Alumni and Student News

•  Stacie Pettyjohn was awarded a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace as well as an Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Fellowship. During the 2006-2007 academic year, she received a fellowship from the Brookings Institution and was a research fellow in the Foreign Studies Program. She is currently writing a dissertation examining U.S. policy toward nationalist terrorist organizations.
•   Ed Burnett, Lieutenant (j.g.), Navigator, USS MITSCHER (DDG 57)
•   Mark Haas (PhD ’00) has published an article in International Organization (Winter 2006/07) entitled, “The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reactions to Shifts in Soviet Power, Policies, or Domestic Politics?” and “A Geriactic Peace? The Future of U.S. Power in a World of Aging Populations,” International Security 32(1): 112-47. He received The 2007 Best Faculty Paper Award of the APSA Foreign Policy Section.
•   Frank Sellin (PhD ’03) was admitted into the US Foreign Service.
•   Thomas Ambrosio (PhD ’00) but employed since ’98) has just received a University Award from North Dakota State University (Fargo; his institution) for outstanding accomplishment after the publication of his second sole-authored book (he also has two edited volumes, a dozen articles and a comparable number of book chapters) .
•   Alison Millett McCartney (PhD ’01) just received tenure at Towson University (MD)
•   Whitney Blake, U.Va. Undergraduate published an article in Weekly Standard
•   Mine Eder (PhD ’93), currently a professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, is the Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at Yale University this year
•   Rick Mayes, (PhD ’00) new book from the Johns Hopkins University Press entitled “Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S.Health Care,” co-authored with Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the Urban Institute.