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Michael Bosia

Michael Bosia of the Saint Michael鈥檚 political science faculty in mid-March attended the annual meeting in Montreal of his professional association, the International Studies Association. Bosia has been active member of ISA since 2006, and was a founding member of the LGBTQA Caucus of the ISA.

At the meeting, Bosia was recipient of the 2023 Ladd Hollist Award for Service to ISA. The executive director, Professor Mark Boyer, PhD, who is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut), made the presentation with these laudatory words about Bosia鈥檚 work for the association:

鈥淧rofessor. Mike Bosia is the 2023 awardee of the Ladd Hollist Award for Service to ISA. Mike is a professor at St. Michael鈥檚 College in Colchester, VT. Mike鈥檚 research and teaching focus on economic justice, democratic practice, and state violence and human rights 鈥� by exploring the ethical in the political. In his work, he asks students and colleagues to think about the moral framework that informs politics and the ethical consequences of choices made within such frameworks.

鈥淲ithin ISA, he has long worked to do the same, as he has recurrently been a strong voice pushing us all to consider marginalized groups and alternative perspectives on a wide variety of topics important to ISA, the profession and the world. Throughout his work within ISA, he has also searched for the building of constructive solutions to the problems of the day.

鈥淗e has been very active in ISA鈥檚 LGBTQA Caucus, chaired ISA鈥檚 committee on Representation and Diversity, was elected as a Vice President of ISA, served actively on the ISA Executive Committee and also chaired the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities most recently. He was also invaluable to ISA鈥檚 leadership in helping the association navigate some of the political challenges we faced regarding several of our recent convention sites. As this record of service suggests, Mike steps up when asked and always does the job very well. I鈥檓 sure ISA鈥檚 leadership will continue to seek him out for further roles in the coming years. Mike, thanks for everything you do for ISA. It is greatly appreciated.鈥�

Also at the Montreal ISA meeting, Bosia presented a paper on a panel that he organized. This was the paper title: David Wojnarowicz and Queer Consciousness for an Age of Destruction. Wojnarowicz was an artist and prolific journal writer in the East Village until his death resulting from AIDS-related complications in 1992.

Bosia said the panel was entitled 鈥淨ueer Stakes and Disruptive Politics in IR鈥� with 50 scholars attending to hear presentations and commentary from scholars based in Quebec, Mexico, the U.S., U.K, and Germany, with experience and expertise in global politics and regions including Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, South and Central Asia, and Latin America.

Bosia also was discussant on a panel entitled 鈥淔rom Everyday LGBTQ+ Activisms to Security and State Oppression,鈥� and presented on the roundtable 鈥淚SA in the World鈥� as part of his membership on a presidential subcommittee examining that question.

Along with his Saint Michael鈥檚 faculty roles in political science and international relations, Bosia is a Fellow with the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto聽聽 –聽聽 Chair, Committee on Professional Rights and Responsibilities, International Studies Association.