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Insidethis issue

From thedepartment head

2Daniel Tichenor

2Daniel HoSang

3Graduate

student profiles

4Elections

speaker series

5Faculty and

graduate studentnews

6Alumni news

7 Honor roll of

donors

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Having a conversation with

retired UO political science

professor emeritus Jim Klonoski

is like taking a walk through fifty

years of Democratic Party history.

Klonoski’s stories

are peppered

with nameslike Humphrey,

Kennedy, and

Mondale. He

casually refers

to conversations

with Ron Wyden

and numbers Ted

Kulongoski among

his friends. But

although Klonoski

has had his finger

on the pulse of U.S.

politics for a very

long time indeed,he talks about his

extraordinary life

with a modesty, ease,

and humor that also

made him one of the most popular

professors in the department’s

history.

“As a person, I aspired to do two

things,” he says with a wry smile.

“To teach political science and

become a political party chairman.

I achieved both; my life is a

success.”

Klonoski earned his glowingreputation with students in

part through a Supreme Court

simulation course he taught that

devoted the last six weeks of each

term to hearing actual cases.

“The Duck Store gave me old

graduation robes for the judges to

wear,” he remembers. “We studied

current cases. In some cases, we

handed down judgments before

the court did! I’d break them into

groups of thirteen or fourteen.

There were two attorneys for each

A visit with James Klonoskiside and nine justices. They’d take off

for the law school for two weeks and

read everything they could find about

these justices and this case.”

Klonoski and his students would

then conduct formal

court proceedings,

hearing andarguing each case

and debating the

final opinions.

Demand for the

course far exceeded

the capacity, and

Klonoski actually

came out of

retirement to teach

it again from 1999 to

2002.

“I could be

somewhere in

Oregon and someguy’ll come up to

me and say, ‘Hey,

remember me? I was

Justice Brennan in

1983!’” Klonoski

laughs. “I also taught introductory

courses; I taught American

Government for

forty years. That’s

where I met most

students, and

that was their

introduction to the

department.”When asked

about his accessible

teaching style,

Klonoski claims

no special tricks

or talents, just

a dedication to

sharing his vision of

politics.

“I put everything

I had into forty years of teaching,”

he explains. “I felt completely

comfortable as a teacher because

I was a naïve believer in

democracy and the democratic

process, and I’d lay it on the

line. Rather than take a cynica

approach, I’d tell students, ‘It’s

quite an accomplishment, a

democratic way of life!’ And it

It’s hard to make it work; peopjust aren’t that rational. I wish

they were. But it was a positiv

approach to politics and I thin

[the students] responded to tha

Throughout his teaching car

Klonoski spent time outside th

classroom engaged in politics

on a more grass-roots level. He

was active in the civil rights

movement, served as county ch

of the Oregon Democratic Party

from 1970 to 1974, and state ch

from 1974 to 1980. Now, at the

age of eighty-three, Klonoski stfollows contemporary politics

with a keen eye for issues, tren

and personalities, but takes a

more subdued role than he has

the past, in large part because

his family life.

“My wife is a U.S. District

Court judge,” he

explains. “She’s

been making the

news for the fami

I used to sound

off in the paper

all the time, anda few times it got

embarrassing. I

didn’t want her

to be perceived a

someone who han

down decisions

reflecting someon

else’s opinions, so

backed off.

”But being out

of the political spotlight hardly

means Klonoski’s retirement y

have been dull. “I’ve been rais

continued on page 2

James Klonoski joinedthe UO Department of Political Science in 1961; he retired in 1995.



2 Political Science • Fall 2008

This fall, Daniel Tichenor joins

the University of Oregon as a

senior faculty fellow at the Wayne

Morse Center for Law and Politics

and as the Philip H.

Knight Professor of

Social Science in the

Department of Political

Science. Specializing

in immigration issues,

public policy, the U.S.

presidency, social

movements, and U.S.

political history, Tichenor brings a rich academic

background as well as

extensive institutional

research and experience

to his dual appointments.

The department is excited

to welcome Dan and his family to

Oregon.

PS: Describe your role with the

Wayne Morse Center. Why is it a

good fit for you and the type of work

you do?

DT: I’ve always hung my hat both

in political science departments and

in centers that allow for linkages to be

made between the study and practice of

American politics. That’s

why our department and

the Wayne Morse Center

are great homes for me.

