JMC - Key Persons

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• Associate Professor
• Professor

Professor Berg's research focuses on the history and literature of social movements with an emphasis on race, class, gender and sexuality. Her publications include the book Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930, which examines how early twentieth century African American and white women writers defined and deployed motherhood as a political identity central to racial uplift, feminist, birth control and eugenics movements. She has also published many articles on topics including the Civil Rights movement, the Harlem Renaissance, multicultural pedagogy, feminism and film. Her article "Trauma and Testimony in Black Women's Civil Rights Memoirs" was published in the Journal of Women's History. Professor Berg teaches courses including MC 281: "Immigrants, Minorities and American Pluralism"; MC 368: "The Civil Rights Movement and its Legacies"; and MC 498: "The History and Future of Modern Feminism." She is the former director of the James Madison Reading and Writing Center, formerly the JMC Writing Consultancy, and also served as James Madison's Faculty Excellence advocate. In the latter role, she worked with faculty from across the university to advance core values of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor at Michigan State University 's James Madison College of Public Affairs
• Faculty Representative

Amanda Flaim is a political sociologist who uses ethnographic, participatory, and survey methods to understand problems and paradoxes in human rights policy and development programs in mainland Southeast Asia. Her research agenda attends to political tensions in statelessness eradication programs at local and international scales, and the effects of precarious status on health outcomes, educational attainment, (un)safe migration and land-use/land claims among indigenous and ethnic minority communities in upland Thailand, in particular. In a new $1M initiative supported by the Luce Foundation, Flaim is collaborating with fellow MSU/JMC faculty and students, as well as artists, activists, UNESCO and leading faculty partners in Southeast Asia to interrogate and imagine inclusive ecological futures along the imperiled Mekong River and its tributaries. Flaim is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University's James Madison College of Public Affairs, and the Department of Sociology; and, she is affiliate faculty of the Asian Studies Center and the Center for Gender in Global Context.

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• Faculty Representative ( Chair )

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• Representative

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• Associate Professor

Professor Lorch's research is in the field of political philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College and has published articles on classical and medieval political thought, on subjects such as political ambition and leadership, and religion and philosophy. He teaches in the first-year program, PTCD field, the Jewish Studies program, and electives such as Political Leadership in the Twentieth Century, and War and Political Philosophy. His current research project is a study of the decline of democracy in classical Athens.

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• Visiting Assistant Professor Staff / Visiting Assistant Professor

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• Marketing and Communications Manager
• James Madison 's Marketing and Communications Manager
• Staff

Beth Brauer is James Madison's marketing and communications manager. Brauer joined JMC in January of 2022 after wearing a few different hats in MSU's University Communications. Brauer earned her bachelor's degree in English with a minor in sociology at Drake University, and went on to pursue a career as a high school English teacher for more than a decade. She earned her M.A. in liberal studies with a focus on writing, literature and cultural studies. Originally from Chicago, Brauer moved to Michigan in 2014 and hasn't looked back since. She loves her five-minute commute to campus, all the green space (both on campus and in the state as a whole) and meeting so many fascinating people who have committed their lives to learning. In addition to writing, Brauer is passionate about being a mom, working in DEI spaces, travel and all things Mid-century modern. She loves to read The New York Times and binge-watch documentaries on Netflix.

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• Assistant Dean
• Assistant Dean of DEI ( Ex - Officio Member )
• Dean Staff Assistant Dean / Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Brian G. Johnson is the assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in James Madison College. He holds a B.S. and M.T. from Hampton University in early childhood/psychology, a J.D. from Western Michigan University-Cooley Law School with a concentration in constitutional law and civil rights and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in human development and family studies. His scholarly interests focus on examining the constitutionality of laws and policies that affect youth and college-age underrepresented populations. He also has a particular interest in exploring and increasing sense of belonging among underrepresented groups at the college level. In addition to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, he has over ten years of experience directing pipeline, recruitment and retention programs. Also, a certified elementary teacher, his pipeline programs focus on preparing students for college during the K-12 years, and ensuring they receive resources for success throughout their college experience. His advising, recruitment and retention initiatives have been recognized at the university and state levels.

