American

• Samantha Majic
  
• Alexander Moon
• Jeffrey Selinger
  

Comparative

• Anuradha Chakravarty
• Il Hyun Cho
• Katherine Gordy
  
• Jai Kwan Jung
• Holger Kern
  
• Maria Koinova
  
• Aleksander Lust
  

International Relations

• Il Hyun Cho
• Jana Grittersova
• Stephanie Hofmann
• Ashraf Ismail
• Aleksander Lust
• Matthew Rudolph
• Andrew Yeo
  

Theory

• Craig Ewasiuk
• Katherine Gordy
• Alexander Moon
• Jeffrey Selinger
  

ANU CHAKRAVARTY's dissertation is titled "Surrendering Consent: The Politics of Transitional Justice in post-genocide Rwanda" (degree expected May 2008). Her research shows how legal processes with the goal of dispensing reconciliatory justice lead people to concede to government the 'right to rule' despite believing that current state elites lack the moral authority to govern. Thus citizens do not enforce limits on the state, enabling elites in power to deprive them of political rights and still survive on citizen support. Her dissertation links the largely legalistic literature on transitional justice with two distinct literatures in political science- one on power, authority and compliance and the other on democratization. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in Rwanda, the primary data collected includes prison and community-based surveys, a detailed ethnography of local state-society dynamics and community-based genocide trials in their hearing, judgment and sentencing stages.

For the year 2007-8, she is a Kroc Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. She has a primary area studies focus on sub-Saharan Africa and a secondary area focus in South Asia. In future research, she plans a comparative study to explore if the choice of truth commissions versus trials in transition countries has a causal effect on different democratization outcomes. Her research interests also include genocide studies, human rights, nationalism, social movements, and contentious politics broadly defined. She has taught a Freshman Writing Seminar on ethnic conflict and worked as TA for courses in political theory, comparative politics and international relations. The most recent was a course on "The International Law and Politics of Human Rights" offered by Professor Nina Tannenwald.

Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation-funded Workshop on Transnational Contention, the Mellon Foundation, the Sage and Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowships and grants from the Mario Einaudi Center at Cornell University. She has presented her work at invited talks as well as at conferences, including the American Political Science Association and African Studies Association annual meetings. Her publications include a co-authored chapter in a book edited by Raka Ray and Mary Katzenstein, articles in peer-reviewed journals and an article entry in the Encyclopedia of World History. Her dissertation committee includes Professors Sidney Tarrow (Chair), Nicolas van de Walle, Mary Katzenstein and Devra Moehler. Email: ac282@cornell.edu

Il HYUN CHO is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. For the 2007-08 academic year, he will be an exchange scholar in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research and teaching interests include international relations theory, security studies, nuclear proliferation, alliance politics, the international relations of East Asia, East Asian politics, democratization and regionalism in East Asia. His dissertation, entitled "Global Rogues and Regional Orders: The North Korean Challenge in Post-Cold War East Asia," explores the nexus between the North Korean challenge as the problem of a global rogue state and the regional order in East Asia. Based on extensive field research in China, Japan, and South Korea, this dissertation explains the variation in regional responses to different U.S. approaches toward North Korea and assesses its impact on the regional order in post-Cold War East Asia. His dissertation committee includes Peter Katzenstein (chair), Matthew Evangelista, J. J. Suh, and Allen Carlson. He has been a teaching assistant for Introduction to International Relations, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to Peace Studies, Causes of War, and Contemporary International Conflicts. Research for his dissertation has been supported by Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Mellon Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation/Peace Studies Fellowship, and Cornell University's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. His work has been published by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. He has also presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association (2005, 2006) and the International Studies Association (2005, 2006, 2007) as well as other invited seminars and conferences. Cho was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University (2006-07), a visiting research scholar at the Institute of Social Sciences, the University of Tokyo (2005), a member of the Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operation and Strategies (SWAMOS) sponsored by Columbia University (2003), a fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, D.C. (2002-2003), and a research fellow at the Center for International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul (2000). Email: ic44@cornell.edu or icho1@stanford.edu.

