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Christa
Altenstetter
received her Ph.D. in Political Science
from Heidelberg University and was
a post-doctoral fellow at the John
F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Dr. Altenstetter directed a research
project at the School of Public Health
at Yale University for several years
and was on the research staff of several
American and European Research Institutes.
Additionally, she has frequently served
as consultant to health authorities
and the World Health Organization.
Since 1969, Dr. Altenstetter has done
empirical research about health care
systems and health care delivery,
intergovernmental relations in Germany
and Austria, and European affairs.
Since the late 1980's most of Dr.
Altenstetter's research has been devoted
to 1) health care reform in comparative
perspective and 2) European Union
developments and their impact on the
member states in the field of health;
more recently with focus on international
and cross-national regulation in health
care. She has edited or co-edited
Innovation in Health Policy and
Service Delivery, 1981; Comparative
Health Policy and the New Right: From
Rhetoric to Reality, 1991; Health
Policy Reform, National Variations
and Globalization, 1997, and Health
Policy. 1998, in addition to numerous
articles in peer-reviewed journals.
She has also written numerous articles
published in peer-reviewed journals
such as "European Union Responses
to AIDS/HIV and Policy Networks in
the Pre-Maastricht Era" (1994); "Regulating
the medical device industry" (1996);
"Regulating and financing medical
devices" (1998); "Les Exigences de
l'Intégration Européenne vis-á-vis
de la Politique de la Santé", (1998);
"Collective Action of the Medical
Device Industry at the Transnational
Level" (1998). Some of Dr. Altenstetters
recent articles include "Bridging
European and member state implementation:
The case of medical goods, in vitro
diagnostics and equipment," "International
Collaboration on Medical Device Regulation:
Issues, Problems, and Stakeholders,"
and "Health
Care Reform in Germany: Patchwork
Change within Established Governance
Structures." Dr. Altenstetter
is currently working on EU regulatory
regime on medical devices and national
policy adaptation: A three-country
comparison (France, Germany and the
UK). She is also President of IPSA
Research Committee 25 Comparative
Health Policy and of Lecture Series
of the European Union Studies Center
at the CUNY Graduate Center.
A link to the major international and national health databases and websites (associated with IPSA Research Committee 25) can be found at: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ralphbuncheinstitute/RC25%20Web/Links.htm
Email: caltenstetter@gc.cuny.edu
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Professor
George Andreopoulos
received his Ph.D. and LL.B. degrees
from Cambridge University. He has
written extensively on international
security, international human rights
and international humanitarian law
issues. Among his publications are Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe (with Zehra
Arat and Peter Juviler, Kumarian Press,
2006). (ed.) Genocide: Conceptual
and Historical Dimensions. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1994; paperback, 1997; with
Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman.
The
Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare
in the Western World. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1994;
paperback 1997; with Harold
Selesky. The
Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed
Forces and the Challenge of Recovery.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
1994; The Use and Abuse of
anti Americanism in Greece.
Athens: Polytypo Publications, 1994;
with Richard Pierre Claude.
Human Rights Education for the
Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1997; and most recently (Ed.) Concepts
and Strategies in International Human
Rights. New York: Peter
Lang Publishing, 2003. The Human Rights
Education book has been translated
into Japanese and published by Akashi
Shoten Ltd. and also translated into
Chinese. It will shortly appear in a Portuguese translation by Editoria da Universidad de Sao Paulo. The book was nominated
for the Grawemeyer Award in Education.
He recently received a significant grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for a project entitled Policing Across Borders: the role of law enforcement in global governance. He is the Founding Director of the
Center for International Human Rights
at John Jay College. He serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review and during 2003-2004 served as President of the Human Rights Section of APSA.
Email: chrights@jjay.cuny.edu
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 Distinguished Professor Asher Arian received his Ph.D. from Michigan
State University. He was the Romulo
Betancourt Professor of Political
Science at Tel Aviv University, and
visiting professor at numerous universities.
