Work on the Court’s Legitimacy from BU Profs in the News
The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is making news these days with the confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh. To what extent does the public change their views of the Supreme Court around political events like these? Political science has had much to say about the topic. See, for example, two recent pieces in Vox that discuss work […]
Faculty Search in American Politics
The Department of Political Science at Boston University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in American politics. The position is open with respect to substantive focus within American Politics. The start day is 1 July 2019, pending final budgetary and Provost’s final approval. The successful candidate will teach four courses a year, variously […]
Prof Glick Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to David Glick on his recent promotion to the rank of associate professor. Glick holds a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University, and was previously a visiting fellow at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College. His research and teaching interests in American Politics include political institutions, especially law and courts, […]
Prof Maxwell Publishes on Foucault Lectures
Visiting Associate Professor Lida Maxwell recently published an article in Contemporary Political Theory: “The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia.” Abstract: This essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political […]
Emeritus Professor Palmer Passed Away on April 28th
Emeritus Professor David Scott Palmer passed away on April 28th. His long life, eighty years, was well lived. He was a person of strong convictions, unfailing courtesy, and thorough decency and humanity. Additionally, he was a scholar of the first order. He authored six important books and more than sixty articles. He was a thoughtful participant […]
Prof Mayers Publishes on American Diplomats in Cold War
Prof Mayers recently published an article, Crossing to Safety from Cold War America: The Collaboration and Friendship of John Paton Davies, Jr. and George Frost Kennan, in Diplomacy & Statecraft. The piece chronicles the “interwoven careers and lives of two distinguished American diplomats… Foreign Service officers, who rose to prominence in the years immediately after […]
Prof Piston Publishes Book on Class Attitudes
Professor Piston recently published a book, Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications, with Cambridge University Press. This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard […]
Prof Crawford Receives ISA Distinguished Scholar Award
At the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Professor Neta Crawford received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the ISA’s International Ethics Section. This honor was conferred in recognition of her many and vital scholarly contributions through the years to the study of ethics/international relations. Photo courtesy of Professor Jessica Blankshain (Naval War College/BU)
Prof Schmidt Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Professor Vivien Schmidt has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of seventeen-year-old John Simon Guggenheim, the elder of their two sons, who died April 26, 1922, the Foundation has sought from its inception to “add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific […]
Prof Crawford on What We’ve Learned from the Iraq War
In a recent article in Think Progress Professor Neta Crawford discusses what – if anything – the United States learned from its 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Iraq War’s fallout persists, and harsh consequences are still to come https://thinkprogress.org/iraq-war-15-year-anniversary-ac6c5461c69e/