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- Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
Barbara Callaway is an emerita professor of political science at Rutgers University who had a distinguished career at Rutgers as associate provost (first in Newark and then in New Brunswick), acting dean of the College of Nursing in 1976, and dean of the Graduate School in New Brunswick in 1990.
Callaway completed her undergraduate degree at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX in 1962. The summer of her sophomore year there, she went to Nigeria to participate in Operation Crossroads Africa. There she developed a lifelong interest in West Africa, women and development, and women in politics. She earned her M.A. in African studies at Boston University in 1963 and her Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1969.
In 1972, she was recruited to Rutgers College, where she became the first female professor of political science. As a Fulbright Professor in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she spent two years in Nigeria and one year in Ghana conducting research. Two of Callaway's five books have won national awards: Women and Islam in West Africa won the Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association, and Hildegard Peplau, Psychiatric Nurse of the Century won the American Nurses Association Book of the Year award.
Callaway also had a long career in academic administration at Rutgers. She served as associate provost, first in Newark and then in New Brunswick. In 1976, she was appointed acting dean of the College of Nursing. In New Brunswick, she served as dean of the Graduate School in 1990.
Barbara Callaway retired in 2010, after 38 years at Rutgers.
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- Associate Director - United Nations & Global Policy Studies ( UNMA )
- Associate Director of the MA Program in Political Science - United Nations and Global Policy Studies
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- Masters Program Administration
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- Professor of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University
Gerald Pomper is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University (Emeritus). A specialist in American elections and politics, he is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Passions and Interests, Elections in America, and Voters' Choice. His most recent books are The Election of 2000, the seventh volume in a 24-year series on U.S. national elections, and The Future of American Democratic Politics, a year-long symposium he developed while Interim Director of the Walt Whitman Center at Rutgers. His book on Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy will be published by Yale University Press in 2004.
Educated at Columbia and Princeton, Dr. Pomper also has been a Fulbright or visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University, Oxford, and Australian National University, and held the first Tip O'Neill Chair in Public Life at Northeastern University. He has been honored for career achievement by the American Political Science Association and has served as an expert witness on campaign finance, reapportionment, and political party regulation. At Rutgers for over forty years, he was chairman of the University and Livingston College political science departments and chaired a select committee that proposed major changes in undergraduate education on the New Brunswick campus.
His civic activities include eight years on his local board of education, current membership on his local zoning board, summer institutes for high school teachers, evaluations for New Jersey's former department of higher education, and service as chair of the Free Speech committee of the American Civil Liberties Union.
In January 2001, Gerald Pomper formally retired from Rutgers University, but has been still actively teaching and writing.
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- Senior Program Coordinator Spvsr - SAS - Political Science, Undergraduate Program
- Undergraduate Program Administration
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Jan Kubik. 1994. The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power. The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland. University Park: Penn State University Press (book available at: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01083-5.html).
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Professor Decker specializes in U.S. political and legal history. His book The Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. This book is the story of the non-profit, "public interest" lawyers of the American right. It describes how a network of policy-minded attorneys challenged the U.S. regulatory state in the name of property rights and economic freedom. And it shows how their efforts helped to change the size and shape of American government.
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- Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
- Professor, Senior Scholar, Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Kira Sanbonmatsu is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Her research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, parties, public opinion, and state politics. Her most recent book, coauthored with Kelly Dittmar and Susan J. Carroll, is A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters (Oxford University Press, 2018). She is also the coauthor (with Susan J. Carroll) of More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures (Oxford University Press, 2013). Sanbonmatsu coauthored the CAWP reports Representation Matters: Women in the U.S. Congress (2017) and Poised to Run: Women's Pathways to the State Legislatures (2009). She is also the author of Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Politics & Gender, and Party Politics. She co-edits the CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics at the University of Michigan Press with Susan J. Carroll. Sanbonmatsu received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University.
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Women and American Politics 790:335, 988:336
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- Professor, Chair of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Born in London and educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Mr. Curtis earned his doctorate at Cornell University before settling in Princeton in 1963 when he was appointed to a teaching position at Rutgers University, where he is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus in political science.
Professor Curtis has held a number of academic honors that include Fellowships, at the Princeton Center of International Studies, its Institute for Advanced Study and the Bellagio, Rockefeller Institute. Besides being a long term member of the Princeton University political science faculty, he has taught as a visiting professor at Hebrew, Bologna, European University Institute, Fiesole, 1989, Tel Aviv Universities.
