Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, had an article titled “Political Parties in Democratic Japan” published in Education About Asia, a peer-reviewed journal for educators published by the Association of Asian Studies.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper on Sept. 1 at the American Political Science Association meeting in Seattle. The panel was titled “American Tragedy: The Political Thought of Herman Melville” and her paper explored Melville’s reception of American Transcendentalism, with a focus on “Bartleby the Scrivener.”

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, had a book review published in the current issue of the Law and Politics Book Review. The book he reviewed was Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone of Good Governance by Christopher Forsyth (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, contributed a chapter titled “Emerson’s Transcendental Gaze and the ‘Disagreeable Particulars’ of Slavery: Vision and the Costs of Idealism” to the volume A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, just published by University Press of Kentucky.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, was invited to speak at a conference on American democracy and popular sovereignty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison May 25. She presented a paper titled “Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies and Democratic Pedagogy.”

Professor of Political Science and University Scholar Eric Selbin’s book Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story has been published in India by Books for Change.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, and Michael Bray, associate professor of philosophy, organized a panel on their current research for the recent Western Political Science Association conference in San Antonio April 21-23. The panel explored Theodor Adorno’s thoughts on democracy. Mariotti presented a paper titled “Adorno on the Radio: The Countertendencies of Democracy in America” and Bray presented a paper titled “The Revolt of Ignoble Savages?: On Adorno and Populism.”

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, served as chair and discussant on a featured social science panel titled “How is the DPJ Changing Japan? Women, Denizens and the Poor” at the Association of Asian Studies Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 4.

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, has four articles coming out in The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, edited by Wilbur R. Miller (SAGE, in press).  The articles discuss the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863, United States v. Ballard, and Reynolds v. United States.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, co-chaired and participated in  a roundtable on “Decentering International Relations” at the 2011 International Studies Association meeting which focused on the book of the same name he recently published with Southwestern graduate and professor Meghana Nayak. Selbin also chaired the annual meeting of the series he co-edits, New Millennium Books in International Studies.  

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, recently had an edited volume titled The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics published. In addition to editing the volume, she contributed the introductory chapter titled “The institutional landscape of Japanese politics.”  The edited volume offers an overview of the full spectrum of Japanese politics with 32 chapters in the areas of domestic politics, civil society, social policy, political economy and international relations.  

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, recently had her article titled “WIN WIN’s Struggles with the Institutional Transfer of the EMILY’s List Model to Japan:  The Role of Accountability and Policy” published in the Japanese Journal of Political Science.

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, was an invited participant to The Stanford University Workshop “Political Change in Japan II:  One Step Forward, One Step Back?” on Feb. 4-5, 2011.  She gave a paper titled “Women in Politics in Japan:  Is there an Impact on Governance and Policy?”  Papers presented at this workshop will be reproduced in an edited volume and a special journal issue.   

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, was invited to contribute the article on Henry David Thoreau for The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, a series forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.  

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, participated on a roundtable titled “Evaluating the DPJ Administration One Year Later” at the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies at Texas Christian University Sept. 25.  Roundtable participants included professors from UT Austin, SMU, University of North Texas, TCU and Southwestern. 

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, reviewed Gerhard Schweppenhäuser’s new book on Theodor W. Adorno in an essay titled “Communicating to the Demos,” published in the September 2010 issue of the Review of Politics.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper on Emerson and experiences of political conversion at the American Political Science Association convention in Washington, D.C., Sept. 1-5.  She also chaired a panel titled “The Problem of ‘The People’ in American Political Thought.”

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, presented a paper titled “The Problems with and Potential for Institutional Transfer from the U.S. to Japan:  The Case of EMILY’s List and WIN WIN” at the Japan America Women’s Symposium in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1. This meeting was held in conjunction with the American Political Science Association.

Junior political science major Sarah Wooley presented a paper titled “The Fiscal Impact of Water Supply Issues in the West” at the Western Political Science Association meeting in San Francisco April 1-3. She currently is co-authoring a paper with Professor Gilbert St. Clair on the Texas budget for the 2010-2011.

