U.S. Politics & Legal Studies

From Capitol Hill to Quebec, Molly Izer Makes Policy Research International

Wasiq Muhammad Muhammad Ali — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:10:29 +0000

From Capitol Hill to Quebec, Molly Izer Makes Policy Research International Wasiq Muhammad… Fri, 09/16/2022 - 13:10

Molly Izer’s political curiosity knows no bounds. As a second-year student in the Honors College, Izer has already explored a range of political advocacy spheres. From her high school origins in grassroots organizing in Oregon to her freshman-year congressional internships in Washington, D.C., Izer is now taking the next step with policy research at ��AV and beyond.

Merging her interests in policy advocacy and research, Izer spent this past summer as both a legislative affairs intern for the Executive Office’s Council on Environmental Quality and as an Undergraduate Research Scholar with Mason’s Office of Student Scholarships, Creative Activities, and Research (OSCAR). Between both roles, Izer developed her understanding of the internal dynamics of and interactions among Congress and the White House, an area she was encouraged to explore through her first-year research course, HNRS 110: Principles of Research and Inquiry.

“In my [HNRS 110] classes…we were taught to not only look for differences that we could see on the outside, but also look at why they happen that way,” Izer recalls from the course, a first-semester requirement for all Honors College students.

Izer found that her Honors College background in research greatly shaped her success with the summer internships. “[Y]our job [as a congressional and White House intern] is to produce information and compound it in a way that people can consume it quickly, understand it very clearly, and they can apply immediately.”

Practicing collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing information through HNRS 110 also prepared Izer for her summer OSCAR project. Mentored by Schar School of Policy and Government professor Dr. Jennifer Victor, she investigated the informal dynamics that occur within the House of Representatives through congressional caucuses, seeking to understand how the interactions influence various types of legislative behaviors. In September, Izer looks forward to sharing her current findings at the 2022 American Political Science Annual Meeting. Hosted by the leading organization for the study of political science, the meeting convenes in Montreal, Quebec this year. Izer is eager to present her work before similarly motivated distinguished scholars, an opportunity to which she notes few if any undergraduate students are invited.

However, she is no stranger to academic conferences. In Spring 2022, Izer participated in the Midwest Political Science Association’s 2022 conference, presenting her HNRS 110 project "Misinformation: Gone Viral.” Sharing the product of her work widely beyond the Mason community is especially important. On research communication and applicability outside of academia, Izer believes it is important “to [transform research] into something that other people can gain from and something that other people can see and learn from.”

She attributes her preparation for this task to her training in the Honors College: “The Honors College in particular teaches how to not just learn but to be teachers, and producing research gives us an avenue to be a teacher.”

Looking forward, Izer plans to publish her summer research project with Dr. Victor. Her HNRS 110 paper is also forthcoming in the George Mason Review journal. She encourages Honors College students looking to further their research or get involved in political advocacy to put themselves out there and ask for help; her experiences prove to her that reaching out to the professor or applying for the position that interests you can lead to impactful experiences.

Topics

Office of Student Scholarship Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR)

Schar School of Policy and Government

U.S. Politics & Legal Studies

Kelly K. Richter

Andrew J Schappert — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:33:55 +0000

Kelly K. Richter Andrew J Schappert Tue, 08/09/2022 - 13:33

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

krichte@gmu.edu

Biography

Kelly K. Richter, Ph.D., Esq., is a Term Assistant Professor at the Schar School whose teaching focuses on the undergraduate Legal Studies curriculum.

Richter earned her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University in 2015, with a specialization in modern U.S. political and policy history, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2018, where she was a Public Interest Fellow. She is an honors graduate of the University of Chicago and a Washington, D.C. native.

At Stanford, Richter taught undergraduate courses on recent California political history and U.S. immigration politics and policy and was recognized for her student mentoring. She was a National Fellow in-residence at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, a Dissertation Fellow in-residence at Stanford’s Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and an affiliated researcher of Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, and she won competitive university research and writing grants.

Richter brings knowledge and insight to the Schar School from her professional experiences in Washington, D.C. spanning public policy and public interest law. She previously worked on legislation and government oversight in the U.S. Congress, including serving as Legislative Counsel to U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) for immigration and the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Prior to the Hill, she worked in immigration policy advocacy. As a licensed attorney, Richter has represented local low-income immigrant clients in asylum and detention matters before the immigration courts and aided them to seek various administrative benefits. During law school further, she assisted attorneys with civil rights and employment litigation and was a research assistant for the Georgetown Federal Legislation Clinic, among other activities.

Richter has presented her research and policy work at interdisciplinary academic and policy conferences nationwide. She is finalizing a book manuscript intended for academic press publication, based in part off her Ph.D. dissertation. Provisionally entitled Manufacturing a Political Crisis: Backlash Towards Latino Unauthorized Immigration in Modern America, the book offers an approachable narrative history explaining how Latino unauthorized immigration became a political crisis in the U.S. over the past half century – a process much deeper, more complex, and longer in invention than most policymakers understand.

Research Areas: U.S. Politics and Legal Studies, Social Policy, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Recent U.S. History, American Political Development, Federalism, Legislation, Government Oversight, Administrative Law, Public Interest Law, Immigration and Asylum Law

Areas of Research

U.S. Politics and Legal Studies
Social Policy
Regional Expertise – United States

Michael K. Fauntroy

Andrew J Schappert — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:47:31 +0000

Michael K. Fauntroy Andrew J Schappert Mon, 08/16/2021 - 11:47

Associate Professor
Founding Director, Race, Politics, and Poilcy Center

Contact Information

fauntroy@gmu.edu
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 615
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Biography

Michael K. Fauntroy is an associate professor of policy and government and the founding director of the Race, Politics, and Policy Center at ��AV. He began his second stint at Mason in 2021 after eight years on the political science department faculty at Howard University, where he also served as acting director of the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center. He previously served on the Mason faculty from 2002-13.

Prior to joining the faculty at Mason, he was an analyst in American national government at the Congressional Research Service (CRS). At CRS, he provided research and consultations for members and committees of Congress. He also served as a civil rights analyst at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, where he conducted research on voting rights, fair housing, and education policy.

Fauntroy is the author of two books. Republicans and the Black Vote, which analyzed the relationship between African American voters and the Republican Party. The book was a 2007 Foreword Magazine book of the year finalist in political science. He also authored Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia. A third book, More Than Just Partisanship: Conservatism and Black Voter Suppression, is under contract with New York University Press. He has also published chapters in edited volumes and academic journals at the intersection of race and politics.

