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Sophia Mihic
Sophia
Mihic
Coordinator; Professor
Political Science
Philosophy
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5652
Expertise
Political Theory, Anglo-Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, “Race,” Class, and the Politics of the Legal Order, The History of Political Thought
Courses Taught
ZHON 193 – Honors Introduction to the Social Sciences
PSCI 216 – American National Government
PSCI/PHIL 390 – Classical Political Theory
PSCI/PHIL 390 Modern Political Theory
PSCI 392 – WIP: Contemporary Political Theory
PHIL 345 – Social and Political Philosophy
PSCI 382/PHIL 382 – Marx Seminar
PHIL 389 – Foucault Seminar
PHIL 387 – Arendt Seminar
PSCI 401 – Classics of Political Science
PSCI 491 – Arendt Seminar
Research Interests
Dr. Mihic’s research and teaching focuses on the philosophy of interpretive inquiry in the social sciences, the work of Hannah Arendt, and the structural grounds of order and identity politics in 20th and now 21st century democracies. She also teaches and writes on the history of political thought, literature and political theory and the politics of the legal order. She was a fellow at the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, Rutgers University—where she was awarded a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation—and a fellow at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana.
Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2000

M.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

B.A., Political Science, University of Florida 1982

Selected Publications

“‘the end was in the beginning’: Melville, Ellison and the Democratic Death of Progress in Typee,” Jason Frank, ed. The Political Companion to Herman Melville, University of Kentucky Press, January 2014

“Interpretation, Political Theory, and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing,” Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly, Alan Finlayson, ed., Routledge, October 2009

“Facts, Values and ‘Real’ Numbers: Making Sense In and Of Political Science,” with Stephen G. Engelmann and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove, The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, George Steinmetz, ed., Duke University Press, 2005

“Neoliberalism and the Jurisprudence of Privacy: An Experiment in Feminist Theorizing,” Feminist Theory, 9(2), August 2008

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William Adler
William
D.
Adler
Associate Professor
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5657
Expertise
American Politics
Courses Taught
American National Government; Public Policy; Public Administration; Electoral Politics
Research Interests
American Political Development; The American Presidency; Bureaucracy
Education

Ph.D., City University of New York - Graduate Center, 2011

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Dr. Sangmin Bae
Sangmin
Bae
Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Professor
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5662
Expertise
International Relations, Human Rights
Courses Taught
International Organization: Theory and Practice
War and Peace
International Human Rights
Politics of East Asia
International Relations in Asia
Introduction to Political Science
Introduction to World Politics
Politics and Governments of North and South Korea
Research Interests
International Norms, Human Rights, Human Security, East Asian Politics
Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Purdue University

M.A., Political Science and Diplomacy, Ewha Womans University (Seoul, South Korea)

B.A., Political Science and Diplomacy, Ewha Womans University (Seoul, South Korea)

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Sangmin Bae teaches and conducts research in the areas of human rights, human security, international organizations, and East Asian politics. Dr. Bae’s research focuses particularly on the role of political leadership and domestic political institutions in explaining why countries respond differently to international human rights norms.

Her work has appeared in various journals, including Comparative Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, Asian Affairs, Pacific Affairs, International Politics, Human Rights Review, Zeitschrift Fuer Menschenrechte [Journal for Human Rights], and Asian Journal of Political Science, among others. She is the author of 'When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms and Abolition of Capital Punishment" (SUNY Press, 2007) and "Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses" (Routledge 2015).

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Russell Benjamin
Russell
Benjamin
Professor; Coordinator of Global Studies
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
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Courses Taught
American National Government
African American Politics and Social Change
Minority Economic Development
Minority Politics in the United States
State Government and Politics
The Politics of Poverty
Foundations of Africans in the Diaspora
Seminar in the American Policy-Making Process
Research Interests
Benjamin’s research focuses upon the politics of race in the United States, especially as they intersect with entrepreneurship, consumerism, colonialism, and the U.S. policy toward the Caribbean. Benjamin has presented his research on the mainland U.S., Hawaii, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and in the Caribbean. He has published several book reviews and a journal article. In early 2010, Benjamin, along with Dr. Gregory Hall, co-edited a book, "Eternal Colonialism," with the University Press of America. Benjamin will soon publish a book manuscript, "African Americans and Recent Policies Toward the Caribbean: Haiti, Cuba, and Puerto Rico," with Caribbean Studies Press.
Education

Ph.D., University of Flori­da, 1996
M.A., University of Florida, 1991
B.A., University of South Caroli­na, 1985

Selected Publications

African Americans and Recent U.S. Policies Toward the Caribbean: Haiti, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Forthcoming with Caribbean Studies Press.

