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Faculty Activities Log.
by Jeremy Lewis; revised 13 July 2005.  Notes in reverse chronological order:

Summer 2005:

• Faculty News: Dr. Lewis has been invited to speak to Buena Vista University in Iowa during September as part of a sponsored lecture and discussion series (like HC's Stallworth lectures).  He will present a lecture and hold ACES seminars on aspects of British politics. He'll be in good company.  The next lecturer in the American Heritage Lecture Series will be the Right Honourable John Major, Conservative prime minister 1990-97, and the member from Huntington [sic].
• Faculty News: Dr. Lewis participated in a residential faculty seminar, "Interpreting recent and controversial history," with Professor Ernest May, at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 21-23 June 2005. The topics covered case studies of controversial presidential decisionmaking from the dropping of the atom bomb, via presidential tape recordings of the cuban missile crisis and civil rights confrontations, to the 9/11/01 attacks and drafting of the official report.  A large stack of readings was kindly provided by the Gilder Lehrman foundation.  Dr. Lewis will be using some of this material for his new seminar for Fall '05 on world politics and terrorism.  Returning to Harvard faculty seminars after twenty years' absence, he enjoyed one hour of free time and returned with images of Harvard yard, now posted at http://fs.Huntingdon.edu/jLewis/Jem/Travel/Harvard2005.htm .
• Faculty News: By invitation of the Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Lewis participated in the Air War College's week-long National Security Forum in May.  Lectures from both general officers and civilian professors stimulated intensive discussions ranging from the uses of special forces to the future of networked sensors in space. 
• Faculty News: Dr. Jeremy Lewis, political science, taught a summer graduate seminar in Area Studies of Western Europe to officers and civilians at Maxwell Air Force Base.  The course covered such topics as social movements, the European Union and the politics of developed countries, for the Master's program in International Relations.  See http://fs.huntingdon.edu/jLewis/Syl/MIR/ .
• Faculty News: Dr. Jeremy Lewis was interviewed about the 07/07/05 bombings of London by WAKA-TV8 and quoted extensively by the Montgomery Advertiser on 07/08/05 (see http://fs.Huntingdon.edu/jLewis/Prof/NewsQuotes/LondonBomb070705.htm .  He is preparing material on world politics and international terrorism for a seminar at HC in Fall '05.



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• Lewis quoted in newspaper article on terrorist bombings in London, 8 July '05
• participant, Harvard faculty seminar with Professor Ernest May on recent & controversial history, 21-23 June '05. Images of Harvard Yard. 
• Participant, US Air Force National Security Forum, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, May 2005.

• participant, US Air Force Educators' Tour, San Antonio, 22-25 Feb. 2005.
• Dr. Lewis took students to several guest speakers' evening events at Alabama World Affairs Council [notes, '04-05].
• "Electronic freedom of information, privacy and security issues during the W. Bush administration." [References] A paper presented to the Southern Political Science Association conference, New Orleans, 7 Jan. 2005.

• Dr. Lewis discussed the war in Iraq on a 30 minute television program assessing the year, recorded 16 Dec. '04 and broadcast 29 Dec. on APTV's For the Record. 
• Invited participant, US Air Force Officer Candidate School tour, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, 9 November 2004.
• Dr. Lewis took students to several guest speaker events at Alabama World Affairs Council [notes, '04-05].
• He also reviewed a doctoral dissertation for Andhra University.
• Dr. Lewis reviewed textbook manuscripts or prospecti in the fields of public administration, public policy and American politics, for several national publishers. 
• His paper was accepted for the Southern Political Science Association conference in New Orleans, January 6-8 2005.
• Dr. Lewis brought in to class a speaker on regimes in the middle east, Lt. Col. Michael Meyer, a recent former Air Attache in Syria.
• A second class speaker, Col. Donald Olds, spoke to class about his experiences in political negotiations at NATO headquarters in Beligium.
• Dr. Lewis was recognized for recruitment efforts, converting prospects to deposited students. 
• He conducted a comprehensive review, pursuant to President West's charge to reconsider all programs at the college, particularly those with small enrolments. 
• This resulted in the deletion of these programs (though political science continues): Public Administration, Public Affairs, and International Studies.
• A survey of graduates in Public Affairs showed that five of the first seven alumni are enrolled in graduate programs or law schools. 
• Of the first two graduates in International Studies, one is completing a master's degree and one has been admitted to the Diplomatic School of Spain.
• The first alumni in (the larger program) Political science have a strong record of enrolments in graduate and law schools.
• Two of the first Political Science alumni ('01) and one from Public Affairs have completed law school and passed the Bar.

Summer 2004:

• Professor Lewis researched the Bush administration and privacy and official information issues for a conference paper.
• He devoted three weeks of summer 2004 to recruitment for the college.

