Publications
Career Highlights
Grants & Fellowships

Accomplishments published in PS

July 2017 January 2015
January 2017

April 2015

October 2016

April 2014


Publications (Listed by MFP Class)

Class of 1987

Marion Orr

Class of 1988

Sherri Wallace

Class of 1993

David Shirk

  • Authored, co-authored, and co-edited 12 books, over 30 book chapters and journal articles, and dozens of published policy reports and op-ed pieces.
  • Latest book is entitled Contemporary Mexican Politics, co-authored with Emily Edmonds-Poli.

Class of 2008

 Rachel Gillum

Class of 2009

Vanessa Cruz Nichols

Class of 2010

Tanika Raychaudhuri


Career Highlights (Listed by MFP Class)

Class of 1987

Marion Orr

  • Commencement Speaker Savannah State University, May 2018.

Class of 1988

Sherri Wallace

  • Program co-chair for the 2019 Teaching and Learning Mini-Conference at APSA (TLC at APSA) in August.
  • Co-Team Leader for “Teaching Intersectionality in Political Science” for the Diversity and Inclusion Hackathon, sponsored by the APSA Presidential Task Force on Women’s Advancement, held at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting.

Class of 1992

Michelle Boyd

  • Co-Founder of WriteOut! (2012).
  • Graduate Student Writing Retreat Program.
  • InkWell Academic Writing Retreat Facilitator.

Class of 1993

 David Shirk

  • Secured more than $7 million in research and educational grants from both public and private sources, including the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Smith-Richardson Foundation.

Class of 1996

 Diego von Vacano

  • Received tenure in 2012.
  • Fellow at IAS Princeton and CASBS Stanford.

Class of 2005

Leslie Gonzalez

  • Tenured professor that has published in several selective journals in the field of higher education.

Class of 2006

Katherine Woolfalk

  • Promotion to board-facing Executive Leadership Team.

Class of 2007

 Betina Wilkinson

  • Recently awarded tenure at Wake Forest university.
  • Serves as President of the MPSA Latina/o Caucus and serves on the MPSA Executive Council.

Class of 2010

Chinbo Chong

  • Earn PhD in June 2019.
  • Received 2019 Best Graduate Student Paper Award by MPSA’s Latino/a Caucus. (paper published in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)

Edgar Alfonseca

  • Deputy Director in the New York City Department of Education.

Class of 2017

 Olivia Cook

  • Co-Chair – Alabama Women Student Leaders Conference
  • Advisory Board Member – Women’s Leadership Institute at Auburn University.
  • Presentations: “What is the Most Important Skill to Learn?” Presented at the American Society for Public Administration Conference, Washington, D.C., March 8-12, 2019. “How Failure Conditions Success: Learning How to Trust the Process” (with Shanel Robinson, M.S.). Presented at the Alabama Women Student Leaders Conference, Troy, Alabama, March 2, 2019.
  • Co-founder of a new startup company located in Alabama called Snippety Snap, LLC.

Rachel Torres

  • Instructor for own course within affiliated department.

Grants and Fellowships (Listed by MFP Class)

Class of 1992

 Michelle Boyd

  • Earned National Science Foundation Advance Grant.

Class of 2005

 Leslie Gonzales

  • Earned a $10-million-dollar National Science Foundation Grant.

Class of 2010

Chinbo Chong

  • Post-Doctoral position at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics 2019-2020.

David Lopez

  • Recently accepted offer as a NYU Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021.

Class of 2018

Angie Torres-Beltran

  • Selected as Dean’s excellence Fellow and a Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Fellow at Cornell University.