Professor Cooper received his Ph.D. 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.

Barbara Allen completed her Ph.D. 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.

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 Ph.D. 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, Japanese politics, Russian and Soviet government, international relations, political economy, and Marxist thought. He speaks Chinese and Japanese, and leads the Beijing off-campus political economy seminar. He is also the liaison for the Watson Fellowship.

Professor Keiser received his Ph.D. 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. He is also the Director of the American Studies program.

Professor Marfleet completed his Ph.D. 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," and "American Foreign Policy."

Professor Montero received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. His research focuses on the political economy of state reform and particularly decentralization in Latin America and Western Europe. He is the author of Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain and Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World. He is also co-editor with David Samuels of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America. Prof. Montero has published articles in Comparative Politics, West European Politics, Latin American Research Review, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Studies in Comparative International Development, Current History, and Latin American Politics and Society. His courses include comparative democratization, comparative electoral and political party systems, Latin American politics and political economy, European political economy, and international and comparative political economy. He is the International Relations Coordinator, director of Carleton's Political Economy Concentration and also leads the off-campus seminar on the European Union and subnational political economy in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Prof. Montero's web page

Dr. Myint comes to us from Indiana University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2005 from the joint program between the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the School of Law. 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. Dr. Myint will teach Comparative Political Regimes, Southeast Asian Politics, International Relations & World Politics, International Environmental Politics & Policy, and International Institutions.

Professor Schier completed his Ph.D. 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 directs the seminar in Washington, DC and 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

Professor Smith earned her Ph.D. 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. She will be on leave during 2007-08, having been awarded the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Environmental Studies. She will serve as their Visiting Professor in Environment and the Humanities.

Carolyn Wong received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997, after earning a Masters Degree in Technology Policy at M.I.T. She comes to Carleton from Stanford University. 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 M.A. and Ph.D. 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 Ph.D. 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 three new ones: (with Kraft, M.E. co-editors) Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, 6th ed., CQ Press, 2006; (with Axelrod, R.S., and Downie, D.L. co-editors) The Global Environment: Institutions Law and Policy, 2nd ed., CQ Press, 2005; (with Faure, M. co-editors) 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.