CRAIG EWASIUK (Ph.D expected June 2006) is currently completing his dissertation, "The Tricycle: Notions of Recurrence in Modern Political Theory," and is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science through May 2006. His project investigates the role of recurring political phenomena, from revenge-code violence to daily routines, in the thought of Hobbes, Hegel and Nietzsche. It looks at different ways that either order or disorder can be promoted by emphasizing the cyclical patterns of certain behaviours, and investigates how recurrence has traditionally been used as a rhetorical device in the canon of western political thought. The dissertation advisors are Isaac Kramnick (Chair) Nancy Hirschmann (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania), Theodore Lowi, Jeremy Rabkin and Frederick Neuhouser (Philosophy, Columbia University). Craig's teaching and research interests include 18th and 19th century continental and early liberal political thought. He has experience teaching introductory American politics and political theory courses, as well as ancient political theory. Since 2001, Craig has designed and taught four courses of his own, including an upper-level American politics seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. He has presented papers on Hobbes, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association as well as the Midwestern, Northeastern and Western regional meetings. In 2004, Craig was awarded an MA in Political Science from Cornell University, and has held both Russell Sage and Mellon Fellowships. Email: cre6@cornell.edu

KATHERINE GORDY (PhD May 2005) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Franklin and Marshall College where she teaches courses in political theory and Latin American Studies.

Her research is in comparative political thought as it relates to the study of ideology, culture, politics and economics. Her book manuscript, Reviving Ideology: Theorizing the Principles of Cuban Socialism, explores these relationships within the context of Cuban socialism. The question animating the study is how political theory and political science can take the concept of ideology seriously as the basic framework in which political discourse and practice takes place. Because political ideologies are necessarily defined by their relationship to political practice, she argues that they are best studied vis-à-vis their concrete and historical manifestations. In the book, she draws upon textual analysis, ethnographic interpretation, and comparative political thought to trace the inter-relations between what she identifies as different “spheres” of Cuban political thought­political doctrine (official sphere), political theory (academic sphere), and daily practice (popular sphere). Using the archival and ethnographic evidence gathered during two years of research in Cuba, she shows how a robust socialist ideology operates at all levels of society, challenging accounts of socialist ideology as solely state-originated dogma or as necessarily in opposition to academic and popular forms of political thought.

She has published some of this research. Her article “’Sales + Economy + Efficiency= Revolution’?: Dollarization, Consumer Capitalism and Popular Responses in Special Period Cuba,” published in Public Culture, draws upon Walter Benjamin’s critique of history as progress and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to argue that the complexity of Cuban popular responses to economic and social changes in post-Soviet Cuba challenges the narrative of an increasing Cuban embrace of consumer culture overcoming an ossified socialist dogma. While both the official and popular spheres invoke key socialist principles, what distinguishes them is the official sphere’s insistence upon a particular combination of those principles.

She is in her second year at Franklin and Marshall. After completing her dissertation in 2005, she taught at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School and the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York. At Cornell, Gordy worked with political theorists Susan Buck-Morss (dissertation chair) and Isaac Kramnick and historian Maria Cristina Garcia. Email: katherine.gordy@fandm.edu

JANA GRITTERSOVÁ is a doctoral candidate (expected May 2008) in the Department of Government at Cornell University. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she will be a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European Studies at the UC Berkeley. Her broader research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political science and economics with a specific focus on the political economy of international finance. Her research and teaching interests also include international and comparative political economy, international relations theory, postcommunist political and economic reform in Eastern Europe (EE), European integration, and research methods (both quantitative and qualitative).