He was President of the Israel Association
of Political Science, Editor of the
Book Series of the International Political
Science Association, and Vice-President
of IPSA's Program Committee. Among
his many publications are: Security
Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion
on Peace and War. Cambridge:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995;
"Collective Identity and Electoral
Competition in Israel." American
Political Science Review, June
1999; The
Second Republic: Politics in Israel
. London: Chatham House,
1998; co-editor, The
Elections in Israel--1996 . Albany:
SUNY Press, 1999; co-author, Changing
New York City Politics.
New York: Routledge, 1991.
Email: Arian@idi.org.il
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Professor
Sherrie Baver
received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She teaches at the City College of
New York, where she has served as
the Director of the CCNY Latin American
and Caribbean Studies Program. She
has written The
Political Economy of Colonialism:
The State and Industrialization in
Puerto Rico. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 1993; and co-edited Latinos
in New York: Communities in Transition.
Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University
Press, 1996. She is completing a manuscript
(co-edited with Barbara D. Lynch),
Caribbean Environmental Issues:
Beyond Sun and Sand. Professor
Baver has received various CUNY awards
and two Fulbrights to Latin America.
Email: sbaver@gc.cuny.edu
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Professor Eva Bellin received her Ph.D from Princeton University and her B.A. from Harvard. Her interests center on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa, democratization and the persistence of authoritarianism, the political economy of development, and religion and politics. She is the author of Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development (Cornell, 2002) as well a numerous scholarly articles, notably "The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective," Comparative Politics (January 2004) and "The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective," Political Science Quarterly (Winter 2004-2005). She is currently researching the role of the high courts in arbitrating Islamic-liberal reconciliation in Egypt and Pakistan, for which she was named a Carnegie Corporation Scholar in April 2006. Professor Bellin was appointed an editor of Comparative Politics in 2005 and is also a member of the Advisory Board of the journal L'Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord.
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Distinguished
Professor Marshall Berman
received degrees from Columbia, Oxford,
and Harvard Universities. He helped
found the Center for Workers' Education
at CCNY. He is member of the editorial
board of Dissent, and has written
on cultural history and criticism
in New York Times, Village Voice,
Dissent, Nation, New Left Review,
etc. His publications include: Adventures
in Marxism. New York: Verso,
1999; All
That is Solid Melts Into Air: The
Experience of Modernity.
New York: Verso, 1983; The Politics
of Authenticity. Athenaeum:
MacMillan Pub Co, 1970 and London:
Allan & Unwin, 1972; One Hundred
Years of Spectacle: Metamorphoses
of Times Square. Random
House, in progress. Prof. Berman has
also been involved in PBS's History
of New York and a History Channel
documentary on the history of Times
Square.
Email: mberman241@aol.com
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Dr.
Selma Botman Selma Botman received a B.A. from Brandeis University
, a B.Phil. from Oxford University
, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University
. A specialist in modern Middle Eastern
politics, Dr. Botman is the author
of three books and many scholarly
articles. Her publications include:
Engendering Citizenship in Egypt. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1999; From Independence
to Revolution: Egypt , 1922-1952.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
1991; and The Rise of Egyptian
Communism: 1939-1970. Syracuse:
Syracuse University Press, 1988. She
has received nine research and teaching
fellowships including two National
Endowment for the Humanities awards,
two Hewlett-Mellon grants, and a Social
Science Research Council grant. Dr.
Botman is an Affiliate in Research
at Harvard University 's Center for
Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Botman
is the Executive Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs at The City University
of New York. Before that, she held
positions as the Special Assistant
to the Chancellor of the University
of Massachusetts Lowell and was the
system-wide Vice President for Academic
Affairs at the University of Massachusetts
. She was a tenured full professor
in the Department of Political Science
at the University of Massachusetts
Boston campus. Earlier in her career
she was a tenured faculty member and
chair-elect in the Department of Political
Science at the College of the Holy
Cross in Worcester , Massachusetts.