It’s not surprising that

our faculty and students

have been prominent in

the work of the Morse

Center for years, since

many of us think carefullyabout the applied policy

and political significance

of our theoretical and

empirical scholarship. My

own research—whether

focusing on immigration, public

policy, advocacy groups, or governing

institutions—often has problem-driven

implications that are useful to share

in both academic and broader public

settings.

PS: What are some key elements of

the “Politics and Policy” program?

DT: As a new senior fellow at the

Morse Center, I will be launching a

program on democratic politics and

policy that is designed to bring together

and provide support for faculty members

and graduate students across several

disciplines whose scholarship speaks

to critical issues in American politics,

public policy, and current affairs. As one

element of the program, I have organized

a regular colloquia series to discuss the

work-in-progress of visiting scholars and

our own interdisciplinary faculty andgraduate students. The lineup this fall

features papers by Stephen Skowronek

(Yale) on theories of the unitary

executive, Lani Guinier (Harvard) and

Gilbert Torres (Texas at Austin) on the

“demosprudence” of law and social

movements, and our own Priscilla

Yamin on marriage and the politics of

welfare. I’ll also be hosting some special

conferences this fall, such as one on

Dan HoSang’s exciting book manuscript,

Q&A with Daniel Tichenor

these kids here,” he says, gesturing

toward his son, the youngest of five

brothers, and a high school junior.

“I didn’t ask to be eighty-three, but I

like being eighty-three. I’m glad I’m

surviving because I do enjoy politics,

and my boys are all into politics.”

Klonoski’s oldest son, Jake, was

recently featured in The Oregonian

for his attendance at the Democratic

National Convention as a representative

of Democrats Abroad (“He’ll probably

end up in politics . . . but his father in

no way pushed him into it!”).

“All I can do is agree with everyone

else,” he says, when asked about his

party’s candidate. “Barack Obama is

a phenomenon. He’s unique. The fact

is, we finally nominated a black man

for president, but in my opinion he’s

got to be eight points ahead going

into election day. Maybe not; maybe

we’re over it all. I’m not against the

American people; it’s a great country.

We’re making progress, but given my

own life and my own experience, I

have to be convinced.”

As Klonoski looks back on a

life fully engaged with election

cycles and power struggles, coups

and upsets, scandals and shining

moments in leadership, he feels

grateful that the UO was his

academic home through it all.

“Good department, good people,

good students,” he reflects. “I was

very happy at Oregon.”

Klonoski continued from page 1

continued on page 3

We have been working hard to raise

the national profile of the department.

Integral to those efforts has been an

attempt to strengthen our offerings inAmerican politics, perhaps the core

of our discipline. Last year marked an

important milestone in that regard, as we

hired Daniel Tichenor away from Rutgers

University

. We also welcome back Deborah

Baumgold and Leonard Feldman,

our two political theorists, from their

sabbatical years spent at Cambridge

University in England and the Institute

for Advanced Study in Princeton, New

Jersey, respectively.

As part of our successful speaker

series, we have organized a series

of three talks in October on the U.S.

elections titled Critical Perspectives on

Election 2008. The coming elections

also make our profile of Jim Klonoski in

this issue of the newsletter particularly

appropriate. Although he retired

some years ago, I know many of you

will remember him as a teacher with a

passion for U.S. politics and for teaching

students about it.I would like to end by thanking those

of you who have donated money to the

department. Your donations contribute

in important ways to the intellectual life

of the department. Your help is greatly

appreciated!

From the department head

Lars Skalnes



Political Science • Fall 2008 3

Before attending graduate school at

the University of Southern California

and writing an award-winning disser-

tation, assistant professor and Wayne

Morse Center resident scholar Daniel

HoSang spent ten years work-

ing as a community organizer inCalifornia. From his position as an

activist on the front lines, HoSang

could see a marked shift in the

political tide, as ballot initiatives

related to immigration, affirmative

action, and bilingual education

met the same frustrating fate.

“In all those cases the orga-

nization I was working for lost,”

he remembers. “We were beaten

worse each time.”

The political questions raised

by his experience with voting

trends stayed with HoSang as he

began his doctoral studies.

“What I really wanted to do

was understand how political

issues like ballot initiatives could

be interpreted through a cultural studies

framework,” he explains. “They have

symbolic meaning for people beyond the

political outcomes.”

Now occupying a joint appointment

in the political science department and

ethnic studies program, HoSang uses

his intimate knowledge of California’s

race-politics history as a basis for compari-

son with measures currently on the table

for Oregon voters. Issues such as mandatory

minimum sentencing and the restrictions on

how English-language learners can be taught

in school are, HoSang says,

subject to the concept of a“colorblind consensus.”

