NEWS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Calendar Year 2005

Political Science Department
San Diego State University

ADDITIONS

Emanuele Saccarelli:  joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2005.  His Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota and his dissertation examined the works of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky as political thinkers struggling under the long shadow of Stalinism.  Born in Rome, Dr. Saccarelli adds to the growing international character of the department.  He will teach classes on ancient and contemporary political thought.

Jeremy Youde:  joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2005.  His Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa and his dissertation, “AIDS, South Africa, and International Regimes,” effectively linked problems of world health to those of world politics.  Dr. Youde will teach courses in African politics and International Relations, and he will contribute to the university’s growing program on International Security and Conflict Resolution.

The department also announces with pride that two of its junior faculty members – Kristen Hill Maher and Lei Guang– were promoted to Associate Professor during 2005 and awarded tenure.  These promotions are the consequence of outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and service, and were awarded after a full review by committees at the department, college, and university level.  

 RETIREMENTS

Jack Soule:  retired in May following more than 30 years of service to SDSU.  Professor Soule joined the political science department in 1970 and twice received the department’s outstanding teacher award. An expert in political psychology, he is best known for a series of journal articles on U.S. presidential nominating conventions.  More recently, his academic attention shifted to international politics and to the process of conflict mediation, focusing especially on Ireland and the Middle East.  A lively spirit in the halls of Nasatir, he will be missed by both students and his colleagues.

 RECENT ACTIVITIES

 Farid Abdel-Nour (Ph.D. Rutgers University 1999, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  Political Theory.  Faculty Coordinator of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies.  Published a book review in Perspectives on Politics. In September, he presented a paper entitled, “Answering for their Polity: How to Speak of Citizen Responsibility for Governmental Actions,” at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Washington DC.

Brian Adams (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine 2003, Assistant Professor).  Specialization:  Urban Politics.  His book manuscript, Citizen Lobbyists: Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy has been accepted and is forthcoming from Temple University Press.

Mikhail Alexseev (Ph.D. University of Washington 1996, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  International Relations, Migration and Ethnic Conflict, Politics of the Former Soviet Union.  His latest book, Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States was published by Cambridge University Press, one of the most prestigious publishers in the world.  In addition, in 2005 he published one book chapter, “Back to Hell: Civilian-Military ‘Audience Costs’ and Russia’s Wars in Chechnya” (The Military and Society in Post-Soviet Russia), one book review (Russia Journal), and two working papers for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.  He also presented papers to academic conferences in Istanbul and Honolulu, and gave invited lectures to the USAF Special Operations School, the Global Business Network, and the University of Washington, Seattle.  Professor Alexseev holds research grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

David Carruthers (Ph.D. University of Oregon 1995, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  Comparative Politics (Latin America) and Environmental Politics.  Published an article, "From Opposition to Orthodoxy: The Remaking of Sustainable Development" in the Oxford University Press volume, Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader.  He won a competitive research award from SDSU and was awarded sabbatical leave during the year to develop his book project on environmental justice and energy politics on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Lyndelle Fairlie (Ph.D. Indiana University 1973, Associate Professor). Specialization:  Comparative Politics (Europe).  Internship Coordinator.  Presented a paper on border management issues to a conference addressing the Kaliningrad problem, held in Krynica, Poland and funded by a grant from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Jonathan Graubart (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2002, Assistant Professor).  Specialization:  International Relations and International Law.   Published an article, “Politicizing A New Breed of  'Legalized' Transnational Political Opportunity Structures: Labor Activists' Uses of NAFTA's Citizen-Petition Mechanisms” (Berkeley Journal of  Employment and Labor Law).  He was an invited participant to a scholarly workshop on International Authority and the UN Security Council held at Northwestern University.

Lei Guang (Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1999, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  Comparative Politics (China) and Development Studies.  Undergraduate Studies Director.  Published five major articles during 2005: “Guerrilla Workfare: Migrant Renovators, State Power and Informal Work in Urban China” (Politics & Society); “The Market as Social Convention: Rural Migrants and the Making of China's Home Renovation Market” (Critical Asian Studies); “Realpolitik nationalism: international sources of Chinese nationalism” (Modern China); "The State Connection in China's Rural-Urban Migration" (International Migration Review); and "Migration as the second-best option” (The China Quarterly).  He also organized an international conference on rural China, held in May 2005, with participation from over 70 scholars from China and the U.S. 

Dipak Gupta (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh 1977, Professor).  Specialization:  Ethnic Conflict, Public Policy Analysis.  Distinguished Professor in Political Science and holder of the Hansen Chair of Peace Studies.  Director of the SDSU program on International Security and Conflict Resolution.  Published an edited book volume, Terrorism and Homeland Security (Wadsworth Books) that also contained two of his articles, “Terrorism’s Trap” and “Terrorism and Humanity.”  He published in 2005 three other articles, “Toward An Integrated Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Terrorism” (Democracy and Security); “Suicide Bombing as a Rational Strategy” (Terrorism and Political Violence); and “Exploring the Root of Terrorism” (Root Cause of Terrorism), and two book reviews.  A world-recognized expert on terrorism, Professor Gupta was invited to give presentations at the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security (Madrid, Spain), the International Political Psychology Association (Toronto, Canada), a NATO conference on understanding terrorism (Tuscany, Italy), a workshop on environmental dangers (Chaing Mai, Thailand) and a U.S. Institute of Peace conference on the lessons of 9/11 (Washington, D.C.).  He has been awarded a research grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace for his work on global terrorism.

