James Madison Faculty Awards

Linda Racioppi and Katie See co-edited "Gender Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia," published by MSU Press. Reflecting on two decades of experience, "Gender Politics in Post-Communist Eurasia" offers new and important insights into contemporary global gender politics by leading scholars from Central Asia, Europe, and the United States - into the contemporary dynamics of gender politics in a critical area of the world.

Anna Pegler-Gordon was selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to receive an OAH-JAAS Short Term Residency at Nagoya City University in U.S. Ethnic and Immigration History. The OAH and the Japanese Association of American Studies, with the generous support of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, select two U.S. historians to spend two weeks at Japanese universities giving lectures, seminars, advising students and researchers interested in the American past, and joining in the collegiality of the host institution. It is part of an exchange program that also brings Japanese graduate students to the OAH annual meeting. As part of this residency, she will attend the Japanese Association for American Studies conference in Tokyo, then travel to Nagoya and Kyoto to give lectures, seminars and presentations to Japanese faculty and graduate students researching U.S. immigration and ethnicity.

Ilana Blumberg gave a paper in June at the Dickens International Conference at Hebrew University in Jerusalem: "Sacrifice and Suicide in A Tale of Two Cities."  She has an article coming out in Victorian Literature and Culture called "'Love Yourself as Your Neighbor': The Limits of Altruism and the Ethics of Personal Benefit in Adam Bede."

Ilana Blumberg gave a paper in June 2009 at the Dickens International Conference at Hebrew University in Jerusalem: "Sacrifice and Suicide in A Tale of Two Cities."  She has an article coming out in Victorian Literature and Culture called "'Love Yourself as Your Neighbor': The Limits of Altruism and the Ethics of Personal Benefit in Adam Bede."

Richard Zinman published "Thinking about the Founding" in Interpretation:  A Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 36, issue 2 (Winter 2009), pp. 103-144.  This article is a review of two books by Alan Gibson, Interpreting the Founding and Understanding the Founding.  Professor Gibson's reply will be published in the following issue. 

  Richard Zinman published (with Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, and Jerry Weinberger) The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).  This is a collection of essays based on papers delivered in a lecture series and at a conference organized by the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy in MSU's Department of Political Science.  It is the eighth volume in the series published by the Symposium.

Connie Hunt published "The Persistence of Theocracy: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter" in Perspectives on Political Science, winter 2009.  She delivered a paper, "Eros and Techne in Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go,"at the 2009 Midwest Political Science Association convention in April 2009.

Professor Borcila published "Accessing the Trauma of Communism: Romanian Women on US television news?" in a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies focused on Media, Globalization and Post- Socialist Identities. (vol. 12.1, May 2009, 191-204). 

Professor Borcila was an invited contributor to Revolutia Romana Televizata: Contributii La Istoria Culturala a Mediilor (The Televised Romanian Revolution: Contributions to the Cultural History of Media).  The Romanian version of the book, which includes Andaluna Borcila's piece, "Debutul Televizual al Postcomunismului" (The Televizual Debut of Postcommunism) was just published (May 2009, Editura Idea, Cluj). The English version of the book is forthcoming.

Professor Eric Petrie published a chapter entitled "Aristotle and Liberalism" in a book entitled The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey C. Mansfield, by Rowman and Littlefield Press, February 2009.

Yael Aronoff published an article entitled "From Hawks to Peacemakers: A Comparison of Two Israeli Prime Ministers," forthcoming in Israel Studies Forum 24:1, summer 2009.  She reviewed the book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges, forthcoming in Peace and Change.  She presented a paper entitled, "Predicting Peace: The Domestic Contingencies for Reaching an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement," by invitation to the "Democracy, Religion, and Conflict: the Dilemmas of Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking" Conference and panels to a broader audience as well as workshops to prepare papers for edited book, sponsored by the Project on Democracy in the Middle East, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School at Syracuse University, March 26-27, 2009.

Ken Waltzer, Madison Professor and director of MSU's Jewish Studies program, was a key member of a team of that disproved a Holocaust memoir set for publication in February.  Waltzer began raising questions to the agent and publisher in November, suggesting that the story was fabricated. [ CNN Video Clip MSU News Article Lansing State Journal Article ]

Professor Susan Stein-Roggenbuck is among the first group of fellows in a new MSU initiative, the Walter and Pauline Adams Academy for Instructional Excellence and Innovation, created to provide a cross-disciplinary cohort of instructors opportunities to further their development as excellent teachers whose instructional decisions are rooted in the robust research literature on effective teaching and learning.

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