“Colorblind consensus

is used to describe the

agreement between liber-

als and conservatives that

it is no longer necessary

to talk about race and that

it is in everyone’s interest

to move beyond matters

of racial equality. So, on

the one hand race impacts

where you go to school and

who gets health insurance,

but on the other there is

this general agreement that

California, for example, is

a state that is beyond race.”

The 2008–9 academic

calendar holds several highlights for Ho-

Sang. He will publish his book, Racial

Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar

California, a project based on his doctoral

dissertation. In addition, HoSang’s scholarly

and organizational efforts will bring seminal

authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant to

the UO campus for a symposium honoring

the twenty-fifth anniversary of their

now-classic title, Racial Formation

in the United States. Scholars in the

fields of law, anthropology, sociol-

ogy, and political science, among

others, will gather to present papers

inspired by elements of Omi andWinant’s work, its implications over

the last quarter-century, and its im-

pact on future scholarship on race

and ethnicity. The conference will

lead to the publication of an edited

volume titled Racial Formation in

the Twenty-first Century.

Teaching is central to HoSang’s

enjoyment of academic life; this

year he will offer courses on race,

gender, and public policy, racial

politics and the law, theories of

race, and Asian American studies.

He’s also open to advising.

“I really enjoy working with grad-

uate students at all stages of their

projects,” he comments. “I hope to

do more of that.”

Although relatively new to Eu-

gene, HoSang finds life in Oregon to

be a good fit for him.

“I love it,” he says, definitively.

“I am thrilled to be in Eugene. The

students, the colleagues, all exceed-

ed every hope I had.”

Faculty Profile: Daniel HoSang

Racial Propositions, and another featuring

legal practitioners and scholars on

adjudication of cases at Guantanamo Bay.

PS: Your forthcoming book focuses

on democracy in times of crisis. Can

you comment on what “puzzle” you

encountered that led you to write this book?

DT: My theoretical interest stems from

a long-standing interest in the tensions between executive power and liberal

democracy. I began this study of the

prerogative presidency with two major

empirical concerns. First, I wanted to

systematically examine whether and

when Congress, the courts, subnational

officials, the media, advocacy groups, and

ordinary citizens advanced or exercised

some check on the emergency powers

of chief executives. Second, I wanted to

analyze how prerogative presidents like

Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR converged or

differed in the exercise of these powers, and

how they viewed the operation of liberal,

constitutional, and democratic norms

in wartime. Over the course of the

research, I was surprised by the degree

of variation across these prerogative

presidencies and began to explore

the structural, philosophical, and

individual sources of these differences.

PS: Do you have any advice for

graduate students pursuing careers in

the field of political science?DT: I remember as a grad student

going to the offices of my advisers

with this question, and I received

exceptionally thoughtful but wildly

conflicting advice. Beware grayhairs

(like me) offering iron laws about

the job market! My solution was to

organize an occasional brown-bag

lunch gathering where grad students

could talk to a shifting pair of faculty

members about professional issues

great and small, and I’d recommend

something similar if you aren’t already

doing this. But I don’t want to punton the question, so let me add to the

conversation by passing along a

few suggestions that one of my

favorite mentors, Susan Okin,

offered: 1) Write original scholarly

papers when you can for graduate

seminars so you have material to

present at professional conferences,

to try to publish, and to mull over

for dissertations; 2) go to talks byinvited external scholars and job

candidates, since you get to meet

scholars beyond the department

and because you gain some useful

substantive or professional insights

even from bad talks; 3) make sure

you love your dissertation question

and research because you will have

to be passionate about it for a long

time; and 4) organize thesis reading

groups with colleagues so you have

writing deadlines and get feedback.

Tichenor continued from page 2

Daniel HoSang

joined the Department of Political Science inSeptember 2007.



Steven Rothman al-

ways knew graduate school

was in his future, but anadministrative deadline ulti-

mately prompted him to make

the move that landed him at

Oregon.

“I went to grad school

[when I did] because my GREs

were running out and I didn’t

want to take them again,”

Rothman confesses with a

smile. But while test avoid-

ance may have spurred him

on, Rothman’s record reveals

a scholar well matched with

the hard work and intellectual

rigors of academia. Now a

sixth-year doctoral candidate,

Rothman recently published

his first peer-reviewed ar-

ticles, has been active in grant

writing and conference par-

ticipation, and won numerous

awards, including the Charles

A. Reed Graduate Fellowship

Award from the UO’s College

of Arts and Sciences.

