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Mark Your Calendars.

BSOS Scholarship Dinner, May 4 from 6-8pm in the Heise Ballroom, Riggs Alumni Center

GVPT End of Year Celebration – May 11, 12:30-2:00pm in 1101 Morrill Hall

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture w/Professor Frances Lee, September 22, 4pm, location TBA

GVPT Distinguished Lecture Series w/Professor Nadia Urbinati from Columbia U, November 17, 2016.

Newsletter Contents

Message from the Chair - Irwin Morris

Columns

Director of Graduate Studies – Michael Hanmer

Placement Director – Kathleen Cunningham

Director of Undergraduate Studies – Scott Kastner

The GVPT Graduate Student Association

Staff and Administration

Accomplishments of our PhD Alums

Announcements and Updates

Field Updates - Workshops and Seminars

American Politics Field – Workshops and Seminars

International Relations Field/CIDCM – Workshops and Seminars

Comparative Politics Field – Workshops and Seminars

Political Theory Field – Workshops and Seminars

Methods Field – Workshops and Seminars

Center Updates

Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC)

Center for Int. Development and Conflict Man. (CIDCM)

Sadat Chair for Peace

Faculty Achievements

Graduate Student Achievements

Calendar of Department Events

The Department of Government and Politics Newsletter – University of Maryland, College Park

GVPT NEWS May, 2016

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR We will wrap things up with our GVPT “End of Year Reception” scheduled on study day, May 11

th at 12:30pm

in Morrill Hall. We will announce all our scholarship awards at the reception, and you will have the

opportunity to meet our Commencement Speaker winner as well. I hope to see you there.

The GVPT Commencement ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 19th

, 2016 at 9:00AM in the Armory.

If you are a volunteer, thanks very much! If not, please consider being a part of this very important event in the

lives of our students and our department in the future.

A number of department members received college and university awards this spring. Recipients include:

Joel Simmons (Excellence in Teaching Award—Tenure-Track Faculty)

Joe Braun (2016 George M. Phillips Award for Graduate Student Research in Public Interest)

Kathryn Weiland (Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor)

Frances Lee (Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award)

Another award I am happy to announce is that Professor Sarah Croco was awarded promotion and tenure to

Associate Professor starting in the Fall 2016 semester. Congratulations to all of you!

Government and Politics, CAPC, CIDCM/MIDCM participated in Maryland Day 2016 on April 30th

. Many of

the attendees took our citizenship quiz for a chance to win an official GVPT mug again this year. Those who

dropped by the tent were also able to get their pictures taken with presidential Candidates Clinton and Trump,

and with Presidents Obama, Reagan, and Abe (well, life-size cardboard cut-outs of them). Thanks to all the

students, staff, and faculty who made it out this year to help, and thanks to all those who attended and made this

fun event possible.

On April 2nd

, Team GVPT participated in the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run for the third straight

year. We placed 4th

! Diana Partridge, Jared McDonald, Frances Lee, Mike Mansfield, Neil Lund, Kelsey

Hinchliffe, Lilly Mason and I all participated. For the record, Jared was the speedster, and I brought up the rear.

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Finally, I am excited to announce that in the Fall 2016 semester, GVPT will initiate a new IR Concentration. If

you are interested in finding out more details on this concentration, please contact our Advising Office and they

will be happy to assist.

Thank you for following us and for a wonderful semester and our next newsletter will be available in September

at the beginning of the Fall semester.

Irwin L. Morris

Professor and Chair

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES

May Graduates

Please join me in congratulating our students who defended and submitted all revisions for their Ph.D. (some

doing so in 5 years)!

Christopher Binetti

Kiyoung Chang

Dan Creed

Katayoun Kishi

Michael Parrott

Kimberly Wilson

We have a number of other students completing final revisions and more defenses in May as well.

Incoming Cohort

In the Fall we will welcome 10 new Ph.D. students. Thank you to Ann Marie for her outstanding work in all

phases of the admissions process. Thank you also to the admissions committee and the many faculty and

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students who helped recruit the new cohort. We could not be successful without the true team effort that GVPT

always puts forward.

A number of GVPT graduate students won UMD and external awards/recognition. Please join me in

congratulating the following individuals:

Steve Arves: Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, Don C. Piper Award (with Joe Braun), James F.

Hoobler Fellowship Award

Joe Braun: Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, Don C. Piper Award (with Steve Arves), BSOS

George M. Phillips Public Service Initiative Award

Eric Dunford: Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship

Heather Hicks: GVPT Research Initiative

Kelsey Hinchliffe: Roger H. Davidson Award in American Politics

Agatha Hultquist: GVPT Research Initiative

Jacob Lewis: GVPT Research Initiative

Caitlin McCulloch: Fulbright Fellowship

Jared McDonald: GVPT Research Initiative

Konrad Mugglestone: Phi Delta Gamma Award

Gilbert Nuñez: Conley H. Dillon Memorial Award

Julian Wamble: MIT Pre-doctoral Fellowship, GVPT Research Initiative

Keep up the outstanding work!

Mike Hanmer

GVPT, Director of Graduate Studies

MESSAGE FROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR

We will be holding an information session on the academic job market and the application process

on Thursday, May 5th at 1:00 in 1109 Chincoteague Hall. Not sure if this is something that should go in the

newsletter.

As Placement Director, I am here to help with any issues related to job searches and career planning more

generally. Please feel free to ask me questions about any aspect of the process – from thinking about what type

of job to pursue, to applying and interviewing, to seeking job outside academia. I am happy to comment on

CVs and job application materials.

For students not yet on the market, don’t wait to ask your questions and learn about the process.

Anyone on the market this year who receives an invitation to interview should immediately contact me to

arrange a practice job talk.

Maryland places many graduate students at top departments for tenure-track jobs and post-docs, and I look

forward to helping to continue this trend.

Good luck!

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Kathleen Cunningham

Director of Placement

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

Spring 2016 Commencement

The GVPT Commencement ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 9:00AM in the Reckord

Armory. Thank you to those who volunteered to participate in the ceremony! Book Orders

Book orders for Summer 2016 and Fall 2016 are due. If you have not already done so, please submit your book

orders ASAP. NEW International Relations Concentration starting in the Fall 2016

Undergraduate Studies is excited to announce that our formal concentration in International Relations has been

approved and will be available starting in Fall 2016. The IR Concentration gives our undergraduate majors the

opportunity to focus their studies in IR and Comparative courses. Students pursuing the concentration must also

complete the intermediate level of a foreign language. The IR concentration will be formally noted on the

students' transcripts. Please encourage your students to visit the GVPT Advising Office for more information.

Undergraduate Scholarship Winners

The department awarded over $20,400 in scholarships this spring. Winners will be announced at the GVPT End

of the Year Reception. Congratulations to the award winners! Scott Kastner

Director for GVPT Undergraduate Studies

Karmin Cortes

Assistant Director for GVPT Undergraduate Studies

GVPT GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION

This semester we worked with the DGS to bring more clarity to the assistantships allocation system and provide improved communication channels. This semester, five of our graduate students have offered workshops on different qualitative and quantitative skills they have learned as part of external training. We have also worked on the organization of student-led workshops, and MPSA mock panels. Our next meeting will be on Monday, April 18th, in which we will nominate the new GSA representatives for 2016-1017. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please send an email to the GSA Co-Chairs Analia Gomez Vidal (agv@umd.edu) and Patrick Tiney (ptiney@umd.edu).

GSA Co-Chairs,

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Annie (Analia) Gomez Vidal

agv@umd.edu

Patrick Tiney

ptiney@umd.edu

STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION

SOCIAL NETWORKS and The Department of Government and Politics is on Twitter and Face Book. “Follow” and “Like” GVPT. Information that you want to

share on either (or both) of these outlets can be forwarded to gvptdepartment@gmail.com.