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• Ex - Officio Member )

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• Ex - Officio Member )

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• Representative

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• Associate Professor

Professor Ahlquist's teaching and research explore diverse human relationships to place. He examines the political-ecological dimensions of landscapes and land use, from agriculture to conservation, as well as displacement, climate change, settler colonialism and environmental justice. He is particularly interested in how inequalities between individuals and social groups play out through uneven relationships to the environment, state and market. A development sociologist by training, Professor Ahlquist values interdisciplinarity and prioritizes collaboration with students, colleagues across disciplines and national borders, and partners beyond academia. For over a decade, he has worked in and with Indigenous highland communities in northern Thailand, where he examines the intersections of state forest conservation, development, agrarian change, land rights and changing forms of inequality. He is also a core member of the Henry Luce Foundation-funded Mekong Culture WELL (Water, Environments, Land Use and Livelihoods) project team, which studies the effects of dam development and climate change on landscapes and communities in the Lower Mekong River Basin. His newest research project focuses on the political ecology of rewilding on the northern Great Plains of the United States.

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• Madison Professor
• Professor

Professor Dan Kramer is to be awarded the John K. Hudzik Emerging Leader Award at the 2011 International Award ceremony on March 23rd. This award, established in 2006 to honor John K. Hudzik, former Dean of International Studies and Programs and Acting Provost of Michigan State and current Vice President for Global Engagement and Strategic Projects, recognizes a faculty member (only one annually) early in his/her career who is making a significant impact on the advancement of international scholarship, teaching, and/or public service and outreach at MSU. Professor Dan Kramer is featured in Conservation Maven, a conservation blog. Daniel Boyd Kramer, with Gerald Urquhart and Kristen Schmitt, published "Globalization and the connection of remote communities: Household effects and their biodiversity implications," in Ecological Economics, 2009, 68(12): 2897-2909. Daniel Boyd Kramer and Kristen Schmitt wrote the article "Road development and market access on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast: Implications for household fishing and farming practices," in Environmental Conservation. Published 2010. Madison Professor Dan Kramer, along with other MSU colleagues,will receive a 5 year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for just over $1 million. Dan Kramer and Jerry Urquhart (Lyman Briggs) will lead the project, "Globalization and the Connection of Remote Communities: Environmental Implications," which addresses the impacts on human and natural systems in remote human settlements due to connection to global market, migration, and technology networks. They are joined by Co-PIs Andrea Allen (Anthropology/Center for Gender in Global Context), Aaron McCright (LB and Sociology), and Jiaguo Qi (Geography). The project's research sites are twelve small communities of varying degrees of isolation along the Caribbean "Mosquito" Coast of Nicaragua. The grant includes $18,000 to support undergraduate research internships for JMC and LB students over the five year period. Daniel Kramer published "Determinants and efficacy of social capital in lake associations" in Environmental Conservation, 34(3): 1-9, 2007. During fall 2006, Dan Kramer attended the Annual American Fisheries Society Conference in Lake Placid, NY, and presented a paper entitled "Globalization Aikido: Building Resilient Reef Fisheries Institutions in the Pacific Islands." Dan Kramer published the article "A comparison of alternative strategies for cost-effective water quality management in lake" in Environmental Management, 28.3, 411-425 (2006). He also attended two summer conferences: The World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Kyoto, Japan, during which he presented a paper entitled, "Adaptive harvesting in a multiple use, multiple species coral reef ecosystem"; and The Annual Conference of the Society for Conservation Biology in San Jose, California, during which he presented a paper entitled, "Group hug for lakes: The determinants and efficacy of social capital in lake associations."

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• Associate Professor

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• Associate

Associate Dean Julia Grant and Professor Lisa Cook have been selected as MSU Academic Leadership Fellows in collaboration with the Committee on Institutional Collaboration (Big Ten plus University of Chicago). Grant and Cook will be visiting other CIC institutions and meeting with leaders at both MSU and beyond to learn more about new directions, current trends, and best practices in higher education.

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• Assistant Professor
• President - Elect
• Madison Professor
• Professor

