Professor Kleinerman presented a paper in February 2008, "'In the Name of National Security:' Executive Discretion and Congressional Legislation in the Civil War and World War I," at a conference at Princeton University, "The Limits of Constitutional Democracy"

Professor Andaluna Borcila has been invited to contribute to volume 4 of the series "History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe," edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, which will be published at the end of 2008.

Professor Ross Emmett attended "Revisiting the Chicago School" conference at Notre Dame University, September 2007 and presented "How Should We Think of the Success of the Chicago School of Economics?" and "Sharpening Tools in the Workshop: The Workshop System and the Chicago School's Success."  He attended the conference “The Role of Engaged Universities in Economic Transformation, University Research Corridor Conference,” October 2007 at the University of Michigan.

Ross Emmett will run a conference on "Capitalism, Freedom, and Religion," January 24-27, 2008 in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Professor Ilana Blumberg served as the guest speaker at the Hadassah-Jewish Studies brunch at the University Club in October 2007, speaking about her recently published book, Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books and made appearances at the Jewish Book Fairs in Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit.  She will give a reading in Chicago through the Jewish cultural organization, Nextbook, on January 17, 2008.  The book has been nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature, given annually by the Jewish Book Council. 

Professor Rita Kiki Edozie published “Emerging Studies in (Southern) African Politics: A Review Essay” in the Journal of Asian and African Studies (Volume 42 (3/4): 353-358, 2007); “Centralization in Nigeria’s PDP: Addressing Pluralism in Africa’s Democracies” in Santosh Saha eds. The Politics of Ethnicity and National Identity (Peter Lang Publishers, June 2007); “Democratization in Multi-religious Contexts in Africa: Amina vs the (Dis-United) States of Nigeria” in Kamari Clarke’s Local Institutions, Global Controversies: Islam in Sub Saharan African Contexts, (MacMillan Working Paper Series, Yale University CT, 2007).

Professor Ken Waltzer will participate in a panel of Jewish Studies directors at the Association for Jewish Studies meeting in Toronto, Canada, December 2007.  The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has invited Professor Waltzer to deliver the Monna and Otto Weinmann Lecture in Washington DC, May 15, 2008.  He will speak on his work on The Rescue of Children and Youth at Buchenwald.

Ross Emmett published the essay "Knight's Challenge (to Hayek): Spontaneous Order is Not Enough for Governing a Liberal Society" in Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order co-edited by Professor Louis Hunt, October, 2007.

Professor Louis Hunt co-edited the book, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order, published October 30, 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan.  In addition to co-editing the book, he is the author of one of the papers in the book, "The Origin and Scope of Hegel's Idea of Spontaneous Order.”

Professor Kleinerman gave a talk at Kenyon College in October 2007 titled “The Politics of the Constitution.” 

Rod Phillips published "A Fierce God and a Fierce War," an interview with poet Michael McClure, by Beat Scene Press in Coventry, England.

Professor Gene Burns presented a paper titled, "Remembering that Politics Shapes Religion: Contesting the Religion-State Boundary in the Contemporary U.S.," at a joint session of the American Sociological Association and the Association for the Sociology of Religion in New York, in August 2007

Professor Mark Largent published Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States and Evolution and Creationism: A Documentary and Reference Guide with Christian Young, Greenwood Press, 2007.

Mohammed Ayoob's The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World was published by University of Michigan Press. This book thoroughly describes the myriad manifestations of this rising ideology and analyzes its impact on global relations

Professor Bryan Ritchie will present "Is Economic Development Probable? Labor and Skills Formation in a State-Coordinated, Liberal Market Economy" on December 11th, 2007 for the Asia Pacific Journal of Management at the School of Business, Brisbane University, Australia.

Bryan Ritchie, Madison Professor and co-director of the Michigan Center for Innovation and Economic Prosperity, talks about his role in expediting the commercialization process for intellectual property, and gives his plan for connecting researchers with business and government leaders.

Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon has been awarded MSU's Teacher-Scholar Award.  These awards are made to six members of the faculty from the ranks of instructor, assistant professor and associate professor who early in their careers have earned the respect of students and colleagues for their devotion to and skill in teaching.

Madison Professor Rita Kiki Edozie is the recipient of an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellowship for 2007-2008.  Her fellowship project is titled:  "Politics & Prose: Reading Across the Curriculum and Teaching in the Public and International Affairs Classroom."  The MSU Lilly Teaching Fellows Program is intended to advance MSU’s continuing efforts to support excellence in teaching and learning through a series of activities designed to focus attention on the art and skills of teaching both generally and in the particular disciplines of a diverse group of faculty.