MAKE-UP EXAMS (Proctoring)

The main office staff does not proctor or oversee make-up exams. Make-up exams will not be held in the GVPT main Office

Conference Room.

RETURNING STUDENT PAPERS

The main office staff does not collect or return student papers. If you want to provide a pick-up service, give the students a time when

you will be in your office for them to pick the papers up. Leaving papers out for the students to flip through is a violation of student

privacy. The best suggestion is to ask the students to provide a self addressed and stamped envelope and you will return the papers to

them.

INSTALLING Personal Network Devices IS PROHIBITED

Please refrain from connecting your own networking devices to the campus network. Not only is this a violation of the Policy on the

Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources (http://www.nethics.umd.edu/aup/), but also could cause much disruption to

you, your colleagues, and our students. Such disruptions may be as serious as multi-building wide network outages (i.e., entire

building data and voice services become unavailable).

If such a device is found on the network (i.e., a wired or wireless device that can hand out IP addresses) the device owner will be

referred to the Division of IT’s Security Office and their device will be confiscated.

If you have needs that you feel the campus network cannot fulfill, please contact OACS. We will work with you and our network and

security offices to devise a networking solution that works for you, yet is in compliance with the campus’ security rules and

regulations.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR PHD Alums

Books in Print

Brunner, Hans Peter, (PhD, 1990), Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism: A Knowledge

Platform on Economic Productivity, Edward Elgar Publishing. 208 pp Hardback 978 1 78536 448 8, April

2016. Ebook version: http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781785364488.xml.

Fox, Jonathan, (PHD, ), The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against

Religious Minorities, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/sociology/sociology-religion/unfree-exercise-religion-world-

survey-discrimination-against-religious-minorities.

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Chapter and Article Publications

Fox, Jonathan, (PhD, 1991), “The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against

Religious Minorities.” Cambridge University Press, 2016. To order this title go to

http://www.cambridge.org/9781107133068 and enter discount code UNFREE2016.

Gusmano, Michael K. (PhD 1995) and Gregory Kaebnick. 2016. "Clarifying the role of values in cost-

effectiveness," Health Economics, Policy and Law. DoI: 10.1017/S1744133116000062. With Solomon,

Mildred Z. Solomon, and Karen Maschke. 2016. "The ethical imperative and moral challenges of engaging

patients and the public with evidence," Health Affairs 35(4): 583-589. And with Victor G. Rodwin. 2016.

"Needed: Global Cooperation for Comparative Research on Cities and Health," International Journal of Health

Policy and Management. DoI:10.15171/ijhpm.2016.39.

James, Patrick, (PhD, 1984), “Presidential Approval and Macroeconomic Conditions: Evidence from a

Nonlinear Model” with Seung-Whan Choi, Yitan Li and Eric Olson Applied Economics; “Why Does the U.S.

Intervene Abroad? Democracy, Human Rights Violations, and Terrorism” with Seung-Whan Choi, Journal of

Conflict Resolution; and “Democracy, Peace and Simultaneity” with Jason Enia, Social Science Quarterly.

Lectures, Presentations and Other

Bullock, John, (PhD, ) won the Democratic Primary Election for Baltimore City Council in the 9th District

on April 26, 2016. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-ci-city-council-20160426-

story.html

Dougherty, Keith, (PhD, 1997), was awarded the 2016 Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award.

This is the highest teaching award given by the honors program at the University of Georgia.

Kammas, Anthony, (PhD, 2005), was promoted to Associate Professor (Teaching) at the Department of

Political Science at the University of Southern California.

FIELD UPDATES - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

AMERICAN POLITICS FIELD - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

The American Politics Workshop is a bi-weekly research colloquium for faculty and graduate students. The workshop constitutes an

ongoing research community where participants present and discuss papers in an informal, supportive environment. Papers are made

available via the workshop website in advance of our meetings, and participants are expected to have read them. Discussion leaders

are assigned on a rotating basis, matching papers with discussants who share complementary research interests. Many of the papers

presented in recent years have gone on to publication in top tier political science journals.