Rothman chose the Uni-


versity of Oregon based on a

combination of faculty members

he wanted to work with and a

location he thought would suit

him. Encouraged

by Assistant Profes-

sor Jane Cramer,

he attended the

annual Consortium

for Qualitative

Research Methods

(CQRM) in Arizona,

an experience that

changed the course

of his academic

focus.

“It blew me away,” he remem-

bers. “The professors were bril-

liant, and the stuff they were do-

ing was amazing. You really saw

the quantitative people learning

from the qualitative people. In

quantitative, you get the data and

manipulate it to your research

question, but you just go out and

find the numbers. You read these

journals; the articles are super

complex because the data is so

hard to work with. At CQRM we

learned about concept develop-

ment, generating the data, and how

to make that data from what’s reallygoing on in the world.”

Rothman has worked

extensively with Profes-

sor Ronald Mitchell,

assisting him on a Na-

tional Science Founda-

tion project related to

environmental treaties.

“We measure whether

the treaties have com-

pliance mechanisms,”

he explains. “It’s super

hard going from text to

numbers; in psychologythey do it a lot. I wrote a paper on

measurement theory and reliability.

You can make better data by paying

attention to reliability.”

In his paper, Rothman evaluated

the work of three scholars, all of

whom were compiling data on trea-

ties. He looked at their codebooks,

reflected on ideal methods for gen-

erating reliable data, and observed

where each scholar either adhered

to or strayed from the best practic-

es. It was accepted and published

Courtney Smith is not

afraid to talk about the human

body. In fact, she spent

seven months traveling

in Senegal discussing

female genital cut-

ting (FGC) and breastimplantation with

everyone from NGO

administrators to vil-

lage chiefs to impover-

ished workers.

“I got this reputa-

tion as the lady who

had the breast implant

pictures,” remembers

Smith, who recorded interview

subjects’ reactions to Western

plastic surgery as part of her

fieldwork. “I was kind of like

the traveling circus. I think theywere more likely to open up to

me and trust me to talk about

cutting because I was also asking

them about implants. But what

they really wanted to talk about

was irrigation or getting a well.

The cutting thing was kind of no

big deal.”

Smith has also interviewed

dozens of women in the United

States about both FGC and breast

implantation as a

method of explor-

ing the “social

mechanisms that

embed cultural and

physical norms.”

Her dissertation,

titled “The Politics

of the Marked Body:

An Examination

of Female Genital

Cutting and Breast

Implantation,” has

taken her to numerous U.S. cit-

ies, to a conference in Finland,

and first brought Smith to Sen-

egal in 2005.

“I wanted to go somewhere

in West Africa because I speak

French. Senegal is fairly stable

and there is an NGO I connected

with and worked with that ad-

dresses informal education of

women and abandonment of

FGC.”

Smith lived with a Senegalese

family for most of her time in West

Africa and conducted her research

using “snowball” methodology,

where one subject leads to another

and eventually a sample is built

through networking.

“For human-subjects clearance, I

had to have my questions translat-

ed and approved, so I had thought

about it a lot. But the first inter-

view, I had no idea how to actually

proceed.” Friends taught her the

proper channel through which to

approach potential subjects with-

out violating cultural norms; once

she started, she found that many

of the women she spoke to, both in

Senegal and in the United States,

appreciated the opportunity to tell

their stories.

“They liked talking about their

bodies instead of being told things

about their bodies,” she observed.

“They got to say it for themselves,

the way they wanted to.”

This fall, Smith is offering the

department's first course in poli-

tics of sex and the body.

“I look at symbolic or cultural

Graduate Student Profiles

in the fall 2007 issue of Inte

tional Studies Review.

Rothman’s current researcfocuses on agenda-setting in

ternational relations. “I look

how states understand an is

as important or not importa

he explains. “The whaling

case is a good example. Man

countries went from ‘whalin

is good’ to ‘whaling should b

sustainable’ to ‘killing whal

is morally wrong.’ It’s not ju

that the agenda is changing,

how we think about whales

Agendas aren’t just ‘issue-no

issue’; it’s how we think abothe issue. I’m looking at how

document serious attention

an issue, looking at the num

of states that give an issue at

tion and how much attentio

they put into it.”

