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10-2-2009 * Jeremiah Garretson successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Changing Media, Changing Minds: The Lesbian and Gay Movement, Television, and Public Opinion”'); document.writeln('

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5-14-2009 * Jennifer Anderson has been awarded a Dissertation Enhancement Grant by the National Science Foundation'); document.writeln('

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4-27-2009 * Farhana Loonat has been awarded the International Peace Scholarship from the Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood for the 2009-2010 academic year.'); document.writeln('

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4-27-2009 * Jeremiah Garretson awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the State University of New York, Stony Brook beginning fall 2009. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Brian Faughnan has been awarded the Tinker Field Research Grant from the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt for pre-dissertation research. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Daniel Montalvo has been awarded the Simon Collier Travel Award from the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt for dissertation research. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Daniel Montalvo has been awarded a Summer Research Award from the College of Arts and Science support dissertation research. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Gbmende Johnson has been awarded a Summer Research Award from the College of Arts and Science support dissertation research'); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Diana Orces has been awarded the Social Science Dissertation Fellowship from the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Stacy Clifford has been awarded a Summer Research Award from the College of Arts and Science support dissertation research. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Miguel Cruz has been awarded the Social Science Dissertation Fellowship from the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt and the Warren Fellowship from the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt (declined).'); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Farhana Loonat presented "Errors of Judgment: The Case of Pain Sensations" at the annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa. '); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Diana Orces\' paper "Democratic Values and Public Opinion Toward Immigrants: The Case of Ecuador" has been accepted for publication Latin American Politics and Society.'); document.writeln('

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4-20-2009 * Sonalini Sapra has been awarded the Kenyon Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Kenyon College beginning in fall 2009'); document.writeln('

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4-16-2009 * Fernanda Boidi has successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The Paradox of Representation: Trust in Legislatures in Latin America." She currently serves as a research associate at CIFRA and teaches at the Universidad de Montevideo'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Juan Carlos Donoso successfully defended his dissertation entitled "A Means to an End: Judicial Independence, Corruption and the Rule of Law in Latin America." He currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship for an NSF funded research project under the dir'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Abby Cordova successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Divided We Fail: Economic Inequality, Social Mistrust, and Political Instability in Latin American Democracies." She currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship with the Latin American Public O'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Jenna Lukasik successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The Inter-Branch Struggle over Tort Reform: Testing a Separation of Powers Model in the State Context." She has accepted a position as an assistant professor of political science at Wheaton C'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Jennifer Anderson presented "Watching War: Strategic Displays of War Violence on Television News" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Stacy Clifford presented "Biopolitical Citizenship: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Relationship between Genetics and Political Behavior" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Alejandro Diaz-Dominguez presented "The Effects of Religious Variables in the Mexican Transition to Democracy: Public Opinion, Values, and Uncertainty in Estimation" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Brian Faughnan presented "Explaining Voter Turnout in Colombia: A Subnational Approach" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Grace Jensen presented "The Effect of Political Trust on Immigration Policy Preferences" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Jeremiah Garretson presented "Why Social Change?: Social Contact, Attribution, Television, and the Liberalization of Public Opinion towards Gays" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 * Jenna Lukasik presented "State Supreme Courts and the Political Environment: How Interest Group Participation Influences State Policy-Making" at the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.'); document.writeln('

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2-9-2009 *Carrie Russell presented "The Social Costs of Voting in Public: A Field Experiment of Voter Turnout in the 2008 Iowa Caucus" (with Christian Grose) and "Race and the Rule of Law in Tennessee: 1865-1965" at 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science As'); document.writeln('

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