wayne State and has achieved selecting for membership the most productive and widely lecture and reception. It was, as always, a great success! Roth’s work applies legal and political theory to problems great success in her academic career. At the reception and recognized individuals among the university’s faculty. in international and comparative public law. His scholarship Membership is the highest recognition that may be has focused largely on the intersection of international and bestowed upon faculty members by their colleagues. domestic legal authority, addressing such topics as the MAKE A GIFT TO THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Roth is one of a small number of academics whose training right to self-determination of “peoples” residing within and research span disciplines located in distinctly different the territory of existing states, the purported international I would like to make a contribution to support the political science department at Wayne State University: Political Science Department Scholarship Fund (222840) colleges. Roth received his B.A. in political science from right to democratic governance, the transnational criminal Political Science Department Annual Fund (220971) Swarthmore, his J.D. from Harvard Law, his LL.N. in liabilities and immunities of government officials who Other: international and foreign law from Columbia, and his Ph.D. commit acts of state in violation of international legal College of Liberal Arts Enclosed is my gift of: r $1,000 r $500 r $250 r $100 r $50 r Other and Sciences in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of obligations, and the implementation of international California, Berkeley. In addition to his positions at Wayne human rights standards in domestic courts. Drawing on Payment method: Please provide the following: State University, Roth taught at the U.C. Berkeley School relevant traditions in political philosophy, his writings have Check payable to Wayne State University Name: r Visa r Mastercard of Law; is a licensed member of the Bar in New Jersey and articulated a unifying account of the relationship between Address: Washington, D.C.; and holds ancillary licenses for the U.S. international and domestic legal orders that asserts the Card Number: City, State, ZIP: District Court of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for moral obligations of international legal commitments Expiration Date: Preferred Phone: Type: r Home r Business r Cell the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. without denying the continuing moral significance of Email: Signature: Roth has amassed a superlative record of research since state sovereignty. Acknowledged as a leading expert (Required for credit card gifts) r Please send me information on supporting WSU in my estate plans r I am already supporting WSU in my estate plans joining Wayne State in 1997. He has published two sole- on the international law of recognition of states and Mail to: Wayne State University, Attn: Fund Office, 5475 Woodward, Detroit, MI 48202 CLAS PRINT authored books, Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement: governments, Roth serves as one of three American Branch Premises of a Pluralist International Legal Order (Oxford representatives to the International Law Association’s University Press, 2011) and Governmental Illegitimacy in Committee on Recognition/Non-Recognition of States and International Law (Oxford University Press, 1999), and two Governments, and his work in the areas of sovereignty, Helfer story cont. O’Donovan story cont. co-edited volumes, Democratic Governance and International moral standards and international action has been toward which Letters points, therefore, is that Plato was planners — in communities affected by Hurricane Law (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Supreme Law of lauded by scholars throughout the world who specialize much less committed to the idea of philosophic utopia than Harvey. “How local governments consider information the Land?: Debating the Contemporary Effects of Treaties within in international law. Roth has attained an international is often supposed on the basis of his most famous political and make decisions about future disaster risk is critical the United States Legal System (Cambridge University Press, reputation that places him at the pinnacle of his field. dialogues. In fact, a handful of scholars over the course to understanding vulnerability,” said O’Donovan. “This 2017). He has also published over 40 articles and chapters The last member of our department to be selected for the of the last century have seen in Letters not the collection research is exciting because it will shed new light on why in some of the most prestigious university presses and law academy was Philip Abbott. Congratulations to Professor of scraps from Plato’s literary estate as they are usually some communities may be more vulnerable to a disaster journals in the profession. Since 2009, Roth has delivered Roth on his recognition as an exceptional scholar at Wayne presumed to be, but a coherent, unitary and authentic than others. What we learn has the potential to help dozens of invited lectures for universities and organizations State University! literary-philosophic whole. By contending that Letters is communities bounce back more easily after disasters. “ Detonya Clark Joins the Department of Political Science in fact a brilliant, innovative, artfully composed and only Research will focus on the types of sources a community semiautobiographical sort of epistolary novel, Helfer’s book looks to for information, whether the information received etonya Clark joined the student comprehensive and qualifying examinations, seeks to reopen the debate concerning the authenticity and is credible and whether local government officials tend to Department of Political Science organizing doctoral dissertation defenses, and handling status of Letters with a review of scholarly criticism, a new be myopic in their approaches. The project, “Constraints Das an academic services officer in the innumerable issues and procedures surrounding our English translation and an extensive interpretive essay. on Policy Learning After Disaster,” was funded by the NSF’s January. Clark previously worked for Wayne academic programs. The Department of Political Science is Our congratulations to Professor Helfer on this major Rapid Response Research grant program. Detonya Clark State University’s Mike Ilitch School of pleased to have Clark join our staff. award. We look forward to seeing his next book in print! Congratulations to Professor O’Donovan! Business and will take on the responsibilities of managing Welcome, Detonya! part-time faculty, scheduling courses, arranging graduate

