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We The People is a magazine focused on just that: our people. In this issue, we hear from “Auer” new dean on his plans for the School. We also get a look into the lives of three SPIA alumni and students who are serving our country.

We The People is published annually for alumni, friends, and supporters of the School of Public and International Affairs.

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Managing Editor/Writer Caroline Paris Paczkowski Design Bulldog Print + Design Contributing Writers Alexa Bankert Cassy Bolt Marlin Collier Rory Hibbler Gvantsa Iremashvilli DeShonna Johnson Lauren A. Ledbetter John Anthony Maltese Cas Mudde Rebecca Nesbit Taylor Ogden Photography AJ Reynolds Photography Ian McFarlane Photography June Bird Photography Wingate Downs Photography

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13 contents 3 From the Dean 4 Department Head Notes 7 GLIP: Now and Then 9 Alumni Board Profile 10 Setting the Record Straight 12 Promoting Entrepreneurship 13 It’s All Interdisciplinary 14 Beyond 2016: The Rise of Negative Partisanship in American Politics 15 Alumni News and Notes 20 Alumni Reflections: From Georgia to Georgia 21 Cover Story: Meet Auer New Dean 24 The 2017 European Elections 25 SPIA Strong 28 The Manager of Volunteers

29 Student Notes and Accomplishments 35 Securing Their Futures: SLP Scholars in Action 37 My Life Abroad 40 TurnKey: An App to Save Lives 41 President Trump’s Opportunity to Reshape the Federal Judiciary 43 Faculty Accomplishments 48 Survey Research Center 50 Development News 52 Honor Roll Keep us updated on your news and successes. Email us at spia@uga.edu

From the Dean

are the first three words of the U.S. Constitution, as every 7th grader knows.

The Constitution’s preamble is about fundamental principles. It clarifies why the document matters. So, it’s fitting to use this space to lay out the main goals of our eponymously named magazine. We The People keeps you informed about people and programs at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs. We think it’s important to share how we align the work of the School with the ever-changing national and international contexts we work in – and that you live in.

The latest trends are familiar to all of us: Trust and civility are in decline.

American leadership in world affairs is in doubt. Compromise for the sake of finding common ground is rare. So how do we make sense of it all? How do SPIA scholars, trained as scientists, ply their craft in a factfree world? How do we prepare students for a public arena where uncertainty and division are ascendant?

Closer to home: What plans are in place to make SPIA stronger and more impactful in this rough-and-tumble world we live in?

Let’s concentrate on the last of these questions, with particular attention to people and programs.

SPIA is in the midst of the most exciting period of faculty renewal in years. The faculty SPIA hires in 2018 will determine directions for the School for the next 30 years – the typical length of a faculty career. By the fall of 2018, as many as nine new faculty colleagues may join SPIA. It’s not every year that 15 percent or more of the faculty turns over. The forces shaping this transformation are faculty retirements, an anomalous spike in faculty departures MATTHEW R. AUER (in 2016-17), and the Dean and Arch University’s recognition Professor of that SPIA needs more Public and faculty to accommodate International surging student interest Affairs in SPIA. The School has more than 1,500 undergraduates majoring in Political Science and International Affairs.

Students select SPIA not only because these fields of study are vital, but also because the School’s professors are among the best at the University. That’s the consensus view of multiple university committees that have honored SPIA faculty with Meigs, Russell, Regents, University, and other teaching and research honors over many years.

Board of Visitors But what’s the strategy for recruiting faculty to prepare students for a turbulent world?

The presidential election of 2016 was a wake-up call for experts in the academy. It revealed weaknesses in our understanding of how citizens make sense of the sometimes impersonal social and economic forces that lash them, and how frustration with globalization and politics-as-usual translates into voting behavior. SPIA is responding by staffing up in areas like political behavior and political psychology. Newly recruited faculty in these important areas will have powerful diagnostic tools to work with, including a new lab stocked with advanced instrumentation for psychophysiological research, like heart rate monitoring and skin conductance equipment to help clarify what people, as political animals, believe and why they believe it.

In the Department of International Affairs, new faculty will fill key gaps that have existed more or less since the School’s founding. Faculty agree that a great program in international affairs requires expertise in African and Latin American politics as well as in the intersection between politics and economic development. Faculty recruits in these areas can open doors for our students to some of the fastest growing regions of the world. Recruiting experts in the politics of developing countries is another plank in a strategy to prepare students for the world they’re inheriting: more than half of global population growth between now and 2050 will occur in Africa, alone.

In the Department of Public Administration and Policy, we are hiring faculty in core areas, including public finance and public policy. The goals are to make areas of expertise that are strong even stronger, and to secure the School’s reputation for excellence in the study and practice of public financial management and health economics.

Briefly, these are the elements of a “growth and fortification” plan, and one that lines up with emerging trends and challenges, locally, nationally, and internationally. Students are rising to the occasion: Undergraduate majors at SPIA have grown almost 13 percent over the past five years. SPIA’s total enrolled students in the Master of Public Administration degree program is the second largest in the School’s history. New energy and ideas are shaping the curricula of the Master of International Policy degree program and the joint MA and PhD program in Political Science and International Affairs.

Ambassador David Adelman (ABJ ‘86) Ms. M. Elaine Bunn (AB ‘74) Mr. R. Lee Culpepper (AB ‘84) General (Ret) Eugene E. Habiger (BS ‘63) Mr. John Frank Halper (MPA ‘77) Mr. Joshua W. Jones (ABJ ‘08, AB ’08, MBA ‘16) Mr. Terry A. Mathews (AB ‘82) Ms. Harriet J. Melvin (ABJ ‘86) The Honorable Powell A. Moore (ABJ ‘59) Mr. C. Randall Nuckolls (BSA ‘74, JD ‘77) Major General Arnold L. Punaro (MA ‘76) Dr. Ralph E. Reed, Jr. (AB ‘85) Ms. Julie C. Smith (AB ‘00) Mr. L. Henry Turner III (AB ‘79) Mr. Joe D. Whitley (AB ‘72, JD ‘75)

Alumni Board Ms. Katherine Bell (AB ‘07) Mr. Thomas Beusse (AB ‘08) Mr. Alex Bradford (AB ‘10) Ms. Caitlyn Cooper (AB ‘07) Mr. Nick deJong (AB ‘09) Dr. Laura Haase (AB ‘94, MPA ‘96) Ms. Samantha Hill (AB ‘09), Vice Chairman Mr. Scott Haggard (ABJ ‘94, AB ‘95) Ms. Stephanie C. Kindregan (MPA ‘07) Ms. Katherine M. Knight (AB ‘12), DC Liason Mr. Josh Mackey (AB ‘05), Past Chairman Mr. Doug Matties (MPA ‘01), Secretary/Treasurer Mr. Jason O’Rouke (AB ‘06, MPA ‘11), Chairman Ms. Margaret Turlington Patterson (AB ‘09) Ms. Hadas Peles (AB ‘09) Mr. Matt Ralston (AB ‘12, MPA ‘14) Mr. Daniel Regenstein (AB ‘06) Mr. Wesley Robinson (AB ‘12) Mr. Arthur Tripp (AB ‘09) Mr. Matthew Weiss (AB ‘05, JD’08) Mr. David Werner (AB ‘05)

It is an exciting time to be a citizen of SPIA. How affirming to lead such a focused and committed group of colleagues, staff, and students. In this issue of We The People, we are excited to share updates from the classroom, from traditional SPIA precincts in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, from the pages of top scholarly journals, and from your own field reports. Please keep those reports rolling in, and enjoy the contents in the pages that follow.

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ust like in the real world of international affairs, there is never a dull moment in the Department of International Affairs (DIA)! In August 2016, Gregory Thaler, an expert in comparative politics with specialization in environmental politics, joined our faculty. Jennifer White, an outstanding teacher, was added to our lecturer lineup as well. We are currently in the process of hiring four (!) new positions: two positions in comparative politics across three regions (sub-saharan Africa, Latin America, and post-communist countries); one position in international political economy; and one more position with the title “comparative institutionalist.” In the next academic year, there will be one more additional MARKUS M. L. CREPAZ search under way, Head, Department of which means that International Affairs the DIA will start fall 2019 with a faculty of 20 in the areas of comparative politics and international relations. This makes our department one of the largest departments in the country in terms of faculty in the areas of comparative politics and international relations.

In terms of winning awards, the DIA ran the board in the 2016 - 2017 academic year.

Andy Owsiak won the SPIA Excellence in Research Award; he also won the First Year Odyssey Outstanding Teacher Award. Chad Clay won the SPIA Award for Excellence in Teaching. Markus M. L. Crepaz won the Teacher of the Week award in the fall of 2016 and in the spring of 2017 he won the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, the University’s highest recognition for excellence in instruction. Loch K. Johnson won the UGA Faculty Service Award earned

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by those who have distinguished themselves in service to the University.

Our lecturers are providing equally excellent instruction: Maryann Gallagher was recognized as Outstanding Professor by the UGA Student Government Association, and she also won the DIA Teaching Excellence Award. Jennifer White was accepted into the UGA Teaching Academy Fellows Program, giving her an opportunity to hone her teaching skills even more. Our third lecturer, Leah Carmichael, presented an inspiring TEDx talk on the sources of food insecurity!

Our graduate students carry an enormous teaching load and do a wonderful job at it. In recognition, the department awarded Stephen Bagwell the Christopher S. Allen Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award. Filip Viskupic won the Outstanding Teaching Award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, and Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grants were awarded to Doug Atkinson, Linan Jia, and Yuan Wang.

The faculty in the DIA are not only gifted teachers but also prolific researchers. In the spring of 2016, Rongbin Han secured a book contract with Columbia University Press; Amanda Murdie publishes at an outstanding rate in the top outlets of her field, such as in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the British Journal of Political Science; Laura Zimmermann, our joint appointment with the Department of Economics placed her manuscript in the highly selective Journal of Development Economics; Cas Mudde published a co-authored book with Oxford University Press entitled, “Populism – A Very Short Introduction”, that has been translated into Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, and Catalan languages. Loch Johnson regularly publishes his manuscripts in the highly prestigious Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. Hanna Kleider was

awarded a Max Weber Fellowship and will spend the fall 2017 and spring 2018 semesters in the cool hills above Florence, Italy studying the pros and cons of federalist versus unitary political systems. This is by no means a complete and exhaustive list of articles, books, and awards the IA faculty generates but rather a small sample reflecting the high-quality and quantity of publications that have been produced only between fall 2016 and spring 2017.

The high level of research productivity has not gone unnoticed: Amanda Murdie has been named editor-in-chief of the highly respected journal International Studies Review (ISR) with Andy Owsiak as book editor and Chad Clay as editor. The ISR now officially resides in the Department of International Affairs in SPIA! In addition, our faculty is successful in attracting research grants. Amanda Murdie is the lead author on an intramural grant, sponsored by the President’s Fund for Interdisciplinary Research in the amount of $100,000 in order to study the factors that make a country vulnerable to cyberattacks. Jeff Berejikian, together with a collaborator, was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of the Air Force on a project entitled, “Risk Disposition and Multi-Domain Strategic Stability” in the amount of $148,628. As a result of Loch Johnson’s efforts, Caroline Ziemke-Dickens provided a generous gift in the amount of $100,000 to support graduate students in the DIA (see story on page 51).

With your help and support, we can be even more effective in tackling the grand political challenges of our time. We would like to invite you to renew your connections to your Alma Mater and become an active part of this dynamic and exciting Department of International Affairs.

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he construction equipment has left, the dust settled and has been cleared away, and the hustle of construction workers scurrying about has been replaced with the flurry of student activity in the new Baldwin Hall Annex. We were all thrilled to be able to move into our new Annex in Baldwin Hall in August 2017.

For about a year, a third of the faculty, one staff member, and several graduate students made the fourth floor of a downtown office building their home. To have everyone under the same roof again is quite a treat, especially when one considers the welcoming nature of the new space.

Until you get a chance to see it in-person, let me share that from my office window I see students milling in SCOTT H. AINSWORTH our small courtyard Head, Department of between the older Political Science Baldwin Hall and its brand new Annex. As students enter the building from the courtyard, they immediately see a commons area with seats and tables and a small Jittery Joes coffee shop. Every day the commons area is filled with students, faculty, and staff. One afternoon, I saw Dean Auer having coffee with a small group of wide-eyed students.

Our Department continues to be a center of intellectual excitement. The law and courts faculty have been especially active this year.

Professors Rich Vining, Jamie Monogan, and Tony Madonna have written two public-facing pieces on the courts during the new Trump administration. Their efforts appeared in the Washington Post (http://wapo.st/2zV8e7A) and in The Conversation ( http://bit. ly/2AxfWUN). A large contingent of faculty and students enjoyed hearing the 2017 George S. Parthemos Lecture presented by Dr. Lee Epstein entitled, “Why Should We Study the Behavior of Judges.” Epstein is the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor

at Washington University in St. Louis and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. For the University’s Constitution Day and, as part of the Provost’s Signature Lecture Series, the Department co-hosted Professor Michael J. Klarman, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. After law school, Klarman clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has taught in both law and history departments and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Klarman spoke to a full house in the University’s Chapel and then continued conversations with a large number of students in Candler Hall, where a reception was held.

Professor Ryan Bakker helped to coordinate the Human Rights Workshop in October, which included participants from Emory, Georgia State, University of Kentucky, and UNC Asheville. In May of 2018, Professors Michael Lynch and Tony Madonna will be organizing a conference on congressional procedures. Our conferences are wideranging, attracting scholars from around the Southeast, the nation, and the world and offer students perspectives not found in their classrooms. Visiting scholars return home impressed with the strength and breadth of our faculty and students.

The Applied Politics Program is in its second year, and it continues to shine.

As guided by Professor Audrey Haynes, undergraduates in the program receive focused training for careers in politics.

In addition to their classroom work, students interact with practitioners with established records in politics. Many of the practitioners visiting campus are themselves UGA alumni, who are graciously giving back. The Visiting Practitioner Series opened this year with Amanda Maddox, Director of Communications for Senator Isakson.

Other participants included some of the most influential people in Georgia politics: Greg Bluestein, Atlanta Journal

Constitution; Rebecca DeHart, Democratic Party of GA; Brian Robinson, messaging consultant; Kristin Oblander, fundraiser; and Josh Mackey, FrogueClark. National practitioners included Hadas Peles (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and Jeff Vreeland (Prosper Group). The last speakers to visit this year were Matt Ralston (Troutman Sanders) and Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston.

Professor M.V. “Trey” Hood continues to manage the operations of the Survey Research Center, which is now fully operational thanks to generous support from Georgia Power and SPIA’s Alumni Board (see story on page 48). This fall, student interns received hands-on experience with a fully operational survey center. The next time you are in Baldwin Hall, swing by Room 305 to see its new home.

Fortunately, this fall we started the exciting process of hiring two new faculty members – one in the field of political psychology and another in the field of political behavior.

We attracted applicants from some of our nation’s finest institutions, from the West Coast to the Northeast and everywhere in between. We work hard to attract the finest teachers and scholars for our students.

Opportunities for research experiences abound for our undergraduate and graduate students as professors continue to earn prestigious grants and awards from public and private foundations to support our teaching and research missions. Just this year, Professors Susan Haire and Christy Boyd secured National Science Foundation grants to support two graduate students.

The Department of Political Science is unique across the nation as a place where undergraduates can experience “Under-20” seminars, the application of their coursework to everyday politics through internships and experiential learning opportunities, and hands-on research in joint collaboration with graduate students and faculty. Our students thrive in the intellectual environment we’ve created.

Three faculty members visited with over 175 friends and alumni at the DC Alumni Reception on November 1st hosted by Altria and Verizon. Professor John Maltese, Professor Christy Boyd, and I enjoyed visiting with current students, recent alumni, and alumni from decades ago. Christy Boyd captivated our Board of Visitors with a discussion of how legal questions are approached by political scientists, the importance of studying law and politics today, and some research projects under way in the Department.

If you missed any of these events, please mark your calendars for future events. There’s really no reason not to visit us in your favorite college town, Athens, Georgia.

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Management allowing mid-to-senior level t has been another year of change. managers to earn their MPA at UGA) Although much of the change centered increases the department’s international on exciting new programs and reputation and focus. achievements, there was also a touch of As a result of these and other sadness. Let me start by highlighting just a programmatic and recruiting initiatives few of our successes. (including a new criminal justice There have been several exciting new concentration offered in collaboration with program initiatives that came to fruition the Department of Sociology), we have had in 2017. Taking advantage of a recent another strong recruiting year. Our current initiative, SPIA established new Double class of 154 MPA students is tied for the Dawg programs that allow high performing most students ever in the program!

Criminal Justice, International Affairs, and Although there are a lot of new Political Science majors to start taking Master programmatic initiatives and new students, of Public Administration (MPA) courses as we continue to provide an environment in juniors and seniors which students and faculty thrive. For the so they can earn two degrees (a Bachelor’s second time in three years, PADP faculty member David Bradford and Double Dawg and a MPA) in five alumna Grace Bagwell-Adams led a team years. This new of MPA and Public Health students to win program will better first place at the prestigious Public Policy position students for Challenge (see story on page 40). Our MPA successful careers in BRADLEY E. WRIGHT public service and graduates are also faring well on the job Head, Department of market, securing exciting public service reduce the costs Public Administration (time and tuition) positions in government and nonprofit and Policy agencies. Last year, the PhD students gave of their graduate nearly 30 research presentations at over a education. Interest in the program has been dozen different conferences and continue strong, and the first group of Double Dawgs to do well in the academic job market will start in the spring.

(Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Yarbrough In addition to the new Double Dawg who began her first year as an assistant program, we also welcomed our first international dual degree students this fall. This new degree “This dual degree program... program is an integrated program of study that lets students, mostly mid-tosenior level South Korean government officials, earn degrees from two prestigious universities— professor at Emory University and Dr. Megan Seoul National University and UGA—in two LePere-Schloop beginning her first year at years. This dual degree program (together Ohio State University!). with the existing partnership with the As mentioned earlier, in some ways it was Carl Vinson Institute of Government and a bittersweet year. We bid farewell to several the South Korean Ministry of Personnel

important faculty members including Dr. Deborah Carroll (now at the University of Central Florida) and Dr. Tyler Scott (now at University of California Davis). In addition, both Dr. Hal Rainey and Dr. Laurence O’Toole retired after a combined 54 years of teaching, research, and service in the department (culminating in well over 225 publications and countless numbers of grateful faculty colleagues and students!). Although now distinguished professor emeriti, Dr. Rainey and Dr. O’Toole remain active in the Department conducting research, working with PhD students, and even teaching the occasional course. You can read more about Dr. Rainey’s career on page 45. Although we are sad to work less closely with such great colleagues, mentors, and friends, we are excited to welcome some fantastic new faculty colleagues: Dr. Katherine Willoughby (UGA PhD 1991) joins us from Georgia State University as the Margaret Hughes and Robert T. Golembiewski Professor of Public Administration. Dr. George A. Krause joins us from University of Pittsburgh as the Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, and Dr. Sun Young Kim joins us as an assistant professor after graduating from Indiana University.

In closing I want to note the passing of a PADP family member. In August, 2nd year MPA student Shaw Carter passed away.

We were truly blessed to have had him in our

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program and lives even for this short time.

Shaw was always quick to remind us to enjoy life and to make a difference in the lives of others. Although we miss him dearly, Shaw continues to be an inspiration to us all.

GLIP: NOW & THEN

By Caroline Paris Paczkowski

The Georgia Legislative Internship Program (GLIP) was incepted in 1969-1970. It began as a joint venture between the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Emory University, Agnes Scott College, and Georgia State to place undergraduate interns at the Georgia State Capitol during the legislative session each spring. Now, GLIP houses 60 students each year under the Gold Dome.

The program was started by David Olson, who had recently come from the University of Texas.

Texas had a program connecting students as interns with legislators at the Capitol in Austin, and Olson wanted to implement something similar in Georgia.

Originally only taking 30 students from the flagship schools across the state, GLIP has recently expanded to take double the amount of students. Charles S. Bullock, Richard B. Russell Professor of Political Science and advisor for GLIP at UGA says the program has been instrumental in Georgia politics. “Anyone you talk to who’s gone into politics, invariably they will say you’ve got to serve as an intern. And if you really like it, you try to advance it into a job,” he said.

We sat down with two GLIP interns of the past. One from 1981 and one from 2017. This is GLIP: Now and Then:

Walter Johnson After graduating from UGA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, Walter Johnson attended the University of Georgia School of Law. After law school, he clerked a year with the late B. Avant Edenfield, United States District Judge, in Savannah, Georgia.

After his clerkship, he accepted a job as an associate attorney with a law firm then called Kilpatrick & Cody in Atlanta, Georgia. After a year in Atlanta, he and his wife (also a Double Dawg) moved to Washington, D.C. for two years. Given his interest in politics, that was an exciting place to work and live.

