SPOTLIGHTS Deeg Appointed Dean
Richard Deeg, a celebrated teacher and widely published scholar with more than 25 years of experience at Temple University, has been appointed dean of the university’s College of Liberal Arts.
“Professor Deeg has the perfect combination for a Liberal Arts dean: He is an excellent teacher, an active researcher and has been both a department chair and senior associate dean for faculty and research,” said Richard M. Englert, president of the university. “He is the right person at the right time for our outstanding college.”
An expert on political economy, Deeg served as chair of the political science department for five years, where he established a department-based alumni board to support fundraising efforts, sponsored internship scholarships, and assisted in organizing career-oriented programs for political science majors. He also developed and implemented 4+1 BA/MA joint degree program in political science with Meiji University in Japan.
“I am honored to serve as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts. I very much appreciate the confidence Provost Epps and President Englert have placed in me and the investment Temple University is making in the future of the College of Liberal Arts,” said Deeg. “As a first generation college student born to immigrant parents without high school diplomas, I hold a deep commitment to the Conwellian tradition of providing access to the transformative potential of a high-quality university education.”
As senior associate dean for faculty and research, his duties included faculty affairs, research promotion, and strategic budget management. He joined Temple University in 1991, becoming a full professor in 2009. Deeg earned an undergraduate degree from Macalester College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, as well as the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin.
He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including Fulbright and Jacob K. Javits fellowships. Deeg received the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2003 from the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha. From 2011 to 2014 he served as treasurer and executive officer of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
His research focuses on German and European political economy, with a particular focus on the causes and mechanisms of change in financial market regulation and governance. He has published several authored and edited books, including Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (University of Michigan Press 1999) and numerous articles in political science, business, and sociology journals. In addition, he coedited The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations, published in 2014 by Oxford University Press. His current research is on the politics of forming a banking union in the European Union.
Nedelsky Awarded Fellowship
Jennifer Nedelsky, professor of political science and law at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a 2016–2017 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Faculty Research Fellowship for her project entitled “(Part) Time for All: Generating New Norms of Work and Care.” She is a scholar of feminist theory, legal theory, American constitutional history and interpretation, and comparative constitutionalism. In 2000 she was awarded the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research. Her most recent book, Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law (Oxford 2011) won the C.B. Macpherson Prize, awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. Her first book was Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism. She is coeditor with Ronald Beiner of Judgment, Imagination and Politics: Themes from Kant and Arendt.
She has two current research projects. The first, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, is “Judgment in Law and Life,” building on Hannah Arendt’s unfinished theory of judgment. The second is her research for which she was awarded the JHI Faculty Research Fellowship. This research focuses on shifting the norms around care and employment, so that everyone is expected to work part-time and do care work part-time.
JHI Research Fellowships are awarded to tenured faculty members and chosen for their distinction in achievements relative to their career stage, the excellence of their proposed project, and its relation to the annual theme for 2016–2017 which is “Time, Rhythm, and Pace.” For a full description of Nedelsky’s project and a complete list of fellowship winners go to the Jackman Humanities Institute website.
Segura New Dean
Gary Segura, the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy and professor of political science at Stanford University, has been named new dean of the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs.
“Chancellor [Gene] Block and I are confident that Gary will provide outstanding leadership as dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs,” Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh said in an announcement.
A member of the Stanford faculty since 2008, Segura is also a professor and former chair of Chicana/o-Latina/o studies. Additionally, he is a faculty affiliate of African and African American studies; American studies; feminist, gender and sexuality studies; Latin American studies; and urban studies. In addition, he is the director of the Center for American Democracy and the director of the Institute on the Politics of Inequality, Race, and Ethnicity at Stanford.
“I am honored and excited to be selected as dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs, and to come to UCLA,” Segura said. “The Luskin School and its distinguished faculty represent an outstanding intellectual community whose work makes important contributions in addressing human problems at the individual, community, national, and global levels. It will be my privilege to join them and do whatever I can to broaden and deepen their impact in Los Angeles, across California, and beyond.”
In 2010, Segura was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Washington, the University of Iowa, Claremont Graduate University, and UC Davis.
Segura received a bachelor of arts magna cum laude in political science from Loyola University of the South, and a master’s degree and a PhD in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on issues of political representation and social cleavages, the domestic politics of wartime public opinion, and the politics of America’s growing Latino minority.
Segura has published more than 55 articles and chapters, and he is a coeditor of Diversity in Democracy: Minority Representation in the United States and a coauthor of four books: Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation; Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences; The Future is Ours: Minority Politics, Political Behavior, and the Multiracial Era of American Politics; and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home.
