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FACULTY NEWS

Congratulations to the following faculty for their recent publications:
  • Michael Findley - Weak-actor social structure in asymmetric wars, International Studes Quarterly, September 2007
  • Chris Karpowitz - The decline of the short-term Supreme Court justice, Perspectives on Politics, September 2007
  • Wade Jacoby - External influences on postcommunist transformations, World Politics, July 2006 (Issued May 2007)
  • Ken Stiles - Norm dissemination and policy idiosyncrasy in the UK, Political Science Quarterly, Fall 2007
  • Matt Holland - Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America—Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln, Georgetown University Press
  • Ralph Hancock - “What Was Political Philosophy: Or, the Straussian Philosopher and His Other,” Political Science Reviewer XXXVI (2007)

Women Studies Colloquia Presents: The WomanStats Database

Valerie Hudson, Professor of Political Science
  • Date: Thursday October 11th

 Valerie M. Hudson is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University. Hudson’s areas of research include national security affairs, foreign policy analysis, and gender in international relations. She has authored numerous publications, including Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population (with Andrea Den Boer, MIT Press, 2004), which won the Association of American Publishers Award for the best book in political science and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award for best book in social demography. And she was the recipient of the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award. Currently, Hudson heads an interdisciplinary research team constructing the WomanStats database, already the most comprehensive database on the cross-national status of women.
  • Time: 12:00 Noon
  • Place: 238 HRCB
  • For more information, click HERE


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