Rothman’s dissertation pr

ect is titled “Getting Attenti

Issue Emergence in Internat

al Politics.” He plans to grad

ate in June 2009.

meanings of actual physi-

cal bodies,” Smith explain

“Even though it’s theory, i

explains how people inter

with their worlds on a firs

order basis.”

Smith acknowledges th

her areas of study make h

work difficult to categoriz

“Sex, gender, and bodies

cross so many disciplines

It’s good because people

can see political science i

not just tracking congres-

sional records or presiden

cycles. A few times I’ve h

to defend myself as a poli

cal scientist, but usually i

people can buy the ‘politi

as power’ thing, then they

get it.”

Smith plans to defend h

dissertation in October 20

and will stay on at Oregon

as an instructor through th

2008–9 school year.







Gerry Berk’s book Brandeis and

the Making of Regulated Com-

petition is forthcoming at Cam-

bridge University Press.

Jane Cramer is coeditor of a booktitled American Foreign Policy

and the Politics of Fear: Threat

Inflation since 9/11, which has

been accepted for publication by

Routledge. She contributed two

chapters to the book, “Security

Threats and Overblown Fears:

An Introduction to the Study of

Threat Inflation” (coauthored)

and “Militarized Patriotism and

the Success of Threat Inflation.”

Leonard Feldman published

“Judging Necessity: Democracyand Extralegalism” in the August

2008 issue of the journal Political

Theory. His essay “Status Injus-

tice: The Role of the State” will

be published this fall in Adding

Insult to Injury: Debating Redis-

tribution, Recognition, and Rep-

resentation (ed. Kevin Olson).

Daniel HoSang’s article “The

Rise of Racial Liberalism, the

Decline of Racial Justice” was

published in Race and Ameri-

can Political Development (ed. Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov,

and Dorian Warren) (Routledge,

2008). He was also the recipient

of a 2008 Outstanding Faculty

Award by the Office of Multi-

cultural Academic Support and

received dissertation prizes from

the Racial, Ethnicity, and Politics

Section of the American Political

Science Association, the Pacific

Coast Branch of the American

Historical Association, and the

American Studies Association.

In 2008–9 he will be a residentscholar at the Wayne Morse Cen-

ter for Law and Politics.

Joseph Lowndes’ book From the

New Deal to the New Right: Race

and the Southern Origins of Mod-

ern Conservatism was published

by Yale University Press this year.

His coedited volume (along with

Julie Novkov and Dorian War-

ren) Race and American Political

Development was published by

Routledge this year as well.

Ron Mitchell was the commence-

ment speaker at the university’s

spring commencement ceremony.

He also has recently completed

two book projects, both of which

will be published by Sage Publi-

cations in the coming year. He is

editor for a four-volume set titled

International Environmental

Politics, scheduled for publica-

tion in fall 2008, and author of

Understanding International En-

vironmental Politics, scheduled

for publication in fall 2009. Hehas contributed chapters to edited

volumes that will be published

by Princeton University Press and

MIT Press in 2009. He will be

on sabbatical for the 2008–9 aca-

demic year.

Mikhail Myagkov’s book (coau-

thored with Peter Ordeshook,

professor at the California Insti-

tute of Technology, and Dimitri

Shakin, financial consultant at

Deutsche Bank, London) Foren-

sics of Election Fraud: Examples

from Russia and Ukraine is forth-coming at Cambridge. The book

presents the first cohesive set of

statistical tools to gauge election

fraud using official election re-

turns, rather than relying purely

on observers.

Craig Parsons’s book How to Map

Arguments in Political Science

(Oxford University Press, 2007)

won honorable mention (second

place) for the American Political

Science Association’s Giovanni

Sartori Prize, awarded for the best book on qualitative methods

published in 2007. In July 2008

Parsons became director of the

Oregon Consortium for Interna-

tional and Area Studies in addi-

tion to continuing as director of

the European Studies Program.

He will also serve as the political

science department’s graduate

director in 2008–9.

Priscilla Southwell is currently on

sabbatical after seven years as as-

sociate dean for the social scienc-es. In 2008 she published “Vote

by Mail: Should Other States Fol-

low Oregon’s Example?” in Vot-

ing in America (Morgan E. Felch-

ner, ed.) (Praeger Publishers) and

“The Effect of Political Alienation

Faculty news

Clayton Cleveland presented his

paper “The United Nations and

the Use of Force” at the forty-

ninth annual convention of the

International Studies Associa-

tion, March 28, in San Francisco,

California.

Kelley Littlepage presented a

paper in March 2008 at the

forty-ninth annual Interna-

tional Studies Association

convention in San Francisco.