Dr. Lisa D. Cook is a Professor in the Department of Economics and in International Relations (James Madison College) at Michigan State University. As the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Dr. Cook earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Among her current research interests are economic growth and development, financial institutions and markets, innovation, and economic history. She was a National Fellow at Stanford University and served in the White House as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama from 2001-2012. She served as President of the National Economic Association and currently serves as Director of the American Economic Association (AEA) Summer Training Program. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer. In 2019, she was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the AEA. She is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic Literature, and her publications have appeared in other peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Growth, Explorations in Economic History, and the Business History Review, as well as in a number of books. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Economic History Association, and Harvard Business School, among others. Dr. Cook has held positions or conducted postdoctoral research at the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis, New York, and Philadelphia; the World Bank; the Brookings Institution; the Hoover Institution (Stanford University); Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup); and C&S Bank (now Bank of America). She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the Advisory Board of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Advisory Board of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institute. She received the Founders Prize for best paper in Social Science History in 2018 and the American Economic Association Impactful Mentor Award for mentoring graduate students from the AEA Mentoring Pipeline program in 2019. Prior to this academic appointment and while on faculty at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, she was also Deputy Director for Africa Research and Programs at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, was Managing Editor of the Harvard University-World Economic Forum Africa Competitiveness Report, and contributed to the Making Markets Work program at Harvard Business School. With fellow economist and co-author Jeffrey Sachs, she advised the governments of Nigeria and Rwanda, and, as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, she was Senior Adviser on Finance and Development at the Treasury Department from 2000 to 2001. From November 2008 to January 2009, Dr. Cook was on the Obama Presidential Transition Team and led the review of the World Bank and International Affairs division of the Treasury Department. She speaks English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Wolof. Professor Lisa Cook was.recently named to the Research Advisory Board of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a new think tank that focuses on economic research and policy related to inequality. JMC Professor Lisa Cook calls for major changes in consumer behavior. Despite living in the "epicenter of the Great Recession," Michigan residents continue to do a poor job budgeting their money, according to a study by an MSU economist who recommends major changes in consumer behavior and financial education. Professor Lisa Cook, assistant professor in James Madison College and the Department of Economics, talks about a recent National Science Foundation grant she received. Lisa Cook's article 'Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Growth Performance' was published in the May 2009 issue of 'The American Economic Review.' The paper attempts to identify the relative contribution of luck or natural resources, and better economic management to the rise in output per capita since the late 1990?s. She presented the paper at the American Economic Association meetings in San Francisco in January 2009 and the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. in April. Cook also presented her research on innovation in Russia and in the Soviet Union at several venues including JMC, Duke University, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Moscow State University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as the Economic History Association meetings in late summer 2009. Lisa Cook chaired and participated in the panel, "Global Economic Crisis and Recovery: Michigan in the Eye of the Storm," a Madison and College of Social Science sponsored alumni and friends event, held in Washington DC in the spring of 2009. She participated in another panel on the economic and financial crisis at the Eli Broad School of Management at MSU in April. Lisa Cook was selected by the Obama administration to serve on the Presidential Transition Team from November 2008 to January 2009 as a member of the Economy and International Trade team. In her role with the administration, Cook headed the review of the World Bank and the Office of International Affairs at the Treasury Department. Cook also attended the Inauguration. In a national competition, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) selected Cook as an Innovation Policy and the Economy Fellow. The year-long fellowship came to a close in the spring of 2009. The NBER also selected Cook to receive a $100,000 grant sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Cook will use the grant to support research on the Nigerian economy through 2011. Professor Lisa Cook recently received a fellowship of $10,000 from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the leading economics research institution in the country, to support her new research on rates of commercialization of patented ideas over time. The research is related to the chapter Cook contributed to a volume on commercialization of innovation that will be published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Cook was awarded the Economic History Association's Arthur H. Cole grant of $2500 to support new research that attempts to explain the returns to investment in basic scientific research in the Soviet Union and Russia, using newly available patent data from the Soviet and Russian patent offices. Professor Cook presented the first paper 'A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in the Soviet Union and Russia, 1971-2007,' at the Business History Conference in Sacramento, California in April. Cook was also a featured economist on the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession web site. Madison Professor Lisa Cook is serving on President-elect Barack Obama?s Economics and International Trade Team as World Bank Review Team leader. Cook is also a professor in the Department of Economics at MSU. Dr. Lisa Cook, an authority on economic growth in developing nations, will address "Patents and Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries" Oct. 24, 2007 at Western Michigan University as the part of the Werner Sichel Economics Lecture-Seminar Series.

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• Student Staff

Ellie Friedman is a junior from West Bloomfield, MI studying Social Relations & Policy and Secondary Education for social studies and English. In addition to being a part of the JMC Reading and Writing Center, she is a Teaching Assistant for MC 201, an advisor for MSU Tower Guard, and a research assistant in the Departments of Teacher Education and Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, hammocking, and wandering around campus. Being a part of the Reading and Writing Center excites her because she gets to actively participate in JMC's collaborative approach to instruction. Often, JMC courses leave students with more questions than answers, and she believes that writing is a tool we can use to make sense of new information and perspectives. She is particularly interested in working with students on growing their writing grammatically, stylistically, and organizationally. Whether you have a basic brainstorm or a rough draft, she is looking forward to growing and learning with you!

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• Academic Advisor
• Advisor
• Staff

Emelia Hammond (she/hers) serves as an academic advisor within James Madison College. She has been at JMC since 2015, and has also worked with recruitment for the college. Prior to coming to JMC, Emelia worked with refugee populations in resettlement, education, and refugee foster care programming and also served as a program coordinator for MSU's Visiting International Professional Program. Emelia earned her B.A. from Alma College with majors in Political Science and Foreign Service. She completed her M.A. in International Human Rights along with a certificate in International Development at University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies. She is a graduate of Decatur High School (MI).

