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Professor Irving Leonard Markovitz received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in the politics and economics of development and of globalization, especially in Africa. His books include Leopold Sedar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude, Atheneum Publishers, and Heinemann Books; African Politics and Society: Basic Issues of Government and Development (co-author and editor), Free Press; Power and Class in Africa, Prentice-Hall; and Studies in Power and Class in Africa (co-author and editor), Oxford University Press. His articles and studies have appeared in the leading journals of the field. He was a Foreign Area Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, an African Affairs Fellow of the African Studies Center at Boston University, a Mellon Fellow, and a Ford Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He has received numerous grants from the Faculty Research Program of the City University of New York. He has received ten grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also was the recipient of the Presidential Innovation in Teaching Award, and the Presidential Research Award of Queens College. Professor Markovitz's current work is on the development of capitalism in Africa. He is Co- Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Politics. During January of 1994, he acted as a consultant to the Constitutional Commission of Ethiopia in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia. During January of 1995, he acted as a consultant to the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea in Asmara, Eritrea.. Recent publications include: "Uncivil Society, the State, and Capitalism in Africa", pp. 21-53 in Civil Society in Africa?, Nelson Kasfir, ed., London: Frank Cass, 1998; "Constitutions, The Federalist Papers, and The Transition To Democracy", pp. 42-71 in Democracy in Comparative Politics, ed., Lisa Anderson, New York: Columbia University Press , 1999; "Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and other Fairy Tales in Africa", pp. 117-144 in Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus , eds., George Bond and Nigel Gibson, Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 2002; and "Forging and Framing Democracy", pps. 270-277, in The Making and Unmaking of Democracy, eds., Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra N. Suleiman, New York: Routledge, 2003.
Email: markovitz@nyc.rr.com

Professor Uday Singh Mehta received his bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, where he studied mathematics and philosophy, and his doctorate from Princeton University. He has taught at several universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull and Amherst College. He is the author of:

1) The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke (Cornell University Press, 1992)

2) Liberalism and Empire, (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Liberalism and Empire was awarded the J. David Greenstone prize for the best book in Political Theory by the American Political Science Association in 2002. In 2003, USM was one of 10 recipients of the prestigious "Carnegie Scholars" prize given to "scholars of exceptional creativity." He is currently completing a book on Gandhi as a thinker, titled “War, Peace and Non-Violence”.
Email: umehta@gc.cuny.edu

Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf received his PhD from Harvard. He teaches Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and directs its Center for Urban Research. He coordinates the Graduate Center’s urban studies exchange with Humboldt University, Berlin and its interdisciplinary program on public policy and urban studies.  His teaching and research interests focus on urban politics and public policy, including New York City politics, immigrant political participation, and the new immigrant second generation. He has authored or edited fifteen books on urban politics, urban policy, the politics of urban development, and New York City, most recently Bringing Outsiders In:  Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, edited with Jennifer Hochschild (Cornell University Press, 2009).  His book with Philip Kasinitz, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway, Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (paperback by Russell Sage Foundation, 2010), has won the Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association, the Thomas and Znaniecki Award of the ASA Immigration Section, and the Mirra Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society.  Other recent books include The Urban Politics Reader (Routledge, 2006, co-edited with Elizabeth Strom) and Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), co-edited with Philip Kasinitz and Mary Waters.  His Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century (with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom, University Press of Kansas 2001) won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association.  Two earlier books, The Phoenix in the Ashes (Princeton University Press 1994) and The Contested City (Princeton University Press 1983) dissected the persistence of a conservative governing coalition in New York City and the rise of and challenges to pro-growth coalitions in Boston and San Francisco.  He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute d'Etudes Politique in Paris, Wibaut Chair Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in 1981, he directed the Economic Development Division of the New York City Department of City Planning and taught urban studies and public management at Stanford University. He was Program Director for Urban Initiatives at the Social Science Research Council, chaired its Committee on New York City, and served on the editorial boards of PS and Urban Affairs Review.  He has also served as a consultant to many government agencies.  Currently he serves on the international advisory boards of the Netherlands Institute of City Innovation Studies and the Bucerius Foundation’s Setting into Motion doctoral program, and the E Pluribus Unum prize selection committee of the Migration Policy Institute.
Email: jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu

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Professor Ruth O'Brien earned her Ph.D. at UCLA. She specializes in American politics and the Program's unique specialization Writing Politics.  O'Brien teaches a wide array of classes, all at the Graduate Center in Political Science and American Studies. The classes fall into three categories: 1) American Politics, namely American political development and American political thought; 2) Writing Politics, such as the Role of the Public Intellectual; and finally, 3) a transdisciplinary course called Power, Resistance and Identity. The latter reflects O'Brien's interest in merging contemporary theory, cultural studies, and concrete political issues and events.  From 2003-2009, O'Brien served two terms as the Political Science Program's Executive Officer (Chair).  She is currently revising a book on Obama, contemporary theory and ideas underlying the American political tradition.  O’Brien’s publications fall into the same three categories as her courses.  Within the field of American political development, she published Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace (University of Chicago Press, 2001), which received an honorable mention from the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry; and Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998).  Her emphasis in Writing Politics is manifested in two books that she edited: Telling Stories out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination (ILR, Cornell University Press, 2008) and Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act (Oxford University Press, 2004), which also earned an honorable mention from the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry.  O’Brien is also the academic editor of The Public Square for Princeton University Press. This series showcases public intellectuals writing about social justice issues, including Andrei Codescru, Jeff Madrick, Martha C. Nussbaum, Joan Wallach Scott, among others. Finally, O’Brien's fascination with melding contemporary Continental theory with concrete issues is reflected in Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care (Routledge, 2005). O'Brien's articles have appeared in Polity, Studies in American Political Development, Labor Studies Journal, Law and Social Inquiry, and SIGNS, among other journals.  She has served as a co-chair (with Jeffrey Tulis) for the American Political Science Executive Program Committee for the Politics and History section; been a member of APSA’s Politics and History Executive Council, as well as for the Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and the Transgender in the Profession. She directed a Fulbright State Department Summer Institute, hosting 18 international scholars for 6 weeks on American Political Development: The Rise to Globalism (read "America as Empire"). O'Brien was the 2003 nominee by KPFK (the radio station in Los Angeles that houses Pacifica) for the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for radio commentary on the judiciary, where she can be heard regularly.  Lastly, she became an adjunct affiliated scholar with the Center for American Progress in Washington, D. C., beginning in 2005.
Email: robrien@gc.cuny.edu
Website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/politicalscience/faculty/obrien/

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Distinguished Professor Rosalind Pollack Petchesky received her B.A. summa cum laude from Smith College, where she was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  After studying international law in France as a Fulbright Scholar, she received her PhD. in Political Science from Columbia University, specializing in political theory, international law and relations.  After 15 years at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Professor Petchesky came to Hunter in 1987 to head the Women's Studies Program, in addition to teaching in the Political Science Department. In the fall of 2000 she joined the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center in both Political Science and the Women's Studies Certificate Program.  Her numerous articles and books on issues of reproductive and sexual rights have been translated into five languages and have influenced scholars, advocates and legal forums.  The US Supreme Court cited her award-winning book, Abortion and Woman's Choice, in the landmark 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.  In 1995 Professor Petchesky was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Award, and in 2001 she was madea CUNY Distinguished Professor.

Professor Petchesky's work in the area of reproductive politics led her to found the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG), serving as its international coordinator from 1992 until 1999. Under her direction, IRRRAG's seven country teams conducted in-depth qualitative research among urban and rural women, across diverse age and ethnic cohorts, about their sense of entitlement to make reproductive and sexual decisions.  The group implemented this research through advocacy and educational programs at the national and international levels, including at the UN population conference in Cairo (1994) and the World Women's Conference in Beijing (1995).  The book containing the cross-country findings and policy implications of IRRRAG's work-Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures-was published in 1998.  Professor Petchesky has also been part of transnational women's coalitions working for women's rights and social justice in UN and other arenas and is a board member of WEDO (Women's Environment and Development Organization) and chair of the journal Reproductive Health Matters.  She is a member of theexecutive committee of Hunter's PSC-CUNY chapter.
After September 11, Professor Petchesky engaged in a flurry of writing, teach-ins, and peace efforts along with others in CUNY and New York City.  Her article, "Phantom Towers:  Feminist Reflections on the Battle between Global Capitalism and Fundamentalist Terrorism," which originated as a talk for the Political Science Department's teach-in at Hunter, subsequently appeared in the Women's Review of Books, Ms. Magazine, the Economic and Political Weekly in India, and in Spanish, French and German versions in Latin America and Europe.  Most recently, Professor Petchesky's research has focused on the intersections between human rights, health, gender equality and globalization. Her book on this topic, Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights, was published in 2003 by Zed Books in London and is distributed by Palgrave International in the United States. Her next book, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights, co-authored with Sonia Correa and Richard Parker, will be published by Routledge in 2008. Recently, Professor Petchesky has also been active working with the transnational group Sexuality Policy Watch (www.sxpolitics.org).
Email: rpetchesky@gc.cuny.edu