“Layle Lane.” 2014. Entry in African American National Biography Online. (Oxford University Press.) Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editors-in-chief.

Sprague, Jeb. 2012. Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti. (Monthly Review Press). Forthcoming book review in New Political Science.

“Fifteenth Amendment.” 2010. Entry in The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press). Julius E. Thompson, James L. Conyers, and Nancy J. Dawson, editors.

Eternal Colonialism. Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). 2010. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

“Introduction.” With Gregory O. Hall. 2010. In Eternal Colonialism, Russell Benjamin and  Gregory O. Hall (eds). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

“The American Internal Colonial Environment.” 2010. In Eternal Colonialism, Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

“Conclusion.” With Gregory O. Hall. 2010. In Eternal Colonialism, Russell Benjamin and Gregory O. Hall (eds). Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

Selected Performances

“Problems With American-led Industrial ‘Development’ in Haiti.” Paper Presentation at the 2014 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Merida, Mexico, May 26-30.

“Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Haitian Economic `Development’.” Paper presented at the 2013 Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Grand Anse, Grenada, June 3-7.

“American ‘Development’ of Haiti After the 2010 Earthquake.” Paper presented at the 2nd NEIU African and African American Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, April 11, 2013.

“Wal-Mart and the Congressional Black Caucus: Mutual Interests?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Oak Brook, Illinois, March 13-16, 2013.

“Internal Colonialism and Black Political Support for Black Business Development.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 16-19, 2011.

 

 

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Ellen Cannon
Ellen
S.
Cannon
Professor
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5655
Expertise
Public Policy and Public Administration; Disaster and Terrorist Management; The Politics of the American Jewish Electorate Terrorism; U.S.-Israeli Relations; Politics and Religion Educational Public Policy; Public Administration
Courses Taught
American National Government
Public Policy
Women & Political Influence in the 21st Century
Public Administrstion
Early American Political Thought
Religion and Politics in America
Urban Politics
Disaster and Terrorism
Research Interests
Disaster and Terrorist Management The Politics of the American Jewish Electorate Terrorism US-Israeli Relations Politics and Religion Educational Public Policy Pubic Administration American Political Theory Women and Politics
Education

Post-Doctorate, Columbia University, 1985.
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst), 1973
B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1969

Selected Publications

"The War on Terror: Physician as Linchpin,” Health affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere

“Preparing for Terror in the U.S.,” The Jewish Week, 01/26/2007

“Terrorist Preparedness: A Critical Issues for American Jews,” The Wexner Foundation Newsletter, 02/9/2007

"Terrorism in American Cities: A Reexamination of Preparedness at the Neighborhood Level,” presented at the 30th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, Teaching Public Administration in Times of Turmoil, Penn State University, Harrisburg Pennsylvania, May 24-25, 2007

“The American Jewish Electorate in the 21st Century,” presented at the Wexner Israel Fellowship at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, December 22, 2006

“The American Jewish Electorate in the 21st Century,” presented at the Max Wall Symposium on Religion, St. Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont, October 31, 2006

“The Effect of the Far Right on Civil Liberties and religious Freedom in the U.S.,” presented at the Annual Meeting of American and World ORT, Los Angeles, CA, September 14, 2006

More than 250 Public lectures on Middle East Politics, Terrorism, Changing US-Israel Relations and Civic Engagement

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Martyn de Bruyn
Martyn
de Bruyn
Professor
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
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Courses Taught
Political Integration in Western Europe
Europe - US Transatlantic Relations
War and Peace
Modern European Governments
Politics of the European Union
American National Government
Comparative Political Systems (Writing Intensive)
Research Interests
European Integration and Comparative Regionalism; Federalism and Constitutional Theory; Human Security.
Education

Ph.D. Purdue University

M.A. Leiden University (The Netherlands)

B.A. Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Selected Publications

“Japan, the European Union, and the Elusive Global Human Security Partnership,” in Bae and Maruyama (eds.) Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses: Institutions and Practices (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2015). 