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• Associate Professor

Galia Benítez is an associate professor in the International Relations field. Professor Benítez's academic interests focus on public policy, International political economy, international relations and political economy. Based on these interests, she is able to offer a range of courses in IR, Political Economy, and Latin American topics. Her current research focuses on illegal drugs in Latin America, the mapping of illegal drugs, the role of women in trafficking and the study of cocaine and psychedelics.

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• Chairman
• Professor

Professor Burns' research interests include reproductive politics, the politics of religion, moral conflict and social movements. He also teaches social policy and social theory. He was awarded a fellowship to the Annenberg Scholars Program in 1995-96 and is the author of The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World and of The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. In 2004, he was a recipient of the Mid-Michigan Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Gene Burns and Ross Emmett led a new short study abroad course, "Study in the U.S. and London," MC 380, Social Policy, at the end of spring semester 2013. The course was a special, comparative version of MC 380, Social Policy, a core course in the SRP major and also a "policy" course in STEPPS (Science, Technology, Environment, and Public Policy Specialization) and will also be offered in the spring of 2014. It is aimed particularly at students who would otherwise be unlikely to have a chance to study abroad and is generously subsidized by the Office of the Provost and James Madison College. The course is a new experimental study model for courses that are partly on campus and partly abroad. Gene Burns received the 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movement for his book, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States [Cambridge University Press, 2005].

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• Vice President
• Student, 2023 - 24 )

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• Representative

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• Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Affairs ( Ex - Officio Member ) JMC Student Senate CCC Representatives

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• Professor

John Jackson publishes in the history and philosophy of science focusing on the scientific study of race. He has authored or edited six books most recently Darwinism, Democracy and Race (coauthored with David Depew). He teaches primarily in the STEPPS specialization area.

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• Socio

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• Staff

Justin Burkett joined James Madison College in January 2018 as the Project/Event Coordinator. Prior to joining JMC, Justin spent three years with the Lansing Lugnuts focusing on event creation and management. While with the Lugnuts, Justin worked closely with a variety of Lansing area businesses, schools, and government offices to plan, organize, and execute unique, game day experiences at Cooley Law School Stadium. Justin received his B.A. from the University of Michigan with a major in Sport Management after beginning his post-secondary education at James Madison College. He is excited to return to JMC and help facilitate successful events for the faculty, staff, and students.

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• Associate Professor

Professor Brathwaite earned an M.A. in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queens University, Belfast and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in international relations and is interested in questions of nationalism, identity and military conflict. Her current research focuses on soldiers' motivation in combat as well as civil-military relations during counterinsurgency conflicts. She teaches a broad range of courses, including Introduction to World Politics, International Security, Crisis Negotiation Through Simulation, and Popular Culture in International Politics. Kirstin Brathwaite has a guest post in the international blog, "Duck of Minerva:" Excluding Women from the Band of Brothers: the False Flag of Small Unit Cohesion

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• Administrative Assistant for Academic Affairs and Admission
• Staff

Kristie Hess is from East Lansing and graduated from MSU with a degree in Elementary Education. She spent the last three years with her family living in Bozeman, Montana working at Montana State University in the Office of Admissions. She loves photography, dogs and spending time with her husband and daughter.

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• President
• Student, 2023 - 24 )

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• Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Staff Affairs ( Ex - Officio Member )

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• Organization Advisor

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• Associate Professor
• Associate Professor / Director of the IIT Fellows Program
• Professor of Social Relations and Policy

Louise A. Jezierski is a professor of Social Relations and Policy in James Madison College, Michigan State University. Her areas of teaching and research include urban and community development, social theory, urban social movements, regional political economy, social relations of race and ethnicity, class, and gender, U.S. social policy, including education policy, urban policy and economic development policy. She has engaged in research in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Lansing, Flint, Providence, Boston, Hartford and El Paso. Teaching: Social Theory and Social Relations; Social Policy; Educational Policy; Community Development and Civic Engagement in Lansing; Metropolitan Society - Detroit; Global Cities and Urbanism. Dr. Jezierski is affiliated with Programs and Institutes at Michigan State University: Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship Program (Director: 2022 to the present); Faculty Advisory Board member for the Center for Community and Economic Development; Affiliated Faculty for Institute for Public Policy and Social Research; Core Faculty for the Center for Gender in Global Context; Affiliated Faculty for the Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP). Louise Jezierski presented the paper "Local Cultures and Regional Cultures: A Comparative Understanding of Niche Markets and Identities in the Global Economy" in Salvador, Brazil in July 2009 at a conference sponsored by the Federal University of Bahia.

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• Ad Hoc Curriculum Reform
• Co - Leader of the Michigan Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network
• Faculty Representative
• NEWS
• Professor
• Socio

Mark Axelrod holds a joint appointment in James Madison College and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. His teaching and research center around international and comparative environmental governance, with a focus on justice outcomes. Professor Axelrod teaches International Environmental Law and Policy (MC/FW 450), Natural Resources and Environmental Governance (FW 813), Public International Law (MC 362), and Politics of International Economic Relations (MC 221), as well as 1st year and senior seminar courses. He also co-facilitated a 2011 workshop on conservation options in Malawi. Mark is a co-leader of the Michigan Chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. Beyond MSU, Mark is active with the International Studies Association Environmental Studies Section and the United Planet Faith & Science Initiative. He is also Associate Editor of Global Environmental Politics journal and sits on the Board of Contributors for the International Environmental Agreements Database. Natalia Ocampo Diaz, Maria Claudia Lopez, Patricia Norris, and Mark Axelrod, "Decentralizing the governance of inland fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia," (accepted for publication in International Journal of the Commons, May 2022). Julia Novak Colwell and Mark Axelrod, "Socio-economic impacts of a closed fishing season on resource-dependent stakeholders in Tamil Nadu, India: differences in income and expenditure effects by occupational group" Marine Policy 77: 182-190 (2017). doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2016.10.026 Julia M. Novak Colwell, Mark Axelrod, Shyam S Salim, and S. Velvizhi, "A gendered analysis of fisherfolk's livelihood adaptation and coping responses in the face of a seasonal fishing ban in Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, India," World Development, 98: 325-337 (2017). doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.04.033 Novak Colwell, J., Axelrod, M. L., & Roth, B. M. (2019). Unintended consequences of a seasonal ban on fishing effort in Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, India. Fisheries Research. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.12.003 Professor Axelrod became a member of the new United Planet Faith & Science Initiative and will contribute videos and discussions of his research www.upfsi.org (events tab, live conference calls). Professor Axelrod (with Meredith Gore, School of Criminal Justice and FW) received a Michigan Applied Public Policy Research (MAPPR) Grant for a project entitled: "Michigan Public Opinion Regarding Fish and Wildlife Threats and Policy Responses." Professor Mark Axelrod and Michelle L. Lute published, "Public preferences for wolf management processes in Michigan" in Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 20(7) (2015). doi: 10.1080/10871209.2015.956850. Professor Mark Axelrod published, "Clash of the Treaties: Responding to Institutional Interplay in EC-Chile Swordfish Negotiations" in European Journal of International Relations, 20(4): 987-1013 (2014). doi: 10.1177/1354066113499386. Professor Axelrod was selected as member of program on "Legal Preparedness for Achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets", supported by UN Convention on Biological Diversity and International Development Law Organization. Professor Axelrod published "Clash of the Treaties: Responding to Institutional Interplay in EC-Chile Swordfish Negotiations" in the European Journal of International Relations, May 2013. The article will be published online by the end of 2013 and will be published in print in 2014 or 2015. Professor Axelrod, with Katherine Groff, authored, "A Baseline Analysis of Poaching Incentives in Chiquibul National Park, Belize," which was accepted for publication at Conservation and Society, November 2012). Publication is expected by the end of 2013. Professor Axelrod co-presented a paper and was elected to the Environmental Studies Section Executive Committee for 2013-15 at the 2013 Convention of the International Studies Association, in San Francisco, California in April, 2013. He also co-authored a paper that was presented at the 2013 People and the Sea Conference VII: Maritime Futures, in Amsterdam, Netherlands in June, 2013, and is co-authoring a paper to be presented at the 2013 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, in East Lansing, Michigan, which will be held from October 25 to 27, 2013. Professor Mark Axelrod co-facilitated a short course on "Payment for Ecosystem Services" in September at BundaCollege, University of Malawi, along with other MSU and University of Malawi faculty. This course was part of the USAID Higher Education for Development project including MSU, Lincoln University, and University of Malawi. Mark Axelrod, with Carole Gibbs and Edmund McGarrell, published "Transnational white-collar crime and risk: Lessons from the global trade in electronic waste" in Criminology & Public Policy 9(3): 543-560 (2010).

