The Exchange, Fall 2004 - 100 Years of the American Political Science Association at Tulane

100 Y EA R S : The Murphy Institute Marks the F o unding of the A m ER ic A n P olitic A l S ci E nc E A SS oci Ation at Tulane

Late in the afternoon of December 30, 1903, a group of twenty-five distinguished American economists and historians gathered in Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) at Tulane University to adopt the constitution and elect the first officers of the American Political Science Association. The event marked the beginning of what is now the oldest, largest, and most influential of all existing national political science associations.

Between January 9–11, 2004, to mark the centennial of the APSA’s founding, the Murphy Institute gathered an equally distinguished, but more international, group of scholars to participate in a conference that examined the past achievements and future prospects of the “scientific” study of politics. “Sciences of Politics,”

a three-day conference held in the same setting where the APSA was launched, was conceived and organized by Professor Martyn Thompson, and co-sponsored by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.

“The first task of the conference,” Professor Thompson explained, was to explore the “remarkably long history of the idea that politics is, or can be, the subject of science. With that end in mind, we invited scholars who could elicit the character of the main varieties of the ‘science of politics,’ ranging from the earliest neo-Aristotelians to present-day American-style academic political scientists.”

The second task of the conference, Thompson continued, was to address “the current cultural politics

(from left to right) Prof. Jaime Fisher of Tulane University, Prof. Martyn Thompson of Tulane University, Prof. Michael Stolleis of Frankfurt University, and Dr. Michael Philipp of Augsburg University.

Core Faculty and Staff

Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Director, Department of History

Gerald Gaus, Department of Philosophy

Eric Mack, Department of Philosophy

Douglas R. Nelson, Department of Economics

Jonathan M. Riley, Department of Philosophy

Martyn P. Thompson, Department of Political Science

Judith K. Schafer, Associate Director

Ruth A. Carter, Program Coordinator

Faculty Committee

Bruce Brower, Department of Philosophy

Richard Culbertson, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Eric Dannenmaier, Director, Tulane Institute for Environmental Law and Policy

Kay C. Dee, School of Engineering

Gerald Gaus

Steve Griffin, Associate Dean, Law School

Cathy J. Lazarus, School of Medicine

Graham Owen, School of Architecture

Eric Mack

Robert Martensen, Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics, School of Medicine

Jonathan M. Riley

Martyn P. Thompson

Michael Zimmerman, Department of Philosophy Center Administration

Margaret M. Keenan, Program Manager

Michael McPherson, President, Spencer Foundation (chair)

John Ferejohn, Carolyn S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Director, National Humanities Center

Bonnie Honig, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Law, Culture, and Social Thought, Northwestern University

Stephen Macedo, Director, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

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Contributing writer, Mary Mouton

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This is a great time for the Murphy Institute. By almost every meaningful measure of academic quality, we can be described as one of Tulane University’s great success stories. Taken together, the widely acclaimed teaching and scholarship of our faculty, the innovations we’ve introduced by establishing the Center for ethics and Public Affairs, and the continuing success of our undergraduate program in political economy identify the Murphy Institute as a core component of Tulane’s reputation for academic excellence.

n Put more simply, the Murphy Institute has come of age. At Tulane, it now plays a vital and many-sided role in supporting research and scholarship of the highest quality, at the same time as it continues to sponsor the University’s most acclaimed interdisciplinary program. During 2003–2004, several developments provided new testimony to support this claim:

n Certainly, one of the highlights of the year took place on January 9–11, 2004, when scholars from around the world gathered here to attend the “Sciences of Politics” conference, which we hosted in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Political Science Association on the Tulane campus (See p. 1). Conceived and organized by Martyn Thompson, and co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute and the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, this interdisciplinary conference explored both the past achievements and the future prospects of the “scientific” study of politics.

n The undergraduate program in political economy continued to attract some of Tulane’s finest students. Of the thirty-seven seniors who earned their B.A.’s in political economy this year, twelve graduated cum laude , three magna cum laude , and two summa cum laude. Four were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Members of the 2004 graduating class also have been accepted at a number of prestigious law schools including Harvard, g eorgetown, Vanderbilt, and northwestern. Others will enroll in public policy programs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas and the College of William and Mary.

n Finally, our new Center for ethics and Public Affairs enjoyed a busy and exciting year. The Center welcomed its first class of Faculty Fellows, an impressive and intellectually compatible group of visiting scholars, whose projects ranged from the philosophy of rights to the limits of deliberative democracy. Throughout the year, the Center also welcomed a steady flow of other visitors for lectures, seminars, and conferences. The Center’s annual newsletter— Focus— provides a more detailed account of activities during 2003–2004. It is available both in hard copy by request and on-line at www.tulane.edu/~murphy.

n In the pages that follow, you will read more about the Murphy Institute’s faculty, students, and alumni, and the various ways in which they make a positive mark in the world. I’m confident you will agree the Murphy Institute is an exceptional place

E s t a b l i s h ed in 1980 t h r o u g

Charles H. Murphy, Jr. (1920–2002), the Murphy Institute is a university-wide interdisciplinary community at Tulane t h at ex i s ts to hel p facu l t y and s t udent s u nder s t a nd econom ic, mor a l, and political problems we all f a ce a nd think about as citi z en s. More i mpor t a nt, it exists to help us s ee why and how these problems have come to be so closely interrelated.

Within this broad purpose, the Murphy Institute supports a number of academic programs. Among Tulane undergr aduates, the Murphy Institute is best known for its highl y successful program in political economy. What began in 1984 as a modest venture with three students has grown to become one of Tulane’s most acclaimed and popular interdisciplinary majors.

Testimony to the success of the program has been abundant. More than 400 students have graduated with B.A.s over the course of the last seventeen years, and gone on to pursue graduate and professional degrees at uni versities such as Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, yale, Johns Hopkins, Washington University, g eorgetown, Stanford, n orth Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Tulane.

the murphy institute

The building blocks of our success have been various. The Murphy Institute has six “core” faculty members who year-in and year-out teach courses specifically designed for the major, along with faculty affiliates in economics, History, Philosophy, and Political Science who teach cross-listed, departmentally-based courses. The Director of the Murphy Institute has received both the Sheldon Hackney Award for e xcellence in Teaching and the Student Senate Award for e xcellence in Teaching, and was chosen Louisiana Professor of the year in 1989 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of education.

