Government Update
NEWSLETTER OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY’S GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
Summer 2002
Greetings from Morton Hall:
D
uring the past nine years, it has
been a distinct privilege to serve
as Chair of the Department of
Government. Now as I return to fulltime teaching and Ron Rapoport takes
over leadership of the department, it’s
a good time to reflect on the changes
we have seen.
Since 1993, more than 1,000 new
Government concentrators have graduated, along with hundreds of International Relations and Public Policy majors.
Seven new tenure-eligible faculty have
joined the Department, not counting the
three who were hired to join us this Fall.
Three faculty left for other positions and
three retired, and that doesn’t count the
number of visiting faculty who have
helped us offer a full range of course
when professors were on leave.
During this time, our faculty have
published 30 books and monographs
and 170 journal articles and book chapters of various length (some co-
authored with students), as well as delivering hundreds of papers at international, national and regional professional meetings.
We have taught dozens of regular
and special topics courses, advised
nearly a hundred honors theses, and
written countless letters of recommendation. We have reformed our curriculum, a process which took nearly the
entire nine years to complete.
Thanks to the work of Clay Clemens
and your own willingness to share information on your activities, we have now
published our first six alumni newsletters and also have a terrific website available to anyone throughout the world.
As Ron prepares to take over the
Chairman’s office, let me extend my
thanks to all of you for your support,
for the generous contributions to our
Department through the Annual Fund
(which have helped enrich our offerings
for our students in numerous ways), and
for your offers
of help in so
many ways.
I owe special thanks to
my colleagues
who have been
tolerant of my
mistakes, generous with their
time, advice
and assistance,
John McGlennon
and inspiring
in their dedication to teaching and
scholarship. I am excited about returning to full-time faculty work and wish for
Ron and Associate Chair Clay Clemens
the kind of satisfaction which I have
gotten for these past nine years.
Sincerely,
John McGlennon
FYI: Alumni Feedback
Last year we gave you some responses to individual course
evaluations over the past few years. But that was nothing compared to the treasure trove of data that fell into our laps as a
result of the required periodic departmental assessment. About
500 alumni from the classes of 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001
were surveyed on a whole host of items.
Respondents generally gave the Department high marks
for its curriculum, classroom instruction, and advising. The
vast majority also recalled being satisfied with the substantive
knowledge and analytical skills conveyed in their courses here.
But a substantial share of alumni suggested greater grounding
in statistics, political economy and technology. Most also said
there could be more effective career counseling and greater
social interaction. And of course Morton itself came in for some
choice words (down to the last details, in fact: “Some plants
would be nice....and soft toilet paper in the bathrooms.”) At
the same time, happily, most alumni said that, if given a chance
(or forced!) to do college all over again, they would still choose
to major in Government and recommended that entering students to do so.
Thanks for both the criticisms and the compliments–we
need to hear both now and then!
PS: The entire results of the survey are posted on our website’s
alumni page: http://www.wm.edu/CAS/Government/Alumni/
“If you had to choose a concentration again, would
you choose Government?”
[Years refers to number of years since graduation]
Definitely
Overall
30%
1-5 Years
42%
10 Years
18%
15-20 Years
31%
Probably
Uncertain
44%
15%
43%
9%
49%
21%
38%
17%
Probably not
Definitely not
3%
7%
1%
6%
4%
8%
5%
10%
“Would you recommend that a current student concentrate in Government?”
Overall
1-5 Years
10 Years
15-20 Years
Yes
89%
90%
91%
82%
No
11%
10%
8%
17%
Current Faculty Notes
I
n the penultimate year of his teaching ca
reer, Don Baxter not only conduted his
seminars on South Asian Politics and Indian
Politics, but offered a brand new course on
Afghanistan, addressing the obvious growth
in student interest in that country.
Not surprisingly given September 11,
James Bill’s courses on Mideast and Persian
Gulf Politics drew even more interest than
usual this year. In addition, he and Professor of Religion Emeritus John Williams published Roman Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims:
Prayer, Passion and Politics (UNC Press). Over
200 guests attended the March booksigning
party at Barnes and Noble
In addition to co-authoring a new edition of their book on Latin American geography with wife Olwyn, Brian Blouet lectured
this past year at Oxford and Cork universities. The Blouets look forward to teaching
at the College’s Cambridge program in summer 2003.
In addition to his courses on Asian and
international political economy, T.J. Cheng
chaired the East Asian Studies program and
helped the College establish study abroad
programs with institutions in Seoul, Taipei,
Singapore and Beijing. Also in conjunction
with the Reves Center, he helped obtain a
$1.6 million Freeman Grant to promote
Asian Studies at the College.
Clay Clemens offered his usual courses
on European politics, and modified his US
Foreign Policy class in order to address postSeptember 11 interest. Along with Dave
Lewis, he helped put together the new Department website (check it out!) and this
newsletter–in hopes of distracting attention
from his still unfinished biography of German chancellor Helmut Kohl.
David Dessler has played an active role
at the Reves Center with curriculum issues
and program development, including the
new Borgenicht Endowment for Identity and
Transformation.
Larry Evans again brought in US Senate staff directors to critique briefing papers
by his classes. At last fall’s Southern Political
Science Association meeting he presented
a paper with undergrad Beth Isaacs. At next
year’s SPSA meeting, he and John Gilmour
will present another paper (on presidential
vetoes) done with two undergrads under a
Dirksen Foundation grant
In addition to joining with Larry Evans
to obtain a grant to co-author a paper on
presidential vetoes with two undergrads,
John Gilmour published a piece on the voting cycle in Legislative Studies Quarterly, and
also won the Patrick J. Fett Award for Best
Paper on Congress and the Presidency at the
2001 Midwest Political Science Meeting.
Half of the Department (the rest were camera shy)
George Grayson’s recent monographs
help readers track events in Mexico; he also
lectured on that topic at the US Foreign
Service Institute, the State Department, the
National Intelligence Council and the Joint
Forces Staff College. If US-Mexican relations
should go awry, it won’t be his fault. He also
launched a new Mexican Politics seminar,
taking the class to DC for briefings.
Along with his regular classes on the
American Welfare State, Chris Howard
helped design a new course to help Government students satisfy the concentration computing requirement
In addition to his courses on the Presidency and Public Administration, Dave Lewis
did a joint presentation with undergrad Jon
Rogers at the 2001 American Political Science
Association meeting. In its ongoing effort to
keep up with William and Mary, Princeton
has hired Professor Lewis who will take up a
position there starting fall 2002–he will be
missed in Williamsburg.
In the last of his nine years as Chair,
John McGlennon published a chapter on the
2000 Election in Virginia and launched a
topical new summer school course on Virginia Politics. Moreover, in 2001 he reelected to the James City County Board of
Supervisors without opposition. Stephen
Ndegwa started a two-year stint with the
World Bank Young Professionals Program.
He and wife Dorothy welcomed an addition
to their family, baby Faith. While on family
leave, he organized a one-credit course on
Africa, with guest speakers. His article co-
authored with two undergrads, based on
fieldwork near Lake Victoria, appeared in
Global Environmental Politics.
Yet another faculty member who faced
even heavier course demand this year was
Sue Peterson who already devotes a major
share of her International Security course
to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Her article co-authored with former
student Chris Wenk appeared in Security
Studies, and her edited volume Altered States
appeared in summer, 2002.
Paul Pickering, who taught in the Department this past year, will be joining it on
a longer-term basis. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she specializes in the
former Communist world. Much of her work
involves post-conflict circumstances in
Bosnia, where she spent much of this summer conducting research.
In his last year of freedom before taking over as department chair, Ron Rapoport
published “It’s Perot, Stupid!” in PS: Political Science. Along with a colleague at Colorado, he received National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate grants each of the past two summers to
work with students Karen Bruner and Will
Blake on the Perot project.
At the Charles Center, Joel Schwartz
helped launch or expand several programs,
including a major new initiative on Environmental Studies. In addition, his freshman
seminar on Citizenship is now part of the
new Sharpe Community Partnership Program.
Current Faculty Notes
As Alan Ward prepares for the final year
of his fulltime teaching career, he continues to work on such research topics as the
new Northern Ireland Constitution, a topic
he addressed at a meeting of the Political
Studies Association of Ireland, in Galway last
November.
In 2002-2003, the Department welcomes newcomers Simon Stow, a specialist
in political philosophy from UC Berkeley,
and Christine Nemachek from George Washington University (and who has taught at the
University of Iowa) her area is judicial politics
As always, the Department was grateful
to have the assistance of several visiting or
adjunct faculty in 2000-2001. Mike Tierney,
MA ‘88, covered several international relations classes and the research methods
course for all Honors students; he is also
organizing a workshop series sponsored by
Harvard University. Katherine Rahman
taught courses on International Law and
Organization, and also ran this year’s two
Washington Programs (on genetically- modified foods and weapons of mass destruction).