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Professor Vincent Boudreau studies state repression and political contention outside the industrial west, with particular emphasis on Southeast Asia. His writings include the books Grassroots and Cadre in the Protest Movement (2001) and Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia (2004) and articles that include "Diffusing Democracy: People Power in Indonesia and the Philippines."
Email: vgbcc@yahoo.com
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Professor
John Bowman
received his Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago. His principal areas of
interest are comparative political
economy, the politics of business
organization and the politics of labor
relations. His current research focuses
on the politics of business cooperation
and labor market institutions in Scandinavia.
Among his publications are: Capitalist
Collective Action. Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1989 and several journal
articles.
Email: john.bowman@qc.cuny.edu
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 Professor Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1979 and came to CUNY from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1984. She is a specialist in foreign policy and development, particularly of small states, with area studies foci on the Caribbean, Caribbean-Latin American, and Caribbean-Asian (particularly Japan) relations. Her publications include: The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003; with Dennis Gayle (ed.) Caribbean Public Policy: Regional, Cultural and Socioeconomic Issues for the 21st Century (Boulder, CO: Westview/HarperCollins 1997); with contributors, The Caribbean in the Pacific Century (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner 1993); The Caribbean in World Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the English-Speaking Caribbean (Westview, 1989)--still considered the most comprehensive book on these nations' foreign affairs (a new and revised edition, The Caribbean Community in Global Affairs is due out in 2007); Interpreting the Third World: Politics, Economics and Social Issues (New York: CBS/Praeger 1986); and (Westview 1984) The Venezuela-Guyana Border Dispute: A Study in Conflict Resolution (Westview 1984). In addition, a small volume of essays presented at various think tank workshops was published by the Caribbean Research Center as Caribbean Diplomacy (1995). Another book entitled Institutions of the Global South is forthcoming for Routledge Press’s Global Institutions project. Prof. Braveboy-Wagner has for many years represented the International Studies Association at the United Nations and in the NGO community, and is a member of the Governing Council as well as of the Executive Committee for 2006-7. She served as the first Caribbean-born President of the Caribbean Studies Association in 1992-3 and has been honored several times for her work on the Caribbean. Apart from her books, she has published numerous articles and analytical pieces in books and journals and has presented 70 plus papers at national and international conferences and workshops. She has also served as a consultant on United Nations/ Caricom, United States, Caribbean, and Latin American government/intergovernmental projects.
Email: jbraveboy-wagner@gc.cuny.edu
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Professor
Mitchell Cohen
is a professor of political theory
at the Graduate Center and Baruch
College of CUNY. He is also a co-editor
of DISSENT magazine. He received
his doctorate from Columbia University.
Prof. Cohen is the author of The
Wager of Lucien Goldmann.
Princeton Univ. Press, 1994;
and Zion and State. Columbia
Univ. Press, 1992 (in French translation,
Editions la Decouverte). He co-edited
Princeton
Readings in Political Thought.
Princeton Univ. Press, 1996; and edited
Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology
of Political Short Stories from Hawthorne
through Today. Laurel, 1992.
Prof. Cohen is a Fellow of the New
York Institute for the Humanities
at NYU and has been a National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellow at the Institute
of Advanced Studies, Princeton. He
has guest-lectured at Stanford, Harvard,
Oxford, the Paris Institute of Politics,
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, and the American University
of Paris. He has written for numerous
scholarly and intellectual journals
including Les Temps modernes,
Times Literary Supplement (London),
New York Times Book Review,
and German Politics and Society.
He is "Correspondant Americain" of
Raisons politiques: Etudes de Pensee
politique and is a member of the
editorial board of "Jewish Social
Studies."
