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Political Science
Faculty
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Hussein
M. Adam, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Hussein Mohamed Adam received his B.A. from Princeton
University, M.A. from Makerere University College, Uganda,
and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Professor Adam's teaching
and research interests include comparative politics, social
and political thought, and international development.
Professor Adam has held numerous positions as an advisor
or consultant to programs such as the Council of African
Advisors of the World Bank, Brown University's Alan Feinstein
World Hunger Program, and the United Nation's Intergovernmental
Authority for Drought and Development in East Africa.
hadam@holycross.edu
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Donald
R. Brand, Ph.D. - Associate Professor |
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Donald
Brand teaches courses in American politics and American
national institutions. He has been at the College of the
Holy Cross since September 1995. Before coming to Holy
Cross he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin
and Marshall College, and Wilkes University. Professor
Brand has a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has also taught
high school math and science as a Peace Corps Volunteer
in Nepal for three years and was a VISTA volunteer in
Phoenix, AZ for one year. Professor Brand is the author
of Corporatism and the Rule of Law: A Study of the
National Recovery Administration. He has also published
numerous articles in edited books and in journals such
as Political Science Quarterly, and Political
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dbrand@holycross.edu
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Loren
R. Cass, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Loren Cass teaches courses in international relations and
comparative politics with an emphasis on international political
economy and comparative environmental policy. He is also
a member of the Environmental Studies faculty at Holy Cross.
Professor Cass received a B.A. from Augustana College (Sioux
Falls, SD), a M.A. from Boston College, and a Ph.D. from
Brandeis University. Professor Cass' research focuses on
the relationship between international and domestic environmental
politics. His book The Failures of American and European Climate Policy: International Norms, Dometic Politics, and Unachievable Commitments was recently published as a part of SUNY Press's Global Environmental Policy series.
lcass@holycross.edu
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Judith
A.Chubb, Ph.D. - W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society
Judith Chubb teaches comparative politics, with an emphasis
on Russia and China, as well as the problem of political
violence. She has published a book, Patronage, Power
and Poverty: A Tale of Two Cities (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1982); a monograph, The Mafia and Politics:
The Italian State Under Siege (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell
University Press, 1989); and several articles on Italian
politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript,
Disaster Politics: Earthquake Reconstruction in Postwar
Italy.
jchubb@holycross.edu
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Caren
G. Dubnoff, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Caren Dubnoff
received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and a doctorate from
Columbia University. She teaches courses in American government
specializing in courses in constitutional law and judicial
process and politics. She has published work and given papers
on a variety of legal subjects including gender and sexual
orientation discrimination, the religion clauses, free speech
and the due process clause. For many years she served as
Department Chair. She has also been a member of a number
of College Committees including Curriculum, the CTP, Academic
Standing and Graduate Studies.
cdubnoff@holycross.edu
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| Daniel
Klinghard , Ph.D. - Assistant Professor |
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Professor
Klinghard earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in
2004. He is presently completing a book on political parties
in the late nineteenth century, which aims to explain
the nature of so-called "party decline" throughout
the twentieth century. His article on the transformation
of presidential party leadership will appear in the December,
2005, edition of Presidential Studies Quarterly.
He teaches courses on political parties and interest groups,
race and ethnic politics, and American Political Development.
dklingha@holycross.edu
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Stephen
A. Kocs, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Stephen Kocs teaches courses in international relations
and national security policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard
University, and taught at Colgate University before coming
to Holy Cross. He has published articles on international
relations theory and on the relationship between territorial
disputes and the occurrence of war. He is also the author
of Autonomy or Power? The Franco-German Relationship
and Europe's Strategic Choices, 1955-1995 (Praeger,
1995). His current research investigates the causes of structural
evolution in the international political system from medieval
times to the present.
skocs@holycross.edu
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George
M. Lane, M.A., Lecturer, Ambassador-in-Residence
George
M. Lane received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1951.
Mr. Lane spent three years in the US Army, two years as
an electronic technician for the Philco Corporation and
a year attending the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University before joining the US Diplomatic service
in 1957. During his thirty year career in the diplomatic
service, Mr. Lane served in the Department of State in
Washington, DC, and at US Embassies and Consulates in
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Morocco, Libya and Swaziland.
