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Dear friends, students, and alumni:
It’s been an exciting year for our department, though not without some painful reminders of the recession. Faculty went into the new year without salary increases for another year. Thankfully those moneys were released later in 2010. The good news is that we are adding two new faculty members. We were given permission to hire two three-year instructors to help us with the large increases in student enrollments the university has seen in the last couple of years. Karen Sebold, currently ABD in the Public Policy PhD program will teach introductory classes in American National Government and Soundarya Chidambaram (PhD., Ohio State ,2011) will help us with comparative politics. On a sad note: Bob Savage, former chair and colleague passed away this year (see below). Our long-term office supervisor, Linda Gardner, decided it was time to retire and we said good-bye to her in June, 2011. We were lucky to fill that position with another experienced administrator, Debbie Clevenger, who joined us just after the 4th, July break. The Blair Center team had a spectacular year. Not only did they just launch their new facebook site , they are also beginning to assess findings from the Blair-Rockefeller Poll that was launched last fall (see below) . So stay tuned and check the
facebook site periodically. As you can see throughout the rest of this newsletter, the accomplishments of our students, faculty and alumni are outstanding. Students as well as faculty continue to publish important research in a wide range of political science subfields and related disciplines. In the past year, our faculty had several books in various stages of publication,
published numerous chapters in edited volumes, and produced scores of scholarly articles.
To make staying in touch with the department and your classmates easier, graduates are encouraged to join our new LinkedIn site PLSC at the University of
Arkansas.
As you can see in Dr. Dowdle’s report graduate enrollments continue to be strong, and the quality of recent admissions to our programs has been exceptional. We are pleased that international students find our programs a good home and helpful for their future professional development. Finally, I would be remiss to not mention our fabulous staff and their hard work: Linda Gardner (retired), Jesse Anderson, and Debbie Clevenger as well as Kelly Tucker who are spending countless hours
From the Tower Office
Department of Political Science, University of Arkansas Fall 2011
Politics & Administration
A Communication of the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs of the Political Science Department, The University of
Arkansas, 428 Old Main, Fayetteville AR 72701
T:479-575-3356
FAX:479-575-6432 http://www.uark.edu/depts/plscinfo
Inside this issue:
From the Tower 1
Graduate Pro-
gram News 2
Faculty and Staff
News 3
Alumni Profile 4
Faculty News 5
Student News 7
Program News
Blair Center
Arkansas Poll
Nonprofit Cer-
tificate
10
Alumni Highlights 11
How to sup-port our De-
partment
16
Reaching Facul-
ty Members
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in patiently counseling students, responding to faculty requests and greeting strangers and friends as they come to the department. We hope that this newsletter convinces YOU that your valued contributions are well spent. If you have not contacted us recently, please call, e-mail or reach us through facebook or linkedIn and let us know how you are doing and that you want to support our students. If you have questions how to best do that, I’d like you to contact me so we can discuss your ideas ( Please also see p. 16 for more details). As always, do keep in touch and let us know what you have been up to -- and do stop by when you are in town.
From all of us Margaret Reid, Chair
Graduate Program News
Over the course of the last year, our graduate programs have continued to grow and prosper. The MPA program had an enrollment of approximately 20 students, and our MA program had an enrollment that has grown to nearly 30 students. Our graduate students have presented papers at a number of academic conferences over the past year and have earned a number of prestigious honors.
In tight economic times, however, there is a continued need for high‐quality paid internships for students in both of our graduate programs. If you know of any, please let us know so we can make students aware of them.
Several international students are continuing with their programs. They are from Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Taiwan . Several more will join our programs this fall from locations such as Columbia, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. These students are funded by a number of sources including the Bush-Clinton Fulbright Tsunami Relief Program and the International Research & Exchanges Board’s Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program, and the Fulbright Program’s Latin American Scholarship Program of American universities.
Since our last newsletter, we had to say good‐bye to the following students. From the MA program: Michelle R. Ad-ams; Hassen Bettaieb; Larisa G. Braden; Daniel P. Brown; Stephen Coker; Jamie Juergens; Sherrill L. McCormack II; Nicholas A. Robbins; and Summer Woehr. From the MPA program: Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi; Lauren Blevins; John M. Bynum; Michael T. Crawford; Kevin R. Grimes; Irene Ivashkevich; Amy N. Lea; Elizabeth A. Littlepage; Jesse K. Mitch-ell; Dian Rubianty; Jered M. Sigmon; AND Tamika L. Wordlow. Please stay in touch with us as your careers progress.
We are especially grateful to our cadre of very capable teaching assistants who have allowed us to offer reasonably small sections of introductory level undergraduate courses and allow us to free up faculty to teach advanced under-graduate courses and graduate seminars. They are/were: Stacy Alexander (MA), Lauren Blevins (MPA), Daniel Brown (MA), John Davis (MA), Laila Taraghi (MA-MEST) and Summer Woehr (MA). Amber Kandur (MPA), Kim Kaminsky (MPA) amd Casey Willits (MPA) assisted the faculty in their various pursuits. Both Anne Diallo (MPA) and Karen Sebold (MA), who joined the Public Policy PhD program, continue to offer their valuable teaching services to the de-partment. Additional students will be mentored during the coming fall to teach various introductory courses for the department.