Her dissertation ("The Power of Financiers: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in Eastern Europe") explores how financial institutions influence the decisions of governments with regards to exchange rate policies in the post-communist societies. The project's central claim is that exchange rate regime choices depend on: (1) the ownership structure and institutional variation of national financial systems in EE countries, shaped by privatization and liberalization of foreign entry; and, (2) the different preferences and strategies of incumbent domestic (state-owned and private) and foreign banks in exchange rate policies. Therefore, in this research the connection between financial interests and exchange rate regime choices is modified by domestic financial structures. The dissertation combines statistical (cross-national and time series) data analysis, and comparative case studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Estonia. These four country studies illustrate a novel four-fold typology of financial systems in EE: capture, collusion, consensus, and competition.

Grittersová obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, and MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, Department of Political Science. While at Stanford, she designed and taught a course on Political Economy of East Central Europe, which was a core course for MA program in Russian and East European studies. She has also held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at the UC Berkeley, where she was a teaching associate for a course on Theories of Political Economy. At Cornell, she has served as a teaching assistant for a course on Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict (Professor Peter Katzenstein). She has taught International Finance at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her professional experience also includes work for the European Commission in Brussels and the National Bank of Slovakia.

Her dissertation research has been supported by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Institute for European Studies, the Graduate School, and the Department of Government at Cornell University. She is also the recipient of the British Chevening Award, a pre-doctoral fellowship from the University Ca'Foscari in Venice, Italy, and a fellowship from the Institute International d'Administration Publique in Paris, France. She was a visiting research fellow at the central banks of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. She was invited to present her research at the Bulgarian National Bank, University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, and World Affairs Council. She has also presented papers at numerous professional conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the European Union Studies Association. She will also present a paper at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in January 2008. Her monograph "The Redefinition of the Transatlantic Partnership" was published by the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, and her other publications on independence of central banks, European monetary integration, European Union enlargement, as well as short pieces on the US foreign policy have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and policy magazines. She reviewed books for Nationalities Papers. She has been a manuscript reviewer for East European Politics and Societies. Her economic analyses and legal decisions on the European competition law are published in the Official Journal of the European Communities. She is a co-author of the essay of multi-method work for a Symposium for the Qualitative Methods Newsletter (2007), edited by Andrew Bennett.

She has received training at the European School on New Institutional Economics, the ICPSR's summer program in Quantitative Methods, and the Institute for Qualitative Research Methods. She has also attended the summer MBA program at the Vienna University of Business Administration and Economics in Austria, as well as numerous seminars on central banking and European Union. Besides English and her native Slovak, she is fluent in French, Italian, and Czech. She also has a working knowledge of Russian and German. Her dissertation committee includes Peter Katzenstein (chair), Valerie Bunce, Barry Eichengreen (Department of Economics, UC Berkeley), Jonathan Kirshner, and Christopher Way. Personal Web Site: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jg288/

STEPHANIE HOFMANN is a PhD Candidate (expected June 2008) in the Government Department at Cornell University. Her research and teaching interests include International Relations theory, particularly International Security and International Organization, with a regional emphasis on European security and transatlantic relations, the creation of regional security institutions, political parties and party ideologies.

Her dissertation "European Security in the Shadow of NATO: Party Ideologies and Institution Building" links the IR security literature with theories of party politics. She explores why European states have tried to create a new security institution in an institutionalized space already occupied by NATO, and why there has been variation in the outcomes of these attempts over the past six decades. Instead of concentrating on NATO's mandate and transformation in the realm of international security, European states repeatedly tried to create their own defense or crisis management institution. These attempts have diverted military resources and expertise from NATO and generated political and functional inefficiencies. These dynamics hamper responses to international crises as witnessed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.

She connects the variable ability of European governments to institutionalize proposals for security cooperation multilaterally to the ideologies of European political parties. Her explanation underscores the causal impact of ideological congruence among political parties in power in key European states. Political ideologies matter for the security policies of individual states. But Hofmann goes beyond this to show how their aggregation at the international level has important consequences in international relations. Focusing on governments in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, she examines the cases of European Political Cooperation (1970), the Common Foreign and Security Policy (1993), the Amsterdam Treaty negotiations (1996-97) and European Security and Defense Policy (1999). Her dissertation committee consists of Peter J. Katzenstein (chair), Matthew A. Evangelista, Chris J. Anderson and Robert J. Weiner.

