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David
Bodde (Professor, DBA, Harvard)
Author of The Intentional Entrepreneur: Bringing Technology and Engineering
to the Real New Economy (M. E. Sharpe, 2004) and editor of Managing Enterprise Risk (Elsevier,
2006). Co-author of The Hydrogen Economy (National
Academies Press, 2004).
Co-author of Transition to Alternative Transportation Technologies - A
Focus on Hydrogen (National Academies Press, 2008).
Congressional testimony (House Science Committee) in 2005 and 2006
on energy policy. Research and
teaching in energy policy, entrepreneurship and innovation, and the
automotive transition.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-0865
Email:
bodde@clemson.edu
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James
Cross (Vice Provost for
International Affairs, Ph.D., University
of Geneva, Switzerland)
Dr. Cross has over 25
years of experience in international diplomacy, negotiations, corporate
relations, research and education in both academic and applied settings
working for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the
North Atlantic Assembly, Business International, Loyola University
Chicago’s Rome Center, Heidelberg College, Michigan Technological
University and Clemson University.
In 1994 Dr. Cross founded and directed the first post-communist
Training Institute in Business and Government in Albania
and serves as a consultant to the US Department of State Foreign Service
Institute in Arlington,
Virginia.
He earned the Doctoral
Degree in Political Science (international relations) from the Graduate
Institute for International Studies at the University of Geneva,
Switzerland. He was awarded the
Carrington Medal by NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington in 1987 and
was named the 1979 Harry S. Truman Government Scholar from the State of Vermont. Most recently he was named Professor
of International Relations at Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan
China
and regularly offers courses there on international trade, international
management, and international marketing.
He is a member of many international organizations and serves on
the Executive Board of the Global Engineering Education Exchange – a global
grouping of universities supporting student exchange in engineering,
science and technology. He also
serves as the President of the Administrative Council of the Clemson
University Brussels
Center. Cross’ areas of academic grant writing
and scholarship include international development, international economic
policy, international education, international politics and international
security.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-1455
Email:
jpcross@clemson.edu
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Jeff
Fine (Assistant Professor, Ph.D.,
Kentucky)
Earned a B.A. in political science
from
Vanderbilt University (2001) and M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. from the University
of Kentucky (2006). Author of articles appearing in Journal of Politics
and Political Research Quarterly.
He currently
is writing a book on minority
representation in Congress with University of Virginia Press. Research interests
center around the interaction between institutions in the American
context, as well as representation in
Congress.
Teaches American Government, U.S. Congress, and research methods
courses.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-3548
Email:
jfine@clemson.edu
Personal Website:
http://people.clemson.edu/~jfine/
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Xiaobo
Hu (Professor, Ph.D., Duke)
Publications include Problems in China's
Transitional Economy and Interpreting U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations.
Articles in Asian Survey and Journal of Chinese Political
Science. Teaches Comparative Politics, International Politics,
and East Asia.
Clemson University Center for China Studies
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Office Phone:
(864)656-1452
Email:
xhu@clemson.edu
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William
Lasser
(Alumni Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., Harvard)
Interim Director, Calhoun Honors
College; Director, National Scholars Program. Author of The Limits of Judicial
Power, and American Politics: The Enduring Constitution;
editor of Perspectives on American Government; Benjamin V. Cohen and
the Spirit of the New Deal; Constitutional Dualism: The Search for
Original Meanings (in
progress). 1993 Alumni Master Teacher. Teaches constitutional law
and American government.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-4762
Email:
lasser@clemson.edu
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Vladimir
D. Matic (Senior Lecturer, J.D. Belgrade)
An acknowledged expert on
European and Balkan affairs and author of numerous papers and articles,
is a former Yugoslav career diplomat and ambassador who resigned the post
of Assistant Federal Minister in 1993 in disagreement on policy and moral
issues. After the change of the
regime in 2000, he was the first diplomatic representative of the new
government in the United
States as a Special Envoy of the
Yugoslav President.
He has been at Clemson
University since
1996, teaching courses in international relations, foreign policy,
diplomacy, and European politics.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-6125
Email:
vmatic@clemson.edu
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Michael
A. Morris (Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins)
Books include Expansion of Third World
Navies, Caribbean Maritime Security and Languages in a
Globalising World. Recipient of the Caribbean Studies
Association's Gordon K. Lewis Memorial
Award for Caribbean Scholarship for the best book published on the
Caribbean. Also recipient of the College of Business and Public Affairs 1998 Award for
Senior Scholar Research. Teaches international relations and comparative
politics as well as contemporary news in Spanish and French. Holds a
Joint Appointment as Professor of Languages.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-3545
Email:
morrism@clemson.edu
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Laura
R. Olson (Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin)
A native of Racine, Wisconsin, she earned a
B.A. in political science from Northwestern University in 1990, as well
as an M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a visiting
research fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton
University.