Andrew Dowdle Vice Chair and Graduate Coordinator
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Linda Linda Linda GardnerGardnerGardner RetiresRetiresRetires After 22 years with the Department of Po-litical Science, Linda decided it was time to quit and smell the roses and clean her house in Springdale. Linda, shown her at a reception by the Dean’s office, was the de-partment senior staff person. She took care of budgets, hiring of new staff, faculty trav-el, reconciling multiple accounts, and, most importantly, keeping us all in line.
Debbie Clevenger Joins Our Staff The Department was fortunate to secure the ser-vices of Debbie Clevenger upon Linda’s retire-ment at the end of June 2011. Debbie started at the University of Arkansas in the Department of Health Science, Kinesiology, Recreation and Dance in August of 1992. She served the Depart-ment as a Secretary I in the Human Performance Lab, as Administrative Office Supervisor, as Ad-ministrative Assistant II and as Administrative Support Supervisor.
Come by and say hello to her and Jesse Ander-son, our other staff person, when you visit our main office in Old Main 428.
She joined the University in the late 1980s after a career in the military. The Department was then in Kimpel Hall because of the state of disrepair of Old Main. After Old Main re-opened again in 1991 after two years of re-construction, Linda supported department chairs Kelley, Savage, Neuse, Shields and Reid as well as a growing faculty as the department went through some challenging times. We hope to see her around occasionally and of course she always is welcome to attend our departmental functions.
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Alumni Profile
Joan Dempsey
Dear friends of the Political Science Department:
Joan Dempsey (M.P.A., 1983) was recognized during the 66th Annual Alumni Awards Cel-
ebration on October 28, 2010 as one of the 2010 Distinguished Alumni. Joan also is one
of the distinguished alumnae from our graduate programs.
Joan Dempsey is a senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton where she leads the
firm’s intelligence business in Central Maryland. Previously, she led the firm’s intelli-
gence business in the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence.
During a 25-year career in the federal government, Joan held political appointments
twice: first, in the Clinton Administration upon Senate Confirmation, she served as the
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management; and, in the Bush
Administration, as the Executive Director of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advi-
sory Board.
Ms. Dempsey also spent 17 years as a senior civilian in the Department of Defense as
Deputy Director of Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency, as Director of the
General Defense Intelligence Program, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of De-
fense for Intelligence and Security. She began her federal civilian service in 1983 as a
Presidential Management Intern (now called Presidential Management Fellows) in the Of-
fice of Naval Intelligence. She also served for 25 years as a naval reserve intelligence
officer and was on active duty as a U.S. Navy cryptologic technician.
Ms. Dempsey was the 2004 recipient of the Security Affairs Support Association Wil-
liam O. Baker Award. She also was granted an honorary doctorate in 2004 from the
Joint Military Intelligence College. She is a recipient of the National Intelligence Medal
of Achievement, the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, the Distinguished Civilian
Service Award from the Secretary of Defense, and The American University Roger W.
Jones Award for Executive Leadership. She is a member of the board of the United
States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, the NSA Cryptologic Museum, and the CIA
Officers Memorial Foundation.
Ms. Dempsey is a Special Advisor to the US Strategic Command and chairs the Intelli-
gence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance Panel of the Command’s Strategic Advisory Com-
mittee.
We could not be more proud of having her as one of our graduates.
http://www.boozallen.com/about/leadership/executive-leadership/dempsey
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In Memoriam: Dr. Robert L. Savage
Professor Emeritus Robert Lynn Savage, 71, of Fayetteville passed away January 26, 2011. He
was born February 26, 1939, in Fort Worth, Texas. He served in the United States Air Force
from 1956 to 1959. Savage received his B.A. degree from Tarleton State College in 1963 and
his M.A. degree from the University of Houston where he served as graduate and teaching as-
sistant from 1964 to 1966. He graduated in 1966 with a thesis titled “Absurdity and the Polit-
ical System: The Political Thought of Albert Camus” under the direction of Professor John
Green. Upon graduation he served as an instructor before he continued his pursuit of a doc-
torate in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He completed his aca-
demic work in 1971 with a dissertation titled “Sociocultural Change and Policy Values in the
American States”. His dissertation chair was Prof. Dan Nimmo with whom Bob maintained a
life-long friendship. Nimmo’s influence shaped Savage’s interest in political communication and
behavior and state politics. His first appointment as Assistant Professor brought him to Au-
burn University at Montgomery, where he worked from 1971 to 1974 when he started his ca-
reer at the University of Arkansas in the fall of 1974. He was promoted to Associate Profes-
sor just three years later in 1977 and to Professor in 1982. He served as interim chair during
that year and eventually as chair of the department from 1989 to 1998. Bob retired in 2001.
Bob profoundly shaped the department through the faculty he hired during his time at the
helm. We will miss him as a friend and a colleague.
Faculty News
Dr. Todd Shields, chair of the department from 2001 to 2008, is the new dean of the Graduate School and International Education. He served as its interim dean for one year while also holding the position of interim associate dean for academic affairs at the Clinton School of Public Service. He continues as the di-rector of the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society (see p. 10 )
Because of the rapid enrollment increases at the University of Arkansas (the University exceeded the 23,000 mark in the fall of 2011), the Department was given permission to hire two 3-year instructors to teach introductory level clas-ses in American National Government and Introduction to Comparative Politics. We are grateful to Karen Sebold (ABD Public Policy PhD program at the Univer-sity of Arkansas) and Soundarya Chidambaram (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2011)to join our faculty.