The Associate Director has three times been recipient of the Student Senate Award for e xcellence in Advising.

With grant support from the national endowment for the Humanities, the basic contours of the political economy program were put into place in 1987. In the early 1990s, a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation also provided generous support for new faculty positions in international political economy.

The Murphy Institute also sponsors (with Cambridge University) “Murphy Institute Studies in Political economy,” a series of occasional volumes comprising original essays first presented at conferences sponsored by the Institute. To date perhaps the most successful book in the series has been The Culture of the Market: Historical Essays (1993), eds. Thomas Haskell and r ichard F. Teichgraeber III, which collected papers first presented at an ne H conference organized and hosted by the Murphy Institute. We also sponsor (with Sage Publications) the academic journal PPE: A Journal of Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Two Murphy Institute faculty— g erald g aus and Jonathan r iley—are the journal’s founding editors. They envision conceived PPE as a forum for interchange of concepts and methods among scientists, philosophers, and economists interested in analyzing and evaluating political and economic institutions and practices. The inaugural issue of PPE appeared in February, 2002.

In July 2001, the Murphy Institute broadened its operations to sponsor a new Center for ethics and Public Affairs, which offers both Visiting Faculty Fellowships and g raduate Prize Fellowships. The idea driving the Center is that Tulane should have a place where faculty, students, and visitors can more broadly examine critical issues of right and wrong, justice and injustice, citizenship and community, and the ethics of the professions.

In May 2004, the Murphy Institute’s undergraduate program enrolled 125 Tulane and newcomb undergraduates pursuing bachelor of arts degrees in political economy. Our alumni—most still in the early stages of their careers— are pursuing professional careers across a remarkable variety of fields. The Murphy Institute’s core faculty are among Tulane’s most productive and respected, honored in recent years with both major teaching awards and prestigious research fellowships. In Fall 2003, the Murphy Institute’s Center for ethics and Public Affairs welcomed its second class of graduate Prize Fellows and its first class of Visiting Faculty Fellows. b

richard F. Teichgraeber III, Director

FACULTY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

n GERALD GAUS, Professor of Philosophy, published three new papers during 2003–2004: “Once More Unto the Breach, My Dear Friends, Once More: McMahon’s Attempt to Solve the Paradox of the Prisoner’s Dilemma,” Philosophical Studies (Vol. 116, 2003), 159–70; “Liberal neutrality: A r adical and Compelling Principle,” in Perfectionism and Neutrality, eds. g eorge Klosko & Steven Wall (rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 137–65; (with Shane Courtland), “Liberalism,” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [ http://plato.stanford.edu]. Professor gaus was also guest editor of a special issue on “game Theory and Law,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on the Philosophy of Law (Spring 2004), and gave a public address on “How Should Liberal States Treat Outlaw States: the US and Iraq,” at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, May 2004. His new edition of A Handbook of Political Theory was published by Sage Publications in June 2004.

n ERIC MACK, Professor of Philosophy, was on sabbatical leave during 2003–2004. His new article on “Problematic Arguments in r andian ethics” appeared in the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Fall 2003), 1–66. Two new articles are forthcoming: “Libertarianism and Classical Liberalism,” in A Handbook of Political Theory (Sage Publications, 2004), and “Prerogatives, restrictions, and r ights,” in Social Philosophy and Policy Professor Mack was awarded an earhart Foundation research grant in Fall 2003.

n DOUG NELSON, Professor of economics, published two new papers: (with Oliver Morrissey) “The WTO and the Transfer of Power Knowledge: The Case of Trade and Competition Policy,” in Growth and Development in the Global Economy, ed. Harry Bloch (e dward e lgar, 2004), and (with Joseph Francois) “Monopolistically Competitive Provisions of Inputs: A g eometric Approach to the g eneral e quilibrium,” in The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 185–210. A new article (with noel gaston) on “Structural Change and the Labour Market e ffects of globalization,” is forthcoming in the Review of International Economics . Professor nelson was also

named Professional research Fellow at the Center for research on globalization and economic Policy, School of economics, University of nottingham. His inaugural address on “Political economy Problems in the Analysis of Trade Policy” was delivered at the nottingham Center in March 2004.

n JONATHAN RILEY , Professor of Philosophy, authored three new papers during 2003–2004: “Interpreting Mill’s Qualitative Hedonism,” Philosophical Quarterly (July 2003); “ ethical Pluralism and Common Decency,” Journal of Moral Philosophy (April 2004); and “ rousseau’s Social Contract,” in Central Works of Philosophy, ed. John Shand (Acumen, 2004). Professor r iley’s new book on Mill’s Radical Liberalism will be published by routledge in Fall 2004.

n JUDITH KELLEHER SCHAFER, Associate Director of the Murphy Institute, published a new paper on “The Strange Career of Jean Charles David, Attorney at Law,” in Louisiana History (July 2003). Her book Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846–1862, was published by LSU Press in Spring 2003. Professor Schafer was awarded the garnie Mcginty Distinguished Career Service Award by the Louisiana Historical Association at its annual meeting in March 2004.

n RICHARD F. TEICHGRAEBER III, Director of the Murphy Institute and Professor of History, is the author of two forthcoming review-essays: “Capitalism and Intellectual History,” in Modern Intellectual History , 1, 2 (2004), and “The rehistoricisation of Adam Smith?,” in The Adam Smith Review, 2004, Volume 2. He also presented a new paper on “ r ace and Academic Culture: The ‘Twin Conventions’ and the Bassett Case,” at the CSPT Annual International Conference on “Sciences of Politics,” held in new Orleans on January 9–11, 2004, and co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute. An abridged version of the paper appears in the Tulanian (Spring 2004).

n MARTYN THOMPSON, Associate Professor of Political Science, was co-editor of the most recent volume of Politisches Denken Jahrbuch (Duncker &