Edward Heck (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 1978, Professor).  Specialization:  Public Law and American Politics.  Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters.  Delivered a paper on Fourth Amendment cases during the Rehnquist era, at the Southwestern Political Science Association meetings in New Orleans.

C. Richard Hofstetter  (Ph.D. Indiana University 1967, Professor).  Specialization:  U.S. Politics and Mass Political Behavior.  Published four articles during 2005, in political science and public health: “Political Talk Radio” (Polling America, Vol. II);  “Dietary Frequencies of Korean American Adolescents in California” (Nutritional Sciences); “Smoking cessation patterns and predictors among adult Californians of Korean descent,” (Nicotine and Tobacco Research); and “Anosmia Is Very Common In the Lewy Body Variant of Alzheimer's Disease” (Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry).   He is principal investigator for research grant projects from the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation worth more than $2.5 million.  He also delivered an invited lecture on interethnic conflict to the Institute of History and Anthropology, Vladivostok, Russia. 

Carole Kennedy (Ph.D. University of California, Riverside 1998, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  U.S. Politics, including Women’s Politics and Electoral Politics.  Graduate Studies Director.  SDSU Representative to the California State University Social Science Research and Instructional Council.  Published “The country is ready to elect a woman or minority president: Con” (Debating the Issues/Debating the Presidency). 

Ronald King (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1981, Professor).  Specialization:  U.S. Politics and Public Policy.  Chair of the Department.  His book, Strategia cercetarii:  Treisprezece cursuri despre elementele stiintelor sociale  (The Strategy of Research:  Thirteen Lessons on the Elements of Social Science) was published in 2005 by Polirom Press in Romania.  He delivered invited lectures at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of California-Irvine, and he chaired a panel at the international conference “Thomas Paine – Common Sense for the Modern Era” held at SDSU.  A Fulbright Senior Specialist, he traveled to Romania in June as a consultant to Babes-Bolyai University and the Romanian Society of Political Science.

Brian Loveman (Ph.D. Indiana University 1973, Professor).  Specialization:  Comparative Politics (Latin America).  Published a new book, Políticas de reparación, Chile 1990-2004 from LOM Press, Santiago, dealing with the policies of reparation in Chile after the return of civilian government.  He holds grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation for his research on Latin American politics.

Kristen Hill Maher (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine 1999, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  U.S. Immigration and Border Politics, Nationalism.   Published one journal article and one book chapter in 2005:  “Nanny Politics: The Dilemmas of Working Women's Empowerment in Santiago, Chile” (International Feminist Journal of Politics); and “Borders and Social Distinction in the Global Suburb” (Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, Johns Hopkins University Press).  She traveled to Santo Domingo to continue her research on border city economics.  She was elected to the Executive Council of the Western Political Science Association.

Madhavi McCall (Ph.D. Washington University 1999, Associate Professor).  Specialization:  Public Law and Judicial Behavior.  Pre-Law Adviser.  Published a co-authored book, Law and Criminal Justice: Emerging Issues in the Twenty-first Century (Peter Lang Publishing).  She also published two new journal articles:  "Decision Making in Police Brutality Cases, 1990-2000" (American Politics Research); and "Criminal Justice and the 2003-2004 Supreme Court Term" (New Mexico Law Review). 

Ronnee Schreiber (Ph.D. Rutgers University 2000, Assistant Professor).  Specialization:  U.S. Political Institutions, Women and Politics.  Received a competitive SDSU grant for research on media coverage of women’s lobbying organizations, and to complete her book manuscript on the political representation of women.

Emanuele Saccarelli (Ph.D. University of Minnesota 2005, Assistant Professor).  Specialization:  Political Theory.  Published one book review in New Political Science and delivered an invited lecture to a conference of Chicana/o students held at SDSU.  He also won a competitive SDSU grant for his research on the political thought of Antonio Gramsci.

Latha Varadarajan (Ph.D. University of Minnesota 2004, Assistant Professor).  Specialization:  International Relations and Conflict Resolution.  Presented a paper on the politics of anti-terrorism at the International Studies Association meeting at Honolulu, Hawaii.  She won a competitive SDSU grant to work on a book manuscript addressing the international relations impact of diasporic communities.

Jeremy Youde (Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2005, Assistant Professor).  Specialization:  International Relations and Public Health.  Published three articles in 2005:  “The development of a counter-epistemic community:  AIDS, South Africa, and international regimes” (International Relations); “Theorizing the Fourth Horseman: Infectious Disease
and International Relations Theory” (Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations); “Economics and Government Popularity in Ghana” (Electoral Studies).  He also presented two papers at the International Studies Association conference in Honolulu, and was a panel chair and discussant at the Midwest Political Science Association conference.  He was awarded two competitive SDSU grants to help develop his dissertation into a book manuscript