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Faculty News
Patrick Conge continues as Honors advisor of the depart-ment. He had a productive year with a book-length manu-script on Corporate Social Responsibility in the works. He has an article and chapter under development.
Andrew Dowdle continues as the Vice Chair/Graduate Coordinator. He has published an article and has a chapter forthcoming. He is co-editor of a book under contract with Routledge. Another book is in progress and several articles and book chapters are being revised. He present-ed 3 papers at professional conferences and served as pan-el chair in several of the meetings. He continues as editor of the American Review of Politics.
Pearl Ford-Dowe published a co-edited book with Mer-cer University Press and an article. She has an article and 2 book chapters forthcoming. She is member of the Blair Center team.
John Gaber published a refereed article and produced 3 non-refereed publications. In addition he secured his re-certification as certified planner. Gaber wrote several grants and secured a $13,000 grant from the Arkansas Department of Health.
Najib Ghadbian translation of Lisa Weeden’s book Ambi-guities of Domination was published by a Lebanese pub-lishing house. He published 5 non-refereed reports and articles. He has an edited book on Syrian politics in de-velopment. He continues as the academic advisor to the National Model Arab League. Ghadbian organized a timely conference on Syria in the spring of 2011.
Rafael Jimeno has two forthcoming co-authored book chapters. He has many more articles in various stages of preparation to assess findings from the Blair Rockeffer poll. He is a member of the Blair Center team.
Don Kelley continues as the Director of the Fulbright Insti-tute of International Relations. He has a manuscript on the Russian Presidency in preparation. The Blair Center and FIIR held a conference on the Bush presidency in the spring of 2011 which is expected to lead to an edited volume.
Brinck Kerr continues as the director of the interdiscipli-nary Public Policy Ph.D. program. Kerr published two co-authored articles and has two co-authored articles accept-ed for publication and others in the works.
Seok-Eun Kim left the university to take a position at a Korean university. He continues as adjunct associate professor in the department.
Angie Maxwell had another very busy year. She published two co-authored articles, a single authored article and a book chapter. She has a co-edited book under contract, and a co-edited book that is being developed. Her co-edited book on V.O. Key was just re-leased in June 2011. A significant portion of Maxwell’s service commitment is to the Blair Center.
Joshua Mitchell joined the Department as Visiting Assistant Professor last year. He is teaching our graduate methods classes and some much needed undergraduate classes and was very helpful in covering classes after Dr. Kim left.
Janine Parry continues as the director of the Arkansas Poll and serves in her last year as one of the co-directors of the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center. In addition she has served in multiple other roles on the Faculty Senate. Parry thoroughly revised a co-authored book. She has numerous projects in various stages of de-velopment or submission.
Margaret Reid completed her third year as chair of the department. Reid published three co-authored articles and one book chapter . She received funding from a local funder (Walmart Foundation) to support the state’s first professional nonprofit management certificate See Change which was launched in March 2011 and just com-pleted its first cycle ( www.see-change.org). Reid continues to serve on the Chancellor's Commission on Women’s issues.
Jeffrey Ryan has several articles in preparation for sub-mission. He was awarded the 2011 Faculty Gold Medal. He continues to serve on the Executive Council of INPAE (a consortium of North and South American public ad-ministration programs).
Bill Schreckhise continues to supervise the Phi Alpha Del-ta undergraduate pre-law society. He has multiple publi-cations in preparation while chairing or serving on nu-merous honors, masters and dissertation committees.
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2011 Departmental Awards
Henry M. Alexander Memorial Award: Graham Talley
William Jennings Bryan Award: Clint Shoemake
August C. & Margaret B. Jennings Endowed Scholarship: Grant Hodges
Minna Rosenbaum Divers Memorial Scholarship: Matthew Seubert and Samantha Williams
Minna Rosenbaum Divers Memorial Award: Nii Ayi and Chelsea Penn
Rita Snoddy Davis Scholarship: Leah Bowman
Hugh T. Henry Memorial Awards: Jerome Lopez
Todd Shields was appointed as Dean of the Graduate School and International Education. He continues as Di-rector of the Blair Center. He published one co-authored articles, two co-authored book chapters and has other projects under development. The Blair Center team is in the process of releasing several reports from the inaugu-ral Blair-Rockefeller poll. Patrick Stewart published two articles and has two arti-cles and one book chapter forthcoming. He has one book under contract and is about to complete revisions. Numer-ous other projects are under development. His extensive professional service included organizing and chairing pan-els for his professional associations in the life sciences and serving as vice-chair for the Association for Politics and Life Sciences. He again accompanied Bodenhamer fellows on their trip to Washington, D.C.
Ka Zeng continues as the Director of the Asian Studies program. She published two articles. Her co-authored book with one of our former students, Joshua Eastin was just published with Michigan University Press. She has numerous articles and projects under development.