Book Review in EUSA Review, 2013. Lorena Ruano (ed.) The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).

"The Irish Referendums on Lisbon: Did the Recession Help Lisbon?" Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20 (1) March (2012): 91-101. 

"Inter-Korean Cooperation in the Fisheries Industry: Modeling Trust and Peace Building on the ECSC," Asia Europe Journal 9 (1) (2011): 1-11.

"European Integration in the Post-Constitutional Era: Federalism and the Role of National Parliaments," Contemporary Political Society (Summer 2011).

“An Institutional Approach to Peace and Prosperity: Towards a Korean Fisheries Community,” in Werner Pascha and Bernhard Seliger (eds.), In Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community? Implications for Korea’s Growth and Economic Development (Berlin: Springer 2011).

Book Review in East Asian Integration Studies, 2011. Finn Laursen (ed.) Comparative Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond. (Farnham, UK, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010).

Book Review in North Korea Review, 2011. Rüdiger Frank and Sabine Burghart (eds.). Driving Forces of Socialist Transformation: North Korea and the Experience of Europe and East Asia (Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2009).

"From Laeken to Lisbon: Europe’s Experiment with Constitutional Federalism,” in Ann Ward and Lee Ward (eds.), Research Companion to Federalism (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate 2009). 

“Trust Building through Institutions: European Lessons for Korean Unification,” On Korea: The Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Academic Paper Series 4(1) (2009) (With Sangmin Bae).  

Background

Martyn de Bruyn specializes in the study of comparative regional integration and institutional reform of the European Union (EU). He has written on federalism and constitutionalization in the European Union, direct democracy and the use of referendums to ratify EU treaties. Another strain of his research focuses on EU external relations with a focus on East Asia. He has written on European confidence and trust-building experiences and the implications for the inter-Korean relations, inter regionalism and the EU as global player.

His work has been published in Asia Europe Journal, Contemporary Political Society, The Journal of Contemporary European Studies, and On Korea. He serves as an international editorial board member of Contemporary Political Society. His current research, titled “The European Union, Japan, and the Elusive Global Human Security Partnership,” is included in an edited volume, Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses: Institutions and Practices.

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Jeffrey S. Hill
Jeffrey
S.
Hill
Professor Emeritus
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5659
Expertise
American Politics and Public Administration and Public Policy
Courses Taught
American National Government
Public Policy
Public Administration
Congress and the Legislative Branch
Reaserch Methods in Political Science
Research Interests
My teaching and research focus on American Politics and Public Administration. While my research also falls within these two broad areas, its themes are more specific. For several years, I have been interested in the impact of delegation on public policy. That is, how is policy influenced by the relationship between Congress and the bureaucracy or Congress and the states? More recently, I have been also looking at the impact of campaigns on elections, and particularly at the impact of campaign appearances.
Education

Ph.D. University of Rochester, Political Science
M.A. S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, Political Science Program in Public Policy
A.B. Cornell University, Psychology

Selected Publications

"Stump Speeches and Road Trips: The Impact of State Campaign Visits in Presidential Elections," PS: Political Science & Politics, 43 (2), April 2010 (with Elaine Rodriquez and Amanda Wooden).

"Who Will Be the Assessment Champion? And Other Conditions for a Culture of Assessment,” in Assessment in Political Science edited by Michelle D. Deardorff et al, Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, State of the Profession Series, 2009 (with Charles R. Pastors).

"Developing a Culture of Assessment: Insights from Theory and Experience," Journal of Political Science Education 1 (1): 29-37, 2005.

"Congress, the President, and the Unrealized Bargaining Power of the Line-Item Veto--A Brief Note on a Short-Lived Law," in Congress on Display, Congress at Work, edited by William Bianco. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000 (with Patrick Fett and the assistance of Richard Delaney).

Book Review: "The Political Institution of Private Property," by Itai Sened. American Political Science Review 94 (1): 179-180, 2000.

"Democratic Accountability and Governmental Innovation in the Use of Non-Profit Organizations," Policy Studies Review 14(Spring/Summer): 137-148, 1995 (with Scott Gates).

"The Irony of Delegation, Interstate Compacts, and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal," Journal of Politics: 57 (2): 344-369, 1995 (with Carol Weissert).

"The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compacts: Lessons Learned from Theory and Practice," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 24(Fall): 27-43, 1994 (with Carol Weissert).

