Check out what some of St. Mary's Political Science majors are doing now that they have graduated!
**Spotlight**
2010 SMP Days!
Join your friends, peers and professors for student presentations of their SMPs on May 3rd and 4th in Kent Hall.
Open Water 2010
Open Water: An Undergraduate Journal of the Social Sciences has just released the 2010 edition featuring nine student articles.
Student and Community Workshop on Citizen Lobbying: September 26, 2009
Debating for Democracy: D4D on the Road, Midwest Academy
9:30 am-4:00pm | Daugherty Palmer Commons
Co-sponsored by Project Pericles and the Spencer Foundation
Beyond the Shouts: A Discussion of Health Reform in America - 6 p.m. Monday, September 28, at Daugherty-Palmer Commons
ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. (Sept. 14, 2009) - Everyone -- from Congress to drug and insurance companies to providers and patients -- has an opinion on health care reform. St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) will bring together a panel of policy experts to offer their take on the heated debate and answer community questions. "Beyond the Shouts: A Discussion of Health Reform in America" will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, September 28, at Daugherty-Palmer Commons on the college campus.
Todd Eberly, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Public Policy Studies was interviewed by WTOP News Radio as part of their Answer Desk segment. Professor Eberly was asked to explain the "Public Option" that has been such a contentious part of the health refrom debate. You can listen to the segment here.
Internships
Alumni Updates
Since graduating St. Mary's in 2005, George has obtained a Master degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Internationals Studies in Washington, DC with a concentration in Sub-Saharan African Affairs. He is currently working for an international consultancy firm call The Romulus Group. With clients throughtout the world like the US Chamber of Commerce, the World Food Programme and UNICEF, his role in the organization is helping organizations implement projects and programs, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, that benefit their missions. Many of the organizations seek connections to either sustainable and eco-friendly projects as well as projects that are non-profit and need grant style funding for long term developmental needs. Immediately following graduation, George worked for Governor Martin O'Malley's Gubernatorial campaign. Following the election, he worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee until May 1st of 2009. He helped run the daily operations of the DCCC as well as helped recruit and nurture candidates in a wide variety of districts throughout the diverse political landscape of the United States. Future plans: George hopes to combine his masters with experience working for The Romulus Group to obtain a policy job in international studies. The area of concentration for his thesis was on Sub-Saharan African Affairs and he studied Ethnicity in Central Africa as a catalyst to War Crimes and Unity/Coalition Building, focusing on the Model of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly the Zaire). He might also travel and/or work abroad for a non-profit. For now, he i enjoying life one day at a time.George Connelly
Graduated in 2004 with a degree in political science and a minor in environmental studies. He is currently an Emerson National Hunger Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center. Eric spent the first 6 months of the program working in Tucson, AZ at the Community Food Bank. There, he worked to educate the communities about local food systems and agriculture. He is currently working on local food & farm to school policy with the National Family Farm Coalition. Future Plans:Eric Hoffman
Kerry, Class of 2007, is currently enrolled in the Political Science PhD program at George Washington University and is planning to graduate in May 2012 with a major in International Relations and a minor in Comparative Politics. She is also a graduate teaching assistant, and I have taught American Politics and International Politics so far. Future Plans: Kerry's plan is to go into teaching. The St. Mary's political science department is the reason she decided to get her PhD and teach at the college level, so she hopes to return to SMCM as a professor one day soon.Kerry F. Crawford