He served as Ambassador to the Yemen Arab Republic (1978
- 1981) and as Political Advisor to the Headquarters of
the US Military Command in Europe (1982 - 1986). Mr. Lane
teaches courses related to American foreign policy and
the Middle East.
glane@holycross.edu
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Vickie
Langohr, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Vickie
Langohr is an assistant professor of political science.
She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research
centers on religious nationalism, Islamist movements in
the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and democratization
in the Arab world, particularly Egypt. She teaches courses
on Middle East politics, nationalism, democratization,
and religion and politics. She has published articles
in Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies of Society
and History, International Journal of Middle East
Studies, the Journal of Democracy, and Comparative
Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East,
and is currently working on a book on religious nationalist
movements in Egypt, India, and Indonesia. She has been
awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and a grant from the Council of American
Overseas Research Centers for research in India and Egypt.
vlangohr@holycross.edu
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Jeffrey Reno, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Jeff
Reno earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in
2001. He teaches classes in American Government, Urban Politics,
and Public Policy. Professor Reno's doctoral dissertation,
"Making Cities Whole: A Strategy for Reducing Systematic
Bias in Urban America" has been well received in the
discipline. In it he argues that liberal political theorists
such as Locke, Smith, and Madison can help us to understand
the nature of urban problems and can also provide important
guidance in framing policy that addresses those problems.
He is currently working on a book that elaborates on and
extends this argument.
jreno@holycross.edu
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Maria
Rodrigues, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues has a Ph.D. in Political
Science from Boston University. Her areas of interest are
Environmental Politics and Latin American Politics. Her
research on transnational environmental advocacy coalitions
investigates the internal politics of such coalitions, and
their implications for local and global environmental sustainability.
Rodrigues' book, Global
Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy
Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India (SUNY Press,
2004) presents case studies of three such coalitions, in
the Brazilian and Ecuadorian Amazon regions and in India.
A grant from the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs allowed Rodrigues to investigate, during 2002-03,
the ethical implications of transnational advocacy coalitions,
as such coalitions have produced both positive and negative
impacts on local contexts. Rodrigues is also conducting
research on the environmental politics of restoring the
ecological balance of the Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Her most recent article is "Advocating for
the Environment - Local Dimensions of Transnational Networks,"
in Environment, v. 46, n. 2, March 2004.
mrodrigu@holycross.edu
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David
L. Schaefer, Ph.D. - Professor
David teaches courses on political philosophy and American
political thought, including Introduction to Political Philosophy,
Classical Political Philosophy, Modern Political Philosophy,
and American Political Thought I and II. The recipient of
numerous research fellowships, he is the author of two books,
Justice or Tyranny? A Critique of John Rawls's "A
Theory of Justice" and The Political Philosophy
of Montaigne, and editor of four others, including Sir
Henry Taylor's "The Statesman" and Active Duty:
Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship. He
has also published over forty scholarly articles and forty
book reviews. His most recent book is Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs the American Political Tradition University of Missouri Press, 2007.
dschaefe@holycross.edu
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Denise
Schaeffer, Ph.D. - Associate Professor and Department Chair
Denise received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a
Ph.D. from Fordham University. Her research interests include
the history of political philosophy, philosophy and literature,
and feminist theory. She has published articles on Aristotle,
Nietzsche, Rousseau, and the relationship between feminism
and liberalism. She is currently working on a book about
Rousseau. Denise teaches Introduction to Political Philosophy,
Liberalism and Its Critics, Contemporary Feminist Theory,
Political Philosophy and Education, and Political Thought
in Literature.
dschaeff@holycross.edu
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Ward
J. Thomas, Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Ward Thomas' research focuses on international ethics and
norms on the use of force in the international system. He
is the author of The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and
Force in International Relations, published in 2001
by Cornell University Press. His article "Norms and
Security: The Case of International Assassination"
appeared in the journal International Security. Since
September 11, he has been on numerous panels and roundtables
addressing the U.S. response to terrorism, and his essays
have appeared in The Boston Globe and Holy Cross
Magazine. His teaching and research interests include
ethics and international relations, international security
and strategic studies, international institutions, IR theory,
and U.S. foreign policy. In 1998-1999 he was a Postdoctoral
Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
at Harvard University, and in 2000-2001 he was one of two
"Young Scholars" in the Program on Ethics and
Public Life at Cornell University.
wthomas@holycross.edu
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