His essays and commentary have been published in the Huffington Post, the Washington Times, New York Daily News, the Black Commentator, and the Chicago Defender, among others. He is a widely cited scholar, having been quoted in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Newsday, USA Today, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among others. He is a regular television, radio, and podcast presence having appeared on virtually every major American national broadcast network. He is also an in-demand analyst on local television and radio outlets. He currently serves as U.S. politics analyst for CTV News in Canada and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio.

Fauntroy earned a BA in political science from Hampton University, and a master's in public administration and a PhD in political science from Howard University.

Curriculum Vitae

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Associate Professor of Policy and Government
Director, Race, Politics, and Policy Center
Schar School of Policy and Government
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Associate Professor of Policy and Government, ��AV, August 2021-Present Founding Director, Race, Politics, and Policy Center, August 2021-Present

Graduate Courses Taught: Voting Rights Policy and Enforcement. Undergraduate Courses Taught: American Presidency. Race, Politics, and Policy Center: Developing mission, programming, and related infrastructure for successful center launch.

Associate Professor of Political Science, Howard University, August 2013-Present
Acting Director, Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center, August 2018-July 2019

Graduate Courses Taught: Political Parties; Black Political Leadership, Organizations, and Movements; Seminar in American Politics; Interest Groups. Undergraduate Courses Taught: American Presidency, American Political Parties; and National Government of the United States. Departmental Service: Associate Chair (2015- 2019); Graduate Program Director (2015 – 2019); Chair, American Government and Political Behavior field (2014 – 2020); Member, Graduate Admission and Financial Aid committee (2014 – Currently); Chair, 2014-15 Faculty Search committee (three junior faculty positions); Member, Departmental Chair search committee (2015); and Chair, Graduate Student Recruitment committee. Walters Center: Conducted research reports, prepared grant proposals, hired and managed staff, produced public events, developed and presented fundraising proposals, and raised $50,000 in donations in limited time.

Associate Professor of Public Policy, ��AV, August 2010 – August 2013
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, ��AV, August 2002–August 2010

Courses Taught: American government; urban policy; civil rights policy; and policy evaluation (Masters) and legislative process (doctoral)

Adjunct Professor of Political Science: American University (2001), Trinity College (2001), University of the District of Columbia (2000–2001), Howard University, (1998-1999)

Analyst in American Government, Congressional Research Service, June 2000–June 2002 Provided research and consultations to Members, staff, and committees of Congress. Wrote reports and confidential memoranda, provide telephonic responses and personal briefings with Members of Congress and their staff. Prepared hearing testimony and witness questions.

Civil Rights Analyst, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, June 1993 to January 1996
Researched and monitored civil rights issues which included writing memoranda, literature reviews, and sections of Commission enforcement reports; developing congressional testimony; collecting, reviewing, and analyzing statistical information, laws, and regulations; and conducting interviews and surveys.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

More than Just Partisanship: Conservatism and Black Voter Suppression, New York: New York University Press, (under contract).

Republicans and the Black Vote, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, hardback (2008, paper).

Foreword Magazine 2007 Book of the Year Award Finalist
Reviewed in: Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Political Science Quarterly

Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia, Lanham: University Press of America, November, 2003.

Articles and Chapters

“Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Black Congressional Disagreement with President Barack Obama,” (in development for 2022 journal submission)

“African American Republican Congressional Candidates: A Typology,” Phylon, v. 55, No. 1, (2019), pp. 111-132.

“The New Arithmetic of Black Political Power,” in National Urban League, 2013 State of Black America: Redeem the Dream, Jobs Rebuild America, (Washington, DC: National Urban League 2013), pp. 154–157.

“Enforcing Section 5 of the Voting Rights,” in Mark J. Rozell and Charles Bullock, Oxford University Handbook on Southern Politics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 450-476.

“One America? President Obama’s Non-Racial State,” Race, Gender, and Class Journal, V. 18, No. 3-4 (2011), pp. 135-149 (with Pearl Ford Dowe and Tekla Johnson).

“Home Rule Charter for the District of Columbia,” in Ronald Walters and Toni-Michelle Travis, eds., Democracy and Destiny in the District of Columbia, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010).

“Black Republicans Running Statewide in 2006,” The Western Journal of Black Studies, V. 32, No. 2 (2008), pp. 41-50.

“Buying Black Votes? The GOPs Faith-Based Initiative,” in Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney, eds., Religion and the Bush Presidency, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2007, pp. 177-196.

“District of Columbia Voting Representation in Congress: Background, Issues, and Options,” in Douglas Martin, District of Columbia: Current Issues, Hauppage, NY: Novinka Books (2003), pp. 13-22.

“District of Columbia Delegates to Congress,” in Douglas H. Martin, District of Columbia: Current Issues, Hauppage, NY: Novinka Books (2003), pp. 23-42.

“District of Columbia Terrorism Response,” in Douglas H. Martin, District of Columbia: Current Issues, Hauppage, NY: Novinka Books (2003), pp. 107-110 (with Eugene Boyd).

Other Publications

“Black Electoral Politics: Progress in the Face of Continued Resistance”, in Zachery Williams and Mtangulizi Sanyika, “IBW Black Paper on the Last Half Century of Struggle,” (New York: Institute for the Black World 21^st Century, 2015).

Disadvantaged Business Programs of the Federal Government: A Review, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, January 2002.

Urban Policy: A Review of the Republican and Democratic Platforms, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, January 2001.

American Federalism: Significant Events, 1776 to 2000, Washington: D.C. Congressional Research Service, November 2000 (with Eugene Boyd).

Book Reviews

Lukens, Patrick D. A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy Over “Whiteness,” Choice, October, 2012.

James Lance Taylor, Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama, Choice, November, 2011.

Christian Davenport, Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: The Black Panther Party, Choice, October, 2011.

Robert Samuel Smith, Race, Labor, and Civil Rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity, Choice, September, 2009.

Kevin L. Yuill, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits in Presidential Studies Quarterly, v. 39, no. 3.

Charles Harris, Congress and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital: The Conflict of Federal and Local Interests, in Urban Affairs Review, (March 2000), 588-591.

Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy 1910-1925, in Civil Rights Journal: Journal of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Fall 1998), 63-64.

Newspaper and Magazine Columns

“Farewell to a Role Model,” New York Daily News, March 3, 2021.

“After the Uprisings: What Happens to Racism in Policing After the George Floyd Protests,” New York Daily News, May 31, 2020.

