Two FPA Faculty Members Recognized with Achievement Awards
Two FPA Faculty Members Recognized with Achievement Awards
On March 27, 2012, senior officials at Carleton University recognized some of the most outstanding achievements in teaching, professional accomplishment, and research. Among the recipients were two faculty members from the Faculty of Public Affairs. We would like to congratulate Vincent Kazmierski and Randall Germain on reaching this extraordinary of achievement and peer recognition.
Teaching Achievement Award
Vincent Kazmierski
Assistant Professor
Department of Law and Legal Studies
Transforming the Teaching of Legal Research Methods
This award will be used to continue an ongoing project (with Professor Brettel Dawson) engaged in transforming the Department of Law’s second-year legal research methods course by creating a blended model of live and online teaching. It will leverage technology to enhance students’ appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of research. This will be achieved by using a variety of tools, including web-based resources, camtasia videos, electronic evaluation and feedback mechanisms, videotaped interviews with legal actors, and moderated panel discussions involving faculty teaching in the department. This ongoing project is supported by the work of librarians, graduate TAs in the Department of Law and NPSIA, colleagues in the department, the EDC, and CUOL.
Research Achievement Award
Randall Germain
Professor
Department of Political Science
The Idea of Historical Reasoning in International Political Economy: an intellectual history
This research project will trace the intellectual history of the idea of historical reasoning in the field of international political economy (IPE). IPE is both very new and very old as an academic field of study. Recently, the main theoretical lines of debate have become standardized around what are known as ‘constructivism’ and ‘rationalism’. I wish to insert into this debate an alternative approach grounded in a form of historical reasoning which, also reaches out to embrace elements of constructivism and rationalism.