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Jytte Klausen's most recent book,  The Cartoons That Shook the World, was the focus of a review symposium in the most recent issue of the American Political Science Association's journal, Perspectives on Politics.

Jytte Klausen's POL 160, The War on Global Terrorism, will host two special guest speakers in November. Nasser Weddady (Nov 21) is spokesman for the American Islamic Congress, a human rights organization, and will give a talk entitled "American Muslims in the Global War Against Terrorism." Mitch Silber (Nov 30) is the director of intelligence at the NYPD and has a book coming out on "homegrown" al-Qaeda-aligned terrorism. His lecture is entitled "Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security." Both lectures are open to the public and will take place in Lown Auditorium, 002, at 3:30pm.

The department congratulates Timothy McCarty (“Your Money or Your Vote: Toward a Political Theory Taxation”), Jacqueline L. Hazelton (“Compellence and Accommodation in Counterinsurgency Warfare”), and Magdalena A. Krajewska (“The Politics of National Identification Documents in the United Kingdom and the United States 1915-2010”) on the successful defense of their doctoral dissertations this summer.

Jacqueline L. Hazelton (PhD ’11) has accepted a visiting assistant professorship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Hazelton has been invited to attend the TISS New Faces Conference in the Fall of 2011, and organized a panel for the 2011 International Studies Association conference in Montreal and presented two papers there.

Ehud (Udi) Eran (PhD, 2011) spent the 2010-2011 academic year as an Associate at the  International Security Program at Harvard’s Belfer Center and will spend this upcoming year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Haifa University. His recent publications include: “Palestinians Cross the Border into Israel: When Two Storms Converge,” “What Makes Alliances Last,” and “Lost Tribe: Are Israel’s battles costing the country its soul?”

Paul Herron will be presenting part of his dissertation, “Reconstructing and Redeeming the Fundamental Law: Southern State Constitutions and American Political Development,” at the 2011 American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting in Seattle.

Jonathan Snow was awarded a Mellon Dissertation Research Grant and additional funding from the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies for field research for his dissertation, titled: Signaling Intent: The Use of Diplomacy, Actions, and the Media for Coercion in War.  

Sarah Feuer conducted field research on her dissertation - on the politics of religious education in Morocco and Egypt - over the summer in Morocco and Germany. While in Morocco, she gave a talk at l'Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fez on American reactions to the "Arab Spring." She will present a paper based on her field work at the Social Science History Association's annual conference in Boston, MA.

Frederick M. Lawrence, JD Yale (1980), BA Williams College (1977), president-elect of Brandeis University, has been appointed Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Politics. Professor Lawrence is the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law (Harvard 1999) and numerous law review articles and contributions to edited volumes. Professor Lawrence comes to Brandeis from George Washington University Law School, where he served as Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law.

Martin Levin has received approval from the Johns Hopkins University Press for his edited manuscript entitled: Getting Past No in an Age of Partisan Noise: Policymaking in the 21st Century.

Daniel Kryder received a National Science Foundation collaborative award for his research on patterns of anti-civil rights enforcement in Mississippi and North Carolina in the 1960s.

Jytte Klausen has been appointed Senior Advisor and Transatlantic Fellow for Security, at The Institute of Strategic Dialogue, London.  Klausen also wrote "Europe's Uneasy Marriage of Secularisation and Christianity Since the 1960s and the Challenge of Contemporary Religious Pluralism," for Religion and the Political Imagination, Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. 

Prof. Klausen will be giving a lecture: "After 'Londonistan': European Muslim Politics Today" - A WCFIA Special Event on November 16, 2010, 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm at CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

Jill Greenlee published "Soccer Moms, Hockey Moms and the Question of ‘Transformative' Motherhood" in the most recent edition (fall, 2010) of the journal, Politics & Gender.

Dan Kenney (PhD '10), has been appointed a Jack Miller Post-Doctoral Fellow at James Madison College of Michigan State University for the academic year 2010-2011.

Micah Zenko's (PhD '09) book, Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World, has been published by The Council on Foreign Relations Press.

Ralph Thaxton's book, Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward, Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village, (Cambridge University Press, 2008), was reviewed in the February 26, 2009 New York Review of Books and the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Chinese Political Science.

Kerry Chase published "Protecting Free Trade: The Political Economy of Rules of Origin" and "Moving Hollywood Abroad: Divided Labor Markets and the New Politics of Trade in Services" in the journal International Organization in the October and July, 2008, issues.

Ofir Abu, with Fany Yuval and Guy Ben Porat, received word that "'All That Is Left': The Demise of the Zionist Left Parties, 1992-2009" has been accepted for publication (both in English and in Hebrew) in the 2009 edition of the Elections in Israel series, edited by Profs. Asher Arian and Michal Shamir.

Politics' Jill Greenlee weighs in on race to fill Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat.

Paul Herron was awarded the Robert C. Wood Prize by the New England Political Science Association for the best paper written by a graduate student at the 2009 Annual Meeting, "The Confederate Constitution: Beyond Slavery and States' Rights, Toward Development."

Jytte Klausen will spotlight blasphemy, censorship, and scholarship Tuesday.

Listen live on Sept. 3 as Jytte Klausen discusses her new book, 'The Cartoons That Shook the World,' on IslamOnline.net.

Professor Jytte Klausen talks about cartoon cataclysm in NOW interview.

Professor Jytte Lausen's work surveys motivations behind cartoon cataclysm.

A conversation with Jytte Klausen about European Islam.