Emile Lester again taught political philosophy, while Sophie Hart continued her course
on East Asian Politics. In addition, newcomers Peter Canavo, Lynn Khadiagala, and
Hans Hacker, who covered political philosophy, African politics, and judicial politics.
Bob Archibald, Professor of Economics,
remains as director of the Thomas Jefferson
Program in Public Policy, where Former
Ambassador Bob Fritts can also be found.
In addition to overseeing the Reves Center,
director Mitchell Reiss taught National Security Law last fall. Joel Schwartz continues
at the Charles Center (see above).
As usual, departmental administrator
Valerie Trovato kept the Department running, ably assisted by Tess Owens and Barbara Finocchio, as well as four student assistants: Amanda Potter, Meredith Viens,
Johnelle Hinkle and Kristin Monaco.
Faculty Books
1999-2002
James Bill, co-author, Politics in the Middle East, 5th ed. (Longman, 2000)
James Bill [and John Williams], Roman Catholics and Shi‘i Muslims: Prayer,
Passion and Politics (UNC Press)
Brian Blouet, Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
(Reaktion, 2001)
Brian Blouet [and Olwyn Blouet], Latin America and the Caribbean: A
Systematic and Regional Survey (Wiley and Sons, 2001)
T.J. Cheng, co-editor, Security Environment in the Asia Pacific (M.E. Sharpe,
1999)
Lawrence Evans, Leadership in Committee: A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate (Reissued 2001).
George Grayson, A Guide to the 2001 Mexican State and Local Elections,
(Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2001)
George Grayson, Mexico: Changing of the Guard (Foreign Policy Association, 2001)
George Grayson, Mexico’s Armed Forces: A Factbook (Center for Strategic
and International Studies, 1999)
George Grayson, Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches East (University Press
of America, 1999)
William Hyland, Clinton’s World: Remaking American Foreign Policy
(Praeger, 1999)
William Morrow, A Republic If You Can Keep It (Prentice-Hall, 1999)
Stephen Ndegwa, editor, A Decade of Democracy in Africa [Special Issue
of Journal of Asian and African Studies]
Faculty Feud
It all began when Dave Lewis hacked into Clay
Clemens’ course website to post an unflattering
photo. Clemens’ retaliated by launching a lastminute write-in campaign to elect Lewis James City
County Soil Commissioner with posters that read
“Lewis: Because Politics is a Dirty Business” and “A
Troubled Man for Troubled Times.” After a disappointing third place finish, the campaign considered mounting a protest based on concerns about
butterfly ballots and hanging chads, but settled for
issuing a terse concession statement:
Dave started out with a firm foundation of support based on his bedrock constituency. We then
really saw a groundswell for him in the final
hours. In fact at one point we were hoping for a
landslide. But let’s face it–his critics are a bunch
of slimy worms. There was a whole lot of mudslinging and other events kicked up lots of dust.
The gutter press didn’t help. But we hope that
our campaign sewed the seeds for future efforts
that will blossom.
Rather than becoming embittered with the process,
Lewis launched a campaign to elect Clemens Student Association President, with posters drawing on
a likeness between him and his personal hero,
Homer Simpson (“He’s the real life version!” and
“The same man?”, along with other slogans like
“Build your future with Clay”). Clemens retaliated
with more posters alerting by-passers to be on the
lookout for noted terrorist Osama bin Lewis, featuring a photo of his colleague in a Halloween costume that made him look more like Gabe Kotter
on a bad day.
Ultimately the feud could only be settled by a game
of Jeopardy, in which Senior Scott O’Brien tested
them in their own areas of expertise (such as the
Simpsons and the Cleveland Browns for Clemens,
and California sports teams and American Presidents for Lewis). The match ended inconclusively,
its only real winners being roughly one hundred
students, who took time from exam studying to see
their teachers totally stumped by arcane questions
for a change.
2001-2002
Freshmen Seminars
Baxter
Bill
Clemens
Hacker
Howard
Khadiagala
Pickering
Tierney
Modern India
Power and Informal Politics
Leadership, Power and Politics
Law and Society
Race and American Democracy
Gender and the Law
Change in the Balkans
War and Democracy
2001-2002
Senior Seminars
Baxter
Blouet
Cannavo
Dessler
Evans
Gilmour
Grayson
Hacker
Lester
Peterson
Pickering
Rapoport
Government and Politics in
Afghanistan
Geostrategic Thought
Ecology and Political Theory
Theories of the International
System
U. S. Congress
Congress and the President
Modern Mexican Politics
Courts, Constitutional
Politics, and Social Change
Khadiagala Political Economy
of the Developing World
Liberalism and its Critics
Domestic Politics and
International Diplomacy
Democratization in
Eastern Europe
Public Opinion and Voting
Behavior Ward Nationalism and
National Self-Determination
Former Faculty Notes
Recommended Books
& Websites
(*ALR stands for “at last report”)
According to the Washington Post, the Congress Online Project rated the following sites
as the best on Capital Hill–and being lazy,
we are willing to take their word for it.....
A
lan Abramowitz teaches at Emory University in Atlanta...Erich Ayisi has
retired...Bart Brown teaches at Chicago-Kent Law
School at the Illinois Institute of Technology...Eva
Busza is with the National Institute of Democracy
in DC ...ALR Rick Damon was an attorney in
Watsonville, California...Former Chair Jack
Edwards is retired and continues to consult with
local government....Martin Farrell teaches at
Ripon College...Anne Henderson is now with the
US Institute of Peace in DC offering instruction
in peacekeeping/conflict resolution...Chonghan
Kim is retired, but continues to attend College
events on Asian affairs...George Lovell teaches at
the University of Washington...ALR Morris
McCain resides in Boston, works for the Social
Security Administration and offers courses at
Northeastern...Bill Mor row is retired in
Williamsburg, does courses for the Christopher
Wren Association and was recently honored with
the VA Social Science Association’s career scholar
award for “expanding the horizons of knowledge
in Public Administration” ...Louis Noisin teaches
at Christopher Newport...ALR Bruce Riegelman
practices law in Washing-ton...Former chair James
Roherty is retired and lives in Oregon...Recentlyretired Roger Smith lives in town and, among
other things, holds lectures for the Christopher
Wren Society....Jan de Weydenthal does research
for Radio Free Europe in Prague...Paul Whiteley
is at Essex University in Britain.
Many other faculty have held visiting appointments in the Department and we thought
former students might be interested in knowing
their current activities: David Adams is with the
Fulbright Commission staff at the Council on International Education in DC...Sally Baynard is on
the Alexandria VA school board...Michael Clark
directs the U.S.-India Business Council in
DC...Michael Cornfield is with George Washington University’s Graduate School for Political
Management...Mick Cox is a Professor at the
University of Aberystwyth in Wales...John Day is
retired in Leicester, England...Everett Dolman
teaches at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies at Maxwell Air Force Base and just published
Astropolitik: Classical Geopolitics in the Space Age...
ALR Manfred Er nst worked in finance in
NYC...John Forren teaches at Miami of
Ohio...Scott Gerber is at Ohio Northern University College of Law...David Gordon is with the
National Intelligence Council in Washington...Bill
Hixon is teaching at the University of Memphis...
Chris Kelly works in the Williamsburg area...Mike
Kenney teaches at Britain’s Sheffield
University...Joe Khechichian runs a consulting
firm specializing in Arabian/Persian Gulf
politics...Mar y Kweit teaches at North
Dakota...David LeBlang teaches at the University
of Colorado...Michael Lessnoff is at the University of Glasgow...Michael Leroy is at Wheaton College in Illinois... Shirley Meeker is with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.. Jim Miclot is president of Steidlmayer Software... Jose Peman
worked in international banking in Europe...Jacqui
Pfeffer teaches at St. Johns College in
Maryland...ALR Joe Miri was working on environmental protection for the state of New
Jersey...Gary Mucciaroni teaches public policy at
Temple in Philadelphia...Bill Murphy is a DC political consultant and adjunct professor at American University...Barbara Norrander teaches at the
University of Arizona...Jeff Poelvoorde is at Converse College in SC...Staci Rhine is at Wittenberg
College in Ohio...Robert Rickards is with the International University in Germany...Katri Sieberg
leaves Texas Tech for a fellowship in Finland this
year and then starts at SUNY Binghampton in
2003...Avital Simhony teaches political philosophy
at Arizona State...Bob Snyder teaches at Southwestern University in Texas...Kent Tedin teaches
at the University of Houston...Frank Thames spent
this past year at Albion College in Michigan but
takes up a position at Texas Tech this fall..Jim Yoho
is at Wilkes University in PA....Jeremy Zilber is now
at NYC’s Yeshiva University this fall......Unfortunately,
we have lost track of Sharon Rives.