Student News
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The following students graduated with a bachelorof Arts degree
Brandon F. Spicher; Fall 2010: J.L. Jennings; Spring 2010 Heba Ali Abdelaal, Amanda Banwarth; Edith Barker, Zachary Bradshaw, Katherine Bruick, Rebecca Caldwell, Janie Cardwell, Lauren Carter, Adam Chilton, Amy Crain, Zachary Crowgey, Rachael DiMassimo, Eric Dixon, Douglas Easterwood, Jonathan Faught, Clint Felts, Anna Francheschi, David Gatewood, Betty Gentle, Zachary Gilker, Elizabeth Gooch, Farina Hartung, Emily Hill, Robert Hintz, Zachary Holtthoff, Colton Hotary, Cameron Housley, Jane Kelly, Craig Kelly, Kathleen Kennedy, Jenna Kienbaum, Christopher Kimmel, Delcie Kincaid, Jacob Kowalewski, Christian Lehmberg, Lindsay Lucas, James Marshall, Sarah McBride, Jocelyn McDaniel, Michael Moore, Zane Muzaffar, Emily Nevala, Kimie Nguyen, Thomas Norsworthy, David Pace, Katie Par-ker, Jocelyne Pruna, Corinna Rees, Lauren Reeves, Daniel Rice, Jessamyn Rongey, ZachRyburn, Philip Sers, Caleb Shepard, Joshua Shipman, Deaken Shuler, Katie Skains, Hayley Stephens, Michael Stoval, Bill Tankersley, Andrew Walchuk, Alexandra Wallace, Edward Womble, Michael Zangari.
Accomplishments of Students
The following serves as a snapshot of the accomplishment of our graduate and undergraduate students.
Jonathan Bame (B.A., candidate) was among more than 80 students recognized for their leadership roles on the Uni-versity of Arkansas campus.
Anna Franceschi (B.A.) received a SURF award. Her mentor is Todd Shields.
Betty Gentle (B.A.) is the Director of Traditions for the Student Alumni Board. Sarah Gibson (B.A., candidate in Political Science and Economics) was named Student Leader of the Week for Janu-ary 23-29, 2011 by the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement.
William Hogan (B.A., candidate) received a SURF award. His mentor is Fiona Davidson.
Kathleen Kennedy (B.A.) received a SURF award. Her mentor is Andrew Dowdle.
Ashley Loukus (B.A., candidate) received a Coca-Cola Scholarship.
Emile Phaneuf (M.A. 2011) received a Pat Tillman Military Scholarship.
Daniel Rice (B.A.) received a SURF award. His mentor is Andrew Dowdle.
Haley Stephens (B.A.) received a SURF award. Her mentor is Jeff Ryan.
Andrew Walchuk (B.A.) received a SURF award. His mentor is Jeff Ryan. He also received a J. William Fulbright Eng-lish Teaching Assistantship to teach in Spain.
Alexandra Wallace (B.A.) will spend the fall semester studying with the American Institute of Foreign Study in Nan-jing, China, with a grant from Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program.
Samantha Williams (B.A., candidate) is one of 40 students nationwide selected to “get on the bus” for the 2011 Stu-dent Freedom Ride to be held May 6-16.
Student News (cont.)
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Program News
Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics &
Society
Mission: The Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society is dedi-cated to fostering scholarship, teaching, and service related to Southern Politics and culture. We are committed to furthering the legacy of Diane D. Blair -- a nationally recognized scholar, a sought after instructor, and a committed political activist. The Blair Center supports speakers, conferences, and research contributing new knowledge to our understanding of Southern politics.
Unlocking Key: The Impact of V.O. Key and ‘Southern Politics’ was released in the summer of 2011. Co-editors Angie Maxwell and
Todd Shields had partnered with the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and hosted a conference examining the influence of V. O. Key – a pioneer in the study of southern politics and society. The conference was held April 1-3, 2009 at Petit Jean Mountain, AR. The book is an outcome of this work. In the fall of 2010 the Blair Center and the Rockefeller Institute partnered again to launch a national survey that focused on understanding the attitudes a, behaviors and lives of people living in the contemporary south. The survey also included a representative sample of the non-south. Center members currently are working on exam-ining findings and publishing results. These are reported on the Centre’s website. Also follow the Center on Facebook.
If you have any questions, please contact Todd Shields, Director of the Center [email protected]
ARKANSAS POLL
For this and previous polls please visit the Arkansas Poll’s website or contact Dr. Janine Parry, the poll’s director at [email protected].
If you wish to financially support the Poll please contact Dr. Todd Shields ([email protected]).
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Program News (contin.)
Graduate Nonprofit Management Certificate in the MPA and MBA programs
Following national trends in professional public affairs education, Master of Public Admin-istration programs have seen a dramatic increases in students interested in pursuing non-profit careers. The MPA is arguably the best program for young professionals interested in pursuing such career goals. Over the past years we have slowly added to our nonprofit graduate offerings (we’d love to do the same at the undergraduate level—but staffing limi-tations do not allow us to do so at this time). Through a fortuitous convergence of circum-stances we started conversations with our counterparts in the MBA program in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. One of their faculty members was interested in developing a class dealing with business-nonprofit relationships. Our strength, of course, is in examin-ing nonprofit-public sector relationships. In pooling both programs’ resources we crafted a new graduate certificate called “Cross-Sector Alliances,” which will open its doors to a small number of students in the fall of 2011.
Requirements for the 15 hours Graduate Certificate in “Cross Sector Alliances” are:
Core certificate classes (12 hours) PLSC 5133: Management of Service Sector Organizations
PLSC 5193: Seminar in Public Administration WCOB 5843 Cross-Sector Collaboration for Sustainability
MGMT 5213: Business Foundations for Entrepreneurs PADM 5843: Issues in Service Sector Management
Additional Classes (Select one) PADM 5823: Grantwriting for the Social Sciences
PADM 5853 Performance Measurements in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors MGMT 5223: Managing and Leading Organizations
MGMT 5313: Strategic Management
If you have any suggestions, or have placements for these students in internships, let us know.
