A number of Elon faculty took part in the annual International Studies Association (ISA) meeting held in New York from February 14-19. ISA has more than 4,000 members worldwide and is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in the field.
Brian Digre, a professor of history, attended sessions associated with the administration of the grant received to enhance the Middle Eastern concentration within the International Studies Major.
Kerstin Sorensen, an assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Poverty Reduction as Social Policy: The Inter-American Development Bank in Latin America.”
Sean Giovanello, an assistant professor of political science, presented two papers at the conference titled “The Challenges of Multilateral Arms Control Treaty Ratification in the United States” and “Riot Control Agents and Chemical Weapons Arms Control in the United States.” Giovanello and Laura Roselle, a professor of political science, also attended the ISA-South business meeting and presented a proposal to hold the 2011 ISA-South conference at Elon.
Roselle served as discussant for an invitation-only workshop, presented two papers, and chaired the International Communication Section’s business meeting. She served as a discussant at the workshop Great Powers after the Bush Presidency: Interests, Strategies and Narratives. The papers she presented were “Flags Flying, Guns Blazing: Patriotic Messages During Conflict” and “Conflict Models and Cyberinfrastructure Policy.”
Roselle, as president of the International Communication Section of ISA for 2008-2009, oversaw a membership drive and the development of a cooperative relationship with the Information Technology Policy section of the American Political Science Association.