Jeffrey E. Cohen came to Fordham University in 1997, after teaching for 20 years in large universities in the midwest and south, including Alabama, Illinois, and Kansas. He received his Ph. D. in Political Science in 1979 from the University of Michigan and his major teaching and research interests include American Political Institutions and Public Policy. Professor Cohen has published extensively in the major Political Science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, and is currently the co-editor of the "Elections and Polls" feature for Presidential Studies Quarterly. His books include Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy (1997, University of Michigan Press), which won the 1998 Richard E. Neustadt Award of the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association; The Presidency in an Era of 24 Hour News (2008, Princeton University Press), and Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age (2010, Cambridge University Press). During academic year 2008-09, he was Visting Senior Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Professor Cohen is also a movie buff of older films from the 1930s-1950s, especially film noir.
Jose A. Aleman (2005 - Comparative/International Pol. Economy)
Jose Aleman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, located at the Rose Hill campus. He has degrees from Cornell University (B.A.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.) and teaches courses on Comparative Politics and Political Economy. His work focuses on the comparative study of democratic institutions with a particular focus on the reform of labor market policies and institutions in new democracies. Dr. Aleman is also interested in democratization, democratic consolidation and social science methodology. Professor Aleman has received fellowships from the Macarthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Korea Foundation. He has published in the Industrial Relations Journal, International Political Science Review, Political Studies, the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd Edition) and the International Journal of Korean Studies.
Bruce Berg is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His teaching and research interests include U.S. health and social policy, federal-state-local relations, and New York City Politics. He has published articles on health policy, interest groups, intergovernmental relations, and politics in the New York metropolitan area. Professor Berg also directs the Honors Program for the College of Liberal Studies.
Susan A. Berger (1987 - Comparative Politics/Latin American Politics)
Susan Berger is Professor of Political Science. She specializes in Comparative Politics, with a focus on Latin America. Professor Berger teaches courses on Latin American politics, developing nations, the political economy of development, and immigration. She has written on Guatemalan politics, the women’s movement in Guatemala, and immigration, gender, and the law in the United States. Professor Berger received her BA from the University of Michigan and her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She came to Fordham in 1987.
Jonathan Crystal (1997 - International Politics/IPE)
Jonathan Crystal (PhD Harvard) is Associate Professor of Political Science. He earned his BA and PhD from Harvard and came to Fordham in 1997. He teaches courses in International Relations and International Political Economy, and his research centers on political responses to economic globalization and on the politics of international trade and investment. His publications include Unwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries (Cornell 2003), as well as articles in Review of International Political Economy, International Studies Quarterly, Business &Politics, European Journal of International Relations and Global Society and other outlets.
Thomas De Luca, Jr. (1991 - American Politics/Constitutional Law)
Tom De Luca is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Intercultural Studies and of the Sino-American Seminar on Politics and Law. He is the author of The Two Faces of Political Apathy (Temple University Press, 1995), and the co-author of Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers! Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics (NYU, 2005) and Sustainable Democracy: Individuality and the Politics of the Environment (SAGE Publications, 1996). De Luca specializes in American politics, democratic theory, and constitutional law. Since teaching in China from 1999-2000 he has become increasingly interested in comparative democratization, and since the 9/11 attack on New York City in the problem of terrorism. De Luca is also a prolific media commentator on U.S. politics and democracy, and U.S.-China relations, with appearances on NBC Nightly News, CNN, Fox, Reuters TV, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The O’Reilly Factor, Lou Dobbs Tonight, CCTV (China), and other media including television, radio, and print. For the Spring semester 2006 De Luca holds the Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American Social Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he is teaching courses on American democracy. He will return to Fordham in the Fall.
John P. Entelis (1970 - Comparative Politics/Dir. Middle East Studies Program)
John P. Entelis is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University (Bronx, New York). He received his B.A. degree in political science from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964, Summer Certificates in Arabic Language Study at the American University in Cairo [Egypt](1965), Harvard University (1966), and Princeton University (1967) under NDEA National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships, an M.A. from New York University in 1967, and a Ph.D. in political science from New York University in 1970. He has been awarded several Fulbright awards and has also directed three National Endowment for the Humanities summer institutes and seminars. Professor Entelis has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad to university, government, business, and community groups under the sponsorship of private, academic, and governmental institutions. Dr. Entelis is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications on the comparative and international politics of the Middle East and NorthAfrica including: Pluralism and PartyTransformation in Lebanon (1974) Comparative Politics of North Africa (1980, 1984), The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (1980, 1986, 1995, 2002), Political Elites in Arab North Africa (1982), Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized (1986), Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics (1989,1996), State and Society in Algeria (1992), and Islam, Democracy, and the State in North Africa (1997) in addition to articles that have appeared in the leading scholarly journals in the fields of political science, international relations, Middle Eastern affairs, and North African studies. He has also published analytic pieces in The New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique, among many others. Dr. Entelis is frequently featured in leading news media.
