GRADFACts MAY
2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS
News and Events…………………………….4
Events……….……….…………………… …...4
Student News…………………………………7
Faculty News .… .… .… .… .… .… .… .… 9
Announcements & Deadlines…...12
Academic Services...…………………..19
External Funding and
Career Services…………………………..23
Fellowships and Deadlines……………..26
News at the Career Services Office….31
Websites……………………………………33
Directory……………………………………..36
NEWS AND EVENTS
NSSR Events (From the NSSR and New School Website)
SOCIOLOGY IMAGINATION SERIES - DIANE VAUGHAN
Thursday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Wolff Conference Room, Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
Guest speaker: Diane Vaughan “How Theory Travels: Analogy, Models, and the Diffusion of Ideas”
Refreshments will be served after the lecture.
The New School presents a student symposium in conjunction with the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) conference, “When Will African Economies Develop?”
Analyzing The Bottom Billion
May 1st, 2008
6:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.
Room A509
66 W 12th. Street
The New School
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, is one of the most important books on development and global poverty written in the past few years. Written by Paul Collier, Oxford Professor and former Director of Development Research at The World Bank, it targets a broad audience in addressing the causes of and solutions for poverty and marginality in the world’s least developed countries, especially in Africa. As prelude to and preparation for the May 2nd conference “When Will African Economies Develop?”, we invite you to an open discussion to take place the evening preceding the conference. It will be introduced by a panel of students from different departments and divisions at The New School.
PANELISTS
Bobo Diallo (NSSR Economics)
Jessica Faith (GPIA)
Juan Pablo Ossa (NSSR Politics)
Joanna Rice (NSSR Politics)
Panel Chair: Pam Hershey (GPIA and Project Africa)
For more information contact Nancy Barthelemy at
The New School presents:
When Will African Economies Develop?
Conference
Friday, May 2, 2008
Location: Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street
9:00: Registration
9:15: Introduction: Will Milberg (New School-Economics)
9:30-10:45: Keynote Address
Chair: Ron Kassimir (New School)
Keynote speaker: Thandika Mkandawire (UNRISD-Geneva): “From Maladjusted States to Developmental States”
10:45-12:30: Panel I: Economic Challenges
Chair: Elzbieta Matynia (New School-Sociology)
Richard Kozul-Wright (UN DESA): “60 Years Later: Making the Big Push Work in Africa”
James Heintz (University of Massachusetts-Amherst): "Beyond the Standard Assumptions: Employment, Economic Policy, and 'Pro-Poor' Growth in Kenya"
Carol Lancaster (Georgetown): "Easterly/Sachs, China/US: Alternative Approaches to Development Aid in Africa"
Discussants: Hylton White (New School-Anthropology), Alec Gershberg (New School-Milano), Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (New School-GPIA)
12:30-1:15: Lunch (served in Wollman Hall)
1:15- 3:00: Panel II: Political Challenges
Chair: Sanjay Ruparelia (New School-Politics)
Nicolas Van de Walle (Cornell): “Democracy and Corruption in Africa: The Path from Neopatrimonialism”
Leonard Wantchekon (NYU): "Expert information, public deliberation and electoral support for good governance: Experimental evidence from Benin”
Kwesi Botchwey (Tufts): "Beyond Aid and Aid Dependence: New challenges and Opportunities in African Development Policy and Practice”
Discussants: David Plotke (New School-Political Science), Thomas Bierschenk (New School and University of Frankfurt)
3:00: Final Session followed by reception (Walk to 65 Fifth Ave. cafeteria)
3:15-4:15: Roundtable Discussion: Democracy and Economic Development in Africa
Chair: Anwar Shaikh (New School-Economics)
Panelists: Thandike Mkandawire (UNRISD), Berhanu Nega (Bucknell), Mwangi wa Githinji (Umass-Amherst)
4:15-5:00: Reception
Student News
Updates on Recent Political Science Graduates and Current Students
Nida Alahmad published "The Politics of Oil and State Survival in Iraq (1991-2003)" in Constellations, Volume 14, Number 4 (2007).
Jessica Blatt been reappointed for a second year as Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Sarah Lawrence College.
Andrea Carla` published "Living Apart in the Same Room: Analysis of the Management of Linguistic Diversity in Bolzano" in Ethnopolitics Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2007): 285-313.
Cristina Dragomir’s research project, "The Role of the U.S. Military in Political Identity Development of Minorities: The Making of Immigrant Soldiers," has been selected as the winner of the 2007 Ted Robinson Memorial Award by the Southwestern Political Science Association. The award recognizes the best research proposal by a graduate student in the field of minority politics.