“Donald Trump’s Black Voter Delusion,” The Huffington Post, August 27, 2017.

“Ted Cruz: Courageous Traitor,” The Huffington Post, July 22, 2017.

“Trump Exploits Civic Ignorance,” The Huffington Post, March 16, 2016.

“What Trump and Reagan Share,” The Huffington Post, March 4, 2016.

“Crafty Conservative Confederate Flag Move Obscures Larger Issue,” The Huffington Post, July 7, 2015.

“2014 Takeover Takeaways,” The Huffington Post, November 5, 2014.

“To Give Each Political Scandal the Same Treatment is an Injustice to D.C.,” WashingtonPost.com, November 15, 2012.

“Steve Smith, Racism, and the Republican Dilemma,” The Huffington Post, June 7, 2012.

“Supporting Obama with ‘Facts,’” The Huffington Post, April 16, 2012.

“A Bigger Threat to Democracy Than Citizens United,” The Huffington Post, February 22, 2012.

“The Real Problem with Mitt Romney’s Wealth,” The Huffington Post, January 29, 2012

“Cain, Coulter, and Irresponsible Race Talk,” The Huffington Post, November 5, 2011.

“In Defense of Tavis and Cornel,” The Huffington Post, August 11, 2011.

“Will President Obama Become Mayor Dinkins?,” The Huffington Post, August 5, 2011.

“Takeover Takeaways,” The Huffington Post, November 3, 2010.

“The Public Discourse Deserves Better than Steve King,” The Huffington Post, June 14, 2010.

“Charlie Crist’s Declaration of Independence,” The Huffington Post, June 14, 2010.

“If Helen Thomas, Then Why Not Pat Buchanan,” The Huffington Post, June 7, 2010.

“Artur Davis Dissed His Base and Paid the Price,” The Huffington Post, June 2, 2010.

“A Black Agenda for President Obama to Consider? Yes”, The Huffington Post, February 24, 2010.

“Hillary Clinton: Year One,” The Huffington Post, January 29, 2010.

“Toward Reform of Criminal Justice,” The Washington Times, April 28, 2009.

“Obama and Cuba: A Good First Step”, The Huffington Post, April 15, 2009.

“On Race, Holder is Right, Obama is Wrong”, The Huffington Post, March 11, 2009.

“The Cartoon and Trafficking in Racial Symbolism”, The Huffington Post, February 19, 2009.

“The Meaning of Michael Steele”, The Huffington Post, February 2, 2009.

“Food for Thought for Next RNC Chairman”, The Huffington Post, January 28, 2009.

“What Does Obama’s Presidency Mean for Race in America?,” Huffington Post, January 19, 2009.

“Replace Harry Reid?,” The Huffington Post, January 6, 2009.

“Enough of This ‘Post Racial’ America Stuff”, The Huffington Post, December 31, 2009.

“Seat Burris Now!” The Huffington Post, December 31, 2009.

“Hey Republicans, Don't Double Down”, The Huffington Post, November 11, 2009.

“A Contrarian Open Letter to Black America, The Huffington Post, November 5, 2008.

“Obama Should Thank Bush,” The Huffington Post, October 27, 2008.

“Race Enters Race, Stage Right,” The Huffington Post, October 19, 2008.

“Battleground State Breakdown,” The Huffington Post, October 4, 2008.

“Race and Obama’s ‘Black Tax,’” The Huffington Post, September 23, 2008.

“Obama and the Bradley Effect,” The Huffington Post, August 21, 2008.

“More than Ever, Obama Needs Clinton,” The Huffington Post, May 20, 2008.

“McCain’s Gamble,” The Huffington Post, April 27, 2008.

“Stand Strong Tavis,” The Root, February 25, 2008.

“Pathetic Propaganda Posing as a Documentary,” The Huffington Post, November 18, 2007.

“Obama’s Struggles with Black America,” The Huffington Post, November 8, 2007.

“There’s Nothing Conservative in Cosby’s Message,” The Huffington Post, November 8, 2007.

“Is it Already Over for Barack Obama, The Huffington Post, October 25, 2007.

“GOP Presidential Candidates Forum Observations,” The Huffington Post, October 1, 2007.

“What Black Republicans Should Do Now,” The Huffington Post, September 26, 2007.

“Jackson Did Obama A Favor,” The Huffington Post, September 20, 2007.

“Republicans Blow Opportunity to Reach Black Voters, The Huffington Post, September 19, 2007.

“Labor Day’s Fruit Has Yet To Arrive For Some,” The Huffington Post, September 3, 2007.

“Is He Black Enough? Part Two,” The Huffington Post, August 14, 2007.

“A Blogger Should Ask Questions at the September Forum,” The Huffington Post, July 11, 2007.

“The Beginning of the End for McCain,” The Huffington Post, July 11, 2007.

“Scooter Walks,” The Huffington Post, July 3, 2007.

“Conservatives Roll Back Clock on Civil Rights Enforcement,” The Huffington Post, June 30, 2007.

“Winners, Loses, and Other Debate Observations,” The Huffington Post, June 29, 2007.

“Conservatives and Black Voter Disenfranchisement,” The Huffington Post, June 8, 2007.

“What’s Next Al?” The Huffington Post, April 12, 2007.

“The Imus Fallout and Lessons for Black America,” The Huffington Post, April 11, 2007.

“What Obama’s Money Really Means,” The Huffington Post, April 8, 2007.

“Where is the CBC in the Iraq Debate?” The Huffington Post, April 6, 2007.

“Subpoena Fight is About Respect,” The Huffington Post, April 2, 2007.

“What Obama’s Candidacy Will Mean for Black America,” The Huffington Post, February 14, 2007.

“Is He Black Enough?” The Politico, February 5, 2007.

“Republicans and the Black Vote, The Huffington Post, January 4, 2007.

“Separating Myth From Reality For Democrats,” The Huffington Post, January 3, 2007.

“Hacking Democracy,” The Huffington Post, November 6, 2006.

“The ‘Black Jesse Helms’ Runs for Congress, The Huffington Post, October 18, 2006.

“Race and Representing Memphis,” The Huffington Post, October 5, 2006.

“Race and the Republicans,” The Huffington Post, September 26, 2006.

“GOP Backslides in Bid for Black Voters,” The Huffington Post, September 21, 2006.

“A Black Governor for Massachusetts,” The Huffington Post, September 18, 2006.

“ . . . And You Wonder Why Blacks Don’t Vote Republican,” Topeka Capital-Journal, July 21, 2006.

“Hypocrites on the Left,” The Washington Times, March 10, 2006.