Nicole Fermon is Professor of Political Science and located on the Lincoln Center campus. She specializes in political theory and feminist thought. Professor Fermon teaches courses on the history of political thought (ancient, modern, and contemporary) as well as courses in democracy, nationalism, women's studies and film. She has written on nationalism and Rousseau, on Sarah Kofman and the Holocaust, on Luce Irigaray and micro-credit. Professor Fermon received her BA from University of Hawaii and Ph.D. from Columbia.
Richard Fleisher (1979 - American Politics/Political Institutions)
Richard S. Fleisher is Professor in the Political Science Department at Fordham University.Professor Fleisher received his BA from Brooklyn College and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). His teaching and research focuses on the study of Political Institutions and Processes, with specific interest in the U.S. Congress and political parties and elections. Professor Fleisher has published widely including The President in the Legislative Arena (University of Chicago Press), Polarized Politics (CQ Press) and American Political Parties: Decline or Resurgence (CQ Press). His list of publications also include articles that appeared in The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Currently Professor Fleisher's research focuses on the causes and consequences of partisan polarization. He is working on a book that analyzes the rise and fall of moderates in American politics.
Christina Greer (2009 - American Politics/Race and Ethnic Politics)
Christina Greer is an assistant professor of political science at Fordham University - Lincoln Center campus. Her research and teaching focus on American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, quantitative methods, and public opinion. Professor Greer is currently conducting research on the history of African Americans and the executive office in the U.S. Her research interests also include crime and public policy in urban centers. Her previous work has compared criminal activity and political responses in Boston and Baltimore. She is currently working on a book manuscript Black Ethnicity: Identity, Participation, and Policy . Prof. Greer received her B. A. from Tufts University and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Robert J. Hume (2005 - American Politics/Constitutional Law)
Robert J. Hume is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, located on the Rose Hill Campus. He has degrees from the College of the Holy Cross (B.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, the judicial process, and public administration, with particular emphasis on the implementation of court decisions. Recent projects have focused on the impact of the U.S. Courts of Appeals on the federal bureaucracy, as well as language strategies used by judges to advance implementation goals. His articles have appeared in the Law & Society Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Justice System Journal. His book, How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior, has been published by Routledge press.
Paul Kantor (1970 - American Politics/Urban Politics)
Paul Kantor (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science at FordhamUniversity in New York City. His teaching and research interests include American and comparative politics and public policy, urban politics in the United States and Western Europe, and urban political economy. Kantor is author of numerous articles and reviews in the Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, British Journal of Political Science, Polity, and International Journalof Urban and Regional Research, and other leading academic journals. Paul Kantor co-authored Cities in the International Marketplace: the Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe (Princeton University Press, 2002). This book won the 2003 award for the Best Book in Urban Politics from the American Political Science Association. His other books include American Political Parties: Decline or Revival? (CQ Press, 2001), co-edited with Jeffrey Cohen and Richard Fleisher; The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Development and Social Policy, (Westview, 1995); The Dependent City: The Changing Political Economy of Urban America, ( Little Brown-Scott, Foresman, 1988); With Dennis R. Judd he also co-editedEnduring Tensions in Urban Politics, Macmillan, 1992; The Politics of Urban America, (Longman, 1998,2002); American Urban Politics: The Reader (Longman, 2006); and American Politics in a Global Age (Pearson Longman, 2008). Paul Kantor’s most recent research focuses on comparative regional politics, including the forthcoming World Cities: The Political Economy of City Regionalism in Paris, London, New York, and Tokyo. Professor Kantor was the Fulbright John Marshall Distinguished Chair in Political Science (Hungary) for 2005-2006. He has lectured extensively in the USA, China, South America, and throughout Western Europe. He served as Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar at universities in Italy and the Netherlands, and was a visiting research professor at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDST), University of Amsterdam, 2004. Professor Kantor is on the editorial boards of several journals in political science, American studies and urban affairs, and is on the advisory board of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). He was President of the American Political Science Association Urban Politics Section in 2000-2001 and is currently on the Section’s Executive.
Melissa Labonte (2008 - International Politics)
Office: Faber Hall 664 (Rose Hill) Email:labonte@fordham.edu Phone: (718) 817-3959
Melissa Labonte is assistant professor of political science at FordhamUniversity.She received her A.B. from SyracuseUniversity and her A.M. and Ph.D. in Political Science from BrownUniversity.Her research and teaching focus on international and nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations system, humanitarian politics, peacebuilding, multilateral peace operations, conflict resolution, and human rights.Professor Labonte is currently conducting research on agenda-setting and the politics of consensus building in the office of the United Nations 63rd General Assembly President, Fr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, and will carry out fieldwork later in 2009 to analyze peacebuilding partnerships and community-driven development involving local Chiefdom actors and international nongovernmental organizations in Sierra Leone.She has published articles in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and has authored book chapters on jus post bellum and peacebuilding in Afghanistan, multilateral peace operations in Sierra Leone, and the humanitarian politics of peacebuilding.She is currently finalizing a book manuscript entitled Bringing Influence to Bear: Nongovernmental Humanitarian Actors and the Politics of Intervention.