Active in professional service, Segura is a past president of the Western Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, and Latino Caucus in Political Science. From 2009 to 2015, he was the coprincipal investigator of the American National Election Studies. Segura has also briefed members of Congress and senior administration officials on issues related to Latinos, served as an expert witness in three marriage-equality cases heard by the Supreme Court, and has filed amicus curiae briefs on subjects as diverse as voting rights, marriage equality, and affirmative action.
Turan Elected President of IPSA
İlter Turan, the professor emeritus of political pcience at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, has been elected president of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) for 2016–2018 following the unanimous decision of the IPSA Council on July 26.
The IPSA’s congress, one of the most important meetings in the political science academic community, brought over 2,800 political scientists and scholars from 99 countries to this year’s summit.
Turan received his BA from Oberlin College (USA) in 1962 and master’s of political science from Columbia University in 1964. He was an assistant at the political science chair of İstanbul University Faculty of Economics, where he was promoted to Doctor in 1966, associate professor in 1970, and professor in 1976. Turan was the rector of İstanbul Bilgi University between 1998 and 2001, and before that he worked at Koç University (1993–1998) and İstanbul University (1964–1993). He also lectured in various American and British universities as a guest lecturer.
Between 2000 and 2009 he served as chairman of the Turkish Political Science Association, vice-president of the International Political Science Association, and chairman of 2009 World Congress program. Today, Turan is in charge of the management of many foundations and companies such as the Health and Education Foundation Board of Trustees, and he has written for the newspaper Dünya.
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Weinstein Named New Director
Stanford Global Studies (SGS) has welcomed Jeremy M. Weinstein, professor of political science, as the new Fisher Family Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division.
Part of the Stanford community since 2004, Weinstein has worked at the highest levels of government on major foreign policy challenges. Between 2013 and 2015, he served as Deputy to the US Ambassador to the United Nations and before that as the Chief of Staff at the US Mission to the United Nations. During President Obama’s first term, he served as Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council staff from 2009 to 2011. Prior to joining the White House staff, Weinstein served as an advisor to the Obama campaign.
“It is a privilege to take over the leadership of SGS after a set of extraordinary leaders, including most recently Norman Naimark,” says Weinstein, who has also served as Director of the Center for African Studies. “SGS occupies a really central place on the Stanford campus and in the School of Humanities and Sciences as the meeting point for a set of educational and research activities around issues of global and regional importance.”
“Stanford Global Studies is central to the university’s goal to prepare students to be responsible, engaged citizens in our complex and interdependent world,” says Richard Saller, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. “Jeremy’s expertise on transnational issues such as human rights, democracy, and development, combined with his deep interest in area studies and experience in government make him a perfect fit for this position. I look forward to seeing SGS thrive under his leadership.” ■
Roper Center Honors Stimson
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research presented its 2016 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research to James Stimson, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina. Stimson accepted the award, one of the highest in the field, November 16 at a dinner in his honor in Washington, DC.
The Mitofsky Award is one of the Roper Center’s many activities on the national stage. Affiliated with the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, the center has 22,000 public opinion data-sets from more than 100 countries dating to 1935. Its iPOLL database of more than 650,000 survey questions gives users up-to-the-minute results from all major US polls.
Stimson is well-known in the field of public opinion research for his signature “policy mood” index. The index was the first measurement of large-scale shifts in the public’s attitude toward domestic policy issues such as gun control and abortion. He has also analyzed how public mood has influenced elections and which public policies have been enacted.
“Jim allowed political scientists and social scientists to study the political system in a dynamic, longitudinal way that wasn’t possible previously,” said Peter Enns, executive director of the Roper Center and associate professor of government. “So when we talk about ‘the liberal ’60s’ or why [President Ronald] Reagan was elected in 1980 when the public seemed to be moving toward conservatism, he was the first to be able to quantify those trends.”
Similarly, Stimson’s analysis of “conflicted conservatives” was ahead of the curve, anticipating support for presidential candidate Donald Trump in his 2012 book Ideology in America cowritten with Christopher Ellis.
With software he developed in the 1980s, Stimson has analyzed every question from every national poll of Americans on their public policy preferences. That translates to thousands of polls on hundreds of questions posed by dozens of different firms and university researchers—all held by the Roper Center.
“That is a staggering amount of data,” Stimson said. “Other archives specialize in academic research data, but only Roper houses the results of thousands of commercial surveys, the result of which would be lost without the Roper’s careful efforts to clean and store them.”
Whereas most Roper users analyze a study or two on a single issue, Stimson uses every poll on every domestic policy issue. “A former director of Roper once characterized me as an ‘industrial-strength user,’” he quipped.
Stimson is also known for making his software and data publically available, allowing scholars to use it for their research. And many graduate students have benefited from Stimson’s guidance as an adviser—including Enns.
“Jim believes in, respects, and models the best practices in conducting research,” Enns said.
