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DIRECTORY: IPED FACULTY

DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM:
Dr. Henry M. Schwalbenberg

IPED COUNCIL:
Dr. Eugene Diulio (Economics Representative)
Dr. Jonathan Crystal (Political Science Representative)
Dr. Mary Powers (Sociology Representative)

ECONOMICS PARTICIPATING FACULTY

[Gwendolyn Alexander]  [Robert Brent] [Mary Burke] [Mary Beth Combs] [Christopher Cornell] [Eugene A. Diulio] [Darryl L. McLeod] [Sophie Mitra] [Derrick P. Reagle] [Dominick Salvatore] [Henry M. Schwalbenberg] [Troy Tassier] [Booi Themeli]

POLITICAL SCIENCE PARTICIPATING FACULTY

[Bruce E. Andrews] [Susan A. Berger] [Jonathan Crystal] [John P. Entelis] [Martin C. Fergus]

SOCIOLOGY PARTICIPATING FACULTY

[O. Hugo Benavides] [Evelyn L. Bush] [Rosemary S. Cooney] [Donald F. Heisel] [Mary G. Powers] [E. Doyle McCarthy] [Emily V. Rosenbaum]

HISTORY PARTICIPATING FACULTY

[Michael Latham] [Hector Lindo-Fuentes]

VISITING LECTURERS

[Andrew S. Hillman] [William Seltzer]

ECONOMICS

GWENDOLYN ALEXANDER. Assistant Professor of Economics. PhD, U Maryland (College Park).
TEACHING AREAS: Micro Development Issues, Mathematics for Economists I.
RESEARCH AREAS: Microfinance, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics.

ROBERT BRENT. Professor of Economics. BA, Kent; MA, PhD, Manchester(UK).
TEACHING AREAS: Project Appraisal, Taxation and Development.
RESEARCH AREAS: Project Evaluation, Taxation and Development, Tax Reform, Health Evaluations and Developing Countries.

MARY BURKE. Clinical Associate Professor of Economics. PhD, Fordham.
TEACHING AREAS: Economic Analysis, Domestic and International Banking.
RESEARCH AREAS: Management Consulting, Financial Statement Analysis, Transfer Pricing, Business Valuation.

MARYBETH COMBS. Assistant Professor of Economics. BA, Fairfield; MA, PhD, Iowa.
TEACHING AREAS: Gender & Economic Development, Applied Econometrics.
RESEARCH AREAS: Economic Rights of Women, Economic History.

CHRISTOPHER M. CORNELL. Assistant Professor of Economics. BS, MA, Bowling Green State; PhD, Ohio State.
TEACHING AREAS: Empirical Methods in International Finance, International Trade, International Finance.
RESEARCH AREAS: Target Zones and Exchange Rates.

EUGENE A. DIULIO. Associate Professor of Economics. Economics Representative to the IPED Council. BS, Northeastern; PhD, Columbia.
TEACHING AREAS: Domestic and International Banking.
RESEARCH AREAS: Money and Banking; Consultant to several New York Banks.

DARRYL L. McLEOD. Assistant Professor of Economics. BA, PhD, California (Berkeley). Consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Developement Bank, the Organization of American States and Lehman Brothers Emerging Markets Group.
TEACHING AREAS: Economic Growth and Development , Stabilization Policy in Developing Countries.
RESEARCH AREAS: Development Economics, Stabilization & Developing Countries, Poverty and Income Distribution in Latin America and Asia.

SOPHIE MITRA. Assistant Professor of Economics. PhD, University of Paris. Consultant to the World Bank.
TEACHING AREAS: Agriculture and Sustainable Development.
RESEARCH AREAS: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Caring for the Disabled in the Developing World.

DERRICK P. REAGLE. Assistant Professor of Economics. BA, Notre Dame; PhD, Vanderbilt.
TEACHING AREAS: Applied Econometrics, Global Financial Markets, Strategic Financial Management.
RESEARCH AREAS: Banking and Finance.

DOMINICK SALVATORE. Distinguished Professor of Economics. BA, CUNY/City College; PhD, CUNY (Graduate Center).
TEACHING AREAS: Price Theory I, International Trade, International Economics of Development, International Finance.
RESEARCH AREAS: Commercial Policies & Trade Protectionism, International Trade & Economic Development, International & European Monetary Systems, Consultant to UN. Fulbright Awardee (Europe).

HENRY M. SCHWALBENBERG. Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development. BS, MIA, MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia.
TEACHING AREAS: Economic Development Policy, International Economic Policy, Emerging Markets, and Project Management.
RESEARCH AREAS: Political Economy of Trade & Development, South East Asia and the Pacific Economies, North-South Capital Flows, Fulbright Awardee (Pacific Islands).

TROY TASSIER. Assistant Professor of Economics. BS, Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech.); MA, PhD Economics University of Iowa.
TEACHING AREAS: Epidemics and Development.
RESEARCH AREAS:  Microeconomics, Public Policy, Economics of Networks, Complex Systems.

