Political Science Sources at Boston College

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David Deese
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Dartmouth College
M.A., M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

International political economy; comparative politics; public policy; international relations; political and social changes in Russia and Eastern Europe; conflict in the Middle East; European Union; international trade issues; US foreign economic policy–including trade, US aid, International Monetary Fund, World Bank; OPEC; oil markets; international and US energy policy; analysis of continuing oil crisis and evolution in world energy markets; energy security; United Nations; wars, crises, conflicts, bargaining and negotiations; US foreign policy toward the Middle East; relations between the US and Russia and other former Soviet republics; bargaining and negotiations; US defense policy; international security; arms control; nuclear weapons; nuclear non-proliferation; the American presidency. Editor of and contributor to the book The New Politics of American Foreign Policy; author of articlesincluding "The Invisibility of Human Freedom in Developing Countries in Transition," and "Energy and Security." Courses have included: "Politics and International Economic Relations"; "Limits & Promise of Cooperation in World Politics."

617.552.4585
david.deese.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/deese.html

Donald Hafner
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice

B.A. Kalamazoo College
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of Chicago

International politics; international relations; ways in which the American public and policy-makers have understood and applied principles of international politics during US history; domestic political and intellectual foundations of American international behavior; bases of national power and policy; US foreign policy; national security policy issues; post-war European international politics; strategic nuclear policy; arms control; American military commitments abroad. Former advisor with the US Salt II delegation. Co-editor of the books Weapons In Space and ATBMs and Western Security: Missile Defenses for Europe; author of publications, including "Presidential Leadership in Foreign Policy Bureaucracy"; and "Ronald Reagan's European Policy." Courses have included: "International Politics of Europe"; "International Studies"; "American Foreign Policy."

617.552.4173
donald.hafner.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/hafner.html

Dennis Hale
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Oberlin College
M.A. Brooklyn College
Ph.D. City University of New York

Local government; Massachusetts state politics; American national government, political parties and elections; state and local tax revolts; Federalism and federal policies toward states and cities; comparative political institutions; the American Constitution and its authors; citizenship; evolution of juries as a civic and judicial institution. Research projects include "Taking Citizenship Seriously" and "Jurors and Citizens: The Contemporary Jury System and Republican Government." Editor of the books Economics and the Good Life: Essays in Political Economy and The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel. Author of articles including "Proposition 2 1/2 a Decade Later: The Ambiguous Legacy of Tax Reform in Massachusetts" and "Massachusetts: William F. Weld and the End of Business as Usual." Courses have included: "American Political Thought"; "Public Administration"; "Fundamental Concepts of Politics."

617.552.4165
dennis.hale.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/hale.html

Kenji Hayao
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. University of Michigan

US-Japan relations; Japanese domestic politics; the prime ministership. Author of the book Japanese Prime Ministers and Public Policy. Courses have included: "Government and Politics of Japan"; "Comparative Politics of Leadership."

617.552.4096
kenji.hayao.1@bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/hayao.html

Marc Landy
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Oberlin College, Ph.D. Harvard University

The American presidency; development of the presidency in the 20th century; attempts of activist presidents–from FDR to Reagan–to reconcile the role of domestic steward with that of world leader; American citizenship; American federalism. History of EPA; political and governmental influence on EPA and its effectiveness as an agency; government and environmental regulation. Co-author of the books Presidential Greatness and The Environmental Protection Agency from Nixon to Clinton: Asking the Wrong Questions; co-author of articles including "The Politics of Risk Reform" and "Public Administration and Policy Deliberation." Courses have included: "The American Presidency"; "Economic Freedom, Religious Freedom and Justice."

617.552.4172
marc.landy.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/landy.html

R. Shep Melnick
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

The Rehnquist Court; welfare policy; environmental policy; Clean Air Act; Federal Courts; judiciary appointments; administrative law; statutory interpretation; bureaucracy; public policy. Co-editor of the book Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights. Author of the books Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights and Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act. Author of many articles, including "An American Dilemma"; "Tobacco Litigation: Good for the Body, but not the Body Politic"; "Strange Bedfellows Make Normal Politics" and "The Political Roots of the Judicial Dilemma." Courses have included: "Policy and Politics in the US"; "American Political Ideals and Institutions"; "US Supreme Court: A Political Perspective."

617.552.1896
shep.melnick.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/melnick.html

Robert Ross
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Tufts University, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia University

Chinese history, politics and foreign policy; weapons and security issues in China and Asia; US-China relations. US-Vietnamese relations; Vietnamese foreign policy. United Nations and world affairs; history of and conflicts in the Chinese-Indochinese region; US policy toward Asia; Cambodian war; US policy toward Cambodia; Indochina. Former Fulbright professor at the Chinese College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, and member of the National Committee for US-China Relations. Author of the book Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China 1969-1989; co-author of Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security; editor of and contributor to East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order, co-editor of and contributor to Engaging China: Management of an Emerging Power. Author of articles including "American China Policy and the Security of Asia." Courses have included: "US-China Relations"; "The International Political System"; "Chinese Foreign Policy"; "Great and Local Powers in East Asia."

617.552.3259
robert.ross@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/ross.html

Kay Schlozman
J. Joseph Moakley Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Political activism among Americans; voluntary activity in politics, charities and religion; gender and politics; American national politics; parties and the electoral process; political behavior and public opinion; voter participation; link between education and voter participation; special interest groups and lobbies. She recently concluded a collaborative study of the role of gender and families in voluntary participation in political, civic and religious life in the U.S. Also co-developed the "Civic Voluntarism Model" to demonstrate the factors that foster participation: resources such as time, money and civic skills; psychological engagement with politics; and access to networks through which people are recruited for political life. Co-author of the books Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response; Organized Interests and American Democracy and Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Editor of Election in America; and author of numerous articles on activism, unemployment, gender issues in politics and citizen participation, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Courses have included: "Parties and Elections in America"; "The Citizen in American Democracy."

617.552.4174
kay.schlozman@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/schlozman.html

Peter Skerry
Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Harvard University

Skerry's research focuses on social policy, racial and ethnic politics, and immigration. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington as well as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His writings on politics, racial and ethnic issues, immigration and social policy have appeared in publications such as Society; Publius; The Journal of Policy History; The New Republic; Slate; The Public Interest; National Review; The New York Times; The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His book, Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority, was awarded the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent book is Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics. His courses have included: "Urban Politics in 21st-Century America," "Immigration: Processes, Politics, and Policies," and "Race and Ethnicity in the Administrative State."

617-552-3112
peter.skerry@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/skerry.html

Jennifer A. Steen
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

American politics; campaigns and elections. Author of the book Self-Financing Candidates in Contemporary American Elections. A former political consultant. Served as a county precinct captain, national convention delegate and member of the Electoral College.

617.552.6029
jennifer.steen.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/steen.html

Alan Wolfe
Professor, Political Science Department
Director, Center for Religion and American Public Life
B.S. Temple University, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Issues of religion and morality as they relate to the most pressing issues facing the nation; the relationship between religion and public policy. Director of the BC's Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. Renowned social scientist, author and teacher, considered among the most prominent public intellectuals in the United States. Author/editor of books including Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It; The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Practice our Faith; Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice; One Nation After All, which received international acclaim for its study of middle class opinions on issues ranging from God and family to racism and homosexuality; Marginalized in the Middle, and Whose Keeper: Social Science and Moral Obligation, co-winner of the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Both One Nation, After All and Moral Freedom were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A contributing editor of The New Republic and The Wilson Quarterly, and frequent contributor to Commonweal, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post, as well as other publications.

617.552.1862
alan.wolfe.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/facstaff/wolfe.html