Staying in touch with classmates and friends becomes ever harder. We hope this makes it easier. If you have information about friends or classmates -- please let us know!
Victoria “Tori” Adams (B.A., 2009; J.D. candidate) and Cody Kees (B.A., 2009; J.D. candidate) took third place overall in the American Bar Association Negotiation National Competition in Atlanta, Georgia in February 2011. They won the Region 8 competition to qualify for the national competition.
Alumni Highlights
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Richard Alexander (B.A., 1981; J.D., 1983) is a Real Estate De-veloper and broker in Fayette-ville, Arkansas.
Eddie Armstrong (B.A., 2002) is Chief Executive Officer of Arm-strong & Davis Consulting in North Little Rock. He is the founder of the Eddie Armstrong Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit organization that pro-vides scholarship to minority students from single-parent households.
Brad Baker (B.A., 1977) is cur-rently CEO of Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Services in Memphis, Tennessee.
Carolyn Duty Banks (B.A., 1960) is retired. However, before that she taught school in Fayette-ville, Arkansas, worked for the University of Arkansas in the Fine Arts Department and later the College of Business.
Jonathan Beville (M.A., 2006) is Managing Director EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Afri-ca) at Flanders Corporation. He currently resides in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Greg Boettcher (M.P. A., 2003) continues to serve as Water Utilities Director for the city of Lakeland, Florida. He completed a Certified Public Manager Pro-gram through Florida State Uni-versity. While attending the CPM program his team one both the State Askew Award and the National Askew Award. The pa-per was recognized at the Amer-ican Association of Certified Public Managers Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in October 2010.
Ashley Bowen (B.A., 2005; J.D., 2009) is a staff attorney/law clerk for the Honorable James R. Marschewski, a federal magis-trate judge for the Western Dis-trict of Arkansas.
James “Nick” Boeving (B.A., 2002) graduated from Columbia University Law School in 2005. He is currently serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York work-ing in the Civil Division. His current cases include the tax refund claims by AIG and Lehman Brothers.
Jessica Breaux (M.P.A. 2008) has been appointed Community Development Consultant at Arkansas Economic Development Commission in Little Rock.
Melissa Bridges (B.A., 1994; M.P.A., 1999) cur-rently works for the city of Little Rock Information Technology Department as the Network Security Manager.
Clark Brown (B.A., 2007) will graduate in May 2011 from The University of Arkansas School of Law. For the past year he served as the Executive Editor of the Arkansas Law Review. Following graduation he will be an associate at Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mallory Bryant (B.A., 2002) is a Marketing Coor-dinator at Stephens, Inc in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is currently working on her M.A. in Human Re-source Management at Webster University.
Chelsea Cakin Ekenseair (B.A., 2005) joined the capital campaign for the Capitol Area Council, Boy Scouts of America in Aus-tin, Texas. A $10 million training facility is under construction as a result of the successful campaign.
Ernest Cate (B.A., 1991; J.D., 1993) was appointed (by Gov-ernor Mike Bebee) as the new judge of the Springdale (Arkansas) District Court. He previously worked as the sen-ior deputy city attorney for Springdale.
Orville Clift (B.A., 1970; J.D., 1972) began his appointed as Madison County Arkansas Dis-trict Judge in January 2011. Previously he worked for Se-bastian County Arkansas as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and had his own private law practice.
William Cook (B.A., 1975) is a Senior Systems Engineer. Pres-ently he is the President and CEO of Advanced Technology Associates, LLC a technical ser-vices firm.
Buddy Cox (B.A., 1966; J.D., 1967) is the owner of Bud-dy’s Big Band in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and a mem-ber of the University of Ar-kansas Alumni Band. He re-tired from the United States Air Force in 1988 and retired againin 2004 from American Airlines.
Dustin Cranor (B.A., 2005) is a Senior Manager, Campaign Communications, for Oceana.
Julie Cullen (M.P.A., 1995) is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Bowen School of Law and a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Uni-versity of Arkansas, Little Rock. She also works as an attorney for the Arkansas court of Appeals.
Jim Cunningham (M.A., 1977) is a published author of Som-erset (amazon.com). He has worked in a variety of posi-tions – a congressional aide (specializing in foreign affairs and defense), international sales and traveled extensively throughout Latin America.
Stephen Dawson (M.A., 1994) is the Vice President of Communica-tions & Strategic Planning for The Heritage Company in North Little Rock, Arkansas where he is re-sponsible for Information Technol-ogy, Donor Services, and Regulato-ry Compliance.
John Davis (B.A., 2009) will gradu-ate with an M.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Ar-kansas in May 2011. Starting in fall 2011, he will attend the University of Missouri, Columbia to work on his Ph.D.
John Kyle Day (B.A., 1997; M.A., 1999) is an assistant professor of History at the University of Arkan-sas – Monticello. This past October he was elected President of the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers for 2010-2012. He is the advisor for the Alpha Nu Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society which as awarded the Best Chapter Award, Division (for the third consecutive year). He served as vice-chairman for the Drew County Republican Committee.
Vera DeBerg (B.A., 2010; M.A. can-didate) received a Critical Lan-guage Scholarship from the United States Department of State to study Arabic in Tunis, Tunisia for 8 weeks during Summer 2011.