“Beginning of the End for the GOP,” TomPaine.com, October 14, 2005.

“BET Nightly News Cancelled - No Big Loss,” Chicago Defender, May 5, 2005.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Presenter, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Congressional Disagreement with President Barack Obama,” Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA, April 11, 2020 (proposal accepted; event cancelled).

Presenter, “From Insurgency to Institutionalization: The Evolution of the Congressional Black Caucus,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Montreal, Quebec, November 10, 2018.

Discussant, “Transition to Home Rule,” D.C. Historical Studies Conference, Carnegie Library, Washington, DC, November 15, 2013.

Presenter, “Black Presidential Politics,” Howard University, Ronald W. Walters Center for Leadership and Public Policy, Walters Legacy Conference, October 11, 2013.

Panelist, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Is It Relevant Today?” Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, July 29, 2013.

(Convener, Host, and Panel Moderator) “Race and Public Policy: Issues and Solutions,” ��AV, October 10, 2011.

“Republican Party Outreach to African Americans: Evidence from Elite Interviewing,” Northeastern Political Science Association, November 2009.

“Cannon Fodder, Rising Stars, and Viable Options: African American Congressional Candidates,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Chicago, IL, March 22, 2008.

“Afros and Elephants: Black Votes for Black Republicans Running Statewide in 2006,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 16, 2007.

“Black Votes for Black Republican Candidates Running Statewide in 2006: Did it Make a Difference,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 14, 2007.

“District of Columbia Home Rule: Past, Present, and Future,” Yale University Conference Commemorating 40^th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, New Haven, CT, April 22, 2005.

“GOP Efforts to Win Black Votes” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2005.

“Republican Use of Symbolic Politics as Impediment to Attracting Significant African American Support,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 4, 2004.

“Governance of the District of Columbia and Ten Other National Capitals: A Comparative Analysis,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Chicago, IL, March 25, 2004.

“The Evolution of African American Support for the Republican Party,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 7, 2003.

“Is the Committee of the Whole the House? Implications of Michel v. Anderson for District of Columbia Representation,” American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002 (with Richard Beth).

"Financial Control Boards as Remedies for Municipal Fiscal Crises," Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 9, 2001.

“Delegates to the U.S. House of Representatives: Evolution and Effectiveness, 1970-2000," Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 8, 2001.

“Remedying Municipal Fiscal Crises: The District of Columbia and Its Financial Control Board,” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 31, 2000.

“Black Political Grass-Roots Organizing: The D.C. Home Rule Example,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2000.

“Racial Conservatism and Partisan Politics as Factors in Congressional Intervention into District of Columbia Affairs,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Washington, D.C., March 8, 2000.

“Jim Crow and Apartheid: Was There a Link?” American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 5, 1999.

“Washington, D.C. and Its Suburbs: An Example of Cross-Jurisdictional Influence on City Affairs,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15, 1999.

“Has Shaw v. Reno Undermined Efforts to Elect More African Americans to Congress?” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Baltimore, MD, March 10, 1995.

INVITED LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Ward 5 Democrats (Washington, D.C.), “D.C. Statehood Movement” January 13, 2021.

Co-Convenor and Moderator, Edgar Kemler Lecture featuring Rep. Jahana Hayes, Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center, Howard University, March 5, 2019.

Convenor, “Sisters in the Struggle: Black Women and the 2018 Elections,” The Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center and Department of Political Science, Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center, Howard University, November 8, 2018.

Panelist, The Role of Minority Voters in the 2018 Midterm Elections,” The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, November 1, 2018.

Speaker, “Salute to the Secretaries,” Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Washington, DC, June 28, 2016.

Panelist, W. Montague Cobb Lecture, Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2016.

Keynote Speaker, D. C. Democratic State Committee Retreat, Thurgood Marshall Center, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2016.

Keynote Speaker, “D.C. Politics and Gentrification,” All Souls Church Unitarian, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2015.

Keynote Speaker, “The Fifteenth Amendment: From U.S. Grant to Lyndon B. Johnson’s Voting Rights Act,” U.S. Grant Library, Mississippi State University, September 25, 2015.

Panelist, “50 Years Later: President Johnson's Commencement Speech at Howard University,” sponsored by the National Collaborative for Health Equity, Howard Law School, June 9, 2015.

Panelist, “Black Votes Matter,” Founders Library, Howard University, April 9, 2015.

Panelist, “40^th Anniversary of the First Home Rule Elections,” Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, November 13, 2014.

Panelist, “Elections 2012,” American University, Washington, DC, October 9, 2012

Keynote, “Black Political Engagement,” Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, October 4, 2012

“Black Politics: A Call to Action,” Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC, February 8, 2012.

“Is Congress Heights a Ghetto?,” Congress Heights Community Association, Washington, DC. October 17, 2011.

“Race and Public Policy,” ��AV, October 10, 2011 (panelist and conference convenor).

“Maryland Voter Identification Bills,” Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Ft. Washington, MD, April 30, 2011.

“Voter Identification Bills in State Legislatures,” Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., April 4, 2011.

Black History Month Keynote Address, DeWitt Army Hospital, Ft. Belvoir, February 25, 2011.

“Election 2010 Analysis,” School of Public Policy, ��AV, November 10, 2010.

Keynote Address, Prince Hall Freemasons and Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Foundation, Washington, DC, June 5, 2010.

“Current Political Issues,” Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Washington, D.C., April 19, 2010.

“We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda,” Chicago State University, Chicago, Il., March 20, 2010.

Moderator, panel discussion of book “Stealth Politics,” by former Rep. Glen Browder and Professor Artemesia Stanberry, National Archives, January 14, 2010.

“Politics in a Post-Racial America,” ��AV Vision Series, December 7, 2009.

“Impact of Felon Disenfranchisement on Black Political Participation in the South,” Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Washington, D.C., August 6, 2009.

“Education and Politics,” National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. National Convention and Greek Symposium, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2009.

“President Obama’s First 100 Days,” The Kappa Sigma Man of the Year Lecture, University of Arkansas, Giffels Auditorium, April 16, 2009.

“Agenda Setting and the Obama Administration,” Historical Society of Washington, January 21, 2009.

“Republicans and the Black Vote,” Shirlington Public Library, October 26, 2008.

“2008 Election Roundtable,” Fall for the Book Festival, ��AV, September 23, 2008.

“Republicans and the Black Vote,” Chilmark Public Library, Chilmark, MA, August 14, 2008.