Jan Fahlbusch has one published and one forthcoming work: "Im Zentrum des Massenmordes. Ernst Zierke im Vernichtungslager Belzec," in Andreas Mix ed., KZ-Verbrechen. Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager, Berlin 2007; and with Moritz Brunn, Frank Ettrich Thees Spreckelsen, Alexander Thumfart ed., Transformation und Europäisierung. Eigenarten und (Inter-)Dependenzen von postsozialistischem Wandel und Europäischer Integration, Münster, forthcoming summer 2008.
Claudia Heiss published "You win some, you lose some: constitutional reforms in Chile's transition to democracy" with Patricio Navia in Latin American Politics & Society, Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2007, pp. 163-190.
Alexander Mirescu is a Visiting Fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin. His paper, "National Churches, Religious Policy and Free Space," will appear in the International Journal for Public Administration's Symposium on Faith and Politics in 2008.
Michael Smith, ABD, has recently published: “Making Direct Democracy Work: Czech Local Referendums in Regional Comparison,” in Pacal Delwit, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Herwig Reynaert, Kristof Steyvers (eds.), Towards DIY-Politics? Participatory and Direct Democracy at the Local Level in Europe, Brugge: Vanden Broele.
Barbara Syrrakos’s chapter titled "Participation and the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy Reform" will be published in the peer-reviewed book The Perfect Storm: The Political Economy of the Fischler Reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy, ed. Johan F. Swinnen, Catholic University of Leuven and the Center for European Policy Studies, 2008.
Jackie Vimo has been awarded the Alumnae Association of Barnard College (AABC) Fellowship for Graduate Study, 2007-2008.
Faculty News
ARISTIDE R. ZOLBERG RECEIVES 2008 ENMISA DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD
On March 26, Aristide R. Zolberg received the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ENMISA) at the association’s annual convention in San Francisco. New School alumnus Patrick Hossay, an associate professor of political science at Richard Stockton College and a former student of Professor Zolberg, was a guest speaker at the awards ceremony.
Aristide R. Zolberg is the University in Exile Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the New School for Social Research. He has published extensively on comparative politics and historical sociology in both English and French. He initially specialized in African studies and is best known for One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast (1964; rev. ed. 1969), Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa (1966; reprinted 1985), and Ghana and the Ivory Coast: Patterns of Modernization (1971), co-edited with Philip Foster. Professor Zolberg has also written extensively on state and nation formation in Europe and the United States. His latest book, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America, was published in 2006.
Professor Zolberg has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also taught for many years at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations and served as chair of the Department of Political Science. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and held visiting appointments at a number of schools, including the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University; the Department of Political Science of the University of Paris I; the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the College de France, also in Paris; and the Post-Graduate Institute of Sociology in Amsterdam. Professor Zolberg has received grants from the Social Science Research Council; the United States Institute of Peace; the Ford, Rockefeller, and MacArthur foundations; the Pew Charity Trust; and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DEADLINES
SPRING 2008 FEE BOARD Call for Applications!
It's Fee Board time! For all of you who participated in academic conferences in the spring semester of 2008, the Fee Board offers limited reimbursement for the costs you incurred (some registration fees and some travel & accommodation expenses). The deadline for submission this semester will be Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 5pm.
If you wish to be reimbursed, please read and follow these directions carefully.
The Fee Board is allocated a limited amount of funds from the Graduate Faculty Student Senate each year. We will consider reimbursing conference registration fees, as well as legitimate travel and accommodation expenses. In order to be considered for reimbursement, we will need you to submit the following documents:
1. A completed Fee Board Application briefly summarizing the expenses you are seeking reimbursement for.
2. Original ITEMIZED receipts, boarding passes, travel ticket stubs, etc. Credit card statements are not sufficient since they do not include an itemized account of what is to be reimbursed. Hotel bills and conference registration receipts must include the nature of each charge. While priority will be given to itemized receipts, if one cannot be provided, please make your best effort to provide a substitute (a print-out of the conference home page including fees, etc.).
3. A copy of the conference program indicating when and where you presented a paper, and that you represented the New School while doing so.
When you have assembled these documents, submit them to the Office of Academic Affairs (Monday - Friday, 10-6pm). The office is located at 79 5th Avenue (6 East 16th Street entrance) room 1007D. The deadline for submissions is THURSDAY, MAY 15th, 2008 by 5pm. *Please note that we will be closed on Friday, May 16th for commencement.
**NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED**
**IF YOU ARE MAILING YOUR APPLICATION, IT MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 15TH*
The Fee Board will then convene to assess each submission. Subsequent to this meeting, each request for reimbursement will be approved by Academic Affairs and forwarded to the New School University Accounting department for processing. Successful applicants should receive checks by mail by the beginning of June-though we, as the Fee Board, cannot guarantee this. No further notification will be sent out to students who receive or do not receive reimbursement. Copies of all reimbursements and unused original receipts will be held in the Office of Academic Affairs.
