UPCOMING EVENTS
Lectureship in Politics and Law 2007
The University of Tulsa Lecturer in Politics and Law for 2007 will
be Justice Richard J. Goldstone. Justice Goldstone served on the Constitutional
Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2003, and he was the Chief Prosecutor of the
United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and
Rwanda from 1994 to 1996. Presently, he is the William Hughes Mulligan Visiting
Professor at Fordham Law School. Justice Goldstone will give two talks on the
University of Tulsa campus on Monday, November 5, 2007:
1) “The First 13 Years of the South African Constitutional Court”
at 12:15 in Room 202 of John Rogers Hall (parking is available on East 4th Place between Harvard and Florence). For more information, contact Wendy Buss at 631-2436.
2) “Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Darfur: The Future of International Criminal Justice”
at 7:30 p.m. in the Price-Turpen Courtroom in John Rogers Hall (parking is available on East 4th Place between Harvard and Florence). For more information, contact Jeff Hockett at 631-2796.
OUTSTANDING STUDENTS!
Two Political Science Students
at Sciences-Po, Paris
Katherine Parks (French and Political Science, 2007) has been accepted into the graduate program at Sciences-Po in Paris (Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques). Katherine was also enrolled as an undergraduate for one year at Sciences-Po in 2005-2006. She will pursue a Masters in International Affairs, concentrating on “Public Management.”
She joins fellow TU graduate Kally Walsh (French and Political Science, 2006) who last year began a Sciences-Po Paris International Affairs Masters concentrating on the “Environment, Sustainable Development, and Risk.”
Two
Political Science Students
at Cambridge University, UK
Micah Kordsmeier (Economics and Political Science, and winner of the William Vernon Holloway Award for the outstanding political science senior in 2007) has been accepted in the Cambridge University Pembroke College graduate program where he will seek an M.Phil in Planning, Growth, & Regeneration.
He joins fellow TU graduate Justin Jacobs (Economics and Political Science, Holloway Award winner 2003) who (with M.Phil in hand) is now pursuing a Ph.D in the History of Political Thought at Kings College, Cambridge University. As an undergraduate Justin spent his junior year in New College, Oxford University studying PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics).
Six
Political Science Students
in U.S. Graduate Programs
Sarah Thurman (2007) will enter the Ph.D political science program in fall 2007 at the University of Texas in Austin and will specialize in American politics.
Ryan
Wismer (2007) will enter the Bush School at Texas A&M
University fall 2007 where he will pursue a Masters in International Affairs,
concentrating on National Security. Ryan previously had spent a year studying
Arabic in Oman.
Nicholas
Carnes
(2006) was accepted on full Fellowship into the political science Ph.D. program
at Princeton University in fall 2006. While at TU Nicholas and his Professor
Elvin Lim co-authored a piece “Rhetorical Peacein
the Culture Wars” that was presented at the Midwest Political Science
Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 2006.
Ellen Schmieding (2006) is pursuing her Masters at the University of Denver Graduate School Of International Studies. Currently she is doing research for the thesis in China.
Makaria Green has in 2007 graduated with a Masters in International Security and a Certificate in Human Rights at the University of Denver Graduate School Of International Studies
Jill Schoeffler
(French and Political Science, 2003, and Holloway Award
winner) continues as a Ph.D candidate in French at Rice University in Houston
Other News
Senior Alisha Beseth is working as an intern in the
Washington office of Oklahoma Senator James Inhoff. Phoenix resident
Bryan Bierbaum, who worked in the office of Senator John Mccain, is now
working in the office of Senator James Kyle, thus gaining experience with both
the senators from Arizona.
Senior Lizzie Cohlmia who spent the summer of 2006 in a
war zone in southern Lebanon continues the adventure this summer in Cambodia on
a program regarding “Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Civil Society.” She
writes: “I will do a rural home stay, avoid landmines, and try not to pick up
too many parasites.”
Meanwhile senior and budding reporter Jordan Lucero is interning at KFOX-TV in El Paso Texas.
DEPARTMENT & FACULTY NEWS
Professor Jeffrey Hockett organized the Distinguished Lectureship in Law and Politics in fall 2006. Honored this year was Jeff Oldham (class of 2000) who was a former Law Clerk for William H. Rehnquist when he was Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Jeff Oldham now practices law in Houston.
Professor Eldon Eisenach retired at the end of this year and in honor of his distinguished career, much of it spent contemplating the connections of religion and politics, the department invited as guest speaker Professor Glyn Morgan, a European born political theorist in the Department of Government at Harvard University. On April 6, 2007 Professor Morgan offered a provocative talk regarding, “Why Americans Love God and Europeans Don’t.” Professor Eisenach then offered concluding reflections on his career at TU.
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| Glyn Morgan Harvard 2007 | Eldon Eisnach Tulsa 2007 | Eldon Eisenach Harvard 1960 |
On the occasion of the induction of new members into the Zeta Sigma Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, April 4, 2007, the department invited guest speaker Margarita Estévez-Abe, the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Government at Harvard University. On April 4, 2007 she gave a talk on “Gender Inequality and the Varieties of Capitalism.”
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| Margarita Estévez-Abe |
We note that Professors Estévez-Abe and Morgan are partners (in
marriage). In addition, Ms. Abe was a student of Professor Michael Mosher
when he taught at Keio University in Japan.
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