Diplomacy & World Affairs

Events & Announcements

Recent news from the Diplomacy & World Affairs department.

DWA Congratulates 2012/2013 Award Recipients

Young Award for Highest Student Achievement Among DWA Seniors
Megan Lang
Young Award for Best Senior Comprehensive Thesis
Sunil Damle
DWA/Office of Global Affairs Award for Highest Achievement in Independent Research
Jessie Durrett
Young Award for Highest Student Achievement Among Returning DWA Major
Gillian Harger (rising Senior)

Christina Seyfried (rising Junior)

Katie Wiese (rising Junior)
Young Award for Emerging Leader
Alexander Keats
 
DWA Award for Contributions to Intellectual Life Outside the Classroom ~ WorldTalk
 
DWA Senior Comprehensive Thesis - Honors: 
Sunil Damle, Jessie Durrett, Amie Kashon, Megan Lang, Rob Morgus, Mariko Powers
 
DWA Senior Comprehensive Thesis - Distinction: 
Jordan Annacker, Jordan Faires, Maya Kumar, Robbie Lane, Elena Sigel, Alexandra Wheeler

 

DWA Welcomes Sanjeev Khagram to the DWA Faculty in Fall 2012

Sanjeev Khagram, who will assume the position of the John Parke Young Chair in Global Political Economy in the department of diplomacy and world affairs, is currently associate professor of international studies and public affairs at the University of Washington. He received his B.A.(developmental studies/engineering, 1999), M.A. (economics and policy, 1992) and Ph.D. (political science,1990) at StanfordUniversity, where he subsequentlytaught. From 2008-2010, he was the Wyss Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School. From 2004-2005, heserved as acting dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Center, Trust, and Foundation.

 

 

DWA Welcomes Huss Banai to the DWA Faculty in Fall 2012

Hussein Banai will be joining the faculty at Oxy in the fall of 2012 as assistant professor in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs. Currently, he is a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies, MIT, and a visiting scholar at the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He earned his doctorate in Political Science from Brown University in 2011, his MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2005, and his BA (with Honors) from York University in 2003. His research interests lie at the intersection of international relations and political theory with special focus on democratic politics in the modern Middle East. He is a co-author of a forthcoming book on US-Iran relations entitled Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations During the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 (Rowman & Littlefield) and has published on topics in diplomacy, democratic theory, and contemporary Iranian politics.


 

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