Florence Gould, professor emeritus of political science, was invited to comment on two papers that were presented at the Texas State Historical Association meeting March 3-5 in El Paso. Both papers discussed the remarkable career of Oveta Culp Hobby (1905-1995), who served as parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature in the 1920s and married former Texas Governor Will Hobby. She became editor of the Houston Post newspaper, organizer of the Women’s Army Corp during WWII and the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the 1950s.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, has been invited to participate in the 62nd annual Conference on World Affairs to be held at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 5-9. Selbin has been invited to speak on seven panels, including ones titled “Youth: Revolution, Resistance and Rebellion,” “Latin America and Its Discontents,” “My Terrorist, Your Freedom Fighter,” “Time, Memory and Landscape,” “Pirates!,” “A Lower Priority on Higher Education” and “I Never Let My Schooling Interfere With My Education.”

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, had his essay titled “Through a Glass Darkly: Western Tort Law from a South and East Asian Perspective” published as the lead article in the winter issue of the Rutgers Race & Law Review. Stephen Higdon, a 2008 graduate, helped revise and update the article.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, gave two talks in England this week about his new book titled Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story. The book examines the role of myth and storytelling in lighting the fires of revolutions and political struggles. More information on the book.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, was interviewed by the journal TELOS about her recent article on Theodor Adorno, psychoanalysis and alienation in post-WWII America. The article is available at telospress.com

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, chaired an emergency Plenary Session Roundtable titled “Haiti: International Aid or U.S. Military Occupation?” last week at The Pink Tide: Reconfiguring politics, power and political economy in the Americas Conference of activists and activist academics from Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and North America in Nottingham, England. He also chaired a session titled “To Take Power or Not: Paths to Revolution in Latin America and Beyond.”

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, gave two talks in England this week about his new book titled Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story. The book examines the role of myth and storytelling in lighting the fires of revolutions and political struggles. For more information on the book, visit www.zedbooks.co.uk/revolution_rebellion_resistance

The University of Wisconsin Press has published a new book by Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science. The book is titled Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity. It explores Thoreau’s nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. For more information, on the book, visit http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4570.htm

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, was recently asked to review Gerhard Schweppenhaueser’s new book, Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction, for the Review of Politics. Her piece will come out in the journal’s next issue.

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, presented a paper titled “From Madonnas to Assassins – The Changing Image of Female Politicians in Japan” at the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies held at UT-Austin Oct. 16-17. Gaunder also was a panelist on a roundtable discussion that analyzed the 2009 Lower House election in Japan.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, chaired panels on “International Relations Theory” and “Sovereignty, Culture, and the Global Pluralist Society,” and participated in a panel on “Structural-Political Change in Latin America” at the International Studies Association-South Region meeting held last week in Nashville, Tenn.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, will present a paper titled “Emerson’s Transcendental America and the ‘Disagreeable Particulars’ of Slavery: Vision, Politics, and the Costs of Idealism” at the American Political Science Association conference to be held this month in Toronto, Canada. A revised version of this essay will also be published in A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky in 2011).

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, wrote chapter titled “Women Running for National Office in Japan: Are Koizumi’s Female ‘Children’ a Short-term Anomaly or a Lasting Phenomenon?” that was published in a new book published by the Brookings Institution titled Political Change in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party Realignment, and the Koizumi Reforms.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, was interviewed for a book on Che Guevera that was released this week. Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image was written by Michael Casey, the Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires. Read a review of the book in the New York Times here.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, had an article titled “What Was Revolutionary about the Iranian Revolution? The Power of Possibility,” published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, vol, 29, no. 1 (2009), pp. 33-46.

Shannon L. Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality: Adorno, America, and the Sickness of Health,” at the recent Western Political Science Association conference in Vancouver. Her essay will also be published in a forthcoming special issue of the journal TELOS, dedicated to the topic of “Adorno in America.”

Junior political science major Matt Maschino is presenting a paper that he co-authored with Gilbert St. Clair, visiting professor of political science, at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 20. The paper is about the innovation and diffusion of performance budgeting in the American states. Maschino and St. Clair also will participate in a panel discussion about budgeting in the Western states. St. Clair is retiring as treasurer of the WPSA this year after nine years in that office.

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, had his articles on “Abrams v. United States,” “Absolutists,” “Edwards v. Aguillard,” “Faith-Based Organizations and Government Funding,” “Larkin v. Grendel’s Den, Inc.,” “McConnell v. FEC,” “Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton,” “Watchtower Bible and Tract Society v. Village of Stratton,” and “Zorach v. Clauson,” published in John Vile, et al, editors, Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008).

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Female Candidacy in Japan and the U.S.: The Role Women’s Organizations Play in Confronting Electoral Obstacles” at the Southern Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans Jan. 8.