Her findings are based on extensive field research in Europe. She has spent the last two years in Europe conducting interviews in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, and is currently based at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Her research has been funded through such grants as the VolkswagenStiftung, Compagnia di San Paolo and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Grant within the joint research and training programme "European Foreign and Security Policy Studies," the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), and a Luigi Einaudi Fellowship. She has received training at the Institute for Qualitative Research Methods and the EU-CONSENT PhD School at Cambridge University.

Outside the dissertation, her research focuses on issues of regime complexity in the policy space of crisis management. Her initial ideas have been published as a working paper under the editorship of Karen Alter and Sophie Meunier (currently under review).

Hofmann's teaching experience includes "Introduction to International Relations" and "Introduction to Comparative Politics" as well as "Causes of War." While in Germany, she taught her own class at the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena on "International Relations Theories and Their Relevance to International Politics." Email: sch35@cornell.edu

ASHRAF ISMAIL was born in Alexandria Egypt. Ashraf holds an undergraduate degree in European History from the University of Texas at Austin, and has completed a Masters of Arts in Government at Cornell as well as a Masters of Science in Economics, with a focus on International Politics and International Financial Relations. Ashraf has also completed an entire first draft of his dissertation, which employs game theory and contract theory to analyze the reasons why many developing economies have experienced system wide banking crisis.

The title of Ashraf's thesis is: "A Theory of Financial Authority: Contract Theory, Distributional Conflict, and Banking Crisis." Ashraf's research is focused substantively upon Thailand and Taiwan, where he conducted extensive field research regarding regulatory and financial institutions. Ashraf's thesis challenges the institutional delegation literature and argues that because every regulatory action generates monetary and fiscal consequences, distributional conflict is endemic to financial regulation and cannot be eliminated by delegating regulatory authority to an independent government agency.

Ashraf has also conducted research on economic and political reform in the Middle East, with a specific focus on the politics of foreign direct investment in Egypt, Syria, and the Persian Gulf region. During the 2001-2002 academic year, Ashraf served as a visiting instructor at Georgetown University, where he taught courses on International Relations, International Political Economy, International Organization, and Globalization and Global Governance. During the 2004-2005 academic year, Ashraf taught International Relations, International Political Economy as well as courses on the topic of Globalization and anti-Globalization movements at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Email: ami2@cornell.edu

JAI KWAN JUNG is a Ph.D. Candidate (expected May 2008) in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. They include international conflict, civil war, ethnic conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding and reconciliation, comparative democratization and political institutions, social movements and contentious politics, East Asian politics, and political methodology (both quantitative and qualitative research methods). Linking civil war studies with the democratization literature, his dissertation, The Paradox of Institution Building after Civil War: A Trade-off between Short-term Peacemaking and Long-term Democracy Building, seeks to answer how the international community can contribute to effective peacebuilding and democracy promotion in countries emerging from deadly internal conflicts. He investigates what causes the success or failure of democratization in post-civil war societies and how post-conflict institutional design influences short-term peacemaking and long-term prospects for democratic governance. The theoretical and empirical results of his study show that political institutions well designed to end civil war are not necessarily as effective for establishing democratic governance. There is a trade-off between the short-term interest in ending civil war as quickly as possible through power-sharing arrangements and the long-term goal of democracy promotion in war-torn societies. His dissertation research is based on extensive large-N data collection and paired comparison of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Mozambique. It has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Marion and Frank Long Fellowship, the Peace Studies Program and the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University. Jung has presented his research at numerous professional conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Midwest Political Science Association. His work has been published in European Journal of Political Research (forthcoming) and Partners or Rivals? European-American Relations After Iraq (2005) edited by Matthew Evangelista and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi. Jung has been a teaching assistant for Introduction to International Relations, European Politics and Society, and Modern Japanese Politics. He was also the coordinator of International Relations Concentration at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. He received his master's degrees in political science from Cornell University and Korea University and his bachelor's degree in political science from Korea University. His dissertation committee includes Sidney Tarrow (Chair), Valerie Bunce, Walter Mebane, and Christopher Way. Email: jkj3@cornell.edu Link to webpage: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jkj3/