The paper was titled “Transna-

tional Judicial Dialogue and the

Rising Influence of European

Courts.”

Vanessa Mousavizadeh received

a Foreign Language and Area

Studies Fellowship for the

2007–8 academic year for the

study of Chinese at the UO. This

award covers tuition and fees for

full-time enrollment at Oregon,

plus a living stipend.

Sean Parson presented a paper

at the Western Political Science

Association, “Beyond Lone-Wolf

Environmentalism: The Role of

the Frontier Narrative in Envi-

ronmental Activist Discourse,”

and another, “At War with Civi-

lization: Anticivilizational An-

archism and the Newest Social

Movements,” at the American

Political Science Association. He

is the book review editor for the

journal Green Theory and Praxis.

Courtney Smith published an

article titled “Creating Spaces:

Challenging Conventional Dis-

cursive Norms Surrounding the

Graduatestudent news

on Voter Turnout: 1964–200

in the Journal of Political an

Military Sociology.

Richard P. Suttmeier’s coau-

thored study “Standards,

Stakeholders, and Innovatio

China’s Evolving Role in theGlobal Knowledge Economy

was published as a special

report by the National Burea

of Asian Research in Seattle

Briefings on the report were

presented for congressional

staffers and for the U.S. Cha

ber of Commerce in May. Hi

paper “State, Self Organiza-

tion, and Identity in the Bui

ing of Sino-U.S. Cooperation

Science and Technology” w

published in Asian Perspect

in January, and a second pap“The ‘Sixth Modernization’?

China, Safety, and the Man-

agement of Risks,” appeared

in Asia Policy in July. Also i

July, Suttmeier attended the

China-India-U.S. Workshop

Science, Technology, and In

vation in Bangalore, India, f

which he was a coorganizer

Priscilla Yamin’s article, title

“The Search for Marital Ord

Marriage and the Politics of

Civic Membership in the Progressive Era,” has been acce

ed for publication in Polity .

Markings of Women’s Bod-

ies” in the Finnish Journal

of Ethnicity and Migration,

August 2008. She presented

paper titled “Private Parts in

the Public Sphere: Opening

the Discussion on Sex-Based

Body Modification Practices

at the Great Lakes College

Association Conference on

Transnational Feminisms in

Gambier, Ohio, in Septembe

2008.




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Qinghua Wang

Master’s degree

Cheng-Han Chen

Egor Fedotov

Xiaoxiao Liu

Forrest Nabors

Aaron Rosenthal

Kara Smith

Fu-Yi Yang

working in Washington, D.C., for the

U.S. General Services Administration as

a security program analyst developing

strategic policy for the protection of fed-

eral buildings and federal courthouses

around the nation. Spouse Shelly R.

Busse is also working in Washington,

D.C., as a marketing specialist for the

National Agricultural Statistics Service,

part of the U.S. Department of Agricul-

ture.

Angelina Gleichauf (Yeo) ’85, M.S. ’91,is a research associate at the Center for

Institutional Evaluation, Research, and

Planning at the University of Texas at

El Paso.

Jesse Neet ’04 says, “Thank you, UO,

for preparing me in the field of teach-

ing government and political thought to

high school students. Many of the things

I learned at school I find [I’m] sharing

with my students. Go, Ducks!”

Jessica Nelson (Fernández) ’04 had

a busy year. In 2007 she completed a

Michael Munk, M.A. ’59, is the

author of The Portland Red Guide:

Sites and Stories of Our Radi-

cal Past (Ooligan Press, 2007), as

featured in recent issues of the UO’s

Oregon Quarterly .

Penelope Schreiner Gross ’65 was

elected in 2007 to a fourth four-year

term on the Fairfax County Board

of Supervisors (Mason District, Vir-

ginia). She represents about 110,000

people in a very diverse district,located almost entirely “inside the

Beltway.”

Scott Leckie ’84 is the director of

Displacement Solutions, which

works to find ways to facilitate

the return home of refugees and

displaced persons, and founder of

the Centre on Housing Rights and

Evictions. Visit www.displacement-

solutions.org and cohre.org.

Edward Busse ’91 is currently

Alumni Notesmaster’s degree in education at

Pepperdine University and she

married David Nelson.

Jonathan Marks ’05 graduated in

2007 from the School of Public and

Environmental Affairs at Indiana

University, Bloomington, with a

master’s degree in public adminis-

tration, concentrating in compara-

tive and international affairs.

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