Eric Selbin, Professor of political science and University Scholar, had an article titled “Conjugating the Cuban Revolution: It Mattered, It Matters, It Will Matter,” published in Latin American Perspectives, vol, 36, no. 1 (2009), pp. 21-29.

Seven faculty members have been named 2008 recipients of awards from the Sam Taylor Fellowship Fund. The fund provides monetary awards for the continuing education and development of full-time faculty members of United Methodist colleges and universities in Texas. Southwestern received a total of $13,620 in grant money from the fund this year. Faculty members receiving awards include: Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, who will use her award to fund research in Japan during her upcoming sabbatical. The research will focus on electoral obstacles facing women candidates for national office in Japan and the United States.

Shannon Mariotti, assistant professor of political science, had a book review titled “Critique from the Margins: Adorno and the Politics of Withdrawal” published in the June 2008 issue of Political Theory. Another article titled “The Death of the First-born Son: Emerson’s ‘Focal Distancing,’ Du Bois’ ‘Second Sight,’ and Disruptive Particularity” has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Political Theory. Her article “Thoreau, Adorno, and the Critical Potential of Particularity” will be included in A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, to be published in spring 2009 by The University Press of Kentucky.

Gilbert St. Clair, part-time professor of political science, was interviewed by KPSI radio in Palm Springs, Calif., about the impact of the Latino vote on the presidential race.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, had an article titled “What Was Revolutionary About the Iranian Revolution? The Power of Possibility” accepted for publication in Comparative Studies of South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, had an article titled “Conjugating the Cuban Revolution: It Mattered, It Matters, It Will Matter” accepted for publication in Latin American Perspectives (Winter 2009).

Bob Snyder, professor of political science, received a $25,000 grant from the Earhart Foundation to write a book tentatively titled “The Road to 9/11: The US’ Struggles with Revolutionary Movements in the Third World.”

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science, participated on a panel titled “Bringing Scholarship to the Classroom: Japan Studies” at the ASIA Network conference in San Antonio on March 15. She gave a talk titled “Getting Students to Explore Political Leadership From Several Different Angles: The Role of Prime Ministers, Parliamentarians, and Women in Japan.” She was also invited to give a talk titled “Women Running for National Office in Japan: Are Koizumi’s Female “Children” a Short-term Anomaly or a Lasting Phenomenon?” at the Center for East Asian Studies at The University of Texas in Austin March 18.

Southwestern University will host a mayoral forum for candidates George Garver and Doug Smith on Friday, April 18, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Red and Charline McCombs Campus Center ballrooms. The event is being organized by students in Professor Gilbert St. Clair’s ”Media and Politics” class at Southwestern. Audience members will be able to participate in the forum by submitting written questions to a panel of students. Both candidates will have the opportunity to make opening and closing remarks. Garver and Smith are vying to replace Gary Nelon, who has served as mayor of Georgetown since 2002. Whoever is elected mayor will serve a three-year term.

Senior Mary Kierst presented her paper, “A Study of Congressional Decision Making: The 2001 USA PATRIOT ACT and the 2006 Renewal,” at a poster session of the 2008 Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, Ill., on April 5. Her paper is the result of a Mundy project with Tim O’Neill, professor of political science.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, and Meghana Nayak ‘97, assistant professor of political science at Pace University, have signed a contract with Zed Books for a co-authored book titled “Doing International Relations from the Margins.” The book contends that the political concepts/issues discussed in international relations are Western liberal bourgeois constructions wherein even alternative, critical discussions are “trapped” by the discursive stranglehold of these concepts and their genealogies.

Pi Kappa Alpha will hold its next Leadership Luncheon Series on Friday, April 11, at noon. The event will feature Texas District 14 Senator and former Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. Sen. Watson is vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security. Most recently, he was named legislative “Rookie of the Year” by Texas Monthly Magazine. Sen. Watson will speak to the campus community on the topics of leadership in the legislature and law.

At the 2008 meeting of the International Studies Association, Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, presented a paper titled “Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution: The Persistence, Power, and Prevalence of Story,” which outlines his forthcoming book “Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story.” He also chaired the annual meeting of the New Millennium Books in International Studies series he co-edits for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Bill Bradley, an Olympic gold medalist and NBA basketball player who went on to serve three terms in the U.S. Senate, will give the 2008 Shilling Lecture at Southwestern. The lecture will be held Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater. The title of the lecture will be “The New American Story… Including Nine Questions to Ask Before Voting for President.” New American Story is the title of Bradley’s latest book, published in March 2007, which offers a review of current politics and a collection of ideas to improve major policy issues, such as the way we elect presidents.