Humblot: Berlin, 2004), and contributed three intellectual biographies (Sir Matthew Hale, Dr. Peter Paxton, and Daniel Defoe) to the Dictionary of British Economists, ed. Donald rutherford (Thoemmes Continuum: London, 2004). Professor Thompson is elected Vice President and President elect of the Michael Oakeshott Association. He also was organizer of the January 9–11, 2004 Conference for the Study of Political Thought Annual International Conference on “Sciences of Politics.” Co-sponsored and hosted by the Murphy Institute, the conference commemorated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Political Science Association in Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University. b

2005-06 the center f or ethics and public affair s

Faculty Fellowships

The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University is pleased to announce residential Faculty Fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year. These fellowships, made possible by grants from the Tulane Murphy Foundation are available to support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research focus on questions of ethics and moral choice in such areas as architecture, business, government, law, medicine, urban design and planning, and environmental policy. While fellows will participate in conferences and seminars organized by the Center, they will be expected to devote most of their time to conducting their own research. Stipends will vary in accordance with individual circumstance, but will not exceed US$35,000. Center Faculty Fellowships are open to all, regardless of citizenship.

Further information about the Fellowships and applications may be obtained from the Center page on the Murphy Institute web site at www.tulane.edu/~murphy or may be requested by contacting:

The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs

The Murphy Institute Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 504.862.3236 tel 504.862.8360 fax cepa@tulane.edu

Applications must be received by December 8, 2004.

what they are reading

we asked jerry gaus , Professor of Philosophy, and one of the Murphy Institute’s core teaching faculty what he’s been reading lately. Since his appointment in Fall  000, Professor Gaus has made the ethical or “normative” dimensions of political economy a central topic of study for undergraduate majors.

A core question in normative political economy is whether policies should be evaluated in terms of their consequences for human welfare or according to principles of fairness. In FAIRNESS VERSUS WELFARE (Harvard University Press, 2002), Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell argue that the conflict between notions of fairness and welfare is much deeper than has been appreciated. “Under any method of evaluating social policy that accords positive weight to a notion of fairness,” they write, “there must exist situations in which all individuals will be made worse off.” Kaplow and Shavell believe that considerations of fairness are counter-intuitive, and the guiding argument of their new book

is that a “welfarebased normative approach should be exclusively employed in evaluating legal rules.”

In developing this argument, Kaplow and Shavell are especially critical of what they see as the ex post focus of fairness. Purveyors of “fairness” doctrines consider only what is to be done after an act has been committed (or a rule violated), rather than what is to be expected before setting up a system of rules. In contrast, welfare economics is consequentialist. This approach supposes “that each individual’s well-being affects social welfare in a symmetric manner, which is to say that the idea of social welfare incorporates a basic notion of equal concern for all individuals.”

Kaplow and Shavell concede that social norms of fairness may be useful approximations to what is required to promote welfare in everyday life. But they insist that such norms are not useful guides to welfare maximization in policy contexts, and hence have no independent normative standing. r ichard A. epstein agrees with this general approach. In SKEPTICISM AND FREEDOM: A MODERN CASE FOR CLASSICAL LIBERALISM (University of Chicago Press, 2003), he advances a consequentialist case for classical liberalism. Any plausible justification of a politico-economic order must be consequentialist, epstein argues, in part because “dogmatic” deontic pronouncements such as Kant’s “fall on barren ground

today.” For epstein, the Pareto criterion is the core of normative political economy, though he is willing to employ—as some Political economy 301 students may fondly recall—the Kaldor-Hicks criterion and, in fact, social welfare functions that happen to include interpersonal comparisons and trade-offs of welfare. According to epstein, all the central principles of classical liberalism—individual autonomy, private property, freedom of contract, tort law, regulation of monopoly, and the like—can be justified consequentially. In doing so himself, however, epstein makes it clear that he is not a libertarian. So we find him endorsing forced exchanges that benefit both parties—the efficient supply of public goods, for example—even while arguing against any commitment to redistribution.

Bruce Caldwell, in HAYEK’S CHALLENGE (University of Chicago Press, 2004), a new intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek, questions the reliance upon consequential calculation in formulating policy. Hayek stressed that while economics is indeed a predictive science, it only generates abstract predictions of fairly large-scale patterns of economic systems. But these are not fine-grained enough, in his view, to allow over-all judgments about the expediency of public policies.

Hayek’s great insight, Caldwell writes, was to see that “for many social phenomena, the market mechanism among them, the best that we will ever be able to do is explain the principles by which they work. For such phenomena, precise predictions will be forever out of our reach; only pattern prediction will be possible.”

But if precise predictions of consequences are not possible, how do we go about evaluating public policy? Hayek believed that some form of evolutionary ethic could explain how we come to be guided by principles, even though we cannot predict the specific consequences of acting on principles.

An interesting alternative to evolutionary accounts is to insist that we can know that some principles of fairness are correct, not because they have evolved but because we can reason our way to them. REAL LIBERTARIANISM REASSESSED: POLITICAL THEORY AFTER VAN PARIJS (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), edited by Andrew reeve and Andrew Williams, evaluates the theory of distributive fairness advanced by Philippe Van Parijs in his book, REAL FREEDOM FOR ALL (Oxford University Press, 1995)

Van Parijs proposed what he called a “left-libertarianism.” His is a libertarian theory because it sees each person as a self-owner (each owns his own internal endowments, e.g. talents.) What makes his theory “leftist” is Van Parijs’s insistence that external

endowments should be equalized. He argues not for a strict equalization of external endowments, but rather for a sustainable maximization of them. In practical terms, this means that those with the least opportunities should be given the highest sustainable unconditional income. Then the next least advantaged group’s incomes should be maximized, and so on, subject to the constraint of sustainability.