“Political Impact of Felon Disenfranchisement,” Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Washington, D.C., April 15, 2008

“Civil Rights,” Service Employees International Union, Washington, D.C., February 6, 2008.

“Emancipation, Revelation, and Revolution,” post-documentary screening panel discussion, Howard University, November 12, 2007.

“Civil Rights, Home Rule, and the Struggle for Political Autonomy in Washington, D.C., Washington Studies Conference, sponsored by the Historical Society of Washington, November 3, 2007.

“Republicans and the Black Vote,” Republicans for Black Empowerment, Washington, D.C., September 25, 2007.

“Republicans and the Black Vote,” TransAfrica Forum, Washington, D.C., March 1, 2007.

Keynote address to the Color Colorado Conference, sponsored by the Progressive Majority, Denver, CO. February 17, 2007.

“Blacks in American Politics,” Dominican University, River Forest, IL, February 15, 2007.

“New Era for DC Rights? D.C.’s Relationship with Congress,” sponsored by D.C. Vote, Our Nation’s Capital, and the League of Women Voters, Washington, D.C., January 25, 2007.

“November 2006 Elections and Beyond,” WVON Pre-Kwanzaa Festival, South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, December 17, 2006.

“Toward a More Politically Active Student Body,” St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Black Student Union Awards Ceremony, April 23, 2006.

“King’s Legacy and a Call to Action,” St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Martin Luther King Day Celebration, Keynote Address, January 16, 2006.

“A Call to Leadership,” Hampton University Alumni Association (Washington, D.C. Chapter) Founder’s Day, Keynote Address, January 8, 2006.

“Political Implications of Bush Supreme Court Nominations,” sponsored by Washington, D.C. Ward 4 Democrats, October 18, 2005.

“District of Columbia Voting Representation in Congress,” sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union-National Capital Area, September 15, 2005.

“Governance in the District of Columbia,” Keynote Address at the Spring Student Forum 2005, The George Washington University, May 16, 2005.

“Republican Outreach Efforts to African American Community,” sponsored by the Loudon County Senior Center, April 29, 2005 (via GMU Speakers Bureau).

“District of Columbia Home Rule: Past, Present, and Future,” invited presentation at the Yale University Conference, “Lessons From the Past, Prospects for the Future: Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965," April 22, 2005.

“Home Rule for the District of Columbia: Past, Present, and Future,” a panel discussion sponsored by the Office of the Mayor, District of Columbia as part of D.C. Emancipation Day celebration.

“The Relationship Between African Americans and the Republican Party,” sponsored by the Optimus Club of Alexandria, Virginia, August 3, 2004 (via GMU Speakers Bureau).

“District of Columbia Fiscal Imbalance and Its Impact on Local Policy,” sponsored by Our Nation’s Capital, April 27, 2004.

“District of Columbia Home Rule and Congressional Voting Representation,” sponsored by D.C. City Museum, January 13, 2004.

“2000 U.S. Presidential and Congressional Elections: An Assessment of the Candidates, Issues, and African American Presence,” West African Research Center, Dakar, Senegal, October 11, 2000.

“Preparing the Professoriate of the Future at Howard University,” Minnowbrook Conference of the Preparing Future Professoriate and Preparing Future Faculty, Syracuse University, May 25, 1999.

HONORS, AWARDS, COMMUNITY, PROFESSIONAL and UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Advisor to Urban Analytics for District of Columbia Government project assessing the costs to the District for hosting the national government, 2003

Board of Directors, Epsilon Boulè Education Foundation, January 2016 -- Currently

Board of Directors, Kappa Scholarship Endowment Fund, September 2010 – August 2018

Board of Directors, Historic Kappa House Restoration Foundation January 2007 – December 2012

Bowdoin College Political Science Department External Review Committee, February 2020

Choice Magazine Book Reviewer, 2009-2013

Community Service Award, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Washington, DC Chapter, 2007

Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, American Political Science Association, 2014-2017

District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disability and Tenure, September 2009 – Currently

District of Columbia Quarter Design Advisory Committee (congressional appointee), February 2008

Dissertation Director

Kenneth Cooper, successfully defended May 2020
Delabian Rice-Thurston
Eugene J. Sokolowski, successfully defended April.

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Grand Committee on HBCUs and College Access, July 2018-Currently

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Grand Committee on Public Policy July 2020 -- Currently

Editorial Advisory Board, National Review of Black Politics, UC Press

Endowment Committee, Southern Political Science Association, 2007-2009

First Vice President, National Capital Area Political Science Association, 2004-2005

Hampton University Dean’s List for Academic Excellence

Howard University Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 1998-1999

Howard University Graduate Assistantship, 1991-1992; 1994-1995

School of Public Policy Library Liaison, 2008-2009

Manuscript Reviewer, American Politics Review, 2005-

Manuscript Reviewer, Party Politics, 2011-

Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of African American History, 2020-

Manuscript Reviewer, National Journal of Black Politics, 2019-

Paul Cooke Award for Civic Engagement, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Washington, DC Chapter, 2011

Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship, 1998-2000

President, National Capital Area Political Science Association, 2005-2006

Presidential Management Intern Program – 1992 National Semifinalist

Program Committee, Kappa Scholarship Endowment Fund, June 2006 – Currently

Section Co-Chair, Urban Policy, American Political Science Association Meeting, September 2005

Section Chair, Race and Ethnicity, Southern Political Science Association Meeting, January 2005

��AV School of Public Policy Standing Committee on Curriculum, 2007-2009

Virginia Leadership Institute, Decade Award, 2016

W.E.B. DuBois Book Award Committee, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, 2012

TELEVISION, RADIO, NEWSPAPER, AND MAGAZINE ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

More than 1,000 radio and television appearances on networks such as NPR (“Tell Me More”, “Talk of the Nation,” and “The Diane Rehm Show”); PBS (“NewsHour”, “Tavis Smiley”, and “White House Chronicle”); ABC (“Newspath”); CBS (“The Early Show”, “The Saturday Early Show”, and “CBS Evening News”); NBC (“NBC Evening News”); MSNBC (“Hardball” and other broadcasts); CNN (various broadcasts); Al Jazeera America (“Inside Story with Ray Suarez”); Fox News Channel (“Hannity and Colmes” and “America’s Newsroom”); Minnesota Public Radio (“The Daily Circuit” and “MPR News with Kerri Miller”); Radio One (“The Joe Madison Show”); Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio; British Broadcasting Corporation; CTV News; France 24; Public Radio International (“Tavis Smiley Show”); C- SPAN (“Q and A” and various programs); Voice of America; Sirius/XM; Pacifica Radio (various programs); among others.