Spring 2004:

• Dr. Lewis again convened with Dr. Grant Hammond the Great Decisions in Foreign Policy [notes, '04] discussion series.
• This year the series included not just outstanding faculty from Ai University, but also visiting guest speakers from Saudi Arabia.
• Dr. Lewis took students to several guest speaker events at Alabama World Affairs Council [notes, '03-04].
• In January, the British Politics travel experience involved (besides the usual cathedrals, castles and culture) exceursions to Oxford university, the Hosue of Commons and London's interest group lobbby.  We enjoyed two tutorials in Oxford University, with Dr. Lewis's former colleagues, lunch in C.S. Lewis's pub, and dinner in Dylan Thomas's pub.  The next day involved two seminars with leading Members of Parliament in the committee rooms of the House of Commons, plus Question Time from the Strangers' gallery.  A final day gave us a long seminar in Bloomsbury with a leading public interest group director.

• Dr. Lewis taught a new course on British Politics, with a British travel option for January 2004.

• During the summer, Dr. Jeremy Lewis (political science) made two invited presentations,  "Strategy, Technology and Expertise in the Battle of the Falklands /Malvinas, 1982" to officers and faculty of the graduate school (SAASS) and a related presentation to those of Air War College at Air University. 
• He also reviewed a doctoral dissertation for Andhra university; and textbook prospecti for publishers. 
• In August he was interviewed by WSFA-TV on public opinion poll responses to the Governor's tax reform initiative. 

• Dr Lewis spoke to Dr. Gray's Symposium on Kings and Queens about monarchy with emphasis on the British. [Monarchy Notes]. 
• Dr. Jeremy Lewis, Political Science, gave two seminar presentations on international relations issues to the Great Decisions program of the Foreign Policy Association, organized by Air University faculty with participation by outstanding students from magnet and private schools. 
• "Unilateralism versus Multilateralism in diplomacy," January 13, 2003.
• "Problems and Prospects for European Integration," March 3, 2003.
• The Public Affairs Club also attended the speech by Attorney General Janet Reno, and the notes and images may now be found on the above web site.

 
• Dr. Lewis's American Policy System class took a field trip to Judge McLemore's district court for criminal docket day.  After observing the district attorney and public defender working with the judge on disposal of various cases, they were treated to a conference in judge's chambers.

 
• Dr. Lewis's Constitutional Law class attended a luncheon speech by Howard Zehr, the leading author on "Restorative Justice," at an event sponsored by Judge Tracey McCooey.

 
• He also judged the "Leadership" speech contest, sponsored by Alabama Power, Sat. 8 March 2003. 
• He is gave a  speech "Dilemma in the Des[s]ert: US foreign policy and the war with Iraq," to the Rotary Club of Montgomery, 17 March 2003.

 
• He is developing a new course on British Politics for Fall 2003, with a British travel option for January 2004.

• Dr. Jeremy Lewis, coordinator of the Political Science Program, was interviewed by Chris Holmes of WSFA-TV on the prevalence of negative TV spots (critical campaign advertising) in current Alabama campaigns, and the depressant effect on voter registration and turnout. 

 
• Dr. Lewis also gave two invited presentations in Anchorage, Alaska.  The first, on contrasting economic and national security models of US foreign policy under the presidencies of Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43, was to the Alaska World Affairs Council (comprising business, governmental and academic leaders), and the second, ranging from US foreign policy to external perceptions of US society from De Tocqueville to the present, to a large 'town hall' meeting of teachers and students. 

Dr. Jeremy Lewis, associate professor of political science, participated in the World Affairs Councils of America conference on the Future of the Americas, in January in Washington, DC. 

He was presented with their Michael Maybach Award for his efforts to introduce students to world affairs. 

Highlights of the conference included (among many presentations by leading officials) a major policy speech by President Bush and a presentation by the novelist Isabel Allende. 

Dr. Lewis has become the web master for the conference proceedings and images.

Dr. Lewis is also web master for the American Society of Access Professionals in Washington, DC, uploading notes from their conference last December.  The conference proceedings were heavily influenced by the new era of security threats, many presenters referring to the materials removed from government web sites following September's terrorist attacks. 

Dr. Jeremy Lewis, assistant professor of political science, attended a speech by President George W. Bush and other dignitaries last week during a visit to the nation's capitol for a World Affairs Councils of America meeting. 

Dr. Jeremy Lewis, associate professor of political science, will attend the conference of the American Society of Access Professionals in Washington, D.C., participating in discussions on open government, electronic government services, and national security secrecy in the light of the Bush administration's current anti-terrorism measures. 

• This past summer, Dr. Lewis chaired a panel on Comparative Administrative Culture (for Research Group 48) at the World Congress of Political Science, of International PSA, Quebec City, August 2000.  Re-elected a board member, he also became webmaster to the group and has since set up a couple of websites for scholars on several continents.
• Dr. Lewis also returned after a five year absence to England and France for several weeks, scouting out locations and speakers for future Huntingdon travel abroad plans.
• He also completed an instructor's manual for a new edition of William E. Hudson, American Democracy in Peril: Seven Challenges to America's Future. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. Approx 70 pages. Third edition, January 2001; 
• Dr. Lewis made frequent appearances alone or with students on all Montgomery television news stations and in the Advertiser newspaper during election campaign season, autumn 2000.During the first presidential debate, students or professor appeared on all local channels.  He commentated on electoral college during vote counting dispute in Florida; and discussed middle east strategy and naval damage control tactics during USS Cole bombing.
• He also spoke on "American values from De Tocqueville to the present" to the Unitarian Universalist church.
• Dr. Lewis has spent most of his spare time in the last twelve months developing his political science website, which doubles in scale about every two months.  It is, he says, a regrettable addiction.
• Dr. Lewis will be sending four excellent undergraduates as delegates to the US Air Force Academy Assembly on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, in Colorado Springs, Co, in February 2001. Delegates will be Margaret Enfinger, Angela Graham Dupree, Carrie McDonough and Larry McLemore.  They will participate in the roundtables and workshops over three days with cadets and top students from colleges across the country.
• He proudly announces the fourth edition of the college's Justice reader for the liberal arts symposium has been delivered, with a number of new readings selected by faculty.

