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Department of Political Science
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The Coup d'Etat is the Department newsletter. Mailed twice a semester, the newsletter contains pertinent information for majors, including upcoming events, summer internships and conferences, new majors and professors, and course information.
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We welcome contributions to the newsletter. If you have information of interest to members of the department, please contact out newsletter editor, Lara Pfaff (2008) at psci@wooster.edu.
Other News Stories
Heather Couch Wins College of Wooster's Carpenter Pre-Law Prize
Congratulations to Heather Couch (2008), an international relations major, upon receiving the 2008 David L. Carpenter Pre-Law Prize, awarded annually to the top pre-law student at the College of Wooster. Couch will be attending Loyola University Chicago School of Law in the fall.
Case Western Reserve University Law School Moot Court Team Wins World Championship
Congratulations to Margaux Day (2006), one of five students on Case Western Reserve University Law School Moot Court team, on winning the World Moot Court competition. Day participated in Moot Court at Wooster, which prepared her well to win best final round speaker at the World Competition.
Student Profile: Careful Analysis Leads to Wise Decisions for Aneeb Sharif
Aneeb Sharif (2010), an economics and political science double-major (international relations concentration), assesses all major decisions using a careful cost-benefit analysis. Sharif is currently the president of the Model United Nations team at Wooster, a research assistant, teaching apprentice, resident assistant and student ambassador.Wooster Excels at American Collegiate Moot Court Association National Championship
The team participated in the American Collegiate Moot Court Association National Tournament January 18 and 19. Political Science majors Justin Chapman (2008), Drew Glassroth (2008), Andrew Gross (2008), Maureen Hanlon (2008), Jeffrey Kaatz (2008), Lauren Mogavero (2008), Sarah Palagyi (2010) and Alexandra Schmitt (2009) all advanced to nationals.
Seven became ACMA All-Americans: Glassorth for winning First Place, Oral Argument; Gross, Kaatz, Mogavero and Chapman for placing in the top 32 team in Oral Argument; and Schmitt and Palagyi for winning Third Place, Brief for Petitioner.
Honorable Mention: Hanlon and Glassroth, Brief for Respondent; Gross, Brief for Petitioner; and Mogavero, Individual Orator.
Kent Kille and Fellow Scholars Examine Ethical Frameworks of U.N. Secretaries-General
Dr. Kille serves as the editor for his latest book, The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership, in collaboration with nine other scholars from various institutions. The book examines the moral and religious values of each of the seven United Nations Secretaries-General and how those values influenced their time in office.
Student Profile: Kofi Yankey Designs ‘Fashionable’ Study-Abroad Experience
Kofi Yankey (2008), a political science major with a comparative politics concentration, spent his semester abroad in London pursuing his passion for fashion in a variety of internships with fashion magazines. A senior at the college, Yankey is studying the role of gender in policymaking for his I.S.Student Profile: Drew Glassroth Reaches New Heights at The College of Wooster
Drew Glassroth (2008), a political science major with an international relations concentration, spent two months of his summer climbing in Denali National Park. At the college, Glassroth challenges himself through participation in Moot Court (through which he has recieved national recognition), Wooster's pre-law program and WCWS Radio, the college radio station.Faculty Profile: Working to Understand the Incomprehensible
Dr. Matt Krain, chair of the Department of Political Science, dedicates his research to the study of the impact of intervention on stopping genocide, providing valuable insight as to what type of intervention is most effective. In the classroom and as an I.S. advisor, Dr. Krain "challenges his students to think about creative means of responding to genocide, ethnic conflict and human rights violations."Lauren Mogavero Wins Earl F. Morris Memorial Scholarship
Congratulations to Lauren Mogavero (2008), a political science major with a theory concentration, for receiving the Earl F. Morris Memorial Scholarship, awarded annually to a pre-law student who demonstrates promise and dedication. Lauren is a nationally recognized member of Wooster's Moot Court team.Lauren Schreur Wins College of Wooster's Carpenter Pre-Law Prize
Congratulations to Lauren Schreur (2007), a philosophy and political science double-major, upon receiving the 2007 David L. Carpenter Pre-Law Prize, awarded annually to the top pre-law student at the College of Wooster. Schreur will be attending Boston College School of Law in the fall.
Wooster's Moot Court Team turns in Record-Setting Performance at Nationals
The team participated in the American Collegiate Moot Court Association National Tournament January 18 and 19. Political Science majors Robert Dible (2007), Andrew Gross (2008), Jeff Kaatz (2008), Cam McLeod (2007), Lauren Mogavero (2008), Eric Roscoe (2007), Steve Schott (2007) and Lauren Schreur (2007) all advanced to nationals.
Roscoe and Schreur became ACMA All-Americans for winning Second Place, Brief for Respondent; and Mogavero and Kaatz are two-time ACMA All-Americans for winning Second Place, Brief for Petitioner and for also finishing among the top eight teams in the country in oral argument.
Kent Kille Examines Leadership Qualities of UN Secretary General in New Book
Dr. Kille's book, From Manager to Visionary: The Secretary-General of the United Nations examines the leadership styles of the Secretaries-General of the United Nations based out of a measurement of their personal traits. The book was featured in the Academic Council on the United Nations this past March.
Jeffrey Lantis Receives Fulbright Senior Scholar Award
Dr. Lantis was one of 6 scholars nationwide to recieve the J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to work in Australia in 2007. While in Australia, Lantis will conduct research for a comparative study on the ratification of international treaties. Additionally, he will serve as a visiting scholar at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney.
Lois Ribich (2006), an international relations major with a political science concentration, spent the summer before her junior year interning at the White House, in the Office of Presidential Correspondence's Department of Agency Liason.
