Sept. 17, 2002

Kudos!

Appointments
Ashley Adams has been appointed media relations specialist in the Office of University Relations. Adams comes to GW from Hill & Knowlton.

Dana Tai Soon Burgess joins the Department of Theater and Dance as assistant professor of dance. Burgess will teach advanced modern dance. Over the past four years he served as an adjunct in the department.

Matthew Lindsay has been appointed media specialist in the Office of University Relations. Lindsay, who was previously an account executive at Hill & Knowlton, starts at GW on Sept. 23.

Jarol B. Manheim, professor of media and public affairs and political science, CCAS, was elected vice chair of the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association. Manheim will serve as chair of the section in 2003–04. He was instrumental in the establishment of the association’s journal Political Communication, which is about to complete its 10th year of publication.

Michael Moore, associate professor of economics and international affairs, ESIA, has been appointed as a senior staff economist on President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors and will be on leave from the Elliott School for the 2002–03 academic year. The council plays a key role in preparing the President’s Economic Report and publishes studies and reports based on its research of economic trends and developments. Moore began this one-year assignment in July.

Rachel Muir has been appointed publications director for the Office of University Relations, replacing Anastasia Pelios, who left the University in June. Muir comes to GW from the Association of American Medical Schools.

Keri-Lynn Paulson has been appointed reference and instruction librarian for Eckles Library at the Mount Vernon Campus.

President Trachtenberg, professor of public administration, CCAS, and University president, has been selected to chair the annual DC Chamber of Commerce business awards dinner Nov. 2 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

Awards
Charlene Bickford, director First Federal Congress Project, received a $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for “The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–91,” the last of a five-volume history of the nation’s first Congress.

Allida Black, research professor of history, CCAS, received an $80,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the first volume of her “Eleanor Roosevelt Papers.”

James Goldgeier, associate professor of political science, CCAS, received a $225,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for his project “Online Cold War Teaching Resources.”

Dina Rizk Khoury, associate professor of history and international affairs, CCAS and ESIA, received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science Research Council, in support of her project, “The Rebellious City: Popular Politics in the Middle East in the Age of Crisis and Reform, 1770s–1830s.” The grant will also help start the research and writing for a book on popular politics in the Middle East with a focus on Baghdad.

Ronald Spector, professor of history and international affairs, CCAS and ESIA, won a 2002 Distinguished Book Award in European History from the Society for Military History for his book, “At War At Sea.”

Ryan Watkins, assistant professor of educational technology, GSEHD, was awarded a research grant from the International Society for Performance Improvement to develop and validate an instrument for assessing student preparedness for success in online courses.

Andrew Zimmerman, assistant professor of history, CCAS, received a $5,000 summer research stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project “Science, Colonialism, and the Modernizing State in British and German East Africa.”

Publications
Harvey Feigenbaum, associate dean and professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, published “Public Policy and the Private Sector in Audiovisual Industries,” in the UCLA Law Review, v.l 49, n. 6 (Aug 2002). The article is part of a special number for their annual symposium. This year’s symposium was titled, “New Forms of Governance: Ceding Power to Private Actors.”

Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs, CCAS, published “Britain and Empire 1880–1945,” (London: 2002).

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of human resource management and labor relations, SBPM, published the article, “Challenges to Professionalism and Union Voting Intentions: The Case of Pharmacists,” in the Journal of Labor Research, v. 23 n. 4, 2002, pp. 659–671.

Barbara Miller, associate dean and professor of anthropology and international affairs, ESIA and CCAS, published “Female-Selective Abortion in Asia: Patterns, Policies and Debates,” in American Anthropologist (v. 103, pp. 1083–1095);

Henry Nau, professor of political science and international affairs, ESIA, published “At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy.” Nau also wrote “Beyond Unilateralism: Europe and America against Terrorism,” published in The World Today (April 2002), and “Clinton’s Legacy: US Trade Leadership Languishes,” The World Trade Organization Millennium Round: Freer Trade in the Twenty-First Century (2001).

Mark Starik, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, co-wrote “Strategic Inter-organizational Environmentalism in the US: A Multi-sectoral Perspective of Alternating Eco-policy Roles” with Mark Heuer, visiting instructor of strategic management and public policy, SBPM, in the August issue of the journal Business Strategy and the Environment. Starik also co-organized a research paper session titled “Evolution of Organization and the Natural Environment (ONE) Research Networks: Connecting Past, Present, and Future ONE Scholars and Scholarship,” at the Academy of Management meetings in Denver. He chaired a research paper session on “Voluntary Environmental Initiatives” at the same meeting. Heuer also delivered a presentation titled, “Multi-Directional Stakeholder Networks: Specifying Capability, Turbulence, and Reputation,” a paper co-authored with Starik, at the Academy of Management meetings.

 

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