Office Hours: Tu&W 9:30-11:30 & by Skype appointment

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 221 Latin American Politics, MW 12:30-1:40 & F 1:10-2:10 in WCC 231

Alfred P. Montero is the associate editor of Latin American Politics and Society, a leading journal in its field. Prof. Montero’s current research programs focus upon the evolution of the developmentalist state in Brazil and the quality of subnational democracy. Prof. Montero teaches courses on comparative and international political economy, Latin American and West European politics, comparative democratization, authoritarianism, and corruption. His research has been published in Comparative Politics, Journal of Development Studies, Latin American Research Review, West European Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Latin American Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. He is the author of Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain (Penn State University Press, 2002), Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World (Polity Press, 2006), and co-editor with David J. Samuels of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). He has a forthcoming book titled, Brazil: A Reversal of Fortune (Polity Press, 2014), on the recent emergence of Brazil as one of the more significant large, developing economies in the world.  Prof. Montero's web page

Office Hours: M Tu W Th by appointment (sign up on Moodle)

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: M&W 1:30-3:30 & by appointment

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 223 Food Justice, MW 11:10-12:20 & F 12:00-1:00 in Weitz 231

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. 

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 a number of 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. He is the director of the EthIC Program (Ethical Inquiry at Carleton).

Office Hours: M 3:15-4:15, W 3:15-4:15, Th 4:00-5:00 & by appointment

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 160 Political Philosophy, MW 9:50-11:00 & F 9:40-10:40 in WCC 133
POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought, MW 1:50-3:00 & F 2:20-3:20 in WCC 133

Mihaela Czobor-Lupp holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest (Romania). She specializes in Continental modern and contemporary political philosophy, post-modernism, democratic theory, critical theory, and politics and literature. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript on The Slumber of Imagination Produces Monsters: Imagination and Democratic Politics. Her work has been published in Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, and numerous other English and Romanian peer-reviewed journals. Besides the introductory classes to political philosophy, she teaches classes on post-modern political thought, imagination and politics, cosmopolitanism, biopower, and power, freedom, and resistance (Arendt and Foucault).

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: M 11:00-3:00, W 11:00-1:30 or Skype by appointment

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 244 Politics of the Celtic Fringe, MW 9:50-11:00 & F 9:40-10:40 in Willis 205

Office Hours: M 2:00-3:30, Tu 9:30-11:30, F 2:30-3:30 & by appointment

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 218 Schools, Scholarship & Policy, MW 9:50-11:00 & F 9:40-10:40 in WCC 133
AMST 396 Suburbanization in America, T Th 1:15-3:00 in WCC 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. In 2006 he was a Visiting Professor in the Denmark International Study program (DIS) in Copenhagen.  His current research examines the electoral and sociological significance of suburbanization in the United States, the synchronous development of gated communities and slums across the capitalist world, progressive and regressive urban economic development strategies, and the institutions of direct democracy in the US and Europe.  Recent publications have focused on sports stadium-led downtown development and both city and state-level opposition to this strategy.  Prof. Keiser teaches the introductory course on liberty and equality in America, as well as courses on the international political economy of cities, the political economy of global tourism, and public policy courses on the American education and health care systems. Prof. Keiser's web page

Office Hours: by appointment

Spring Class Schedule (first five weeks--4/1/2013-5/2/2013):
POSC 248 The U.S.-China Relationship, T Th 1:15-3:00 in Leighton 304

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 Noble Group. At Carleton he enjoys teaching courses in Asian and American foreign policy.

Office Hours: W & F 12:30-3:30

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 330 Complexity of Politics, T Th 10:10-11:55 in WCC 235
POSC 267 Comparative Foreign Policy, T Th 1:15-3:00 in WCC 233

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.

Office Hours: M&W 10:00-12:00 & by appointment

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 237 Southeast Asian Politics, T Th 10:10-11:55 in Willis 211
POSC 333 Global Social Changes & Sustainability, T Th 1:15-3:00 in Laird 212

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 The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU, teaching and engaging in research on democracy and environmental governance with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. His research examines the role of individuals and groups in the dynamic relationship between social changes and global environmental changes with the focus on democracy, development, globalization, and sustainability.  His publications have appeared in Ecology & Society, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Legal Issues in Burma Journal, and Perspectives on Politics.  He is the author of Governing International Rivers: Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine.  Professor Myint 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 of Asia Policy Program, a joint program of the National Bureau of Research and Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Prof. Myint teaches Comparative Political Regimes, Southeast Asian Politics, International Relations & World Politics, International Environmental Politics & Policy, Approaches to Development, International Institutions, and Global Social Changes & Sustainability. Tun Myint's web page 

Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:15, T Th 1:00-2:10

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 208 The American Presidency, T Th 10:10-11:55 in Willis 203
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), You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy (2003), and Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent his Political Capital (2009). He edited The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in American Politics (2000), High Risk and Big Ambition: The Early Presidency of George W. Bush (2004), and Transforming America: Barack Obama in the White House (2011), and coedited of The American Elections of 2008 (2009). Two of his books have won Outstanding Academic Book awards from Choice magazine. 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: M & W 9:00-11:00

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 271 Constitutional Law I, MW 11:10-12:20 & F 12:00-1:00 in Willis 114

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. Her first 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.  African American Environmental Thought: Foundations, published by University Press of Kansas in Spring 2007, and named “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice Magazine in 2008.   Her other titles include Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace (University Press of Kansas, 2003), Governing Animals: Animal Welfare and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press, 2012), and articles published in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Women's Studies, Environmental Values, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics and Environmental Ethics, and the Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.

Office Hours: Tu 11:00-12:00 & 1:00-3:00

Spring Class Schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 230 Methods of Political Research, MW 11:10-12:20 & F 12:00-1:00 in Willis 205
POSC 170 International Relations & World Politics, MW 1:50-3:00 & 2:20-3:20 in Willis 211

Alex von Hagen-Jamar is completing his PhD at the University of Michigan, where he received the John W. Kingdon Award in recognition of outstanding teaching, and graduated from Carleton College in 2005 with a degree in International Relations/Political Science. His research focuses on international security. Specifically, he studies military budgets/arms races, international rivalry, and domestic political institutions. Other interests include research design and quantitative methods, military alliances, PTSD, and the determinants of U.S. foreign policy attitudes. He will teach during the winter and spring terms: International Relations & World Politics, The Costs of Conflict, and Methods of Political Research.

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.

Office hours: tba

Spring class schedule (4/1/2013-6/5/2013):
POSC 160 Political Philosophy, MW 3:10-4:20 & F 3:30-4:30 in Willis 205

Before coming to Carleton, Prof. Petzschmann  taught at the University of Cape Town and at Oxford University where he also obtained his PhD in the Department of Politics and International Relations. He is interested in the intersection between International Relations and political thought as well as modern intellectual history. Specifically, he works on the history and theory of the state and state bureaucracies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their role in constructing administrative states in post-war Germany and the post-colonial world.