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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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-0865

Email:

bodde@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-1455

Email:

jpcross@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-3548

Email:

jfine@clemson.edu

Personal Website:

http://people.clemson.edu/~jfine/ 

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
 

Office Phone:

(864)656-1452

Email:

xhu@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-4762

Email:

lasser@clemson.edu

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. 

Office Phone:

(864)656-6125

Email:

vmatic@clemson.edu

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.
 

Office Phone:

(864)656-3545

Email:

morrism@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-1457

Email:

laurao@clemson.edu

Personal Website:

http://people.clemson.edu/~laurao/

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-1650

Email:

bii@clemson.edu

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).

Office Phone:

(864)656-3550

Email:

rws@clemson.edu

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).

Office Phone:

(864)656-3234

Email:

jstewa4@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-1097

Email:

ztaydas@clemson.edu

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 philosophy.

Office Phone:

(864)656-1724

Email:

tthomp2@clemson.edu

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.
 

Office Phone:

(864)656-4762

Email:

shwns@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-1828

Email:

awarber@clemson.edu

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.

Office Phone:

(864)656-3551

Email:

judithw@clemson.edu