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• Treasurer

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• Associate Professor
• Associate Professor / Director of JMC Writing Center

Melissa Fore, PhD teaches in the Humanities, Culture and Writing department at James Madison College. Her writing classroom explores how concepts of race, class, gender, and sexuality are socially and culturally constructed through social, political, and economic values. She asks students to consider how the cycles of socialization have influenced their understanding of identity and community in order to engage in writing assignments that examine structural racism, the affordable housing crisis, and challenging gender norms. Her courses examine approaches to outreach and engagement in order to give students models for addressing inequities that plague their communities. Dr. Fore's teaching helps students see how identity formation is linked to power and privilege, and how dismantling white supremacy is central to social, political, and economic justice. Current research interests include challenging the notion that sex education curriculums can teach students about "consent" without a clear focus on gender norms and the role masculinity (both traditional and violent) plays in relationships. She is also working with undergraduate researchers on a project that examines representation of race and gender in high school history textbooks. Professor Fore teaches courses in the first-year writing program and is a core faculty member of Michigan State University's Center for Gender in a Global Context.

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• Project Administrator
• Staff

Michael Downs is a Project Administrator at James Madison College. Downs began working for JMC in August of 2023. Downs has a M.A. in Media and Information from Michigan State University, and a BA in international relations from James Madison College (MSU). He is the Project Manager for Science, Art, and Faith: Architectural Heritage and Islam, under the direction of Professor Martha Olcott and Professor Mohammad Khalil. He is also the Project Manager for Collapse and Rebirth: A Living Archive on the Collapse of the Soviet Union, at Michigan State University. His research and writing have focused on post-Soviet Eurasia, and he has made a number of conference presentations on the intersection of these issues with Digital Humanities priorities. In addition, Downs has broad training in methodological questions, especially as they relate User Experience and Survey Design, and serves on a variety of professional committees related to these topics.

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• Student Senate

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• Ad Hoc Awards
• Professor of International Relations at MSU 's James Madison College of Public Affairs

Norman A. Graham is a professor of International Relations at MSU's James Madison College of Public Affairs. For more than 25 years, he also served as Director of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Most recently, Graham was honored with the Ralph H. Smuckler Award for Advancing International Studies and Programs at MSU Norman Graham has published his ninth book: Turkish-Azerbaijani Relations-One Nation, Two States. The book was co-edited with Murad Ismayilov of Cambridge University and the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy/ADA University, and appeared in June 2016 in the Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies Series. In some respects the volume reflects the emerging research and academic relationship that has developed between James Madison College, MSU's Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and ADA University in Baku. Indeed, the chapters were initially reviewed and discussed in a workshop held at MSU under the joint sponsorship of the three institutions in August of 2015. Graham also recently published "The Prospect for Regional Governance of Inland Fisheries in Central Eurasia," which appeared in Freshwater, Fish and the Future: Proceedings of the Global Cross-Sectoral Conference, jointly sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, MSU and the American Fisheries Society in Rome, 2015. Graham is professor of International Relations at MSU's James Madison College and also serves as the director of the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the MSU. Norman Graham and Folke Lindahl co-edited the book "Eurasian Political Economy and Public Policy Studies," the first of a collection published by the MSU Press. The collection is entitled "The Political Economy of Transition in Eurasia Democratization and Economic Liberalization in a Global Economy." Norman Graham was named by Michigan State University Press as the Senior Editor for a new book series, Political Economy and Public Policy in Eurasia.

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• Assistant Professor
• Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy

Rashida L. Harrison, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy at James Madison College. She earned her Ph.D. in African American and African Studies with disciplinary foci in sociology and literature at Michigan State University. Harrison earned her B.A. from Cornell University in Africana Studies with a minor in sociology. Professor Harrison's teaching reflects her interest, and includes courses on social theory, social movements, intersections of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality, Global Citizenships, and Race and Citizenship to name a few. Harrison's current research project on Black British Women's Transnational Feminist Activism of the late 1970s-1980s is informed by her multi ethnic experiences with blackness. Born and raised in New York City's iconic South Bronx, Harrison engaged the politics of race, gender and consciousness at an early age. These formative experiences deepened her understanding of the African/Black Diaspora and inspired her early career research into how women build coalitions across social identities, political realities, and national borders.

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• Associate Professor
• Associate Dean for Research Associate Professor / Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor

Robert Brathwaite is the associate dean for research and an associate professor at James Madison College with a specialization in international relations. Professor Brathwaite is also the faculty director of the James Madison College Human Rights Data Science Lab. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame. Professor Brathwaite's teaching and research interests include topics associated with international security, strategic competition with China, terrorism, cyberwarfare, religious violence and the conduct of civil wars. He was awarded a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars from August 2021 - Augst 2022. During his fellowship, he worked at the Department of Defense in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on China-related issues and is currently a consultant for the Department of Defense, Office for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. He has taught courses that cover the following topics: international relations, international security, cyberwarfare, U.S. Foreign Policy, technology and politics, intra-state violence, and research methods. In his spare time, Professor Brathwaite enjoys the outdoors and is an avid snowboarder.