Joan Dempsey (M.P.A., 1983) was recognized during the 66th Annual Alumni Awards Celebration on October 28, 2010 as one of the 2010 Distinguished Alumni. She is a senior vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
Anne Diallo (B.A., 2004; M.P.A., 2006; ABD) is currently beginning her dissertation in Public Policy at the University of Arkansas.
Rhonda “Jenny” Dolen (M.A., 2005) is the published author of Hope-lessly Romantic Poems Collection Stella Dulanya (M.P.A., 2009) is an Associate at Kaplan & Associates, LLP in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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Thomas Ellis (B.A., 1996) cur-rently works as an Associate in Oncology Sales Operations of Eli Lilly and company. Dur-ing the last two years he had several unique opportunities such as helping to design in-centive compensation plans, integrating he Puerto Rico affiliate, and the integration of the ImClone Sales Force.
Adam Fowler (M.A. candi-date) is the director of the documentary “Backwards and in High Heels” about Anne Richards the former Texas governor.
Helen Gorman (B.A., 1997) runs a sports marketing firm in the United Kingdom and is gearing up for the 2012 Olympics.
Ray Gosack (B.A., 1980; M.P.A., 1985) is the City Ad-ministrator of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He is recognized by the International City/County Management Association as a credentialed manager, which reflects his commitment to ongoing professional devel-opment. He has served as president of the Arkansas city Management Association.
Kay Goss (B.A., 1963; M.P.A., 1966) is a Senior Associate at Booz, Allen, Hamilton. She joined the firm in May of 2011. Kay continues as a member of the UA Alumni Board of Trustees.
Leah Graham (M.A., 2004) is an assistant professor of Po-litical Science at the Universi-ty of Northern Alabama.
Wendell L. Griffen (B.A., 1973; J.D., 1979) is the Circuit Judge, Sixth Judicial District, Fifth Division, presiding over civil and criminal cases in Pulaski and Perry counties of Arkansas. He is also a pastor at the new Millennium Church and CEO of Griffen Strategic Consulting.
Richard Harding (M.A., 1976) is a Lieutenant General serv-ing as the 16th Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force in Washington, D.C. He also supervises the Air Force Judge Advocate Gen-eral’s Corps consisting of over 3500 attorneys, paralegals, and civilian support staff in over 100 worldwide loca-tions, with many serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Christie Harris (M.P.A., 2005) recently accepted a new posi-tion with the Cherokee Nation as the Clinic Administrator for the Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center in Stilwell, Ok-lahoma.
Shayne Henry (B.A., 2010) works for the New American Foundation, a policy think tank in Washington, D.C., do-ing research on economic growth issues.
Gerald Hickman (B.A., 1954) is retired from the United States Air Force after a distin-guished career flying combat missions and working as a Public Affairs Officer. After that retirement he worked for Gulf Oil, Control Data Corpo-ration, and Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons. He later formed his own public affairs firm. In his latest retirement he enjoys traveling, writing and photography.
Kristi L. Hunter (B.A., 2007; J.D., 2010) currently works for the Asa Hutchinson Law Group in Rogers, Arkansas.
Anna Imbeau (B.A., 2004) is an attorney with the Arkansas Department of Human Ser-vices Office of Chief Counsel in Sebastian County, Arkan-sas.
Douglas Inglish (M.A., 1987) recently moved to Minnesota where he is the Senior Pastor of the Minnetonka Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Gaby Jabbour (M.P.A., 2003) recently took a position with the Royal College of Physi-cians and Surgeons of Canada, as the Manager of their Inter-national Initiatives. He leads the activities aimed a sup-porting other countries in their efforts to train a compe-tent body of physicians an surgeons on devising strate-gies to reach and provide basic health services to isolat-ed and hard-to reach commu-nities. He also received his Canadian citizenship.
Cliff Jones (M.P.A., 2000) is the Vice Chancellor for Aca-demic, University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, Arkansas.
Jean Jones (B.A., 2007) re-ceived her Master’s in Educa-tion from Harvard University and is teaching at a middle school in an urban district in Massachusetts.
Kim Kaminsky (M.P.A., 2010) works as a Legislative Re-search Analyst for WalMart in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Jeffrey Kearney (B.A., 2006; M.A. 2008) is currently teach-ing English and interning for Congressman Mike Ross.
Cody Kees (B.A., 2009; J.D. candidate) and Victoria “Tori” Adams (B.A., 2009; J.D. candi-date) recently took third place overall in the American Bar Association Negotiation National Competition in At-lanta, Georgia in February 2011. They won the Region 8 competition to qualify for the national competition.
Duane Kees (B.A., 1997; J.D., 2000) currently works as an attorney for the Asa Hutchinson Law Group in Rogers, Arkansas.
Quentin Kidd (B.A., 1993) is cur-rently the Chair of the Depart-ment of Government and Direc-tor of the Wason Center for Pub-lic Policy at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Brian Kisida (B.A., 2004; M.A. 2006) is a research associate in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Ar-kansas, Fayetteville. He recently co-authored the official evalua-tion of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program for the In-stitute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Educa-tion.
Sally Matlock (B.A., 1991) is re-tired. She was Arkansas’ first female Chief of Police.