Professor Rita Kiki Edozie has published People Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement Against Military Despotism in Nigeria, 1989-1999

Mark Largent's Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States was published by Rutgers University Press.  The book explores the assumptions and motivations that led state authorities to forcibly sterilize tens of thousands of Americans and shows how these forces are still influential today in debates such as those over sex crimes and welfare reform.

Professor Bryan K. Ritchie was named the associate director for external strategies of the MSU Office of Biobased Technologies October 1, 2007

Dr. Lisa Cook, an authority on economic growth in developing nations, will address “"Patents and Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries" Oct. 24, 2007 at Western Michigan University as the part of the Werner Sichel Economics Lecture-Seminar Series.

Hasan Kosebalaban, visiting assistant professor of International Relations at James Madison College, published "The Rise of Anatolian Cities and the Failure of the Modernization Paradigm" in Fall 2007 issue of Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies (Routledge). The article is an analytical overview of the secular–religious divide in Turkey's politics since the mid-1920s and thus provides a useful context for understanding the political dynamics in Turkey and the larger Muslim world. Kosebalaban argues that the emergence of Anatolian entrepreneurs inspired by modern ideas and Islamist values defies classic theories of modernization, especially those subscribed to by Turkey's secular political elite. This article emerged out of a paper he presented at a conference, "Understanding Globalization in the Turkish Periphery: The Spirit of Konya," held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in April 2006. Recently, his article on the recent Turkish presidential elections and the politics surrounding it appeared in Yale Global, an online magazine published by Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Another article by Kosebalaban is forthcoming in fall 2007 issue of Mediterranean Quarterly (Duke University Press), examining the cultural politics of Turkish-EU relations.

Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon’s essay "Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy"    was selected for inclusion in the Organization of American Historian's upcoming book, The Best American History Essays 2008, to be published later this year by Palgrave Macmillan.  The editorial board of 9 historians read hundreds of articles published in 2006/2007 and pared the list down to 36 finalists from which the 10 best were selected for inclusion. 

Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources, edited by William W. Taylor, Michael G. Schechter and Lois G. Wolfson was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2007.  It contains an introduction, "Globalization and fisheries: a necessarily interdisciplinary inquiry," co-authored by Madison alumnus John Rood (IR/PTCD ’05)) and Michael Schechter and a chapter, "Great Lakes fisheries as a bellwether of global governance," co-authored by Madison alumnus Grant Folland (IR ’04)) and Michael Schechter.  William Taylor is an adjunct member of the Madison faculty, chair of Fisheries and Wildlife and University Distinguished Professor. Amazon Link

Daniel Kramer published "Determinants and efficacy of social capital in lake associations" in Environmental Conservation, 34(3): 1–9, 2007.

Benjamin Kleinerman co-authored "’We Should See Certain Things Yet, Let Us Hope and Believe’: Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee" in the Fall issue of the Review of Politics on Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee.  The co-author is Bernard J. Dobski, Assistant Professor, Assumption College.   

Curtis Stokes, The State of Black Michigan, 1967-2007 (Michigan State University Press, 2007), co-edited with Joe T. Darden and Richard W. Thomas.  The volume contains a "Foreword" by MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, with a copy of the book provided to each Michigan state legislator, Governor Jennifer Granholm, selected Michigan mayors, and top MSU administrators.  Several university units, including the Department of History, Department of Geography, College of Social Science and James Madison College, made the distribution of the book to policymakers possible.   In part the book’s jacket description reads:  "The State of Black Michigan is a landmark volume that investigates how, since 1967, Michigan’s black population has changed, how its interactions with the white community have altered, and, most important, how policymakers can act to further narrow the ‘equality gap.’"

Mark Largent's Evolution and Creationism:  A Documentary and Reference Guide (co-edited with Christian Young of Alverno College) was published by Greenwood Press in July, 2007.

Professor Simei Qing has written From allies to enemies : visions of modernity, identity, and U.S.-China diplomacy, 1945-1960.  Published in 2007 by the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, it is described as a "stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations that offers a new perspective on relations between the United States and China after World War II." Amazon Link.

Mohammed Ayoob published "State Making, State Breaking and State Failure", in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, DC, 2007.

Ilana Blumberg published her memoir, Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books in March 2007, which is now for sale on Amazon, as well as at Barnes and Noble and the University of Nebraska Press website.  In this book, Blumberg traces her own path from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic texts as well as Anglo-American novels and biographies, to a womanhood where the two literatures suddenly represent mutually exclusive possibilities for life. Set in "houses of study," from a Jewish grammar school and high school to a Jerusalem yeshiva for women to a secular American university, her memoir asks, in an intimate and poignant manner:  what happens when the traditional Jewish ideal of learning asserts itself in a body that is female—a body directed by that same tradition toward a life of modesty, early marriage, and motherhood?

In October 2006, Nicholas Mercuro was re-appointed by Governor Granholm to the Michigan Environmental Science Board for a period of 3 years. 

