| Moscardelli wins APSA Congressional Fellowship by Daniel J. Fitzgibbons, Chronicle staff
The program, established in 1953, allows five or six early- to mid-career political scientists to serve on congressional staffs each year. The fellowship will take Moscardelli to Washington in the fall, where he will participate in an orientation and then spend the succeeding months working in two different staff positions, one with a senator and the other with a member of the House of Representatives. With the other fellows, he also will participate in a Wilson Center program of seminars with the House parliamentarian and staff of the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Legislative Counsel. Moscardelli's dissertation at Emory University examined Senate committee chairs' ability to influence the legislative process by using their authority to influence the choice of other members who will serve on their committee, assign committee staff, create or abolish subcommittees, modify subcommittee agendas, and seek expansions of their own committee's areas of competence. He plans to use his fellowship year to advance this research as well as to enrich his general understanding of how Congress functions. "The Congressional Fellowship is a highly competitive program, and winning one is national recognition as an up-and-coming scholar in the field of legislative studies," said M.J. Peterson, who chairs the Political Science Department. Moscardelli joined the faculty in 1998. |