Her research focuses on
contemporary religion, civic engagement, and American politics, with
special emphasis on the political attitudes and behaviors of clergy.
Her work has appeared in many scholarly journals, including Political
Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, PS:
Political Science &
Politics, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is
also the author, coauthor, or coeditor of nine books, including
Religious Interests in Community Conflict: Beyond the Culture Wars
(Baylor University Press, 2007); Women with a Mission: Religion, Gender,
and the Politics of Women Clergy (University of Alabama Press, 2005);
and Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic
Choices (Westview Press, 2004). She is currently working on a book
project on the Protestant left in American politics.
She has served two terms
as chair of the American Political Science Association¹s Religion and
Politics section and one term on the American Academy of Religion¹s
Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion.
She is
a member of the editorial board of the Journal for the Scientific Study
of Religion. A frequent source for various media outlets, she has been
interviewed on CNN, National Public Radio, and BBC Radio and quoted in
The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and USA
Today. She also won Clemson University¹s campus-wide Fluor Daniel
Student Government Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003. |
Office Phone:
(864)656-1457
Email:
laurao@clemson.edu
Personal Website:
http://people.clemson.edu/~laurao/
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Bruce
W. Ransom (Professor, Ph.D., Virginia)
Chair of the interdisciplinary Ph.D.
Program in Policy Studies. Author
of “The National Voter Registration Act and National-State Conflict: The
Case of South Carolina” in Public Budgeting & Financial
Management: An International Journal and “Mayor W. Wilson Goode of Philadelphia:
The Technocrat” in The National
Political Science Review.
Co-author of “State Urban Policy: ‘New’ Federalism in Virginia,
New Jersey and Florida”
in Policy Studies Review and
“Growth in Party Competition and the Transformation of Southern Politics”
in The American Review of Politics.
Contributor to Public Policies
for Distressed Communities Revisted, Gambling and Public Policy:
International Perspectives, The New Black Politics: The Search for
Political Power, and New Jersey
Profiles in Public Policy. Teaches state and local government,
federalism and intergovernmental relations, urban politics, and African
American politics.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-1650
Email:
bii@clemson.edu
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Robert
W. Smith (Associate Professor, Ph.D., The Nelson A. Rockefeller
College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany)
Chair
of Public Administration at the Strom Thurmond Institute. Co-author of
Public Budgeting in
America, 5th Edition. Authored
articles in Public Administration Review, Administration &
Society, Public Integrity, and International Journal of
Public Administration. Teaches Public Administration (Public
Financial Management, Administrative Leadership and Ethics, Performance
Measurement); Public Policy (Public Policy Process, Organization Theory
and Public Management); American Government (Introduction to Public
Administration, American National Government).
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Office Phone:
(864)656-3550
Email:
rws@clemson.edu
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Joseph
Stewart, Jr. (Professor, Ph.D., Houston)
He has previously held teaching or
research positions at the University of New Mexico, University of Texas
at Dallas, Educational Testing Service, West Virginia University,
University of New Orleans, Rice University, and Wichita State
University. His research interest spans civil rights policies, racial
and ethnic politics, public policy, and educational policy. His work has
appeared in a variety of political science, education, public policy,
public administration, public law, and interdisciplinary journals. Three
of his books—Race, Class, and Education (with Ken Meier
and Robert England, 1989), The Politics of Hispanic Education
(with Ken Meier, 1991), and “Can We All Get Along?" Racial and
Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (with Paula McClain, 4th
ed., 2006)—have received Myers Awards as “Outstanding Books on the
Subject of Human Rights in the United States.” In addition, he is the
co-author of Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach (with
James Lester, West, 2nd ed., 2000), which was published in Chinese
editions in 2001 and 2004.
Stewart currently
serves on the Editorial Board of the University Press of Virginia’s
"Race, Ethnicity and Politics" Series and is Co-Editor of Rowman &
Littlefield’s “Spectrum” Series. Stewart is the Past President of the
Southwestern Political Science Association and Southwestern Social
Science Association and Past Vice-President of the Southern Political
Science Association.
