Office Hours:  M 1:00-4:00, W 10:00-12:00 (T&Th afternoons by appointment)

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 365 Political Economy of Global Tourism, T Th 10:10-11:55 in Weitz 136

Professor Keiser received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. His research focuses on progressive politics in America's big cities. In 1997 he published Subordination or Empowerment? which analyzed the formation and disintegration of coalitions that advance African-American political empowerment. He coedited Minority Politics at the Millennium, which was published in 2000. His current research examines the relationship between cities and suburbs in the current era. Prof. Keiser teaches the introductory course on liberty and equality in America, as well as courses on urban and suburban political economy, poverty and public policy, and the Presidency. Prof. Keiser's web page

Office Hours: M-Th by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 281 Global Society & World Politics, T Th 10:10-11:55 in Weitz 235

Professor Allen completed her PhD at Indiana University. She teaches courses in American politics, feminist political theory, politics and the media, and constitutional law. Her broad interests include research related to liberal philosophy, democratic theory, institutional analysis and design, rational choice, and policy and law related to gender and race. Her areas of specialization related to empirical theory and methodology include quantitative methods, political socialization and behavior, public opinion, and theories of learning. Professor Allen writes extensively on applying Tocqueville's theories to contemporary politics and policy. Other publications include her research on Martin Luther King's contributions to American political thought. She is a contributing editor to The Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University and a fellow at the Mondale Policy Forum at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Allen also is a recipient of several grants including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation fellowships.

Office hours: Th 10:00-12:00 & by appointment

Winter class schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 201 National Policymaking, MW 9:50-11:00 & F 9:40-10:40 in Weitz 132
POSC 122.02 Politics in America: Liberty & Equality in Willis 203

Patricia Cavanaugh earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, "The Politics of Building Twin Cities Interstates: A Contextual Analysis of Twin Cities Cases," considered the relationship of technical experts to democratic practices through historical research of cases of citizen protest of the construction of interstate segments. Her areas of interest include critical public policy, democratic theory, the role of experts in democracy, urban politics, and environmental politics and policy. She has previously taught at Carleton in 2009-10, at Hamline University, the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College. 

Office Hours: MW 3:00-4:00, F 10:00-12:00 & by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 160 Political Philosophy, MW 1:50-3:00 & F 2:20-3:20 in Willis 205
POSC 252/350 Herodotus: Origin of Political Philosophy, T Th 3:10-4:55 in Library 344

Professor Cooper received his PhD from Duke University. Most of his research has centered on two related and overlapping themes: first, whether and to what effect standards of human flourishing and social good can be derived from nature; and, second, human passions and their implications for politics and philosophy. In addition to several scholarly articles and chapters, he has published two books: Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life (1999) and Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity (2008). Professor Cooper teaches courses in ancient and modern political philosophy.

Office Hours: Tu 3:30-6:00, W 4:00-6:00 & by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 359 Cosmopolitanism, T Th 1:15-3:00 in Willis 211

Professor Czobor-Lupp holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest. She specializes in modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, critical theory, post-modernism, and politics and literature.

Office Hours: M 10:00-11:30, W 10:00-11:30, (Th 2:30-4:00 by prior appt only), F 11:00 – 12:00, & by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 170.01 International Relations & World Politics, MW 8:30-9:40 & F 8:30-9:30 in Leighton 304

As the Kellogg Professor of International Relations, Professor Grow specializes in Chinese and Japanese politics, as well as the international politics of Asia. He received his PhD in 1973 from the University of Michigan after a career in the military as an interpreter and area analyst. Professor Grow teaches courses in Chinese politics, Vietnam and American policy, international relations, political economy, and Marxist thought. He speaks Chinese and Japanese, and led the Beijing off-campus political economy seminar for many years. He is also the liaison for the Watson Fellowship.