May 2000:

• Dr. Jeremy Lewis is currently finishing another instructor's manual for a leading textbook from Chatham House Publishers: Ball and Peters, Modern Politics and Government 6/e.  Another two are expected this summer; all will be published online as well as in hardcopy. 

In January, his two chapters of G. David Garson (ed) The Handbook of Public Information Systems were published by Marcel Dekker.  Subsequently he has been working on an online conference paper and academic journal article in the same subfield, the uses of computers in open government.  For the World Congress of political science, meeting this year in Quebec, he continues to serve on the board of the research group on comparative administrative culture.

"FOIA and the Emergence of Federal Information Policy in the 1980s and 1990s," chapter 4 of G. David Garson (ed), Handbook of Public Information Systems (NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000). Contents. Bibliography. Table.

"Electronic Access to Public Records," chapter 15 of G. David Garson (ed), Handbook of Public Information Systems (NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000).  Contents. Bibliography.

 

During spring term, he spent most weekends creating two websites on the Huntingdon faculty server. The Political Science site (http://fs.huntingdon.edu/history/jlewis/) now holds all course syllabi and research links; the enhanced site for the Liberal Arts Symposium in Justice (http://fs.huntingdon.edu/las/1999-2000/102/102_syllabus.html) has numerous links, notes, events and images.  Both have numerous yearbook-like images of students and speakers for your edification.

 

After a process of trial and error, he passed on his observations and caveats on website creation to the Faculty development consortium conference on instructional technology, held in Montgomery in April. He gave two talks, one as a full presentation with papers and online demonstration, and one as part of a panel of Huntingdon faculty.

 

The most frequently enjoyed web pages for outsiders this term have been the action photos from the Coed Rugby Football Jan Term course, which was featured on local television.  (This is found on the political science home page).

 

In February, Dr. Lewis participated in the US Air Force Academy annual assembly on public policy.  This year's topic, "diversity", was also attended by two outstanding HC undergraduate delegates, Amy Garrett (a native American) and Woo-Jung Lee (a South Korean).  Both received highly favorable evaluations by their roundtable leaders.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dr. Lewis reports a good semester of the faculty seminar on Justice, with the faculty opting to add a number of classic readings for next spring.  As director of the college interdisciplinary symposium on Justice, Dr. Lewis had the pleasure of awarding HC tankards to the best received lecturers: to Dr. Harald Rohlig for "Growing up Under an Unjust Regime" (his memoir of persecution in Nazi Germany); to Rabbi David Baylinson for "The Holocaust"; and to the final speaker, D.A. Ellen Brooks, for "Prosecuting Justice Under the Constitution: The Role of the District Attorney".

• Dr. Jeremy Lewis has two anthology chapters in press, “The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Emergence of Federal Information Policy in the 1980s and 1990s,” chapter 4, and “Electronic Access to Public Records,” chapter 15, of G. David Garson (ed) Handbook of Public Information Systems, (NY: Marcel Dekker , 1999). 

• Dr. Lewis made two paper presentations to the American PSA Annual Meeting, in Boston, MA: "The Supreme Court's Role in Access Policy," a paper presented to the panel on Law and the Courts, and "Comparative Administrative Culture: Bureaucratic Transparency in Sweden, Canada, Britain and the United States," a poster session in Comparative Politics.

• Recently Lewis completed a large instructor’s manual for the Fifth Edition of B. Guy Peters, American Public Policy: Process and Performance, (NY: Chatham House Publishers, 1999).  In response, Chatham has requested a series of manuals over the next year.

• He has also been active as a reviewer of grant proposals for the Latin American area studies research grants consortium, with funding by the Ford Foundation.  Recently he reviewed for the publisher, G. David Garson (ed), Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 1999). 

• Dr. Lewis also attended the American PSA annual conference 1999 in Atlanta, GA, picking up 56 papers for undergraduates at Huntingdon.  He also took two students to the US Air Force Academy Assembly on US-Latin American relations, Colorado Springs, in February.  The political science undergraduates, Jared Lyles and Chad Hobbs, participated in workshops on foreign policy in the student assembly, while Dr. Lewis participated in the faculty seminars and reported the presentation by the first Western Hemisphere Ambassador,  Romero.

• The new major fields are rapidly growing in students: Political science is being pursued by ten undergrads, International Studies by two adventurous souls, and the demanding Public Affairs Tri-subject major already has engaged thirteen students.