Stewart also works
with K-12 teachers to improve pre-collegiate civic education. He is the
former “Chief Reader” for the College Board’s AP® Government and
Politics exams and has served as a judge at the State of New Mexico,
State of South Carolina, State of Georgia, and National finals of the
Center for Civic Education’s “We the People” Program. Stewart was
honored with an AP® Special Recognition Award by the College Board
Southwestern Regional Office (2000).
Despite all of his professional activity, Stewart is probably best known
for his alleged sense of humor, which has been manifest in an article in
which the discipline of political science is presented as a “rotisserie”
game (with Ken Meier, 1992, "Rotisserie Political Science," PS:
Political Science & Politics, 25, 565-568); a convention paper
“analyzing” the political thought of “Texas’ fastest rising Jewish
country music star” and former Texas gubernatorial candidate, Kinky
Friedman; and appearances on roundtables and panels at professional
meetings, such as "The Contributions of Elvis Presley to the Study of
Political Science," “Country Music and Political Science,” and “Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil Political Science.”
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Office Phone:
(864)656-3234
Email:
jstewa4@clemson.edu
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Zeynep
Taydas (Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., Missouri-Columbia)
She earned a B.A. in political science
from Middle East Technical University, Turkey
in 2000, and M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. form the University
of Missouri-Columbia
(2006). Her research focuses on
international and internal conflict and third party interventions in
ethnic conflicts. More
specifically, she investigates the determinants of civil wars and the
conditions that affect the duration and termination of civil wars. She is the coauthor of a book (with
Patrick James and David Carment) titled Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (Columbus,
OH: Ohio State University
Press, 2006), and an article (with Yasemin Akbaba and Patrick James)
"One Sided Crises in World Politics: A Study of Oxymoron, Violence
and Outcomes" in International
Interactions 32(3), 2006.
Teaches classes on International Relations, International and
internal conflict, and the European Union. She received the
2009 Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Award from the College of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Clemson
University.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-1097
Email:
ztaydas@clemson.edu
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C. Bradley Thompson
(Professor, Ph.D., Brown)
BB&T Research Professor in the Department
of Political Science at Clemson University and the Executive Director of
the Clemson Institute for the Study Capitalism. He has also been a
visiting scholar at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the
University of London.
Professor Thompson
is the author of the award-winning book John Adams and the Spirit of
Liberty. He has also edited The Revolutionary Writings of John
Adams, Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader
and he was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the
Enlightenment. He is currently writing a book on “The Ideological
Origins of American Constitutionalism.”
Dr. Thompson is also
an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of
London. He has lectured around the country on education reform and his
op-ed essays have appeared in scores of newspapers in the U.S. and
abroad. His lectures on the political thought of John Adams have twice
appeared on C-SPAN.
Dr. Thompson teaches courses in political
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Office Phone:
(864)656-1724
Email:
tthomp2@clemson.edu
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Stephen
H. Wainscott (Professor, Ph.D., Miami
of Ohio)
Previously served as Director of Calhoun
Honors College.
Contributor to The Disappearing South?, Historic U.S. Court Cases,
Understanding Political Science. Teaches American government,
southern politics.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-4762
Email:
shwns@clemson.edu
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Adam
L. Warber (Associate Professor, Ph.D., Texas
A&M University)
Author of Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office. His research and teaching interests
focus on the American presidency, public policy, and research
methods. He also teaches doctoral
seminars in the Policy Studies program.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-1828
Email:
awarber@clemson.edu
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J.
David Woodard (Professor, Ph.D., Vanderbilt)
Co-author of The Conservative
Tradition in America, and author of The New Southern Politics,
and The America that Reagan Built. He recently co-authored a book
with Senator Jim DeMint entitled: Why We Whisper: Losing our Right to
Say It’s Wrong. He currently
is completing a book entitled The
Rise of Morality Politics in the United States, University of Toronto
Press. He is also a political consultant. Alumni
Master Teacher and 1997-98 Fluor Daniel Excellence-in-Teaching
Awardee. Teaches political theory, political parties, politics and
film, American government.
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Office Phone:
(864)656-3551
Email:
judithw@clemson.edu
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Michael
J. Cunningham (Lecturer, MPA, Clemson
University)
Currently serves as the Assistant
County Administrator for Anderson County South Carolina. Former
instructor of American Government and Research Methods, currently Faculty
Advisor for Clemson University’s South Carolina Student Legislature
class.
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Office Phone:
(864)231-5927
Email:
mcunnin@clemson.edu
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