Georgetown Fellows

CDACS is pleased to announce internal, Georgetown University Faculty Research Fellowships that will be available for Fall 2007 or Spring 2008. Awards will take the form of a $15,000 payment to the faculty member’s department. Departments will use these funds to provide release time for one semester. Completed applications should be delivered by 5:00 pm on January 19, 2007 to:

CDACS
Internal Faculty Fellowships
3240 Prospect Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007

Full-time Georgetown University faculty at all levels and from all departments and schools are eligible to apply. For more information consult our web page or call Steven Heydemann at 202-687-0596, and download an application packet.

CDATS is happy to announce its Fall 2006 Faculty Fellows, Marc M. Howard and Michele L Swers.

Howard's project, "The Causes and Consequences of Civic Engagement," follows on two years (2003-05) as the director of a survey project for CDATS called "Citizenship, Involvement, and Democracy" (CID). The main goal of the survey is to provide an in-depth analysis of American civil society in comparative perspective. With the fieldwork for the survey completed, Howard plans to spend his semester as a CDACS Fellow working on several articles and possibly co-author a book based on the CID data.

Swers' project, "Making Policy in the New Senate Club: Women and Representation in the U.S Senate," examines questions of representation and policymaking. She evaluates whether women in the Senate are more likely to provide substantive representation of women's interests by playing a more active role in the development of social welfare policy or advocating for women's rights on issues such as abortion and family leave. Her study is the first to move beyond examining differences on "women's issues" to evaluate assumptions about women officeholders in other policy areas, particularly defense. Since 9/11, voters have been more focused on issues of national security and studies demonstrate that public trusts male candidates more than female candidates on issues of defense and foreign policy. Swers' work compares the legislative activity of men and women on defense issues to determine if women are less active on security issues or if they are less supportive of a hawkish defense
policy. Finally, the study examines the politics of judicial nominations to determine if women are more supportive of female nominees or more likely to get involved in nomination debates when issues related to gender are central to the nomination.