Distinguished Professor Frances Fox Piven received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the Graduate Center, she taught at Boston University, Columbia University, New York University Law School, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Bologna. She is past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association,  has served as program co-chair of the annual political science meetings, and is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.  She is currently President of the American Sociological Association. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the President's Award of the American Public Health Association, and the American Sociological Association's Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, as well as their award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. Her books deal with the development of the welfare state, political movements, urban political, and electoral politics.  Among them are REGULATING THE POOR (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award ub 1972, and updated in 1993); POOR PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS (1977); THE NEW CLASS WAR (1982; UPDATED 1985); WHY AMERICANS DON'T VOTE (1988); THE MEAN SEASON (1987); LABOR PARTIES IN POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES (1992); THE BREAKING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIAL COMPACT (1997); WHY AMERICANS STILL DON'T VOTE (2000); and THE WAR AT HOME (2004); Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006).
Email: fpiven@hotmail.com

Professor Andrew Polsky received his Ph.D from Princeton University. He teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, with a focus on American politics and American political development. He is the author of The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton University Press, 1991). Recent publications include: “Seeing Your Name in Print:  Unpacking the Mysteries of the Review Process at Political Science Scholarly Journals,” PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (3) (July 2007):  539-43; "The Presidency at War," in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 8th ed. (Washington, DC:  CQ Press, 2006), pp. 557-75; "No Tool is Perfect:  Periodization in the Study of American Political Development," Polity 37 (4) (October 2005); (co-authored with Daniel M. Cook) "Political Time Reconsidered:  Unbuilding and Rebuilding the State under the Reagan Administration," American Politics Research 33 (4) (July 2005):  577-605; "The Political Economy of Partisan Regimes:  Lessons from Two Republican Eras," Polity 35 (4) (July 2003); "'Mr Lincoln's Army' Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865," Studies in American Political Development 16 (2) (Fall 2002); (co-authored with Olesya Tkacheva) "Legacies versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s," International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16 (2) (Winter 2002); "When Business Speaks: Political Entrepreneurship, Discourse, and Mobilization in American Partisan Regimes," Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (October 2000); and "The New 'Dismal Science'? The Lessons of American Political Development for Politics Today," Polity 32 (Spring 2000). He served as the program co-chair for the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association at the 1999 APSA Annual Meeting.  In July 2005 Professor Polsky became the editor of Polity, the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association.  The transcript of his talk on preparing for an academic career can be found here. 
Email: apolsky@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Stanley Renshon is coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Psychology of Social and Political behavior. He received his Ph.D. In Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and was a NIMH postdoctoral fellow in Psychology and Politics at Yale University.

He did his graduate work in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University, and his psychoanalytic training at the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology, where he received his certification in 1991.

He is the author of over one hundred articles in the fields of presidential politics, American immigration and national identity, American foreign policy, leadership and political psychology. He has also published fifteen books including: Psychological Needs and Political Behavior (Free Press), The Handbook of Political Socialization: Theory and Research (Free Press), The Political Psychology of the Gulf War (University of Pittsburgh Press), The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing and the Psychology of Leadership (Westview Press); The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates (New York University Press, 1996, updated paperback edition,1998 Routledge Press), (edited with John Duckitt) Political Psychology: Cultural and Cross-cultural Foundations (Macmillan, 2000), One America?: Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity (Georgetown University Press, 2001); America's Second Civil War: Political Leadership in a Divided Society (Transaction 2002), (edited with Deborah Larson) Good Judgment in Foreign Policy: Theory and Research (Rowman and Littlefield 2002); In his Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004); The 50% American: National Identity in a Dangerous Age (2005), Noncitizen Voting and American Democracy (‪Rowman & Littlefield, 2009‬); (edited with Peter Suedfeld) Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism (Routledge, 2007); and National Security in the Obama Administration: Reassessing the Bush Doctrine (Routledge, 2010).

