I want to thank you for everything each of you is doing during this challenging period. Many people are understandably anxious about COVID-19 and the unknowns that it poses. And yet, GVPT is doing a remarkable job rising to the challenge: from our staff who are continuing to serve our faculty and students; from the faculty rescheduling events, projects and moving their classes online, to our graduate students who are balancing their course work and teaching/research responsibilities. Thank you, all, for your commitment to the well-being of our GVPT community. As before, please continue to visit https://umd.edu/virusinfo for ongoing updates.
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These are challenging times for all and the already difficult balance for Ph.D. students to engage in their training and GA work has been made more complicated. Please reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.
The Graduate School has a website for information related to changes designed to address COVID-19. Please see: https://gradschool.umd.edu/coronavirus. The FAQ section has important details ( https://gradschool.umd.edu/coronavirus/frequently-asked-questions). International students should also see ISSS's FAQs: https://globalmaryland.umd.edu/offices/international-student-scholar-services/faq-during-covid-19.
I would like to call your attention to counseling help and changes to graduation policy from the Graduate School's FAQs. You can reach the Graduate Academic Counselor at slivings@umd.edu. For Spring graduation, all final dissertations and supporting documents must be submitted by April 21, 2020. Students who submit by May 29, 2020 do not have to pay additional tuition or fees but will have a Summer graduation date. Students can graduate with the Ph.D. without paying Summer 2020 tuition if all materials are finalized and submitted by July 31, 2020, but they will have to register for 1 credit of 899. I strongly recommend you plan to register prior to June 1.
Until campus opens for in-person work again, dissertation defenses will take place remotely. Please ensure that your chair has filled out the form at https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_6u24uoAOIJZJOGF .
Anyone who might need an extension either pre- (5 years to reach candidacy) or post-candidacy (9 total years to get the degree) should contact me as soon as possible. I expect the Graduate School to be very flexible but I also expect a large number of requests so the sooner we can submit the request the better.
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Stacy Kosko
2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Junior Scholar Nomination
Stacy was also awarded a First-Year Innovation and Research Experience (FIRE) grant for 2020 for my project entitled "Global Development and Design."
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Michael Spivey
Joel J. Feller Esq. Faculty Fund Winner
This award is in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the department and our students in the area of law, society, politics and policy.
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Shannon Carcelli
Recipient of the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards (ISRCA)
For her proposal "Bureaucracy at the Border: The Fragmentation of Foreign Policy."
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Sarah Croco
Recipient of the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards (ISRCA)
For her proposal "The Twitter Presidency: Who Trump Talks About, How He Talks About Them, and Why It Matters."
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Jennifer Hadden
Recipient of the Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards (ISRCA)
For her proposal "Understanding the Social Reception of Proposed Energy Infrastructure in the Developing World."
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Stella Rouse
Journal Article
Her new article (co-authored with Paul S. Herrnson and Jeffrey Taylor), "The Impact of Electoral Arrangements on Minority Representation: District Magnitude and the Election of African American State Legislators," is forthcoming in the Election Law Journal.
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Ric Uslaner
Edited Volume
His work, National Identity and Social Cohesion, co-edited with Nils Holtug (University of Copenhagen), is in progress for ECPR Press. Ric also co-edited, with Chong-Min Kim (University of Korea), Inequality and Democratic Politics in East Asia (Routledge, 2019). In this work, he wrote "Trust, Corruption, and Inequality."
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Marjorie Breslawski
Winner of the Don C. Piper Award
Awarded for the best conference paper or journal article by a graduate student in the Department.
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Alauna Safarpour
Winner of the Roger H. Davidson Award
Awarded for the best paper by a graduate student in the field of American Politics.
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Zachary Scott
Winner of the Conley H. Dillon Award
Awarded to a doctoral candidate whose dissertation makes an original contribution to those fields and questions that occupied Professor Dillon throughout his career, in particular, intergovernmental relationships within the United States, American Government, or public policy in the U.S.
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Margaret McWeeney
Winner of the James F. Hoobler Award
Awarded to a graduate student in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland at College Park interested in public policy and management.
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Xiaonan Wang
Journal Article
Xiaonan Wang has published "Seeking Credibility from Uncertainty: How Formal Cooptation Institution Unleashes Outspoken NGOs," forthcoming in Voluntas.
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Charles Hunt
Assistant Professor at Boise State University
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Jacob Lewis
Assistant Professor at Washington State University
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Brandon Ives
Assistant Professor at Seoul National University
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Jared McDonald
Post-Doctoral Scholar of Communication at Stanford University
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Trey Billing
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Mershon Center for International Studies at the Ohio State University
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