詹妮弗·埃里克森(摄影:加里·韦恩·吉尔伯特)
Associate Professor of Political Science 詹妮弗•埃里克森, an award-winning researcher on global security and arms control, is this year's recipient of 电子游戏软件's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award.
每年, BC students in the prestigious honor society submit nominations for outstanding teachers who have positively influenced their experiences at BC, 无论是在教室里还是在教室外. 教师 are selected for the award based on the cumulative nominations from students over multiple years.
学生 who nominated 埃里克森 for the PBK Teaching Award cited her willingness to offer insight and direction beyond the classroom, whether for specific assignments or as a means to better understand issues, 趋势, 以及与她的专业知识有关的事件.
“She is phenomenal at explaining the complexities of international relations and always willing to help students in office hours. She helped me devise a topic for my thesis and served as an informal academic adviser during the course selection process.”
“Professor 埃里克森 has spent countless hours helping me to refine my original ideas and stimulate my curiosity as a student and scholar, 尤其是关于我的论文. Her wisdom taught me to persist until I found the right topic.”
她的国际电子游戏正规平台导论课程, 直到今天, still remains one of my favorite courses I've taken here at 电子游戏软件. 这很有挑战性, 然而引人入胜, and her passion and interest in her students was evident in the way she conducted class.”
“She truly cares so much about each and every one of her students, 希望我们在各方面都取得成功. Sophomore year can be an extremely pivotal time for college students, and the support I received—and continue to receive—from Professor 埃里克森 led me in a very positive direction.”
埃里克森, also a member of the International Studies Program faculty, came to BC in 2010 after serving as a postdoctoral research fellow in the War and Peace Studies Program at the Dartmouth College Dickey Center for International Understanding. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on international relations theory, 全球治理, 全球化与国家安全, 以及欧盟外交事务.
In 2017, 埃里克森 won the American Political Science Association Foreign Policy Section Award for her book 危险的交易: Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation. In 危险的交易, she explored why major arms-producing democracies—previously opposed to controls on exporting arms to human rights violators and conflict zones—changed their stance, leading to the groundbreaking Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) overwhelmingly passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013.
埃里克森 challenged existing theories of state behavior while providing insight into the role of reputation as a social mechanism to gain treaty support, and the importance of government transparency and accountability in generating compliance with new norms and rules.
Her other honors include a first prize in social sciences awarded by the Council for European Studies for her article on human rights and European arms transfer policy.
埃里克森 said the Phi Beta Kappa award is special to her by virtue of it being given by BC students.
“They are the ones who see professors in the classroom for weeks at a time, 谁比任何人都更了解我们是老师, and they are the ones in whose intellectual and professional development we faculty members hope to play a lasting role. The professors I had as an undergraduate and graduate student did that for me—in fact, I would not be a professor without their mentorship—and I would like very much to do the same for my students at 电子游戏软件, 无论他们在职业生涯中渴望做什么. I also want my students to grow in their thinking and ability to analyze the world around them, and so my classes challenge them to grapple with difficult arguments and empirical topics about world politics for which there are no easy answers.
“我知道这些课程不容易, but I have been so impressed by the remarkable willingness of BC students to take on these challenges and come away even more motivated. So it is particularly meaningful to me to have the PBK inductees affirm that I have had a positive, lasting influence on their learning and college experience.”
埃里克森’s activities at BC have included co-founding and co-organizing the Annual Senior Thesis Poster Session for students in the social sciences, 人文学科, 以及文化电子游戏正规平台项目, and serving as a faculty mentor for the McNair Scholars Program and Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program.
In 2014, 埃里克森 was named as the inaugural White Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor, an endowed assistant professorship established with a gift by Susan and Michael White ’74 as part of a University initiative to support junior faculty research and early-career development. 埃里克森 was promoted to associate professor in 2016.
肖恩·史密斯|大学传播| 2019年6月