His book on the Clinton presidency, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition (New York University Press, 1996, updated paperback edition,1998 Routledge Press) won the 1997 American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published on the presidency and was also awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis' Gradiva Award for the best published work in the category of biography in 1998. He was elected president of the International Society of Political Psychology for the 2003/04 academic year and in 2006 won the award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative works.

His next book Barack Obama and the Politics of Redemption will be published by Routledge Press in 2011.

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Email: srenshon@gc.cuny.edu


Professor Andrew Rich is associate professor of political science at City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also assistant director of the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at CCNY. He is the author of Think Tanks, Public Policy, and the Politics of Expertise (Cambridge University Press, 2004), a book about the proliferation of think tanks in U.S. national policymaking and the ways that research and research-based nonprofit organizations influence contemporary decision-making. He is currently at work on a book about the types of philanthropic and organizational support being used to fight the war of ideas in American politics. The book examines the role of foundations, universities, and advocacy and research organizations in efforts to shape the terms of debate in U.S. policymaking. In a separate project, he is examining the role of universities as declining sources of public intellectuals and how institutions of higher learning might reinvigorate their role in public and policy debate. Rich has also written about telecommunications, health care, tax policy, and the cross-national aspects of policy research production and dissemination. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.  
Email: arich@ccny.cuny.edu

Professor Corey Robin is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004), which won the Best First Book in Political Theory Award from the American Political Science Association. Fear has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Greek, and Romanian.  Robin’s articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, New York Times, London Review of Books, The Nation, and Raritan. Robin has received grants and fellowships from the Russell Sage Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Princeton University’s Center for Human Values. Next year, Oxford University Press will publish a book of his essays on conservatism and the right, tentatively titled “The Politics of Reaction.” He is currently working on two longer book projects, one on political repression in the United States, the other on counterrevolution. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his PhD from Yale.
Email: corey.robin@gmail.com

Professor Joe Rollins is the Executive Officer of the Political Science Department at the CUNY Graduate Center and associate professor of political science at Queens College. His fields of specialization are public law, gender and sexuality, and research methods. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998, where he also taught in the Law & Society Program and the Dept. of Sociology. His first book, AIDS and the Sexuality of Law: Ironic Jurisprudence, was published by Palgrave/MacMillan in 2004. His current project, funded by a grant from the Wayne F. Placek Fund of the American Psychological Association and a Visiting Scholar’s position at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, examines changes taking place in the legal language of sexuality. His forthcoming book entitled Legally Straight will be published by New York University Press. He has served on the board of directors for the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and his work has been published in various scholarly journals. 
Email: jrollins@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Peter Roman received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He also teaches at Hostos Community College. His recent publications include “Representative Government in Socialist Cuba,” The World Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming); “Response to a Misinformed ‘Left’ Critique of Cuba,” Socialism and Democracy 44. Vol. 21, No.. 2, July 2007; “Electing Cuba’s National Assembly Deputies: Proposals, Selections, Nominations, and Campaigns,” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, No. 82, April, 2007; "The Lawmaking Process in Cuba: Debating the Bill  on Agricultural Cooperatives," Socialism and Democracy, Issue 38, Vol. 19, No. 2,  July, 2005; "The Cuban National Assembly and Political Representation," In Max Azicri and Elsie Deal, eds., Cuban Socialism in a New Century (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2004);  People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government, Updated Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Editorial Collective, Cuba in the 1990s: Economy, Politics and Society, Socialism and Democracy, Issue 29, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring-Summer 2001;"Workers' Parliaments in Cuba" in Latin American Perspectives 22(4) (Fall, 1995); "Cuba in Focus: Manifestations of Democracy" in Washington Report on the Hemisphere (April 15, 2000); and "Interview with Peter Roman" in Washington Report on the Hemisphere (December 1999-January 2000). Professor Roman serves on the editorial board of Socialism and Democracy. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Cuba Project, Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. He received a PSC/CUNY Research Award for 2006-2007. Professor Roman has also received PSC/CUNY Research Awards in 1995, 1997 and 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. and the CUNY-Caribbean Exchange Program (Hunter College) Award in 1996.
Email: proman@hostos.cuny.edu

