Faculty Accomplishments
Lisa Garcia Bedolla
Assistant Professor of Political Science, received the UCLA Institute
of American Cultures Postdoctoral fellowship for 2004-2005. This fellowship
will support her research on a project entitled "The Right to Good
Government: Race and Citizenship in California, 1840-1875" at UCLA
and the Huntington Library. She was also elected co-chair of the American
Political Science Association on the status of Latinas y Latinos in the
Profession, 2004-2006.
Victoria Bernal
Associate Professor of Anthropology, had the lead article in the February
2004 issue of the top-ranking journal CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, titled "Eritrea
Goes Global: Reflections on Nationalism in a Transnational Era."
Professor Bernal has also received support from the Rockefeller Foundation
to organize an international symposium at the Bellagio Center, Italy in
August 2004 on "Democratizing Women: NGOs, Empowerment, and Marginalization
in the 21st Century."
Tom Boellstorff
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, recently published articles in American
Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, and the Journal of Asian Studies,
with forthcoming articles from Ethnos and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
His edited volume, Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language,
appeared in November 2003.
Alison Brysk
Associate Professor of Political Science, was elected to the Faculty Senate
Council on Faculty Welfare for the 2004-2007 term.
Russell Dalton
Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for the Study of Democracy,
was Awarded $137,000 from the National Science Foundation to conduct
a Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) survey during the 2004
U.S. elections.
James Danziger
Dean of Undergraduate Education was awarded a 2003 $40,000 IBM Faculty
Award for research on issues concerning E-learning in organizations. He
was also elected to the Faculty Senate, Board on Undergraduate Scholarships,
Honors, and Financial Aid for the 2004-06 term.
Louis DeSipio
Associate Professor of Political Science has been appointed to the Board
of Overseers of the General Social Survey. He is also serving as
the Co-Section Chair for the Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
at the 2004 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science. He was
also Awarded a 2003 $1.7 million grant as part of a multi-investigator
study of immigration and intergenerational mobility in metropolitan Los
Angeles, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. In addition, as the 2003-04
faculty advisor for the Public Affairs Theme House, he received the "Most
Involved Faculty Member" award from the Arroyo Vista Housing Complex.
He also received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate
Research as a faculty member in the School of Social Sciences Association.
Marek Kaminski
Assistant Professor of Political Science was elected to the Faculty Senate,
Sub-committee on Courses, 2004-07. He also received a 2004 grant from
the Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources
on "Transitional Justice".
Claire Kim
Associate Professor of Political Science was recognized as one of UCI's
TOP TEN Professors in 2003-2004 by Anteaters.com, a student-run UCI website.
Cecelia Lynch
Associate Professor of Political Science received the AAUW (American Association
of University Women) post-doctoral Fellowship for 2004-2005. Only 20 of
199 applicants were selected. She was also awarded the 2004 Andrew W.
Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library.
Bill Maurer
Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been conducting research on Islamic
financial alternatives with a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.
In the spring of 2004, he was an invited plenary speaker for the meetings
of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. He was awarded the 2003 Law
and Society Association Article Prize for a co-authored essay on globalization
published in Law and Social Inquiry, the journal of the American Bar Foundation.
David Meyer
Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science, and Graduate Director
of the Sociology Department was recognized as one of UCI's TOP TEN Professors
in 2003-2004 by Anteaters.com, a student-run UCI website.
Kristen Monroe
Professor of Philosophy and Political Science was elected to Who's Who
in Social Science's Higher Education in 2004. She was also appointed to
the International Advisory Board of the Holocaust Museum and Institute
on Altruism in Detroit Michigan in 2004 as well as 2003-04 Chair of the
American Political Science Association's Task Force on Mentoring and served
on the APSA's Committee on Elections, the Committee on the Annual Meeting,
the Robert Lane Best Book Award Committee, and the David Easton Book Prize
Committee. She was also chosen to chair the 2003-04 International Society
of Political Psychology's Committee on the 2004 Annual Meeting. In addition,
her research on altruism and genocide was featured in an article in Science
and Technology News and on C-Span.
Mark Petracca
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science received
the 2004 Judi Q. Luu Order of the Laurel award from the Order of Omega.
He also won unanimous re-election as chair of the Irvine Planning Commission
in 2004.
Kamal Sadiq
Professor of Political Psychology, won the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and
Migration Section of International Studies Association's 2003 Graduate
Student Paper Competition. He was also elected Secretary of the Ethnicity,
Nationalism and Migration (ENMISA) section in the International Studies
Association for 2004-2005, and won a 2004-05 Single Investigator Grant
(CORCLR) to support his research on a project entitled, "Citizenship
from Below: The Challenge of Illegal Immigrants to National Sovereignty
in Malaysia and India."
William Schonfeld
Dean of Social Sciences, was Inducted into the 2004 UCI's Golden Key International
Society. He was also recognized as one of UCI's TOP TEN Professors in
2003-2004 by Anteaters.com, a student-run UCI website.
Etel Solingen
Professor of Political Science, is the recipient of an award by the Japan
Foundation to support her research on nuclear nonproliferation. She was
recently elected Vice-president of the International Studies Association
(2003-2004), the most respected and widely known scholarly association
in this field. Within the last few months she lectured at a conference
on Visions of International Governance organized by Beijing’s Foreign
Affairs University (associated with China’s Foreign Ministry),
at a UCLA-Harvard University conference on Globalization, Self-determination,
and Terrorism, and at a Harvard University-Nanyang University (Singapore)
conference on Regional Institutions. She was also awarded the 2003-04
Abe Fellowship by the Japan Foundation/Social Science Research Council,
a Pacific Rim research grant for research on nuclear developments in Northeast
Asia, 2004-2005 as well as received a grant from the Latin American Studies
program for research on Mercosur, 2004-2005.
Dorothy Solinger
Professor of Political Science, was elected to the Faculty Senate, Sub-committee
on International Education, 2004-07.
Katherine Tate
Chair, Political Science Department, was inducted into the 2004 UCI's
Golden Key International Society. She was also awarded "Outstanding
Academic Title for 2003" by Choice magazine which publishes review
scholarly publications for the library market, for her book entitled Black
Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the
U.S. Congress (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003.)
Department of Political
Science
A recently released study by the London School of Economics Professors
ranked UC Irvine's Department of Political Science 7th out of 400 political
science departments in the world. The global rankings study of political
science and international studies programs by Dr. Simon Hix is to be published
by Policy Studies Review.