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science and holder of the Tower-Hester Chair in Political Science, published his review of Barbara Perry’s “The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases” (Kansas, 2007) in the November issue of the Law and Politics Book Review.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, published a chapter “Stories of Revolution in the Periphery,” in John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic, eds., Revolution in the Making of the Modern World: Social Identities, Globalization and Modernity. Selbin also published an article “Making the World New: Latin American Studies After the Washington Consensus,” in the Latin American Studies Forum. The article can be read online here.

The Sen. John Tower archives at Southwestern are mentioned in a Nov. 14 New York Times story about the recent discovery of a letter written by Lee Harvey Oswald to John Tower. Read the story here.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, spoke about “Understanding Revolutions” at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University on Oct. 16-17. Selbin also presented a paper on Political Violence and Political Change at the 2nd Regional Latin Americanist Conference.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science and chair of the international studies program, recently published “Reform Leadership in the United States and Japan: A Comparison of John McCain and Ozawa Ichiro.” The article appeared in the May 2007 issue of Leadership.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Running for National Office in Japan: The Role of Leadership and Women’s Organizations” at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting March 22-24 in Boston, Mass.

At the 2007 meeting of the International Studies Association, Professor of Political Science Eric Selbin chaired and served as discussant for a panel titled “New Visions of Terrorism,” participated as a panelist on a presidential roundtable titled “Honoring the Legacy of Deborah Gerner: Middle East Scholar, Peace Activist, and Colleague Extraordinaire” and chaired the annual meeting of the New Millennium Books in International Studies series he co-edits with Professor Vicki Golich for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

At the 2007 meeting of the International Studies Association, Professor of Political Science Eric Selbin chaired and served as discussant for a panel titled “New Visions of Terrorism.” He also participated as a panelist on a Presidential roundtable titled “Honoring the Legacy of Deborah Gerner: Middle East Scholar, Peace Activist, and Colleague Extraordinaire” and chaired the annual meeting of the New Millennium Books in International Studies series he co-edits with Professor Vicki Golich for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Junior Mary Kierst will present her paper “The USA Patriot Act and the ‘Ambivalent-Majoritarian Paradigm’” at the March 2007 annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association in Albuquerque, N.M.

James Baker III, the former secretary of state who most recently served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will give the 2007 Shilling Lecture at Southwestern University. The lecture will be held Wednesday, April 18, at 3 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center.

Baker served in senior government positions under three U.S. presidents. His career in public service began in 1975 as under secretary of commerce to President Gerald Ford. He served as White House chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985, and then served as secretary of the treasury and chairman of the President’s Economic Policy Council from 1985 to 1988. Baker served as secretary of state under President George Bush from January 1989 through August 1992, during which time he traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era. He concluded his White House tenure by serving as chief of staff and senior counselor to President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993.

From 1997 to 2004, Baker served as the personal envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to seek a political solution to the conflict over Western Sahara. In 2003, he was appointed special presidential envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi debt. In 2005, he was co-chair, with former President Jimmy Carter, of the Federal Commission on Election Reform. In March 2006, Baker and former U.S. Congressman Lee H. Hamilton were named co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan blue-ribbon panel examining a forward-looking approach to Iraq. Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts. He is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston and serves on the board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, presented a lecture on Oct. 24 titled “Is Revolution Still an Option in Latin America?” at The University of Texas’ Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, published “Elites, Intellectuals, and Revolutionary Leadership,” in James DeFronzo, ed., Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present.