Taken together, these five challenging books show that the debate between advocates of welfarist consequentialism and principles of fairness has become a central issue in the study of political economy. The books also remind us that study of “political economy” is not simply concerned with explaining the relation between politics and economics. It also aims at providing a moral grounding for evaluating public policy on economic issues. b

THIRTY-SEVEN PAUL

TULANE AND NEWCOMB

COLLEGE SENIORS were awarded B.A. degrees in political economy at the May 2004 University Commencement. Several received high academic honors: M OLLY E LGIN and J OHN H O w ELL graduated summa cum laude ; J ASON

A NTRICAN , B RIAN K ELLY and C HRISTOPHER

M EYER magna cum laude ; and R EBECCA E ASBYS MITH , D ANIEL E RSPAMER , L EILA F ARRAHI , N OAH G INSBURG , L AUREN H ENDERSON , D Av ID

K INNEY , J OSH M ALT z ER , M AR q UEST M EEKS , L AURA N ICHOLSON , E LI z ABETH T ALBOT, L AUREN

vON B ERNUTH and R ACHEL wALSH cum laude .

M OLLY E LGIN , B RIAN K ELLY , J OHN H O w ELL , and C HRISTOPHER M EYER were also elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society J OHN H O w ELL also was one of three finalists for the William Wallace Peery Medal for Academic e xcellence.

Six seniors completed theses that allowed them to graduate with honors in political economy. J ASON A NTRICAN : “An examination of the effects of Low Income government Clusters on Surrounding Property Values”; M OLLY E LGIN : “Winning the Peasants: Institutional and Political Perspectives on relations Between rural Society and State in 20th-Century China”; D ANIEL E RSPAMER : “An empirical Analysis of Charter School Success in American Public education”; J OHN H O w ELL : “The Left Libertarianism of Hillel Steiner”; C HRISTOPHER M EYER : “Constitutional Issues of Sectarian Voucher Programs”; and B RIAN K ELLY : “Court Activism and the Centralization of Powers in the United States and the european Union.”

At the 2004 Commencement, M OLLY E LGIN received the newcomb College Charles H. Murphy Prize in Political economy and was named to the newcomb College Mortar Board. J OHN H O w ELL won the Tulane College Charles H. Murphy Prize in Political economy. each also received a Senior Scholar

Award from the Tulane Honors Program. R EBECCA E ASBY -S MITH and L AUREN vON B ERNUTH were also named to the newcomb College Mortar Board, and L AURA N ICHOLSON was selected as the 2004 newcomb College Commencement Speaker. C HRISTOPHER M EYER won the Department of Political Science’s Sigma Alpha Award , given annually to the graduating senior who has done the most in his class to stimulate scholarship and intelligent interest in the subject of government.

and ContributingWriter for the new Orleans Electronic Digest (www.nolaed.com).

During 2003–2004, DAv ID K INNEY was recipient of Tulane University’s Distinguished Scholar Award.

J OSH M ALT z ER was Vice President of the Paul Tulane College Senate. He also was recipient of the Tulane University Crest Award for Outstanding Leadership and a member of the Tulane College Leadership Caucus. C HRISTOPHER

of College republicans. In September 2004, he will attend the republican national Convention in new york as the youngest elected delegate in the history of the convention. During the Winter-Spring semester, R EBECCA E ASBY -S MITH had an internship with the Bureau of g overnment research (Bgr) in new Orleans. Her project was to provide an analysis of affordable housing programs in other cities across the country that Bgr could use for application in new Orleans.

During 2003–2004, students in the political economy program were also recognized for a broad variety of contributions to university life. T IM B O x received the Laura Massart Award in recognition of six semesters of volunteer work for the Tulane emergency Medical Service (T eMS).

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R EBECCA E ASBY -S MITH

M EYER was President of the Tulane College Honor Board. He was named Outstanding Senator for his service to undergraduate student government at Tulane. Chris also served as Chair of the Louisiana Federation

P ATRICK B ABIN ‘05 served as an Undergraduate Student g overnment representative on the Tulane College Senate, and was subsequently elected President of that body. K ELLEY B AGAYOKO ‘05 was President of the African American Women’s Society at Tulane. qUINLAN C ARTHANE ‘06 will spend his junior year

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served as the President of the n ewcomb College Senate. At the 2004 University Commencement, she received numerous awards including the Carol Downes Award for outstanding leadership and scholarship and the Oak Wreath. She also was a member of the newcomb College Daisy Chain.

M OLLY E LGIN , J OSH

M ALT z ER , C HRISTOPHER

M EYER and R EBECCA

E ASBY -S MITH were elected to Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

D ANIEL E RSPAMER was awarded the ronald reagan Future Leaders Scholarship by the Phillips Foundation. He also received Tulane’s Aaron Mintz Brotherhood Award for service in the area of interfaith relations, and was a member of the Tulane College Leadership Caucus and the Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society. B RIAN K ELLY spent the Summer of 2003 working at the United States embassy in el Salvador, supported by a Murphy Institute Summer Internship grant and a R OBERT M. D E v LIN ‘64 internship grant from Paul Tulane College. He was also Assistant editor of the “Views” section of the Tulane Hullabaloo

Graduating Seniors

Members of the Murphy Institute’s 2004 graduating class will pursue a variety of career paths. J ASON A NTRICAN will study for a masters degree at the University of edinburgh (Policy Studies), then apply to law school. T IM B O x will attend the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, where he plans to specialize in health care issues. After a summer job as conference assistant for the national young Leaders Forum on Medicine in new Orleans, B EN C ARYL will enter Tulane Law School in Fall 2004. Both M OLLY E LGIN and L AURA N ICHOLSON have been accepted to the Japan exchange and Teaching Program (JeT), and will spend next year teaching english in Japan.

R EBECCA E ASBY-S MITH has been admitted to the Masters Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. D ANIEL E RSPAMER will work in the apprentice program at the Charles g. Koch Charitable Foundation in Washington, D.C. This Koch program assists non-profit organizations with fund raising. L EILA FARRAHI will attend northwestern Law School, and J ARETT H AMSTREET will attend law school at the University of Oregon. EvAN H ERMAN will graduate in December 2004 with a double major in political economy and business management.