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Professor Ronald Schneider received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Since the late 1950s he has published widely, particularly on Latin America. He is also the general editor of the Westview Press series Nations of the Modern World: Latin America, fifteen volumes of which have been published since 1980. Among his more recent publications are: Brazil: Culture and Politics in a New Industrial Powerhouse (1996); "Order and Progress: A Political History of Brazil," (1991); Brazil: Foreign Policy of a Future World Power (1978); Modernization and the Military in Brazil: Institutional Crises, Political Instability, and Army Intervention, 1822-1964 (1976); The Political System of Brazil: Emergence of a "Modernizing" Authoritarian Regime, 1964-1970 (1971). His book, Latin American Politics: Paths, Patterns, and Perspectives is forthcoming.
Email: rschneid@qc1.qc.edu

Professor Kenneth Sherrill received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He is the chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter College. He also chairs the Higher Education PAC and serves on the Departmental Services Committee of the American Political Science Association. Among his publications are: "From Outlaws to In-laws: Anti-Gay Attitudes Thaw" (with Alan S. Yang) in Public Perspective (Jan, 2000); "The Youth of the Movement" in Ellen D. B. Riggle and Barry Tadlock, Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process (Columbia University press, 2000); "Political Power of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: From Vote for Me," PS: Political Science and Politics; Gays and the Military (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993); co-author, "What Political Science is Missing by Ignoring AIDS," PS: Political Science and Politics (1992); "Electoral Bugaboos? Attitudes Toward Feminism and Gay Rights in the 1992 American National Election," APSR, (1993).
Email: kenneth.sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Carolyn Somerville received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Among her publications are: "The Impact of the Reforms on the Urban Population of Senegal: How the Dakarois View the Crisis," in Charles Green (ed.), Global Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge (SUNY Press, 1997); co - author, Women's Choices, Women's Realities (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995); "The Sahel," in Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford Univ. Press, 1993); co-author, "What Political Science is Missing by Ignoring AIDS," PS: Political Science and Politics (1992); "The Impact of Adjustment on the Senegalese: How Dakarois View the Crisis," in The Political Economy of Senegal (Praeger, 1991); Drought and Aid in the Sahel: A Decade of Development Cooperation (Westview Press, 1986).
Email: csomervl@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Professor Yan Sun received her degrees from Nanjing University, Beijing School of Foreign Affairs and the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include post-socialist political economy and transitional politics of China, East Asian development, and comparative economic transition of China, Russia and India. She is the author of The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism 1976-1992 (Princeton, 1995) and Corruption and Market in Contemporary China (Cornell, 2004). She has also published in Comparative Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Current History, Asian Survey, Crime, Law and Social Change, and others.
Email: ysun3@gc.cuny.edu

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Professor Charles Tien (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1997) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College.  He was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award in 1999-2000 to teach American politics at People's University in Beijing, China.  His current research is on representation of minorities and women in the U.S. Congress.  His publications have appeared in journals such as American Politics Quarterly, Public Choice, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Women and Politics.
Email: ctien@hunter.cuny.edu

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Professor Mark Ungar is professor of political science at Brooklyn College and of the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program and the Liberal Arts Masters Program of the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written and edited four books and about 30 articles and book chapters on judicial reform, citizen security and policing. He also has worked as an adviser to the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras and Mexico. He also works with human rights organizations, serving on a policy committee of Amnesty International USA and of civil rights groups in Venezuela. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the CUNY Research Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Email: mungar@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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Professor Gregg Van Ryzin received his Ph.D. from the Psychology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He also teaches in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College. Recent publications include "Expectations, Performance, and Citizen Satisfaction with Urban Services" in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2004); "Explaining the Race Gap in Satisfaction with Urban Services" in Urban Affairs Review (2004, with D. Muzzio and S. Immerwahr); and "The Effect of Federal and Local Housing Programs on the Transition from Welfare to Work: Evidence from New York City" in Cityscape (2004, with R. Kaestner and T. J. Main).
Email: gregg_vanryzin@baruch.cuny.edu