Baxter and Ward Retiring
S
pring 2003 will mark the last semester of fulltime teaching for Professors Don Baxter
and Alan Ward. Both came to the College in 1967, meaning that each has logged
thirty five years in the Department–seven decades
combined! With a margin of error every bit as inexact as these figures themselves, that is approximately
15520 lectures, 14300 papers, 23,245 bluebooks,
23,475 advising sessions, and 315 committee assignments. In addition to that, both also chaired Government at various points (we tried adding up the
memos and voicemails that entailed but it blew the
microchip in our calculator, a very rare occurrence).
Needless to say they have had a major impact
on the Department and its graduates. Alumni who
would like to be kept up-to-date on plans to honor
Alan and Don in Spring 2003 are strongly urged to
drop an email to cmclem@wm.edu (also, while you
are thinking of it, feel free to send us anything in
the way of anecdotes, reminiscences or tributes to
either or both).
Don Baxter (top) and Alan Ward:
distinguish at any age…
House Sites
Kay Granger (R.Tex)
http://kaygranger.house.gov
Michael Honda (D.Calif)
http://www.house.gov/honda
Mike Pence (R-Ind)
http://mikepence.house.gov
Richard Pombo (R-Calif)
http://www.house.gov/pombo/
Senate Sites
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
http://bingaman.senate.gov
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif)
http://boxer.senate.gov
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex)
http://hutchison.senate.gov
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt)
http://leahy.senate.gov
Leadership Sites
Speaker of the House
http://speaker.house.gov/
House Majority Whip
http://www.majoritywhip.house.gov/
House Republican Conference
http://www.gop.gov/
http://roperweb.ropercenter.uconn.edu
Ron Rapoport recommends this site, which
offers lots of opinion data on presidential
approval, etc. T.J. Cheng notes that accessing this site and then clicking on “Visit the
Japanese Data Archive” brings you to a treasure trove of (English language) survey data
from Japan.
http://www.metroresearch.org/
http://stateline.org/index.do
http://www.vpap.org/index.cfm
John McGlennon recommends these
websites–the first offers data on the nation’s
25 biggest urban areas, the second is a Pew
Charitable Trust page for those interested
in state-level policy and politics, and the last
tracks contributions to candidates for office
in Virginia.
[A few sites at the College itself may interest
alumni as well]
http://www.wm.edu/IR/index.php
Institutional Research’s databooks are a treasure trove of information about the College.
http://www.sin.wm.edu/
SIN gives you a glimpse into what is going
on around campus in the student world.
http://www.wm.edu/CAS/Government/
The Government Department is very proud
of its own vastly expanded, updated site.
Speakers
Washington Program
O
rganized as usual by Katherine Rahman, this year’s two Washington Programs fo
cused, respectively, on weapons of mass destruction and genetically modified foods.
During the latter trip, for example, students met with officials of–among others–the
Environmental
Protection
Agency, the Public Interest Research Group,
the Union of
Concerned Scientists, the European Union, the
US Trade Representatives Office,
Continental
Grain, Monsanto
and the American Farm Bureau
Federation.
Washington Program participants at DC’s Dacor-Bacon House.
S
ome well-known guests visited Govern
ment classes this year. In the spring,
former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
Chancellor of the College, met with students
in the US foreign policy class and faced questions on items including his own decisions
regarding Vietnam and Chile during the
Nixon-Ford era to contemporary issues.
During a day long visit, President Clinton’s
National Security Advisor Sandy Berger also
spoke with and to students in several international security classes. His comments focused heavily on the Middle East peace process. Former Senator George McGovern, US
delegate to the UN Conference on World
Hunger, also spoke at the College. Other
guests included CBS News Correspondent
Jim Axelrod, the Charles Center’s Journalist in Residence, and Washington Post assistant polling director Claudia Deane.
Internships and Mentoring
E
fforts continue to expand opportunities
for students to undertake public affairsrelated internships and to improve career
counseling with Government help.
For the third straight year, about twenty
Government concentrators (among other
undergraduates) enrolled in the Public Affairs Internship Class, organized online over
the summer and with papers/presentations
in the fall. This year the students involved
were at places ranging from municipal governments and the Virginia General Assembly, to Congress and US embassies as far
afield as London or Algiers.
In addition, most students undertaking
such internships received modest financial
support, in the form of Bertha Taylor Memorial Endowment scholarships administered by the Charles Center or stipends from
the Donald Irwin Memorial Fund: the latter, a legacy of a Government concentrator,
provides funds exclusively for those interns
majoring in the Department.
A longer term project is also in the
works–an effort to build on the Taylor fund.
The final goal is a $500,000 endowment,
which obviously sounds like (and is) a lot of
money, but (given the nature of endowments) we would need that much in order
to generate roughly $20,000 in scholarships
each year. To date, we have gifts/commitments of $272,000. Alumni who might be in
a position to help are welcome to contact
Clay Clemens (cmclem@wm.edu; 757-2213027).
In addition, through the efforts of Career Services Director Mary Schilling, some
fifty current students doing internships in
the nation’s capital came for dinner and a
panel on public service jobs again this June.
The evening was hosted by the College’s
Washington DC Office under Susan Wayland
and Professor Larry Evans moderated the
panel. Alumni speakers included Nicole
Bibbins. Special Advisor to the Undersecretary
of State for Global Affairs U.S. Department
of State; Laura Flippin, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Division; Tom Jensen, Public Affairs
Manager, United Parcel Services; Andrew
Langer, Manager, Regulatory Policy, National Federation of Independent Business;
Diane Pratt-Heavner, Press Secretary, Congressman Jim Davis, Florida; and Allison
Riepenhoff, Assistant to the Deputy Counsel to the President White House.
A similarly collaborative venture has
resulted in a new mentoring program this
summer. Career Services has matched up
current students interning in the DC area
with one of about three dozen alum volunteers (many former Government majors)
who are already working in public affairs or
public policy-related fields. The mentors and
students are meeting over lunch or dinner
to discuss career possibilities in public service. Alumni interested in helping out in
future mentoring efforts should feel free to
contact Mary Schilling at meschi@wm.edu
As always, the Department thanks those
alums who have passed on information
about internships (in DC or elsewhere), and
encourages any others to do so as well so
that we can draw our students’ attention to
possible openings for next summer. Feel free
to contact Clay Clemens at cmclem@wm.edu
(757-221-3027).
Sandy Berger
Henry Kissinger
A LUMNI N OTES
A
s always, all alums, and especially pre1990 grads, are strongly urged to drop us
news by regular mail, send an email
(govt@wm.edu), or log onto the Department
website’s easy new Alumni Information Form.
Since the Update is produced without a large staff,
we depend on you for information (and apologize for any errors or outdated items) And don’t
think we only want to hear from those in government-related fields—our major can be applied in
limitless ways, or not at all!
Also: please keep the College Alumni Society posted as to your current address, as we must
rely upon its records for fact-checking and mailing labels: contact the Society of the Alumni/
Alumni Records, College of William & Mary, Box
2100, Williamsburg VA 23187-2100 (email:
soarec@wm.edu). Also, urge any fellow alums who
are not listed here in this newsletter and/or who
say they don’t receive it to make sure they too are
in the Alumni Society databank.
Key: PP (Public Policy), IS (International
Studies), UR (University of Richmond), UMich
(University of Michigan), UPenn (University of
Pennsylvania), GWU (George Washington University). Perhaps you should also imagine ALR—
“at last report” in front of each person’s name.
CLASSES OF 1945-74:
Murray Carroll ‘69 lives in Anacortes, Washington with wife, Dorothy, where he researches
the history of the American west, particularly military history, and has won awards for non-fiction
short stories...Benjamin Cooper ‘73 is a Senior
Vice President of Government Affairs at Printing
Industries of America ...Philip Harway ‘73 owns a
restaurant in Warrenton, VA...Dee Joyce-Hayes ‘68
is a Prosecuting Attorney in St. Louis...Alexander
Monroe ‘69 (see MA Alumni list)..Retired VA cir-
Stay in Touch
We would really like to know what our
former students are up to and have several ways for you to get in touch or keep
in touch:
Mail:
Government Department Newsletter
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg VA 23187-8795
Email:govt@wm.edu
Information sent to the above addresses
will be shared with the entire Department and unless you request otherwise
may appear in an upcoming newsletter.