2 THE POLITICAL CURRENT SUMMER 2018 7 Political science alum’s nonprofit brings legal services Professor Nadejda Marinova receives tenure to the homeless and promotion ayesh Patel’s favorite mantra is “life is better in Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, Wayne County Prosecutor’s adejda Marinova, Ph.D., has University Press in the summer of 2017. Within the last flip-flops” — but as a lawyer, he sometimes has to Office, Capuchin Soup Kitchen and Neighborhood Legal received tenure and promotion few decades, a body of theory and empirical analysis has Jcompromise and put on shoes. While flip-flops may Services Michigan to establish Street Outreach Court Nto the rank of associate emerged within the field of international relations on the not be appropriate in the courtroom, when your court is Detroit (SOCD). With Street Democracy focusing on the professor. She joined the Department connections between transnationalism and foreign policy. on the streets, sporting sneakers is not only acceptable, but legal framework, drafting court guidelines and creating of Political Science in 2012 after serving One aspect of this literature has involved the strategic also a smart move. a network of pro bono counsel, SOCD became the 23rd Nadejda Marinova as a Dornsife College Postdoctoral relationship between home states and their ethnic lobbies Patel is the founder of Street Democracy, a legal services homeless court in the United States. According to the Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the abroad. Marinova’s book develops a theory about when, nonprofit organization that focuses on aiding the Street Democracy website, it may be the only court that University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in how and why states use diasporas and the ethnic lobbies impoverished and homeless. On any given day, Patel, who combines criminal and civil pro bono counsel to address politics and international relations from the University of they generate to advance foreign policy goals. is also a private practice attorney, can be found meeting legal matters outside of the court’s jurisdiction while also Southern California, which she received in 2011. Marinova’s Marinova presents a theory explaining the conditions under clients at Detroit soup kitchens, at shelters or in court, tracking the long-term success rate of its participants. research interests include diaspora and migration, Middle which a host state will decide to promote and use an ethnic helping them understand the legal system and earn a The results speak for themselves. Patel and his team literally East politics, ethnic lobbies in foreign policy, human lobby, and she tests it comparatively with eight cases, chance for rehabilitation. take the court to the streets, meeting clients at soup trafficking, and the intersection of culture and gender. She including: the Bush administration’s use of the American has conducted field research in Syria and in Lebanon, where Patel received a bachelor’s in kitchens and shelters. They work Lebanese Cultural Union and the World Council for the with clients to reduce and resolve she was a research affiliate at the Lebanese Emigration Cedars Revolution in developing policy towards Lebanon political science at Wayne State Research Center at Notre Dame University-Louaizé. in 1996 before completing law civil infractions and misdemeanors and Syria; the Iraqi National Congress in endorsing the school at Georgetown University. by demonstrating a personal effort Marinova’s work has been published by such outlets as U.S. invasion of Iraq; the Cuban-American Committee’s After working at a nonprofit in to improve their own lives. With Oxford University Press, Foreign Policy Analysis (as part cooperation with the Carter administration in attempting Washington, D.C. that aided a team of legal and social service of George Mason University’s Global Migration and to normalize relations with Cuba; and the International prisoners returning to their professionals, clients create an Transnational Politics series) and in the International Studies Diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA) launched by Secretary communities, he came back to the streets of his hometown individual action plan designed to end their homelessness. Association Compendium. She is the past communications of State Hillary Clinton in 2011 to promote economic with one goal in mind: Make an impact in ending the After 30 days of demonstrated progress, they may apply for chair of the ethnicity, migration and nationalism section development in a number of countries. This work has criminalization of poverty. SOCD relief to suspend any outstanding warrants and are of the International Studies Association. She received the already attracted widespread attention and acclaim. granted time to complete their action plan. The final step is 2017 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wayne The Department of Political Science congratulates “I’ve always been interested in social justice. In this day and an SOCD hearing, where relief is determined by the court. State University’s highest teaching honor. age of the million-dollar defense, I began asking, ‘What if Marinova on her tenure and promotion to the rank of everybody got the same level of service?’ and that’s how “Instead of using crime as a punishment, we use it as Her book, Ask What You Can Do for Your (New) Country: associate professor. Street Democracy was born,” Patel explains. “But we also an inflection point to change the trajectory,” says Patel. How Host States Use Diasporas, was published by Oxford realized that without addressing the underlying causes of “When someone is identified as homeless, making them poverty and homelessness we would only be performing pay hundreds of dollars in fines does not aid in breaking In Memorium: Professor Richard Elling the poverty cycle. That only begins to occur when you legal triage.” Professor Richard Clement Elling died in December 2017. Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. address the causes, the root of homelessness. When they He held a professorial appointment in the Department of He chaired nine doctoral dissertations, including some Street Democracy’s first initiative was modeled after a sign up for counseling, enroll in job training and regularly Political Science from 1978 to 2013, and was an expert in of the most successful graduates of our Ph.D. program. homeless court run by Judge Elizabeth Hines in Ann Arbor, volunteer in their community, they are creating new public administration. Michigan. In lieu of money, defendants who were identified networks, bettering themselves and positively impacting Richard was a pillar in the department. Although I knew him as homeless were offered alternative methods of restitution, the people around them.” Richard produced an exceptional record of research. for only 14 years, I quickly appreciated his devotion to the including counseling, job training, education and volunteer He authored a book, Public Management in the States: A M.P.A. program and willingness to do whatever necessary Six months after graduating from the program, 97 percent service. In 2011, Patel and his team were observing the Comparative Study of Administrative Performance and Politics to ensure its success. Richard helped me understand the of participants had stable housing, 91 percent had stable court and formulating a plan to bring the model to Detroit (published by Praeger [1992]), and co-authored The Political structure and processes of the college, and I considered his income and 100 percent had no new misdemeanor or when they learned that Detroit Action Commonwealth, a and Institutional Effects of Term Limits (published by Palgrave- guidance invaluable. After his retirement, whenever Richard felony charges. The court continues today, and Patel nonprofit membership organization of homeless persons, MacMillan [2004]). He also authored or co-authored 17 returned to the department, he always stopped by my office estimates it has saved taxpayers thousands of dollars and was also watching and interested in the same goal. articles and 17 chapters in some of the profession’s most to discuss who was in worse shape — the Tigers or the reduced crime rates over the course of its existence. Hines introduced the two groups to each other and to prestigious university presses and refereed journals. He Yankees — and asked how things were going. He always judges Cylenthia LaToye Miller and Katherine Hansen of The Department of Political Science is proud to have Jayesh was department chair and a driving force in the Graduate asked if there was anything he could do to help. I enjoyed Detroit’s 36th District Court. The two judges welcomed Paytel as one of its graduates! Program in Public Administration. Richard received the Wayne his company and friendship and he will be greatly missed. Street Democracy, Detroit Action Commonwealth, and By Annessa Morley (This story originally appeared in the fall State University Board of Governors Faculty Recognition We wish him peace. other public and private agency partners, including the 2017 issue of Wayne State Magazine.) Award in 1994 and was selected for the Outstanding Educator/Advocate Award by the Detroit Metropolitan Daniel Geller

6 THE POLITICAL CURRENT SUMMER 2018 3 Professor Sharon Lean appointed associate dean of the Visiting Fulbright Scholar focuses on politicians and Graduate School their office strategies his May, Sharon Lean, numerous election in countries across Latin America he tumultuous study of Eastern European democracies. Deegan-Krause Ph.D., was selected to including Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, and political climate in is a 2008 Fulbright alumnus who taught and studied at Tserve as associate dean for also in Liberia, West Africa. Tthe United States is Masaryk University, where Rybar is on the faculty. student services in the Graduate Lean is the recipient of multiple research awards, a “breathtaking” backdrop Rybar is among the more than 8,000 students, educators School. Lean is an associate including as principal investigator for a 2016 U.S. to Fulbright Scholar and professionals annually awarded short- and long-term professor in the Department of Agency for International Development (USAID) grant on Marek Rybar, Ph.D.’s, Fulbright scholarships to teach and conduct research Political Science, where she held “Strengthening Women’s Civic and Political Participation,” contemporary analysis across the globe. Wayne State proudly welcomes Fulbright the position of director of graduate and a 2013 Fulbright Scholars Award to conduct research of whether a politician’s awardees from abroad and supports faculty and staff Sharon Lean programs since 2014. She has a in Mexico. She has also participated in grants to support individual characteristics chosen to collaborate with colleagues around the world. B.A. in Latin