After the birth of their first child, they moved back to Atlanta. He became a partner at the law firm (then called Kilpatrick Stockton) in 1995. He remained at the Kilpatrick firm until 2001, when he moved to the Law Department of Georgia Pacific Corporation. He was appointed United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Rome Division, in 2002, and has been in that role ever since.

How did you hear about GLIP? I heard about GLIP from Dr. Delmer Dunn, from whom I was taking a political science class. He was associated with the UGA Institute of Government, which was looking for students to work in Atlanta for the General Assembly in the upcoming special session for legislative and congressional reapportionment. Dr. Charles Bullock, from whom I was also taking a class, encouraged me to pursue the internship and was a reference for me.

Who was your internship with?

I worked for the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at UGA. We were paid staff. The Institute assigned us to assist the Congressional and Legislative Reapportionment Committees of both the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Senate.

What was your favorite part about your internship?

My favorite part of working under the Gold Dome was the opportunity it provided for me to build relationships with members of the General Assembly. This reapportionment process was very personal to each of them, because we were drawing the boundaries of the districts in which they had to run for reelection. We spent a great deal of time with

individual legislators, drawing and redrawing proposed districts.

What was the most interesting moment of your internship?

The most interesting moment during my time at the General Assembly was when we put together a congressional reapportionment plan that was able to pass both the House and the Senate. That was the culmination of a lot of work by the staff, hard politicking by the chairmen of the House and Senate Reapportionment Committees, and persuasion by individual legislators like Senators Paul Coverdell and Julian Bond.

What kinds of connections did you make with the people you worked with? Did any of those connections lead to future opportunities?

The staff connected with each other. I have kept up with some of them for thirtyfive years. I can’t say that GLIP directly led to future opportunities, but having that experience on my resume gave me conversation starters in interviews and showed future employers that I had been part of an important process—drawing our State’s legislative and congressional districts. Finally, working at the Capitol allowed me to get to know Dr. Dunn continued on next page and allowed him to

get to know me. He graciously allowed me to list him as a reference, both in law school applications and for job interviews. Having a professor as well-known and respected as Dr. Dunn as a reference was a tremendous advantage. Given the relationship we had built, Dr. Dunn could give someone an accurate report about the kind of law student and/or employee I would be.

How do you imagine GLIP has changed over the years?

I would wager that the biggest difference is in the technology students now employ.

When I worked at the Capitol, we had small terminals connected to the State’s mainframe.

We typed census block numbers into the

terminal that represented the boundaries of a proposed district. We then obtained a print out which showed the proposed district’s total population, total minority population, and standard deviation (so that we would know if the population was too large or too small). If the district was acceptable to the legislator, we would then use markers to color the area encompassed by the district on a map. The experience I obtained in kindergarten of staying “inside the lines” was very helpful to this aspect of the job!

What advice do you have for GLIP Students?

My advice is to take advantage of this opportunity. Get to know the legislators with

whom you will work. The vast majority of them are genuine public servants, who are friendly and open to sharing their viewpoints on any issue. Also, be prepared to work hard.

The legislative work day may sometimes be short, but the staff’s work day is often long during a session. Students should also attend the parties and events open to legislators and staff. They are a lot of fun and give you a chance to meet people in a less-formal environment. Finally, get to know the faculty member assigned to oversee your work in GLIP. Every student needs a faculty member who can speak from personal knowledge about the student’s knowledge, dedication, and work ethic.

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down. Outside of the educational aspects of the internship, the plethora of lunches and receptions were highlights of the experience for me.

What was the most interesting moment of your internship?

Sine Die was the most interesting moment of the whole session. There was so much uncertainty about which bills would get a vote before midnight, and I got a front row seat to watching several legislators throw a Hail Mary on their most important priority from the session.

What kinds of connections did you make with the people you worked with?

Did any of those connections lead to future opportunities?

I became quite close with the other interns in the neighboring offices. We got the opportunity to spend a lot of time together talking about the issues of the day, as well as reflect on our passion for pursuing a career in politics. I learned a lot from those friends, and I have high hopes that our paths will cross again as we continue to navigate our position as young people working in government.

How do you imagine GLIP was in the past?

I’ve heard that GLIP has evolved quite a bit over the years, but that it has maintained a great opportunity for young political science students in Georgia. I was always proud to

wear my UGA lapel pin and witness what a remarkable reputation our school has under the Gold Dome.

What advice do you have for GLIP Students?

Be open to new experiences. As a young progressive, I had my heart set on working for the Democratic leadership. Coming from an internship with the Obama administration the previous semester, I thought that I would be a shoe-in to work with Minority Leader Abrams in the House or Minority Leader Henson in the Senate. That obviously wasn’t the case, but I found a lot of silver linings. My experience with the House Insurance Committee exposed me to more opportunities to learn about committee work, and it tested and galvanized many of my previously held political convictions. I emerged from the experience more educated about topics I didn’t know about, and I gained valuable experience working with folks from across the political spectrum. I recalled this same advice when interviewing for my current position, and it gave me a leg-up I wouldn’t have if I’d worked in a different position during the Georgia legislative session.

Adam Veale graduated in May 2017 with a degree in political science.

After graduation, he moved to Arlington, Virginia in pursuit of a job. He was recently hired as a legislative assistant at Capitol Hill Consulting Group.

How did you hear about GLIP? I heard about GLIP through taking Dr. Bullock’s Legislative Process class. He pitched it as an opportunity to get your hands dirty working in state politics and profiled several past students whose participation in the program led to careers in politics and government.

Who was your internship with?

I worked for the House Insurance Committee.

What was your favorite part about your internship?

Seeing state politics function from the perspective of a committee chairman was my favorite part about the internship. My committee chairman taught me a lot about some of the strategic elements of passing legislation. It is a process not unlike the game of football--it is all about field position, making progress down the field, and knowing when to punt or go for it on fourth

ALUMNI BOARD Thomas Beusse MEMBER PROFILE: By DeShonna Johnson Since childhood, Athens-area native Thomas Beusse (AB ’08) always wanted to attend the University of Georgia. After four years of service in the United States Navy as 2nd Class Gunner’s Mate, he added the title of ‘student’ to his ranks. Slightly differentiated from his peers by age, experience, and perspective, Beusse did not take his education for granted. He applied many

Department of Political Science

75th Anniversary The Department of Political Science celebrated its 75th anniversary with a weekend full of events on April 21 and 22, 2017.

As part of the weekend’s celebration, SPIA Board of Visitors member Josh Jones coordinated a visiting practitioners symposium for students. The event featured leading experts from across the nation participating in a series of panel discussions on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the practice of politics. Panelist included experts in polling and data analysis, campaign finance law, grassroots advocacy, and political media and technology.

Later that evening, the visiting practitioners, students, alumni, and friends gathered for the 3rd annual SPIA Networking Night where students were able to solicit career advice, internships, and job opportunities from seasoned experts in their fields of interest.

The weekend celebration culminated with a dinner event which featured a panel of political science alumni sharing their experiences from the classroom-to-career. Panelists included Wendi Clifton (‘93), Tommy Coleman (‘70), Heath Garrett (‘92), Julie Smith (‘00), and Arthur Tripp (‘09). (Pictured above) Sponsors of the event included Verizon, Terry and Margaret Mathews, and Margaret R. Smith.

skills and experiences gleaned from the military to practice discipline, appreciate diverse groups of people, and to satisfy his newfound interest in political science.

“My time in the Navy drew me to a major in political science (and a minor in anthropology),” says Beusse. “I was on my second deployment within a year and a half and began to get intrigued at why we were in Iraq as a nation, and why I was there as an individual, what went into getting us and me here from a government perspective…I didn’t really understand at the time. After my enlistment, I thought a degree in political science was not only a great way to garner this knowledge, but also a way to be involved in my government going forward to have an impact as a citizen.”

Like many other SPIA Dawgs, Beusse’s favorite professor during his undergraduate career was Dr. Charles Bullock. Beusse recalls Bullock’s Legislative Process class as both eye-opening and challenging, in particular, the research project where Beusse explored the effects of the abolishment of Georgia’s County Unit System. “[The research project] was probably the most challenging of my college career, and the A-minus I earned on it remains the grade of which I am most proud,” shared Beusse.

Beusse’s favorite class was a Rhetoric in Politics course— a class devoted to how rhetoric was and is used in politics, from the classics to present-day. He found this captivating not only as a class but as a career, and it ultimately lead to his aspirations of work in government affairs.

His time in the Demosthenian Literary Society also pushed Beusse towards his career choice as he became acquainted with speaking on the spot and turning a breadth of information into concise points.

Closer to graduation, Beusse knew he wanted to be a lobbyist but didn’t have a defined path of how to get there. Luckily, before graduating in December 2008, he found a connection through Dr. Bullock, which led to an internship with an Atlanta contract lobbying firm, the Thompson Victory Group, headed by fellow SPIA alumnus Graham Thompson.

From there, Beusse worked on the district staff of then Congressman Tom Price, and following that, spent many years with the American Chemistry Council doing federal grassroots and state-level government affairs

work throughout the southeast. This led to his current position as Director of Government Affairs with the Georgia Retail Association.

Work for Thomas meant more than just his career; it also involved bettering the SPIA community. Alongside many other dedicated young SPIA alumni, and with the indispensable help of former Dean Thomas P. Lauth, Beusse assisted in creating the SPIA Alumni Board of Directors to help not only the school and alumni, but also current students.

Thomas is pictured above with Hairy Dawg, his wife, Frances Doughtie Beusse (BS ‘06) and their son Quinton.

As a past Chairman and longtime member, Beusse has contributed greatly to the success of the Board. His work was crucial to establishing both the SPIA Alumni in Support of Excellence Fund and the SPIA Study Abroad Scholarship. But outside of those, Beusse’s most meaningful memory would be the faculty and staff of SPIA. “The most meaningful thing has been how truly appreciative and supportive the faculty and staff of SPIA have been towards us,” says Beusse. “From the initial conversations to our sustained operations, we would not be the Board we are, or be able to have the impact we have had, without them. We are here to serve the institution because we love it and what it does. To have our efforts appreciated by the folks actually doing the hard work to make the institution great has meant a lot to us all.”

Beusse equally appreciates giving back to the School and encourages other SPIA alumni to do the same – either through their financial resources or their time.

“I think I can speak for all of us in saying [the Board] always wishes we could raise more money for SPIA, so if you’re reading this and feel so inclined – give us more money!” said Beusse. “We’re constantly amazed at the caliber of students that attend SPIA, and if you’re ever in the position to help another SPIA student in any way, that’ll be thanks enough.”

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Setting the Record

STRAIGHT

By Rory Hibbler What began as an idea for a book has since turned into a rabbit hole: production of a plethora of data, a revolutionary research class, and a forthcoming website.

Associate Professors Anthony Madonna and Michael Lynch, both from the political science department, teamed up to create the University of Georgia Congress Project, the field’s first systematic effort to model the roll call generating process. Roll call votes—votes where each member’s position on an issue is recorded— have been a major focus of congressional research in the past, but according to Lynch, “most votes in Congress do not receive a roll call vote, so roll call votes alone don’t tell the whole story of lawmaking.”

The project, started in 2010, has found that only six percent of all votes on amendments in Congress are recorded, which means over ninety percent of votes amending bills have never been analyzed or looked at.

The kicker is that, “Congress decides what votes to record, so they may influence our view,” says Madonna, “through picking and choosing which votes are recorded.” Their

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study has uncovered that Congress does, in fact, overemphasize conflict using this process. The appearance of Congress as a highly polarized, ineffective body may be partially attributed to the selective reporting of these roll call votes, as members use them strategically to prove their ideological strength to their constituents, especially when seeking re-election.

Tens of thousands of amendments later, Lynch says his most interesting finding is, “how infrequently Congress actually has recorded votes, and how inaccessible the legislative process is to the public.”

“Recently there have been lots of recorded votes on non-policy items, which are meant for election fodder,” Madonna adds. In attack ads, for example, a candidate could claim their opponent voted to raise his or her own pay, while the opponent actually just voted on a procedural measure that allowed debate on a bill containing a pay raise to continue. Because it is hard for the public to distinguish votes that impact policy from procedural votes, members are at constant risk of having their

votes on non-policy items misinterpreted or intentionally taken out of context.

Initially, Madonna and Lynch intended on publishing a book analyzing this phenomena. While they continue to work on a book, the project has reached a greater potential than originally anticipated. To see how voting patterns change in Congress over hundreds of years, they enlisted the help of SPIA students in a unique undergraduate research course. Students in Special Topics in American Politics: Congressional Process and Procedure read through the often complicated and detailed congressional record - essentially reading C-SPAN - and use spreadsheets to code every amendment on a landmark bill on the floor of the House or Senate. Students look for indicators, such as who presented the amendment, which party they represented, and what type of vote was used to dispose of the amendment, to gain insight into both the amendment’s development and Congress members’ formal and informal behavior on the floor. To this day, over 36,000 amendments have been recorded thanks to 80 students and counting.

Looking to the future, Madonna had the idea to delve into more of the bill than just its amendments. “Students are already reading these bills, so we thought to have them write up the entire procedure of historical landmark bills,” he says.

The insight from students’ final research papers, a comprehensive bill history, is especially useful when antiqued bills become headline news. For example, the early 2016 Oregon militia standoff was

Lynch says. Further, the professors hear from their students that “undergraduate research experience” has become a buzzword of sorts in resumes and job interviews.

“The practical training we provide them with in terms of creating and managing large spreadsheets, mastering Microsoft Excel, writing short reports summarizing their activities, and engaging in independent research, has

Beyond the ins and outs of Congressional procedure, the project gives SPIA undergraduate students exposure to the research process as a whole, allowing them to determine if graduate school is a good fit for them. For many, it is. Students have gone on to seek law degrees at Yale, Duke, NYU, Cal-Berkeley, Chicago, and UGA. Other past students, such as Darien Stacey, Rachel Surminsky, and Jordan McKissick, are now in doctoral

protesting the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934, but there is very limited access on the internet to what this bill is, what it does, and how it came about. Madonna and Lynch hope students’ summaries of these bills passing through Congress will provide public access to and understanding of what has before been an oversimplified and mystified process.

Students who code these amendments gain a lot more than a peek into history.

“Students learn political underpinnings of how a bill becomes a law, learn about how to conduct research, and develop their own research projects,”

proved valuable,” says Lynch. The class structure is very independent, mirroring real-world job experiences and giving students an in-depth understanding of Congress’ most obscure proceedings.

“Students are given similar lectures and training I received while working for the Congressional Research Service,” said Madonna. Students from the course have gone on to positions with the Republican National Committee, Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), the Podesta Group, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), the Georgia State House Rules Committee, and Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA).

programs at Vanderbilt, UNC Chapel Hill, and UGA, respectively. All three alumni were so inspired by the project that they will be continuing related research in the legislative process in their own programs.

Involved students have been given opportunities to assist Madonna and Lynch with writing their book, publish law review articles, and get grants of their own to do related work.

“This is a unique educational experience,” claims Dr. Madonna. “It is not a clean, textbook view of lawmaking— it is messy, confusing, and sometimes downright disturbing or comical.”

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PROMOTING

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

By Marlin Collier

“Failure is growth,” says Clemence Kopeikin.

In fact, it’s what she loves most about her professional passion: entrepreneurship. “The entrepreneurial mentality doesn’t give up and seeks to find ways to make things happen

when it seems impossible. It’s embracing failure, learning from it, and moving on.”

Since graduating from UGA in 2013 with a degree in international affairs, Kopeikin has been involved with several entrepreneurship projects, both locally and abroad.

CONGRATULATIONS TO SPIA’S 2017

40 UNDER 40 HONOREES Every fall, the UGA Alumni Association honors the personal, professional, and philanthropic achievements of 40 graduates under the age of 40. Each year, hundreds of nominations are submitted for outstanding alumni from across the country and around the globe.

“We are excited about this year’s 40 Under 40 class,” said Meredith Gurley Johnson, executive director of alumni relations. “These young alumni are making a difference in the classroom, boardroom, operating room, and everywhere in between.”

Out of the nearly 400 alumni nominated, five SPIA graduates were chosen to be a part of the 2017 class.

During her time at UGA, she worked closely with Dr. Chad Clay and his Human Rights Data Project. Kopeikin focused her attention on coding women’s economic rights for nearly 100 countries. She spent one summer of college interning with the Alliance for Arab Women in Cairo, Egypt, conducting research on the micro-financing of women’s businesses.

Kopeikin also gave back to Athens, serving as a consultant for Real LEDGE, a nonprofit organization with the goal of empowering communities through entrepreneurship. While working there, Kopeikin established a Real LEDGE program in Honduras. “It was kind of a dream come true. I was working with an NGO and given the chance to learn Spanish,” she says. But the dream wasn’t all rosy: “It was a really challenging role, but it was one that came with a lot of growth.” Kopeikin still keeps in touch with the program in Honduras since her departure from Real LEDGE two years ago.

Kopeikin started at Real LEDGE while at UGA and says those kinds of professional opportunities are everywhere for students.

“UGA taught me how to become selfsufficient and seek out opportunity. There are a lot of resources at your disposal: your classmates, your professors, the Career Center, the library, all the student organizations,” Kopeikin explains. “There are a lot of different support systems to help you get to where you want to be.”

Bulldog 100 On January 27, 2018, the UGA Alumni Association recognized the 100 fastest-growing companies owned or operated by UGA alumni during the ninth annual Bulldog 100 celebration.

Saucehouse BBQ, owned

by SPIA alumnus Chris Belk (AB ’05), was named the #1 fastest growing business. Congratulations, Chris!

Included in the rankings were seven SPIA alumni and their businesses: • Books for Keeps, Leslie Hale (MPA ’13), Athens, GA • Inspect-All Services, Brian Lunsford (AB ‘02) & Brandon Lunsford (AB ‘02), Conyers, GA • Li-Lac Chocolates, Christopher Taylor (AB ’83), New York, NY • Saucehouse BBQ, Christopher Belk (AB ’05), Athens, GA • Warner Robins Martial Arts, Doug Rankin (AB ‘87), Warner Robins, GA • Williams Teusink, Eric Teusink (AB ‘03), Decatur, GA

It’s All

INTERDISCIPLINARY For much of its forty-two year history, the Criminal Justice Studies Program (CJ) was led by Dr. Susette Talarico, UGA Albert B. Saye Professor and Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science. Her vision was to establish an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program centered on the study of crime and criminal justice systems. Currently, the program enrolls approximately 180 majors and intendedmajors each year. Due to its popularity, a CJ minor was recently re-instituted.

By DeShonna Johnson

of Political Science and current Director of the Criminal Justice Studies Program.

The interdisciplinary structure of the program distinguishes itself as one of a kind kind across campus. Students who apply for the program find themselves taking certain sociology courses, like Criminology, to understand the “why” behind crime, along with political science courses, such as Criminal Procedure and Criminal Justice

Administration, to understand the role of law and institutional perspectives on criminal justice.

The program differs from others because it integrates social science with various perspectives on crime and justice from across campus. In fact, CJ’s standing as a program and not a stand-alone department makes it stronger from an instructional viewpoint.

CJ alumni visit campus every year to provide career “We are stronger because we advice to current students. can cut across so many different departments rather than just being our own,” says Haire. “Departments “The goal of the Criminal Justice that stand alone don’t have as many Studies Program and degree is to perspectives as we tend to have when provide a socially scientific study you survey all of the criminal justice on the institutions and behaviors of affiliated faculty.” crime,” says Dr. Susan Haire, Professor

Learning from varying disciplines, with an emphasis on conducting original research, makes this degree program one that is not designed for the lackluster student. From the start of the extensive application process to the intense fulltime internship semester, CJ studies rewards dedication. In classes, the typical criminal justice student is very much like a practitioner: focused on successfully getting their job done.

As if calling the program interdisciplinary wasn’t enough, the program offers unique opportunities for its students to experience criminal justice settings.

The new Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program creates the opportunity for a small number of criminal justice and sociology students to learn alongside a group of residents from the AthensClarke County Jail in an effort to gain an understanding of the criminal justice system together.

Another opportunity that will bolster the program is the addition of the DoubleDawgs Criminal Justice/Master in Public Administration (MPA) dual degree.

“In my mind, [the CJ/MPA degree] is an opportunity for gifted and focused undergraduate students to take advantage of both worlds – enrolling in advanced coursework in a professional degree program while learning important principles and methods in criminal justice,” says Haire.

Yet, despite the multitude of paths CJ students can take post-graduation (be it research, accountability courts, or government agencies), one thing remains clear of the interdisciplinary structure of the Criminal Justice Program.

“It all comes full circle,” says Haire.

“Former undergraduates who go on to successful careers in this field regularly return to campus to share their experiences with current students….just as earlier generations of criminal justice alums had done for them.”

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BEYOND 2016

The Rise of Negative Partisanship in American Politics

By Alexa Bankert, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

What does it mean to be a Republican? A large share of GOP supporters used to answer this question with references to free trade, Christian values, and small government. That was before the election of Donald Trump.