If you would prefer to contact individual
faculty, please address your mail to them
by name (for emailers, the website lists
all faculty userid’s). Since we rely on its
mailing list for address labels, please
keep the College Alumni Society updated as to your current whereabouts:
Mail:
Society of the Alumni/Alumni Records
College of William & Mary
PO Box 2100
Williamsburg VA 23187-2100
Email: soarec@wm.edu
cuit judge William Shore Robertson ‘61 is a mediator with the McCammon Group in
Richmond...Tom Steger ‘65 has had his own private law practice since 1978...Robert Turvene ‘53
is an adjunct member of the College’s Kinesiology Department ...John Vile ‘73 is a Chair of the
Political Science Department at Middle Tennessee State University and has authored a book entitled Companion to the United States Constitution and
Its Amendments.
teaches Philosophy at Michigan State ...John Riley
‘81 works for Representative Charles Stenholm in
DC....George Tankard ‘81 is a Baltimore trial
attorney...Mark Voigt ‘83 is an attorney practicing
public school law and civil rights litigation with
Levin Legal Group in Huntingdon Valley,
PA...Andy Waters ‘81 (see MA list)...Christopher
Wittmann ‘80 is the Advisor for Peacekeeping
Operations for the Office of Management and
Reform, US Mission to the United Nations.
CLASS OF 1975-79:
Pattie (Bagley) Schutte is a court administrator in MO and recently welcomed newborn
daughter Margaret Emily...Randolph Beales ‘82
is with the Richmond law firm Christian, Barton
...Mark Colley ‘77 is with the DC law firm Holland, Knight...Sherry Jennings Frost ‘79 has two
sons Jack (12) and Rich (10) and lives in Raleigh,
N.C. ... Cynthia Howell ‘78 is currently working at
Accenture on a project for the Air Force ...Christopher Kelley ‘78 is managing partner of Twomey
Latham Shea and Kelley in New York and has been
chairman of the East Hampton Democratic Committee for the last 20 years...Andy Lark ‘79 is an
attorney in NYC...Greg Minjack ‘79 is with
Sagamore Associates in DC ...Sharon Pandak ‘75
is the County Attorney for Prince William County,
Virginia...Skip Parnell ‘78 has held seven Foreign
Service posts, most recently as chief administrative officer in Ghana... Betsy (Page) Sigman is
teaching Management Information Systems and
Decision Science at Georgetown University
...Kevin Quinley ‘77 is senior Vice President at
Medmarc Insurance Group. He has published
eight books and was just named Director of the
National
Association
of
Insurance
Litigation...Janet Sanderson ‘77 is U.S. Ambassador to Algeria...Storm Simenson `78 is with the
US Foreign Servicein 2001...Mike Urbanski ‘78 is
with the Roanoke law firm Woods, Rogers,
Hazelgrove... Bill Whitley ‘76 (see MA list) is
Gloucester County VA Administrator.
CLASS OF 1985-89:
Jay Austin ‘89 (IR) is a financial analyst at
Philip Morris Management in New York...Jay Black
III ‘87 is the Associate Vice President of Investments at Davenport and Company LLC. He also
is a an executive board member of Virginia’s River
Country...Jery Bowers ‘89 and his wife, Kristy are
expecting twins. Jery teaches at the Madeira
School in McLean, VA...Patrick Cannon ‘86
teaches political science at Cal State
Sacramento...Doug Clarke ‘89 is Director of Education at Applied Career Training, a NOVA career college....Adrienne Cox ‘86 is an executive
in business development and marketing at
Microsoft’s MSN.com...Matt Dalby ‘87 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning at Jackson State
University...Emily (Deck) Harrill ‘88 is a Courtroom Deputy for the Clerk of Court at the U.S.
District Court in Columbia, S.C and has been recently accepted to the University of South Carolina School of Law...Kim (DiDomenico) Duty ‘89
(IR) is a V.P. of Communications for the National
Multi Housing Council...Tim Duvall ‘88 teaches
political theory and American politics at St. John’s
University...Anne Edgerton ‘87 works for Refugees
International in DC and frequently travels to the
Congo...Mike Egge ‘88 is living in Atlanta and is a
proud father of twins...Patricia Elliot ‘87 (PP) is
the Senior Director of Environmental Health
Policy for the Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials in DC...Richard Evonitz ‘89 works
for marchFIRST in Chicago and attends DePaul
School of Law...Christopher Fincher ‘87 is the
Senior Vice President of Wachovia Securities...Angela
(Fogle) Jacobs ‘87 work as a Certified Planner near
DC...Martha Griffin ‘89 is an Education Coordinator and acting Executive Director for Alaskan
AIDS Assistance Association. She was recently
admitted to Johns Hopkins University...Vince
Haley ‘88 lives in San Francisco...Paul Harrill ‘86
practices in the litigation section of McNair Law
Firm in Columbia, S.C...Tim Hugo is Executive
Director of Capnet, a lobbying firm for high-tech
in DC...Bill Hatchett ‘88 works as a Senior Military Analyst for the CIA...Tom Jensen ‘85 is Public Affairs Manager for UPS....Mike Keller ‘88 is
with the Foreign Service in Cambodia...K. Page
Kistler ‘87 is with the Boston law firm Lee, Levine
& Bowser....David Koman ‘87 is a trial attorney for
the US Navy...Maggie (Margiotta) Melson ‘88 is
with Episcopal High School in DC...Jim McCreedy
‘88 is a partner at Wiley, Malehorn & Sirota in
NJ...Mark Maurer ‘88 works for a community planning, environmental management and public
policy consultant...Mark McMahon ‘88 is with Sapient consultants in Munich Germany...Sherri
Mylott ‘86 lives in Vermont and is Director of Development at Bennington College...Dave Parmele
‘89 is a Business Development Manager for Plaut
CLASS OF 1980-84:
Matthew Bradley ‘83 is an Administrative
Judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission...Thomas Brooke ‘82 is an Intellectual Property lawyer in DC...Bill Childs ‘80 is sales
and marketing director for Abbott Laboratories
in Germany...Heidi Crapol ‘84 works in the community relations department for Phillip Morris in
Richmond...Donna Lee (Harpster) Williams ‘81
is starting her third term as Delaware Insurance
Commissioner...David Kaut ‘82 is an analyst for
Legg Mason Telecom Research ....John Hassell ‘80
heads the DC office of Hewlett Packard, managing its federal and state government relations...Megan
Lott ‘82 is the Development Director for the Clare
Booth Luce Policy Institute...Steve Macedo ‘80 is
a Professor of Government at Princeton...Sandra
(Harton) McCluskey, ‘81 owns a French café on
Capitol Hill and a catering company in Alexandria... Renata Manzo ‘82 drafts contracts for various clients of Hunton and Williams law firm...Scott
McCleskey ‘84 is the Head of Regulatory Policy
for Virt-x, a pan-European stock exchange in London and is finishing his MA in IR at
Cambridge...Mark Osler ‘85 teaches law at
Baylor...Chris Phillips ‘81 is cofounder of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry...Fred Rauscher ‘84
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Consulting...Jeryl Rose Phillips ‘89 works in the
City of Hampton Planning Department coordinating long-range, comprehensive planning . . .Father Don Planty ‘88 is with the Vatican embassy in
Ethiopia...Michael Powell ‘85 chairs the Federal
Communications Commission...Daniel Sachs ‘87
opened his own law firm in DC and edits DC’s
Political Report website...Maria Santucci ‘88 works
with Deloitte consulting in East Brunswick, NJ,
and runs marathons...John Schad ‘87 is Director
of Marketing/Feature Films for Warner Brothers
Home Video ...Alison Seyler (‘86) is the Vice President of Caressa Shoes...Andy Shilling ‘88 is with
Givando, Shilling law firm in Chesapeaker...Jonathan
Siegel ‘86 is COO for the Boulder Center for Performance and Sport Psychology...Dan Smith ‘85
teaches Political Science at Northwest Missouri
State University...Jeff Spoeri ‘87 is Director of
Development for the UMich School of
Education...John Squier ‘87 received his Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan and works as a
Program Officer for Russia and Ukraine at the
National Endowment for Democracy...Bill Stokes
‘87 is with the Merrimac Group in DC and chairs
the Washington Network Group...Ward Thomas
‘85 is Assistant Professor of political science at Holy
Cross and just published The Ethics of Destruction
(Cornell Press)...Mike Tierney ‘87 (see MA
Alumni list)...Shannon Watson ‘89 most recently
served as the Vermont State Director for the GoreLieberman Presidential Campaign...Naomi
Zauderer ‘88 is Executive Director of the NY Professional Nurses Union.
CLASS OF 1990:
Steve Bovino directs public relations for the
Pittsburgh Penguins...Mark Cozzolino is Vice
President, Legal for Merrill Lynch in New
York...Claudia (Bellinger) Harworth is a sole practitioner attorney specializing in estate
planning...Katharine Hornbarger lives in Massachusetts where she is a state affairs manager for
the Grocery Manufacturers of America...Bill Jonas
is Associate Director for Operations, at UNC
Charlotte’s University Center...Jonathan Kurrle is
a Government Relations Representative for Reed,
Smith, Shaw & McClay...Nicholas Lashutka is the
Director of Government Relations at Ohio Business Roundtable...Kristi (LaCourse) Lynch is a
Financial Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond ...Andy Stross is with Capital One in
Richmond…Duane Milne teaches at Westchester
State College in PA ...Mike Wilder is the managing editor of the Times-News in Burlington, N.C.
