Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies
Volume 2
Article 9
1-1-1984
Faculty Notes
Pi Sigma Alpha Review
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FACULTY NOTES
Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn Early, of the
University of Notre Dame, have received a grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
With the grant, Bowen and Early will compile a
Middle East reader, which will provide background information for undergraduate courses on
the Middle East.
Professor Bowen also helped
found the Maghreb Studies Group, comprised of
scholars specializing in North African studies.
The National Endowment for the Humanities
awarded a grant to Gary Bryner to organize a
conference on the Bicentennial of the Constitution.
Historians, political scientists, and legal
scholars will be at BYU from May 16-18, 1984, to
discuss various constitutional issues.
Lee Farnsworth continues to publish his
Newsletter of Research on Japanese Politics. He
recently completed a chapter titled "Japan and the
Third World" for the book Third World Policies of
Industrialized Nations published by Greenwood
Press.
Earl Fry is currently on leave as a fellow of
the Council on Foreign Relations serving as
Special Assistant to the United States Trade
Representative in the White House.
The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies recently awarded Ladd Hollist a
fellowship to study poverty and industrialization
in Brazil, Taiwan, and Korea. His book on the
subject, Land, Poverty, and the State: The
Political Economy of Development in Brazil, Korea,
and Taiwan, will soon be published by Pinter
Press.
His article, "Dependency Transfigured:
Brazilian Agriculture in Historical Perspective,"
appeared in Dependency Reversal and Less Developed Countries published by Praeg'er.
F. LaMond Tullis and Ladd Hollist are
editing two books: A Global Political Economy to
be published by Westview Press, and The Political
Economy of Global Agriculture to be published by
University of Nebraska Press.
David Magleby's book, Direct Legislation:
Voting on Ballot Propositions in the United
States, has been published by Johns Hopkins
Press.
Dennis Thompson has been appointed as the
Secretary to the Politics and Ethnicity Research
Committee of the International Political Science
Association. He was also appointed as chairman
of the B YU Political Science Department.
His
book, The Private Exercise of Public Functions,
will be published by Associated Faculty Press in
the fall of 1984.