BOOI THEMELI. Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of the Africa Rising Project. BA, University of the North (South Africa); MA, Western Illinois; M Comm, Rhodes University (South Africa); PhD, Fordham.
TEACHING AREAS: African Economic Development.
RESEARCH AREAS: Privatization and Development, the Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Rockefeller Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Mandela Fellow.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

BRUCE E. ANDREWS. Associate Professor of Political Science. BA, MA, Johns Hopkins; PhD, Harvard.
TEACHING AREAS: Analysis of International Politics.
RESEARCH AREAS: Political Economy of the World System, Interpretation of Foreign Policy, Theories of International Politics.

SUSAN A. BERGER. Associate Professor of Political Science. BA, Michigan; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia.
TEACHING AREAS: Political Economy of Development.
RESEARCH AREAS: Political Economy of Development, Comparative Politics, Political Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean.

JONATHAN CRYSTAL. Assistant Professor of Political Science. AB, AM, PhD, Harvard.
TEACHING AREAS: Politics of Global Economic Relations, Multinational Corporations in World Politics.
RESEARCH AREAS: Political Economy of Direct Foreign Investment.

JOHN P. ENTELIS. Professor of Political Science and the Political Science Representative on the IPED Governing Board. BA, Ohio Wesleyan; MA, PhD, New York University.
TEACHING AREAS: Comparative Political Analysis, Political Economy of the Middle East, Political Risk Analysis, Politics and Petroleum.
RESEARCH AREAS: Comparative Politics, Political Risk Analysis, Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

MARTIN C. FERGUS. Associate Professor of Political Science. BA, Miami (Ohio); MA, PhD, Harvard.
TEACHING AREAS: Political Economy of Poverty.
RESEARCH AREAS: Political Economy of Poverty, Grassroots Development.
 

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SOCIOLOGY

O. HUGO BENAVIDES. Assistant Professor of Anthropology. BA, Queens College; MA, Hunter College; PhD, CUNY/Graduate Center.
TEACHING AREAS: Development and Cultural Change, National Identity and Development.
RESEARCH AREAS: Ethnographic reasearch in Ecuador.

EVELYN L. BUSH. Assistant Professor of Sociology. BA, Xavier; MA, William and Mary; PhD, Cornell.
TEACHING AREAS: Globalization and Its Discontents.
RESEARCH AREAS: Social movements and transnational politics, sociology of religion, human rights.

DONALD F. HEISEL. Resarch Director, Center for Migration Studies. AB, Chicago; PhD, University of Wisconsin.
TEACHING AREAS: Population Process and Development Issues.
RESEARCH AREAS: international migration, population, and social-economic development.
INTERNATIONAL EXEPERIENCE: Extensive Career with the UN rising to Associate Director of the UN Population Division.  Served in Albania, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kenya, and Namibia.

ROSEMARY S. COONEY. Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Fordham College. BA, Florida State; MA, PhD, Texas (Austin).
TEACHING AREAS: Graduate Statistics I, Graduate Statistics II.
RESEARCH AREAS: Social Demography, Ethnic and Gender Labor Force Inequalities, Immigrant Adaptation.

MARY G. POWERS. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Sociology Representative to the IPED Council. BS, Central Connecticut State; MA, Massachusetts; PhD, Brown.
RESEARCH AREAS: Social Demography, Fertility and Family Formation, Social Stratification and Equality.

E. DOLYE Mc CARTHY. Professor of Sociology. BA, Marymount; MA, New School; PhD, Fordham.
TEACHING AREAS: European Social Theory 1890-1930, Contemporary Social Theory, Classical Social Theory.
RESEARCH AREAS: Sociology of Knowledge and Culture, Social Psychology, Social Theory.

EMILY V. ROSENBAUM. Assistant Professor of Sociology. BA, MA, PhD, Pennsylvania.
TEACHING AREAS: Graduate Statistics I.
RESEARCH AREAS: Urban Demography, Family/Household Demography.

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HISTORY

MICHAEL LATHAM. Associtate Professor of History, BA, Pomona; MA, PhD, California (Los Angeles).
TEACHING AREAS: International Security and Development.
RESEARCH AREAS: Diplomatic History; The Kennedy Administration and the Alliance for Progress.

HECTOR LINDO-FUENTES. Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of History. BA, Universidad Centro-Americana; MA, PhD, Chicago.
TEACHING AREAS: Latin America and the US.
RESEARCH AREAS: Economic History, 19th & 20th Century Latin American.

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VISITORS

ANDREW S. HILLMAN. Visiting Lecturer of Diplomacy; BA, Yale; Certificat d'Etudes, Institut d'Etudes Politiques; MIA, Columbia.
TEACHING AREAS: The United Nations and International Security, Conflict Resolution.
PROFESSIONAL WORK: US Foreign Service Officer and Political Advisor to the US Ambassador to the United Nations.
 

WILLIAM SELTZER , Senior Research Scholar and Chair of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Professional Ethics. BA, Chicago. Consultant, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1996), Director of the UN Statistics Division (1986-94), Chief of Demographic and Social Statistics, UN Statistics Division (1974-86).
TEACHING AREAS: Demography, Human Rights and Ethics.
RESEARCH AREAS: Demographic measurement, statistical organization and policy, the interface between human rights and population data systems, and the promotion of ethical standards in demographic and statistical work.

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