In the post-Trump era, uncertainty about the Republican Party’s brand has increased dramatically. Ask a Republican now to define her political party and, in many cases, the answer will be “Not being a Democrat.” This response is indicative of the rise of – what political scientists call – negative partisanship in the U.S.: Americans feel lukewarm at best about their own party but feel deep disdain towards the other party. This phenomenon was a vital part of the 2016 elections to the extent that political pundits interpreted America’s vote choice as a decision against a political party rather than in support of one.

Data from the Pew Research Center 1 provides further evidence for this notion: Only 26% of Democrats report feeling enthusiastic about their party while 55% report feeling afraid of the Republican Party. Similarly, 49% of Republicans express fear of the Democratic Party while only a mere 16% feel proud of their own party. Put differently, the opposition party is capable of provoking much more powerful negative emotions than our own party is capable of provoking powerful positive emotions. This asymmetry is indicative of a larger problem in American politics: We increasingly define our political parties in opposition to one another without necessarily knowing about the policies and values that define the Democratic and Republican Parties. Being Republican means “not being

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a Democrat,” while being a Democrat means “not being a Republican.” Within this mindset, substantive policy proposals and reforms are oftentimes pushed aside for the sake of blocking or even harming the other party’s reputation and electoral chances. For a long time, political scientists have assumed that this negativity is an almost natural by-product of strong partisan attachments in the U.S.: You are a strong Democrat so naturally you dislike the GOP. Older generations of readers might remember a time when such an assumption sounded untenable, but decades of polarization in the U.S. have led us to believe that disdainful inter-party relationships are inevitable in a two-party system where politics can oftentimes feel like a zero-sum game.

In a recent study of mine, I asked a sample of 1,051 Americans2 about their feelings and behaviors towards members of the other party: about a third of respondents reported that their day is ruined when the opposing party is doing well in the polls.

Similarly, 34% report that they get angry when someone praises the other party, while a staggering 40% admit that it makes them feel good when someone criticizes the other party. Most telling, however, is the finding that 40% of respondents conceded that they tended to recall more negative things about the opposing party than positive things about their own party. This is negative partisanship. American partisans used to primarily define themselves over what they are, but now, they increasingly define themselves over what they are not.

So how did we get here? While political scientists are still trying to answer that question, research in social psychology has taught us two things about the development of negative partisanship: First, it is not a consequence of strong party attachments.

Put differently, you can, in fact, be a strong Republican or Democrat without hoping for a criminal investigation of the other party’s candidate. Second, negative partisanship often develops when a party is internally divided. Party elites utilize rhetoric that demonizes the other party in an attempt to distract from their internal divisions and lack of a coherent policy agenda. We can see this strategy applied by both parties’ elites as they struggle with intra-party conflicts about their leadership choices and ideological direction.

While negative partisanship is a successful strategy for short-term electoral benefits, it is less conducive to the development of strong policy consensus among party members. Both Democrats and Republicans owe Americans valid proposals to address the most pressing political issues of our times such as environmental degradation, the underfunded public education system, as well as the lack of access to quality health care for all Americans. As long as we care more about the “other team” losing, no one wins the battles that really matter.

1) The survey was conducted between March 2-28 and April 5 – May 2, 2016.

2) The sample was representative is terms of age, gender, race, and census region.

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES Accomplishments 1960s Ethel Simonetti’s (AB ‘62) Historic Tuba Collection of Durham, NC was featured in “Atlas Obscura”.

1970s Harold Banke (AB ‘71) returned to teaching at Clayton State University in 2017 after a year of “retirement.”

Heidi Hobbs (AB ‘78) received a Fulbright Core Scholar Award for 2017-18 to the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic. She is currently the Director of the Master of International Studies and HEIDI HOBBS Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University.

James Kline (MPA ‘75) earned his PhD in Urban Studies in March 2016.

Stephen Nevels (AB ‘78) is Trial Court Administrator for the Superior Courts of the Piedmont Judicial Circuit. The Circuit covers the Courts for Banks, Barrow, and Jackson Counties.

Richard Petty’s (AB ‘73) daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Petty, Georgia State University, 2013, will be marrying architect Lee Burdette in September, 2017.

Cynthia Skidmore (AB ‘70) retired at the end of 2016.

1980s Boyd Austin (AB ‘84) finished his term as President of the Georgia Municipal Association and continues to serve as Immediate Past President. He is serving his 22nd year as Mayor of Dallas, GA (6th term). He is Chair of the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) Board of Directors

(2015-present). He is a member of the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District and completed two terms (statutory limitation) as Chairman of the Board (2011-2017).

He oversaw the development and adoption of the mandated Plan Update (‘17).

Elaine Baker (PhD ‘86) participated in 2016 and 2017 Kettering Foundation Deliberative Democracy Institute and the Mid-South Delta Leaders Program (a collaborative program of Delta State University, Grambling State University, and the University of Arkansas).

Michael Chidester (AB ‘82) is completing his fourth term (four year) as City Councilman in Byron, Georgia in 2017, and his eighth (two year) as Mayor Pro Tempore.

Michael and his family visited the Kilauea volcano this summer and walked out for a close personal MICHAEL CHIDESTER experience with hot lava! He is also serving his fourth year as the Pack Committee Chairman for Cub Scout Pack 400, where his son has attained the rank of Webelo.

James Dove (MPA ‘82) will celebrate his thirtieth anniversary as Executive Director of the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, and simultaneously serve a third two-year term as President JAMES DOVE of the Georgia Association of Regional Commissions (statewide association).

Ronald Gaddie (MA ‘89, PhD ‘93) became the Executive Faculty Fellow at the University of Oklahoma.

Gaddie and his wife, Dr. Kim Gaddie (UGA Grady ‘90), lead the social and intellectual life of a community of 300 upperclassmen as CEO and academic head of the Headington College at OU. John Hedin (AB ‘88, MPA ‘90) was a volunteer at this year’s U.S. Open Golf Championship.

Kenneth Rankin (AB ‘87) became a #1 best-selling author on Amazon and is opening an After School Program at Warner Robins Martial Arts. Rankin has started a book coaching business to help others who are interested in writing to get their message out and make them a best selling author.

Mahendra Srivastava (PhD ‘88) published an English Translation of short stories written in Hindi by Raja Radhikaraman Prasad Sinha, a pioneer in Hindi literature. The Book is titled “The Gandhi Cap and Other Short Stories.” It was published in February 2017 by the Manipal University Press (Manipal, India) as part of a series on Indian Literature in Translation.

Richard Storrs (AB ‘81) launched an ADR practice, focusing on serving as a mediator for construction, business, and other disputes.

1990s Jennifer Allen (MPA ‘91) started her own consulting business after 20 years in the non-profit arena: J H Allen and Associates.

Rushton Allen’s (AB ‘96) team of financial advisors, The Southland Group, joined Morgan Stanley in May 2017 and opened an office in Albany, Georgia.

Melissa Candy (AB ‘95) attended the UGA Alumni event in the San Francisco Bay Area MELISSA CANDY at the Fairmont

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with fellow alumni and her sisterMeredith Gurley Johnson, Director of UGA Alumni Association.

John Clayton (AB ‘91) is currently serving as a Program Manager III with Odyssey Systems Consulting assigned to Eglin AFB within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Armament Directorate.

Brian Dill (AB ‘94) is the Vice President of the UGA Alumni Association. Dill began the Executive MBA program at Terry in September and serves on the Leadership Georgia Board of Trustees. His wife Carmen (FACS ’95) and son Mason are pictured to the left.

Kim Frye (AB ‘90) won a Tesla BRIAN DILL at Lawyernomics through a contest for attorneys who used Crisp Video for marketing.

Edwin Peacock III (AB ‘92) was elected to Charlotte City Council and

served 2007-2011 as a Republican At-Large Member. He was the 2013 and 2015 Republican nominee for Mayor of Charlotte, receiving the endorsement of the Charlotte Observer in both races.

Jason Shepherd (AB ‘98) joined the faculty of Kennesaw State University as an Assistant Professor (adjunct) of Political Science.

2000s Joseph Blackwell (AB ‘07) is proud to be a member of a team that helped create a new division at Zaxby’s Franchising LLC (Field Testing).

Maria Bowie (MPA ‘03) serves as a program coordinator with UGA Cooperative Extension. She provides leadership to employee recruitment and retention and administers UGA’s online fitness program “Walk Georgia”, recipient of a one-million dollar sponsorship from The CocaCola Foundation. Bowie is currently a doctoral student in the DrPH program

Seizing Opportunity By Lauren A. Ledbetter A self-proclaimed go-getter and girly girl, Dawn Richards (AB ‘94, JD ‘97) is what some may call a “Jill of all trades.”

When she isn’t busy working at her “day” job, Dawn can be found running her own outreach ministry, travelling, volunteering at her church, cooking, or writing for her food and lifestyle blog, D.M.R. Fine Foods.

When the Augusta, Georgia native began her undergraduate career at UGA, she wanted to be a journalist. Eventually, her love for current affairs and public policy led her to double major in political science and English. One of her dreams was to work for the State Department as a diplomat to a Latin American country.

Twenty years later, with two bachelor’s degrees and a Juris Doctor, she says she may still pursue that dream one day.

For now, though, she is content in her career as a successful legal and contracts executive for Accenture, a global consulting and technology firm.

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After experiencing the tragic loss of her father and sister in the winter quarter of her freshman year at UGA, Dawn says her “saving grace” was becoming completely immersed in campus life.

“One of the things that helped me move forward through all of the emotional stress and grief was being engaged as a student,” she says.

Dawn became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., participated in Leadership UGA, worked in the Athens field office of Congressman Don Johnson, and in her senior year,

with UGA’s College of Public Health.

She hopes to focus her research on public-private partnerships in higher education.

Travis Bussey (AB ‘06) recently left Georgia EMC as a Government Relations Representative and started working as the Regional Manager of Legislative Affairs for Sprint.

Alisha Cardenas (AB ‘05) celebrated the 5th year of her ALISHA CARDENAS business, Central New Jersey Ballet Theatre.

Amanda Deaton-Moyer (AB ‘07, MPA ‘09) was appointed the Chief Financial Officer for Metro Water Services.

Jehan El-Jourbagy (AB ‘00) serves as an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Georgia College and State University.

Leah Farmer (AB ‘09) was selected

was crowned the University’s third African-American Homecoming Queen.

Between graduating from undergrad and returning to Athens for law school, Dawn received a fellowship through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to work on Capitol Hill on the staff of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.

“I had my best experiences as an undergrad at UGA,” Dawn says. It was during this time that she realized how important it is to make the most of every situation. Whether she is dealing with a tragedy or one of life’s many changes, Dawn says she always challenges herself to think, “How, in this moment, can I make the most of my situation? What can I bring to the table? How can I add value?”

Her advice to students is, “work hard towards your goals, and pursue the things you are passionate about, but always remain open to the opportunities that come to you organically. Stay curious because you never know what you may discover about yourself and about other career possibilities you didn’t know were out there.”

by her peers as an Emerging Lawyer in the field of Employee-side Employment Law in Chicago. This designation is reserved for attorneys younger than 40 years old (or practicing for less than 10 years) and accounts for less than two percent of licensed Illinois attorneys.

Kenneth Hunter (MPA ‘03) serves as Chairman of Board for Frederick E. Turnage Chapter, American Red Cross, serving 5 Counties in Eastern North Carolina. Hunter is currently serving as Chair of the Small Business Committee, Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce and is an adjunct instructor for the MPA Program at East Carolina University.

Beverly Johnson (MPA ‘02) currently works as the Unit Director for the State Services Unit at CVIOG in Atlanta. Johnson is responsible for multiple multi-year, large scale contracts, which contain numerous complex deliverables.

Gene Kim (AB ‘05) started a 3-year assignment as an Agricultural Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing with the USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service. This is his first overseas posting.

Olivia “Tate” O’Rouke (AB ‘05) started with Jackson EMC as the Commercial/Industrial Marketing Representative in the Gainesville District in May. Mario Ponsell (AB ‘08) transitioned from Active Duty in the US Army to the US Army Reserve and matriculated at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in the Master of Public Administration program (Class of 2018).

MARIO PONSELL Concentrating in Urban Policy and Specializing in Management, Ponsell interned with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the New York City Dept. of Transportation as he seeks a future civilian career.

Jason Rizner (AB ‘01) has been serving

as City Manager in Harlem, Georgia for six years and started a new role as County Administrator in Jones County in October of 2016.

Victoria Sanchez (AB ‘08, MA ‘10) recently completed her PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware. Her doctoral research focused on understanding comparative policy change after a nuclear accident. She VICTORIA SANCHEZ also recently started a position at the Pentagon as a National Security Analyst for the Army’s Countering WMD and Proliferation Policy Division.

Josh Stancil (AB ‘07) was recently promoted to Director of Marketing at Insight Sourcing Group, a growing boutique consulting firm that is consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in Atlanta. Stancil oversees a small team of marketers and is responsible for all marketing strategy and execution.

Kathryn Thornton (AB ‘04) is a Drug Recognition Expert and received the title in 2015. She remains in good standing with the program and updates the title yearly. Only 1% of law enforcement officers are considered DREs. Andrew Tyndall (AB ‘08, MIP ‘14) deployed to ANDREW TYNDALL Europe with 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve.

Anne Williamson (PhD ‘07) was appointed Victor and Caroline Schutte/Missouri Professor of Urban Affairs and Director, L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs in the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas ANNE WILLIAMSON City in 2015.

Christopher Young (AB ‘00, MPA ‘07) is still enjoying his 17-year career with Social Security, his 16-year marriage, and having his life lit up by his sevenyear-old daughter. Life couldn’t have turned out any better!

2010s Ryan Anglin (AB ‘15) traveled to Europe in the summer of 2017 to do International Relations work.

William Caplan (AB ‘16) started a new job as the Program Coordinator and Research Assistant for the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In this role, he performs research on a variety of WMD topics including escalation dynamics between the United States and Russia as well as chemical weapons attribution and accountability. He also assists in planning and coordinating Track I and Track II dialogues between the United States and our European allies. He has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Georgetown Security Studies Review, and through CSIS. He is working on his M.A. in Security Studies at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Erin Chizmar (AB ‘15) is attending American University and the University for Peace to begin her graduate studies.

Aiden Holley (AB ‘17) received a $30,000 grant from the Rotary Foundation for his Masters program in Germany over the next two years.

Carlon Howard (AB ‘13) will be joining Breakthrough Providence as it’s next Executive Director. Breakthrough Providence is a nonprofit organization that aims to create a pathway to college for low-income, academically motivated middle school students in Providence Public CARLON HOWARD Schools (RI), and to encourage talented high school and college students to pursue careers in education.

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Joseph Howard (AB ‘13) opened his own State Farm Agency on June 1, 2017.

Megan Kelley (AB ‘11) took a job as an Assistant District Attorney in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit.

She is excited to be back in her hometown of Columbus, MEGAN KELLEY Georgia, after going to graduate school in Florida!

Kelby Lamar (AB ‘11) will be entering the second year of his dissertation program at the University of Alabama. His research focuses on university persistence and retention in relation to membership in a fraternity or sorority, looking specifically at historically Black Greek Letter Fraternity and Sorority membership and its relationship to academic persistence and retention at predominantly white institutions.

Larner Mills (AB ‘16) started law school at the University of Mississippi.

Narke Norton (AB ‘14) was promoted to Program Coordinator in the UGA CAES Office of Diversity Affairs.

Lyddy O’Brien (AB ‘16) spent the 2017 summer working with No Peace Without Justice, a human rights NGO in Brussels, Belgium.

David Okun (AB ‘12) was awarded the Superior Honor Award from the U.S. Department of State.

Harrison Payne (AB ‘15) was hired right out of the Washington Semester Program to work for the Georgia Congressional Delegation and was soon catapulted into a role with the Georgia Department HARRISON PAYNE of Economic Development based in Atlanta where he works on the Governor’s High Demand Career Initiative.

Tyler Reinagel (MPA ‘09, PhD ‘13) accepted a position leading the

Office of Research at the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

Robert Shepard (AB ‘11) began his graduate studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is working towards a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, with a focus in International Business Relations and Security Studies.

Ivy Shepherd (AB ‘13) passed the Georgia Bar and is now working at Ashley Miles, PC, as a Family Law Attorney with a large focus on juvenile cases.

Johnelle Simpson (AB ‘16) works for Clarke County and is pleased to say the AthensClarke County community received the Great Promise JOHNELLE SIMPSON Partnership program Trailblazer Award.

Patrick Wheat (AB ‘14) was promoted to Research Analyst at Delve.

Marriages William Brown (AB ‘11) and Kaeley Brown (SPIA ‘12) were married December 31, 2016. Will is a Producer at CNN working on political events, and Kaeley is an attorney at Jones Day in Atlanta.

Erin Greenberg (MPA ‘17) was married December 29, 2016, during Winter Break. She moved from Athens to Sandy Springs. She finished her last semester of the MPA program commuting from Atlanta to Athens three days a week with a full-time load, an internship, a graduate assistantship, and working part-time with Johns Creek in the job she currently holds.

1 Douglas Harden (AB ‘05) was married in January 2017.

Leona Rittenhouse (AB ‘10) was married on October 15, 2016. She met her husband while they were both working at the Georgia State Capitol.

Jill Rulli (AB ‘11) was married last year and started working at the

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National Republican Senatorial Committee overseeing 13 US Senate races, including the two most competitive pick-up opportunities for Republicans-Missouri and West Virginia.

2 Ansley Tuten (AB ‘10) is marrying Joel Mendelson in Athens, Georgia in June 2018.

James Wilbanks (AB ‘13) was married in September and is applying to law school for this coming fall semester.

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Babies Lauren (MPA ‘10) and Jack (PhD ‘14) Collens welcomed their daughter Stella in October 2016.

3 David Dove (AB ‘09) and his wife, Courtney (UGA ‘09) had their first child, Tucker, on October 10, 2016.

4 Christine Green (AB ‘02) and her husband welcomed their second child, Lorraine, in January 2017.

5 Frank Wasser (AB ‘09) welcomed his son, Eli William Wasser, in February, 2017.

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Family Matters

By DeShonna Johnson

In 1966, the late Dr. Robert T. Golembiewski was placing the finishing touches on a brand new degree at the University of Georgia – the Master of Public Administration (MPA). Upon hearing about the newly formed program, Daniel Lanford (AB/PS ’66, MPA ’68) made a crucial decision to enroll. As one of the first twelve students to matriculate through the MPA program, Daniel is a proud part of SPIA’s legacy.

“My coursework in the MPA program began in the fall of 1966, the first class of UGA’s MPA program,” Daniel explains. “We were a small and closeknit group, and I recall often enjoying cookouts followed by touch football at Dr. Golembiewski’s house and dinner invites to the homes of other professors.”

During his studies, Daniel specialized in criminal justice administration. He completed an internship at the federal prison in Atlanta, which he claims as the impetus for his 32-year career with the Probate Division of the U.S. Courts Middle District of Georgia. For 18 of those years, he served as the Head of Probation, covering nearly 70 counties with probation offices. Daniel’s dedication to public service did not go unnoticed, as his son, Brent, would soon follow in his father’s footsteps.

“As a child, it was exciting to hear of my father’s interactions with high-profile criminals, U.S. Attorneys, and federal

judges,” says Brent Lanford (AB/PS ’91, MPA ’93). “Growing up, I remember taking great pride in the fact that my father worked for the federal government.”

Seeing his father’s commitment to both his work and his family, Brent learned the importance of an excellent work ethic, a strong sense of personal

ethics, and humility that would stay with him through his own education. In the fall of 1987, Brent took his first political science course with Dr. Loch Johnson, and the rest was history.

“I realized that I shared my father’s interest in political science,” says Brent.

“Shortly thereafter, I consulted with my father and decided to follow his footsteps by changing my major to political science.

I never changed majors after that, and I enjoyed all of my undergraduate courses in political science at UGA. My father and I even shared the same professor, Dr. Robert Clute, for International Law three decades apart!”

The influence of Brent’s father didn’t end with his bachelor’s degree. Prior to graduating, Brent changed his intention

to attend law school and chose to pursue his MPA instead—similar to his father 25 years prior.

“I changed my mind after attending an MPA reunion with my father in the fall of 1990 during my junior year.

There, I met Dr. Jerome Legge, the MPA Program Director at the time, and Dr. Robert Golembiewski, whom my father often spoke of with great admiration,” says Brent. “After speaking with these professors and realizing the high regard the UGA MPA program has maintained since its inception, I decided to apply.”

Brent specialized in local government – a choice that he credits to his undergraduate Urban Administration professor, Dr. Arnold Fleischmann, for piquing his interest. After graduating, Brent went on to work in information technology, and began his career at the Middle Georgia Regional Development Center, now known as the Middle Georgia Regional Commission (MGRC). He started out as a Government Services Specialist creating the office’s first website, social media outlets, and its Technology Services Division. Twentythree years later, Brent is still with the MGRC as the Deputy Director.