American studies with honors from Brown graduate and undergraduate training at Wayne State, influence their performance University and a master’s in social sciences from the in office. Rybar spends the majority of his days at local libraries. including the 2016 NEH NextGen Humanities Ph.D. On Monday evenings, he teaches a course on European Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Mexico. Training Grant and as co-PI for a 2017 MetLife Foundation From a country where She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California Irvine, politics and says he finds students engaging because Study Abroad Innovation Grant with the Office of democracy is in its infancy, of their confidence to ask questions and express their where she was an NSF Democracy Fellow. Her area is Marek Rybar International Programs. Rybar, of the Slovak political opinions. In fact, this freedom of expression is comparative politics with a focus on Latin America and the Republic, was awarded a six-month scholarship that started politics of democratization in the developing world. A recipient of the CLAS Excellence in Teaching Award, quite different from what he encountered in 2009 while in the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the in January to pore over volumes of books, journals and Michigan collaborating with Deegan-Krause in writing an Lean is the author of Civil Society and Electoral Accountability Outstanding Graduate Director Award, Lean is passionate periodicals that don’t exist in his homeland. His grant academic paper. This time around, he has daily encounters in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and more about student success. She regularly offers courses with supports the theoretical framework he is developing for a with people who offer unsolicited opinions about the state than 10 chapters, journal articles and short monographs. a study abroad component to provide field research study of Parliament officials since the fall of communism of governmental affairs. “Now, even at the grocery store, Her work is published in English and Spanish in journals experience to undergraduate and graduate students, and in 1989. Looking at variables like gender, upbringing, people are much more forthcoming about their views on such as Democratization, Electoral Studies, and Socieded has supervised dozens of student research projects through education, party affiliations and debate performances, the nation’s political situation,” says Rybar. Civil. Her most recent piece, co-authored with graduate he hopes to identify patterns in elected leaders. “I am the McNair Scholars program and Undergraduate Research He has also noticed that the politics of the two countries are student Alanna Jackson, is a comprehensive review entitled, Opportunities Program. analyzing what has been written about our political system “Mexican Political Development” in Oxford Bibliographies over the last 29 years,” he says. “The volumes of written no longer polar opposites but moving to a more common in Political Science. She is also co-editor of Promoting We wish Lean well in her new position and remind her information I find here, I would not find there.” middle, which he finds unusual because of the nearly 200- Democracy in the Americas (Johns Hopkins University that she always has a home in the Department of year difference in the births of each government. Political Science. Rybar chose Wayne State because of past work with Press, 2007). As part of her research, Lean has monitored associate professor Kevin Deegan-Krause, Ph.D., of the The Department of Political Science is pleased to offer a political science department, whose expertise is in the temporary home and assistance in Professor Rybar’s research.

Political science students succeed

Yuliya Harris was selected as 2018 American Society for Mary Salah Rabban was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Kevin Lorentz was named the first Leda McIntyre Ilker Kalin, “Predicting the Probability of Negotiation Public Administration Founders’ Fellow. 2017-18. Hall Fellow. in Civil Conflicts: An Empirical Investigation of Intrastate Amanda Eisbrenner competed and was selected as part Noah Arbit published a paper titled “The Limitations Matthew Lacouture and Connor Sutton were named Conflicts between 1989 and 2008.” Director: Dr. Frederic of the winning team at the 2018 NASPAA-Batten Student of International Law in Countering Impunity for State Sarasohn Fellows. Pearson Competition (Regional Site Winner - University of Sponsors of Terrorism: Barriers to Legal Remedy for the NEW DOCTORATES RECEIVED Nicole Gerring, “Empowered to Stop War?: Testing the Illinois-Chicago). AMIA and Israeli Embassy Bombings in Buenos Aires” in Women and Peace Hypothesis, 1930-2010.” Director: Robert Mahu, “Rationalization and the Individuals with Allison Lowery competed and was selected as part of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Law Journal (vol. 10, no. 1, Dr. Sharon Lean Disabilities in Education Act: Exploring the Characteristics the winning team at the 2018 NASPAA-Batten Student Spring 2018). of Multi-level Monitoring and Improvement.” Director: Connor Sutton, “Place over Politics: Power, Strategy, Competition (Regional Site Winner - University of Jake Clor presented a poster abstract titled “Linguistic Dr. Lyke Thompson Terrain and Regime Type in Interstate War Outcomes, Illinois-Chicago). Diversity and Democratic Outcomes” at the National 1816-2003.” Director: Dr. Daniel Geller Abdullah Bataineh, “The Impact of USAID on Zienab Chawki Hage was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Modernization Efforts in Afghanistan, 2001-07.” Director: 2017-18. Central Oklahoma, April 2018. Dr. Nadejda Marinova Grace Elizabeth Mendoza was inducted into Phi Beta Matthew Lacouture received a Fulbright Award (Jordan). Kappa 2017-18.

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