January 14, 2010
Majeski moves to arts & sciences administration; McCann to head political science
Stephen J. Majeski, a UW professor of political science, has been appointed associate dean for research administration and infrastructure in the College of Arts and Sciences. In the new position, he will manage grants, contracts, space, facilities and technology.
Majeski had been chairman of the political science department for more than nine years. He will be replaced by Michael W. McCann, a professor and former chairman of the department who also founded the program on Law, Societies and Justice.
Majeski received his doctorate from Indiana University in 1981 and has been on the UW faculty since 1984. His academic specialties include international politics as well as formal theory and methodology. In 2009, he and David Sylvan, a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, in Geneva, published U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire. In 2005, Majeski helped Gary Segura, then an associate professor of political science, found the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
McCann received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. Since 2001, he has held the Gordon Hirabayashi Professorship for the Advancement of Citizenship. His books include Distorting the Law: Media, Politics and the Litigation Crisis, co-authored with William Haltom and published in 2004.