I have been quoted in newspaper and magazines including, but not limited to, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, The Associated Press, The Hartford Courant, Black Enterprise, The Oregonian, The Washington Afro-American, The Washington Times, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, US News and World Report, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, CQ, Politico, Businessweek.

I have been published by newspapers and online outlets such as The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, New York Daily News, and the Topeka Capital-Journal.

EDUCATION

Howard University, Washington, DC

Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science
- African American Political Behavior
- American Government
Master of Arts in Public Administration
- Public Policy Analysis Hampton University, Hampton, VA
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Areas of Research

African American Political Behavior
Political Parties
Social Policy
The Presidency
U.S. Politics and Legal Studies
Voting Rights Policy

Robert L. Deitz

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Robert L. Deitz Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/06/2020 - 17:38

Professor of Public Policy

Contact Information

rdeitz@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-3480
Fax: 703-993-8215
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 674
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Biography

Robert L. Deitz is a professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at ��AV. Previously, he served as senior Councilor to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 until February 2009. From September 1998 to September 2006, Deitz was the general counsel at the National Security Agency where he represented the NSA in all legal matters. He has also held positions as acting general counsel at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and as acting deputy general counsel, intelligence, at the Department of Defense.

Deitz began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Justices Douglas, Stewart, and White of the United States Supreme Court. He has also been in private practice and was special assistant to Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano during the Carter Administration.

He is the author of Congratulations – You Just Got Hired: Don’t Screw It Up, which is intended to assist newly hired professionals excel in the workplace.

Deitz received his JD (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, where he was the Supreme Court Note and Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he studied international politics and economics. He majored in English literature at Middlebury College, where he received a BA (cum laude) and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Curriculum Vitae

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PRESENT:

Professor of Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

May 2006 – June 2012: CIA Officer-in-Residence, School of Public Policy, ��AV.

September 2006 – May 2009: Senior Councilor to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

September 1998 – September 2006: General Counsel, National Intelligence Agency (NSA). Served as the chief legal officer of NSA and represented it in all legal matters. (From March 2005 to January 2006 was acting General Counsel, National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency. From January 2003 to June 2004 was acting Deputy General Counsel, Intelligence, at the Department of Defense.)

1981 – 1998: Private practice of law.

1979 – 1981: Special Assistant to Warren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of State.

1978 – 1979: Special Assistant to Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare.

1976 – 1978: Private practice of law.

1975 – 1976: Law clerk to Honorable Justices Douglas, Stewart and White, United States Supreme Court.

EDUCATION:

1975: J.D. magna cum laude, Harvard Law School; Supreme Court Note and Note Editor, Harvard Law Review.

1972: M.P.A Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

1968: B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Middlebury College (major in English literature).

Bar Memberships:

District of Columbia, U.S. Supreme Court, D.D.C., D. Md., D.C. Cir., 2d Cir., 3d Cir., 4^th Cir., 5^th Cir., 6^th Cir., 7^th Cir., 8^th Cir., 9^th Cir., 10^th Cir., and U.S. Tax Court.

Military:

1968 – 1970: U.S. Army; awarded Army Commendation Medal.

Personal:

Married, two children.

James N. Burroughs

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James N. Burroughs Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/06/2020 - 16:35

Associate Professor

Contact Information

jburroug@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-2956
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 312
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4

Biography

Public management, public administration ethics, administrative law, judicial process, and organization theory

Jim Burroughs came to ��AV after 15 years in the government and nonprofit sectors. In the federal government, he served as a legislative assistant to two members of Congress and as legal counsel in the Office of the Federal Register at the National Archives. He served seven years as general counsel and head of government relations for the National Propane Gas Association.

From 1995-2000, Burroughs was an adjunct instructor at Mason and at Virginia Tech. He served as Acting Master of Public Administration (MPA) Director in 2000 and 2001, and has been a regular faculty member since then. He is a founder of the Master of Public Administration Cohort partnership with local government in Northern Virginia. He currently serves as a Judge Advocate in the Virginia Defense Force which is part of the Virginia Department of Military Affairs.

He earned his law degree at William & Mary, his Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Mason, and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech.

Areas of Research

Public Management
Public Administration Ethics
Administrative Law
Judicial Process
Organization Theory

Christopher D. Berk

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Christopher D. Berk Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/06/2020 - 16:21

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

cberk@gmu.edu
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 331
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4

Biography

Christopher D. Berk is an assistant professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at ��AV. His research and teaching interests span the law, politics, and philosophy of punishment, with a particular concern for the relationship between democratic politics and penal law.

Berk received his PhD in 2016 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, along with a joint degree, an MLS, from the University of Chicago Law School. Before coming to Mason, he was a postdoctoral fellow in political philosophy, policy, and law at the University of Virginia.

Curriculum Vitae

View Christopher D. Berk's CV

Research Hall, Room 339
George Mason University
10401 York River Road
Fairfax, VA 22030

Phone: (703) 993-6365
Fax: (703) 993-8215
Email: cberk@gmu.edu
Chris Berk's website

Appointments

George Mason University
Assistant Professor in the Schar School of Policy & Government
2019-

University of Virginia
DeOlazarra Fellow in the Program in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
2016-2019

Education

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
2016

Dissertation
On Self Government: Democratic Politics and Law in Prisons, Asylums, and Boarding Schools

Committee
Andrew Abbott, Cathy Cohen, Robert Gooding-Williams, & Bernard Harcourt (chair)

Examination fields
American Politics, Political Theory

M.L.S., University of Chicago Law School
2016

M.A., Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
2010

B.A., summa cum laude, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
2007

Book Manuscript

Democracy in Captivity: Essays on the political situation of prisoners, patients, and others in custody. In preparation.

Book manuscript conference held at the University of Virginia on May 3, 2019.

Publications, Refereed

Berk, Christopher D. 2019. “Reply to Elizabeth Scott, Laurence Steinberg, David Tanenhaus, and James Backstrom." Law & Social Inquiry 44, no. 3: 787-790.

Berk, Christopher D. 2019. “Childhood, development, and the troubled foundations of Miller v. Alabama." Law & Social Inquiry 44, no. 3: 752-770.

Symposium at LSI devoted to this article

Berk, Christopher D. 2018. “On Prison Democracy: The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison.” Critical Inquiry 44, no. 2: 275-302.

Under Review

“Must penal law be insulated from public influence?" Revise & resubmit at Law and Philosophy

“Democracy’s internal borders.”