CLASS OF 1991:
John Ajello is Assistant Vice President at
Schinnerer & Co...Buzz Hawley is legislative correspondent at Van Scocyoc Asociates ...Renee
Johnson is the Senior Producer at Digital Eclipse
Software, Inc. in California...Frank Lynch is an Assistant General Counsel with Cavalier Telephone
based in Richmond ... Julie McEvoy is a practicing attorney in Washington, DC...Leila
(McLaurin) Beasley is the Associate Editor of Educational Leadership magazine...Andrew Morrison
has finished his MA in international affairs at
GWU...Scott Pasternack is an Associate Attorney
for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund and recently
spoke at an Environmental Law program at the
College...Mike Slozan is an associate with Arnold
& Porter in DC...Frank Thames teaches political
science at Texas Tech...Ted Rusch has recently
married and runs a dot.com for resort
properties...Chris Walters is Vice President of Investments at Bank of America in Abingdon, VA.
CLASS OF 1992:
Seth Bromberger works with SAIC in Mclean,
VA...Nate Dugan is teaching at St. John’s in Annapolis and received the Leo Strauss award for
the best dissertation in theory . . .Laura Flippin is
Deputy Assistant US Attorney General...Matthew
Gillen is a foreign service officer...John Graham
is a minister in Marion, VA...Jacques Herman (IS)
is with HSBC Republic...Brian Hightower raced
in the World Competition Ecochallenge last
August...Eric Kadel works for Sullivan & Cromwell
in DC...Christian Klein married fellow alum Lona
Carwile in 2001 and is a senior associate with
Obadal and MacLeod in Alexandria...Brad Miller
is Manager of Operations for the Charlotte NC
Area Transit System...Scott Pasternack recently
spoke at William and Mary School of Law’s Environmental Law Symposium...Rob Perks has joined
the legislative staff of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC...Craig Phillips
(IS) is at Harvard Business School...Lanier
Saperstein is with the law firm Simpson,
Thatcher...Alaka Singh (see MA Alumni
list)...Heather (Williams) Kadel works for Legg
Mason in Baltimore and is the J.V. Field Hockey
coach at Langley High School.
CLASS OF 1993:
Matt Erickson is with Laguens, Hamburger
& Stone, a DC media and strategic consulting
firm...Brian Foster is in his fifth year serving as
Town Manger for the Town of Altavista, VA...
Lukas Haynes (IR) is the program officer for In-
ternational Peace and Security in the MacArthur
Foundation’s Program on Global Security and
Sustainability in Chicago... Vince Indelicato Jr is
a Corporate Training and Sales Support Specialist for GOVS, Inc..Amanda Koman works for
Congresman Steven Rothman...Andrew Langer is
Manager, Regulatory Policy for the National Federation of Independent Business in DC ... Betsy
Lazan is attending library school at the UNC and
an assistant in the Botany Library...Christopher
Lloyd is the Vice President and Director of the
Business Expansion Services at McGuire Woods
Consulting and recently got engaged...William
Ruger teaches political science at.
CLASS OF 1994:
Matt Abbruzzese finished up his stint with
military intelligence and is at Johns Hopkins SAIS..
Brian Anderson works with I-64 Networks in St.
Louis...Emily Becker is teaching middle school in
Healy, AK...Debra Brosnihan (IR) has begun UVA
nursing school ...John Capati (IR) is in Albania
with American International Health
Alliance...Withers (Covel) Hurley recently got
married and owns her own business, Online
Health, Ltd...Tom Gill teaches at NansemondSuffolk Academy...Dave and Myriam FizaziHawkins have a new baby...Denzel Hankinson is
at National Economic Research Associates in
DC...David Ginsburg manages market research for
Choice Hotels International...Derek Gottschall
(IR) is the Vice President for Institutional Block
Trading for the Bank of New York...Kristin
(Loerzel) Larson graduated from Harvard’s
Kennedy School and is an environmental consultant in New Haven CT...Grant Neely is VA Governor Mark Warner’s Special Assistant for
Policy...Don Purka is working full-time with the
Asian Development Bank and will be relocating
Contributing to the Department
Many thanks to the generous alums or friends listed below for their donations. As
noted in the Chairs’ letter (front page), these funds are invaluable supplements to enrich student programs. We welcome further contributions and thank you for your generosity.
The best way to contribute is to target your William and Mary Annual Fund donation
to the Department, which you may request when approached during the drive or at any
other time of year by sending a check to the Development Office, College of William and
Mary, Box 2795, Williamsburg VA, 23187-8795. Note on your check that it is for the
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Alice Givens
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Gerald Rockford Weitz
Joseph Wong
Alexandra Crawford-Batt
William Gomaa
Jennifer Hamilton
Carrie Housman
Parker Wertz
Bonnie Benn
Daniel Ehlke
Jamie Jacobsen
Ryan Lucas
Philip Wiseberg
Jennifer Wood
Charlotte Tycie Young
Genevieve Marley
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to Manila to be a financial analyst with the Infrastructure-Energy Group ...Jennifer Sweitzer is Director of Education at the Chief Executives’ Organization in Bethesda MD...Georg Vanberg
teaches political science at Wisconsin.
CLASS OF 1995:
Joe Bates is a Senior Research analyst for the
Consumer Electronics Association. He and his
wife, Holly, are expecting their first child...Jeffrey
Bauer is a law student at the University of
Richmond....Jennifer Cozens currently works for
BAI, Inc. as a defense contractor in the Northern
Virginia area ... Nicole Harold is a Forensic Scientist with the Virginia Division of Forensic Science in Roanoke...Mary Lehner works for the DC
law firm Vinson, Elkins and got married in
October..Judy Lorimer (PP) is with the education
unit of Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation, dealing with grants to public schools...Arslan Malik
(IR) is with the NYC law firm Milbank, Tweed ...After working for MD Democratic candidates and
organizations, Mike O’Connell is now a retail analyst in Boulder CO...Matt Pickelle is an attorney
with RIA in NYC ...Rebecca Sack (IR) is pursuing
a Masters in Divinity at Regent College in
Vancouver...Tara Salem is legislative assistant to
Congressman Mark Foley...Paul Wellons (IR) is
with the law firm Jones, Day in Atlanta...Chris
Wenk is with the DC law firm Covington &
Burling..
CLASS OF 1996:
Sue Baumann is with the Nassau County NY
district attorney’s office...Melissa Bomberger got
her international studies MA at Pittsburgh...Hanna
Brilliant works for McGuire Woods Consulting
while attending George Mason Law School...James
Bullard is with Henrico County DA’s office...Chris
Burdette is working towards his PhD at
UVA...Forest Christian after graduating from UVA
Law, is serving as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge
Bernice Bouie Donald and has recently accepted
a position as an attorney with the Department of
Justice’s Honor Program...Peter Coyne is with
Mellon Ventures in Los Angeles... Melssia Eliff
completed her MS in Planning from Florida State
in 1998 and works as a Community Planner for
Hillsborough County FL... Sarita (Talwar) Finnie
(IR) finished UVA business school, has married
and is with Honeywell in Minneapolis... Kyra
Grundeman attends George Mason Law
School...Kathryn Harness (PP) is a third year associate at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in
NYC...Scott Hodgdon received an M.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins and is at UVA School of
Law...Jessica Jacobson (IR) is working towards her
Masters in Public Affairs in International Development at Princeton...John Kauffman is working
for a law firm in Seattle...Clarence Long IV is a
law clerk for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission...Rachel MacCleery got her
MA in urban planning at Princeton and works for
DC city government...Mark McLaughlin (IR) is
with White, Case law firm in DC...Annie Mitchell
attends George Mason Law School...Jonelle Ocloo
just graduated from law school and is now working with Advocates International ...Claire
(O’Grince) Gardner got her MA in political science from Columbia and lives in Hawaii...Matt
Siano practices securities law in NYC and got
In Memoriam
Michael Edwards & Jim Reilly
Lost on September 11
Two graduates of the Department were among the thousands killed in New York in the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks.
Michael Edwards (known by his middle name Hardy to
good friends) was a New Jersey native. At the College he was
a member of Pi Lam and got his BA in Government in 1990.
He and his wife Jackie were to celebrate their fifth anniversary on September 14. He worked for Sandler O’Neill and
Partners on the 104th floor of Two World Trade Center.