J OHN H O w ELL will attend Harvard Law School. F ERNANDO H URTADO will be the Director of Public relations for Machu Picchu Travel Services, Inc. in new Orleans. He plans to work there for a few years and then enroll in law school. J OSH M ALT z ER will work for Americorps as a team leader in Washington, D.C. M AR q UEST M EEKS will attend georgetown Law Center. C HRISTOPHER M EYER will work for the Bobby Jindal for Congress campaign, after which he will attend law school.

R ANDAL M CLEAIRD has been accepted to the goethe Institute in Berlin to study the german language in a two-month intensive course. After completing the course, he will enroll at Humboldt University to conduct a research project on perceptions and cultural encodings of inequality by young secondand third-generation Turkish emigrants in germany.

C HRIS M EYER has been hired as a service manager by an automobile dealership in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

M ASHARIKA P REJEAN will attend the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where she will study for a masters degree in health policy. vIKRAM vIJ will study for a masters degree in Homeland Security, then plans to attend law school. b

Class of 1987

N AOMI G ARDBERG is Assistant Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in Manhattan. She also serves on the new york City Tulane Alumni Board and the newcomb College Alumnae Board. After teaching for five years at the ross School in east Hampton, new york, E RIC T OWELL has taken a new position at the Prem Tinsulanonda International School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He reported that during the interview process, leading international schools were particularly interested in discussing his undergraduate degree at the Murphy Institute.

Class of 1988

B RITTNEY A BSHER J ACOVES lives in Tinton Falls, n.J, where she is a consultant with Tastefully Simple, a Minnesota-based home taste-testing company that markets gourmet foods and recipes. M ARK B OEGEL lives in Mandeville, Louisiana, where he is a major account manager for Cisco Systems, Inc. H ANS L UETKEMEIER continues as President of g eneral Steamship Corporation, Ltd. in new Orleans. L ARRY M ANSHEL is the owner of International Ticket Company, elliot Ticketing Company, and Universal Checking Systems in Covington, Louisiana.

Class of 1989

M ICHAEL A RATA is Special Counsel at Montgomery Barnett practicing civil litigation and entertainment law. He also recently starred in a Lifetime movie of the week, Infidelity , which aired in April 2004. His film, The Scoundrel’s Wife, will be released on DVD/Home Video by Blockbuster in April. Shalom Y’All , his documentary on the southern Jewish experience, is still running on Showtime. The United States Department of Justice recently

ALUMNI NEWS

appointed S EAN B ERKOWIT z trial counsel for the enron Task Force. He will be based in Washington, D.C. with frequent trips to Houston for the length of the assignment. After his commercial mowing business fell victim to the fires in San Diego in October 2003, J AMES B OURGEOIS decided to return to Louisiana. He has set up his new road grading business, James Bourgeois Contractor, Inc. in r aceland, and hired M ARC C ONRAD (‘90) , a new Orleans attorney, as the firm’s secretarytreasurer. After receiving a masters degree in International economics from g eorge Washington University, M ICHAEL F ELDSTEIN is an owner of a high technology chemical company with domestic and international customers and distributors called Surface Technology Inc. in Trenton, n.J. L ISA K AHN recently celebrated ten years of working for MCI in Dallas. She manages a contract department responsible for all network related contracts. After receiving an MBA at Loyola of Maryland, S TEVE M ILLER works in Baltimore as Controller for Tidewater Physical Therapy, one of the largest privately held rehabilitation agencies in the country. L ISA N EWMAN is an estate planning and probate attorney in the Dallas law firm Wolfish & newman, P.C. L ORIEN S MITH J OHNSON is an Assistant City Attorney representing the Purchasing Department of the City of Tampa, Florida. She also works on the Human relations Board and is the Americans with Disabilities Act Liaison on various issues. R OBERT S ALTER practices intellectual property law with Salter Michaelson in Providence, r .I. His

practice includes patents, trademarks, copyright and internet law.

J AMES W ICKETT works in the tax division of Dewey Ballentine, a law firm in Washington, D.C. T HOMAS

W INDLE is e xecutive Vice President of global Saks Impole Corporation in Dover, n.H. A DRIENNE E RBACH

L UCAS is Chief of the Agricultural Branch of the Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C.

M AC B RUTON recently returned to new Orleans, where he is Senior Account Manager at Intermarine Incorporated.

Class of 1990

S ALOMON B EHAR works with the law firm of g alindo, Arias & Lopez in Panama City, republic of Panama.

W HITNEY H OUGH W IENER continues as a Senior Business Development Analyst with the Business and Planning g roup of Williams g as Pipeline in Cypress, Texas. K AREN

J ACKSON E ASON continues as Special Investigator for Progressive Auto Insurance in Florida. G EORGE

R ENAUDIN continues as C eO of Ochsner Health Plan. He also has enrolled in Loyola University’s night program in law. T ED R ITER serves as r abbi for Temple Solel in encinitas, California. G EORGE R I zz O works in the Law Department of e xxon Mobil Corporation in Baytown, Texas.

B RENDA W ILLIAMS T HROWER received a Masters in Public Administration from the University of north Florida and a Masters in Urban and regional Planning from the University of new Orleans. She is an economic Development Specialist for the yober City Development Corporation and the City of Tampa. She is also President of the Suncoast Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration and VicePresident for Public relations of a local Toastmasters Club. J ASON

C RONIC is an attorney at Wiley rein & Fielding LLP, in Washington, D.C.

Class of 1991

After becoming Secretary g eneral of Foreign r elations of Panama, F RANCISCO A LVARE z D E S OTO became Legal Vice-President for new Businesses and Contracts of Cable and Wireless, Panama, S.A., the largest telecommunications company in Panama. He has also consolidated his law firm, Alvarez De Soto & e spinosa Jimenez with his partner Javier espinosa Jimenez. During the last elections he became a member of the Political Commission of the national Liberal Party. R ONI A MIT is finishing her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Washington. Her dissertation is on international human rights law in domestic courts.

N EIL B LUMOFE continues as Cantor at the Congregation Agudas Achim synagogue in Austin, Texas.