MARIA KOINOVA is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Government at Cornell University. Recently she was a Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (summers 2006, 2007), Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut (2005-2006) and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (fall 2006). She also held a pre-doctoral research fellowship from the Program on Intra-state Conflict at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University (2002-2003).

Her current research interests include the impact of diaspora groups on the political affairs of their homeland with a particular focus on secessionism, post-conflict reconstruction and democratization. Her project: "Are Diasporas a Moderating or Radicalizing Factor during the Post-conflict Reconstruction of Divided Societies? Lebanese and Albanian Diasporas Compared" won a small research grant from the American Political Science Association in May 2007. Her article "Diasporas and Secessionist Conflicts: Four Processes and the Mobilization of the Albanian, Armenian, and Chechen Diasporas" is under review with Comparative Politics, and her paper "Diasporas and Democratization in the Post-Communist World" is prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of APSA in Chicago 2007.

She obtained her Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence, Italy in September 2005 where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Schmitter. Her dissertation is entitled "Degrees of Ethno-National Violence: The Cases of Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria after the End of Communism." The dissertation is being prepared for future publication as a book, and two articles from it are already under review with peer-reviewed journals. Koinova's publications on ethno-political conflicts and the politics of diversity have appeared in academic journals, edited volumes, and analytical magazines since 1996.

Koinova spent four years at Harvard University as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2001-2004) and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (2004-2005). While at Harvard, she was a teaching assistant for two and a half years at the Department of Government at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for courses on comparative politics (for Professors Steven Levitsky and Pippa Norris), nationalism and international relations (Lars-Eric Cederman), democracy and political development of Europe (Daniel Ziblatt), and a writing intensive sophomore tutorial course exploring the relationship between comparative politics and international relations (Stanley Hoffmann and Cindy Skach). She also attended a tutorial program at Harvard's Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

Since the defense of her dissertation in September 2005 Koinova has prepared six new courses: "International Security" and "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics" at UMass Amherst; "Theories of Comparative Politics," "European Politics: Nationalism, Democracy and the State in Europe," "Politics of Post-industrial Governments, and "Introduction to Political Science" at the American University of Beirut.

Recently Koinova received training at the Institute on Qualitative and Multi-method Research at Arizona State University (January 2007), the Philip Merrill Center on Strategic Studies at John Hopkins University (June 2007), and the Solomon Asch Center on Ethno-Political Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania (summer 2005). Email: mk435@cornell.edu

ALEKSANDER LUST was born in Tartu, Estonia and holds an MA in Government (2002) from Cornell University. He is expected to receive his Ph.D. in August 2008. A magna cum laude graduate of Middlebury College with Highest Honors in political science, he studied German politics and history at the Free University of Berlin as a fellow of the Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin. Alex is mainly interested in comparative politics and international relations, particularly the eastern enlargement of the European Union. However, he would also enjoy teaching courses in American politics, which is his minor field at Cornell, and political theory, which he studied as an undergraduate. He has extensive teaching experience in all subfields of political science at both college and high school levels. Besides English and his native Estonian, Alex is fluent in German and Russian and proficient in French. He has now undertaken to become numerically literate by learning regression analysis.