Native New Yorker Jim Reilly was the youngest of five and
followed brother Tom to the College, where he was active in
Pika. After graduating in 1998 he worked for Republic National Bank and then as a bond trader at Keefe, Bruyette, &
Woods on the 89th floor of Two World Trade. Over 850 people
attended his memorial mass in October and over 100 fraternity brothers devoted the Spring 2002 Wiffleball tournament
to his memory.
The Alumni Society has a fuller memorial to all former
College students killed on September 11: http://www.wm.edu/
alumni/memorial/memoriam.htm#ed In addition, the College has set up two memorial funds specifically in their
memory. Contribution checks should be made out to: The
Endowment Association of the College of William and Mary
(specify on the check whether it is for the James B. Reilly
Scholarship Fund or the Michael H. Edwards Scholarship
Fund). Checks should be sent to:
Michael Edwards
Jim Reilly
The Development Office
The College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
married earlier this year...Noelle Straub is the
Senate reporter for The Hill newspaper in Washington, DC . . .Anne (Tarbox) Hall teaches in San
Francisco and married Charlie Hall in
October...Russell Taylor is at grad school in Music management at NYU...Brett Thompson has
taken a year’s leave from his law firm to head up
issue research for Missouri Senate candidate
James Talent...Robert “Bobbin” Tuleya is an attorney with the SEC in DC...Greg Werkheiser is
with the law firm Piper, Marbury and directs the
Virginia Citizenship Institute...Kelly (Womble)
Winn teaches art at Churchill Road Elementary
in Fairfax County while working towards her second MA...Robert Wone is with the DC law firm
Covington and Burling.
CLASS OF 1997:
Rebecca Alves is a first year associate at
Gibson, Dunn law firm in LA’s Orange County
office....Dani Barbour teaches in the DC area....Jen
Bennett works for Accenture Consulting in
DC...Jeff Boyer (PP) is living in Hampton,
Virginia...Kira (Companion) Stewart is a Community Specialist for Raleigh’s Community Services
Department...Andrew Foos works for the Public
Affairs Council...Matthew Fogelson is at the University of Maryland Law School...Tim Garnett is
at DFI, a DC defense and business
consultancy...Alex Gibby coaches track at Stephen
F. Austin University in Texas...Janet Glover is in
Kenya with Catholic Relief Services (and learning Swahili)...Aaron Goldsmith is an attorney with
Bracewell &Patterson...Sarah Hall got her law
degree from GWU and is practicing law with
Coudert Brothers in Washington, DC ...Khang Hiu
graduated from Carnegie Mellon’s MBA Program
and is a management consultant for KPMG...Karen
Jupiter does development work for the Museum
of Science in Boston...Sarah Karwan is clerking
in federal court for the Chief Judge of the District of Connecticut...Synta Keeling works for
BETAH Associates, Inc., which specializes in minority health issues...Eric Kross entered the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in spring
2002 ....Matt Lyon is with the US Department of
Health & Human Services....Caroline Mueller (IR)
works for Nextel in DC...Nisha Narayan (IR) is
with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in DC...Jennifer Otterbein is
working with a high school youth group and looking into teaching....Steve Rodger graduated from
Vanderbilt Law...Lauren Schmidt is with DC’s
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm...Matthew
Scheiffer is a Caption in the United States
Army...Jane Sibley works for Red Cross focusing
on distaster mitigation...Matt Snow is at UR Law
School...Richard Sulik lives and works on the Is-
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land of Oahu, Hawaii...Dharmesh Vashee after
graduating from the University of Richmond’s
Law school, is working as a law clerk for Judge
Douglas Tice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in
Richmond ...Miguel Villarreal is with NYC’s Cahill,
Gordon...Jamie Wallis works for Shnken Advertising in NYC and is also an entertainment correspondent for AP..Tim Witcher is with
Careerfair.com in Atlanta..Mikhail Zeldovich got
his MA at Tufts’ Fletcher School and Harvard law
degree in June, and works for DC-based law firm
Dewey Ballantine, after a brief stint in Kazakhstan
for the International Center for Non-Profit Law.
CLASS OF 1998:
Emily (Adams) Korff (IR) works for the
American International Health Alliance and travels frequently to the former Soviet Union
...Kendrick Ashton (IR) is doing a joint JD/MBA
at the University of Chicago...Rebecca Asta graduated from Tulane law...Chad Carr teaches at
Balboa Secondary School in San Diego...Catherine
Carroll is pursuing a JD/PhD at University of
Michigan...Charlotte Chang (PP) works as a researcher for Barents Group of KPMG Consulting,
Inc....Peter Clark (IR) is spending a year in Columbia as a human rights monitor with Peace
Brigades International...Erin Clarke is an editor
with Random House....Brian Cohrs was commissioned as a 2nd Lt in the USMC and is in Fort Sill,
OK for the Artillery Officer’s Basic Course...Brent
Colburn is a Regional Political Director of the
Democratic Leadership Council in DC...Greg
Cota works for Senator Pat Leahy on the Senate
Judiciary Committee...Alexis Cox works as a production assistant and intern coordinator for the
“NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” . . .Peter Coyne
works on Long-Term Growth and IT Services opportunities at Mellon Ventures in LA ...Andrew
Dickson (IR) will be in Taiwan for the next few
years with the Foreign Service finishing his tour
in Damascus...Mike Diserio is with CSPAN in
DC...Toan Do is with the Army in Friedberg,
Germany...Ryan Dolibois is at YES college preparatory school in Houston...Brian Elliff co- founded
Guava Interactive web design firm...T.J. Fitzgerald
is pursuing a PhD in Middle East History at
Harvard University...John Greenwood (IR) begins
the Fletcher School MA program in international
affairs this fall...Matt Guiney is at Georgetown law
school...Rian (Harker) Harris is finishing up her
post with the political section of the US Embassy
in Guatemala...Ian Hart (PP) is the Webmaster at
the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston...Henry
Johnson graduated from Tulane Law in 2001 and
is now an Assistant Attorney General of
Alabama...Kermit Kaleba is at W&M law...Joey
Ladymon finished his MA in Defense and Strategic Studies at Southwest Missouri State
University...Becky Layde (IR) is doing an MA in
international studies at Georgetown...Jennifer
Lieb is at the London School of Economics and
has been accepted to Princeton’s PhD
program...Angelique Lenoir is working for the City
of Hampton as a Neighborhood Grant
Administrator...Grace Lessner works for Sequential Information Management & Publications as
a records management and archives consultant
specializing in government records... Matt Long
does governmental relations with the American
Council on Education in DC...Dave Loewenstein
is with Accenture in DC...Tony Marques is studying for the priesthood at Catholic University’s
Seminary in DC...Nicole Maroulakos is a litigation
associate with Dewey Ballantine LLP in New
York....Mara (Pressman) Surridge is a 6th grade
teacher in Fairfax County. She was recently certified as a clinical faculty member with George
Mason University...Jennifer Reznik completed an
MA in London and is with Illuminations
Television...Claire Rice (PP) is with Accenture
Consulting in DC...Pat Rooney is at the Department of Energy...Carolyn Ruff works for Gannett,
publishers of USA Today...Lori Sandler is teaching high school in Brooklyn...Sean Savage has left
J.P. Morgan to start an international affairs MA at
Johns Hopkins SAIS...Rachel Seher is pursuing a
PhD in Political Science at Yale...Lee Shaw is with
the Washington Hospital Center...Joe Sheerin is
with McGuire, Woods in Richmond...Erin Shy is
with Accenture in DC...Abigal Sines (IR) got her
MA in Asian Studies from Hawaii and is now a
program assistant at the East-West Center in
Honolulu....Brett Tillett recently married Rebecca
Nemerow (‘99) and is doing an MA in special
education...Jason Torchinsky is with the Department of Justice....James Treglio is at USD law
school and is a Democratic Party Activist...Geoff
Waguespack is at Loyal University law school in
Chicago ...Lori (Wentsel) Blinde is doing advanced
grad work at UCLA ...Christy Wetzel is at Duke
Law...Leighanne (Wright) Erickson teaches in Port
Angeles WA...Jim Zucker has finished his stint with
the Army and will do Teach for America this year
in Houston...