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• Director of Development
• Staff

Rocky's career in development brought him back to Michigan State University to work for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in 1997. Then in October of 2000 he entered his current position with James Madison College, his alma mater. Rocky likes to say, "he has the best job on campus." He lives in East Lansing with his wife Julie (BS, MSN-MSU College of Nursing) and his two children, Aaron and Elizabeth.

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• Professor

Professor, James Madison College and College of Arts and Letters Ph.D. Georgetown University, Government M.A. University of Michigan, Modern Middle Eastern & North African Studies B.A. University of Michigan, Political Science Professor Lucas teaches classes on the international relations and domestic politics and culture of the Middle East, as well as theories of global studies. His research specializes on Middle Eastern politics with attention to foreign policy, public opinion, political institutions, and the media. His book, Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001 was published by SUNY Press. He has also published articles in a range of journals, including Journal of Democracy, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Arabian Studies, and the Middle East Journal. His current research focuses on conceptions of public opinion in the Arab World and on the politics of Arab monarchies. He has previously served as the Director of the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities program in MSU's College of Arts and Letters. He has previously taught at Florida International University and at the University of Oklahoma. Lucas, Russell E. "Jordanian-Israeli Relations Under King Hussein," in Handbook on the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, edited by P.R. Kumaraswamy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 421-433. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9166-8_26

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• IIT Fellow

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• Secretary

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• Professor

Professor Garnett's interests include the former Soviet Union, especially Russian foreign and security policy, Ukraine and comparative political and security issues for the post-Communist world. He was most recently a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he directed projects on security and national identity in the former USSR and Russian-Chinese relations. While at Carnegie, he wrote a wide range of articles on the post-Communist world and a book on Ukraine. Before that, he worked for more than a dozen years on arms control and post-Communist security policy questions in a variety of positions in the U.S. government, finishing his government service as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. He received the Defense Department's Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service in 1994. His current research interests include contemporary global security problems, political and security trends in Eurasia and Russian intellectual and literary history.

Professor Axelrod hosted Dr. Shyam Salim from India's Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute through a grant from the MSU Environmental Science & Policy Program, Visiting Scholars to Advance Science (VISTAS) program Professor Axelrod presented papers at the 2014 Convention of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Ontario in March 2014: "Importing International Norms through Domestic Institutions: the Precautionary Principle in India" and "Finding the Sources of Support: An Analysis of Indian Fisheries Subsidies" (with JMC student Mykala Ford and FW student Julia Novak) Professor Axelrod presented papers at the 2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance, Norwich, UK, in July: "Beyond Effectiveness: Comparing Institutional Resilience in Ozone and Invasive Species Regimes" (with JMC colleagues Daniel Kramer and Matthew Zierler) and "Blocking Change: the Drag of Status Quo Fisheries Institutions" Professor Axelrod was selected as member of program on "Legal Preparedness for Achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets", supported by UN Convention on Biological Diversity and International Development Law Organization. Professor Axelrod published "Clash of the Treaties: Responding to Institutional Interplay in EC-Chile Swordfish Negotiations" in the European Journal of International Relations, May 2013. The article will be published online by the end of 2013 and will be published in print in 2014 or 2015.

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• Professor

Professor Siddharth Chandra's research interests include behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, the intersection of economics, health, and history in Asia, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance, for which the theory was originally developed. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his research, which has appeared or will appear in a variety of journals, including "Emerging Infectious Diseases," "Demography," "Population Studies," "Drug and Alcohol Dependence," "Nicotine and Tobacco Research," "Tobacco Control," "Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology," the "Journal of Research in Personality," the "Journal of Regional Science," "Land Economics," the "Journal of Economic History," "Explorations in "Economic History," "World Politics," and "The British Journal of Political Science." At James Madison College, he teaches a senior seminar titled "Drug policy from Asia to America," in which students learn about different approaches to drug policy in Asia and the USA. He is also director of the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University. Professor Chandra received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University, his A.M. (Ph.D. pass) in economics from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. (with honors) in economics from Brandeis University. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he was Director of the Asian Studies Center and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

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• Fellow at James Madison Colleges
• Visiting Instructor Staff / Visiting Fellow

Sopheak Chann is a visiting fellow at James Madison Colleges, Michigan State University, and a lecturer at the Department of Natural Resource Management and Development, Royal University of Phnom Penh. He received his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Sydney in 2017 and a master's degree in Applied Sciences, Spatial Information Sciences also from the University of Sydney in 2009. He did his bachelor's degree in Environmental Management at the Royal University of Phnom Penh from 2002 to 2006. His research interests are critical development, environmental justice, political ecology of post-conflict resource landscapes, critical cartography, and climate change.