Office Hours: MW 2:00-4:00, F 11:00-1:00

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes, MW 9:50-11:00 & F 9:40-10:40 in Weitz 233
POSC 230 Methods of Political Research, MW 12:30-1:40 & 1:10-2:10 in Willis 205

Devashree Gupta received her PhD in Government from Cornell University. Her research focuses on issues of nationalism, social movements and protest, and political extremism, with a particular focus on the politics of Britain, Ireland, and South Africa. Her dissertation, Militant Flanks and Moderate Centers: The Struggle for Power and Influence in Nationalist Movements, explores the strategies that rival nationalist factions use to acquire more public support and material resources than their competitors in order to emerge as the ideological and strategic leaders of the nationalist community. She has published her work in The Chicago Policy Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, Comparative Politics, and Comparative European Politics. She teaches the introductory classes in international relations and comparative politics as well as courses on social movements, comparative nationalism, ethnic conflict, religion and politics, globalization, and research methods.

Ambassador Levin is the Sit Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy. After receiving his MA in International Affairs from Columbia University, he entered the Foreign Service. Ambassador Levin has served in Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand (where he was Deputy Chief of Mission), and as Consul General in Hong Kong. From May 1987 to September 1990, he served as US Ambassador to Burma. He has done graduate work at Harvard University in Chinese Affairs, was a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. After retiring from the Foreign Service, Ambassador Levin went on to head the Hong Kong Office of the Asia Society. In 1993 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law degree by Carleton College. He is currently a Director of the Mansfield Foundation and the Noble Group. At Carleton he enjoys teaching courses in Asian and American foreign policy.

Office Hours:  MW 12:30-3:30 & F by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 230 Methods of Political Research, T Th 8:15-10:00 in Weitz 233
POSC 231 American Foreign Policy, T Th 1:15-3:00 in Weitz 230

Professor Marfleet completed his PhD at Arizona State University, in international relations and comparative politics. His dissertation was entitled "Taking Risks for War and Peace: Groups, Leaders and Crisis Behavior." His work has appeared in Political Psychology, Foreign Policy Analysis and the Journal of Political Science Education. His courses include International Relations & World Politics, Methods of Political Research, Complexity in Politics, and American Foreign Policy. Prof. Marfleet is the coordinator of the international relations track and the director of Carleton's Political Economy concentration.

Office Hours: M&W 6:30-8:30 pm

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 265 Politics of Global Economic Relations, MW 12:30-1:40 & F 1:10-2:10 in Boliou 104
LTAM 371 Brazil Research Seminar, T Th 1:15-3:00 in Weitz 136

Professor Montero received his PhD at Columbia University. His research focuses on the quality of subnational democratic governance in Brazil and the political economy of Latin America and Western Europe. He is the author of Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain (Penn State Press, 2002) and Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World (Polity, 2006). He is also co-editor with David Samuels of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America. Prof. Montero has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Politics,Journal of Politics in Latin America, West European Politics, Latin American Research Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Latin American Politics and Society. He teaches courses on Latin American politics and political economy, European and international political economy, and comparative democratization, authoritarianism and corruption. He is the director of Carleton's Latin American Studies program and also leads the off-campus seminar on European Political Economy based in Madrid, Spain and Maastricht, the Netherlands. Prof. Montero's web page

Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00, Tu 9:00-10:00 & by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 268 International Environmental Politics & Policies, MW 9:50-11:00 & F 9:40-10:40 in Willis 211
POSC 361 Approaches to Development, MW 1:50-3:35 in Willis 114

Professor Myint earned his PhD in 2005 from the joint program of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at IU, teaching and engaging in research on democracy and environmental governance with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. In his dissertation, he examined and analyzed the sources of the power of non-state actors (for-profit and non-profit) who influenced legal and policy transformation in the Mekong and Rhine River Basins. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Team of the Federal Constitution Drafting Coordinating Committee of the Union of Burma, and was previously Research Fellow, Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Prof. Myint teaches Comparative Political Regimes, Southeast Asian Politics, International Relations & World Politics, International Environmental Politics & Policy, and International Institutions. Tun Myint's web page

Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:30, TTh 1:00-2:00, & by appointment

