News and Events
Political Science Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
June 6th, 2013
The Department of Political Science is delighted to announce that three new faculty members will be joining us in the fall of 2013. Let us tell you a little more about them.
Professor Liza Featherstone
Professor Liza Featherstone
Liza Featherstone will be joining the department at the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor in Public Policy. She is a contributing writer to The Nation and a weekly columnist for amNY. Her work has been published by CNN.com, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms., The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, The American Prospect, Glamour, the Brooklyn Rail, n+1's Occupy Gazette and many other publications. She is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004), as well as co-author of Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002). She has taught at New York University's Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, CUNY's Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Labor Studies and the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to her longtime emphases on labor and women's rights, Featherstone has in recent years been writing extensively on education justice issues. She is also working on a book about focus groups and democracy, to be published by OR Books later this year. Professor Featherstone will be teaching two courses this fall: POLS 4000W, Capstone Seminar (Thursday evenings, 6:05 - 8:35) and POLS 3160, Politics and the Media (T TH 11:00 - 12:15).
Dr. Min Hee (Minnie) Go
Dr. Min Hee (Minnie) Go received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2012, specializing in urban politics. Her dissertation examines the role of community civic capacity in the long-term redevelopment of post-Katrina New Orleans. Dr. Go is currently working on three projects: (i) a book project on post-Katrina New Orleans; (ii) state bureaucracy and building code adoption across American states; and (iii) civic capacity and disaster recovery in Long Island after Hurricane Sandy. In Fall 2013, she will be teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on Urban Government and Politics (POLS 3140 and POLS 7510X).
Dr. Kosal Path
Dr. Kosal Path
Dr. Kosal Path is originally from Cambodia, where he survived the genocide as a child between 1975 and 1979. Dr. Path graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2008, and served as lecturer of international relations at the USC School of International Relations from 2009 through 2011. His research areas include genocide, national identity and nationalism, international relations of East Asia and Southeast Asia. His current research projects focus on the South China Sea dispute and post-genocide social rehabilitation in Cambodia." In the fall, he will be teaching the Political Economy of International Relations (POLS 3203) and Modern International Politics (POLS 7610X).
A Letter to Brooklyn College Students
February 2, 2013
In the last week, we have been contacted by members of the Brooklyn College community and beyond about the political science department’s co-sponsorship of a panel discussion on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Many have expressed support for our co-sponsorship, but we have also heard concern that the political science department is not willing to co-sponsor speakers or events representing alternative views. In fact, since this controversy broke, no group has contacted the political science chair requesting the department's co-sponsorship of a specific event or actual speaker representing alternative or opposing views.
We are writing you now to clarify and reaffirm our longstanding department policy on co-sponsorship. We welcome--indeed encourage--requests to co-sponsor speakers and events from all student groups, departments, and programs. Any groups, departments or programs organizing lectures or events representing any point of view should email the chair, Paisley Currah, with a formal request for cosponsorship. Each and every request will be given equal consideration.
We look forward to hearing from our students and colleagues.
Warmly,
Paisley Currah, Chair, on behalf of the Political Science Department
Statement
January 30, 2013
A student group at Brooklyn College has organized a panel discussion regarding the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a non-violent response to the State of Israel’s handling of the Palestinian conflict. On college campuses around the country and across the world, this issue is being discussed. Brooklyn College should be no different. The department of political science has thus decided to co-sponsor this event. We encourage students and members of the community to attend, pose their questions, and air their views.
