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Faculty Talk: Aligning aid with results: making international organizations responsive to past performance

Event Start: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Mark Buntaine, Assistant Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Bren Assistant Professor, Mark Buntaine, will give a talk on his current book project.

Professor Lien Receives Taiwan Fellowship

Political Science Professor Pei-te Lien has been awarded a Taiwan Fellowship, which she will use during the summer of 2012 to study political socialization through citizenship education in Taiwan this summer.

New Faculty Member in International Relations

The Department of Political Science is pleased to announce the appointment of Bridget L. Coggins as Assistant Professor.  Receiving her Ph.D. from Ohio State University, Dr. Coggins specializes in International Relations and will be an excellent addition to the department.  Her scholarly work examines the topics of international order and security at the intersection of comparative and international politics. She was Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College and went on to become an International Affairs Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations.  Dr.

International Relations Speaker Series: Asst. Professor Benjamin Graham

Event Start: March 09, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: March 09, 2013 12:00 AM
Benjamin Graham, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, will give a talk on IPE and Security

National Security and United States Immigration Policy

Event Start: October 22, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: October 22, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Robbie Totten, Visiting Assistant Professor, UCSB Political Science Department

Political Science Reception at the All Gaucho Reunion

Event Start: April 25, 2014 09:00 PM

Event End: April 25, 2014 09:00 PM

Event Location: Mosher Alumni House

It’s been 15 years since the Professor Larry Adams Scholarship Award was established. Since that time, 32 students have become Adams Scholars and served in public service internships in the Santa Barbara community.

Congratulations Lauren Copeland

The journal Political Studies has accepted Lauren's manuscript entitled "Conceptualizing Political Consumerism: How Citizenship Norms Shape Boycotting and Buycotting." In this article, which is based on a dissertation chapter, Lauren analyzes boycotting and buycotting as political participation. Previous scholarship has treated these actions as variations on the same behavior, but in this article Lauren shows they are driven by different citizenship norms and should be treated in many cases as two kinds of political action.

Cross-Strait Commerce as Credible Signaling

Event Start: May 07, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 07, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:

Steve Chan, Professor of Political Science at University of Coloardo at Boulder and Director of teh Farrand Residence Academic Program