For questions about the Fee Board, please contact your department Fee Board representative:
Fee Board Chair Jeffrey Purchla
Anthropology Kadija Ferryman
Economics Michelle Holder
Historical Studies Joseph Varga
Liberal Studies John Zabala
Philosophy Ian Morlan
Political Science Natascha
Psychology Elizabeth Loran
Sociology Chris Eberhardt
REMINDER REGARDING INCOMPLETE POLICY:
Please familiarize yourselves with the incompletes policy printed below. It’s strictly upheld and we do want to ensure that you are aware of it as the academic year continues.
NSSR Incompletes Policy (also on p. 91 of NSSR 2007-08 Course Catalog)
A grade of I is a temporary grade and indicates that assigned work has not been completed. The time allowed for the removal of an incomplete is one year after the end of the semester in which the course was offered. If you require more time to complete your work beyond one year, you may request a 6 month extension on the incomplete, which requires the signature of the instructor and department chair. Following that, you may require an additional and final 6 month extension. Petitions for extensions of incomplete grades are available in the Office of Academic Affairs. After the first year has elapsed, if no petition is made or if a petition is unsuccessful, the grade is changed to a permanent incomplete N. It remains an N on the student’s permanent record unless a grade is submitted by the instructor to Academic Affairs within 2 years of the semester in which the class was offered. Grade changes from N to a grade are approved at the discretion of the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs. In no case will an incomplete be extended for more than two years. Grades of GM will be converted to N if a grade is not entered within the year. Students who attend a class to complete an incomplete grade will be expected to register and pay for the class as an audit. In these cases, students must obtain the instructor’s approval to attend a class.
NSSR Dean’s Office
NSSR GRADUATION
Friday, May 16, 2008, 10:00-11:00am
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, ground floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Please retain this letter for reference, and if you have any questions, email .
Graduate Information
On the day of graduation, we ask that you please arrive between 8:45-9:00am since late arrivals may not be able to march in the ceremony. Enter at 66 West 12th Street and cross the courtyard to report to Wollman Hall, 5th fl, for refreshments, marching instructions, and line up. Please leave your belongings in Wollman Hall and a guard will secure the room from 9:30am-12:30pm. However, the University is not responsible for lost or stolen items. Belongings left behind in Wollman past 12:30pm will not be secured. The ceremony will take place from 10-11am and a reception will follow from 11am-12pm in the courtyard (or Wollman Hall, in case of rain). Participants in the NSSR ceremony do not need robes, caps or hoods.
Special Requests
Students in wheelchairs or who have limited mobility must contact both Tom McDonald at the Student Disability Office, 212-229-5900 x3656 and Sonia Salas at the NSSR Dean’s Office, 212-229-5700 ext. 3039 at least three weeks before the ceremony to discuss the layout of the commencement space. Students with other types of disabilities, including vision and hearing based impairments, should contact Tom McDonald to discuss any special needs.
NSSR Tickets
Pick up NSSR tickets with your student ID from Monday, April 21 through Wednesday, May 14 (9am-6pm) at the NSSR Dean’s Office (6 E 16th street, 10th floor). If you cannot pick up your tickets, your representative may do so with their photo ID and your signed letter authorizing them to do so. Note: Tickets not picked up by Wednesday, May 14 will be forfeited. Attendance to the NSSR graduation ceremony has increased over the past few years, and as a result our ticket policy has changed. Graduates may still receive up to a maximum of 3 tickets for their guests to attend the NSSR ceremony, however, guests must be seated in the auditorium by 9:45am to guarantee their seat. There is no longer a waiting list for extra tickets. Anyone without a ticket may queue in the lobby beginning at 9:00am. At 9:45am, all open seats in the auditorium will be released to people without tickets in the order of the queue. A simulcast room has also been secured on the 5th floor to accommodate overflow guests.
Guest Information
On the day of graduation, guests should enter Tishman Auditorium using the main entrance at 66 West 12th Street. Doors will open at 9:00am. Guests must have their tickets, and be seated in the auditorium by 9:45am in order to guarantee their seat. Anyone without a ticket may queue in the lobby beginning at 9:00am. At 9:45am, all open seats in the auditorium will be released to people without tickets in the order of the queue. A simulcast room has also been secured on the 5th floor to accommodate overflow guests. If your guest has any special needs, please contact Sonia Salas (NSSR Dean’s Office, 212-229-5700 ext. 3039) at least three weeks before the ceremony. There is wheelchair access to the ceremony, but guests must bring their own wheelchairs.