Awards

Dr. Martin Edwards, Associate Professor, has been selected to participate in the coveted "Bridging the Gap Project's 2012 International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI)" to be held at American University in June. This invitation-only program, attended primarily by faculty of research intensive universities, focuses on building tighter connections between academia and the policy community. Dr. Edwards hopes to increase the School's influence in the policy community and bring these practical skills into the classroom. For more information, visit: www.american.edu/sis/BTG/ipsi.cfm.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Associate Professor, was named one of the 20 smartest people in New Jersey by nj.com/InsideJersey (published February 16,2012).
Dr. Fredline M'Cormack-Hale, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Philip Moremen, Associate Professor, were selected by a Whitehead School faculty committee as co-winners of the inaugural Salgo-Noren Teaching Award, recognizing excellence in teaching for the academic year 2010-2011.

Publications

Presented a paper on November 29, 2011, on “Twenty Years of Energy Policy in the Newly-Independent States: Lessons and Conclusions,” at the conference on “Security in the Black Sea Region: Energy, Environment and Economy” (organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation), held in Sevastopol (Crimea), Ukraine.
Presented a paper on December 9, 2011, on “Ukraine and the Challenges of Post-Independence Economic State-Building: Between ‘Rent Swamps,’ Energy Dependency and Russian Pressure,” at the “Independent Ukraine: Twenty Years On” Research Workshop, held at Cambridge University, U.K., from December 8-9, 2011.
Presented a paper on “Local Elites, Rent-seeking, and the Limits to Russia’s Leverage in the Post-Soviet Region: The Case of Transnistria” at the Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop, held at Harvard University, on January 23, 2012.
Had her book, Turning Economics into Politics, Dependency into Power: Belarus, Russia and Energy under Lukashenko, accepted for publication in January 2012 by the Central European University Press. It will be published later this year.

Was invited to write an op-ed on the European economic crisis by the editors of Foreign Policy, which was published online on January 4, 2011:
(http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/28/a_watchful_eye); and
Was commissioned by the New Rules for Global Finance coalition to evaluate the International Monetary Fund’s recently completed Triennial Surveillance Review (http://www.new-rules.org/new-rules-blog/370-under-the-microscope-some-findings-from-the-2011-triennial-surveillance-review).

An op-ed article entitled “Universal healthcare is within reach” in China Daily European Weekly, January 13-19, 2012, p. 8;
A book chapter entitled “Domestic Factors and China’s Health Aid Programs in Africa” in China’s Emerging Global Health and Foreign Aid Engagement in Africa, edited by Xiaoqing Lu Boynton (Washington, DC: CSIS Press, 2011), 17-24;
A book review of Ezra F. Vogel’s Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Belknap Press, 2011), for Foreign Affairs (January/February 2012);

Recently published an op-ed article, pertaining to Taiwan’s recent presidential election, in Lianhe Zaobao, one of the most influential Chinese newspapers published in Singapore (http://www.zaobao.com/special/china/taiwan/pages14/taiwan120112f.shtml).
Has recently begun writing a column focusing on U.S.-China relations for the op-ed pages of the Oriental Morning Post, a newspaper published in Shanghai, China. With the rising mutual strategic suspicion between the two countries, Dr. Wang hopes that he can bring some different perspectives to the readers inside China. The links below are his two recent articles that appeared in this column:

Traveled to Jordan for two weeks in January 2012 on behalf of the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative to help Jordanian law school professors of human rights update their curricula; and
Visited as a guest blogger on the legal blog www.concurringopinions.com in January/February 2012.

As the Immediate Past President of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS), delivered his Presidential Address, entitled “System Equilibrium, Transitions, and Demands of the Excluded” at ATWS’s 29th Annual Meeting held in Salvador, Brazil, on November 20-22, 2011;
Participated at the 13th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) held in Rabat, Morocco, on December 5-9, 2011; and
Also for CODESRIA, led/chaired the 2011 National Working Group/Comparative Research Network (NWG/CRN) on December 7-8, 2011, and made a speech on “The Comparative Method in Social Science Research.”

Dr. Martin Edwards, Associate Professor, gave a talk on the European economic crisis to the Millburn, New Jersey, Old Guard on November 17, 2011.
Dr. Benjamin Goldfrank, Associate Professor, made a presentation entitled “Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left” at an event held at Seton Hall University on November 17, 2011, which was co-sponsored by the Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute, the Latin American and Latino/Latina Studies Program, and Lusophone Student Association.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Associate Professor, was recently involved in two speaking engagements:

As an invited panelist: “Emerging Practices in Global Health Cooperation: Brazil, China, India, and South Africa,” at the Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 2011; and
As an invited speaker: “China’s Pandemic Response,” Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C., on November 22, 2011; and
Was interviewed for This is Africa: A Global Perspective (a publication of Financial Times), November 15, 2011 issue.

Dr. Ann Marie Murphy, Associate Professor, had a lengthy interview published by the National Bureau of Asian Research on November 17, 2011, entitled “The United States Joins the East Asian Summit: Implications for Regional Cooperation.” Dr. Murphy also gave interviews on the topic with Voice of America and Radio France International and was quoted in The Altantic blog.
Dr. Zheng Wang, Associate Professor,appeared as the guest commentator for a live broadcast of Phoenix Television commemorating the Chinese Vice President’s visit to the U.S. The interview was aired on February 14, 2012. Phoenix Television is a Hong Kong-based, Mandarin Chinese television broadcaster.
Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, Assistant Professor, attended the invitation-only Renaissance Weekend ideas conference in December 2011 and spoke about her work on international human rights to an audience including Members of Congress, Nobel laureates, State Department officials, entrepreneurs, and NGO members.

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