C ATHERINE M C L AUGHLIN

C ASTALDO received an MBA at Kennesaw State University. She is President of the Junior League of Cobb-Marietta, g eorgia. N OEL

C OMEAU x is Project Professional VII: Transportation Planner with earth Tech, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.

D AN C OUGHLIN is an attorney with the firm of Fuller and Vaughn in Kingsport, Tennessee. Following a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and neck Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan, R OBERT G LASGOLD completed a fellowship in Facial Plastic and reconstructive Surgery. He is now practicing in Highland Park, n ew Jersey. V ALERIE

W AGNER L ONG continues practicing real estate and land use law with McguireWoods LLP in Charlottesville, Virginia. J EFF M OSCOT received a law degree from Tulane Law School in 1994 and an MBA from Tulane in 1997. He recently returned to Los Angeles, where he works for Society Capital g roup, a commercial real estate business. T ODD P ERKINS is a

dermatologist practicing in rockville, Maryland. J USTIN P ERRYMAN is Attorney at Law, PLLC, in Houston, Texas. C LARK R EYNOLDS is Buyer for the Men’s Collections at Foley’s Department Store in Houston. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Millennium r elief and Development Services, a nonprofit operating a network of international development centers and relief workers. J OY S HAPIRO G RAY is the Director of Human resources at Pace, Inc., a pharmaceutical advertising agency in Bedminster, new Jersey. After receiving an MBA at Vanderbilt University, J EFFREY S TERN is Vice President at KoolSpan in Bethesda, MD, continuing a career of venture capital fundraising and market development for early stage technology companies. Prior to joining KoolSpan, Jeffrey was based in new york City where he earned his MBA at Columbia University. D AVID W ILLIS is Vice President of nicolas-Applegate Capital Management in new york. He works in a sales/client capacity, offering investment advice to large corporate pension plans, endowments, and foundations on the east coast. S USAN Y OUNG AB PLANALP works as the briefing attorney to the chief judge of the Travis County District Courts in Austin, Texas.

A SHLEY L IEBKE is Director of Content Services at Distributed Audio Video entertainment (DAV e). Check out the company website at www.davenw.com L ORETTA G ALLAHER M INCE practices civil litigation with the new Orleans firm Correro, Fishman, Haygood, Phelps, Walmsley & Casteix. She represents the New Orleans Times Picayune , litigating First Amendment issues and cases under the federal and state freedom of information laws . T ONY G RIPPA is Commissioner at the Leon County Courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida. P AUL S CHAEFER continues as Choral Director and Voice Teacher at the University of Minnesota, r iver Falls. On weekends, he serves as Music Director at St. Lawrence Church and at the newman Center at the University of Minneapolis. P AUL W EBB is a Consultant with Sentinel Benefits in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He works with companies to design and implement retirement plan administration and investment platforms. He is also attending graduate school at Boston University, where he is working toward a Masters of Science in Investment Management.

A DAM D ELL is Managing g eneral Partner of Impact Venture Partners, a Manhattan-based venture capital firm focused on Internet-related product and service companies. He also is adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, where he teaches a course on venture capital, the Internet, and the entrepreneurial process. He is contributing columnist for the Internet trade magazines Industry Standard and Business  .0. M ICHAEL S ANDS was recently named partner at Fenwick & West LLP. (Winner of the Charles H. Murphy Prize in 1992, Michael reminds us in a recent communication that he also was last recipient of the now discontinued Ferris Bueller Prize.) P ABLO C ARRILLO is Senior Investigative Counsel to

John McCain (r-AZ). He was profiled in the november 17, 2003 edition of national Journal’s Congress Daily , and credited with helping to win a battle to block Bush administration plans to lease Boeing airplanes as aerial refueling tankers. The case served as the main plot line for the February 18, 2004 episode of n BC’s “The West Wing.”

Medicine in Tucson. C HRISTOPHER

ing outstanding teacher candidates.

M ORE THAN 400 T ULANE AND N EWCOMB STUDENTS HAVE MA j ORED IN POLITICAL ECONOMY SINCE 1986.

O EHLMANN works at AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical company in Willmington, Delaware, forecasting sales for the company’s products in development. J ASON C OOK is Vice President for research at g ramercy Advisors, LLC in g reenwich, CT.

Class of 1994

Class of 1993

K EITH D EWS is a partner of the law firm of Foley Thompson & Dews, LLP in Philadelphia. His areas of practice include criminal law and civil and bankruptcy law. K RISTIN

F URNISH is an attorney in the international legal department of a large engineering, development and construction company in Mexico, g rupo ICA. L ARA G ELLER is working as a permanent placement recruiter with Solomon edwards g roup, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, specializing in Finance and Accounting professionals. A LBERT L OJKO continues as Managing Director in the Corporate g roup of Thomson Financial in London. P AUL M ASON will spend the next year in Baltimore, Maryland, studying reservoir Hill as a sustainable neighborhood as the final project for his Masters in Architecture from Morgan State University. After ten years as a television anchor/ reporter, B ETSY M C A RTHUR

L EROY has begun medical school at the University of Arizona College of

A NDREA M ARSH has been awarded a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship by the Criminal Justice Initiative of the Open Society Institute. In March 2004, she also became Director of the Indigent Defense reform Project of the ACLU of Texas in Austin. B RAD

M ETTLER is Director of Sales and Marketing for the Hyatt r ecency Albuquerque. D AVID S AS will be Chief resident in Pediatrics at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children before going on to complete a Fellowship in Pediatric nephrology at the University of Texas-Southwestern in Dallas. J AMES W ILSON has become Assistant Director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Class of 1996

A NTON D UPLESSIS received a masters degree in International relations and Spanish from Texas A&M University, College Station, where he is now Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. D OUGLAS

J AFFE is Vice President of Investor r elations at InvestorCom, Inc., a boutique consulting firm on Wall Street that specializes in investor relations and corporate governance counseling.

Class of 1995

M AUREEN B ASS received her J.D. from Syracuse Law School in 1998. She works as a commercial litigator for the largest law firm in Buffalo, new york: Hodgson russ LLP. M EREDYTH H UDSON is r egional Director for a national non-profit consulting firm, The new Teacher Project in new Orleans. She oversees a $700K partnership with the Louisiana Board of regents consulting with five state universities to help improve recruiting and select-

ues working at the law firm of Husch & eppenberger, LLC in St. Louis, Missouri.