While the father and son duo both completed bachelor’s degrees in political science and received their MPAs, the two show the versatility of SPIA degrees.

“Although we took different career paths, our collective experience as graduates of the UGA MPA program is one filled with pride and great memories,” says Brent. “We both developed life-long friendships with fellow students and are proud to be alumni of SPIA, by virtue of our MPA degrees.”

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Looking at my master’s years in retrospect, I understand that I could not have made a more productive investment of my time and energy than to obtain a degree in public administration and policy from the University of Georgia.

It opened up a chest of opportunities I had no idea I could ever reach for. During my final year, as part of my credit requirement and Optional Practical Training, I applied for an internship at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, and spent the most fruitful six months at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division of Public Administration and Development Management. I had the honor to be a member of the 2013 Public Service Award (PSA) nomination team. The UN PSA is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It

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When I started pursuing the MPA at the University of Georgia in 2011, I already held a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (Tbilisi, Georgia, 2009) and had 5 years of work experience in the public sector and international organizations back in my home country.

One would have questioned re whether the benefits of mo a ia. seeking another degree d e f Georg o ty would outweigh the costs of coming all the way to the United States and putting my career on hold, considering the academic and professional background I already possessed back then as a 25-year-old.

According to National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Executive Director Laurel McFarland, “One of the things employers often comment on is they’re looking for someone who can see the big picture of things and understand connections between things and put a better analytic framework on things than someone who just went to college.” My personal experience with UGA’s MPA is a practical demonstration of this statement. With my previous job experiences, I was taught how to fulfill particular tasks such as project implementation

rewards the creative achievements and contributions of government institutions and promotes the role, professionalism, and visibility of public service.

Together, with the field experts, practitioners, scientists, and researchers, I had the chance to examine and evaluate how governments, public institutions, and public administrators can foster innovative approaches to a more effective and responsive public administration in countries worldwide. I couldn’t benefit from this experience, nor could I understand the depth and the essence of this job, without prior training as a master’s degree student at UGA. The fact that my supervisors were fond of my presence in their team and I completed the internship with honors, owes much to the same degree program.

After finishing the internship and obtaining the title of an MPA graduate, I returned to my country as a different person, not just a better-educated or more aware, but also a more confident individual. I was not willing to agree to any job offer that the public sector had for me in Georgia. I wanted to get involved with something meaningful, something real, to prove that public service is about making a difference. That mindset put me in the driver’s seat and empowered me to such an extent that the employers started to offer better terms of employment and to value the assets of my professionalism in general.

Currently, I work in the healthcare sector, where I help a startup company set up a pharmaceutical database for electronic prescriptions. Together, with the Ministry of Health of Georgia and Data Protection Agency, we are helping implement patient confidentiality and fraud protection rules, making the electronic prescription system accessible and user friendly, while also ensuring that the balance between efficiency and health ethics is maintained.

My goal is to bring my agency the UN Public Sector Award by 2020 and demonstrate once again that everything you do in life is somehow interconnected and can yield amazing results if you try hard enough.

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MEET AUER NEW DEAN Q&A with Dean Auer

By Caroline Paris Paczkowski

Photo Credit: Ian McFarlane Photography

Matthew R. Auer became dean of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs on July 1, 2017. We sat down with Dean Auer to hear his thoughts about the state of the School, his plans for the future, and to get to know him a little better. Let’s meet “Auer New Dean”. continued on next page

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Since taking the reins at SPIA, what has most impressed you about the University and our students?

I’m most impressed with what I would call the “bigsmall dialectic.” The University is at once really big and really small, all the way down to the individual student experience. For me, the first UGA football game was of the “big” variety; more than 90,000 fans – mostly Dawgs, of course – all single-minded and focused on the task at hand. At the other end of the scale is hearing about a SPIA student’s highly customized and utterly captivating study abroad experience in Oxford. Excellent research universities and units within those universities (like SPIA), tend to be good at both “big” and “small.”

What do you see as some of SPIA’s greatest opportunities?

Some of SPIA’s greatest opportunities reside in the area of making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. For example, consider that SPIA has incredible international engagement taking place not only within its International Affairs department, but also, its Department of Public Administration and Policy (PADP), and yet, PADP doesn’t begin to get the attention it should for its research, teaching, and outreach work in the international arena. I can imagine more intense, deeper engagement from all of our departments in some of our graduate-level degree programs, and possibly, the creation of new graduate programs with an international focus.

SPIA’s expertise can also be in the vanguard of redefining traditional areas of study and service. We have superb depth in the area of human rights, for example. Our experts can, and do, make the case that human rights are integral to broader notions of “security.” Security is more than just a traditional notion of military might or homeland security. It’s about robust democratic institutions in the U.S. and abroad, laws that protect civil liberties, well-functioning courts, accountable public leaders and public institutions. We are very strong in all of these areas. SPIA can build on these strengths and help shape the national and global discourse about human security and public wellbeing.

What are some areas you plan to focus on in the immediate future?

In the arena of international affairs, we have wonderful hiring opportunities and the ability to strengthen and reshape some of our educational offerings. Political Science – and political scientists – play an outsized role in key SPIA centers like the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) and the Survey Research Center.

I am enjoying working with Ryan Bakker and Tracy Elder

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to position GLOBIS for continued success. Meanwhile, the Survey Research Center is in its inaugural year. The possibilities for it are incredibly exciting, and Trey Hood has done an amazing job of staffing-up the center. I am working with colleagues in Public Administration and Policy on a concept for promoting internships and job placements of SPIA students from underrepresented backgrounds in local, county, and state government agencies. This is part of a larger, more intentional approach to promoting diversity and inclusion at SPIA. I am also excited about getting my share of face-time with students, including at SPIA coffee hours and in other settings.

What keeps you busy outside of the office?

Well, SPIA and UGA extracurricular activities keep me busy outside of the office! There are amazing UGAhosted diversions in the evenings and on the weekends.

And how about those Athens restaurants! I haven’t tried an eatery I didn’t like. What I haven’t sampled, however, is Athens’ fabled music scene. More adventures await, I guess.

What has been your greatest accomplishment?

The accomplishments I’m most proud of are creating lasting, honors-level programs for undergraduates and rich study abroad experiences for students. My hope is to leave a comparable legacy in these or other areas while serving as SPIA’s dean.

You are in your car on the way to work, what are you listening to?

I’m a dedicated radio-listener. I surf between NPR, political “talk radio,” and whatever is playing on the “oldies” stations.

What/who inspires your leadership?

I’m something of a “career student.” By that, I mean, I’m always learning from others, and typically, that learning takes place in the academic setting.

Leaders who have inspired me, most deeply, have included academic leaders I’ve worked for directly. I count my former boss, Clayton Spencer, president of Bates College, as an inspiring leader. Susan Collins, U.S. Senator from Maine, also inspires me. I can’t help marveling at her courage and her thoughtful, principled approach to lawmaking.

If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be?

This is a very difficult question. Many people are likely to mention Abraham Lincoln as a preferred dinner companion; I’m no exception. The world was robbed by his assassination. I sometimes wonder whether the memoirs he never wrote might have saved the planet from some of the military calamities of the 20th century.

If you could ask your pet three questions, what would they be?

I have no pets currently, though for a brief period my new Athens home served as a roost for more than 50 large brown bats and free-tailed Mexican bats. The questions I’d pose to them: “Why did you leave?” and “Couldn’t you have at least said, ‘thanks’?”.

What’s a great book you’ve read recently?

elite universities’ historical involvement in the slave trade and the political economy of slavery, is a significant contribution to the study of American history, generally, and the history of American higher education, specifically.

What would you like your legacy to be either at SPIA or for your life in general?

At the broadest level, I try to leave institutions stronger and better prepared for a fast-changing world than when I first joined them. At Bates College, for example, I worked pretty hard to suffuse computer and information science across all of the major educational divisions in the college. At SPIA, I am eager to strengthen the profile of a school that lives in a very competitive marketplace and that has a vital role to play in the public arena. I want SPIA to be recognized as essential to the key debates in public affairs, and to produce graduates who make major, positive contributions to the study and practice of politics, policymaking, public administration, and international affairs.

I’m a little behind on my reading list, but Craig Steven Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy, which chronicles

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THE 2017 EUROPEAN ELECTIONS:

NEITHER THE VICTORY NOR THE DEFEAT OF POPULISM

By Cas Mudde, Associate Professor, Department of International Affairs

After the political earthquakes of Brexit and Trump in 2016, both defying the wisdom of most polls and pundits, the European elections of 2017 were framed by the international media as an epic battle between an emboldened populism and an embattled political establishment.

However, as Europe is a heterogeneous continent, rather than a homogeneous country, the election results show no clear patterns.

In both the Austrian and Dutch elections, the mainstream candidate beat out his populist radical right challenger by adopting, what they euphemistically called, “good populism,” which in reality was a tougher stand on crime and immigration that was clearly inspired by the program of their radical right opponents. In both cases, the populist radical right party gained compared to the last national election, but stayed well below the polls, both from last year and from a few months before the elections.

The biggest election, however, was in France, where first a president and then a parliament was elected. The presidential elections are different than in the US, as the two most popular candidates of the first round face each other in a second one, to ensure that the president has been elected by a majority of voters. For years it was certain that populist radical right leader, Marine Le Pen, would be one of the two last-standing, but to the surprise of many, she would face Emmanuel Macron, a relative

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political unknown, who represented a newly founded “movement” rather than one of the established parties. Macron easily defeated Le Pen in the second round, but then also swept to victory in the following parliamentary elections, making both the left populist, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and right populist, Le Pen, mere figurants in French politics.

Finally, the German elections were widely seen as a referendum on the pro-refugees policies of center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel, the longestserving head-of-government of any Western

democracy. And while the populist radical right Alternative for Germany did win a shocking 12.6 percent of the vote, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union remained the biggest party, and she will continue her already 12-year old Chancellorship – albeit as head of a different coalition.

In sort, 2017 saw neither the ultimate victory nor the ultimate defeat of populism in Europe. Rather, it confirmed that populism – and particularly the populist radical right (which combines populism with authoritarianism and nativism) – has become an established part of European politics. It predates not only the rise of Donald Trump, but also the Great Recession, and it will survive both.

At the same time, populism is not the dominant force in European politics.

While some states have populist leaders, from the left (Greece) or the right (Hungary), in most countries they are the 3rd or 4th biggest party. They either are a junior partner in the coalition government (e.g. Austria, Norway) or one of the biggest opposition parties (e.g. Netherlands, Spain). Given that the reasons for their success are structural, there is no reason to assume this will change in the foreseeable future. Just like in the US, populism will be part of Europe’s future.

SPIA STRONG Many SPIA alumni and students are current or retired members of the military. We sat down with three people in different stages of their military career – a veteran working for a nonprofit that serves veterans, an active duty surgeon, and a student who will be commissioned as an officer upon graduation. Here are their stories.

Dr. Dhruti Contractor

In 2017, “Wonder Woman” hit theaters around the world. We are here to tell you, Diana has nothing on Dr. Dhruti Contractor.

Dhruti began her career at UGA as a political science undergraduate student.

Within five years, she had completed both her BA and MA in Political Science and International Affairs, and she had traveled the world as a Foundation Fellow, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship awarded at UGA. Upon graduation, Dhruti attended Yale University to receive her Master of Public Health.

“I’ve always wanted to help people. With my political science degree, I wanted to help with policy, and eventually I became interested in health policy,” she said, thinking back on her career path.

After Yale, Dhruti came back to Georgia to work at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). It was exactly what she wanted to do - helping set policy so that everyone can have access to quality healthcare. It was her work experience at the CDC that led her down a path she never expected: medical school. “I saw that the decision makers had MDs, and there would always be a glass ceiling. [Without an MD] I wouldn’t be the one shaping that policy, I would be the one writing about it,” she said.

While working full-time, Dhruti went back to school part-time to take the pre-requisite courses needed to apply to medical school.

She took the MCAT and was accepted into

George Washington University Medical School. Right before starting her first year, she joined the Army.

“I always knew I wanted to serve my country,” she said. “It’s a great scholarship and the best training. Being in the federal government, I thought this was a great way to serve and pay for med school.”

In the summer between her first and second year of medical school, Dhruti attended a six-week basic training. When medical school ended, active duty began.

For the next four years, she completed her residency in orthopedic surgery at Eisenhower Army Medical Center on Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia.

In her second year of residency, Dhruti and her husband had their first son, born with special needs. “I was a second-year resident when I had my first. We were at Egleston having 30 seizures in a row… it was 3 in the morning, and I drove to Augusta and did an 8 hour spine case. In times of crisis, you can rise up. If I can do that, I can do anything,” she said.

After four years of residency in Georgia, she completed a hand surgery fellowship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Now, as a staff surgeon back at Eisenhower in Augusta, Dhruti spends the average day in the operating room

or clinic in the morning and with her family by mid-afternoon. It is important for her to be present at each of her son’s therapy sessions to help his progress. As a working mother of two children, she is truly a champion.

Being a full-time mom and full-time surgeon is demanding, but she loves every second of both. Being in orthopedics, one of the most competitive and male-

dominated medical specialties, Dhruti is passionate about encouraging women that they can have the job of their dreams while building a family at the same time. “My biggest advice is to women. No matter what your career, you can still have kids. If I can do it in my career, you can,” she said.

“Being a mom is fabulous and I wouldn’t give it up for the world. What I’m most proud of is being a working mom.”

She is grateful to her SPIA professors for helping her understand the importance of policy in the real world. Because of their influence, she is still very active in her political participation. She hopes to one day pick up where she left off in the policy world.

“There’s such satisfaction and quick fixes in orthopedics – the exact opposite of the slow change in health care policy. But I still want to give back to health care policy because I never lost the passion and importance of it so I try to do things on the side to help,” she said.

“When I get out of the military, my dream is to work as a part-time surgeon, part-time policy maker, and continued on next page full-time mom.”

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SPIA STRONG CONTINUED Jason Dozier

“Are you a smiley guy or a serious guy?” the photographer asked Jason Dozier as he prepped for his photoshoot. “I think I am pretty serious,” Jason replied before showing us a preview of his million dollar smile. Jason is a pretty serious guy with a lot to smile about.

Photo Credit: AJ Reynolds Photography Jason S. Dozier graduated with bachelor degrees in history and education from Denison University in 2005. Upon graduation, he moved back to Atlanta and found his calling: the US Army.

“It was a yearlong decision and selfreflection process, but in April of 2006, I raised my right hand and was off to Fort Benning for basic training.”

He was commissioned as an Armor Officer stationed in Fort Polk, Louisiana. Three months after arriving, he deployed to Iraq with a platoon of 20 scouts for 14 months.

“It was actually my experience in Baghdad that shaped my worldview in terms of where I go from here in my life and my career. I was in this place that had been on this earth for 2,000 or 3,000 years – I was just fascinated!

There I was in wartime, and I was fascinated about the urban planning and the flow of the city,” he said. “I am from Atlanta. It is a city that has only been around for 150 years, and I thought, ‘Will it be around 2,000 or 3,000 years from now, and what can I do to help us shepherd our city in the right direction?’”

When he returned to the United States from Iraq, Jason started looking at different graduate school programs that focused on urban development and public administration and policy, when he realized his home state of Georgia had the #4 public affairs school in the country. He applied and was accepted

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into the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program in 2010, but his plans were quickly interrupted – his unit was being deployed again, and this time to Afghanistan.

After a year abroad and another round of applications, Jason finally made his way to Athens, Georgia, in January 2012.

While pursuing his MPA with an emphasis in local government, a fateful opportunity arose. He was offered an internship at Hire Heroes USA, a (then small) nonprofit organization based in Alpharetta, Georgia, that empowers US military members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce.

“Hire Heroes USA chose me,” Jason said, smiling as he remembered his first coffee interview with Executive Director and fellow MPA graduate, Nate Smith.

Quickly, Jason rose through the ranks from intern to transition specialist to his current position as Director of Programs Operations.

In 2012, when Jason started at Hire Heroes USA, the organization helped about 470 veterans find jobs. Last year, they helped 6,320 find jobs. When we interviewed Jason in September, he said they were on pace to assist 8,000 veterans and their family members find jobs by the end of 2017.

Jason’s position requires him to oversee the day-to-day operations of the organization.

When clients seek career services, Jason ensures that each new client is assigned to

a transition specialist the following Monday.

He oversees the processes that make the organization run efficiently – in fact, he created most of those processes.

“When I first started, the transition specialists used a Word doc to keep track of their work. I would then take that and put it into a spreadsheet and calculate the weekly productivity. There was so much room for human error,” he said. “I started using Salesforce to refine the processes week over week. We now have specific reporting and dashboards to ensure the organization is doing what it needs to do to accomplish its mission.”

This move towards data-driven decision-making is one of the lessons he took away from his time in the MPA program, and it is also the reason he has moved forward so quickly in his career with Hire Heroes USA. Data quality is how he ensures the right decisions are being made in order to serve as many clients as possible. Now, other nonprofits are looking to Hire Heroes USA as the experts on datadriven decision-making.

Jason says that his greatest accomplishment is being a part of the overall growth of his organization and the role he has been able to play in that growth. “As I have grown professionally, I have learned my way around these systems, and to see Hire Heroes USA grow with me and be able to grow together with the company has made me take a much bigger ownership stake in the health and future of this company.”

As Jason reflected back on his career path, he left us with a piece of valuable insight for those choosing a track through the military.

“There are a lot of times that there will be self-doubt and personal reflection about why I made this choice, but it’s a hard decision to make and a hard thing to do when you are in it,” he said. “But what you get out of it will positively impact you for the rest of your life.”

Sarah Howard

Sarah Howard has known the keys to success since she was a little girl. Step 1: Become a Georgia Bulldawg. Step 2: Serve her country. “My dad has being talking to me about the military since I can remember,” she said. “And when I rang the [Chapel] bell for the first time when I was 14 years old, I promised myself I would come to UGA.” Her father served, her uncle served, and both of her grandfathers served. You can say it runs in the family.

Sarah is an international affairs major graduating in May 2018. Upon graduation, she will be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army in military intelligence. She joined UGA’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) during her sophomore year.

“When I got to UGA, I loved my friends and my classes, but I wanted to do more,” she said. “I decided to take the ROTC class and work towards a scholarship and a contract. I had a really awesome instructor in my first class, and I just fell in love. I loved the discipline, and I loved the structure. The more I learned about it, the more I knew this is what I wanted to do with my life.”

While most students attempt to take classes after noon, Sarah is up at 5:15 am for physical training three days a week. These training sessions range from 4-mile runs to ruck marches to strength

conditioning. As the Battalion Commander, it is up to her to plan these sessions. “I make sure everything is done right and done to standard, and I communicate with our cadre to make sure we are executing the training intent,” she explained.

Outside of ROTC, Sarah is taking rigorous coursework in order to finish her degree. The great thing about international affairs (IA), she says, is that it is directly related to what she is learning in her ROTC classes, and it is preparing her for her career in the military.

“A lot of the subjects I learn about in ROTC are subjects I learn about in IA,” she said. “The class I just had was about the operational environment and counterinsurgency, and now I am in a terrorism class in IA. It is interesting to have the different perspectives to see how it’s taught it academia versus how it’s taught in ROTC.” While her love for ROTC is strong, her love for international affairs is stronger.

“I choose IA before I decided to do ROTC. I love the classes so much. I think learning about international systems and how the US plays a role is what drove me to do ROTC because I saw the military from a different perspective,” she explained.

Her perspective continues to change as she gains more experience within SPIA. During the summer of her sophomore year, Sarah participated in the Stellenbosch, South Africa study abroad program. Dr. Markus Crepaz was an inspiration to her.

“Dr. Crepaz always starts his class with, ‘What does development mean to you?’, and I learned that anything can be development, from providing an eraser to

providing housing,” she said. “There are major issues in development, and it’s one thing to hear about them and it’s another thing to see them.”

Photo Credit: Wingate Downs Photography Outside of ROTC and SPIA, Sarah is involved in student organizations like Freshman Connect, SPIA Ambassadors, and Student Alumni Council. Her love for the traditions of the University of Georgia shine through in those roles as she guides freshman through the beginning of their college careers and upperclassmen through the process of giving back.

“The reason I love SPIA is because it’s a community that you don’t find anywhere else. The professors are engaged and willing to help you with whatever you need,” she said. “They give us such awesome opportunities. You can tell the professors love what they are teaching, and it is evident when they teach it. It makes me more willing to do the readings and the extra work, and I want to love it as much as they do. They are passionate, and that makes me passionate about SPIA.”

