HSU Fulbright Day

Kalb Award

Fall 2007 Schedule

Justin Williams wins international environmental politics essay competition

Congratulations to Justin Williams, a student in John Meyer's "Environmental Political Theory" course in Spring 2006. Justin recently won first place in an international essay competition sponsored by Keele University in the U.K. The competition required students to write a 1500 word essay in response to the following prompt: “Governments have failed us. It is now down to individuals to halt climate change.” Here's more information from the Keele website.

Stephanie Burkhalter hired as new Assistant Professor

We are very pleased to announce that Stephanie Burkhalter, from the University of Washington, will join our department this fall. Stephanie will be teaching PSCI 210, Introduction to U.S. Politics, as well as PSCI 350, The President and Congress, in the fall semester. Stephanie has both practical and academic experience in American politics, and is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation, in which she studies communication of political messages by members of Congress and interest groups. She also has a background in political theory, including feminist and democratic theory. Welcome, Stephanie!

Professor Sonntag Wins Fulbright Research Chair

Professor Sam Sonntag has just been awarded a Fulbright grant to Canada. She will be appointed as Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario for the 2007-2008 academic year. Her research project, entitled "Global English and Linguistic Autonomy," will examine the possibility--and desirability--of countries and peoples withstanding the global spread of English. Part of her research will be to compare Canadian attitudes toward the proliferation of call centers, both in Canada and in offshore locations such as India, with American attitudes. Sam will be accompanied by her husband, Professor Emeritus Bob White, on her year-long sojourn in Canada. Sam has previously been a Fulbright grantee in South Asia (1993-94). She is sure her Canadian experience will be quite different, especially in terms of winter weather!

Internship opportunity

Students, this looks like a couple pretty cool internship opportunities. A brief description is below, but they also emailed me a couple flyers/position descriptions. Just come by my office or send me a note if you'd like a copy (they're too big to post here). John Meyer

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Dear friends and colleagues,

The Center for Community Change is looking for interns for the Summer of 2007 and beyond. Please see the attached descriptions. The first is our general call for interns --- looking to hire over 25 interns to place with CCC staff and partner community organizations in Washington, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee. This is a great opportunity to learn about community organizing first-hand with some amazing leaders and organizations. (For instance, one lucky intern will get to work with the Movement Vision Project!) Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested.

The second attachment is information on a film internship at the Movement Vision Project, where we’re looking to find creative film students to help us create live action and/or animated films exploring some of the visionary ideas coming from our work. It’s perfect for those looking to combine creative work with political action. Please forward this one around to anyone who might be interested as well.

Thanks for your help!
Sally