Class of 1997

S U z ANNE B RADLEY T AYLOR continues as Senior research Analyst at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. After completing an MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in May, K EN K AVANAUGH was hired as Director of Corporate Development at e*T r ADe Financial in Arlington, Virginia. J ENNIFER R AYMER is an associate with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP in their Washington, D.C. office.

J ONATHAN B ERRY launched a hedge fund, Paramount Asset Management in Daphne, Alabama.

J ONATHAN B EYER has become the Assistant g eneral Counsel for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Pacific) in Okinawa, Japan. In this capacity he handles various issues including federal contracts, federal ethics, competitive sourcing, employment litigation, special education, and international agreements.

J AMES E SPOSITO is Senior network engineer in Information Systems at the Andrx Corporation in Weston, Florida. E RIC S TRAUSS continues as Associate Producer at ABC news Prime Time in Manhattan. He is presently working on a segment looking at the growing numbers of autistic children, educational options and cost issues of treatment. C HANTALLE

V ERNA is in the doctoral program in History at Michigan State University. She is writing her dissertation on Haiti’s “Second Independence,” which will explore the challenges of HaitiU.S. Cooperation between 1934–57.

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C HRISTOPHER S UELLENTROP continues as Department Bureau Chief for Slate.com in Washington, D.C., where he writes a weekly “Assessments” column and edits the technology section. He is covering the 2004 Presidential campaign. Jennifer and Chris were married in november 2003. G EORGE W HEELER is project manager of Chemonics International in Washington, D.C. He will attend graduate business school at Vanderbilt University in Fall 2004. After six years of service in the Medical Services Corps, A NDREA zAVOS is leaving the U.S. Army and moving to new york. She has obtained board certification in healthcare management and plans a career in healthcare administration.

Class of 1998

S IKES is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in accounting at the University of Texas at Austin. Her course work consists of graduate level courses in finance, economics, and statistics as well as accounting. T ODD R OJAS is Senior Internal Auditor at Tidewater Inc., in new Orleans. This summer he will begin a masters program in finance at Tulane. He writes that his political economy major “helped me to better understand and deal with the economic and political challenges Tidewater faced overseas.”

Class of 1999

A ARON A LLARDYCE will graduate from new york University Law School in June and will take the new york Bar e xam in July. He has accepted an offer of employment from Sidney Austin Brown and Wood in Manhattan.

T IERNAN E RICKSON is in the new york City Teaching Fellows Program. He teaches math in a Brooklyn high school while working on his master’s degree in teaching. A DAM K ING is a Captain in the Marine reserves, currently serving in Djibouti. B ILL

H APIUK is practicing law at Heller ehrman’s San Francisco office in the litigation division. J ASON K ALISH was honored by the law department of the City of new york as its Legal rookie of the year for 2003 in the area of commercial and real estate litigation. A MOS K IPYEGON received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of north Carolina. After graduating from Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute with a masters in Dispute resolution, J ARETT N I x ON worked with the California Supreme Court as a Mediator. He is now in his second year at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco. After graduating from Harvard Law School, V ICTORIA N OONER has

After serving a tour of duty flying helicopters on the USS Enterprise , Lieutenant T RE M C Q UEEN has been transferred to the Fleet replacement Squadron in San Diego as an H-60 instructor pilot. J ENNIFER L UCAS works as a marketing consultant with Wells Fargo Bank, focusing on retail and business banking initiatives in Seattle. J ENNIFER O VERDORFF is a financial analyst in the Private Client Services Department of Bear Stearns & Co. in Manhattan. S TEPHANIE

been working in Public Finance law at Vinson & elkins in Houston. Victoria ran her first marathon in January. J USTIN V ANDENBERG is a Corporal serving in the United States Army in Iraq. He plans to pursue a masters degree in journalism after his discharge. After graduating from g eorgetown University Law Center in 2002, S COTT W AGNER joined the law firm of Weil, g otshal & Manges LLP in Manhattan. He specializes in antitrust law. After passing the new york Bar and working in Accra, ghana at the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa, zARA W ATKINS is now practicing law in Manhattan in the Bankruptcy g roup of Torys LLP. S ARA B EST recently received her MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and now works for Charles Schwab.

Class of 2000

A MY B ENOLD H EUTEL continues to work for the Austin Integrated School District, teaching a third grade bilingual class at the McBee elementary School. R EUBEN H ALPER is working in sports broadcasting as an associate producer of nASCA r on FOx and nASCA r on n BC television in Manhattan. M ATT K UIVINEN , a Special Agent with the Diplomatic Security Service, recently returned from a two-month tour of duty in

Kabul, Afghanistan. He is awaiting his next overseas assignment. After completing an MBA at Syracuse University,

P HILIP M ANCINI has enrolled in the Masters Program in Public Affairs at Syracuse’s Maxwell School. N ORA

M ILES R IGBY graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in May 2003. She is currently serving as clerk for Judge r hesa Barksdale, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Jackson, Mississippi. This September, she will begin as an associate with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. J EREMY P ERELMAN is retail analyst for J. g oldman & Co., a new york hedge fund. After graduating from Tulane Law School, R ONALD

J. S CALISE , J R . accepted a position at Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, working as an associate in the new Orleans firm’s business section. Following his graduation from the University of Oregon Law School, T YLER S TORTI is clerking for the Honorable Michael r . McLaughlin of the Ada County District Court, 4th Judicial District in Boise, Idaho. He will begin practicing law at the firm of Stewart, Sokol & g ray, LLP in construction and business law. Following service in the Peace Corps, A RYN T HOMAS has completed her first year of law school at the University of Virginia. After receiving a masters degree from Columbia University’s g raduate School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation, A BBE

V ERNICK is now working as a planner in the Manhattan office of edwards and Kelcey, an engineering and planning firm.