Alex's dissertation, "Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Economic Reforms and Popular Attitudes toward European Integration in Eastern Europe," explains why citizens of some East European countries strongly supported joining the European Union (EU) in the 2003-2006 referenda and opinion polls, while voters in other countries came close to rejecting the accession. He finds that voters' attitudes to the EU reflected their country's strategy of economic reforms. In countries that sold state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to their managers and continued to trade heavily with Russia, most people hoped that EU membership would increase economic growth. In countries that sold SOEs to foreigners and rapidly reoriented their trade to the EU, however, poor people blamed Western integration for destroying traditional industry and agriculture. These hypotheses are developed using content analysis of Lithuanian and Estonian newspapers and tested with survey data from, and qualitative comparisons among, the ten new EU member states.

Alex has presented his research at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He has published an article in Problems of Post-Communism and reviewed books for Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming), East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, and Political Geography. A founding member of the Estonian Social Democratic Party, he believes that the world would be a better place if more social scientists participated in politics and more politicians studied social science. In his spare time, he runs and practices Tae Kwon Do. He can be reached at al52@cornell.edu.

SAMANTHA MAJIC is a PhD Candidate (expected July 2008) in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her research and teaching interests include American politics, gender and politics, feminist theory, political participation and activism, public policy and qualitative methods.

After completing her undergraduate degree in political science and economics at the University of Toronto in 1997, she spent the following year as an intern at the Ontario Legislature and then completed an MA in political science at York University, Toronto, in 2003. Her thesis, entitled “An Opportunity to Publicize the Private: Public Education Campaigns and Domestic Violence” will be published in the collection edited by Professors Josephine Fong and Susan Silva-Wayne, entitled Out of the Shadows: Woman Abuse in Ethnic, Immigrant and Aboriginal Communities from the Toronto Women’s Press (forthcoming, December 2007). Building on her interests in gender issues and public policy (specifically regarding welfare reform), Samantha has also co-authored (with Professor Gwendolyn Mink and Leandra Zarnow) a piece entitled “Poverty Law and Income Support: from the Progressive Era to the War on Welfare”, which will be published in Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins (Eds) Cambridge History of Law in the United States (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008).

Her current research and teaching interests in the Department of Government are in American politics, looking specifically at prostitution laws and activism in the United States. Under the supervision of Professors Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (chair), Theodore Lowi and Anna Marie Smith, she is working on a dissertation entitled “Sex Work, Morality and the Self-Organization of Sex Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area”. Funded by grants from the Walter and Sandra LaFeber Fund, and the Departments of Government, American Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, her research engages with literatures on the politics of moral issues and on non-profit organizations’ intersection with the welfare state to understand the political impact on sex workers (as a marginalized group) when they assert their sexual agency within a morally restrictive polity to serve their peers. Here she studied two flagship sex worker-developed and run organizations located in the San Francisco Bay Area: the St. James Infirmary and the California Prevention and Education Project. Based on archival, interview-based and participatory/observation research her findings indicate that sex workers assert their sexual agency and negotiate morally restrictive structures by offering non-judgmental harm-reduction oriented services (often in partnership with federal, state and local government agencies) to a constituency that is largely stigmatized, criminalized, poor and uninsured. However, by participating in this service-provision model of activism, any radical political activities or advocacy on their part is curtailed to varying degrees by what she has identified as three vectors of depoliticization: registration with the state as a 501c3 non-profit organization; state and federal prostitution laws; and granting agency requirements for data collection and monitoring.

In addition to her research, Samantha is strongly committed to teaching and mentoring. Along with serving as a teaching assistant for courses at Cornell including “Introduction to American Government” and “Women and Politics”, Samantha developed and taught her own freshmen writing seminar, entitled “Sex for Sale: Thinking through Sex Work in America and Beyond”. Email: sam232@cornell.edu