Nicolas Mercuro organized two art exhibitions for the MSU College of Law entitled Building Islam in Detroit: Foundations, Forms, Futures and Displaced Sudan: The Cost of Silence. 

In December of 2006, Professor Mercuro completed work on a 5-volume, 2,000 page encyclopedia titled – Law and Economics (Critical Concepts in Law / Routledge Major Work), for London: Routledge Press (forthcoming September 2007). The permissions to reprint were obtained by the Project Assistant, Ms. Lauren Yuille, a former student of James Madison College. 

Professor Mercuro is organizing a workshop entitled "Various Approaches to Assessing the Evolution and Impact of Alternative Institutional Structures:  A Workshop in Honor of the Career of Professor A. Allan Schmid," March 15 & 16, 2007 at Henry Center for Executive Development, Michigan State University.  This workshop will explore the variety of strands of what now comes under the moniker Institutional Law and Economics, Neo-Institutional Economics, or just Institutionalism.  It will address such questions as: How different are the presented approaches? ... Do these fundamentally different approaches have their own value-added? ... or ... Are we saying the same thing using different language and perspective? Could parts of different approaches be integrated for even more insight? ... or ... Do different problems require different approaches?  Seventeen scholars from the U.S. and Europe have agreed to present papers at the workshop and contribute chapters to a culminating book titled  – Assessing the Evolution and Impact of Alternative Institutional Structures, edited by Sandra Batie and Nicholas Mercuro, to be published in The Economics of Legal Relationships (book series), London: Routledge Press, (forthcoming 2008). 

Michael Schechter published an article entitled "Fisheries" in the Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte (New York: Routledge, 2006). 

Ken Waltzer will present a paper on "The Kovno Boys: Survival at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Mauthaussen," at the 37th Annual Holocaust Scholars Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, March 11-13, 2007.  A train from Dachau to Auschwitz carried 131 Kovno boys marked for death but, on arrival at Birkenau, the children were not gassed. Based on testimonies, interviews, and archival work in the U.S. and Israel, Professor Waltzer follows them inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, and then follows the remnant, about 40 boys, to Buchenwald and Mauthaussen. 

Ken Waltzer will present on his book-in-progress, The Rescue of Children and Youth in Buchenwald, at James Madison College on April 11, 2007.   In this book, Waltzer explores why, when the U.S. Third Army liberated Buchenwald, April 11, 1945, there were 904 children and youth still alive to be liberated?  Among these were Elie Wiesel, a 16-year-old youth from Transylvania, (later Nobel Peace Prize winner) and also Israel Meir Lau, an 8-year-old child from Poland (later Israel Prize winner).   

Professor Mohammed Ayoob will be delivering lectures during October-November 2006 at the London School of Economics; the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and the Center for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia, Perth; laying out the major arguements of his forthcoming book The Many Faces of Political Islam to be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2007.   In addition, he will be advising the latter two institutions regarding their newly established programs dealing with the Muslim world and exploring possibilities of cooperation between these programs and MSU's Muslim Studies Program, especially in regard to the study of political Islam in Southeast Asia.

Gene Burns received the 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movement for his book, The Moral Veto:  Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States [Cambridge University Press, 2005]. 

Rita "Kiki" Edozie will publish "Beauty Troubles: Gender and Difference in Nigeria’s Developing Democracy" in Women of the World: Volume II by Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley, (forthcoming January 2007); "Deliberating Deep Divisions, Conflict, & Prospects for Democracy: Rwanda and Burundi Compared" inSantosh Saha eds. Ethnicity and Socio-political Change in the Contemporary World: Politics of Identity (Macmillan/Palgrave, January 2007); and "Emerging Studies in (Southern) African Politics: A Review Essay" in Journal of African and Asian Studies (forthcoming Fall 2006). 

Ross B. Emmett published Biographical Dictionary of American Economics (2 volumes), edited by Ross B. Emmett (London: Thoemmes/Continuum, 2006).

Norm Graham and Folke Lindahl co-edited the book "Eurasian Political Economy and Public Policy Studies," the first of a collection published by the MSU Press.  The collection is entitled "The Political Economy of Transition in Eurasia Democratization and Economic Liberalization in a Global Economy."

Constance Hunt and Eric Petrie attended the 2006 APSA Conference in Philadephia.  Hunt delivered the paper entitled: "Situating Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter" and Petrie delivered a paper entitled: "Power of Pilgrimage after the Death of God: Melville’s Clarel"

Dan Kramer published the article "A comparison of alternative strategies for cost-effective water quality management in lake" in Environmental Management, 28.3, 411-425 (2006). 

Andrew March’s PhD dissertation was awarded the 2006 Aaron Wildavsky Award for Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics by the APSA (American Political Science Association).