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Professor John R. Wallach is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College & The Graduate Center, and Director of the new Hunter Human Rights Program. Before coming to Hunter in 1991, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and Vassar College.  Professor Wallach received his Ph.D. in Politics (Program in Political Philosophy) from Princeton University in 1981.  He is a classically trained political theorist.  Having also studied the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, he has an interest in interdisciplinary issues concerning approaches to the understanding of politics.  He is well-versed in the history of Western political theory and has specialized in ancient Greek political thought.  He also teaches course in contemporary political theory--on the concept of "the political," democratic theory, and the political theory of human rights.  His publications include THE PLATONIC POLITICAL ART: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (Penn State Press, 2001); a co-edited volume (with J. Peter Euben and Josiah Ober), ATHENIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (Cornell, 1994), as well as other articles in ancient Greek political theory, the history of political thought, and contemporary democratic theory.  More recently, he has focused on democratic theory and human rights--as illustrated in the following publications and works in progress: "Human Rights as an Ethics of Power" (1995); "Constitutive Paradoxes of Human Rights and Democracy" (forthcoming), and "Democracy and Virtue: Legitimation Crises in History and Political Theory" (monograph in progress).  Wallach has been a Liberal Arts Fellow in Political Science at Harvard Law School (1998-1999), recipient of a NEH Fellowship for College and University Teachers (2003-2004), and Director of a NEH Institute for College & University Teachers at The Graduate Center (Summer, 2006), on the subject of "Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives."
Email: jwallach@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Dov Waxman is the Deputy Executive Officer of the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science and an associate professor of political science at Baruch College. He specializes in International Relations and Middle East politics, especially concerning Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where he also received an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics. He has a B.A. degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. From 2002-2004, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Bowdoin College. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, a visiting scholar at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a visiting fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He has published numerous scholarly and popular articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is the Associate Editor of Israel Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies.
Email: dwaxman@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Thomas G. Weiss has written extensively about international organization, conflict management, peacekeeping, humanitarian action, North-South relations and U.S. foreign policy. He is currently writing Thinking about Global Governance: People and Ideas Matter; Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread; and editing, The Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South. He has authored or edited: Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished History (co-author, 2010) The United Nations and Changing World Politics, (co-author 2010, 6th ed.) The United Nations and Nuclear Order (co-editor, 2009); UN Ideas that Changed the World (co-editor, 2009); What's Wrong with the United Nation and How to Fix It (author, 2009); Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics (co-editor, 2008); The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (co-editor, 2007); Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (author, 2007); The United Nations and Changing World Politics (co-author, 2007, 5th ed.); Sword & Salve: Confronting New Wars and Humanitarian Crises (co-author, 2006); Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences (co-author, 2006); UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (co-author, 2005, AAUP Public Library Selection ); Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect (author, 2005, 2nd ed.); Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11 (co-editor, 2004); Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy (co-editor, 2004); Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (co-author, 2001, Choices "Outstanding Academic Title of 2003"); The Responsibility To Protect: Research, Bibliography, and Background (co-author, 2001); Guide to IGOs, NGOs, and the Military in Peace and Relief Operations (co-author, 2001); Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention (co-author, 2000, 2nd ed.); Beyond UN Subcontracting: Task-sharing with Regional Security Arrangements and Service-Providing NGOs (editor, 1998); Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics (co-editor, 1998); Political Gain and Civilian Pain: Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions (co-editor, 1997); News Media, Civil War, and Humanitarian Action (co-author, 1996); NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance (co-editor, 1996); Volunteers Against Conflict (co-editor, 1996); From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises (co-editor, 1996); Mercy Under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community (co-author, 1995); The United Nations and Civil Wars (editor, 1995); Humanitarian Politics (co-author, 1995); Humanitarianism Across Borders: Sustaining Civilians in Times of War (co-editor, 1993); Humanitarian Action in Times of War: A Handbook for Practitioners (co-author, 1993); Collective Security in a Changing World (editor, 1993); The Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean (co-editor, 1992); Third World Security in the Post-Cold War Era (co-editor, 1991); Peacekeepers, Soldiers and Disasters (co-editor, 1991); Humanitarianism Under Siege (co-author, 1990); Soldiers with a Difference (co-author, 1990); Humanitarian Emergencies and Military Help in Africa (editor, 1990); Multilateral Development Diplomacy in UNCTAD (author, 1986); The Nature of United Nations Bureaucracies (co-editor, 1985); More for the Least? Prospects for Poorest Countries in the Eighties (co-author, 1983); The Challenge of Development in the Eighties (co-editor, 1983); The World Food Conference and Global Problem Solving (co-author, 1976); and International Bureaucracy (author, 1975). Articles include those in Foreign Policy, Current History, The Washington Quarterly, Ethics & International Affairs, Security Studies, Disasters, World Policy Journal, Survival, Third World Quarterly, World Development, International Affairs, World Politics, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Peace Research, Contemporary Security Policy, Security Dialogue, Journal of Human Rights, Global Social Policy, Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy, International Relations, Development and Change, Forum for Development Studies, and Global Governance. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and International Studies Association, he currently is editor of two book series, "Global Institutions" (Routledge) and "UN Intellectual History" (Indiana) and serves on eight editorial boards (Third World Quarterly, Intervention and State-Building, Global Governance, Global Responsibility to Protect, International Peacekeeping, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Global Social Policy, and Great Decisions).
Email: tweiss@gc.cuny.edu