Publications, Invited

Berk, Christopher D. 2010. “Investment Talk: Comments on the Use of the Language of Investment in Prison Reform Advocacy.” Carceral Notebooks 6 (2010): 115-129.

Works in Progress

“Mad Politics: Disability, Care, and Patient Collective Action.” “Governing Children: Resistance in a Boarding School for At-Risk Youth.”

Awards and Fellowships

2016. Visiting Scholar, The Newberry
Scholars-in-residence are given privileged use of the library and are "expected to publish or oth- erwise disseminate their research" and "participate in the Newberry’s intellectual community."

2015-16. Master of Legal Studies Fellowship, University of Chicago Law School Tuition remission and living stipend for a year of coursework in law.

2014-15. William Rainey Harper Provost Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago Tuition remission and living stipend, "one of the highest honors given to our graduate students."

2011. Grodzins Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago
Competition among advanced graduate students to design and teach a course.

2010. Joseph Cropsey Prize for the “outstanding master’s thesis in political philosophy written by a student in the Department of Political Science,” University of Chicago

2010. High Pass in the American Politics Field Exam, University of Chicago

2008-13. McCabe Fellowship, University of Chicago
Tuition remission and living stipend for five years of graduate study.

2007. Daniel Lev Award for the “outstanding political science senior thesis” in 2007, University of Washington

2007. Graduated summa cum laude in the Honors College with Distinction in Political Science, University of Washington

Grants

2013-14. Social Science Division Long-Term Project Grant, University of Chicago ($8,000)

2013. Social Science Division Summer Grant, University of Chicago ($3,000)

2011. Doolittle-Harrison Travel Grant, University of Chicago ($1,000)

Teaching

George Mason University
Democratic Theory and Practice and Constitutional Law (graduate)
Seminar in the Courts
Spring 2020

University of Virginia
Prisons - Fall 2018
Law and Democracy - Fall 2017
Law & Political Thought: Punishment - Fall 2016
B.A. Thesis Colloquium in Political Philosophy, Policy & Law
Spring 2017, 2018, 2019

Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women (Piedmont Virginia Community College)
Constitutional Foundations of American Government
Summer 2017

University of Chicago
B.A. Thesis Colloquium, Department of Political Science
2013-2014

Classics of Social and Political Thought III
Spring 2013

The Politics of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
Spring 2012

Advising

Resident Head of Vincent House, University of Chicago College Housing
2013-2016

Pedagogical Training

Center for Teaching Excellence in-class observation & focus group (Virginia) - 2016

Seminar and Workshop on Course Design (Chicago) - 2015

Workshop on Teaching in the College (Chicago) - 2012

Talks

Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative, University of Virginia, 2019. "Life in Graduate School and Law School."

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University. 2015. “Democratic Exclusions: Prisoners, patients, and children in democratic politics."

Chicago Area Behavior Workshop, Northwestern University. 2015. “Participatory Politics and Equality in the Digital Age."

Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics, MacArthur Foundation. 2014. “Partic- ipatory Politics and Equality in the Digital Age."

Spring Lecture Series for Political Science Majors, University of Chicago. 2014. “Data Collection in Political Science Research."

Asylums and Prisons: Deinstitutionalization and Decarceration, University of Chicago. 2013. “Mad Politics."

Conferences

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC 2010; Seattle, WA 2011; Chicago, IL 2013; Washington, DC 2014; San Francisco, CA 2015; San Francisco, CA 2017; Boston, MA 2018.

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. San Francisco, CA 2011; Seattle, WA 2015; New Orleans, LA 2016; Toronto, Canada 2018; Washington, DC 2019.

Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Cultural, and the Humanities. Stan- ford Law School, Palo Alto, CA 2017; Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC 2018.

Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. San Antonio, TX 2011; Seattle, WA 2014; Vancouver, Canada 2017; San Francisco, CA 2018.

Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Ohio State University, 2016; Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, 2018; University of California, Irvine, 2019.

Fourth Annual Conference on Radical Democracy. New School for Social Research, New York, NY 2014.

Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL 2013.

Annual Meeting of the Mid-West Political Science Association in Chicago, IL. 2009; 2010.

Research Seminars, Workshops

WRiPS, George Mason University. 2019. “Must penal law be insulated from public influence?"
PPL Colloquium, University of Virginia. 2018. “Custody and Community Control."
PPL Colloquium, University of Virginia. 2016. “Democracy’s Internal Borders."
Self & Subjectivity Workshop, University of Chicago. 2015. “Mad Politics."
Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago. 2015. “Governing Children."
American Politics Workshop, University of Chicago. 2014. “Governing Children."
Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago. 2014. “Mad Politics."
Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago. 2013. “On Prison Democracy."

Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association (APSA)
Law & Society Association (LSA)
Association for Political Theory (APT)

Professional Service

Manuscript Reviewer
Law & Society Review, Political Theory, Theoretical Criminology, and Routledge

Political Theory Workshop
Student Coordinator
Fall 2011-2013
Chicago, IL

Faculty Hiring Committee
Student Representative
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Graduate
Chicago, IL

Community Service

Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women
Instructor
2017
Troy, VA

Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, Nancy B. Jefferson School
Volunteer Tutor
2013-2015
Chicago, IL

Safer Foundation, 1811 Adult Transition Center
Volunteer Tutor
2008-2011
Chicago, IL

Literacy Americorps, King County Correctional Facility
Instructor
2007-2008
Seattle, WA

Updated October 16, 2019

Areas of Research

Politics of Punishment
Penal Law
Law and Society
Democratic Theory

James Pfiffner

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James Pfiffner Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/06/2020 - 12:24

Professor Emeritus, Schar School of Policy and Government

Contact Information

pfiffner@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-1417
Fax: 703-993-2284
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall
3351 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, Virginia 22201
MS 3B1

Personal Websites

http://pfiffner.gmu.edu

Biography

James P. Pfiffner is University Professor emeritus in the Schar School of Policy and Government at ��AV. His major areas of expertise are the Presidency, American national government, public management, and the national security policy process. He has lectured on these topics at universities in Europe and throughout the United States as well as at the Federal Executive Institute, the National War College, the U.S. Military Academy, and the Departments of State, Justice, and Defense.

He has written or edited 16 books on the Presidency and American national government, including The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running (2nd edition, 1996), The Character Factor: How We Judge Our Presidents, (2004), Power Play: The Bush Administration and the Constitution (Brookings 2008), and Torture as Public Policy (2010). He has also published more than 100 chapters and articles in books and scholarly journals.