"The Decline of Private Bills: Resource Allocation, Credit-Claiming, and the Decision to Delegate," American Journal of Political Science, 37(4): 1008-1031, 1993 (with Kenneth C. Williams).

"Deference or Preference?: Explaining Senate Confirmation of Presidential Nominees to Administrative Agencies," Journal of Theoretical Politics, 5(1): 23-59, 1993 (with Thomas Hammond).

"Constraining Administrative Decisions: A Critical Examination of the Structure and Process Hypothesis," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 7(2): 373-400, 1991 (with James Brazier).

Reprinted in The Economics of Administrative Law, edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.

"Why So Much Stability? The Impact of Agency Determined Stability." Public Choice, 77(3): 275-287, 1985.

"The Impact of Multimember Districts on Party Representation in U.S. State Legislatures." Legislative Studies Quarterly, 10(4): 441-455, 1985 (with Richard Niemi and Bernard Grofman).

"Deciding to Privatize," in Focus on Michigan's Future: Trends and Perspectives. East Lansing: Michigan State University Extension, October, 1992.

Economic Redevelopment Plan for Sag Harbor, New York. Suffolk Community Development Corporation, Coram, New York, 1981 (with Elaine Weiss).

Background

My teaching and research focus on American politics and public administration. While my research also falls within these two broad areas, its themes are more specific. For several years, I have been interested in the impact of delegation on public policy. That is, how is policy influenced by the relationship between Congress and the bureaucracy or Congress and the states? More recently, I have been also looking at the impact of campaigns on elections, and particularly at the impact of campaign appearances.

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Aleksandar Jankovski
Aleksandar
Jankovski
Instructor
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
Courses Taught
International Law
International Political Economy
Principles of International Relations
Russia in International Politics
Model United Nations
Research Interests
International Relations Theory
Education

Ph.D. The University of Miami

Selected Publications

“Ideas y normas como determinantes de la política exterior: el caso de Guerra Aérea durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial,” in La Segunda Guerra Mundial: A 70 años, eds. Modesto Seara Vázquez and Alberto Lozano Vázquez (Universidad del Mar, 2015).

“The Russian Federation, the United States, and International Order as a Social Construct,” in Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 214-249, September 2016.

“Russia and the United States: On Irritants, Friction, and International Order, or What Can we Learn from Hedley Bull,” in International Politics, Volume 53, No. 6, pp 727–751.

“The Russian Federation and the West: The Problem of International Order,” in The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment, ed. Roger Kanet (Palgrave, 2017).

Additional Information

Aleksandar Jankovski teaches in the areas of international security, international political economy, international relations theory, comparative politics, and formal models. Dr. Jankovski’s research, situated within the English School tradition of International Relations Theory, interrogates the concepts of international order, international society, and international community. His research has been published in the journals International Politics and Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations. Additionally, his research has been published as chapters in edited volume.

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Gregory Neddenriep
Gregory
Neddenriep
Associate Professor
Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
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Expertise
American Politics and Public Law
Courses Taught
PSCI 216: American National Government
PSCI 311: American Judiciary and Judicial Process
PSCI 312: American Presidency and Executive Branch
PSCI 317: Public Opinion, Mass Media, and American Politics
PSCI 320: Constitutional Law
PSCI 424: Law and Equality
Research Interests
Political Communication, E-Government, Judicial Politics, and Race Relations within Legislative Bodies
Education

The University of Tennessee, Ph.D.
Cleveland State University, J.D.
University of Illinois at Springfield, M.A.
Eastern Illinois University, B.A.

Selected Publications

Neddenriep, Gregory.  2009.  “Conflict, Cooperation, or a Colorblind Environment?  An Exploratory Study of the Black Legislative Experience on City Councils.”  State and Local Government Review 41(3):  147-165.  

Lipinski, Daniel, Gregory Neddenriep, and Karen M. Kedrowski.  2007.  “Who Makes It Easy?  Courting Journalists through Congressional Web Sites.”  The Journal of Political Science  35:  61-94.

Lipinski, Daniel, and Gregory Neddenriep.  2004.  “Using ‘New’ Media to Get ‘Old’ Media Coverage:  How Members of Congress Utilize their Web Sites to Court Journalists.”  The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 9(1): 7-21. 

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