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Professor Phil Brick

Professor Phil Brick's major interests are international relations, environmental policy, and East Asia. Among his publications is A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate, which he published in 1996 along with co-editor, R. McGreggor Cawley.

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Professor Timothy Kaufman-Osborn

Professor Timothy Kaufman-Osborn's major interests are political theory and the politics of law, and he is currently the president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington. His publications include Politics/Sense/Experience: A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Promise of Democracy (1991), Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology (1997), and From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (2002)

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Professor Paul Apostolidis

Professor Apostolidis teaches courses in United States politics and political and social theory. He is the author of Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke University Press, 2000), among other publications.

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Professor Bruce Magnusson (Chair)

Professor Magnusson's major teaching and research interests are in international, transnational, and comparative politics, with a particular focus on Africa. His research has been published in journals such as Comparative Politics and Comparative Studies in Society and History, as well as in edited volumes on comparative and African politics. He is active in global studies, and is on the Steering Committee for the major in Race and Ethnic Studies.

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Professor Shampa Biswas

Professor Biswas' major interests are the international political economy, international development, theories of nationalism, postcolonial theory, gender and international relations, and South Asian politics. Among her publications is “W(h)ither the Nation State? National and State Identity in the Face of Fragmentation and Globalization,” in Global Society, Volume 16, published in April 2002.

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Professor Jeanne Morefield

Professor Morefield's major interests include 19th-20th century British liberalism, democratic theory, and the historiography of sovereingty, international relations, and imperialism. She is the author of Covenants Without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire (Princeton University Press; 2005.)

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Professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain's main interests are the politics of development in Latin America and political economy of agrarian capitalism, histories and theories of Third World development and Critical human geography: space, place, and power.

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Professor Matt Voorhees

Professor Voorhees's main interests are political theory, American politics and political thought, and politics and the arts. His current research focuses on the thematic and practical significance of music in political thought, and its value to theories of political pluralism.

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Matt Voorhees

Professor Kristy King

Kristy King is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, Solidarity and Self Interest: A Critical History for a Global Present, considers the interdependent relationship between self-interest and other-regarding, social behavior in the liberal tradition. Her primary interest is the history of political thought, with a particular focus on modern natural law, liberalism and Marxism.

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