Max Kolstad (M.P.A., 1998) works in the Division of Fiscal and Administrative Services in Little Rock, Arkansas. He also teaches a class in Information Technology for the Department of Political Science at the Univer-sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Lee Lacy (B.A., 1986) is an Assis-tant Professor at the U.S. Army Command & General Staff Col-lege, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He recently published “A Timely Lesson from the Korean War” in Small Wars Journal in which he discusses the 2010 falling out between President Barack Obama and General Stanley McChrystal in context to a simi-lar incident between President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. Additionally, Lacy is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve where he com-mands a military intelligence detachment.
Sally Matlock (B.A., 1991) is re-tired. She was Arkansas’ s first female Chief of Police.
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Max Kolstad (M.P.A., 1998) works in the Division of Fiscal and Administrative Services in Little Rock, Arkansas. He also teaches a class in Information Technology for the Depart-ment of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Lee Lacy (B.A., 1986) is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, Fort Leaven-worth, Kansas. He recently published “A Timely Lesson from the Korean War” in Small Wars Journal in which he discusses the 2010 falling out between President Barack Obama and General Stanley McChrystal in context to a similar incident between President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacAr-thur during the Korean War. Additionally, Lacy is a Lieu-tenant Colonel in the U.S. Ar-my Reserve where he com-mands a military intelligence detachment.
Laura (Satterfield) Levine (B.A., 2005; J.D., 2009) is cur-rently an associate attorney with Satterfield Law Firm, PLC in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Kelcie Lewis (B.A., 2010) will be attending the John Mar-shall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, starting in Fall 2011.
Scott Limbocker (B.A., 2010) is a M.A. in Political Science student at the University of Arkansas.
Amy Linimon (B.A., 2009) is the Director of Special Events at the Washington Regional Foundation in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Marshall Mahan (B.A., 2006) continues to work at the Uni-versity of Arkansas Policy De-partment where he is the Day Shift Commander.
J. Cliff McKinney II (M.P.A., 2002) was recognized by Chamber USA’s Guide to Ameri-ca’s Leading Lawyers for Busi-ness in the practice of real es-tate law. He also received the Judith Ryan Gray Young Law-yer Service award from the Arkansas Bar Association.
Gary Moody (B.A., 2002; M.A., 2004) is the Arkansas State Director for Organizing for America, President Obama’s grassroots organization.
Lensa Odima (B.A., 2005; J.D., 2009) is the Sebastian County Legal Advocate for the Crisis Intervention Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Diane Ounpraseuth (M.P.A., 2006) is a Senior Specialist for Teacher Effectiveness at the Community Action Project in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Lynn Phillips (B.A., 1988) teaches 8th grade American History for the Dallas Inde-pendent School District.
John Poe (B.A., 2010) is a teaching assistant at the Uni-versity of Kentucky, currently working on his Master’s De-gree.
Randal Reed (B.A., 1970) is currently Director of Rules & Competitions for the Mary-land State Golf Association; Executive Director of the Mid-dle Atlantic Golf Association and Executive Director of the Washington Metropolitan Golf Association. He also served as a volunteer Rules official at the United States Amateur Championship, the United States Senior Open, the United States Women’s Open and the United States Open.
George Rhoads (B.A., 1975; J.D., 1979) is a partner in the law firm of Matthews, Camp-bell, Rhoads, McClure, Thomp-son & Fryauf, P.A. in Rogers Arkansas.
Hunter Riley (B.A., 2007) is the Director of Programs at the Pat Tillman Foundation in Tempe, Arizona. In this capac-ity, he will be guiding the an-nual selection of Tillman Mili-tary Scholars providing schol-arship funds and community support and resources. He also runs marathons.
Phil Schoettlin (M.P.A., 2005) is the Business Development Manager at Sanmina-SCI in Kansas City, Missouri.
Karen Sebold (M.A., 2009) is currently working on finishing her dissertation in Public Poli-cy at the University of Arkan-sas, Fayetteville. As a member of the Teaching Assistant Ef-fectiveness Advisory Commit-tee she helped product the new Teaching Assistant Hand-book. She accepted a three year position at the University of Arkansas as a 3-year In-structor in Political Science starting August 2011.
Elizabeth Smith (B.A., 2005) is the director of field placement for the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas.
Michael Solomon (B.A., 2000) is the economic development director for Goodland, Kansas. He held the Director of Plan-ning and Economic Develop-ment for Lowell, Arkansas until January 2011.
David Underwood (B.A., 1998) plans to retire some time in 2011, after 22 years in the United States Army. He is still recovering from severe inju-ries suffered during his time in Iraq.
Lee Warden (B.A., 2006; J.D., 2009) is an attorney in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Charles Welch (B.A., 1995) was appointed as Arkansas State University System Presi-dent.
Allison Williams (B.A., 1999) continues to work for the U.S. Africa Command.
Teresa A. Williamson (Taylor) B.A., 2001; M.P.A., 2003) ac-cepted a position as the Oper-ations Director for 7Hills Homeless Center in Fayette-ville, Arkansas. She previously worked as the Assistant Direc-tor of Student Rights and Re-sponsibilities University Housing Office at the Univer-sity of Arkansas.
Nicholas Zane Wilson (B.A. 2000; J.D., 2005) currently works for the Small Business Administration’s Commercial Loan Servicing Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Before that he worked for the SBA in Dallas.
Tamika Wordlow (B.A., M.P.A. 2010) is the HEI Program Co-ordinator for the Department of Housing on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ar-kansas campus.
Kelly Zega (B.A., 1990) is Di-rector of Public Affairs for Cox Communications in Arkansas.
