Faculty News

•   John Echeverri-Gent authored “The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference and the Challenge of Development.” This is the report of the American Political Science Association Task Force on Difference, Inequality, and Developing Societies that is due out in 2008.
•   Robert Fatton was a member of the International Jury for the 2008 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
•   Dan Gingerich received the Leonard D. White prize awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public administration. The award is supported by the University of Chicago.
•   George Klosko received the Political Obligations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) Winner of the 2007 David and Elaine Spitz Prize, for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published in 2005. (The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is awarded every year by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.)
•  Jim Savage was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management.
•  Herman Schwartz was awarded the Society for Women in International Political Economy 2007 mentor of the year award.
•  Todd S. Sechser was awarded a National Security Fellowship at Harvard University's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies for the 2007-2008 academic year.
•  Denise Walsh received the Best Dissertation Prize for the Women in Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. She also received a U.Va. Lantern Society Award for Leadership in Women's Education, 2007.

Emeriti News

•  Martha Derthick has two books from Brookings Institution Press, Policymaking for Social Security (1979) and Agency Under Stress (1990) that will be translated into Chinese by Peking University Press. She published “Going Federal: The Launch of Medicare Part D Compared to SSI,” Publius, vol. 37 (Summer 2007) and “Where Federalism Didn't Fail,” Public Administration Review, supplement to vol. 67, a special issue on administrative failure in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (December 2007).
•  Matthew Holden, Jr. was elected, at the 2007 annual meeting in Jackson, March 1-3, to a three year term on the Mississippi Historical Society Board of Directors. He was also the keynote speaker at the annual ceremony of the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center for the Study of the 20th Century.

In Memorium

• H.J. “Adam” Watson, 93, a British diplomat and international affairs scholar. He served in Egypt and Moscow during and after the Second World War, was ambassador in Cuba and western Africa, and led the Foreign Office's Africa department during the Suez crisis. He came to U.Va. in the 1970s and taught for many years on foreign affairs as Professor of International Studies. he was a founding father of the “English School” of international political thought and author of many books, most recently, History and Hegemony. For more on Prof. Watson’s life, go to
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/28/db2803.xml.
• Wilmer Edmund “Ned” Moomaw, 69, a University of Virginia professor emeritus of politics and former executive director of the Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies. Popular in the classroom, he taught many fourth-year seminars over the years about the First and Fourteenth Amendments. He received his BA and PhD from U.Va. For more on Prof. Moomaw’s life, go to
https://www.legacy.com/dailyprogress/Obituaries.asp?Page=ArchiveOrder&PersonID=99935726.