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Ph.D. alumnus M. Cosar Unal receives NASPAA dissertation award

Posted on September 13, 2010 4:08 PM |Permalink

Mustafa Cosar Unal (Ph.D., 2009) received honorable mention for the 2010 National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Annual Dissertation Award. His dissertation was one of two recognized in the nationwide competition. The dissertation, "Turkish Responses to Violence by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK): Policy Choices and Policy Effects" examined the effects of the Turkish Government’s anti-terrorism policies on reducing PKK violence from 1984-2007, the response of the PKK to those policies and the underlying causes of the violence. UMBC Magazine highlighted his research in the article Targeting Terror in Turkey in the Summer 2010 edition. Dr. Unal is an intelligence official with the Turkish National Police.

Todd Eberly and Don Norris on WYPR

Posted on June 21, 2011 2:28 PM |Permalink

Todd Eberly (Ph.D., 2006), assistant professor and acting director of St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Center for the Study of Democracy, and Don Norris (Public Policy) talked with Sheilah Kast of WYPR's Maryland Morning about the role of "political operatives" in campaigns in an interview broadcast on Tuesday, June 21. Listen to the interview.

MPP alumna Pamela Meister is new Harford County Council administrator

Posted on July 15, 2011 10:56 AM |Permalink

Pamela Meister (MPP, 2008) has been appointed administrator of the Harford Council Council. The administrator oversees the 17 person government office. Ms. Meister was formerly the associate director of the Baltimore Jewish Council.

Todd Eberly in the Baltimore Sun on why the Supercommittee failed

Posted on December 7, 2011 3:04 PM |Permalink

An op-ed by Todd Eberly (Ph.D., 2006) on the death of the congressional committee system appeared in the November 27, 2011 Baltimore Sun. Dr. Eberly is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Students, faculty win APHA Honorable Mention

Posted on December 23, 2011 10:07 AM |Permalink

Public Policy faculty Dr. Nancy Miller and Dr. Adele Kirk, along with Dr. Michael Kaiser (Ph.D., 2010) and Ph.D. student Lucas Glos, received honorable mention for their paper, "Potential and realized access among middle-aged and older adults with disabilities," presented at the 2011 American Public Health Association annual meeting.

New book on terrorism by C. Mustafa Unal

Posted on December 23, 2011 10:09 AM |Permalink

Dr. C. Mustafa Unal (Ph.D., 2009) has published a book, Counterterrorism in Turkey: Policy Choices and Policy Effects toward the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) (Routledge, 2011). The book, based on Dr. Unal's dissertation, examined counterterrorism policies from the perspectives of the government and the PKK. He evaluated whether the Turkish government's policy choices so far have been effective (and in what circumstances), and how they have affected both the level and nature of terrorist violence in Turkey.