Distinguished Professor Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature.  He received his Ph. D. in Social and Political Thought from York University.  He has taught at Reed College, Rice University, and the Central European University.  He has published widely on twentieth-century French and German political thought.  His books have been translated into eight languages.  He has been a frequent contributor to The New Republic and Dissent.  Among his books are: Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption (Columbia UP, 1982), The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (Columbia UP, 1990), Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse (Princeton UP, 2001), which has been translated into five languages: Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and Chinese, and The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (Princeton UP, 2004).  In January 2002 The Chronicle of Higher Education featured a profile of his scholarly achievements entitled "Losing Friends and Influencing People." 
Email: rwolin@gc.cuny.edu

Professor Susan L. Woodward received her Ph.D. from Princeton. She came to CUNY from London, where she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London. From 1990-99, she was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, where she also taught graduate seminars at Georgetown, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Before that she held positions in political science on the faculties of Yale University (1982-89), Williams College (1978-82), Mount Holyoke College (1977-78), and Northwestern University (1972-77). In 1994, she was Head of the Analysis and Assessment Unit in the office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for UNPROFOR, and in the 1998 election period, she was a special advisor to the head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is the author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War (Washington: Brookings Press, 1995), selected a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book 1995" and Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), winner of the 1996 Hewett Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and numerous articles on southeastern Europe, the post-communist transition in eastern Europe, state failure, peacekeeping, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Link to Personal Website
Post-Socialist Transitions Course Syllabus
Basic Theories and Concepts of Comparative Politics Course Syllabus
Civil War Syllabus
Email: swoodward@gc.cuny.edu

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Professor Ming Xiais a Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of International Politics, Fudan University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Temple University, where his dissertation won the Bernard Watson Best Dissertation Award in 1997. He once taught at Fudan University and served as a residential fellow at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University(2003), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004) and the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore (2004 and 2011).

He is the author of The Dual Developmental State (Ashgate 2000) and The People's Congresses and Governance in China (Routledge 2008; paperback edition 2011); co-editor of The Crown of Thorn: Liu Xiaobo and the Nobel Peace Prize (Hong Kong: Morning Bell Publisher, 2010). He was included to the "Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals" of 2009 and 2010. He is a co-producer of an HBO Oscar-nominated documentary movie, "China's Unnatural Disaster, The Tears of Sichuan Province" (2009), which also won 2011 CINE Golden Eagle award. He maintains a column on China in Perspective magazine and contributes regularly to the BBC World News Chinese Service. He is also an associate editor for The Journal of Modern China (Dangdai Zhongguo Yanjiu). He has published dozens of articles and frequently commented on U.S.-China trade and financial relations, political economy in China, organized crime, global issues and globalization.
Email: MXia@gc.cuny.edu

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