W&M in Washington Program Themes
Current Theme
Spring 2012
Program Professor: Ron Rapoport
Department: Government
Theme/Course Description:
"The 2012 Election: Parties, Campaigns, Consultants, and Elections" (pdf)
Upcoming Themes
Fall 2012
Program Professor: Mark Fowler
Department: Environmental Science and Policy
Theme/ Course Description: "The Ethics of Sustainability" (pdf)
Spring 2013
Program Professor: Greg Bowers
Department: Music
Theme/Course Description: "Interdisciplinary Art in Washington: The Promise for a New National Arts Policy" (pdf)
Fall 2013
Program Professor: Berhanu Abegaz
Department: Economics
Theme/Course Description: "The International Economy and Deepening Globalization in the 21st Century" (pdf)
Spring 2014
Program Professor: Hiroshi Kitamura
Department: History
Theme/Course Description: "US Foreign Relations -- Then and Now" (pdf)
Fall 2014
Program Professor: Arnab Basu
Department: Economics
Theme/Course Description: "International Development -- Poverty, Policy, and Change" (pdf)
Previous Themes
Fall 2011
Program Professor: Alan Wallach
Department: Art and Art History and American Studies
Theme/ Course Description: "The Future of Art in Modern Culture" (pdf)
Spring 2011
Program Professor: Dan Doherty
Department: Government
Theme/ Course Description: "Media as the Fourth Branch of Government" (pdf)
Fall 2010
Program Professor: Ann Marie Stock
Department: Modern Languages and Literatures
Theme/ Course Description: "New Media and Culture in the Nation's Capital" (pdf)
Spring 2010
Program Professor: TJ Cheng
Department: Government
Theme/ Course Description: "International Politics in Economic Hard Times" (pdf)
Spring 2009
Program Professor: Bruce Campbell
Department: Modern Languages
Theme/ Course Description: "War, Memory and the Holocaust" (pdf)
Fall 2008
Program Professor: Paula Pickering
Department: Government
Theme/ Course Description: "Post-Conflict State Building" (pdf)
Spring 2008
Program Professor: Amy Oakes
Department: Government
Theme/ Course Description: "U.S. National Security in the Twenty-First Century" (pdf)
Fall 2007
Program Professor: Marc Lee Raphael
Department: Religion
Theme/ Course Description: "Religion and the Federal State" (pdf)
Spring 2007
Program Professor: Anne Rasmussen
Department: Music
Theme/ Course Description: "Washington and the Arts: The Intersection of the Global and the Local" (pdf)
Fall 2006
Program Professor: Chris Nemacheck
Department: Government
Theme/ Course Description: "Courting Politics, Politicking the Courts: The Intersections Between Law and Politics" (pdf)