The workshop is especially beneficial for our graduate students. It provides an excellent opportunity to interact with the American

Politics faculty outside of the classroom and, for advanced graduate students actively engaged in scholarly research, the workshop can

also be an invaluable source of professional advice. The American Politics faculty strongly encourages all of our graduate students to

regularly participate in the workshop.

The AP Workshop website is: http://www.gvpt.umd.edu. Click the research tab and then select the American Politics Workshop.

Workshops and events are held from 11-12:30pm at the locations listed by date. While the workshops and events focus on issues in

American politics, all faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.

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Spring 2016 Workshop Schedule:

Date Presenter Location

6-May Marc Hetherington (Vanderbilt University) 2113 CHIN

COMPARATIVE POLITICS FIELD – WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Throughout the course of the semester we will hold periodic gatherings for the comparative field, including

social events, speakers, and special topic seminars (e.g. how to do research in the field, how to get grants to go

overseas). The comparative subfield is putting together a stellar lineup of guest speakers for the Fall. Although

the Comparative Politics Workshop focuses on comparative politics, all faculty and graduate students are

welcome to attend.

Spring 2016 Workshop Schedule:

May 11 – Joel Simmons – 11-12:15pm, 2113 Chincoteague Hall

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FIELD/CIDCM – WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

The international relations workshop brings together faculty and graduate students with an interest in

international relations. We invite faculty and graduate students to discuss their latest research; present papers in

progress, with a formal discussant; present information for professional development; and invite guest speakers.

Students are strongly encouraged to attend and we would also like to see some students present their own work

in the workshop. Working papers will be posted on the IR Workshop website at www.gvpt.umd.edu, click on

the Research tab and then open the IR workshop schedule as they become available.

Students could present dissertation work or a conference paper. Students interested in presenting their work or

would like to act as a discussant should contact Todd Allee at tallee@umd.edu.

Spring 2016 Workshop Schedule:

Monday, May 2 – 2113 Chincoteague 10-12:30pm

Bahar Leventoglu, Duke University

Title TBA

(co-sponsored with Methods)

POLITICAL THEORY FIELD - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Please watch for emails and newsletters for panels as we schedule them. All graduate students and faculty are

welcome, especially those with some interest in wars and/or game theory. A lot of really clever work has been

done recently in this area. So even if you don't care at all about wars, and couldn't care less about game theory,

you should come just to find out what is going on.

For more information contact Professor Fred Alford calford@umd.edu..

METHODS FIELD - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

May 2nd – METHODS/IR/CIDCM Workshop – 10-12:30pm, 2113 Chincoteague Hall

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For information and details of the Methods Field Workshops, please contact Professor David Cunningham at

dacunnin@umd.edu.

CENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC)

The date for the CAPC research presentations will be May 10th at 11AM. All are invited to hear the work that

our students have been working on independently this semester.

We are going to have a great time at Maryland Day this Saturday. Come and take your picture with some

presidential candidates and presidents who will be in attendance at the CAPC Booth

If you have an interest in being a CAPC Research Assistant in the Fall, please email me atchosam@umd.edu

Christian Hosam

Coordinator, Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC)

University of Maryland, College Park

1127 Tydings Hall

Email: chosam@umd.edu

Phone: (301)314-2736

Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)

Minor in International Development and Conflict Management

NO UPDATES THIS MONTH

Sadat Chair for Peace

In early May, Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, will be traveling to

Philadelphia to speak at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. He will also be traveling to Princeton

University and speaking at the United States-Israel Relations Conference where he will be serving on a panel

titled, “The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Public and Elites Perspective.” Later in the month, Dr. Telhami will be

speaking at the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Annual Conference at George Washington

University.

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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

Chapter and Article Publications

Alcaniz, Isabella has an article out in Water Policy (journal), entitled "A network analysis of transboundary water

cooperation in La Plata Basin" co-authored with Ramiro Berardo.