Andrew March published "Liberal Citizenship and the Search for Overlapping Consensus: The Case of Muslim Minorities," Philosophy & Public Affairs, 34.4 (Fall 2006). 

Andrew March will be publishing "Islamic Foundations for a Social Contract in non-Muslim Liberal Democracies," American Political Science Review, forthcoming February or May 2007, and "A Wahhabi Treatise on Jihad and Terrorism: Shaykh ‘Abd al-Aziz al-Jarbu‘’s ‘Al-Ta’sil li-mashru‘iyyat ma hasala li-Amrika min tadmir’," forthcoming in Understanding Wahhabism, Mohammed Ayoob, ed., (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007). 

Andrew March has been commissioned to write an article on "Modern Islamic Political Thought" for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

Nicholas Mercuro and Steven G. Medema published Economics and the Law, Second Edition:  From Posner to Postmodernism and Beyond in August 2006.  For more information on the book, see the website:  here.

Anna Pegler-Gordon is Acting Director of the University's Asian Pacific American Studies program during the 2006-2007 academic year. 

In collaboration with Colleen Tremonte, Linda Racioppi’s article, "At the Interstices:  Post-colonial Literary Studies Meets International Relations," will be published in Pedagogy.

Yael S. Aronoff, "In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion: The Political Conversion of Jimmy Carter," Politial Science Quarterly (Fall 2006): 425-449.

Linda Racioppi and Katherine O’Sullivan See published "Engendering Democratic Transition from Conflict: Women’s Inclusion in Northern Ireland’s Peace Process," in the January 2006 issue of Comparative Politics.

A revised and expanded version of Mohammed Ayoob’s MSU Sesquicentennial lecture on "The Middle East 2025" will be published in the summer 2006 issue of Middle East Policy, the quarterly journal of the Middle East Policy Council, Washington, DC, as the centerpiece of a forum with responses from five leading scholars of the Middle East in the US and Britain.

Rita "Kiki" Edozie will be publishing a number of papers, articles and books between January 1 and July 31, 2006.  Her publications include a journal article,"Third World Democracies: Learning from Each Other" in Exploring Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Third World, Association of Third World Studies Inc.2005; a book chapter "Sudan's Identity Wars in a Global Era" in Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction?. Lexington Books, 2006; and a book review article "Review of Trade, Development, Cooperation: What Future for Africa?" Africa Today, Spring 2006. 

Rita "Kiki" Edozie has been elected as African Studies Center Advisory Council Assistant Professor faculty representative, 2006-2008.

Ross B. Emmett is editing a publication forthcoming in June, The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists. Thoemmes Continuum, 2006. [details].

Ross B. Emmett  will be publishing "De gustibus est disputandum: Frank H. Knight's reply to George Stigler and Gary Becker's 'De gustibus non est disputandum', with an introductory essay," Journal of Economic Methodology 13.1 (March 2006): 97-111. 

Professor Emmett received grant from the Intramural Research Grant Program, Michigan State, January 2006 - May 2007, for work on "Frank Knight and American Social Science," a book that should be completed during the course of the grant.

Nicolas Mercuro co-edited a forthcoming article en-titled "The Meaning and Role of the Market" in Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines (Bilingual Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies),Volume 14, No. 4.

Professor Pegler-Gordon also has an article in the February edition of the American Historical Association Newsmagazine Perspectives entitled "Seeing Images in History." 

Rod Phillips has an article forthcoming to be published on Aldo Leopold’s book.  The article is entitled "A Sandy County Almanac" and will be published in the forthcoming Dictionary of Midwestern Literature.  Professor Phillips will also be publishing his monograph in the spring by Boise State University’s Western Writers Series, "Lew Welch."

Professors Linda Racioppi and Katie See co-authored an article, "Engendering Democratic Transition from Conflict: Women's Inclusion in Northern Ireland's Peace Process," which was published in the January 2006 issue of Comparative Politics.  

Linda Racioppi received a fellowship from the American Council on Sri Lanka to support hers and Katie See’s work on women in protracted ethnic conflicts entitled"Protracted Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Women's Mobilization."

Mike Rubner’s essay on "The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Its Aftermath" will appear in the upcoming issue of Middle East Policy.  He also spoke on "Hamas, Israel, and the Peace Process" at Temple Shalom in Naples, Florida.

Michael Schechter and Matt Zierler published "Multilateralism: Does it Still Matter?" in the fall 2005 Information Memorandum published by The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

Michael Craw’s paper "Overcoming City Limits: Vertical and Horizontal Models of Local Redistributive Policymaking" will be published in the Social Science Quarterly in their June 2006 issue.

Andrew March published  “The Demands of Citizenship: Translating Political Liberalism into the Language of Islam,”   in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs , Vol. 25, No. 3, December 2005, pp. 317-345 . 

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