New Hires and Appointments
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We are delighted to welcome Talbot Andrews, American politics, and Sarah Thompson, Comparative politics, who will join us as assistant professors in fall 2024.
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Jill Frank was selected President White Professor of History and Political Science in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.
- Jamila Michener was selected Inaugural Director, Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, Cornell University.
Articles and Book Chapters
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Oumar Ba, et al, “The Geopolitics of Race, Empire, and Expertise at the ICC.”
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Oumar Ba, “Constructing an International Legal Order under The Shadow of Colonial Domination.”
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David Bateman, et al, “Gilded Age Doughfaces: Northern Democrats and Black Civil Rights.”
- David Bateman, et al, “Race and Historical Political Economy.”
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Gustavo Flores-Macías, "Violent Crime and the Expansion of Executive Power in Latin America.”
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Patchen Markell, “‘Thinking With and Against’ as Feminist Political Theory,” in a festschrift for Seyla Benhabib: Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory, edited by Stefan Eich, et al. with Columbia University Press.
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Jamila Michener, “Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity.”
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Jamila Michener, “Racism, Power, and Health Equity: The Case of Tenant Organizing.”
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Bryn Rosenfeld, “Survey Research in Russia: In the Shadow of War.”
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Jessica Chen Weiss, "Commercial Casualties: Political Boycotts and International Disputes."
Books
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When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, by David Bateman, co-edited book with Cambridge University Press.
- Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends, by Matt Evangelista with Routledge
Awards, Grants, Fellowships, Projects
- Begum Adalet, Affinito-Stewart Grant, President’s Council of Cornell Women.
- Oumar Ba, Cornell Center for Social Sciences Grant.
- Ali Cirone, Democratic Innovations Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Yale University.
- Sabrina Karim, Cornell University -- University of Edinburgh Global Strategic Collaboration Awards, Einaudi Center; Global Affairs Canada to support her Gender and Security Sector Lab
- Alexander Livingston, Genealogy in the Humanities Working Group Grant, Central New York Humanities Corridor.
- Patchen Markell launched a new international book series: Reading Arendt Today, edited by himself, along with Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin) and Thomas Wild (Bard College), will feature monographs and anthologies of essays that address Hannah Arendt’s thought and writing from a wide range of philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and philological approaches, paying special attention to scholarship that draws on the new Critical Edition of Arendt’s works (of which he is a general editor).
- Jamila Michener, Heinz I. Eulau Best Article Award, American Political Science Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes for Health (NIH); Community-Engaged Practice & Innovation Award, David M. Einhorn Center.
- Isabel Perera, Fellowship at the European University Institute; launched collaborative project on artificial intelligence and employment through the Cornell Global Strategic collaborations program.
- Ken Roberts and Rachel Beatty Riedl, 15-country U.S.A.I.D.-sponsored project on "Opening Democratic Spaces."
- Bryn Rosenfeld, Accelerated Research Grant, Cornell Center for Social Sciences; the Abraham and Henrietta Brettschneider Oxford Exchange Grant, Cornell Institute for European; and Faculty Fellow, Cornell Center for Social Sciences.
- Jessica Chen Weiss, New Frontiers Grant; Ford Foundation grant to support Cornell’s US China policy initiative.
Academic and Public Engagement
- Gustavo Flores-Macías, “Argentina’s Basket Case Economy Got Javier Milei Elected."
- Gustavo Flores-Macías, "Should the US Send Troops to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels? It’s Not a Good Idea."
- Patchen Markell and Jason Frank were featured on a keynote panel at an international graduate conference on “The Aesthetics of Democratic Life-Forms” at the University of Frankfurt.
- Jamila Michener provided written/oral testimony to the Senate Standing Committee on Cities 2. New York State Senate on the “Causes and Effects of Poverty in New York’s Medium-and-Small-Sized Cities.”
- Jessica Chen Weiss presented her work to six university audiences, over a dozen public venues, and shared her analysis with top tier media, including the Ezra Klein Show and the Problem with Jon Stewart.
Teaching
- Ali Cirone, Sabrina Karim and Chris Way, with Postdoc Emily Dunlop, Active Learning Initiative Grant, Cornell University,
- Jason Frank and Alex Livingston renewed Isaac Kramnick’s beloved and famous American Political Thought lecture class. 2023 is the first year it was taught since Isaac’s retirement.
- Ken Roberts developed a new Engaged Learning course on the "Politics of Sustainable Development in Latin America" in collaboration with Cornell's Einhorn Center for Community Engagement and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program. The course took Cornell students to the Amazon region of Ecuador in January 2023 and 2024 to work on reforestation and agroforestry initiatives in indigenous communities.
Student Successes:
- Grace Beals, QuIRI, American Studies, and the Morse Department of Special Collections.
- Aura Gonzalez, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship); Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.
- Samuel Liu, Cornell Center for Social Sciences, QuIRI Small Research Grant; Youth Scholar Grant Award, 21st Century Foundation Charles Koch Foundation U.S. Foreign Policy Dissertation Grant.
