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Sanjeev Khagram was selected as a 2009 Young Global Leader of the
World Economic Forum. More recently, he was the lead author of the
UN Secretary General’s report on the impact of the global economic
crisis on the poor entitled “Voices of the Vulnerable.”
Elizabeth Kier, with colleague Ronald Krebs of the University of
Minnesota, co-edited In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the
Fate of Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press).
Victoria Lawson received the 2010 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished
Graduate Mentor Award. This award recognizes a faculty member who
has made outstanding contributions to the education and guidance of
graduate students.
José Antonio (Tony) Lucero is starting a new research project
called “Extracting Culture: Filmmaking, Mineral Wealth, and Social
Movements in the Amazon and Andes,” with support from the Royalty
Research Fund. He has also been named the new chair of the Latin
American and Caribbean Studies Program. The UW project “Bordering
Violence: Boundaries, Indigeneity and Gender in the Americas,”
developed by Tony Lucero Juan Guerra, and Matt Barreto, has been
awarded a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Grant.
Jamie Mayerfeld’s article, “Ruthlessness, Impunity, and the Effacement
of International Human Rights Law,” (2010) was published in the Santa
Clara Journal of International Law. He has two forthcoming articles for
2011: “The High Price of American Exceptionalism: Comparing Torture
by the United States and Europe after 9/11,” forthcoming in Michael
Goodhart and Anja Mihr, eds., Human Rights in the 21st Century:
Continuity and Change since 9/11, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011; and “A
Madisonian Argument for Strengthening International Human Rights
Institutions: Lessons from Europe,” forthcoming in Luis Cabrera, ed.,
Global Governance, Global Government: Institutional Visions for an
Evolving World System, SUNY Press, 2011.
Joel Migdal spent the 2009-2010 academic year on leave at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. At the UW, he has been
appointed Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and
Middle East Studies.
Charles Mock was on sabbatical leave from UW, working at WHO
Headquarters in Geneva, in the Department of Violence and Injury
Prevention and Disability, where he was charged with developing
WHO’s activities on Emergency Trauma Care and on Burn Prevention
and Treatment. He has returned to his position as Professor of Surgery
(with joint appointment as Professor of Epidemiology and Adjunct
Professor of Global Health) at the University of Washington.
Karine Nahon’s paper (co-written with Scholl Jochen), “Siblings of a
Different Kind: E-Government and E-Commerce,” received the best
paper award for the most interdisciplinary and/or innovative research
contribution at the IFIP e-Government
Conference in August 2010. She also submitted
a paper with Shawn Walker, Jeff Hemsley, and
Muzammil Hussain entitled “Fifteen Minutes
of Fame: The Place of Blogs in the Lifecycle of
Viral Information,” to Policy & Internet.
Hwasook Nam published her first book,
Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s
Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee
at the University of Washington Press. It has
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received the 2011 James B. Palais Award for the best book on Korea,
given by the Association for Asian Studies.
Christian Lee Novetzke has been elected the Vice President of the
American Institute of Indian Studies and has received the “Most
Inspirational Professor “award from the Greek Community of Sororities
and Fraternities. He also received two course development grants from
CGS to develop the courses “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting,” and
“The Meaning of Life.”
Robert Pekkanen’s book, The Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP: Political
Party Organizations as Historical Institutions was published by Cornell
University Press in 2010, and co-authored with Ellis S. Krauss.
Saadia Pekkanen has published a co-authored book entitled In Defense
of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy, Stanford
University Press, 2010, and is currently directing a two-year project
funded by the Center for Global Partnership entitled “Institutionalizing
Asia: Theory, Practice, and Power in Time,” with investigators
from China, Japan, Australia, Europe, and the US. In a nationwide
competition in the US, she was selected to the First Class of National
Asia Research Associates and Fellows for the National Asia Research
Program (NARP), launched by the National Bureau of Asian Research
and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
Devon Peña is currently involved in three research projects: (1) a study
of the ethno-botany of urban agricultural spaces in the Los Angeles
basin; (2) a study of the political ecology of Latina/o urbanism; and (3)
study of acequia farms and soil and range restoration practices. His
most recent community-based service and advocacy work includes
the establishment of a new non-profit educational and research
foundation, The Acequia Institute, located at his family’s historic 200
acre acequia farm in southern Colorado.
Noam Pianko is excited to announce the
publication of his book, Zionism and the
Roads not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn
(Indiana University Press.) The book uncovers
the thought of three key interwar Jewish
intellectuals who defined Zionism’s central
mission as challenging the model of a sovereign
nation-state: historian Simon Rawidowicz,
religious thinker Mordecai Kaplan, and political
theorist Hans Kohn. Although their models
differed, each of these three thinkers conceived
of a more practical and ethical paradigm
of national cohesion that was not tied to a sovereign state. It was
particularly rewarding to integrate material from the book into his new
SIS 498 seminar, Zionism, Nationalism, and Sovereignty.
Kazimierz Poznanski published in Wienna
Institute of World Economy “Research Reports”
(July 2010) an article titled “Markets and
Morality” comparing the treatment of morals
in the Liberal, Marxist and Austrian theories of
markets.
Scott Radnitz’s book Weapons of the Wealthy:
Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in
Central Asia (Cornell University Press) was
released in 2010. In June 2010, he presented
his paper “Historical Narratives and Post