Department to be Well-Represented at Southwest Social Science Annual Meeting

Faculty, graduate students, and recent Ph.D. alumni will be representing the UCSB Department of Political Science at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Social Science Association in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 11-14, 2008.

The following graduate students will be presenting papers:
Christopher Brian Albert, "Capabilities and Intentions Are in the Eyes of the Beholder: The Effects of Perceived Target Capabilities and Intentions on Choosing Offensive Strategies"
Tabitha M. Benney, "The Third Sector: The Evolution of a Global Player"
Jovian Radheshwar, "Contingency, Violence and Democracy? Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the War on Freedom"
David Reed, "The Will to Be Responsible: Identity and Personal Responsibility in Arendt"
Cynthia Stavrianos, "Framing Motherhood: An Analysis of the Use of the Maternal Rhetoric by Political Groups"

Round table Participant:
Meredith Conroy, "Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign"

Recent Ph.D. graduates:
Chris McKoy, Ph.D.'08, Panel Chair, "Contemporary Views of the American Founding";
Paper, "The Underdetermined Enemy: The Anti-Liberal Formalism of Carl Schmitt"
Corinna Reyes, Ph.D. '04, Panel Chair, "Racial and Ethnic Attitudes: Are they Fixed?";
Paper, "'Text Me When You Get There' as a Means of Political Mobilization: Examining the Rising Use of Modern Communication Technology by Latina/os in the U.S."

Faculty Participant:
Rose McDermott, Roundtable Moderator for Panel "Genes, Brains, and Core Political Orientations"