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The MANAGER of VOLUNTEERS:

THE MOST UNDER-ESTIMATED NONPROFIT PROFESSIONAL

By Rebecca Nesbit, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy For years I have been studying volunteers—both what makes them tick and how organizations use and manage them. It didn’t take me long to realize that the most under-valued and underestimated professional in a nonprofit organization is the person who manages the organization’s volunteers. Most nonprofit organizations use volunteers to some extent, and many organizations are run entirely by volunteers; yet, nonprofit organizations pay very little attention to how those volunteers are managed.

This can lead to a very unproductive cycle for these organizations. What often happens is an organization will incorporate volunteers to help with the work of the organization, and then pay very little attention to how the volunteers are managed. Over time, the volunteers grow frustrated with unclear roles, a lack of communication, unsupportive staff, and inadequate training. They start to underperform in their tasks or leave the organization entirely. Staff members then complain that volunteers are unreliable and a nuisance, which further decreases their investment in volunteers. The negative cycle then starts all over again as new volunteers enter the organization.

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However, poor volunteer performance and volunteer turnover are often a result of poor volunteer management. It takes time, resources, and infrastructure to manage paid employees—likewise, it takes time, resources, and infrastructure to effectively manage the unpaid staff: volunteers.

Relatively few organizations have a fulltime, paid manager of volunteers. The hiring executives do not seem to acknowledge that working with volunteers takes real management skills, such as interviewing, communication, scheduling, and delegating.

Many of the managers of volunteers I have spoken with over the years have indicated their frustration at trying to get their supervisor or executive director to give greater support to their volunteer program.

There are several things organizations can do to demonstrate a commitment to an effective volunteer program. First, there needs to be a designated manager of volunteers who has received enough professional development to understand the management tools most effective in working with volunteers. Second, organizations need to provide adequate resources for the volunteer program, such as a budget to cover supplies, marketing, and recognition activities. Third, organizations need to invest in training all

staff members of the organization about how to work with volunteers. Executive directors often assume volunteers can fit seamlessly into their organization, but working with volunteers requires a range of skill sets—interpersonal skills, communication skills, the ability to give feedback, managerial skills, and time management skills. In addition, most employees do not understand what volunteers want and need in order to help them be effective contributors to the organization. Finally, the executive director needs to hold staff members accountable for how well they work with volunteers. This can be accomplished by adding working with volunteers to job descriptions and incorporating it into annual performance evaluations.

Over 62.6 million volunteers in the United States donate 7.8 billion hours to our wonderful community organizations each year (www.volunteeringinamerica. gov). Given the vast investment these individuals make in our communities, our communities could do more to invest in their volunteers. Until public and nonprofits organizations learn how to do this effectively, they will not be fully maximizing volunteers’ contributions to their missions.

STUDENT NOTES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS Undergraduate Students Joshua Kenway

(AB Political Science ’18) Student Organization Leadership • Treasurer - Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society • Blue Key Honor Society • Swim & Dive Representative, StudentAthlete Advisory Council Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Staff Assistant, Federal Relations Office of the New York Governor (Washington D.C.) Grants/Awards • Foundation Fellowship (all four years), University of Georgia

Grants/Awards • UGA Foundation Fund • Warner-Fite Award for excellence in American history • Washington Semester Program Scholarship

Jacqueline Gardner

(AB Political Science ’18, Minor: Religion) Student Organization Leadership • SPIA Ambassador • Designated Dawgs Vice President: Communications • Women Pre-Law Students Association Advertising Chair • Member, UGA Hockey Ice Crew Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Atlanta District Office Intern at U.S. Senate Office of Johnny Isakson

Alexander Manning Garrett

(AB Political Science ’18, Minors: Theatre and Criminal Justice) Publications • Eve’s Politics: “The End of DACA” Student Organization Leadership • Director of Activism, Young Democrats of Georgia • Public Liaison, Athens Young Democratic Socialists Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Senior Staff Assistant, Washington Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (Fall 2017) • Student Volunteer, Vincent Fort for Mayor (July 2017) • Paid Canvasser, Jon Ossoff for Congress (June 2017) • Campaign Intern, Jon Ossoff for Congress (May 2017)

Mathilde Carpet

Caroline Pearson (AB Political Science ’18) Publications • Landmark Bill History with Dr. Anthony Madonna Student Organization Leadership • Director of Public Relations, Undergraduate Mock Trial • Service Ambassador, ServeUGA • Member of Tate Honor Society Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Internship, Estudio Wasserman y Asociados Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina Grants/Awards • Baldwin Scholarship Study Abroad • UGA en Buenos Aires: “I spent six weeks living with a host family and immersing myself in the Spanish language and Argentinian culture, all while completing a 50-hour internship with a real estate law firm. The experience shaped my future goals as a lawyer and gave me invaluable practice in Spanish conversation.”

(AB International Affairs ’18) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Intern, Jon Ossoff for Congress Study Abroad • Studied abroad in Verona with the Globis Program through SPIA. The experience was incredibly and completely irreplaceable. I still can’t believe I got to spend 3 months travelling around Europe.

Monica Vega Herrera

(AB International Affairs ’18) Student Organization Leadership • Goizueta Ambassador Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Intern, United States Foreign Service, US Department of State Grants/Awards • Run for John Scholarship

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Austin J. Eiseman

Loran Michael Posey, Jr.

(AB Political Science ’19) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Intern, Troutman Sanders LLP Study Abroad • Israel, University of Haifa independent study program

(AB Political Science ’17, AB International Affairs ’17) Publications • “Uber Gets Lyfted: What Really Happened at JFK Airport” (Georgia Political Review, 2/9/17) • “The Prayer of Perez: Building a New Democratic Coalition” (Georgia Political Review, 3/17/17) Student Organization Leadership • Staff Writer, Georgia Political Review • Participant, Washington Semester Program • Greek Light Chair, Beta Upsilon Chi Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Campaign Manager & Chairman, Committee to Elect Richie Knight • Intern, Office of U.S. Senator David Perdue • Front Office Assistant, UGA Department of Chemistry Grants/Awards • Foundation Various Scholarship • Federal Pell Grant • Washington Semester Program Scholarship • Georgia Access Award

Katherine Graham

(AB International Affairs ’18) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Legislative Intern, Office of Congressman Rob Woodall (GA-07), Washington, D.C.

Izzy Ceron (AB Political Science ’18, Minor: Women’s Studies) Student Organization Leadership • Omicron Delta Kappa member Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Summer Fellow, National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Grants/Awards • Honors in Washington Internship Program • Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship Winner

SPIA Study Abroad Photo Contest

By Taylor Ogden During my Maymester in Scotland, I was able to take part in so many new things I would have never been exposed to otherwise. It was my first time overseas, so I was open to experiencing all types of things. No matter how cliché it may sound, studying abroad allowed me to develop close friendships, grow as a person, and have a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I encourage anyone that can, to do so. The skills and knowledge I gained from my study abroad gave me the confidence to pursue things I enjoy and make a difference in my community. Activities like visiting Parliament and Scottish schools allowed me to compare America’s ideals to Scottish ideals; these were experiential learning opportunities that allowed me to better understand how different societies are structured. Although we spent a majority of our time comparing Scottish education and political systems to those in America, we also spent the last portion of our study in the Highlands. While there, we explored the Isle of Skye, Inverness, and even got to ride the Jacobite Steam Train over the Glenfinnan viaduct. This is the same train from the Harry Potter films! This experience was really neat because it was

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surreal to actually be on the same train the cast rode. It was foggy and rainy the day of our ride, but it only added to the mystery and aesthetic of the train. It sure made drinking the Butter Beer hot chocolate all the better! Experiences like these are ones I’ll treasure, because I know I will be able to look back on them, grow, and appreciate the beautiful world around me and the opportunities UGA has provided me.

Hunter Smith

Solomon Greene

(AB Political Science ’18, Minors: Sociology, Leadership in Student Affairs) Student Organization Leadership • Chair of Alumni Relations: The Arch Society • Advisor-Advocate: University Judiciary • Campaign Liaison: “Ignite” SGA ticket • Co-Advisor: Mell-Lipscomb Community Council Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Resident Assistant • Intern, Rep. Tom Graves (GA-14) • Intern, Rep. Buddy Carter (GA-01) Grants/Awards • Crane Leadership Scholar: UGA Honors Program and Center for Leadership & Service • Honors in Washington Grant: UGA Honors program

(AB International Affairs ’18, Minor: Philosophy) Student Organization Leadership • Vice President, Abeneefoo Kuo Honor Society • Founder and Secretary, Dawg Tags • Founder and Director of Operations, Team Red, White, and Blue (Team RWB) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Intern, TradeSecure Grants/Awards • Charter Scholarship Study Abroad • Stellenbosch Study Abroad Program, 2017 summer

Margaret Ann Clark

(AB Political Science ’18) Student Organization Leadership • Student Ambassador, Catholic Relief Services at UGA • Communications Coordinator, Children’s Theatre Troupe • General Manager, Next Act Musical Theatre Troupe • Mini-grant participant, Leadership UGA Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Legal Intern, The Hughes Firm • Academic Assistant, Disability Resource Center, UGA Grants/Awards • HISP Scholarship • The Garden Club of Georgia Scholarship • William Thrush Scholarship • Landing’s Garden Club Scholarship • Carol Hoffman and Ron Carroll Costa Rica Travel Award Study Abroad • UGA Costa Rica Tropical Ecology Maymester

Meredith Brasher

(AB Political Science ’18) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Communications Intern with EMILY’s List, Washington, D.C., Spring 2017 • Communications Intern, Stacey Abrams for Governor Campaign, Summer 2017 • Student/Events Intern, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Summer 2017 – present Grants/Awards • Washington Semester Program Alumni Scholarship • Presidential Leadership Scholar Study Abroad • Washington Semester Program

Annefloor de Groot

(AB Political Science ’19) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Legislative fellow for the Representative Frye Legislative Research Fellowship.

Further, during the GA session, I interned as a Legislative Aide for Representative Frye in the Capitol. At the end of the year, I was offered a position as Representative Frye’s Chief of Staff, which I am currently serving as.

Gabrielle Gravel

(AB Political Science ’19) Student Organization Leadership • Risk Management Chair of Delta Delta Delta Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Intern, Senator Johnny Isakson Office, Atlanta

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Following Her

PASSION

By Caroline Paris Paczkowski

“I am a pretty average college student,” said Haidi Al-Shabrawey over her coffee in the lobby of the new Baldwin Hall annex. “I love to read, hike, and be outdoors as much as possible. I also love finding cool coffee shops and traveling.” Like other college students, Haidi enjoys the simple pleasures of studying at the University of Georgia. What sets her apart, however, is her unique passion.

Haidi is not just your average college student.

Haidi was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, though she spent five years of her early childhood living in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Now a political science and international affairs double major in SPIA, Haidi has been sure of her career path since high school.

“Both of my parents are doctors, so the expectation was I would go to medical school,” she said. “But I always loved the social sciences. I ended up going to the Governor’s Honors Program for social studies, and it was on the drive home that I broke the news to my dad – I was going straight into politics.”

With her decision solidified, Haidi came to UGA in the fall of 2015 ready to take the campus (and SPIA) by storm. “Coming into UGA, I knew I wanted to go on the SPIA at Oxford program. It’s actually what pushed

Thrill

PAID IN

By DeShonna Johnson

Competition is a thrill for international affairs student Swapnil Agrawal. No matter if it’s competing for entrance into the highly-sought-after Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Program (SLP) or competing in a debate, Agrawal seeks experiences that ignite his competitive edge.

Summer 2017 proved no different.

Agrawal spent his summer in Johannesburg, South Africa as an intern for the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) – an organization with the mission to uphold and expand the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and international law within

me into choosing UGA,” she said.

By the end of her freshman year, she had applied and been accepted to study in the United Kingdom the following spring semester. “It was the best experience ever,” she said about her time at Oxford. “It helped me focus in on my academic and intellectual abilities, and it also completely validated and confirmed my passion for security.”

Two months after returning from the UK, Haidi was off to another SPIA study abroad in Stellenbosch, South Africa – a program that allows students to learn about international development firsthand by working with an NGO on a service-learning project. This was the perfect environment for Haidi to hone in on her passion.

Her ultimate goal is to work in climate security risk mitigation, analyzing risk assessment for governments in the Middle East.

Haidi explained that climate change poses a national security risk as a conflict and threat multiplier. When economies are heavily dependent on agriculture, it can create a dangerous situation. “We saw this with the agricultural degradation in Syria which created the perfect atmosphere to incite civil war. The government was unable to provide real solutions for their population when it came to food and water scarcity,” she said.

Her objective is to ensure there is sustainable development and infrastructure

to allow governments in the Middle East to have resiliency and mitigation tools to deal with security risks, like a lack of food or water.

“I have a lot of unique abilities, skill sets, and identities that would help facilitate that effort in the Middle East,” she said. “Development in general is a lot more successful when people working with the indigenous populations are people who have a really good understanding of values, culture, history, and ideologies.”

In the fall semester, Haidi faced a full course load with three graduate-level courses and courses in the Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Program in the Center for International Trade and Security.

In her spare time, Haidi is involved on and off campus with various organizations including, Freshman Forum, Dawg Camp, Student Alumni Council, SPIA Ambassadors, Honors Ambassadors, the Office of International Education, and the Georgia Muslim Voter Project.

Though she is involved all over campus, she specifically identifies SPIA as her home away from home.

“SPIA has been an incredible support system for what I want to do with the rest of the life,” she said. “I am so grateful to SPIA professors for figuring out new ways to address issues facing the world and refocusing some of their academic coursework to accommodate for things that are changing on the international sphere and for catering to my interests to ensure I can find success and opportunities in my career pursuits.”

South Africa through impact litigation and advocacy. There, he worked in the Openness and Accountability Practice, focusing on cases involving government corruption and policing and prisons.

As the only non-law student or lawyer in the office, the job — which at times required Agrawal to work 60+ hours a week— was an environment of sink or swim. Yet, having guidance from those around him, Agrawal was able to sift through interlocutory applications and case law research with gradual ease. Over the course of the summer, Agrawal’s grasp of ‘legal-ese’ became second nature as he worked on varied cases in which people’s rights had been violated.

One case in particular, surrounding the deaths of 40 people by police during a protest, was insightful for Agrawal. The massacre was the largest in post-apartheid South Africa, and the result of the case was a settlement for some of the families affected. Seeing the look on their faces was rewarding, to say the least.

“Obviously, we couldn’t bring back their

loved ones,” says Agrawal. “But these were families living in settlements and poverty that got a lot of money from the government; because of that, their lives were changed. If I could spend the rest of my life causing that reaction on behalf of people who have been wronged and whose rights have been violated, that would be really cool.”

In another case, Agrawal worked on litigation against a private prison company, in which previously incarcerated people alleged abuse at the hands of the company’s prison guards.

The allegations were horrific – ranging from electrocution to sexual assault. That case proved to be important to expand the protections of prisoners, an area people tended to overlook.

While the work was unpaid and very challenging, Agrawal’s experiences at the LRC were unlike any other internship he has completed. He left Johannesburg with an appreciation for the passion, the impact, and the competition of litigation law both in and outside of the courtroom.

Graduate Students Gordon Ballingrud

(PhD Political Science and International Affairs ’20) Publications • “Coalitional Instability and the ThreeFifths Compromise” with Keith Dougherty American Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming, 2017 • “Public Reason as Highest Law.” Law and Philosophy.

Forthcoming, 2017 Conferences • “Implementation and the Court.”

Presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association • “Judicial Review and Democracy as Distribution of Power.” Presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association • “Judicial Review and Democracy as Distribution of Power.” A revised version of the paper presented at MPSA in the spring. Presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Fall 2017: Research Assistant for Drs. Bob Grafstein, Alex Kaufman • Instructor, POLS 4040 American Political Thought

• Spring 2017: Teaching Assistant for Dr. Alexa Bankert, POLS 1101 Travel • Travelled to Chicago for the 2017 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting • Travelled to San Francisco for the 2017 American Political Science Association annual meeting

for comparative study and collaboration with the Seoul Metropolitan Government.”

Haiyan Fan

(MPA ’19) Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Intern at the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Athens, May – Jul, 2017

Kaitlin Powers

(MPA ’19) Student Organization Leadership • President, Georgia Students for Public Administration Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Planning and Government Services Intern with the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission Study Abroad • Case Study in Seoul: “This program provided a fantastic opportunity

Stephen Jaques

(AB International Affairs ’13, MPA ’19) Student Organization Leadership • Georgia Students for Public Administration Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • Special Projects Intern, City Manager, Suwanee, Georgia

Brian Michael Starks

(AB International Affairs ’12, MIP ’14, PhD ’20) Publications • Starks, Brian and Tucker, Christopher.

“Export Control Compliance and American Academia”. Strategic Trade Review. Volume 3, Issue 4, Spring 2017.

Internships/Fellowships/Jobs • International Threat Reduction Intern — Los Alamos National Laboratory (May - July) Gathered and analyzed opensource data on select American strategic trade industries.

• I’m currently supporting various CITS

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PERFECT FIT

efforts, which are wonderful opportunities to further develop experience to help transition to the public sector upon completing my degree. I’ve been able to incorporate my previous work in the private sector to provide unique

By DeShonna Johnson

Aaron Hitefield has always found himself enamored with American presidential history. Able to recall the accomplishments of his favorite president, Theodore Roosevelt, and after acting as the student government president during his undergraduate career, Hitefield knew he had a calling to study American politics.

Leaving his hometown and college city of Bristol, Tennessee, Aaron joined the SPIA family to pursue his doctorate degree in political science. He received two bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and political science, alongside a minor in security and intelligence studies from King University. Aaron has known since high school that he wanted to teach and help students understand the presidency and Congress, and his search for the perfect doctoral program led him to the University of Georgia.

“I had my choices down to three: UGA, Iowa, and Syracuse. I ultimately chose to come to UGA mainly from talking to Dr. Michael Lynch on the phone and coming to visit. As soon as I arrived on campus, learned about

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the program, met the professors and others – it just fit,” Aaron recalls. The professors and the small town feel of Athens were not the only compelling features that influenced Aaron’s decision to venture to the Classic City.

“Being awarded the Thomas P. and M. Jean Lauth Graduate Fellowship helped me choose UGA over Iowa aside from talking with Dr. Lynch,” says Hitefield. “I’m very honored to receive [the Lauth Fellowship]. Receiving it allows me to expand my love for American politics and presidential history, and for that, I am forever grateful for the Lauths’ generosity.”

During his undergraduate studies, Aaron was heavily involved with student politics. Not only did he serve as student government president his senior year, he also served as Head Delegate for a group called the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL) – a program that sends students from every institution in the state to Nashville to take over the state capitol for the weekend.

When he isn’t reading for class or participating in the American Founding Group, Hitefield acts as a research assistant to both Dr. Charles Bullock and Dr. Keith Dougherty.

Any other free time Hitefield has is dedicated to figuring out his potential research topic for his dissertation.

Right now, he is interested in the presidency, the use of presidential power, and how it has changed over the years.

Brian Michael Starks perspectives on nonproliferation and strategic trade controls (i.e. conventional weapons and WMD technologies). CITS allows me to combine new academic research with direct policy issues, all within an exciting environment of various private and public audiences.

Travel • Beijing (CITS) – Presented about internal compliance programs to detect malicious actors and the importance of government-industry relations • Kenya (CITS) – Presented on strategic trade legislation

SECURING THEIR FUTURES:

RICHARD B. RUSSELL SECURITY LEADERSHIP SCHOLARS IN ACTION

The Center for International Trade and Security’s (CITS) Richard B. Russell Security Leadership Program (SLP) is a year-long intensive program that teaches students the ins-and-outs of national security and

nonproliferation. Students who have participated have gone on to work for leading organizations in nuclear energy.

Many SLP students attribute the success they experience in their careers post-graduation

Solomon Greene’s

summer in South Africa was, to say the least, an eye-opening experience. Focused on the political development issues of post-apartheid South Africa, the international affairs major spent the majority of his weeks in class for the Stellenbosch Study Abroad Program.

As part of his classes, he participated in a service-learning component that sent him and his fellow classmates to volunteer at a non-governmental organization playing with local schoolkids and helping them learn skills for a required exam to enter university.

Zoe Li

interned with international affairs lecturer Dr. Maryann Gallagher for not one, but two summers at The Hague, a hub of international law in the Netherlands.

Zoe helped to conduct interviews with prosecutors within the international criminal courts and tribunals. The project was initially focused on gender dynamics in international courts and how the presence of women affects indictments of sexual violence and other gender-based violence. Recently, the project evolved to studying gender dynamics and norms within the office of the prosecutor.

“It’s just really interesting how every attorney had a different point of view and how there were generational and hierarchal differences in how people perceived the role of men and women,” says Zoe. “We were trying to understand where these dynamics came from and what they mean for prosecuting sexual violence as a crime of war.”

Though she never imagined doing research of this nature, realizing how the courts evolve over time and change with cultural and gender norms influences Zoe’s current research on emerging technology and its effect on law and national security.

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to the summer internships they participate in during college. Exciting, extensive, and eclectic, the internships these students have experienced attest to their dedication and ambition. Here are some of their stories:

Trips to Kayamandi— a township within Stellenbosch — allowed for him to experience the culture, as well as to see the injustice that years of apartheid created.

“I will never forget the extreme poverty [the people of Kayamandi] have compared to the privilege we have,” says Solomon. “Yet, that didn’t stop the culture. Didn’t stop the happiness. They are all trying to make it out and have such a positive attitude that they will one day. It’s a beautiful country, and it has a genuine atmosphere.”

Solomon’s time in Stellenbosch was enriching. He and his fellow peers traveled to wineries, visited the Afrikaans Language Monument, and toured Nelson Mandela’s jail cell. The group even ventured outside of South Africa to Botswana and Zimbabwe, where Solomon walked with two lion cubs.

While his time in South Africa might have been short, the trip inspired Solomon to travel more.

“I really appreciate the human connection that naturally came between the people of South Africa and me,” says Solomon. “I can’t wait to go back.”

Outside of courts, however, Zoe took away an insight she will apply to life in general moving forward.

“Every voice matters,” says Zoe. “We learned that even though women seem more passionate about gender-based violence and crimes of sexual violence at first, that’s not always the case. There are a lot of men who work really hard to push those indictments, and then there are women who feel like those aren’t the [crimes] we should be worried about …every different person’s voice matters.”

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Chloe Deitrich

Ever since learning international affairs was a major here at UGA, Chloe Deitrich made it her goal to work towards a career in national security.

Following that path led her to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) in Washington, D.C., a university-based research and education center committed to the scientific study of terrorism.

Spending her summer in the Weapons and Tactics division, Chloe analyzed attacks—from bombings to kidnappings—and coded them into the Global Terrorism Database. Part of this work included determining what kinds of weapons were used and coding that as well.

Chloe’s favorite part of the internship reiterated her passion for national security: going to Quantico. Having just finished watching the television show inspired by the Marine base, Chloe was ecstatic.

“It was a pretty amazing experience,” says Chloe. “We saw explosions similar to the kind you see in movies: a common IED, Molotov cocktails (which are really gasoline, not alcohol)…it was amazing.”

Mauli Desai

After a semester of interning in the Georgia state legislature and a brief stint in Washington, D.C., Mauli Desai was caught in wanderlust as she planned her summer adventure: an internship in Mongolia.

As a journalism and international affairs major, Mauli decided that writing for a foreign newspaper would push her closer to her long-term goal of being a war correspondent, while helping her discover new cultures, people, and practices.

After contacting the managing editor of the UB Post, a Mongolian publication, she received word from the Post she could be their editorial intern.

“As soon as I got [to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia], I was really overwhelmed and intimidated,” says Mauli. “I said to myself, ‘Look. I’m not going to be able to know and write about this place unless I know who and what I’m writing about.”

From this realization, Mauli went on an almost month-long trip across Mongolia, traveling to southern Mongolia to see the Gobi Desert, riding Bactrian camels in the steppes, seeing the beautiful lakes of Northern Mongolia, and more. All the while, she slept in tents in freezing temperatures at night, ate Mongolian food cooked in the back of a van, and even stayed in traditional Mongolian gers (yurts).

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Her internship provided opportunities for her to hear professors, police chiefs, and published authors speak about their careers and domestic and global issues.

Additionally, Chloe was able to learn how to use a geographic information system (GIS), a computer program commonly used in government.

“It was, honestly, the best experience,” says Chloe. “I’ve made some really incredible friendships that I know I’ll keep into the future.

Everyone was working towards a common goal of combatting and learning more about fighting terrorism which is, lately, extremely relevant. [Interning at START] changed my college experience and how I’m looking toward my future.”

Mauli described a moment in her trip where the group watched the Disney Channel movie Sky High. Laughing at the same parts – though the film played in Mongolian, she recalled the movie via memory – Mauli and a woman in the group looked at each other in amazement.

“We can’t talk, yet we’re bonding over Sky High on Disney Channel in Mongolia…,” says Mauli. “It was one of those existential moments that has become one of my favorites.”

Returning to the UB Post, Mauli wrote articles about female entrepreneurs in the travel/tourism sector of Mongolia, a 48hour itinerary for tourists around the city, and her experience riding a Bactrian camel.

Abroad

my life

We are in front of the John Lennon Wall in Prague, Czech Republic. This was the first independent travel my friends and I made on the second weekend in Europe. Seven others and I stayed in a really nice Airbnb

CASSY BOLT STUDIED ABROAD IN VERONA, ITALY, IN THE SPRING OF 2017. SHE RECEIVED THE SPIA ALUMNI BOARD STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP, WHICH ENABLED HER TO TAKE THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME. right in the city center. It was very cold here, and again, we did a lot of walking.

This was the first area we went to. There was a guy singing some popular John Lennon songs in front of the wall. It was very interesting being here because the currency is a lot different than the Euro and US dollar. 1000 Koruna was $40.62, so my friends and I kept making jokes that we were rich – a lot of goods here were fairly cheap.

This is another photo in Prague.

I really loved it here because this is where a lot of the friendships I knew I would keep forever began to form. We all started to get to know each other, and I began to feel comfortable showing my true personality, as this picture shows.

This picture was taken the first day in Verona in front of the Adige River. We were in the middle of a walking tour, and I remember seeing this view and feeling amazed that I was about to live in such a beautiful city for three months.

This picture was taken in Venice, Italy, during our first weekend in Italy (the third day there).

We almost walked the entire strip until we realized we also had to walk all the way back. I had no idea what was in store for me when it came to how much walking I was going to do in Europe.

We only stayed a day in Nice, France, but the views of the French Riviera were breathtaking.

It was prettier than any other beach I have visited in the United States.

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It has always been my dream to go to Paris, just for the simple fact that I have been obsessed with the Eiffel Tower since I saw it in “Rugrats in Paris” at a very young age. However, I did not anticipate what would occur when we went to the Louvre. My friends and I were in the building when someone tried to come into the Louvre with a machete. It was deemed an act of terror.

It was a very scary experience, but the guards had it under control. When we were finally able to leave the building, the whole city was filled with armed guards, so I felt a lot safer. This picture was taken after that event and before my friend and I were interviewed by a reporter for NBC Nightly News. Our time in Paris was definitely one for the books.

One of my favorite areas in Budapest: Fisherman’s Bastion. Getting up there involved a lot of walking up stairs, but I loved it so much I went up three different times. I also bought a watercolor painting by an artist to hang in my room because I thought the view was so beautiful. We were on the ‘Buda’ side of Budapest.

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I feel like this picture highlights what it was like backpacking through Europe.

We were always on trains or buses getting to the places we wanted to go. This was in Budapest, Hungary, right after we got off the plane. We trained to the city center so that we could find our hostel.

One of the highlights of my stay in Europe -besides living in Italy- was Munich, Germany.

It was here where we had our first group travel during our spring break, and the bike tour was definitely my favorite thing we did there. The tour guide was hilarious and gave us the ins and outs of Munich’s history and popular places to go.

A group of us went to Dublin, Ireland for our last independent travel. This was the first time I rode in a car with the driver’s seat on the right, making me feel disoriented in every taxi ride we took. It was fascinating to say the least.

Amsterdam’s culture was unlike any other I have experienced. I think culture shock hit me in this city but not in a bad way.

It was one of my favorite cities to visit due to the fact that it was so different. I dodged every bike skillfully, and I think that is an accomplishment, seeing as biking there is a norm and bikers will not stop for anything or anyone!

This picture was taken in front of the Coliseum in Rome, Italy— our last group travel before we departed to go home! I had so many mixed feelings about leaving because I know even when I come back to Italy, it will not be the same.

This picture was taken outside of Ristorante Valpolicella in Verona, where we had our farewell dinner. We departed from Verona to go to Florence and Rome two days later. I was very sad to leave a town that grew near and dear to my heart. I was finally able to put those two years of learning the Italian language to use with many of the Verona citizens, which greatly improved my comprehension and speaking capabilities. I view Verona as a home away from home, and I have to go back!

Studying abroad changed my life. It was a mind-altering experience, and I now hold a different perspective of the United States due to the differences of lifestyles I observed abroad. There are so many more stories to tell.

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TurnKey: An App to Save Lives

By Marlin Collier and DeShonna Johnson According to the CDC, approximately nine people are killed every day in the United States because of a distracted driver. Thousands more are involved in crashes because of distracted driving.

Many distracted drivers are young people on their cell phones. Inspired by this deadly problem, four University of Georgia students created an app that could potentially save lives.

“This app began with looking for an issue we wanted to solve. Being in this age and being always on our cell phones and knowing how often people are in accidents because of distracted driving, we knew there was a need and a challenge there,” says Hilary Carruthers, one of the four team members.

The app took first place at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels National Invitational Public Policy Challenge held March 24-26, 2017 in Philadelphia.

The team—consisting of Master of Public Administration students Laura Pontari and Sara Richey, Doctor of Public Health student Hilary Carruthers, and Master of Public Health (MPH) student Oluwatobi “Tobi” Olagunju—received $10,000 to complete the development of TurnKey, a program designed to dissuade high school students from texting and driving.

The TurnKey program uses behavioral economics, such as positive reinforcements, to encourage students to drive safer by using the Joyride mobile application. For each minute a student does not interact with their phone while driving, they receive points that eventually earn them prizes.

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Higher performing students will have their names entered into a drawing each semester for the chance to win a larger grand prize. In addition, students who team up to participate in the app’s group competitions can claim rewards including bonus points or a group pizza party.

“If we encourage young people to make better choices by influencing them based on what their peers are doing, maybe that will nudge them to make those same better choices as well,” explains Carruthers.

W. David Bradford, George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy in UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, and Grace Bagwell Adams, assistant professor of health policy and management in the UGA College of Public Health, were the UGA team’s faculty sponsors.

“The Fels Policy Challenge is transformative for students—they have the opportunity to build something innovative that has potential for real, sustainable change in their communities,” says Bagwell Adams. “It is inspiring to watch these ideas come to fruition.”

“TurnKey has implications for public safety and public health,” says Bagwell Adams. “The application of behavioral science and technology to alter individual behavior in this context could save lives in Athens and other communities.”

In collaboration with an app developer and the Athens-Clarke County School District, the TurnKey team launched the pilot phase of the app at one Athens-area high school in fall 2017.

“Our plan is to get TurnKey in the hands of all 3,200 high school students in Athens within three years,” says Bradford. “Even if the TurnKey program doesn’t prevent any fatal accidents, we conservatively expect it to reduce the rate of accidents in AthensClarke County by 10 percent.”

Once the app is launched more widely, the team believes there will be 500 fewer accidents per year, with an average savings of $6,000 per accident. These savings would benefit the youth and their families and the broader community of drivers and pedestrians, and would ultimately serve to bring down costs, including those for auto insurance, in the area.

“We strongly believe that UGA can lead the nation in addressing teen texting while driving by developing TurnKey in collaboration with the Athens-Clarke County school system,” says Bradford.

The TurnKey team brings home UGA’s second national win at the National Invitational Policy Challenge. Hosted by Penn’s Fels Institute of Government, the by-invitation-only policy competition challenges student teams to develop a comprehensive policy proposal and civic campaign plan addressing an issue specific to their university’s local community. UGA was among four schools named as semifinalists, including Georgetown University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Pennsylvania.

“I am very thankful for the opportunity to represent the University of Georgia at the Fels National Policy Challenge,” says Tobi Olagunju. “The experience was incredible, a learning curve, demanding, and completely worth it. We worked hard to identify a serious problem and worked harder to develop an acceptable solution. We forged the necessary partnerships, garnered important support from the community, did our research, and generated excitement about our innovation. We hope we begin to see a reduction in distracted driving as we roll out TurnKey, and ultimately less accidents, injuries, and fatalities. We want to normalize non-cellphone use behind the wheel.”

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TRUMP ’s Opportunity TO RESHAPE THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY

By John Anthony Maltese, Associate Dean Donald Trump’s most significant domestic achievement as president may well be his appointment of federal judges. This not only includes his appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court (which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called “the single most significant thing this president has done to change America”), but also his appointments to the lower federal courts (which decide the vast majority of cases at the federal level).

At both levels, Trump is poised to transform the ideological makeup of the judiciary. With Gorsuch’s appointment, the Supreme Court is evenly divided between a block of four conservative-leaning justices (Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch) and four liberal-leaning justices (Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan). In between them, the centrist Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy serves as a “swing voter” who sometimes sides with the conservative block—as he did in Citizens United v. FEC (2010) (which held that the First Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the government from regulating political contributions made by corporations and unions), and sometimes sides with the liberal block—as he did in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) (which struck down state bans on same-sex marriage).

By the start of next year’s term, Justice Kennedy will be 82 years old, and while the average age of the conservative block is only 62, the average age of the liberal block is almost 71. Justice Ginsburg will be 85 at the start of the next term, and Justice Breyer will be 80. Should Trump have the opportunity to replace any one of those three justices, he could create a reliably conservative block that would push the Court in a new direction. Should he have the opportunity to replace all three, he could transform the ideological makeup of the Court for a generation or more.

President Trump had the opportunity to nominate Gorsuch because the Republican-controlled Senate refused even to hold hearings on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly in February 2016. Depending upon one’s political perspective, that decision was either a brilliant tactical move designed to give voters a chance to weigh in on the choice of a justice, or blatant obstructionism designed to deprive Obama of an appointment that was rightfully his.

However one views that decision, it was highly unusual. President Obama nominated Garland with more than ten months left in his presidency. Prior to the Garland nomination, the average length of time required to confirm, reject, or withdraw a single Supreme Court nominee was only 25 days. Only two successful nominees in the twentieth-century took longer than 100 days to be confirmed (Woodrow Wilson’s nomination of Louis Brandeis in 1916 took 125 days, and Dwight Eisenhower’s nomination of Potter Stewart in 1959 took 108, although he already sat on the Court by way of a recess appointment).

Senate rejection of one or more nominees can extend the time it takes to fill vacancies, but even Richard Nixon’s ill-fated attempt to fill the vacancy left by Abe Fortas, when the Senate rejected two of his three nominees, required fewer days than the 310 left in Obama’s presidency on the day he nominated Garland. In fact, history shows that presidents have routinely nominated and the Senate has

routinely considered Supreme Court nominees in the same year as the election of a president’s successor. Andrew Jackson went so far as to nominate two Supreme Court justices on his last day in office. The Senate confirmed both.

Trump also has a unique opportunity to transform the ideological makeup of the lower federal courts. This, too, is partly because of a successful effort by Republicans to block Obama’s nominees. During his last two years in office, the Senate confirmed only 18 of Obama’s District Court nominees and only two of his Court of Appeals nominees, while failing to act on 52 of his nominations.

This stood in stark contrast to how judicial nominees fared in the last two years of other recent two-term presidencies. For example, during Ronald Reagan’s last two years, the Senate confirmed 67 District Court nominees and 17 Court of Appeals nominees; during Bill Clinton’s last two years, the Senate confirmed 58 District Court nominees and 15 Court of Appeals nominees; and during George W. Bush’s last two years, the Senate confirmed 58 District Court nominees and 10 Court of Appeals nominees.

Thus, Trump entered office with twice as many judicial vacancies as Obama had when he entered office. Trump also has the benefit of aging judges on the lower federal judiciary.

On the particularly important U.S. Courts of Appeals, 44% of the active judges are old enough to take “senior status”—a form of semiretirement that would allow Trump to nominate their successors. This is a much higher percentage than any other recent incoming president has faced (15% were eligible for senior status for Ronald Reagan; 16% for George H.W. Bush; 13% for Bill Clinton; 14% for George W. Bush; and 27% for Barack Obama). Thus, Trump has the opportunity to appoint more federal judges than any president continued on next page in forty years.

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Senate rules changes will also make it easier for Trump to secure confirmation of his nominees. Frustrated

by Republican obstruction of Obama’s nominees when the Democrats controlled the Senate, Democrats exercised the “nuclear option” and removed the filibuster as a tool to block lower federal court judges in 2013. When employed, the filibuster would require 60 votes (rather than the simple majority of 51) to confirm judges. Faced with a similar threat that Democrats would filibuster Gorsuch, Republicans followed suit in 2017 and took away the opportunity to

The combination of high vacancy rates and greater ease of confirmation has already paid off for Trump. In stark contrast to its initial disarray over formulating a legislative agenda, the Trump administration hit the ground running when it came to judicial appointments. It immediately began vetting young, conservative candidates for the president to consider. The president followed through with judicial nominations at a faster rate than other recent presidents. The confirmation process for judges likewise unfolded smoothly and systematically. By

These judges will influence decisions on a wide range of issues, including such politically volatile topics as abortion, affirmative action, gun control, immigration, LGBTQ rights, and voting rights. That is why, at a White House event in October 2017, President Trump called judicial appointments “the untold story” of his administration—one that “has consequences 40 years out, depending on the age of the judge.” And “many, many are in the pipeline,” the president added—“we will set records in terms of the number of judges.” On this, the president did not exaggerate.

use filibusters against Supreme Court nominees. They have also threatened to take away other procedural tools used to block nominees, such as the “blue slip”, which allows Senators from the state where District Court vacancies occur, to veto nominees.

November 15, 2017, the Senate had not only confirmed Trump’s Supreme Court pick, but also confirmed eight of Trump’s nominees to the Court of Appeals (with ten more pending) and five of his District Court nominees (with 35 more pending).

John Anthony Maltese is Associate Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs. He is the Albert B. Saye Professor and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor.

His books include The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees, Understanding a New Presidency in the Age of Trump, The Politics of the Presidency (currently in its 9th edition), and Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News.

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FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Amanda Abraham Assistant Professor, Public Administration and Policy • Published “State Targeted Funding and Technical Assistance to Increase Access to Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder” with C.M. Andrews, C.M. Grogan, H.A. Pollack, K.N. Humphreys, T. D’Aunno, and P. D. Friedmann in Psychiatric Services, in press • Published “Geographic Disparities in Availability of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment for Medicaid Enrollees” with C.A. Andrews, *M. Yingling, and J. Shannon in Health Services Research, 2017 (epub ahead of print) • Presented “Medical Marijuana Legislation and Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders” with G. Adams Bagwell, *A.C. Bradford, and W.D. Bradford at International Health Policy Conference, London School of Economics & Political Science, 2017 • Presented “Opioid Analgesics in GA Medicaid: Trends in Potential Misuse and Inappropriate Prescribing Practices” with J. Jayawardhana and M. Perri at International Health Economic Association World Congress, Boston, MA, 2017 • Started new research on the intersection of opioid and marijuana policy in the United States Scott Ainsworth Department Head and Professor, Political Science • Published “The Use of Policy Analysis by Corporations and Trade Associations” with Erik Godwin and Kenneth Godwin in “Policy Analysis in the U.S.” edited by John A. Hird.

(Policy Press), in press • Published “Insuring Hedged Bets with Lobbying” with James E. Monogan, III in Interest Groups & Advocacy 5:263-77, 2016 • Presented “The Political Economy of Judging” with Christina L. Boyd, Kathryn Clifford, and Sophie Winkler at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC, 2016

• Speaking engagements at the University of Miami and at Emory University • Continued research on appeals of Social Security disability claims in the federal trial courts with coauthors Christina Boyd and Michael Lynch Matthew R. Auer Dean, School of Public and International Affairs • Published “Rescuing the Decision Process” in Policy Sciences 50(4), forthcoming, 2017 • Geoffrey & Cyrena Fink Distinguished Alumni Speaker, “Careers in International Affairs: Four Criteria that Matter” Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 7, 2017 • Invited Speaker, “Insights on Public and Environmental Health Research from Social Media” Institute for Data Science and the Center for Energy and Environment, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, September 13, 2016 Alexa Bankert Assistant Professor, Political Science • Published “The Moral Roots of Partisan Division: How Moral Conviction Heightens Affective Polarization” with Kristin Garrett, accepted in the British Journal of Political Science • Published “Expressive Partisanship in European Multi-Party Systems” with Leonie Huddy, and Caitlin Davies in Advances in Political Psychology, forthcoming • Published “Multilevel Meta-Analysis in Experimental Political Science”, accepted in Political Science Research and Methods, forthcoming • Presented “Negative and Positive Partisan Identity in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections” for the Political Behavior Colloquium at the University of Zurich during the summer of 2017 • Awarded UGA Office of the Vice President for Research Foreign Travel Grant

Charles S. Bullock III University Professor, Richard B. Russell Professor of Political Science, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor, Political Science • Published “The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act” with R. K. Gaddie and J. J. Wert (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press) xv, 232 pages, 2016.

This title won the V.O. Key Award for the third time • Published “The New Politics of the Old South, 6th ed” with M. J. Rozell (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) vi, 357 pages, 2018 • Presented Founder’s Day Lecture “Highlights and Lowlights of the 2016 Election” Founders’ Day Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, January 23, 2017 • Presented “The New Political Landscape” at the 2017 Timberland Investment Conference Growing Value, sponsored by the University of Georgia Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Resources, Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, FL, March 13, 2017 • Received the Laura and John Arnold Foundation Grant, “The Use and Cost of Primaries and Runoff Elections” ($62,736), 2017

Jamie L. Carson Professor, Political Science • Published “Electoral Incentives in Congress” with Joel Sievert (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), 2018

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• Published “Change and Continuity in the 2016 Elections” with John H. Aldrich, Brad T. Gomez, and David W. Rohde.

(Los Angeles, CA: CQ Press/Sage), forthcoming, 2018 • Published “Congressional Candidates in the Era of Party Ballots” with Joel Sievert in Journal of Politics 79(2): 534-545, 2017 • Published “The Politics of Congressional Elections, 9th edition” with Gary C. Jacobson (Rowman & Littlefield), 2016 • Presented “Challengers, Choices, and Competition in Congressional Primaries” with Jason Byers and Ryan Williamson at the Annual Meeting of the APSA, 2017 K. Chad Clay Assistant Professor, International Affairs • Published “Join the Chorus, Avoid the Spotlight: The Effect of Neighborhood & Social Dynamics on Human Rights Organization Shaming” with Sam R. Bell and Amanda Murdie in Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming • Published “The Effect of U.S. Troop Deployments on Human Rights” with Sam R. Bell and Carla Martinez Machain in Journal of Conflict

Delmer D. Dunn honored with President’s Medal The University of Georgia bestowed the President’s Medal—one of its highest honors—on Delmer D. Dunn, retired Vice President for Instruction and Professor of Public Administration and Policy, during Founders Day activities in January 2018. The President’s Medal recognizes extraordinary contributions of individuals who are no longer currently employed by the University of Georgia and who have supported students and academic programs, advanced research, and inspired community leaders to enhance the quality of life of citizens in Georgia.

“Del Dunn’s lifelong commitment to students and higher education, his significant impact on the profession, and his research excellence, epitomize

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Resolution, forthcoming • Started work as the co-founder and Civil and Political Rights lead researcher of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI).

The HRMI Civil and Political Rights team includes fellow SPIA faculty Ryan Bakker, Daniel Hill, and Amanda Murdie • Awarded SPIA Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, 2017 Markus Crepaz Department Head, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor, International Affairs • Published “European Democracies” (9th Edition, Routledge), 2017 • Published “The Power of Citizenship.

How Immigrant Incorporation Affects Attitudes Towards Social Benefits” with Melanie Kolbe in Comparative Politics 49:105-124, 2016 • Published “What’s Trust Got to Do with It? The Effects of In-Group and Out-Group Trust on Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation” with Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri and Jon Polk in Social Science Quarterly: doi:10.1111/ssqu.12271, 2016

• Presented “The Refugee Crisis, the EU, and the Limits of Community” a public lecture at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Greensboro, March 30-31, 2016 • Awarded the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, 2017

the mission of the School of Public and International Affairs,” says Matthew R. Auer, dean of the school of public and international affairs. “His achievements and lasting impacts, both on and off campus, make him an ideal choice for this high honor.”

During his nearly 40 years of service to the University of Georgia, Dunn engaged in pioneering efforts to establish servicelearning at the University of Georgia, played a leadership role in strengthening and revising the undergraduate core curriculum, helped to position SPIA’s Master of Public Administration (MPA) as a major educational force on the national scene, and embraced a longstanding commitment to diversity.

His many leadership roles include

serving as Director of the Institute of Government (1973-1982), Acting Head of the Department of Political Science (1987-1988), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (1988-1991), Director of the Institute of Higher Education (20012002), and Vice President for Instruction (2002-2006). He also served as President of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) (1987-1988).

Despite these leadership roles, Dunn always found time to teach, and to this day, he continues to be actively engaged in research. Over the course of his career, he served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, secured funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, and won numerous awards for his research (including the Charles H. Levine Prize for best book in the fields of public policy and administration).

Congratulations to Del Dunn!

RAINEY Retirement His studies covered various topics, including organizational incentives, affirmative action, professionalism, and organizational innovation. His dissertation reported an analysis of the way managers in business and government perceive their work context, their incentives, their opportunities for innovation, and related matters. He refers to the topic as “public vs. private differences in organizations and management.”

When asked about his time at UGA and his favorite projects, he cites his research on managing and organizing in the public sector as the most influential and exciting work, and for good reason. A brief search of his research reveals he has been cited more than 13,000 times in academic texts just based on Google Scholar alone. His

“If I have to proclaim my ‘greatest accomplishment’ at UGA, I claim that I contributed valuably, with colleagues, to the finest faculty in our field, person for person,” he said. “The recognitions that our faculty members have received for career professional service and accomplishment, equal or exceed those of any other faculty. I claim it as an accomplishment that I have earned the right to feel worthy to serve with the fine faculty members, staff, and students in this department.”

For anyone considering pursuing an MPA, he encourages them to go for it.

“The MPA degree provides value for people in a variety of orientations and specializations. We have, for example, students and graduates serving in important roles with the Centers for Disease Control, with numerous nonprofit organizations, in important state and local positions, in health and

research mainly used surveys of managers of business and government organizations to better understand the nature of their work and work environment. He found, contrary to what his business professors told him, that there is indeed a distinct difference between public and private sector organizations.

In typical Hal Rainey humility, he claims his greatest accomplishment comes not from his election as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, nor from his major career achievement awards in public administration, including the Waldo Award, the Gaus Award, and the Frederickson Award, as well as other recognitions.

human service organizations, in defense and public safety agencies, in analytical roles with the U.S. Governmental Accountability Office and with state and local budget and finance agencies, in city management positions, and in many other roles,” he said. “The MPA is widely applicable and successful.”

While Dr. Rainey has officially entered retirement, he continues to work on articles with doctoral students, serve as the major professor for several doctoral students, and plans to write a comprehensive book based on his research on the comparison of the government and for-profit sectors. He will never truly be finished.

By Laura Bayne

Dr. Hal Rainey is a legend in the field of public administration. His reputation as a world-renowned expert on organizational theory and leadership has brought distinction time and time again to the University of Georgia during his 29 years of service. He is a dedicated scholar, a respected teacher, and a loyal friend.

In 1964, Dr. Rainey started his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His plans for graduate school were delayed when Rainey was drafted into the military during the Vietnam War and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

“I was a VISTA (AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America) volunteer. VISTA was a domestic version of the Peace Corps.

Later I was a military officer,” said Rainey.

“I encountered very different perspectives on public service in the two settings. In both, I developed an interest in analyzing the nature and operations of large-scale government organizations.”

As Rainey moved through the ranks from a damage control officer in the 6th fleet in the Mediterranean to a staff officer overseeing fuel logistics, his commitment to analyzing and understanding organizations grew with him, as did his concern for public service in general.

“Negative stereotypes about poor performance of government ‘bureaucracies’ and government ‘bureaucrats’ have played a role in the cultures of the United States and other nations for centuries,” he said. “With colleagues, I have published arguments, supported by evidence, that government organizations serve as crucial institutions, and that those organizations and the people in them frequently perform very well. Failure to recognize these valuable contributions, combined with continued imposition of the negative stereotypes, pose threats of damaging the public service in the United States, and hence threaten the long term well-being of this nation and others.”

After leaving the military, Rainey pursued both his master’s and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University under Professor Robert Backoff.

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Keith Dougherty Professor, Political Science • Published “The Consistency of James Madison’s Politics” with Robert Cooper in American Political Thought 6, no. 2: 201-227, spring 2017 • Published “Voting at the U.S. Constitutional Convention” with Roger Congleton, Bernie Grofman, and Stephan Voight (Eds. Oxford Handbook of Public Choice) (New York: Oxford University Press), forthcoming • Published “Coalitional Stability at the Constitutional Convention” with Gordan Ballingrud in American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming • Panelist on roundtable, “Teaching Using Simulations and Games in the Classroom” at Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-9, 2017 • Winner of the 2016 Lothar Tresp Outstanding Professor Award, Honors College. This award is the most prestigious award granted by the Honors College.

Maryann E. Gallagher Lecturer, International Affairs • Presented “Engendering Justice: Women, Gender, and the Prosecution of Sexual Violence in International Courts” with Deepa Prakash, DePauw University, and Zoe Li, SPIA Undergraduate, at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Baltimore, MD, February 2017 • Traveled to The Hague, Netherlands for three weeks in June to conduct interviews with prosecutors at the International Crime Tribunal for Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court for an ongoing research project on gender and prosecution of sexual violence in international criminal courts with undergraduate CURO student and coauthor, Zoe Li • Awarded inaugural Department of International Affairs Award for Teaching Excellence. UGA, March 2017 • Recognized as an Outstanding Professor by UGA’s Student Government Association. Annual Professor Recognition Reception.

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Susan Haire Director of Criminal Justice Studies and Professor, Political Science • Published “U.S. Courts of Appeals” with Ali Masood (BBA ’06) and Reggie Sheehan in “Handbook of Judicial Behavior” (Routledge Press, editors Kirk Randazzo and Bob Howard), forthcoming • Published “Access and Intermediate Appellate Courts” in “Oxford Handbook of the Law and Judiciary” (editors Lee Epstein and Stefanie Lindquist), 2017 • Presented “Judicial Selection and Decision Making: Evaluating the Policy Impact of Obama’s Appointments to the U.S. Courts of Appeals” with CURO student, Bryson Culver (AB/MPA ’18) at the annual Meeting of SPSA • Traveled to Liverpool, teaching and co-director for the UGA faculty lead study abroad program, July 2017 • Started work on an NSF funded collaborative research project, “Judicial Diversity and Appellate Decision Making” with Laura Moyer (MPA ’04, PhD ’08)(U of Louisville), John Szmer (AB ’92, JD ’95)(UNCCharlotte) and Rob Christensen (BYU) Rongbin Han Assistant Professor, International Affairs • Published “Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience” (Columbia University Press), book forthcoming • Presented “Managing Information Wars in Autocracies” with Jason

Gainous and Andrew McDonald at APSA Featured Paper Panel, 2017 • Presented “Harmonizing the Web” at China Internet Research Conference, 2017 • Presented “Patriotism without State Blessing” at ISA, 2017

Loch K. Johnson Regents Professor, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor, International Affairs • Published “National Security Intelligence: Secret Operations in Defense of the Democracies” (Cambridge: Polity) 2d edition, pp.

273, 2017 • Keynote Speaker at Oriel College, Oxford, Conference on Education and National Security Intelligence, 2017 • Keynote Speaker at Montgomery, Alabama, World Affairs Council, session on American foreign policy, 2017 • Served on Phi Beta Kappa, Visiting Scholars Committee, Washington, D.C., 2016 • Awarded the UGA Alumni Service Award, 2017 Michael S. Lynch Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Political Science • Published “Kansas Voter ID Laws: Advertising and Its Effects on Turnout” with Chelsie L. M. Bright in Political Research Quarterly. 70:340347, 2017 • Published “The Cost of Majority Party Bias: Amending Activity Under Structured Rules” with Anthony J. Madonna and Jason M. Roberts in Legislative Studies Quarterly, 41:633655, 2016 • Awarded National Science Foundation grant. “How Social Security Administration Appeals Fare in the Federal Trial Court” SES-1626932, with Christina L. Boyd and Scott H. Ainsworth ($243,297), 2016-2019 John A. Maltese Albert B. Saye Professor of Political Science, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Associate Dean, School of Public and International Affairs • Published “Understanding a New Presidency in the Age of Trump” with Joseph A. Pika and Andrew Rudalevige. (Sage/CQ) - a small book that was published at the end of November 2017 • Published “The Politics of the Presidency” revised 9th edition, with Joseph A. Pika and Andrew Rudalevige. (Sage/CQ). The latest edition, including coverage of Trump’s first 100 days, came out in August 2017

LochJohnson wins

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FACULTY SERVICE AWARD Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs and Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, is the recipient of the 2017 Georgia Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award. The award is given to a faculty member who has “distinguished themselves in service to the University.”

“I was thrilled. At the University, faculty members have three missions that we’re expected to carry out: teaching, research, and service. I had won awards in the other two fields, but I had never won one for service,” Loch explains. “Furthermore, there are a lot of faculty members in SPIA who had won this award in the past, so I felt like I was joining a noble line of previous winners.”

In addition to being one of the founders of the School of Public and International Affairs, Johnson spearheaded the creation of the

Founders Memorial Garden and UGA Service Memorial near the Miller Learning Center and lobbied for the statue of the University’s founder, Abraham Baldwin, on North Campus. He has authored over 30 books on national security and over 200 articles. Johnson is deeply involved as well in community affairs, leading Athens-Clarke County’s first SPLOST campaign, which paid for the building of a new Cedar Shoals High School and the renovation of other schools throughout the Athens-Clarke County School District.

Johnson names the founding of SPIA as one of his proudest accomplishments during his career at the University of Georgia. “We’re well ranked nationally, and our faculty ranks are just superb,” Johnson says. “SPIA has just really blossomed.”

• Published “Rivalry for Power in the Judicial Appointment Process” chapter in “Rivals for Power: PresidentialCongressional Relations, 6th ed” (ed.

James A. Thurber and Jordan Tama) (Rowman & Littlefield), 2017

• Attended the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco and participated in a roundtable “Threatening the Legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court Nomination Process” • Began research on the presidency in the age of Trump. “Understanding a New Presidency in the Age of Trump” Jamie Monogan Associate Professor, Political Science • Published “Income Inequality and the Growth of Redistributive Spending in the U.S. States: Is There a Link?” with Tima T. Moldogaziev and Christopher Witko in Journal of Public Policy, forthcoming • Published “Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment: California, Texas and the 1994 Election” with Austin

C. Doctor in State Politics & Policy Quarterly 17(1):3-23, 2017 • Traveled to Oxford, England as part of a study abroad opportunity in spring 2017 • Traveled to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, along with Ed Kellough, Gene Brewer, Tima Moldogaziev, and Brad Wright. While there, we mentored scholars at the Georgia Institute of Public Affairs on public policy research • Spent the last year with Jeff Gill (American University) working on a project funded by the National Science Foundation to measure ideology in America’s electoral constituencies. Their novel new measurement technique uses the geographic location of survey respondents as well as U.S. Census data to forecast a map of America’s public sentiments Cas Mudde Associate Professor, International Affairs • Published “The Far Right in America.”

(London: Routledge), 2017 • Published “Populism: A Very Short Introduction” with Cristóbal Rivera Kaltwasser (Oxford: Oxford UP), 2017 • Published “SYRIZA: The Failure of the Populist Promise” (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 2017

• Published “The Populist Radical Right: A Reader” (London: Routledge) • Published “On Extremism and Democracy in Europe” (London: Routledge), 2016 Amanda Murdie Dean Rusk Scholar of International Relations, Graduate Coordinator, Professor, International Affairs • Published “The View from the Bottom: Networks of Conflict Resolution Organizations and International Peace” with Maya Wilson and David R. Davis in Journal of Peace Research.53(3): 442-458, 2016

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SURVEY

RESEARCH CENTER

By Marlin Collier

Political polls have never quite been trusted. Errors gleam from history: from “Dewey Defeats Truman,” to the 2016 presidential election. Reputable polling free of partisan bias is tough to find in an ever polarizing political climate.

But SPIA is aiming to tackle that challenge. As part of the remodeling of Baldwin Hall, SPIA announced the opening of the Survey Research Center (SRC). The goal for this center is to be a high-quality, nonpartisan polling operation for the state of Georgia staffed by students. Students may be paid employees or receive internship credit as part of their degree requirements. Working in the Survey Research Center may also fulfill the new experiential learning requirement.

• Published “Presidential Issue: Exploring Peace” with Thomas Guarrieri and A. Cooper Drury in International Studies Review.19 (1), 2017 • Presented at the 2017 Seoul Conference on Human Rights. Seoul, South Korea, May 2017 • Presented at the International Council of Voluntary Agencies, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2017 • New Editor-in-Chief of International Studies Review Andrew P. Owsiak Associate Professor, International Affairs • Published “Democracy and the Settlement of International Borders, 1816-2001” with Douglas M. Gibler

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“It is so incredibly interesting to speak with such a wide, diverse range of people every day. I hear so many different thoughts and opinions about policy and politics outside of what I come across in my own circle,” says Devon Olding, a student worker at the SRC. “Depending on the project we’re working on, in an average night, I could be speaking with fifteen or twenty different people, all from different backgrounds and with different ideals.

The ability to experience human interaction on that kind of scale is definitely unique to the work we do at the SRC.” Trey Hood, professor of political science and Director of the Survey Research Center, says about 55 students are working in the Center. “Students are still learning about the Center, but there seems to be quite a bit of excitement about the opportunities available,” says Hood.

These students make calls to voters around the state and ask their opinions on certain issues or candidates. “Right now we’re working on recruiting an online panel that will also be used as another method for surveying Georgians,” explains Hood.

The work students are doing is not only helpful to political research, but also to professional student growth. “Effective communication is important to any career, and this job is absolutely facilitating my growth as a communicator. Expression goes beyond just the words that you say, too. Before

polling through the SRC, I had always put much more emphasis on the things I was saying. Now, I’m also careful to speak very intentionally in regards to tone and inflection,” says Olding.

SPIA Alumni Board Chairman Jason O’Rouke says the SRC is a critical resource to gauging public opinions.

“Over the last few election cycles, political professionals have been sorting through the muck to find quality public polls. There are public

in Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming, 2017 • Invited Participant at Workshop: “Why and When Do States Settle Maritime Boundary Disputes?”

Vancouver, Canada. The Arctic Institute, the Salt Spring Forum, and Nord University, 2017 • Awarded the First Year Odyssey Seminar Program Teaching Award, University of Georgia (campuswide), 2017 • Awarded the SPIA Excellence in Research Award, University of Georgia, 2017 • Awarded the ongoing grant: “Identity Claims: Expanding the

Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) Dataset” with Paul Hensel, Sara Mitchell, and Krista Wiegand.

Minerva Initiative, Department of Defense, 2015-2017. This grant gathers data on when and why leaders seek to protect ethnic kin living in another country Shane Singh Associate Professor, International Affairs • Published “Compulsory Voting and Dissatisfaction with Democracy” in British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming • Published “How Issue Frames Shape Beliefs About the Importance of Climate Change Policy across

In January 2018, the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s homepage featured a poll conducted by the SPIA Survey Research Center. polls employing bad data and sloppy methods, resulting in inaccurate information presented to the public,” O’Rouke explains. “In a time when public trust in our institutions of media and government are declining, it’s critical for Georgia policymakers to have a non-partisan survey research center. Better information will lead to better policy-making, and the SPIA Survey Research Center is an important step in achieving that goal.”

Ideological and Partisan Groups” with M. Swanson in PLoS ONE. 12(7): e0181401, 2017 • Published “Partisanship, Militarized International Conflict, and Electoral Support for the Incumbent” with J. Tir in Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming • Published “Politically Unengaged, Distrusting, and Disaffected Individuals Drive the Link between Compulsory Voting and Invalid Balloting” in Political Science Research and Methods, forthcoming • Attended a meeting in Montreal for work related to roughly US$145,000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Andy Whitford Alexander M. Crenshaw Professor of Public Policy, Public Administration and Policy • Presented “Above Politics” at Arizona Centennial CentennialCORD Lecture, Arizona State University, 2016

• Researched, traveled and gave presentations in Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Gothenburg, Sweden • Began three book projects: one on effective policy writing (under contract, Cambridge

University Press); the second is on nanotechnology governance (under contract, Cambridge University Press); the third is on moral hazard in public policy (under contract, Oxford University Press) • Awarded the Herbert A. Simon Award for the Scientific Study of the Bureaucracy, Midwest Political Science Association, 2017.

Lifetime achievement • Awarded to “Above Politics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment:” the 2017 Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association, the 2017 Charles H. Levine Prize of the International Political Science Association, and the 2016 Book of the Year Award of the Section of Public Administration Research (SPAR) of the American Society of Public Administration Brian N. Williams Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy • Published “Leveraging the Intersection of Politics, Problem and Policy in Organizational and Social Change: An Historical Analysis of the Detroit, Los Angeles and Atlanta Police Departments” with Andrew Grandage and Britt Aliperti in Policing and Race in America: Economic, Political and Social Dynamics edited by James Ward.

(Lexington Books/Rowan and Littlefield), December 2017 • Published “Bridging the Safety Divide through Technology to Improve the Partnership between Students and Campus LawEnforcement: An “App” Opportunity” with Edward Dillon, Juan Gilbert, Seong-Cheol Kang, Julian Brinkley and Dekita Moon. “Policing and Race in America: Economic, Political and Social Dynamics” edited by James Ward. (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield), December 2017 • Invited Scholar, “The Co-Production of Public Safety and Public Order: Problems and Potential” The Kettering Foundation Dayton Research Day in Dayton, OH, February 15, 2017 • Invited Presidential Panelist, “Race, Reparations and Remedies: Perspectives from a Nervous Area

of Government” American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, March 18, 2017 • Principal Investigator, Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Crime Victims Three Year Strategic Plan/Consilience Group, ($12,574.95), November 1, 2016 – July 31, 2017 Laura Zimmermann Assistant Professor, International Affairs • Published “Guns and Butter?

Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development” with Gaurav Khanna in Journal of Development Economics, 124:120-141, 2017

• Awarded grant for David Agrawal and Laura Zimmermann (PI), Project: Production Responses and Tax Evasion with Limited State Capacity - Evidence from Major Reform in India, Funding Agency: International Growth Centre, Duration: July 31, 2016 October 31, 2018 • World Bank Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award 2015-2016, awarded January 2017 • Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics, South Asia Centre, September-November 2016 • Presented “May there be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World’s Largest Public Works Program” at Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) at the University of California, Riverside, March 2017

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BOARD MEMBER PROFILE

Caproni

By DeShonna Johnson

The Honorable Valerie Caproni has been an active member on the SPIA Board of Visitors (BOV) since 2013, serving with enthusiasm and devotion all the way from New York City. From 2013 to earlier this year, Caproni served as a full-fledged board member, and recently, was given the title of Board Member Emerita, a distinction awarded to members retiring their position on the Board but not their dedication to the School.

Receiving her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Caproni’s connection to Athens, UGA, and SPIA was different than most of the School’s BOV members. Caproni was introduced to the Bulldawg Nation upon her arrival for law school in the fall of 1976.

While she always knew she wanted to be an attorney, she didn’t quite expect to find herself in Athens, Georgia.

“Having gone to college in New Orleans, Athens at first seemed like a sleepy little town,” admits Caproni. “Like most students, I managed to find restaurants I loved and fun things to do – even without the French Quarter. I made lifelong friends while at UGA and would not trade the experience for anything. Tulane was not quite as football crazy as UGA – maybe because the Tulane mascot is a Green Wave rather than a Bulldog.”

After the load of law seminars and textbooks ended, Caproni began a life journey through positions and experiences that eventually led to her current position: a United States District Court Judge in the Southern District of New York.

Shortly after graduating law school, she acted as a law clerk for Judge Phyllis Kravitch on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. From there, she moved to

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New York to work as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a Wall Street law firm, for about five years before moving to varied positions, companies, and even states. “[After Cravath, Swaine & Moore] I went to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn where I was a criminal prosecutor. That was, bar none, the single best job I have ever had,” shared Caproni. “I left the US Attorney’s Office for a few years to be General Counsel of the Urban Development Corp and worked on the redevelopment of Times Square. After a few years, I returned to the US Attorney’s Office, eventually being tapped to be Chief of the Criminal Division. While I loved being a prosecutor and loved that office, I jumped at the chance to expand my professional experiences by accepting an offer to be the head of the SEC’s Pacific Regional Office in Los Angeles.”

“I was

eager to see do well,” says Caproni. “The BOV has such a diverse membership. It was always satisfying to see people with wildly different political orientations working collaboratively and respectfully together towards a common goal – making SPIA the best program of its type anywhere.”

After a stressful eight years at the FBI, Caproni left to become the Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Soon after, she received a call that would change her life.

“I was at Northrop when I got a call from the White House telling me

INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED by SPIA when I went down to visit and there were

MANY EXCITING PROGRAMS that I was eager to see do well...”

The California sun couldn’t keep Caproni away for long, however, as she soon made her way back to New York to Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett as a specialist in white collar criminal defense. In 2003, Caproni received a job offer she couldn’t refuse: General Counsel of the FBI. It was during her FBI days when she first heard about the SPIA Board of Visitors.

“I was incredibly impressed by SPIA when I went down to visit, and there were many exciting programs that I was

President Obama was thinking of nominating me to the district court bench,” says Caproni. “Although I loved my job at Northrop, being a district court judge was my lifetime dream, so I leapt at the opportunity.”

Nowadays, Caproni enjoys theater and going to the movies when she’s not in the courtroom. She has enjoyed her time working with SPIA over the years, and as her prior work has proven, she is still dedicated to the School and its students.

Honoring a The Earl F. Ziemke Graduate Fellowship

By Lauren A. Ledbetter Earl Frederick Ziemke was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1922. He served in the Marines on the Pacific front during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in the assault on

Okinawa during the Battle of Peleliu. Using the G.I. Bill, Ziemke received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1951. In the 15 years

following, he worked at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University and then served as the official historian for the U.S. Army’s Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington, D.C. He wrote a series of histories about partisan resistance movements in the former Yugoslavia and several monographs. In 1967, he began his career at the University of Georgia in the history department, where he taught military, European, and modern American history. He also taught in the ROTC. Dr. Ziemke served as an expert witness and consultant for the U.S. Justice Department on war crimes related to the Holocaust. He retired from UGA in 1993 as Research Professor Emeritus.

In addition to being a renowned scholar, Dr. Ziemke was an animal lover, a musician, an engineer, a “party animal”, an avid gardener, and most importantly, he was “the best dad a little girl could ask for” according to his daughter, Caroline Ziemke-Dickens.

Caroline, who followed closely in her father’s footsteps as a scholar of foreign policy, international security, and arms control, has chosen to honor her late father with a $100,000 gift to create and endow the Earl F. Ziemke Graduate Fellowship in the Department of International Affairs.

At a ceremony in November 2017 to recognize Caroline’s generosity and honor

her father’s memory, Dr. Ziemke-Dickens told the intimate crowd how her father taught her that the advantages with which she was born come with great responsibilities to give back.

“With this fellowship, I seek to create a legacy that will outlast all of us,” she said.

The 2017-2018 Earl F. Ziemke Fellowship recipient is Shanshan Lian, a PhD candidate studying international relations and minoring in comparative politics. Her dissertation will explore nongovernmental organizations’ roles in developing countries.

If you would like to contribute to the Earl F. Ziemke Graduate Fellowship, please visit t.uga.edu/3DJ.

Lasting Impact: Georgia Commitment Scholarship Fran and Al Barr (’67, ’74) have been loyal supporters of the University of Georgia for decades. In fact, Al has made a financial contribution to UGA every year since 1971.

Recently, the couple has decided to increase their impact at UGA by establishing a Georgia Commitment Scholarship to benefit a SPIA student.

In January 2017, President Morehead unveiled the Georgia Commitment Scholarship Program. Under the program, the UGA Foundation will match any gift to the University in the amount of $50,000,

$75,000, and $100,000 to establish an endowed need-based undergraduate scholarship. The initiative is expected to create as many as 400 to 600 new annual scholarships.

When Al read about the program in a UGA publication, he knew he wanted to be a part of the initiative. “This is something I had been thinking about for a while and wanted to do, and the [Foundation match] was just the push to get me to go ahead and do it,” he recalls.

Al remembers how difficult financing his education was as a student and says he wanted to help students with financial need, “to give someone an opportunity to take advantage of the quality education the University of Georgia offers.”

The scholarship is named in honor of two of Al’s professors, Thomas R. Dye and Frank K. Gibson. “I wanted to honor those two professors it’s named after because I think very highly of both of them. They were very instrumental in my undergraduate and graduate education while I was at the University of Georgia,” says Al.

Fran is a retired Delta Flight Attendant after forty years. Al’s career was in law, primarily in corporate commercial real estate.

He remains an active member of the State Bar of Georgia, and continues to do some general practice and real estate consulting in semi-retirement.

The 2017-2018 Thomas R. Dye and Frank K. Gibson Scholarship recipient is Nikko Cayetano, a first-generation college freshman from Brunswick, Georgia, studying political science and international affairs. Because of the Barr’s generosity, Nikko’s scholarship will be renewable for up to 8 semesters, ensuring financial support through graduation.

The Georgia Commitment Scholarship Program is designed to grow the number of need-based scholarships awarded to UGA students – a giant step toward eliminating the financial obstacles facing many students. The UGA Foundation will match individual donations of $50,000, $75,000, and $100,000 up to $500,000 to double the impact of endowed needbased scholarships. If you are interested in learning more about the Georgia Commitment Scholarship Program, please contact Sarah Baines, SPIA Director of Development, at sbaines@uga.edu.

HONOR ROLL Dean’s Circle ($5,000+) The Honorable Valerie E. Caproni Century Strategies, LLC Consilience Group, LLC Mr. Lee Culpepper and Mrs. Bethany Culpepper Dr. Caroline Ziemke-Dickens Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Georgia Power Ms. Ellen B. Godsall Ms. Eleni Pryles Kalisch and Mr. Bertram Kalisch Laura and John Arnold Foundation Mr. Thomas P. Lauth III and Mrs. Elaine S. Lauth Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lauth Mr. Abit Massey and Mrs. Kayanne Shoffner Massey Ms. M. Cameryn Massey Ms. Colleen J. McCall Dr. James E. Monogan III Dr. Ralph E. Reed Jr. and Mrs. Jo A. Reed Richard B. Russell Foundation, Inc. Mr. Stanley W. Shelton and Mrs. Dorothy F. Shelton Ms. Julie C. Smith Ms. Margaret R. Smith Verizon

2001 Society ($1,000-$4,999) Mr. Ralph J. Amos and Mrs. Catherine Amos Mr. Clayton M. Anthony and Dr. Flora B. Anthony Mr. William T. Bennett III and Mrs. Margaret J. Bennett Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Mr. Henry J. Broitman and Mrs. Lisa Mitchell Broitman Mrs. Christine A. Brownlie and Mr. Robert P. Brownlie Mrs. Frances Bullock and Dr. Charles S. Bullock III Ms. Wendi L. Clifton Council for Quality Growth Mr. Nicholas F. deJong and Ms. Katherine Kosciolek deJong Mr. James R. Dove and Mrs. Nancy P. Dove Dr. Delmer D. Dunn and Mrs. Ann S. Dunn Geoff Duncan for State House Gen Eugene E. Habiger and Mrs. Barbara A. Habiger Mr. Henry K. Harp III and Mrs. Leann Harp Dr. Valerie A. Hepburn and Mr. George Hayes Mr. Philip Karl and Mrs. Sandi Karl Dr. Soo-Young Lee

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Mr. Joshua J. Mackey and Ms. Kallarin Mackey Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Martin IV Mr. Terry A. Mathews and Mrs. Margaret E. Mathews Mr. Douglas R. Matties Ms. Lora A. McCray Mrs. Harriet James Melvin and Mr. Brett Melvin Mrs. Eva J. Miller MLC Properties Mr. Powell A. Moore and Mrs. Pamla Moore Mr. James L. Morgan III and Mrs. Laura R. Morgan Motu Dr. Lloyd G. Nigro and Mrs. Carol L. Nigro Dr. Kirsten F. Nigro Mr. Charles R. Nuckolls and Mrs. Suzanne G. Nuckolls Mr. Gregory R. O’Brian and Mrs. Hope G. O’Brian Mr. Thomas O’Brien and Mrs. Carol O’Brien Ms. Meredith A. O’Brien Dr. Laurence J. O’Toole Jr. and Mrs. Mary G. O’Toole Dr. John D. Parker Mr. David B. Pinson and Ms. Edith C. Waller Mr. Asher L. Rivner and Mrs. Danielle Rivner School House Holdings LLC DBA Tam’s Backstage Mrs. Julie L. Stewart and Mr. Zachary J. Stewart The Capitol Group, LLC Mr. Jonathan G. Walker and Ms. Mary E. Walker WAL-MART Foundation Mr. Joe D. Whitley and Mrs. Kathleen P. Whitley Dr. Brian N. Williams and Dr. Carla Green Williams Ms. Trisha L. Wilson Dr. Bradley Wright

Baldwin Hall Society ($500-$999) Mr. Charles C. Bailey Mr. Michael J. Barry Mr. Frank C. Bracco Cancer Treatment Centers of America Mr. Joseph R. Chaudoin and Ms. Kathryn McCabe Chaudoin Ms. Caitlyn E. Cooper Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce Dr. Richard T. Cupitt Deloitte & Touche, LLP Dentons US, LLP Mr. Brian C. Dill and Mrs. Carmen B. Dill Ms. Denise Garner Dunbar and Mr. William F. Dunbar Mr. Eric T. Duncan Jr. and Mrs. Linda F. Duncan Dr. Arnold P. Fleischmann Miss Elizabeth N. Fretwell

FrogueClark, LLC Ms. Sandra U. Garcia Georgia Chemistry Council Georgia Transportation Alliance Mrs. Winston Cobb Green and Mr. Roger H. Green Mr. Joshua W. Jones Jones Poultry Farm, Inc Lipscomb, Johnson, Sleister, Dailey & Smith, LLP Mr. Lewis Massey and Mrs. Amy Massey Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. McGill Jr. Dr. John P. McGruder and Mrs. Mary H. McGruder McGuire Woods, LLP Director Seth Millican Mr. David C. Moore Morgan Stanley Annual Appeal Campaign Dr. Norman Moye and Ms. Angela Moye OneForsyth, Inc Mr. Alexander W. Patterson and Mrs. Janet Patterson Ms. Lisa Patterson Patterson Family Giving Fund Prudential Financial Mrs. Lauren B. Rosenbaum Mr. Paige Scarborough Jr. and Mrs. Catherine Still Scarborough Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. Michael L. Sullivan and Ms. Rebecca S. Sullivan Mr. Eric M. Teusink and Ms. Paige Nelson Teusink The Benevity Community Impact Fund The Committee To Elect Butch Miller Mr. William H. Thomas Jr. and Mrs. Melonie Davis Thomas Mr. Arthur L. Tripp Jr. Mr. Ralph R. Underwood and Mrs. Carol Wright Underwood Mr. John M. Weaver and Mrs. Joanie Weaver Weaver Family Charitable Trust Mr. Charles F. Welch Jr. and Ms. Renee Welch Wellstar Health System Mr. David R. Werner and Ms. Suzanne Werner Dr. Marvin R. Williams and Mrs. Carol S. Williams

Candler Hall Society ($250-$499) Anonymous (1) Ms. J. Elizabeth Allan Mr. Andrew L. Beggs Ms. Katherine J. Bell Mr. Thomas D. Beusse and Mrs. Frances Doughtie Beusse Mr. Alexander T. Bradford Dr. Benjamin M. Brunjes and Ms. Molly Brunjes Mr. Francis B. Buckley and Ms. Carrie H. Buckley

Mr. Travis W. Bussey and Mrs. Anna Bussey Capitol Partners Public Affairs Group Inc. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Ms. Anne M. Chotvacs and Mr. Charles Chotvacs Chuck Efstration for House Mr. Joseph E. Dickerson and Commissioner Sharyn Stewart Dickerson Representative Charles P. Efstration III Representative Stacey Godfrey Evans and Mr. Andrew C. Evans Mr. Albert R. Fournier Friends of Blake Tillery-Senate Mr. James B. Gates and Ms. Elizabeth H. Gates Georgia Beverage Association Mrs. Linda K. Gwynn and Mr. Robert Gwynn Dr. Laura M. Haase Mr. Robert M. Haire and Dr. Susan G. Haire Mr. Shawn W. Hardister and Mrs. Pamela D. Hardister Ms. Ann Harwood-Nuss and Mr. Robert C. Nuss Ms. Christie Haynes Mrs. Samantha R. Hill Mr. Yul D. Holloway Dr. Yilin Hou and Ms. Sophie Dong Mr. Daniel M. Judy and Mrs. Caroline Duffie Judy Mr. David A. Kasriel and Ms. Catherine Kasriel Kasriel Family Charitable Fund Mr. Leon S. Kelehear and Mrs. Patricia S. Kelehear Mr. Stuart W. Kent and Mrs. Karolyn S. Kent Mrs. Stephanie Carter Kindregan and Mr. Steve Kindregan Ms. Katherine M. Knight Mr. Thomas G. Ledbetter and Mrs. Lauren A. Ledbetter Dr. Susan D. Loomis and Mr. John Loomis Dr. John A. Maltese Mr. James McDonald Dr. J. Patricia Mitchell Ms. Angela M. Morgan Mr. Jason L. O’Rouke Mr. Kevin J. Perry Mr. Keith T. Poole Ms. Megan A. Powell Mr. Daniel L. Regenstein Dr. John P. Rudy and Mrs. Barbara Rudy* Mr. Jason M. Shepherd and Mrs. Manuela Shepherd Ms. Sarah B. Smith Capt Matthew S. Suber Mr. Bradford A. Taylor Ms. Beverly D. Thomas Mr. Owen G. Thompson Thompson Victory Group Senator Michael B. Tillery and Dr. Ashlee N. Tillery Mr. Charles D. Vaughn and Mrs. Kimberly Vaughn

Mr. Matthew M. Weiss Mr. Kevin C. Wilcox Mr. Christopher H. Wilkins and Dr. Vicky M. Wilkins Dr. Gwen Y. Wood and R. Barry Wood

George S. Parthemos Consecutive Giving Society (5+ years) Anonymous (1) Mr. Andrew L. Beggs Mr. Thomas F. Bell Mr. William T. Bennett III and Mrs. Margaret J. Bennett Mr. Thomas D. Beusse and Mrs. Frances Doughtie Beusse Mr. Frank C. Bracco Mr. Henry J. Broitman and Mrs. Lisa Mitchell Broitman Mrs. Christine A. Brownlie and Mr. Robert P. Brownlie Mrs. Frances Bullock and Dr. Charles S. Bullock III The Honorable Valerie E. Caproni Mr. James V. Chin and Dr. Audrey A. Haynes Mr. Edward G. Cole III Mr. Lee Culpepper and Mrs. Bethany Culpepper Mr. Nicholas F. deJong and Ms. Katherine Kosciolek deJong Dr. Delmer D. Dunn and Mrs. Ann S. Dunn Capt Phillip B. Ferris and Mrs. Elizabeth J. Ferris Mr. David R. Gillon and Mrs. Anna Gillon Ms. Ellen B. Godsall Mr. Michael G. Gray and Mrs. Melinda P. Gray Dr. Laura M. Haase Mr. Andrew J. Harris Jr. and Mrs. Deborah Harris Mr. Patrick L. Hobson and Ms. Kristin C. Hobson Mr. Yul D. Holloway Dr. Teresa Irvin and Mr. James M. Irvin Mr. David A. Kasriel and Ms. Catherine Kasriel Mr. Daniel C. Lanford Jr. and Mrs. Janice A. Lanford Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lauth Dr. Susan D. Loomis and Mr. John Loomis Mr. Joshua J. Mackey and Ms. Kallarin Mackey Dr. John A. Maltese Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Martin IV Mr. Terry A. Mathews and Mrs. Margaret E. Mathews Mr. Douglas R. Matties Mr. Jeffrey A. McDougal Mrs. Joleen M. Neel and Mr. Stanley C. Neel Dr. Lloyd G. Nigro and Mrs. Carol L. Nigro Dr. Kirsten F. Nigro Mr. Charles R. Nuckolls and Mrs. Suzanne G. Nuckolls

Mr. Jason L. O’Rouke Dr. Laurence J. O’Toole Jr. and Mrs. Mary G. O’Toole Dr. John D. Parker Mr. Alexander W. Patterson and Mrs. Janet Patterson Mr. David B. Pinson and Ms. Edith C. Waller Mr. Daniel L. Regenstein Richard B. Russell Foundation, Inc. Mr. Asher L. Rivner and Mrs. Danielle Rivner Mr. Christian A. Rodriguez Mr. James C. Sanders Jr. and Ms. Jennifer C. Sanders Mr. Paige Scarborough Jr. and Mrs. Catherine Still Scarborough Ms. Sarah B. Smith Mr. James A. Sommerville and Mrs. Frances D. Sommerville Mr. Jeremy H. Southall and Dr. Aubrey L. Southall Mr. William H. Thomas Jr. and Mrs. Melonie Davis Thomas Ms. Sara E. Turley Mr. Matthew M. Weiss Dr. Brian N. Williams and Dr. Carla Green Williams Dr. Gwen Y. Wood and R. Barry Wood Mr. Christopher B. Wright and Mrs. Brooke E. Wright Mrs. Ann Hicks Yonker *Deceased

Heritage Society (Planned Gifts) Anonymous (2) Mr. Howard E. Benson and Mrs. Robin J. Benson Mr. Charles E. Campbell and Mrs. Ann Campbell Dr. Karen Caruson Dr. Arnold P. Fleischmann Dr. Laura M. Haase John Haire and Family Mr. Joshua W. Jones Mr. Terry A. Mathews and Mrs. Margaret E. Mathews Ms. Megan A. Powell Dr. Carl W. Proehl Jr. Ms. Jill J. Read Dr. and Mrs. Van Bibb Saye Jr. Ms. Margaret R. Smith Dr. Joseph E. Stewart Jr. and Ms. Paula M. Sutherland

THANK YOU

TO OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS FOR GIFTS MADE FROM JULY 1, 2016 TO JUNE 30, 2017.

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UNDERGRADUATE

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