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The 2009 Magellan Circle Earl H. Carroll Fellows include Gary Goertz, Jake Harwood and Thomas Sheridan.

By Lori Harwood, College of Social, Behavioral Sciences
October 28, 2009

Three faculty members in the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences have been named 2009 Magellan Circle Earl H. Carroll Fellows – one of the highest honors the college gives to its faculty.

The Magellan Circle is the College's donor society, which provides financial support for students and faculty. The award is made possible by support from U.S. District Court Judge Earl H. Carroll, a member of the Magellan Circle, and membership begins at $1,000 per year.

Its newest members are UA professors Gary Goertz, Jake Harwood and Thomas Sheridan. Each will receive a one-time stipend of $5,000. 

Gary Goertz, a professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, works on problems of international conflict and conflict resolution and on advancing social science research methodology.

Goertz, who has written three books and has co-authored two more, has authored or co-authored 50 articles and book chapters. His research funding has come from grants from the National Science Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace.

His research has had a significant impact on the study of international conflict. Along with collaborator Paul Diehl, he is responsible for introducing into the field the now widely used concept of "enduring rivalry," the phenomenon of long-standing and often violent confrontations between the same pairs of states.

Jake Harwood, a professor in the UA communication department, is an international expert on intergroup relations and communication and aging.

Harwood, former director of the UA Gerontology Graduate Program, recently finished a term as editor of Human Communication Research, the flagship journal in the field of communication. He as authored or edited three books and published an additional 80 book chapters and journal articles. He has earned nine research awards and two university-wide teaching awards.

For 25 years, Professor Tom Sheridan has been a distinguished scholar, teacher and mentor at the UA, first at the Arizona State Museum and then with the Southwest Center and the School of Anthropology. He is an expert in ethnohistorical methods, the anthropology of history, Arizona history, and environmental and ecological anthropology.

Sheridan, a prolific writer, directs the Hopi Documentary History Project and serves on commissions dedicated to conservation and has received several grants, most recently from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Our Magellan Circle Faculty Fellows Program allows us to recognize and reward our top faculty," said Beth Mitchneck, interim dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

"These are faculty who are leaders in their fields, who are valuable mentors to students, and whose international stature helps us recruit other top faculty," Mitchneck added.