Faculty News
Carolyn Ban completed research on three of the Directorates-General (DG) within the European Union (EU) as well as in the DG Administration and Personnel Selection Office. She received two grants to further her research from the European Commission and the Institute for European Studies at the University of Brussels. In May she presented a paper entitled “Enlarging Europe: Eastern Europeans in the European Commission” to the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Michael Brenner recently published Toward a More Independent Europe (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Brussels). In February he was invited to speak at the Center for Transatlantic Relations on “Images of America as Model & Mentor,” and in May he spoke on “The European Union’s Identity Crisis” at the GARNET CONSORTIUM in Florence, Italy.
Charli Carpenter is assisting with the development of gender training toolkits by the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces. She has received a large grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue her research on the definition of crimes against humanity. She received another grant from the University’s Department of Women’s Studies in which she and her graduate students analyzed 70 websites and surveyed 47 individuals in the “women, peace, and security” network to highlight the correlation between activists’ views on important issues within the network and issues presented on websites.
Siddharth Chandra co-authored two articles, “Daily Smoking Patterns, their Determinants and Implications for Quitting,” which was in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, and “Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Applying Financial Portfolio Theory to Model the Organization of the Self-Concept,” which appeared in the Journal of Research in Personality. In February he presented “Within-Day Patterns of Smoking in Relation to Patterns of Mood and Craving” to the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco annual meeting in Austin, Texas. He has also been awarded a grant through 2008 from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to research multiple drug consumption.
Louise Comfort authored the chapter “Asymmetric Information Processes in Extreme Events: The 26 December 2004 Sumatran Earthquake and Tsunami,” which appeared in Gibbons (Ed.) Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response and Recovery in the Global Arena (2007)At the XII Russian Ministry of Emergency (EMERCOM) Conference in Moscow in April, she lectured regarding Intergovernmental Crisis Management. At the 5th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Tehran in May 2007, she presented a lecture on “Inter-organizational Design for Disaster Management: Cognition, Communication, Coordination, and Control.”
Phyllis Coontz’s co-authored article “Revisiting Anti-Prostitution Sanctions: An Argument for Changing Policy,” appeared in the April/May 2007 issue of Criminal Law Bulletin.
Sabina Deitrick’s review of Gregory Crowley’s The Politics of Place: Contentious Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh appeared in the 2007 Urban Affairs Review. Deitrick presented “Pittsburgh Community Information System” in May at the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Conference in Harrisburg.
George Dougherty’s co-authored article “Evaluating Performance in the Judicial Institutions,” appeared in the 38th edition of State and Local Government Review. He was a featured speaker at GSPIA’s Wherrett Lecture Series on Local Government in March, which concerned “The State of Democracy in Western Pennsylvania.”
 William N. Dunn received the Alena Brunovska Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration from The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) at the 15th annual conference in May, where he also presented a paper “Bridging the Other Great Divide: Teaching Public Administration in Europe and America.” The award is given in memory of Alena Brunovska, one of the founders of NISPAcee, and is a tribute to her commitment to public administration in central and eastern Europe. His new book, a revised fourth edition of Public Policy Analysis, was in press February 2007.
Angela Williams Foster was an invited panelist at the 9th Annual Summit Against Racism in January 2007 and was invited to be a part of St. Paul Cathedral’s Parish Race and Reconciliation Leadership in March. In April she was interviewed for a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and quoted in “Subprime Lending Woes: How a Borrower Lost his Shirt.”
Donald Goldstein published two books (reissued from Easton Pres) in 2007, The Korean War: The Story and Photographs and Rain of Ruin. He also wrote “The Battle of Midway – Naval History,” an article that was published in April by the Naval Institute Press. He has given over 20 talks thus far in 2007 and wrote, directed, and participated in four episodes on military history for the History Channel. Goldstein chairs a group of scholars who are in the process of redoing the national museum at Pearl Harbor. In March, he addressed a large group of GSPIA alumni in Washington, D.C., with a tribute to General Matthew B. Ridgway, for whom GSPIA’s Center of Excellence is named.
Dennis Gormley recently presented “US Nuclear Strategy” and “The Limits of Intelligence” at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the National Youth Leadership Forum on Defense, Intelligence, and Diplomacy, respectively. In April the US State Department invited him to give an address at a Proliferation Awareness Training Workshop in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In May the EU’s Institute for Security Studies invited him to deliver his paper “Missile Nonproliferation Challenges: Assessment and Prospects for Multilateral Solutions” to the Vienna Missile Conference.