Email: mitchellcohen@aol.com
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Professor
Forrest D. Colburn
is a professor at Lehman College and in the Ph.D./M.A. program in Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He has been a professor at CUNY since 1997. In the spring of 2001, Professor Colburn served as a visiting professor at New York University (NYU); in the spring of 1999 he served as a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Forrest Colburn taught at Princeton University in the Department of Politics from 1985-1993 and at the Woodrow Wilson School from 1995-1997. Professor Forrest Colburn has long been associated, too, with one of Latin America's premier schools of business, INCAE, where he has intermittently taught and participated in research projects. Professor Forrest Colburn did his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he received a B.A. in economics in 1978. He studied government, agricultural development, and economics at Cornell University. He received from Cornell University an M.A. in government in 1980 and a Ph.D. in government in 1983. Professor Forrest Colburn's first two books were studies of the Nicaragua Revolution. Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class, and the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy was published by the University of California Press in 1986. Managing the Commanding Heights: Nicaragua's State Enterprises was published by the University of California Press in 1990. A collection of occasional articles on the Nicaraguan Revolution was published by the University of Texas Press in 1991 under the title My Car in Managua. The work is in its sixth paperback printing, and it has been translated and published in Managua, with a preface written by Sergio Ramirez. From the particulars of the Nicaraguan Revolution, Professor Colburn turned to a comparative study of revolution in poor countries. Through a Fulbright grant, he served as a visiting professor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He also visited Cuba and Vietnam. In 1994, Princeton University Press published his study, The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries. Work for INCAE, much of which involved travel throughout Latin America, underpins Professor Colburn's book, Latin America at the End of Politics, published by Princeton University Press in 2002. Professor Colburn spent the 2006/2007 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2007, the University of Texas Press published his book (coauthored with Arturo Cruz), Varieties of Liberalism in Central America: Nation-States as Works in Progress. Professor Forrest Colburn is a frequent contributor to Dissent and to other magazines and journals.
Email: ForrestDColburn@netscape.net
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Professor Alyson M. Cole (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests bridge political theory and American politics/culture. Cole’s work links central questions of political thought—especially formulations of justice, the nature of subjugation, and the possibility of resistance or change—with an examination of concrete political ideologies, rhetoric, and law/policy-making, emphasizing aspects of subject-formation, gender and race/ethnicity. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford University Press, 2006). Her articles have appeared in American Studies, Feminist Studies, the Michigan Law Review, and the National Women’s Studies Association Journal.
Email: alyson.cole@qc.cuny.edu
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 Bruce Cronin received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and did his post-graduate work at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. In addition to his current faculty position at City College, Professor Cronin was also on the Political Science faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is currently the Director of City College’s Master’s Program in International Relations. Professor Cronin is the author of Institutions for the Common Good: International Protection Regimes in International Society (Cambridge University Press, 2003 and Community Under Anarchy: Transnational Identity and the Evolution of Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1999), and co-editor of The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority (Routledge, 2008). He was awarded the Chadwick Alger Award for the best book on international organization for Community Under Anarchy. In addition to these books, Professor Cronin has published articles on international organization, international law, human rights, and international security in a variety of journals including International Organization, the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Global Governance, and Human Rights Review. He is currently working on a book that advances a theory of consensus-based international law.
Email: bcronin@ccny.cuny.edu
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Professor
Alan DiGaetano received his Ph.D. from Boston University. He is also a member of the Baruch College faculty and specializes in the study of urban politics and policy, including, historical and comparative analysis of urban political economy. His scholarly publications include: with John Klemanski. Power and City Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Urban Development. (1999), and recent articles, with Elizabeth Strom, Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective: An Integrated Approach. Urban Affairs Review (2003), and Creating the Public Domain: Nineteenth Century Local State Formation in Britain and the United States Urban Affairs Review (2006). Other journals in which his work has appeared are the Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Urban History, and Policy and Politics.
Email: Alan_DiGaetano@baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
Kenneth Erickson
received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
He is co-editor-in-chief of Comparative
Politics and serves on the Executive
Board of the New England Council on
Latin American Studies. Among his
publications are: with D.A. Rustow.
