Faculty -- Mark S. Sheetz

     Prof. Mark Sheetz is a Fellow in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and has been teaching international politics at Boston College for the past two years.  He previously taught courses in American foreign policy, US-European relations, international security, and the role of nuclear weapons in international politics (Nuclear War) at Dartmouth College, Yale University, and Wesleyan University.  He was on the faculty of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland, where he lectured on American foreign policy, US-European relations, and International security to mid-career diplomats and military officers from over 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.  He has lectured at the NATO Defense College in Rome, the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre in Tunis, the Ecole Royale Militaire in Brussels, the Slovak National Academy of Defense in Bratislava, and the Committee on National Security Policy of the Swiss parliament in Bern. 
     Prof. Sheetz received his Ph.D in political science from Columbia University, his M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and his A.B. in Government from Dartmouth College.  He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in International Security Studies at Yale University and a National Security fellowship at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies in Harvard’s Center for International Affairs.  His teaching and research interests focus on international politics, European security and American foreign policy.  His scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, and the Journal of Cold War Studies.  Prof. Sheetz is currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled France, Germany, and the Transformation of Europe, which examines the origins of postwar European political and economic cooperation through the prism of Franco-German relations.

Office: McGuinn 327

Phone: 617-552-1077

Email:  mark.sheetz.1@bc.edu