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Martin Dimitrov has received the 2020 President's Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching. This university-wide award is given to faculty members who have a sustained and compelling record of excellence in teaching and learning and an ongoing commitment to educational excellence. Typically, the award is conferred during the University Commencement Ceremony. As there will be no physical commencement this year, the award will be publicized in an article that will appear in Tulane Today next week.  

The Political Science Department's own Professor Mirya Holman was named one of Political Research Quarterly’s Outstanding Reviewers for this past year. These Top 20 Outstanding Reviewers are recognized in PRQ’s 2019 Annual Report and also in a separate space on the journal’s website. 

The Tulane Political Science Department is proud to announce that our own Dr. Thomas Oatley, Director of Graduate Studies & Corasaniti-Zondorak Chair in International Relations, has been offered a nine-month residential fellowship with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Lee Gary, adjunct assistant professor for international development studies at Tulane, has extensive experience managing disasters in extreme environments. Now, Gary focuses his energy on teaching his students about coronavirus, an emerging epidemic.

Professor Mark Vail was recently featured in an episode of National Public Radio's 'On Point' on the subject of ongoing social unrest in France and the implications for French politics and governance.

Tulane political scientist Mirya Holman’s report, Assessing Equity in Political Representation in New Orleans, takes a look at who has held office in city government and how representation has changed over time, particularly for women and people of color. NOLA.com and Tulane News featured the research, co-authored by recent graduate Chloe Schwanz, in recent stories. 

Assistant Professor Geoffrey Dancy has had a busy year of publications. Find out more about his exciting articles here.

Vail's forthcoming publication offers a new theoretical perspective on the role of economic liberalism in shaping patterns of economic adjustment in advanced industrial societies.

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder.