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7/03/2009 - Charles Franklin is named Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology
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5/29/2009 - New Giving Opportunity and Challenge Grant: Political Science Student Experience Fund
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5/29/2009 - Alumni and friends: Please join the UW Political Science Career Contact Network and be a resource to our majors.
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4/27/2009 - Timothy Werner receives Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in Social Studies
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4/21/2009 - Emily Sellars is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
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5/19/2009 - Reconstructing Rwanda: History, Power and Human Rights A Conference in Honor of Alison Des Forges
8:30 AM 7200 Lubar Commons, Law Building
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Donald Downs "ROTC and the Future of Liberal Education," Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review, May 15, 2009.

http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i36/36b00801.htm  
Donald Downs "DuPont Circle Diversiphily," 22 Academic Questions (2009), pp. 207-225.
  
Donald Downs "Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Tell the Difference" John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, April 2009.

http://www.popecenter.org/inquiry_papers/article.html?id=2164  
Aili Tripp, Alice Kang: "Gender Quotas: Female Legislative Representation." Americas Quarterly, Spring 2009.
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/544  
Scott Straus: “Genocide and Human Rights,” in Michael Goodhart, ed., Human Rights: Politics and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 279-296.   
Scott Straus: “The Promise and Limits of Comparison: Rwanda and the Holocaust,” in Alan Rosenbaum, ed., Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide 3rd ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2009), pp. 245-257.   
Scott Straus: “From Rescue to Violence: Overcoming Local Opposition to Genocide in Rwanda,” translated as “L’échec de l’opposition locale au génocide rwandais,” in Jacques Sémelin, Sarah Gensburger, and Claire Andrieu, eds. Rescuing Practices in the Face of Genocide: Comparative Perspectives (Paris: Sciences Po University Press, 2008), pp. 345- 360.   
Barry Burden, Philip Edward Jones: “Strategic Voting in the USA.” In Duverger’s Law of Plurality Voting: The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ed. Bernard Grofman, André Blais, and Shaun Bowler. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.   
Yoshiko Herrera, Rawi Abdelal, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott eds.: Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists. Cambridge University Press, 2009.   
Darryn Beckstrom: "Who's Looking at Your Facebook Profile? The Use of Student Conduct Codes to Censor College Students' Online Speech,” 45 Willamette Law Review 261 (2008).   
Darryn Beckstrom: “State Legislation Mandating School Cyberbullying Policies and the Potential Threat to Students’ Free Speech Rights,” 33 Vermont Law Review 283 (2008).     
Susan Yackee, Jason Webb Yackee: “Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different?  A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking under '43,'" in President George W. Bush's Influence Over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers, eds. Colin Provost and Paul Teske. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 41-59.