Department News:

For the past several years, the Department, with support from the Provost's Office, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Law School, has organized and sponsored a Constitution Day evening event open to the public and featuring a guest speaker.  Always on September 17, Constitution Day is a national holiday intended to honor the principles of the American constitution and governmental system.  This year, the Department has invited Professor James Read, the Joseph P. Farry Professor of Public Policy at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in Minnesota, to be the speaker.  His talk, etntitled "What Kind of Constitution?  James Madison, John c. Calhoun, and the Problem of Majority Rule," will be held at 7pm in the Law School Auditoriumm.  A reception with light refreshments will follow.   The public is invited.  James Read has published three books on American political thought and on democratic politics, most recently "Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun" (University Press of Kansas, 2009).

Professor Read will also present a talk to faculty and graduate students on Friday, September 18, at the Political Science Research Workshop, on "John C. Calhoun's Consensus Theory and Its Contemporary Echoes."  This talk will discuss contemporary consensus theorists and consensus-like practices in places like Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia

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Announcing the

Philo S. Bennett Medal Essay Competition on
“The Principles of a Free Government”

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Fulbright Grant Award Information

The University recently announced four USC Fulbright grant award recipients. Two of the four are graduates of the Political Science department. Andrew Bentz, who graduated with degrees in music and international studies this past May, received one of the grants. Andrew was awarded a Fulbright grant to Indonesia. He also received a Homeland Security fellowship, which provides an annual stipend of $27,600 as well as tuition and fees for up to three years of study. Andrew plans to attend Duke University to complete a master's degree in political science, specializing in international relations.

Martin Caver, who graduated with a degree in international studies and French in 2004, received a Fulbright grant to Canada and plans to attend Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. While at Queen's University, he will study the ethical implications of multiculturalism and identity. He plans to matriculate to a PhD program in political philosophy following his Fulbright year.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

-- Michael W. Arthur for his endowment of an undergraduate scholarship

-- William M. Ginn for his generous pledge for a Political Science endowment

--Mr. and Mrs. W. David Rhodes III, for their generous multi-year matched gift.

-- Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Roberts for their generous planned gift

--Dr. Lois Duke Whitaker for joining the Dean's Circle

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