"Global Research Perspectives: Paradigms,
Concepts and Data in a Changing World."
Comparative Political Dynamics:
Global Research Perspectives.
Harper Collins, 1991; "Brazil: Corporatism,
Democratization, and Dependency."
Latin American Politics and Development
. Eds. H. J. Wiarda and H. Kline.
1985.
Email: kerickso@hunter.cuny.edu
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Professor
Joyce Gelb
received her Ph.D. from New York University
. Her research and scholarly concerns
deal with feminist mobilization and
gender policy in comparative perspective,
particularly in the United States
, Japan and England . She has also
written on interest groups in urban
and national politics in the United
States . She has received grants from
the Aspen Institute, the Ford and
AT&T and Ms Foundations, the US
Japan Foundation and the Social Science
Research Council, the National Science
Foundation and Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science. In June 2004,
she received a two year grant from
the American Association of University
Women to undertake collaborative research
with a visiting scholar at City College
. She has been a visiting professor
at Yale and the Associated Kyoto Program
in Japan in recent years. Her most
recent publications are: Gender
Policies in Japan and the United States:
Comparing Women's Movements, Rights,
and Politics. (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003), Co-Editor, Women
and Public Policies , (University
of Virginia Press,1996); Co-editor with Marian Palley,
Women in Japan and Korea: Continuity
or Change (Temple Univ. Press, 1994),
"Feminist Politics in a Hostile Environment:
Obstacles and Opportunities" in Giugni,
McAdam and Tilly eds. How Do Movements
Matter? (Univ. of Minnesota Press,
1999); "Feminist Organizational 'Success'
:The state of US Women's Movement
Organizations in the 1990's " in Women
and Politics , Fall 2000, (with Jennifer
Disney); "The Equal Opportunity Law
in Japan : A Decade of Change for
Japanese Women?" in Law and Policy
, Dec. 2000. As of Fall 2004, she
lectured in three cities in Japan
and at Cornell University . An article
entitled "Feminism, NGOs and the Impact
of the New Transnationalisms" was
published in Dynamics of Regulatory
Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies ed. by Vogel and Kagan (University
of California Press, 2003). Her article on hospital mergers
and the politics of civic advocacy
in five American communities (with
Colleen Shogan) was published
in Social Movement Studies.
Joyce Gelb lectured at Queens University in Belfast, Ireland and the University of Stockholm in Sweden in May, 2007. In September 2007, she presented a paper on Anti-feminist Backlash in the US and Japan at the ECPR conference in Pisa, Italy. This will be published as an article in Grey and Sawer's (eds.) Women's Movements: Flourishing or In Abeyance (Routledge, Spring 2008). In November, 2007, she participated in a conference on "Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Politics and Business" held by the Salzburg Seminar in Austria. In December, 2007, she was a visiting scholar in Taipei, Taiwan, sent by the Taiwanese government to research the role and progress of women in Taiwanese politics. She gave two lectures there as well: at Tsinghua University and National Taiwan University. Her two-volume edited volume on Women and Politics around the World will be published by ABC-CLIO in October 2008 (Jen Gaboury, a Political Science grad student at GSUC, has an article in one volume).
Email: mailto:jgelb@gc.cuny.edu
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Professor
John Gerassi
received his Ph.D. from the London
University. Among his publications
are: "The Comintern, the Fronts
and the CPUSA," in New Studies
in the Politics and Culture of
U.S. Communism, Monthly Review,
(1993); Jean
Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of
His Country (Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1989); The Premature Anti-Fascists:
Oral History of American and Canadian
Volunteers in the Spanish Civil
War (New York: Praeger, 1986).