CLASS OF 1999:
Brennan Bolt is in law school at University
of Georgia and clerked this summer at McGuire
Woods..Heath Bradford starts UR law school this
fall...Kieran Brenner spent this year working with
the Economist in Shanghai...Reagan Clyne works
for SRA International, Inc., a Northern VA information technology firm, and is also an EMT with
the Annadale Volunteer Fire Department...Brian
Cohrs is with the Marine Corps at Camp
Pendleton CA...Jill Crissman (IS) is with the National Association of Retired Federal Employees
and is doing an MA at GWU...Sebastian Csaki (IS)
is doing his PhD at Cambridge....Chris DeMuth is
an analyst at DC’s Swindler, Berlin...Allison Foley
is a first year law student at Suffolk University in
Boston...Jeff Geiger worked on on Tim Kaine’s
race for VA lieutenant governor....Mindy Gill is
currently enrolled in George Washington
University’s Elliot School of International
Affairs...Jack Jebo is at UR Law School and got
married in May...Brett Keener works as a financial analyst at CFS Associates in Paramus, NJ...Matt
Larsen is working towards his MA in Church-State
studies at Baylor...Brooke Livingston is with the
Senate Appropriations Committee staff...Susann
Miller started her own political consulting firm
in Washington, DC...Wendy Oleson (IR) is with
the US Army at Fort Benning..Oz Parvaiz is with
Capital One in Richmond....Lori Pound is a third
year student at University of Richmond Law
School...Jess Powley is the DC representative of
the Marwood Group, a political consultancy and
starts Georgetown Law School this fall...Kristen
Rhode (IR) is doing her MA at the London School
of Economics...Wilson Rickerson spent 2001-2002
at the German Parliament....Grainne Sibley is with
the National Imagery and Mapping Agency..After
completing his Masters in Public Policy at the
College, Aaron Rosenberg is with the Commerce
Department’s International Trade Administration
n DC...Tim Sprinkle (IS) works for an education
association in DC and teaches part-time... Franz
Steinherr is a law student at the University of
Oxford and works for a British member of
Parliament...Alicia Tio-Messina is a consultant
with Arthur Andersen’s Office of Government
Services in ...Mary Ellen Tsekos is with Peacechild,
a youth-led sustainable action development
program....Whitney Untiedt is a magazine journalist ... Sara Yun is a Masters candidate at the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University...Steven Ziehm (IS) works at International Business-Government Counselors in DC.
CLASS OF 2000:
Shanan Alper is with Arthur Andersen
consultancy in DC...Jennifer Attrep is a researcher
at the Federal Reserve..Alicia Boyd (IS) is at GWU
grad school...Ryan Casey is in the Peace Corps
and will be teaching English in Russia...Alicia
Carbaugh has been with the health care section
of Edelman Public Relations...Kelley (Cawthorne)
Shreffler is with Baker and Daniels in DC...Andrea
Coleman is at Washington & Lee law
school...Mardi Conduit is finishing her law work
at Adelaide University in Australia...Susan Crane
married Donovan Maust and is starting a Fulbright
in Sydney Australia this fall...Tim Csontos is with
a DC computer company...John Dane works for
Branch Banking & Trust in Richmond...Billy Day
is with the Hampton Road Daily Press...Chris
Donald teaches at Norfolk Academy...Jim Finn
starts UNC law school this fall....Will Gomaa is with
a DC tax policy advisory group ..Tamara Greene
is with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
in DC...Jennifer Hamilton (IS) is a research assistant for Senator Joseph Lieberman’s Governmental Affairs Committee Staff...Betsy Haws is with
the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in
DC....Paul Helms is studying law at
Vanderbilt....Rebecca Herbig is a law student at
T.C. Williams School of law...Marcus Hicks is studying law at Seton Hall...Tim Hudson is at Duke law
school...Elizabeth Jones works for CQ Press in
Washington, DC...Suzanne Keller is working for
AmeriSpan Unlimited in Philadelphia...Katy
Knapp is with J.P. Morgan Chase in NYC....Jennifer
Kretschmann is studying law at Tulane...Brooke
Leyerle (IS) is at Wisconsin veterinary
school...Dan Maloney is with Arthur Andersen in
DC.. Mark McNeely is with Washington Management Group, a consulting firm specializing in government contracting...David Miscia is at Duke law
school...Amy Napier is studying law at UVA...After
finishing with Americorps, Peter Nevin worked
for the Salt Lake Olympics, is with the marketing
at Nantucket Nectars in San Francisco, and
planned a coast-to-coast bike tour in summer
2002.....Gabe Parker works in the commercial fishing industry in MA...Jeff Palmore works for Congressman Ed Schrock...Marsh Pattie is pursuing
an M.Ed. In Student Affairs Practice in Higher
Education at UVA. She is an assistant in the Office of the Dean of Students/Fraternity and Sorority Lifedoing a Masters in Higher Ed at
UVA....David Plummer is with the National Imag-
A LUMNI N OTES
ery and Mapping Agency...Neela Rathinasamy is
a Team Leader for Americorps in South
Carolina....Patricia Ripley is a Research Assistant
at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC...Mike School is with Capital One in
Richmond and doing an MA in Education at the
College...Andrew Sedaca is working for First
Union National Bank as a Website Strategist...Phil
Shaw is with the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency ...Corinne Shirley is at Vanderbilt law
school....Amandeep Sidhu is a consultant for the
Federal Defense Group American Management
Sustems, Inc ...Demian Smith is with the Atlantic
Council, a non-profit foreign policy thinktank...
Megan Tapper works for Congressman Ed
Schrock....Marc Wear is at a legislative monitoring and issue management firm in DC ...Parker
Wertz is a paralegal in NYC ...Brandon West is in
Army Officer Candidate School...Glen Westerback
is at Cornell law school...Drew Whelan is at
Villanova law school...Mike Woodlief works in the
entertainment industry in LA ...Tom Yehl is with
a Vienna VA youth ministry...Nick Zweck is an associate to a federal court judge in Adelaide Australia.
CLASS OF 2001
Kelli Alces starts at University of Illinois law
school this fall...Alex Crawford-Batt is working for
the Department of Defense...John Broome is with
Accenture in DC...Anne Coleman (IR) spent the
last year at the European University in Bruges
Belgium and is joining the Foreign Service...Sarah
Combs is with Anderson Consulting and recently
married Raymond Clore III (‘00)...Kevin Croke
works for the Democratic Leadership Council and
Progressive Policy Institute in DC ...Lauren
Dawson is with Anderson Consulting in
DC...Becky Di Muro is at Case Western law...Ryan
Done is at the University of Utah Law School...Dan
Ehlke is doing a PhD in political science at
Brown...Jesse Emch is with the Close Up Foundation and getting an M.Ed...Vicky Gaffney is at
Accenture in DC...Erica Godwin is at Catholic
University law..Christina Hall has been working
for the poor in the Dominican Republic....Noe
Hatchuel is doing an MA in international affairs
at UVA...Marcus Hill is at Wake Forest law school
...Christine Ho is at UR Law School...Yuri Horwitz
worked for the USGS in DC and has now moved
to San Francisco GMU...Jamie Jacobsen is attending grad school in Education at the College...Will
Karangelen starts UR Law School this fall...Laura
Keehner is with DC’s American Enterprise
Institute..Anjali Kharod is at Villanova law
school...Tariq Louka is at W&M law school...Joe
Mejstrik is with Accenture in DC...Sean Michaels
is in the College’s Public Policy MA program and
interned at the US Embassy in the UK this
summer..Lauren Morgan is at UVA Law
School...Anneliese Munczinski is at Tulane Law
School...Art Neill works for the Maryland Democratic Party...Mayur Patel (IR, PP) is working towards his J.D./L.L.M. in international law at Duke
Law School...Marie Lovern is with Accenture in
DC..Cheryl Malacane is a law student at the Catholic University of America...Tony Murray is with the
Army in Germany...Mayur Patel is at Duke law
school...David Redavid worked as a legal assistant
at NYC’s Curvath, Swane in 2001- 2002...Jon
Schenina is attending graduate school at Harvard
University..Dan Schy spent 2001-2002 as the
College’s guest tutor at Britain’s Greenwich Royal
Hospital School and starts UR Law School this
fall...Tracy Selmer works as a staff assistant for a
member of the Fair fax County Board of
Supervisors...Simran Singh (IR) is at University of
Miami law school...Jessica Steinberg teaches Latin
at a Florida private school…Steve Strosnider starts
UVA law this fall...IV Tench has been working at
DC’s Brookings Institution..Lt. Greg Tomlin is
with the US Army in Germany...Phi Wiseberg is a
Legal Assistant in Washington, DC at Jenner &
Block.
