Fellowships

2004 McCarthy Public Service Faculty Fellowships

In March of 2004, the McCarthy Center awarded $109,582 in fellowships to USF faculty for research that inspires and equips USF students to engage in public service and impact public policy with fundamental concern for poor and marginalized communities.

Five fellowships were selected through an extremely competitive application process from among fourteen outstanding proposals. The Selection Committee was comprised of three members of the McCarthy Center Faculty Steering Committee, and two members of the Center staff. The Selection Committee chose the following five fellowships based on two major criteria: 1) how well the proposal addressed a specific public policy issue, and 2) to what degree the project directly involved USF students.

1. Media Deregulation and Community Politics: Increasing Capacity of Community Organizations to Utilize Media
   Investigates and analyzes the interactions of local community groups with news media in order to assess the state of local democratic communications in the wake of historic deregulation of broadcast news in the US.
   Bernadette Barker-Plummer
   Associate Professor
   Dorothy Kidd
   Assistant Professor
   Department of Media Studies

    

2. Student Science Advisors for the Environment: Community and College Collaborating for Knowledge
   SSAFE enables postsecondary environmental science student researchers to share their research findings and expertise with environmental policy makers, particularly with community advocacy groups, which may not otherwise have access to environmental researchers. Students and faculty have partnered with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project for student research projects.
   John Callaway
   James Fine
   Department of Environmental Sciences

    

3. Death Penalty Project: Southern States Research
   This project provided funding for ten USF law students to conduct research on death penalty policies in five states in the southern United States during the Summer of 2004. Each student prepared a report on his or her experience and findings in the Fall of 2004.
   Steven F. Shatz
   Philip and Muriel Barnett Professor of Law
   School of Law

    

4. Fostering Broadly Based Development: The Economics of Institution-Building in Less-Developed Countries
   This project provided finding for five USF economics students to conduct research on economic development in less-developed countries during the Summer of 2004. The findings of each student will be presented at a regional conference to be hosted at USF in the Fall of 2004.
   Bruce Wydick
   Associate Professor and Chair
   Department of Economics

    

5. Environmental Policymaking in the Internet Era: Enhancing Public Involvement in Natural Resource-Dependent Communities of the Sierra Nevada
   This project studies the patterns of public involvement in environmental regulatory rule-making. It will concentrate on natural resource-dependent communities in the Central Sierra Nevada region, and how these communities utilize Internet-based systems to voice their opinions on proposed regulations.
   Stephen Zavestoski
   Assistant Professor
   Department of Sociology

    

6. Transparency in Government: Making Information Visible to the Common Citizen
   This project researches and develops technologies that provide improved access and visibility to publicly available data concerning how we are governed. Targeted data include campaign financing data, political voting records, and previously classified documents that are now disclosed by difficult to access. The projected audience for the developed software includes the voting public, political researchers and journalists, and ethics watchdog organizations.
   David Wolber
   Professor
   Department of Computer Sciences

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