Kevin Kearns recently returned from his Fulbright-Masaryk Award-sponsored trip to the Czech Republic – see story on page 11. He published an article in the Journal of Community Practice entitled “Faith-Based and Secular Social Service Agencies in Pittsburgh: Location, Mission, and Organizational Capacity.” Kearns was recently appointed to serve on the Board of Directors for Human Services Center Corporation and the Mount Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Community Endowment.
William W. Keller received the Distinguished Paper Award from the Turkish Institute for Police Studies. Keller has published several articles, the topics of which varied from increasing Asian economic influence to global internal security, and he presented three lectures on nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and public policy issues.
Jerome McKinney serves as the main advisor to a group examining Pittsburgh’s tax and expenditure option as well as the main advisor on the St. Paul Cathedral Committee on Race and Diversity. Other activities this past year included serving as the Chair on the Committee on Credential of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA); a panelist on “Performance Measurement: Are They Making a Difference?”; and he also presented an analysis of the City of Pittsburgh on “Pension Underfunding Problems” at a statewide discussion in April.
John Mendeloff was a panelist at the Messer Memorial Lecture in March. “Should We Discuss Harmful Medical Errors to Patients, and, If So, How?” was part of the 16th Annual Medical Ethics Update. In April Mendeloff was invited to speak at the annual meeting of the International Associate of Labour Inspectorates of Toronto, where he presented “Thirty-Five Years of OSHA Enforcement: What Have We Learned?”
David Y. Miller coauthored a paper with William Dunn, titled “A Critical Theory of New Public Management,” which appeared in The Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe’s (NISPAcee) book Post-Communist Public Administration: Restoring Professionalism and Accountability.
Lisa Nelson received Pitt’s College of General Studies Student’s Choice Award. She was an invited presenter at the Department of Homeland Security International Conference on the Ethics of Biometric Technology.
Paul Nelson’s chapter “NGOs in the Aid System,” which appeared in Foreign Aid Policy: Issues and Debates for the Next Half Century, was published June 2007. He gave a presentation at the International Studies Association in Chicago in March, and co-wrote “New Rights Advocacy in a Global Public Domain” with Ellen Dorsey, which was published in the June 2007 edition of European Journal of International Relations.
Janne Nolan has recently given presentations to various scholarly groups and organizations in Pittsburgh, New York City, Austin, Texas, and Washington, DC. She also organized four events for speakers invited to GSPIA and the surrounding community. Additionally, she was interviewed on NPR, WETA, and KQED, participated in the Ford Foundation Interaction Institute for Social Change in Boston, Temple Sinai’s 2007 Author’s Roundtable in Washington, DC.
Simon Reich has given several presentations, two of which include “The Securitization of Immigration: Multiple Countries, Multiple Dimensions” and “Unpackaging Protection: Child Solider Recruitment in Four African Conflicts.” He was also a discussant on a panel for the political economy of trafficking, which was at the International Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. In May he was invited to give two speeches, one at Bilkent University in Turkey and the other at the Wilton Park Conference. Both were sponsored by three UK governmental departments and the UN group on Children and Armed Conflict.
Nita Rudra’s article “Developing Countries and Welfare Regimes in the Current Era of Globalization” was published in May’s Journal of Politics, and she was invited to speak on her previously published conference paper “Welfare States in Developing Countries: Unique or Universal” at George Washington University’s Institute for Global and International Studies (IGIS) Research Seminar Series in April 2007.
Martin Staniland was honored with the Joseph Pois Award for Distinguished Service to GSPIA. He received grants from the University’s European Union (EU) Center for his research on the air transport industry and the EU Emissions Trading System, a new and complex issue surrounding the marketability of carbon emissions.
Aaron Swoboda published “The Urban Impacts of the Endangered Species Act: A General Equilibrium Approach” with John M. Quigley in the Journal of Urban Economics. He addressed the Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting in Newport Beach, California in February and the Pacific Regional Science Conference in Vancouver, Canada in May.
Nuno Themudo gave two presentations at the International Studies Association in Chicago in March, and he spoke at the Center for Latin American Studies Conferences on Globalization, Diversity, and Inequality in Latin America: The Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers, which was held in Pittsburgh.
Harvey White was installed as President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in March and has given several presentations, two of which include an invited lecture to the University of Memphis on Transformational Public Administration and was a speaker/moderator on the topic of Convening on Equitable Development in the Gulf Coast in March. In addition to the above appearances, White was a keynote speaker at four conferences sponsored ASPA.
Phil Williams’ original post as an Associate of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which began in April 2006, has been renewed for another year through April 2008. The NIC is located in Washington, DC and is a foreign policy think-tank within the US government. Williams will be focusing on early warning issues in the intelligence community.
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