Wohlfarth, Patrick C. 2016. "Don't Jettison the General Error Correction Model Just Yet: A Practical Guide

to Avoiding Spurious Regression with the GECM." Research and Politics: Forthcoming (with Peter K. Enns,

Nathan Kelly, and Takaaki Masaki).

Lectures, Presentations and Other

Alcaniz, Isabella has been invited to give a lecture at the Graduate School of Economics and International Relations of

the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy (mid-May). She will present at a round-table at the annual

conference of the Latin America Studies Association on Emerging Problems in Environmental Research (late

May). And she will be presenting my book (Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South: How

Skills Shape International Cooperation) at a conference on the political economy of Latin America at MIT.

Karol, David participated in a panel on "Dynamics of the Fall Campaign" at the 19th Annual Travers

Conference of the Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley. April 15.

Lee, Frances E. "Understanding Congress & Its Members," Public Issues Leadership Conference, Joint

Council of Extension Professionals, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA, April 11, 2016. And with

Michael D. Parrott, "Uneven Playing Fields? Understanding the Over- and Underrepresentation of Political

Interests on Congressional Committees." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political

Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7, 2016.

Uslaner, Ric was the Keynote lecture, "Trust and Corruption in Russia;" “Trust, Social capital and Values in a

Comparative Perspective”, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research Conference, Moscow, Russia, April

20-22, 2016; Invited lectures, "The Historical Roots of Corruption" and "Segregation and Mistrust in the

Megalo[polis." at the Conference on "Economic culture of a megapolis", organized by the Center for the Study

of Economic Culture of St. Petersburg State University, Russia; "The Historical Roots of Corruption," the Hans

Dieter Klingemann Lecture at Luneburg University, Germany, June 14, 2016; keynote lecture, "The Historical

Roots of Corruption," Summer Academy Keynote lecture, "The Historical Roots of Corruption," Summer

Academy : Path Dependencies in Economic and Social Development: Institutions, Behavior, and Outcomes,

Regensburg, Germ any June 19, 2016; and an invited lecture on trust and the 2016 American Elections,

Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, July 11-16, 2016.

Awards

Croco, Sarah was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

Lee, Frances was awarded the 2016-7 Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award

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GRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Lectures, Presentations and Other

Parrott, Michael D. and Frances E. Lee. "Uneven Playing Fields? Understanding the Over- and

Underrepresentation of Political Interests on Congressional Committees." Paper presented at the Annual

Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7, 2016.

Awards

Arves, Stephen was selected as the 2015-16 winner of the James F. Hoobler Fellowship Award and received

the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.

Arves, Stephen and Braun, Joseph together won the 2015-16 Donald C. Piper award for their paper: “On Solid

Ground: Evaluating the Effects of Foundational Arguments on Human Rights Attitudes.”

Braun, Joe was the winner of the 2016 George M. Phillips Award for Graduate Student Research in the Public

Service Initiative from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Joe also was the winner of the Ann G.

Wylie Dissertation Fellowship Award.

Dunford, Eric was awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for the Summer 2016.

Gomez Vidal, Analia received the Midwest Political Science Association Women's Caucus Graduate Student

Award. She will also present her paper "Behind the gender gap: labor market inequality and differences in

economic attitudes"

Hicks, Heather received the GVPT Research Initiative Award.

Hinchcliffe, Kelsey was selected as the 2015-16 winner of the Roger H. Davidson Award.

Hultquist, Agatha received the GVPT Research Initiative Award.

Lewis, Jacob received the GVPT Research Initiative Award.

McCulloch, Caitlin received a Fulbright Fellowship.

McDonald, Jared received the GVPT Research Initiative Award.

Mugglestone, Konrad was awarded the Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship for 2016 as a student who best

exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship achievement.

Nunez, Gilbert was selected as the 2015-16 winner of the Conley H. Dillon Memorial Award for his many

contributions in research, teaching, and mentoring.

Parrott, Michael received the APSA Congressional Fellowship for 2016-2017.

Wamble, Julian received an MIT Pre-doctoral Fellowship, and received the GVPT Research Initiative.

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