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Tabitha Benney Accepts Position

Our hearty congratulations to Tabitha Benney, a PhD candidate who joined the program in Fall 2007, for securing a tenure-track position in International Relations from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her advisor is Prof. Benjamin Cohen and her dissertation is on international political economy and enviornmental politics and policy. Her appointment will begin on July 1, 2013.

Job Opening in Environmental Politics

The Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications and nominations for a tenured appointment to fill the recently-endowed Anton Vonk Chair in Environmental Politics. This Chair is intended to focus on the politics of the environment, energy, or natural resources. The position is open with respect to field. We welcome applicants from American politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory.

Candidates should be distinguished scholars, whose work focuses especially on the politics of the environment.

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Geoff Allen, Natasha Bennett, and Magarita Safronova

Event Flier

Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work.

Maggie Savronova will present Does Language Matter? Instrumental Use of Language in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

Failing and the Seven Seas: Somali piracy in global context

Event Start: December 03, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: December 03, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Pluta's Dissertation Research Summarized in PS

The APSA Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs assists APSA scholars in their research and field work.  Graduate student Anne Pluta was one of two in-residence scholars at the Center in Fall 2011 whose work was recently summarized in APSA's journal PS: Political Science and Politics.

While at the Center, she presented her dissertation research to the Centennial Center Staff, APSA's Congressional Fellows, and an invited audience from various institutions in the WAshington DC area.

International Relations Speaker Series: Professor Patrick James

Event Start: February 08, 2013 08:00 PM

Event End: February 08, 2013 08:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
University of Southern California

Patrick James, Professor of the University of Southern California will give a talk on security.

Climate-Challenged Society

Event Start: October 10, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: October 10, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney

David Schlosberg will be speaking at the Political Theory Workshop on Thursday, October 10 on his new book, Climate-Challenged Society (Oxford University Press), which is co-authored with John Dryzek and Richard Norgaard.

Beyond Executive Orders: New Data on Presidential Unilateral Action

Event Start: February 27, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: February 27, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
John Woolley, Professor of Political Science