Steve Zega (B.A., 1990; J.D., 1993) is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and is in the process of being de-ployed for a second time to Iraq as a JAG. He is a lawyer in Northwest Arkansas.
Birch Wright (M.P.A., 2000) is Acting Chief Financial Officer at the VA Medical Center of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
David Wright (B.A., 2008) will graduate with honors from the Bown School of Law at University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, in May 2011.
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Yara Yousseff (M.A., 2004) is working at CAMRIS International, Inc, as a Senior Technical Associate, lending expertise in media analysis, issues of democracy and governance, and other areas of international development. Before that she worked in business development as well as managed projects with USAID and DOD.
Greg Ziser (B.A., 2007) is currently employed as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Laurel H. Siddoway, Division 3 of the Washington State Court of Appeals. He received is J.D. in 2010 from Gonzaga University School of Law.
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Support Our Department: Lend A Helping Hand
The Department is in ever greater need for your support. We are doing more and better things
for our students and would like you to be a continued part of the success of this department.
Please remember that when you hear in the media that the University received a major dona-
tion only a small percent is available for use. When you establish a fund of e.g. $10,000 we can
use less than five percent of that amount. So it takes a lot of you helping us out.
If you wish to support the mission of the scholarships or departmental awards below, or would
like to start your own, do not hesitate to contact me or the Fulbright College Office of Devel-
opment.
Please direct your donations to one or more of the following accounts (see descriptions next page):
o Department of Political Science o M.P.A. Program
o Henry M. Alexander Memorial Fund
o William Jennings Bryan Award Fund
o Hugh T. Henry Memorial Fund (MPA)
o Rita Snoddy Davis ACCESS Arkansas Scholarship
o Emil M. and Pearl K. Larson Internship in Public Service
o Harry R. and Lois D. Alward Scholarship in Political Science o Harry R. and Lois D. Alward Lectureship in Political Science
o Diane D. Blair Library Fund
o Minna R. Divers Memorial Fund
All checks may be sent directly to the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences — Office of Develop-ment ( 525 Old Main ) Contact: Dina Wood (T:479-575-2461 or e-mail: [email protected] )
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Departmental Awards and Scholarships
Henry M. Alexander Award
The Alexander Award is named after the late professor and chair of this Department and is given annually to senior Political Science major or majors with the highest academic achievement.
William Jennings Bryan Award
This award is presented annually to an outstanding student or students in Political Science.
Hugh T. Henry Scholarship and Award
Hugh T. Henry was the first MPA director of the department and shaped public administration education in the state of Arkansas. These recognitions are given to outstanding or continuing students in the MPA program.
Minna Rosenbaum Divers Scholarship and Award
Minna Rosenbaum Divers was the late emerita Professor Diane Blair’s mother. Minna Rosenbaum Divers was one of Colorado’s first female lawyers. Divers served in the Roosevelt Administration as an attorney with the Public Works Administration and served on the staff of several members of the U.S. Congress. Diane established this fund to support outstanding Political Science undergraduates who have demonstrated a commitment to, and plans for, careers in public service.
Applicants should be rising juniors or seniors with a GPA of 3.00 or above.
Rita Snoddy Davis Scholarship (see last year’s newsletter for a profile of the Donor)
The Davis scholarship is designed to provide support to need-based, capable students.
Emil M. and Pearl K. Larson Internship in Public Service
Nancy Jefferson established this award in memory of her parents to encourage students to explore careers in public service through internships. One or more undergraduate students may receive funding.
Harry R. and Lois D. Alward Scholarship in Political Science
Lois The Harry R and Lois D. Alward Scholarship in Political Science to fund one or more scholarships annually to a full-time undergraduate students majoring in Political Science. The recipient must distinguish him or herself through leadership, citizenship, and interest in political science and public service. Preference shall be given to undergraduate students with the greatest financial need.
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Thanking our Donors
Thanks for all the generous gifts we received over the last year:
Anonymous
Care Foundation, Inc.
Charles Atkinson
The Clinton Family Foundation
Rita and Sidney Davis
Ronny Deaton
Ray Gosack
Kay Goss
Gary and Cherrie Harden
Caroline H. Henry Trust
Regina Hopper
Nancy Jefferson
Bill and Missy Kincaid
Dennis Mosley
Kristine Prentice
Margaret Reid
Brian Swain
The Walmart Foundation
Charles Wilson
Earl Zachry
And many more that have given of their time or provided services for the department or by offering internships to our students. We can’t thank you enough!
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A Communication of the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs of the Political Science
Department, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 428 Old Main, Fayetteville AR
72701
T:479-575-3356
FAX:479-575-6432 http://www.uark.edu/depts/plscinfo
Reaching Faculty Members
All faculty can be reached through the Departmental Office, 479-575-3356, or by FAX at 479-575-6432.
The mailstop for the Political Science Department is MAIN-428.
Patrick Conge [email protected]
Andrew Dowdle [email protected]
Pearl K. Ford-Dowe [email protected]
John Gaber [email protected]
Najib Ghadbian [email protected]
Rafael Jimeno [email protected]
Donald Kelley [email protected]
Brinck Kerr [email protected]
Angie Maxwell [email protected]
Janine Parry [email protected]
Margaret Reid [email protected]
Jeffrey Ryan [email protected]
Bill Schreckhise [email protected]
Todd Shields [email protected]
Patrick A. Stewart [email protected]
Ka Zeng [email protected]
