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William B. Russel, Dean of The Graduate School, Princeton University, has announced that Joshua Vandiver has been chosen to receive an APGA Teaching Award for 2012. The award ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 2. The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni recognizes five outstanding Assistants in Instruction each year with monetary awards to acknowledge their excellent instruction of undergraduates.
Department graduate student In Song Kim has won a competitve honorific fellowship from the Princeton University Graduate School. Harold W. Dodds Fellowships, established in 1957 to honor the University's 15th president, are recognition of outstanding performance and professional promise and represent high commendation according to Graduate School Dean William B. Russel.
Professor Jan-Werner Mueller writes in his commentary in The Guardian:
"It has become conventional wisdom: populist parties are on the rise across Europe, from left (Jean-Luc Mélenchon) to right (Marine Le Pen), and in widely different national and local contexts – from Bradford to Budapest. But while the "P-word" is ubiquitous in political analysis, most observers would be hard pressed to define where exactly legitimate democratic politics stops and perni
"It has become conventional wisdom: populist parties are on the rise across Europe, from left (Jean-Luc Mélenchon) to right (Marine Le Pen), and in widely different national and local contexts – from Bradford to Budapest. But while the "P-word" is ubiquitous in political analysis, most observers would be hard pressed to define where exactly legitimate democratic politics stops and perni
Professor Carles Boix discusses Spain's economic woes in a new Opinion piece featured in the Financial Times. Follow this link for the full article.
Professor Keith Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics and Politics Director of Graduate Studies, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the 22nd member of the Politics Department to be honored in this way. Others include:
Politics Regular Faculty
Christopher H. Achen - 1995
Helen V. Milner - 2000
R. Douglas Arnold - 2002
Anne-Marie Slaughter - 2002 (elected in Law)
Charles R. Beitz - 2008
Politics Regular Faculty
Christopher H. Achen - 1995
Helen V. Milner - 2000
R. Douglas Arnold - 2002
Anne-Marie Slaughter - 2002 (elected in Law)
Charles R. Beitz - 2008
Professor Alex V. Hirsch has been named as a 2012-2013 member of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science.
Founded in 1973, the School of Social Science takes as its mission the analysis of societies and social change, and is devoted to a multi-disciplinary, comparative and international approach to social research. Each year, the School of Social Science invites about 20 visiting scholars with various perspectives to examine historical and contemporary problems, providin
Founded in 1973, the School of Social Science takes as its mission the analysis of societies and social change, and is devoted to a multi-disciplinary, comparative and international approach to social research. Each year, the School of Social Science invites about 20 visiting scholars with various perspectives to examine historical and contemporary problems, providin
Monday, April 16, 2012
Keeping Faith: A Panel Discussion with Princeton Faculty
Paul W. Cuff, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Eric S. Gregory, Professor of Religion; Amaney A. Jamal, Associate Professor of Politics; Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society; Martha Himmelfarb, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion; Shivaji L. Sondhi, Profes
Keeping Faith: A Panel Discussion with Princeton Faculty
Paul W. Cuff, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering; Eric S. Gregory, Professor of Religion; Amaney A. Jamal, Associate Professor of Politics; Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society; Martha Himmelfarb, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion; Shivaji L. Sondhi, Profes
Professor Melissa Lane has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for twelve months from July 2012. The title of the grant is: The rule of knowledge: Platonic psychology and politics. For more information please follow this link.
Professor Robert P. George has been appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The commission is an independent, bipartisan group that monitors freedom of religion abroad and provides policy recommendations; members are appointed by the president and leaders of both political parties in the Senate and House of Representatives. George was appointed Friday, March 23, by House Speaker John Boehner to serve a two-year term. He is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudenc