Upcoming Events

Colloquium: Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics

CATHY J. COHEN is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She is the author of “The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics” and co-editor of “Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader.” Along with Frederick Harris, Cohen has edited a new series with Oxford Press titled "Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities." Her book in the series, “Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics,” will be published in August 2010. This colloquium is part of the U.Va. Politics Department’s “American Political Thought: Institutions and Values” series. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: Rethinking the Roots of U.S. Power and Policy in the 21st Century

FRANCIS J. GAVIN is Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and is the first Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs, at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Gavin’s teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, global governance, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms control, presidential policymaking and the history of international monetary relations.  Previously, he was an Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, an International Security Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Research Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, where he started “The Presidency and Economic Policy Program.” His book, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971, was published in 2004 by the University of North Carolina Press under their New Cold War History Series. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: From Political Theology to Vernacular Prophecy: Rethinking Redemption and Politics

GEORGE SHULMAN is a professor of political theory and American Studies at the Gallatin School of New York University. His teaching and writing emphasize the role of narrative in culture and politics. His first book, Radicalism and Reverence: Gerrard Winstanley and the English Revolution, was published by the University of California Press. His second book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2008. This colloquium is part of the U.Va. Politics Department’s “American Political Thought: Institutions and Values” series. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

THOMAS J. SUGRUE is the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Sugrue is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (2010) and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008), a Main Selection of the History Book Club and a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996), won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association, and the Urban History Association Award for Best Book in North American Urban History and was selected a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, an American Prospect On-Line Top Shelf Book on Race and Inequality, and a Lingua Franca Breakthrough Book on Race. Sugrue has won fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fletcher Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, and has been Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics

MARC HETHERINGTON is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism (2005) and Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (2009). He has published numerous articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and British Journal of Political Science. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: Obama’s Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics

THEDA SKOCPOL is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Skocpol's work covers an unusually broad spectrum of topics including both comparative and American politics. She is the author of several books including The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism (2007), What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2006) and Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (2005). In 2007, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for her "visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare, and political trust, pursued with theoretical depth and empirical evidence." RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: Advocacy in Hard Times: Resenting Marginalized Groups in Times of Crisis

DARA STROLOVITCH is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research and teaching focus on interest groups and social movements, political representation, the causes and consequences of American political inequalities, and the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (2007), which was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2008 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the field of U.S. national policy; the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association; the 2008 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Race, Gender, and Class; and the 2008 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize awarded by ARNOVA and Independent Sector for the best book on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector that informs policy and practice.RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: The Credit/Welfare State Trade Off: A Demand-side Theory of Comparative Political Economy

MONICA PRASAD is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Prasad studies how societies create and regulate markets, beginning with the state regulations of the Progressive Era up to the fair trade and carbon taxes of today. She is the author of The Politics of Free Markets, the 2007 winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, which investigates why the movement to minimize government regulation of markets – “neoliberalism” – was so much stronger in the U.S. and Britain than in West France and Germany. Prasad’s current projects include an edited volume on the sociology of taxation; research on the origins of progressive taxation in America; a comparative study of tax progressivity; and a comparative historical investigation of carbon taxes. RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.

Colloquium: The Future of the Liberal Internationalism

G. JOHN IKENBERRY is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and is co-facility director of the Princeton Project on National Security. He is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the best book in international history and politics. He is the author of Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988), and is currently writing a book entitled Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System.RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu. 

Please note, this colloquium will take place from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Colloquium: America’s Hegemonic Dilemma: Countering Global Insurgency

DAVID A. LAKE is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to over seventy scholarly articles and chapters, he is the author of Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 (1988) and Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in its Century (1999).  Most recently he wrote Hierarchy in International Relations (2009). He is the founding chair of the International Political Economy Society and was Program Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2007).  This colloquium is part of the U.Va. Politics Department’s Lansing Lee Seminar series.RSVP required to 434.243.8726 or gage@virginia.edu.