Mel Hinich

As colleagues, friends, students, and admirers of Mel Hinich all know,  Mel's tragic death brings to an end one of the truly innovative and productive careers in academics. He was the very definition of a polymath, having made seminal contributions to multiple fields of study.
 
But he was so much more: one of the most interesting and stimulating people ever, an exacting critic of the academy and, yes, curmudgeonly.
 
Please take a moment and compose some thoughts in Mel's memory--scholarly or personal: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/melhinich/

Mel’s website: http://hinich.webhost.utexas.edu/
 
Wikipedia entry on Mel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_J._Hinich

At the department’s initiative, the university will be creating The Melvin J. Hinich Excellence Fund for Graduate Students in the Department of Government.