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• Associate Professor

Tobin Craig's studies focus on the intersection between modern political philosophy and modern science and technology. He teaches in both the PTCD field and the STEPPS specialization. He is currently at work on a book length study of the unity of Francis Bacon's scientific and political thought as well as a study of the place of technology in American political thought.

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• PR Chair

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• Professor

Yael Aronoff [Ph.D. PLS, Columbia U.] is a Professor of Political Science/International Relations at James Madison College at MSU. She is also the Director of the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and is the Serling Chair of Israel Studies at MSU. Dr. Aronoff has served as the President of the Association of Israel Studies from 2019-2021. She is a recipient of the MSU 2011 Teacher-Scholar Award and the 2015 MSU John K. Hudzik Emerging Leader in Advancing International Studies and Programs Award. Dr. Aronoff is interested in research and teaching regarding Israeli politics, cultures, and society, as well as foreign policy. Dr. Aronoff's research explores the conditions under which wars end and a process towards peace is achieved. Her research includes attention to the role of leaders in obstructing or initiating the end of enduring conflict through political means and the role of both political psychology and political culture in influencing leaders to be more or less accommodating and to engage in significant political change. The main question posed in the first book The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace (Cambridge University Press 2014), surrounds the kinds of personality traits and ideological components that make leaders more or less likely to change their policy preferences. It compares and contrasts six Israeli prime ministers and their decision-making on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Aronoff's co-edited book, Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond with Ilan Peleg and Saliba Sarsar, (Lexington Books 2020) explores from a variety of perspectives the role of political culture in questions of national identity, conflict, institution-building, and legitimacy. Ten leading scholars in political science, anthropology, Israeli studies, and Middle East affairs address the theme of continuity and change in political culture as a tribute to Professor Myron (Mike) J. Aronoff, whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology. Yael Aronoff co-authored the introduction and also contributed to the chapter "Pathways to Peace: Legitimation of a Two-State Solution." Her research, like her teaching, is grounded in political science, but multidisciplinary in scope. In Dr. Aronoff's first book, she uses psychological theories and assumptions to inform political science and international relations as well as aspects of political culture. The second edited book includes political scientists, anthropologists, area specialists, and practitioners. Her other recent publications include "The Zionist Center-Left Opposition to the Netanyahu Governments," in Israel Under Netanyahu: Domestic Politics and Foreign Affairs, ed. Robert Freedman, Routledge, 2019 and "Israeli Prime Ministers: Transforming the Victimhood Discourse," in The Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel, Ed. Ilan Peleg. Roman & Littlefield, 2019. Dr. Aronoff's current book project, The Dilemmas of Asymmetric Conflicts: Navigating Deterrence and Democratic Constraints, focuses primarily on the experiences of Israel and of the United States, and explores the tensions faced by democracies fighting long-standing asymmetric wars, as they juggle traditional military doctrines with the restraint needed to maintain domestic and international legitimacy as well as uphold international humanitarian law. Dr. Aronoff has published in Foreign Policy, Israel Studies, Israel Studies Review, Israel Studies Forum, and Political Science Quarterly. She was book review editor for Israel Studies Review, serves on the editorial board of Israel Studies, serves on the board of the Israel Institute, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Israel Studies for the past ten years. She has given over 100 public lectures and provides lectures as part of the Association of Jewish Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program as well as for the Association of Israel Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program. At James Madison College, Dr. Aronoff teaches MC220, "International Relations I: World Politics and International Security," MC335 "Israeli Politics, Cultures, and Society," MC324a, "Regional Politics, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Middle East," MC326 "U.S. Foreign Policy," and MC492 senior seminars which have focused on "Israeli Foreign Policy," "The Dilemmas of Asymmetric Wars," and "Leadership, Political Psychology, and Foreign Policy." Professor Aronoff led the MSU Serling Institute Summer Program at Hebrew University's Rothberg School in Jerusalem in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2017 and co-led the JMC study abroad in Brussels program in 2014.

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• Associate Professor

Professor Komori's teaching and research interests include international political economy, international relations of East Asia, global governance, and global poverty and inequality. He has published articles on regional institutions in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. He is currently working on a book project which explores the historical evolution of the Asian Development Bank.