Class of 2001

A ARON D ANIELS graduated from the g eorgetown Law Center in May. In September, he will move to Manhattan, where he will work with the law firm of Seward & Kissel LLP in the investment man-

agement department. B ARBARA H ALLENBECK is a registered marketing associate with Smith Barney in new Orleans. After graduating from g eorgetown Law Center in May, M OIRA M C D ONOUGH will begin work as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. After graduating from Boston University Law School in May 2004, E RICK M ARIN will work at g underson Dettmer in Boston in the corporate securities department. R AGAN N ARESH is in California working for Hilborne, Hawkin and Company, where he oversees a new subsidiary seeking to carve out a niche in wholesale overseas internet provider sales. He has been accepted at g eorgetown Law Center for Fall 2004. S IENNA R AKESTRAW received her J.D. from northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. After taking the Texas bar exam, she will work at King and Spalding in Houston. During her third year at northwestern Law School she participated in a program studying the status of women in India.

Class of 2002

After completing his second year of graduate work at the elliott School of International Affairs at g eorge Washington University, S TEVEN C AHALL has been hired by the International Trade Development Division at r aytheon Company in Washington, D.C. His department oversees r aytheon’s obligations in counter-trade and coproduction for all foreign government procurements. C ARLY H ANSEN is living in Memphis and works as the Operations Manager for an investment management firm, TD Capital Management. After completing a masters program in Politics of the World e conomy at the London School of economics, E LI z ABETH M AY interned in Washington at the Center for Strategic

and International Studies. She is currently working in Washington D.C., at the Investors responsibility research Center. She plans to work at the United States Treasury department as an Intelligence research Specialist in the Financial Crimes enforcement network. E LI z ABETH R EED is working as Director of Marketing and Director of Administration for a marketing firm called Health Solutions in naples, Florida.

Class of 2003

After working for a year, B ROCKTON

B OSSON will attend the University of Tennessee Law School in Fall 2004. J ONATHAN C AVE works at Wachovia Securities as a Corporate Fixed Income trader in e merging Markets in r ichmond, Virginia. K EN

C OPELAND worked for the John Kerry campaign in South Carolina in Summer 2003 before enrolling in the Masters Program in Social Policy and Planning at the London School of economics. J ANET D ALY deferred entering law school at the University of Colorado for one year to work on the presidential campaign of Howard Dean. She has applied for a position with Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a program for enriching children’s lives as a way to combat crime. Second Lieutenant C HARLES

D ISSTON is a student at the U.S. Army flight school at Ft. r ucker, Alabama. A DAM F LISS is managing litigation in the Travelers toxic torts office in Hartford, Connecticut. He plans to attend the University of Connecticut Law School in Fall 2004. D AVID H YMAN teaches business english as a second language in Madrid, Spain. D EANNA R EMMES is working at g oodwin Procter, LLP. in Boston as a case assistant in their litigation department. B RANDON

W ARSHAW is staff assistant in the White House Travel Office. b

of political science, especially American political science.” From its beginning, political science has prided itself on being a ‘real world’ discipline, with aims that range from the democratic consolidation of states in transition to the revolutionary transformation of new states. Several conference participants discussed the impact of American political science on political studies in europe and Asia, and in the process explored the identity of American political science as seen from the vantage point of significant “outsiders.”

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at the University of Paris.

T HOMAS D O w ELL ‘05 spent his junior year at I nST eP Cambridge, where he also had an internship with PAC eC (Public and Corporate e conomic Consultants) in Cambridge. This summer he will have an internship with the Presidential Classroom (PC) program in Washington, D.C. PC Interns are provided valuable work experience in the epicenter of American politics. S U z ANNE F RENCH ‘05 studied at the London School of economics during her junior year, and ran in the London Marathon. P ETER G LENN ‘06 will spend his junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

100 YEARS (continued from page 1) the undergraduate program in political economy remains one of the murphy institute’s fundamental strengths.

J OHN H RYHORCHUK ‘05 was the Main Section editor of the Tulane Hullabaloo During Winter-Spring semester 2004, he also had an internship with the Bureau of g overnment research (Bgr) in new Orleans. His project was to provide an analysis of blight elimination programs in Baltimore and Philadelphia that Bgr could draw on for application in new Orleans. S ARAH M ILLER ‘06 will spend her junior year in Senegal studying at the Baobab Center. Operated by African Consultants International, the Baobab Center operates in partnership with the Office of International education at Beloit College. Julie N IEMC z URA ‘05 spent her junior year at the Universidade de São Paolo, Brazil.

Invited participants included Michael Brintnall (executive Director, American Political Science Association), J.g.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), James Moore (Concordia), Alan r yan (Oxford), Cheryl Welch (Simmons), Dorothy ross (Johns Hopkins), Wilhelm Bleek (Bochum and Toronto), and reiji Matsumoto (Waseda). Tulane faculty participants included nancy Maveety, Thomas Langston, Jonathan riley, gerald gaus, and richard F. Teichgraeber III. b

Her stay there was funded by a David L. Boren Scholarship from the national Security education Program. O LI v IA wATKINS ‘06, Army rOTC cadet, chaired the newcomb Senate Spring Arts Committee, which planned and implemented a week-long arts festival. J EFF G REENBERG ‘06 was named to the Tulane College Honor Board. And finally, this summer I RFAN M EHMOOD ‘05 , A LE x ANDRA C HANIN ‘06 , and M ARY R UTHERFORD ‘06 will attend the Summer Institute of the Fund for American Studies Program in Washington, D.C. In partnership with g eorgetown University, the Summer Institute combines lectures, coursework, internships, and site briefings at key institutions of national government.

Clearly, the undergraduate program in political economy remains one of the Murphy Institute’s fundamental strengths. In May 2004, we counted 125 undergraduate majors: of these 77 are students in Tulane College; 45 in newcomb College; and 3 pursuing double majors in the Freeman School of Business. eighty-four finished the academic year with grade point averages above 3.0, twenty-eight with 3.5 or higher. Twenty-eight political economy majors were members of the Tulane Honors Program, and ten were Dean’s Honor Scholars. b