Email:
mailto:john_gerassi@qc.cuny.edu
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Professor
Marilyn Gittell received her Ph.D. from New York University. She is the Director of the Howard Samuels Center. Professor Gittell has produced a body of scholarly work, trained graduate students, received awards and served as a consultant to several private and voluntary sector institutions. Ms. Gittell has written extensively on the politics of education, higher education for low-income women, state politics, and community development. Her books include: Strategies for School Equity: Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society, Choosing Equality: The Case for Democratic Schooling; The New Federalism in State Politics; Limits of Citizen Participation; and her most recent book, Social Capital and Social Citizenship. She recently was co-editor and author of a chapter in a special edition of the American Behavioral Scientist entitled Higher Education Today: The Impact of State Politics and Policies on Access and Economic Development, Sage Publications, April 2000. In August 2001 Ms. Gittell received the Norton Long Career Achievement Award in Urban Politics from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Email: mgittell@aol.com
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Professor
John Goering
received his Ph.D. from Brown University,
Ph.D. in sociology and demography.
His research focuses upon housing
and neighborhood development, as well
as and race and ethnic issues. He
is the author of several dozen articles
as well as editor and author of The
Best Eight Blocks in Harlem (University
Press, 1977); Housing Desegregation
and Federal Policy (University of
North Carolina Press, 1986); Mortgage
Lending, Racial Discrimination and
Federal Policy (Urban Institute
Press, 1996); and Choosing
a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving
to Opportunity Experiment (Urban Institute Press, 2003). He has served
on the editorial boards' of the Urban
Affairs Review, New Community, Housing
Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic
and Migration Studies. An article
summarizing research on the MTO experiment
has been recently published in Journal
of Housing Research. The Federal Reserve
Bank of New York has scheduled a policy-focused
assessment of MTO for publication
in their Economic Policy Review. At
the Ralph Bunche Institute at The
Graduate Center, he is co-directing
a Mellon Foundation grant focused
on the interface between international
and domestic human rights policies.
Before joining the faculty, John directed
evaluation and research on housing,
neighborhood change, and civil rights
issues at HUD, and then served on
the staff of the Clinton White House
Initiative on Race. For the American
Sociological Association, he served
on their committee on Sociologists
in Government (1992-1995); the Committee
on Archives (1993-1998); and the Program
Committee for the Year 2000 and the
year 20001 ASA Annual Meetings (for
ASA President's Joe Feagin and Douglas
Massey). John was on sabbatical at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics for 2006.
Email: john_goering@baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
Janet Gornick received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is also Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Professor of Political Science at Baruch College. Her research is on comparative social welfare policy, and concerns variation across the industrialized countries and throughout the U.S. states. Much of her work considers the effects of social policy on women's status in the labor market and on the economic well-being of families. Her publications include: Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment (co-authored with Marcia Meyers, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003).
Professor Gornick has published articles in several academic journals, including The American Sociological Review; the Annual Review of Sociology; the Journal of European Social Policy; Social Science Quarterly; the Journal of Policy History; the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis; and the
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Her work also appears
frequently in popular venues, including The American Prospect; Dissent: and
Challenge: A Magazine of Economic Affairs.
Professor Gornick recently became Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, an international research center and data archive based in Luxembourg.
Email: janet_gornick@baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
James F. Guyot
received his Ph.D. from Yale University.
His current areas of interest are
the interplay of economic development
and democratization in Southeast Asia,
ethnic and gender dimensions of organizational
recruitment and advancement, and errors
in social science research. His recent
publications include: "Burmese Practorianism,"
in Tradition and Modernity in Myanmar
(LIT Verlag, 1994); "Burma in 1997:
From Empire to ASEAN," Asian Survey,
February 1998; "Representative Bureaucracy
Recast," Public Administration Review,
July/August 1998; "The Feminization
of Power Meets the Separation of Powers,"
The Public Manager, Fall 1998; "Sartor
Resartus: A Comparative Analysis of
Public and Private Sector Entrant
Quality Reanalyzed," American Journal
of Political Science, August 1997.
Email: jguyot@newton.baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
Thomas Halper
received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt
University. He chairs the political
science department at Baruch College.
His most recent book is Positive
Rights in a Republic of Talk (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2003).