His professional experience includes service in the Director’s Office of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (1980-81), and he has been a member of the faculty at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Fullerton. He has testified about the presidency before both Houses of Congress.

In 2007, he was S.T. Lee Professorial fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of London, and in 2013 he was visiting professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he has been a panel member or on project staffs of the Volcker Commission, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. He received the Distinguished Faculty Award at Mason (1990) and the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Scholarship (1999). He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

While serving with the 25th Infantry Division (1/8 Artillery) in 1970, he received the Army Commendation Medal for Heroism (with “V” device) in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Areas of Research

Presidency and Executive Branch
Public Administration
Public Management
National Security Policy Process
White House – Cabinet Relations
Political Appointee – Civil Service Relations

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Robert L. Dudley

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Robert L. Dudley Kelly Hansen Tue, 10/06/2020 - 11:39

Professor Emeritus, Schar School of Policy and Government
rdudley@gmu.edu

Contact Information

rdudley@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-1412
Fairfax Campus, Robinson Hall A 231
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
MSN: 3F4

Biography

Robert Dudley received a PhD in political science from Northern Illinois University. His interests are generally in American government and politics.

He has published work on American elections and judicial decision-making. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, PS, and American Political Quarterly. He has also authored or been the co-author of five books; one, a textbook, on American government is in the 11th edition.

Areas of Research:

Judicial Behavior
American Elections

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Janine R. Wedel

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Janine R. Wedel Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/05/2020 - 15:37

Distinguished University Professor

Contact Information

jwedel@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-3567
Fax: 703-993-8215
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 638
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Personal Websites

http://janinewedel.info

Biography

Janine R. Wedel is a Distinguished University Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at ��AV. She is a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics dominated by political scientists, economists, or sociologists.

Wedel presently writes about elite influencers, power networks, and shadow elites in the United States, Europe, and Russia; governance transformations over the past half-century; and the Kremlin’s weaponized corruption—all through the lens of a social anthropologist. She has an internationally recognized record of innovative scholarly research and commentary on current intellectual issues. She has been named a Global Policy Chair at the University of Bath in the U.K.; a fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin; the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor in Sweden; and a New America Foundation senior fellow. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm; and a Faculty Associate of the Petrach Program on Ukraine. Wedel is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, an honor typically reserved for political scientists (previous recipients include Samuel Huntington and Mikhail Gorbachev).

Wedel is cofounder and past president of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP), a section of the American Anthropological Association.

A five-time Fulbright fellow, Wedel has also won awards from the National Science Foundation, Swedish Research Council, EU Horizon Europe, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, International Research and Exchanges Board, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, United States Institute of Peace, German Marshall Fund, Eurasia Foundation, National Institute of Justice, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, among others.

Wedel is currently at work on a book for Oxford University Press on elite influence.

Her previous books have been widely and favorably reviewed (http://janinewedel.info/books.html). Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free Market (Basic Books 2009) was book of the month for the Huffington Post and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Contemporary Sociology called it “an example of the cutting edge of the discipline [of anthropology].” Choice writes that “Wedel… presents an arresting theory of power that deserves wide attention….as a thinker she is in the same league as John Kenneth Galbraith and Charles Lindblom.” Her subsequent book, Unaccountable: How the Establishment Corrupted Our Finances, Freedom, and Politics and Created an Outsider Class (Pegasus, updated paperback and kindle editions 2016), was named in the Bloomberg survey of 2014 favorite reads.

Wedel’s Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe (Palgrave 2001) sparked considerable controversy and was widely acclaimed. It was named “impressive and informative” by Foreign Affairs. American Ethnologist called it “a tribute to the high caliber of Wedel’s journalistic and anthropological abilities alike and a reminder of the need for a re-envisioned and effective anthropology brought to bear on pressing social issues.”

Her first book, The Private Poland: An Anthropologist’s Look at Everyday Life (1986) which Osteuropa Wirtschaft called “a brilliant account of contemporary Polish society” was likened by the Christian Science Monitor to Hedrick Smith’s The Russians. Wedel has also published the coauthored Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability (2010) and The Unplanned Society: Poland During and After Communism (edited, translated, annotated and introductions 1992), which the British anthropology journal Man called a “pioneering work.”

A public intellectual, Wedel has contributed analysis pieces to more than a dozen major outlets, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal Europe, Project Syndicate, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, Politico, Salon, Christian Science Monitor, Nation, Die Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, and others. She contributed a regular featured column to the Huffington Post for more than seven years. She has served as an associate producer of three PBS documentaries. Her television appearances include CNN, MSNBC, BBC, PBS, C-Span, Deutsche Welle, and Al Jazeera, as well as many radio shows, including BBC and both NPR and satellite.

Wedel has testified before congressional subcommittees and written for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and units of the United Nations, the World Bank, and the OECD. Her stops on the university lecture circuit include Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Chicago, Berkeley, Princeton, Oxford, Brown University, University of Toronto, Central European University (Budapest), University of Warsaw, London Business School, Institute of Social Studies (the Hague), University College London, United Nations University/WIDER (Helsinki), and Freie Universität (Berlin). Other audiences have included TEDx (Berlin), OECD (Paris), Bruno Kreisky Institute (Vienna), European Journalism Observatory (Lugano, Switzerland), New America Foundation, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Press Club, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, and watchdog NGOs.

Wedel’s work has been favorably reviewed and quoted in the New York Review of Books, Economist, New York Times, Newsweek, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor’s Business Daily, New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Publishers Weekly, among many others. It has been reviewed or translated into Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Areas of Research

Elite Influencers & Shadow Elites
Informal Networks and Practices
Professional “Enablers”
Elite Corruption
Central & Eastern Europe
Russia & Ukraine
Anthropology of Public Policy
Foreign Aid
Privatization
Audit Culture
Digital Bureaucracy

Laura Walker

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Laura Walker Kelly Hansen Mon, 10/05/2020 - 15:27

Professor Emerita

Contact Information

lwalker1@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-9348
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 318
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4

Biography

Laura Walker, attorney-at-law, was engaged in the private practice of law in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Virginia prior to joining the ��AV faculty.

She is the director of Mason's Minor in Legal Studies Program, the head of the Pre-Law Advising Program, and the faculty advisor to Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law student organization. She is the author of the textbook, Family Law and Public Policy.

She received her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Toledo College of Law in 1977. She earned her PhD from Mason's School of Public Policy, with dual concentrations in culture, values and social policy and national governance and society in 2012.

Areas of Research

Constitutional Law
Judicial Process
Law and Public Policy