ALEXANDER MOON received his Ph.D. in August 2005. In his manuscript "Making Liberals," which he is revising for Cambridge University Press, he shows that, contrary to many of its critics and defenders, a concern for virtue is internal to liberal political theory. Alexander argues that the liberal virtues can only be identified and defended on the basis of a foundation for liberal theory. Attempts to ground it in conceptions of the good, the norm of mutual respect, communicative action, and Rawls's burdens of judgment fail. Political liberalism's claim to do without foundations altogether is incoherent. Alexander grounds liberalism in practices of justification and shows how these require citizens to be autonomous, skeptical, alienated, and
independent. Liberalism accommodates, and rightly so, a much narrower range of personality types and ways of life than its defenders claim. Chapters on family and welfare policy illustrate how this model of liberalism can determine what the virtues are and identify their practical-political implications. The book will contribute to debates about the liberal virtues, contemporary liberal theory, and the foundations of political theory. Alexander is currently an adjunct professor and has taught a broad range of courses. In addition to his specialty, contemporary liberal and critical theory, he has taught courses on classical social theory, class, gender, and racial stratification, American politics, multiculturalism, toleration, environmental policy, and the politics of prisons. Email: am63@cornell.edu

MATTHEW C.J. RUDOLPH

E-mail: mcr4@cornell.edu

JEFFREY SELINGER is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests include the American Presidency, political parties, American political development, public policy, constitutional law, American political thought, and the history of political thought. His dissertation, "Embracing Dissent: Presidential Leadership and the Development of Legitimate Party Opposition in the United States," examines the political and institutional conditions that have encouraged American presidents to legitimate the role of a party opposition. He and his dissertation committee, which includes Theodore J. Lowi (Chair), Jason Frank, Jeremy Rabkin, and Martin Shefter, anticipate a defense of the dissertation in May of 2006. During his time at Cornell, Selinger has been awarded The Dwight Eisenhower - Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship, granted by the Eisenhower Institute. He has held Russell Sage and Mellon Fellowships, and has been selected to be a fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency in Washington, D.C. Selinger has presented his research at numerous professional conferences, including the annual conferences of the American Political Science Association, the Northeastern Political Science Association, and the New England Political Science Association. Email: jss53@cornell.edu

ANDREW YEO is a PhD Candidate (expected June 2008) in the Government Department at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests include international relations theory, international security, East Asian security, military transformation, transnational politics, social movements, and qualitative methods and research design. His dissertation, Tied Above, Pressed Below: Security Alliances, Social Movements, and the Politics of Overseas Military Bases, links the IR security literature with social movement theories to examine how bilateral security alliances with the U.S. influence state-society interaction and social movement outcomes in the politics of overseas U.S military bases. Investigating how host governments attempt to stave off domestic pressure from anti-base movements while also trying to maintain their alliance obligations to the U.S., Yeo find that the host government's response and social movement effectiveness depends on the level of security consensus held by political elites regarding U.S.-host state relations. His findings are based on field research conducted in South Korea and the Philippines, with shorter research trips to Japan, Ecuador, and Italy (in January 2008). The research was funded by a Fulbright Grant as well as Cornell University's Peace Studies Program, East Asia Program, and Graduate School. He was a visiting research scholar at Seoul National University's Center for International Studies (2005-2006), and at the University of the Philippines - Diliman, Third World Studies Center (2006). He also participated in programs such as the Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations & Strategy (SWAMOS) and the Institute for Qualitative Research Methods (IQRM).

In addition to research, Yeo is strongly committed to teaching and mentoring. Last spring he designed and taught a freshman writing seminar titled, Power, Tragedy, and Honor: The Three Faces of War. Active learning and simulations were also an important component of the course. One of his course assignments, "The Afghan Model and Styles of Writing," was awarded the Knight Award for Writing Exercises. He was also the head teaching assistant for Introduction to International Relations with Professor Peter Katzenstein in Fall 2006.

Yeo's research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of East Asian Studies, and Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies. He received his MA in Government from Cornell University, and his BA, magna cum laude from Northwestern University in Psychology and International Studies. His dissertation committee includes Peter Katzenstein (chair), Sidney Tarrow, Matthew Evangelista, Christopher Way, and J.J. Suh.
Email: aiy3@cornell.edu