Two Southwestern students have been awarded Benjamin Gilman International Scholarships for the fall 2006 semester. The scholarships, which are highly competitive, enable U.S. undergraduate students with financial need to pursue academic studies abroad. Students are encouraged to choose non-traditional study abroad destinations, particularly areas outside of Western Europe and Australia. Megan Mullins, a junior majoring in political science and Spanish, will use her scholarship to study in Argentina with the School for International Training. Casey McAuliffe, a junior majoring in theatre and anthropology, will use her scholarship to study in Ecuador with Minnesota Studies in International Development. For more information on the Gilman scholarship, visit www.iie.org/gilman.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, has been appointed to the position of University Scholar. The University Scholar program was established in 1981 to recognize  faculty members who have achieved national recognition in their field,  and who have made significant contributions to the University over a substantial period of time. University Scholars are provided with opportunities that will enable them to focus on their research pursuits for a specified period of time. These opportunities include a reduced teaching load, more frequent eligibility for sabbatical leaves, research stipends, and funds for the support of research and professional activities.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science, took Lissa Terrel ‘06, Tyson Berger ‘06, and Chris Bailey ‘07 to the ASIANetwork Conference in Lisle, Ill., April 21-23 to present their research supported by the ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Research Grant. Gaunder and five Southwestern students received this grant to travel to Tokyo, Japan, to conduct research on “Political Leadership in Japan” last summer. At the conference, Gaunder and Terrel participated on a panel titled “Faculty-Student Collaborative Research: Process and Results” and presented findings from their research on women and politics in Japan. This research was co-funded by Mundy and ASIANetwork Freeman grants. Terrel, Berger and Bailey also co-presented a poster on their summer research on “Political Leadership in Japan” at a session featuring the research of the ASIANetwork Freeman grantees.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science, and Lissa Terrel ‘06, political science and Spanish double major, presented a paper based on their Mundy research titled “How Female Politicians Overcome Party Constraints in the Japanese Diet: The Cases of Doi Takako, Fukushima Mizuho and Moriyama Mayumi” at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., on April 7.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, served as a discussant for a panel titled “Human Rights as Motivation and Justification in Intervention and Peace-Building” at the recent International Studies Association meeting. At the same meeting, Selbin chaired the annual meeting of Rowman & Littlefield’s “New Millennium Books in International Studies” series he co-edits with Professor Deborah Gerner of Kansas. The most recent book in the series is Thomas Weiss and Peter Hoffman’s “Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises.”

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Whither Revolution: Stories of Resistance, Rebellion, and, Yes, Revolution in the Neo-Liberal Age” at the annual meeting of Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, had five articles published in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court. The articles discussed the Supreme Court cases of Boerne v. Flores, Bradwell v. Illinois, Craig v. Boren, and Korematsu v. United States.  Another article analyzed the litigational tactics of Jehovah’s Witnesses to expand civil liberties.

Senior political science and history major Christina Griffin was one of 15 college students selected for a recent trip to Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. Students were given the opportunity to tour Israel and engage in a series of briefings with a broad spectrum of voices from Israeli and Palestinian perspectives. The group met with Israeli government officials and Palestinian representatives. After graduation, Griffin plans to work for an international law firm in Houston and then move to Washington, D.C., to attend law school.

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, had two articles published in the /Oxford Companions to the Supreme Court of the United States/. The articles on Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and Fullilove v. Klutznick are revised versions of articles written by O’Neill for the first edition Oxford Companion.

Teena Gabrielson, assistant professor of political science, had her essay, “Woman-Thought, Social Capital and the Generative State:  Mary Austin and the Integrative Civic Ideal in Progressive Thought,” accepted for publication at the American Journal of Political Science.

Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey governor who was selected by President George W. Bush to chair the 9/11 Commission, will give the 2006 Shilling Lecture at Southwestern University. The lecture will be held March 31 at 2 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center. Kean has been widely quoted in the media recently on the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which resulted from the 9/11 Commission’s work. Kean and other members of the Commission say that although the nation has spent more than $8 billion since 9/11 to prepare for terrorist attacks, taxpayers have no guarantee that these billions have increased our overall level of national preparedness. Of particular concern is the fact that emergency responders in large cities are still not able to communicate reliably in a major crisis, as was evidenced during Hurricane Katrina.

Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, was quoted in an article in the Houston Chronicle about a KKK rally in support of Proposition 2. View the article here. O’Neill also was quoted in an article in the Houston Chronicle about the opinions on gay marriage crossing political lines. View the article here.

Alisa Gaunder, assistant professor of political science; Lissa Terrel, senior Spanish and political science double major; Tyson Berger, senior political science major; and Sarah Morris, junior history and political science double major will speak on Political Leadership in Japan at the noon Faculty Forum Monday, Oct. 31, in the Lynda McCombs Room.

Gaunder and the students participated in the ASIANetwork Freeman Faculty/ Student Collaborative Research Grant last May in Tokyo, Japan, and they will share their research results and experiences. Presenters will discuss the Japanese political system by providing examples of the political leadership of Prime Ministers Nakasone and Koizumi as well as opposition party leaders Doi Takako and Hatoyama Yukio.

“‘Learning to Govern: The Texas Experience” by Tiffany Barnes, Class of 2004, and Tim O’Neill, professor of political science, will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Political Science. A 2004 Mundy Fellowship funded the research for this article.