Monika L. McDermott (2008 - American Politics/Political Behavior)
Monika McDermott holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. Her research follows multiple lines of inquiry including voting cues and information shortcuts, most recently with regard to religious stereotypes and elections, as well as public opinion of government. McDermott has a book on public opinion and congressional elections forthcoming in the summer of 2009 from the University of Michigan Press: Americans, Congress and Democratic Responsiveness (co-authored with David R. Jones). In addition, her work has been published in some of the profession's top journals, such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly. Professor McDermott is also a survey research practitioner who has conducted election surveys at the Los Angeles Times Poll, the CBS News Election and Survey Unit, and the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut. She has also been an election and polling analyst for CBS News since 2002.
Olena Nikolayenko is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto in 2007 and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law in 2007-2009. Her current research focuses on social movements, youth, and comparative democratization, with the regional focus on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. As a recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she examined the development of youth movements in the post-communist region and conducted fieldwork in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, and Ukraine. Her articles appeared in Canadian Journal of Political Science, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Comparative Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, and PS: Political Science and Politics.
Costas Panagopoulos (2005 - American Politics/Dir. MA Prog. Elections & Campaign Mgmt.)
Costas Panagopoulos, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of theCenter for Electoral Politicsand the Master’s Program in Elections and Campaign Management at Fordham University. He is also Research Fellow at the Institution for Social and PolicyStudies at Yale University. He served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) in 2004-2005. His academic research focuses on American politics, with an emphasis on campaigns and elections, voting behavior, public opinion, campaign finance and Congress, and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and PS: Political Science and Politics. He is editor of Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age and coauthor of All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding. Dr. Panagopoulos is also part of the Decision Deskteam at NBC News and has provided extensive political analysis and commentary for various print and broadcast media outlets including: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, CNN, NBC Nightly News, Fox News, and BBC Television.
Joachim K. Rennstich (2004 - International Politics/IPE)
Joachim Karl Rennstich is Assistant Professor at the Political Science department at Fordham University and is located at the Lincoln Center campus, teaching International Relations. He has degrees from the University of Göttingen (Germany/dipl.soc.) and Indiana University (Bloomington, IN/M.A., Ph.D.). His work focuses on issues surrounding the global economy, as well as the development of the global system as a whole. His main interests lie in the global political economy, past and present, and the long-term development of the global world system, at the moment especially with regard to new digital technologies. In addition, Rennstich looks at rivalry behavior of major power states and the geopolitical restructuring of the modern global system, as well as the development of a new political and human geography. He is also co-founder and director of the Center for theStudy of Long-Term Change in World History (LTC) and currently engaged in a global study of generational and technological change.
Nicholas Tampio (2008 - Political Theory)
Office: Faber Hall 665 (Rose Hill) Email:tampio@fordham.edu Phone: (718) 817-3962 Web:http://faculty.fordham.edu/tampio/
Nicholas Tampio teaches classical, modern, contemporary, American, and comparative political theory. His book manuscript, Kantian Courage, draws upon John Rawls, Gilles Deleuze, and Tariq Ramadan to consider the future of the Enlightenment. Tampio has published in the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Polity, PS: Political Science and Politics, the Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory, and Theory & Event. He earned his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and has served as the assistant editor of Political Theory. Previously, Tampio taught at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and Hamilton College.
Susan Abrams Beck’s area of concentration is American Politics, and she teaches courses on the American Presidency, Women in Politics, Urban Politics and the Media and Public Opinion. Her research has centered on the American presidency, and more recently on women in politics. Currently, she has been writing on Eleanor Roosevelt and her role in framing the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and her ideas about equality. Her most recent publication is "Eleanor Roosevelt: Path to Equality" in White House Studies. She is also a Deputy Editor of the Western Social Science Journal.
Martin C. Fergus (1971 - Political Economy; Emeritus)
Email:fergus@fordham.edu Website
Dr. Fergus taught courses in Fordham College at both the Rose Hill (Bronx) and Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campuses, and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Teaching Award in the Social Sciences from Fordham College at Rose Hill. Several of his undergraduate courses are cross-listed in the Peace & Justice Studies Program and his current graduate course is cross-listed in the International Political Economy and Development Program. His current research interests focus on international and domestic poverty, and grassroots development. Among papers, published articles and book chapters are: "Land and Hunger: A Simulation Exercise," "Poverty, Domestic and International: Is There a Connection?," "Promotion of Openness in a Democracy," "Using Simulations to Teach Political Science: What Lessons Do Students Really Learn?," "International Justice and the World Hunger Problem," and "The Massive Retaliation Doctrine: A Study in United States Military Policy Formation." Dr. Fergus is currently doing research on the topic of "Sweatshops, the FLA vs. the WRC, and Promotion of Justice in Jesuit Higher Education."
David G. Lawrence (1973 - American Politics/Political Behavior)
Dr. Lawrence's interests are political behavior, specifically political participation, public opinion, voting behavior, elections.
He comes at all of these from the perspective of democratic theory. His research has focused on the United States, but his interests extend to political behavior more generally. His 1996 book, The Collapse of the Democratic Presidential Majority, with Westview was on realignment and party system in the United States since 1932, and his current interests have to do with the continuing evolution of American electoral politics.
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