Among his other publications are:
"Accommodating Death," in Philosophy
of Medicine: Framing the Field (2000);
"From Warren and Brandeis to Roe and
Cruzan," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
(1996); The Misfortunes of Others
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989); "Life
and Death in a Welfare State," Milbank
Quarterly (1985); Power, Politics,
and American Democracy (Scott, Foresman,
1980); "The New Deserving Poor and
the Old," Polity (1973); Foreign Policy
Crises (Merrill, 1971); and "The Logic
of Judicial Reasoning," Indiana Law
Journal (1967).
Email: thomas_halper@baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
John W. Harbeson
teaches and writes in the fields of
comparative politics, comparative democratization, and international
relations, with special reference
to Africa. This year he is on leave
as a Visiting Fellow in the Center
of International Studies, Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University
where he is working on a book on Democratization
and the State in sub-Saharan Africa.
From 1998 to 2001 chaired the Department
of Political Science at City College.
His most recent book is Africa
in World Politics: The State System
in Flux, coedited with Donald
Rothchild. He's been a Jennings Randolph
Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute
of Peace in Washington and Regional
Democracy and Governance Advisor,
Agency for International Development.
He has been elected to the governing
Council of the American Political
Science Association for a two year
term (2003-2005). On the Council,
he chairs the international affairs
committee concerned primarily with
the Higher Education Act Renewal,
especially Title VI. He is also e
member of the Council task force on
Difference and Inequality in the Developing
world. He is co-founder of the APSA
section on Comparative Democratization
and was the sections first chair.
He is the founder and current chair
of APSA's African Politics Conference
Group.
Email: jwharbeson@aol.com
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Professor
Jack Jacobs received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is currently the Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs (Acting) for the CUNY Graduate Center. Professor Jacobs was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia before coming to CUNY, and is now Professor of Government at CUNY’s John Jay College. In 1996-1997, Professor Jacobs served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University. In 1998, he was a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University. He served as Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research during the academic year 2003-2004. He has been the recipient of grants from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among other sources. He is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (New York University Press, 1992), which has appeared in German (Decaton Verlag, 1994), and the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (New York University Press, 2001). His current research centers on Critical Theory and the image of the Jew.
Email:
jjacobs@gc.cuny.edu
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 Professor David Jones (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles) is associate professor of political science at Baruch College, CUNY. He specializes in American politics, the U.S. Congress, and methodology. He is the author of Political Parties and Policy Gridlock in American Government, and has published articles in several scholarly journals including The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly. Professor Jones also regularly serves as an exit poll survey analyst for CBS News.
Email: David_Jones1@baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
Roger Karapin
received his Ph.D. from M.I.T., and is Associate Professor of Political Sciene at Hunter College. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on immigration politics, anti-minority riots, and far-right parties. More recently, he wrote Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s (Penn State U. Press, 2007), which won the 2008 Charles Tilly Award for the Best Book on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, awarded by the American Sociological Association's section of the same name. His current research focuses on environmental policy and environmental sustainability.
Email: rkarapin@hunter.cuny.edu
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Professor
Young Kun Kim
received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
His fields of specialization are the
history of Western political thought
with emphasis on German political
ideas since the eighteenth century,
classical Chinese philosophy, and
modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
social and political thought. His
long range interest is in comparative
political thought. In addition to
many articles in Korean, his publications
include: "Confucianism and Modernization,"
Korea Society (April 1993); "Cost
of Unification," Korea Society (1993);
"Theodor Adorno," in Encyclopedia
of World Biography (McGraw Hill, 1981);
"Hegel's Criticism of Chinese Philosophy,"
in Philosophy East and West (April
1978); "An Ch'ang-ho's Conception
of Political Education," Journal of
Korean Affairs (July 1975). He received the Excellence in Teaching Award (The Best Teacher of the College Award) from Lehman College in 2004.