MASTERS PROGRAM ALUMNI NOTES
R
ahul Bhagat ‘88 is with ANZ Bank in
Calcutta...Marsha Brandstedt works for the
Cleveland World Trade Organization...Clarke
Cagey BA ‘93/MA ‘94 is with the US Department
of Health and Human Services...Alan Calandro ‘89
works for the nonpartisan fiscal office for the CT
legislature...Ted Carmines ‘72 teaches political science at Indiana University...Ben Cooper ‘74 is Senior VP for government liaison with the Printing
Industries of America in Alexandria, VA....Katherine
Darke BA ‘92/MA ‘93 (Public Policy) is Program
Manager at the National Institute of Justice Office
of Research and Evaluation, Violence and Victimization Division, Department of Justice...John
Dedrick BA ‘86/MA ‘88 directs research at the
Kettering Foundation in Dayton...Mike DeWitt ‘83
teaches and coaches at D.D. Hylton High School
in Woodbridge, VA...Darby Dickerson BA ‘84/MA
‘85 is an Associate Professor at Stetson University
College of Law in FL...Dan Dowd is studying for
his Ph.D. in political science at Yale...Paul
Duckenfeld ‘95 is with the National Imagery and
Mapping Agency in DC...Cathy Dunn ‘79 lives in
Mystic CT, and is National Account Manager for
Hubbell Premise Wiring...Paul Gough ‘80 is the
director of South Dakota’s Board of Regents...Bob
Graboyes ‘82 got his Economics PhD from Columbia and teaches at UR and VCU...Michael Gresalfi
‘81 is at Lockheed-Martin Corp. and also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins...David Hawkins
BA ‘92/MA ‘94 is Director of Government Relations at the National Association for College Admission Counseling in DC...Myriam Fizazi-Hawkins
BA ‘92/MA ‘94 works for America- Middle East Educational and Training Services...William Allen
Hazelton ‘70 teaches political science at Miami
University in OH and directs its international studies program...Donald Hilbert ‘74 is with the US
Army in DC...Jonathan Kajeckas BA ‘89/MA ‘94
works for the County of Sonoma CA...Steve Lafalce
‘91 works at the Advisory Board in DC...Grace
Lessner ‘98 is with the Virginia State Library...Chris
Liptak ‘97 is US naval attache at the Embassy in
Rome...Steve Lobb BA ‘94/MA ‘95 is doing his
Ph.D. in political science at Yale...Chris Maloney
‘90 is at Woods Academy in Bethesda, MD...Rob
Martin ‘95 is in UVAº’s Ph.D. program...Laura
(Meredith) Meitland ‘93 lives in St. Louis...David
Melding ‘89 lives in Cardiff, and is a Conservative
member of the Welsh Assembly...Shari Mortimer
‘92 is finishing her Ph.D. in political science at
UVA...Alexander Monroe ‘69 is Richmond City
Records Manager and a naval reserve officer..Lee
Mumpower ‘78 is Director of Instructional Services
at Chattahooche Technical Institute in Mariette
GA...Paulette Parker BA ‘92/MA ‘95 works for a
Williamsburg- area software firm...John Pierpan ‘96
is at UVA law school...Jay Price ‘92 teaches public
history at Wichita State...Ken Rosenfeld ‘96 worked
in Fairfax, VA local government, appeared in West
Wing and is now in East Europe...John Rothget ‘72
is Paul Rejai Professor of Political Science at Miami of Ohio...Carmine Scavo teaches at East Carolina University...Alaka Singh ‘92 received her Ph.D.
from Cambridge in development economics...Chris
Tanner ‘92 is a lawyer in NC...Mike Tierney BA ‘87/
MA ‘88 teaches here in the Department...John
Tinkham ‘71 is busy with the World Affairs Council and the Virginia Social Sciences Association in
Virginia Beach...Jim Toner ‘73 is a professor of international relations and military ethics at the U.S.
Air War College in Alabama...Heather (Lehr)
Wagner ‘89 is publishing a book series on the creation of the modern Middle East...Jacqui (Mart)
Walpole ‘86 lives in DC’s Maryland suburbs and is
a public spokesperson for home-schooling...Andy
Waters BA ‘81/MA ‘82 is an attorney in
Houston...Diana (Burghard) West ‘95 is working for
the National Journal’s Cloakroom Evangelist...Bill
Whitley BA ‘76/MA’78 is Gloucester VA county
manager...Ridgeway Wise ‘95 is with the Foreign
Service.
Morton crackmograph
Morton Update
As most of those who spent their four
years within these walls know, Morton is
not all it’s cracked up to be, but now we
have proof. Enterprising Department
staffers Valerie Trovato and Barbara
Finocchio documented the gradual collapse of the building’s walls in a photo
essay (one example below). As can be
detected in the picture, Facilities Management is closely monitoring the situation with well-placed crackmographs.
Each semester they send a wall expert
over to check the progress of decay and
he confirms that (pardon the complicated technical jargon here), “Yep, your
cracks are gettin bigger.” But for those
of you already caught up in the hoopla
of Morton’s approaching 30th Jubilee in
2003 (much like the pre-Millenium
buildup), never fear: top people are said
to be working on this problem, and we
are assured that the building will still be
standing well into its fourth decade....
Class of 2002: The photo makes this scene appear more orderly than it was
Awards
2001-2002
Senior Honors Theses
2001-2002
Jessica Trojak won the Department’s Warner Moss prize for the outstanding thesis; her project dealt with the question of the conditions under which countries join international organizations in order to slow cooperation, using Britain’s role in the European Union
as an example. Both Jessica and Michael Cutrone earned Highest
Honors, a very rare occurrence in the Department.
Jennifer Korth (Lewis)
The Rule of Nine: Attitudes of Supreme Court Justices
Thanks to the generosity of Annabelle Koenig-Niimo and the late
Laurie Johnston, the Department is able to honor a student with
outstanding potential for a foreign service career. This year the award
was shared by Paul Grieco and Channing Rich.
Michael Cutrone (Evans)
Parties, Pivots, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights
Those chosen for Phi Beta Kappa in 2001-2002 included Government majors Doug Bunch (who was also honored at Commencement with the Carr Cup for outstanding all-around student), Dan
Fine, Liz Grimm, Chris Mooney, Maggie Newland, Scott O’Brien,
Channing Rich, Lauren Schantz and Jessica Trojak, along with International Studies concentrator Paul Grieco.
Jonathan Strausberg (Rapoport)
Unraveling the Jewish-Democratic Alliance: the Power of Group Identification on Political Perception
This year’s student Commencement speaker, Alex Pyke, was a Government concentrator.
(International Studies)
Finally, the Department nominates one student each year to an exchange program to teach at the Royal Hospital School in Ipswich,
England. This year’s choice was Jesse Knight.
Steve Langan (Gilmour)
Predicting the Type of Banking Reform from Theory: 1920 Through 2000.
Jessica Trojak (Clemens)
Inhibitory Cooperation: Britain in the European Union
Theresa Barbadoro (Howard)
Public Education Inequality: Can Knowledge Make the Difference?
Meg Ehrie (Tierney)
An Explanation for Kuwait’s Lack of Democracy: a Synthesis of the Rentier
State and Informal Politics Theories
Stephanie Cervantes (Mitchell Reiss)
Strategic Implications of US Theater Missile Defense in East Asia
Melissa Shoemaker (Katherine Rahman)
Reconstruction of Bosnian Society After the Conflict
Bloopers, cont.
I
n what we can only attribute to the high quality of
teaching in our Department, we have far fewer student bloopers to report this year (though granted a
number that we found simply can not be reprinted because this is, after all, a family publication). Nonetheless, our students did not totally disappoint us. In ruminating about domestic politics, one declared that the
US electoral system penalizes small parties “because they
come from small areas” (Ross Perot call your office).
With the Mideast on everyone’s mind this year, one student traced the crisis back to the late 1940s, when the
newly-created state of Israel was “infantile.” Now, of
course, according to some of his classmates, the US fears
getting “boggled down” in a new conflict in that region,
though—never fear–the Pentagon has conducted a “bottoms up” review of military readiness to ensure that it
can handle “rouge regimes” like that of Saddam Hussein.
On a loftier plane, another undergrad concluded that
concepts like the balance of power make sense “in time
of war when the support of all nations is easier to garnish” (with a little parsley on the side, perhaps?) At the
same time, one should not forget that “Terrorism can
be used to ferment a revolution” (and presumably give
it a bit of a kick?)
Still, whatever bloopers our students commit, it is not
for lack of attentiveness–something that may be a bigger problem in other departments: for example, one
colleague from English reported this spring that when
a student’s cell phone rang in the middle of a seminar,
she picked it up and audibly told her caller “Can’t talk
long—I’m in class.”
Thanks
Several Government folks helped with this year’s Update: Chair John McGlennon; Professors Chris Howard and Sue Peterson; Office
Manager Valerie Travato; Secretaries Tess Owens and Barbara Finocchio; and student assistants Amanda Potter, Johnelle Hinkle, Kristin
Monaco and Meredith Viens. We are also very grateful to the Publications Office–Cindy Baker, graphic designer Sylvia Colston, photographer Jim Gleason, and Public Relations Assistant Teri Edmundson. Finally, our gratitude to Betsy Quinzio, Director of Alumni Records;
William and Mary News editor Jackson Sasser; and Charles Center Associate Director Lisa Grimes, the Thomas Jefferson Program in
Public Policy and the Reves Center for International Studies. Clay Clemens, Editor.
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