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 122 Politics in America: Liberty & Equality, T Th 3:10-4:55 in Willis 203

Professor Schier completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests are primarily in American politics, including interest groups, elections, Congress, the presidency, and political parties. He is the author of several books, including: The Rules and the Game (1980), Political Economy in Western Democracies (co-edited with Norman Vig, 1985), A Decade of Deficits: Congressional Thought and Fiscal Action (1992), Congress: Games and Strategies (co-authored with Steve Frantzich, 1995), Payment Due (co-authored with former U.S. Representative Tim Penny, 1996), By Invitation Only: The Rise of Exclusive Politics in the United States (2000), and You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy (2003). He edited The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in American Politics (2000) and High Risk and Big Ambition: The Early Presidency of George W. Bush (2004). Professor Schier can sometimes be heard on the air as political analyst for KSTP television in Minneapolis. He teaches courses in American politics and methodology. Prof. Schier's Web page

Office Hours: MW 9:00-11:00, F 1:00-2:00

Winter Class Schedule (1/4/12-3/9/12):
POSC 272 American Constitutional Law II, MW 11:10-12:20 & F 12:00-1:00 in Willis 205
POSC 212 Environmental Justice, MW 1:50-3:00 & F 2:20-3:20 in Willis 211

Professor Smith earned her PhD at the University of Michigan and her law degree at the Boalt School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches courses in constitutional law, the judicial process, American political thought, political theory, and environmental politics and policy. She has published articles in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Wisconsin Journal of Environmental Law, Women's Studies, California Law Review, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Environmental Ethics. Professor Smith's book, The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason and Romance in Antebellum Politics (University Press of Kansas, 1999) was awarded the 2001 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award by the Organization of American Historians. Her second book, Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace, was published in 2003, and her third book, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations was published by University Press of Kansas in Spring 2007. Professor Smith serves as the pre-law adviser.

Carolyn Wong received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997, after earning a Masters Degree in Technology Policy at M.I.T. She taught at Stanford University, prior to coming to Carleton. Prof. Wong's research and teaching focus primarily on the politics of race, ethnicity and immigration in the United States. Her book Lobbying for Inclusion: Rights Politics and the Making of Immigration Policy was published by Stanford University Press in March 2006. She is currently comparing the paths to political integration of Hmong and Vietnamese refugee communities in the U.S., France, and Australia. She has also carried out research about expatriate voting by citizens of El Salvador living in the United States. Her courses examine racial and ethnic politics from a cross-national comparative perspective, the political economy of immigration and social policy, and the politics of human rights for refugee populations.

Professor W. Hartley Clark taught at Carleton from 1955 to 1992. He earned his B.A. at Carleton, and his MA and PhD at New York University. His publications include: The Politics of the Common Market, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967; "United Nations Peacekeeping Techniques in the Middle East," Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 2 and 3, 1969-70; and "Materials for Undergraduate Study of the United Nations," American Political Science Review. XLVIII, 1 (1954).

Professor Vig retired in 2003 after teaching at Carleton for 37 years. He returned for winter and spring of 2005-06 to teach "International Environmental Politics and Policy" and "Comparative Political Regimes." He received his PhD in public law and government from Columbia University. His primary training is in comparative politics (especially European). Most of his work in recent years has been on environmental policy and law and on the relationships between technology and government. He has published eleven books, including these most recently: (with M.E. Kraft, co-editor) Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, 6th ed., CQ Press, 2006; (with R.S. Axelrod and D.L. Downie, co-editors) The Global Environment: Institutions Law and Policy, 2nd ed., CQ Press, 2005; (with M. Faure, co-editor) Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union, MIT Press, 2004.

Tricia earned her Bachelor's degree at Dana College, a small liberal arts school in Nebraska, and has previously worked as an office administrator in the medical and publishing fields. She is responsible for administrative duties including the department Web site. Tricia is available 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. during the academic year to assist students and faculty. The office is usually staffed until 4:30 by student workers.