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Faculty Activities Summer 2007

  • Jeffrey Bernstein:
    • Chapter by Bernstein and Ohren, "Learning Politics and Learning to Learn: A Collaborative Service-Learning Project with a Local Government", completed. Chapter is forthcoming in book entitled "Service Learning with a Government Partner," David Redlawsk and Tom Rice, eds., Jossey-Bass Publishers.
    • Edited a volume, "Toward Transformation: EMU Faculty Journey into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." Book being published by the Bruce K. Nelson Faculty Development Center
    • Named to editorial board of the International Journal of Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (LATISS).
  • Bruce Carroll: Fulbright Traditional Scholars Grant University Malaya (teaching, research, and public lectures)
  • Elaine Martin:
    • Conference paper: "Carter's Women Federal Judges: Past and Present" at the Law & Society Association Annual Conference, International Research Collaborative on Gender and Judging, in Berlin in July 2007
    • article review for the American Political Quarterly and one for Women, Politics and Policy.
    • Writing a chapter on women's judicial leadership for an edited book.
  • Joanna Vecchiareli Scott:
    • Visited Chinese universities in Beijing, Guilin, Shanghai as part of an American Political Science delegation led by Prof. Robert Axelrod (UoM) and organized by People to People Ambassadors Program.
    • Joined 8 Editors of _Perspectives on Politics_
    • Paper for APSA, 2007--now uploaded to apsanet.org
    • Served as President of the Women's Caucus for Political Science
    • Completed 2 chapters of a manuscript under contract to Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Richard Stahler-Sholk:
    • Finished book manuscript (co-edited with Harry E. Vanden and Glen Kuecker), Latin American Social Movements in the 21st Century: Resistance, Power and Democracy (forthcoming, Rowman & Littlefield, March 2008).
    • In progress: co-edited book manuscript (with Bruno Baronnet and Mariana Mora) about autonomous indigenous communities in Chiapas, Luchas muy otras: Autonom¨ªa, buen gobierno, y sociedad en las comunidades ind¨ªgenas de Chiapas (for publication in Mexico).
    • Wrote conference paper, "Resistance and Sustainability: Radical Possibilities and Dilemmas in the Zapatista Autonomy Movement," for panel I organized on "Indigenous Communities and Social Movement Dynamics in Chiapas," 27th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA (Montreal: 6-8 September 2007).
    • Wrote "Unmasking Mexico," book review of Nick Henck, Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007); forthcoming in A Contracorriente, online journal of social history and literature in Latin America, North Carolina State University, http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente.
    • With Judy Kullberg & Richard Douglass (Health Administration), received EMU General Education/Interdisciplinary Incentive Program award for our proposed new course on "Poverty, Human Rights, and Health."
    • Helped coordinate study trip (May 2007) to Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Chiapas with University of Michigan/Residential College students learning about social movements.