Colloquium: When the World Seemed New: American Foreign Policy in the Age of George H.W. Bush

JEFFREY A. ENGEL teaches history and public policy at Texas A&M University, where he is the Verlin and Howard '52 Founders Professor and Director of Programming for the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs.  The author and editor of six books on American foreign policy, he is currently writing a history of American foreign relations in the age of George H.W. Bush.

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Wednesday, March 28.

Colloquium: Money Matters: Debt markets and growth politics in the modern United States

DAVID FREUND, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, is the author of Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (University of Chicago Press, 2007), which won awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Urban History Association, and the Urban Affairs Association.  His current projects include a history of financial markets and free market ideology in the 20^th century and The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader.  At Maryland he directs the Department’s Honors Program and teaches courses on metropolitan history, state building, and the political economy of capitalism and inequality in the modern U.S.  

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Wednesday, April 4.

Colloquium: Matthew Lassiter

MATTHEW D. LASSITER is Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan.  He is the author of The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2006, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America series), winner of the 2007 Lillian Smith Award presented by the Southern Regional Council.  His article for the Journal of Urban History, “The Suburban Origins of ‘Color-Blind’ Conservatism: Middle-Class Consciousness in the Charlotte Busing Crisis,” was republished in The Best American History Essays 2006 (Palgrave).  He is also coeditor of The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford University Press, 2009) and The Moderates’ Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (University of Virginia Press, 1998).  His current book project is The Suburban Crisis: The Pursuit and Defense of the American Dream.

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Wednesday, April 11.

Colloquium: The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking

Please note that this colloquium will take place on a Monday.

BETH SIMMONS is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. Her book, Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939 (Princeton University Press, 1994), was recognized by the American Political Science Association in 1995 as the best book published in 1994 in government, politics, or international relations. Her recent book, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2009) received the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award, the International Social Science Council’s Stein Rokkan Prize, the American Society for International Law’s Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, and the International Studies Association’s Best Book Award.

Simmons was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, was recently a Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University, and is the current President of the International Studies Association.

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Thursday, April 12.

Colloquium: The Case for Policy-Focused Political Analysis

PAUL PIERSON is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (Simon and Schuster, 2010), co-authored by Jacob Hacker. Pierson is an active commentator on public affairs, whose writings have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. 

Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge University Press, 1994), won the American Political Science Association's 1995 prize for the best book on American national politics.  His article “Path Dependence, Increasing Returns and the Study of Politics” won the APSA’s prize for the best article in the American Political Science Review in 2000, as well as the Aaron Wildavsky Prize for its enduring contribution to the field of public policy, awarded by the Public Policy Section of the APSA in 2011. He has served on the editorial boards of The American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and The Annual Review of Political Science. 

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Wednesday, April 25.

Colloquium: Kimberly Morgan

KIMBERLY J. MORGAN is associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University.  Her research focuses on the politics of social policy in the United States and Western Europe, with particular interests in family policies, health care, and taxation.  Morgan's book, Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policy in Western Europe and the United States was published in 2006 by Stanford University Press, and her articles have appeared in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & History, Social Politics, and World Politics.  Morgan received an Investigators' Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study Medicare reform, and recently completed, with Andrea Louise Campbell, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of American Social Policy (Oxford University Press, 2011).  In 2006, she was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance, and she serves as an associate editor of the journal Social Politics.

Morgan was a post-doctoral fellow at NYU's Institute of French Studies (2000-01) and a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University (2001-03).   In 2008-09, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Wednesday, May 2.