Email:
kimyoungkun@msn.com
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Professor
Donna Kirchheimer
received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Her publications include: "Sheltering
the Homeless in New York City: Expansion
in an Era of Government Contraction,"
in Critical Issues for Clinton's Domestic
Agenda: Essays From Political Science
Quarterly (The Academy of Political
Science, 1994); "From Shelters to
Housing: Homeless Families in New
York City," Working Paper #3, (Michael
Harrington Center, Queens College,
1991); "Public Entrepreneurship and
Subnational Government," Polity, (1989).
Email: donna.kirchheimer@lehman.cuny.edu
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Professor
Frederick S. Lane
received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
at Syracuse University. He teaches
courses in public administration and
public policy; his scholarly focus
is the effective management of public,
nonprofit, and educational institutions.
He is also a Professor in the School
of Public Affairs at Baruch College,
where he has served as Chairperson
of the Department of Public Administration
and Program Director of the Executive
Masters of Public Administration program.
In the mid-1970s, he was Staff Director
of the Governor's Task Force on Higher
Education; in 1981-82, he was President
of the New York State Political Science
Association. In 1984, he was named
Outstanding Academic in Public Administration
by the New York Metropolitan Chapter
of the American Society for Public
Administration. His scholarly work
includes two anthologies: Current
Issues in Public Administration, 6th
edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999),
which is used in colleges and universities
across the country, and Managing State
and Local Government (St. Martin's
Press, 1980). For his 1983 article,
"Higher Education and Public Policy
in New York," he received the Golden
Apple Award for excellence in writing
about education from the New York
State United Teachers. His other publications
include: "Organizational Analysis
and Management Improvement," in The
Nonprofit Organization Handbook, 2nd
edition (McGraw-Hill, 1988), and "Managing
Not-for-Profit Organizations," for
which he won the Laverne Burchfield
Award for the best book review essay
in Public Administration Review in
1980. He has also been Visiting Professor
of Public and International Affairs
at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
University, and Visiting Professor
of Public Administration at the University
of Vermont.
Email: frederick_lane@baruch.cuny.edu
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Professor
James Levine
is Dean of Graduate Studies and Research
at John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
where he is also a member of the Government
department. From 1993 to 1999, he
served as Executive Officer of the
Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice
of the City University of New York
located at John Jay College. He received
his doctorate in political science
from Northwestern University, winning
the Edward S. Corwin Award given by
the American Political Science Association
for the best dissertation in the field
of public law completed in 1968. Prior
to coming to John Jay he served on
the faculties of Michigan State University,
the University of Oregon, and Brooklyn
College of the City University of
New York. Professor Levine has published
two textbooks on criminal justice
(co-authored with Michael Musheno
and Dennis Palumbo): Criminal Justice:
A Public Policy Approach (New York:
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980)
and Criminal Justice in America: Law
in Action (New York: John Wiley, 1986).
He is the co-author, with David Abbott,
of Wrong
Winner: The Coming Debacle in the
Electoral College (New York: Praeger,
1991). His most recent book is Juries
and Politics (Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth,
1992). Professor Levine has published
numerous articles on criminal justice
institutions, criminal justice policy,
and research methodology; his research
has focused on jury behavior in recent
years. His work has appeared in such
journals as Judicature, Criminal Law
Bulletin, Criminal Justice Ethics,
Journal of Criminal Justice, Legal
Studies Forum, Law and Social Inquiry,
Crime and Delinquency, Social Science
Quarterly, Criminology, Public Policy,
Law and Society Review, and Polity.
Email: jimlev@faculty.jjay.cuny.edu
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Professor
Peter Liberman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T., and is based at Queens College. He wrote Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies (Princeton, 1996), and has published articles on political psychology, nuclear proliferation and strategy, alliance politics, the causes of war, and trade conflict. His current work concerns moral outrage and revenge as sources of U.S. popular support for war. He serves on the editorial board of Security Studies and the Among Nations anthology texts (Foreign Affairs/Pearson).
Email: liberman@qc.cuny.edu
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