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Professor Heumann received a BA from Brooklyn College in 1968, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976. He taught as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Michigan from 1973-1980, was a Guggenheim Fellow at Yale Law School from `1980-81, and has been a Professor (1981) , and then Distinguished Professor (2013) at Rutgers until the present. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at Rutges from 1997-2003. During the 1980' and 1990's he was also an occasional Visiting Lecturer ( for courses on criminal sentencing) at Yale Law School. Professor Heumann has written extensively in the field of criminal justice, and more recently also in the area of the "right to privacy." In recent years, he frequently collaborates with undergraduate and graduate student in his research projects. Currently, he is working with several students, a former graduate student, and an attorney on a study of judicial "creative sentences." Professor Heuman has been the Rutgers New Brunswick Prelaw Advisor since 1987,, and is also Advisor to many of the prelaw , and law related groups , on campus. In this capacity he meets weekly with students, and helps negotiate the application process to law school. Moreover he hosts an annual careers in law program which brings attorneys, judges, and law students to campus to discuss their careers, and to meet directly with our students. Much of Professor Heumann's research has been on criminal justice issues--most notably plea bargaining and trials, and criminal sentencing. More recently he has done several studies of matters implicating the right to privacy. Professor Heumann has a strong commitment to insuring that the Public Law Field on the Graduate Level continues to flourish, and over the past few decades the success of the Field has been reflected in the success of its Ph.D. graduates. Similarly, Professor Heumann is very committed to the Department's undergraduate programs. He teaches at least two large advanced undergraduate courses every year, has raised money to support the undergraduate program in general, as well as to provide honorariums for undergraduates working with professors on research projects.
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Byrne Seminar (101): Criminal Courts: Trials and Tribulations PS 404--Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice
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Mona Lena Krook is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women & Politics Ph.D. Program at Rutgers University. She has published widely on gender and political representation, particularly on electoral gender quotas and the impact of women in public office. Her first book, Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009), won the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award in 2010 for the best book on women and politics. In 2019, it was further honored with a George H. Hallett Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems Section, recognizing a book published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems. She has also written articles appearing in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, the European Journal of International Relations, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Politics & Gender, among others.
Since 2015, Krook has worked closely with colleagues at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and other global practitioners to recognize and combat violence against women in politics as a distinct form of violence aimed at preventing and undermining women's political participation. This included, in 2016, launching NDI's #NotTheCost campaign to stop violence against women in politics. Her most recent book, Violence against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020), draws on this work to explore rising attacks against women in public life around the globe. With research funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and a Rutgers University Chancellor's Scholarship.
Krook's other awards include an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2009 from the Graduate Student Senate and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Washington University; the inaugural Early Career Award in 2012 from the Midwest Women's Caucus of the Midwest Political Science Association for research accomplishments and contributions to the discipline; and the Emerging Scholar Award in 2015 from the Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association for the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of his or her Ph.D. She also won two best paper prizes with Rutgers Women & Politics graduate students: the 2018 Intergenerational Justice Award from the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations and the Intergenerational Foundation for a paper co-authored with Mary K. Nugent and the 2015 Best Paper Prize from the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for a paper co-authored with Juliana Restrepo Sanin.
In 2021, Krook's work crossing the academic-practitioner divide was recognized with the Rutgers University Chancellor's Award for Global Impacts. She was named to Apolitical's 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy List, honoring and celebrating people of all genders working on gender policy and making the world more equitable, through policymaking, public service, research, philanthropy, advocacy, or activism. She was also presented with the American Political Science Association's Distinguished Award for Civic and Community Engagement, honoring significant civic or community engagement activity by a political scientist. She continues to inform global debates on violence against women in politics through a Twitter account and a website, capturing ongoing developments in theory and practice to ensure women's equal rights to participate - freely and safely - in political life around the world.
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790:347 Political Representation
790:395 Gender and the United Nations
790:537 Gender Equality, Women's Empowerment, and the United Nations
790:608 Pro-Seminar in Women and Politics
790:665 Gender and Comparative Politics
Myron (Mike) Aronoff has devoted his professional career to building conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology. The core concept that frames most of his work is legitimacy, i.e., the processes through which relationships of power are transformed into relationships of authority and, conversely, processes through which authority is challenged and undermined. Distinguished Professor Aronoff authored the entry for political culture in the International Encyclopedia of Behavioral and Social Sciences (2002) and conceptualizes it as being contested, contingent, and highly contextual. All of his research and teaching explore various aspects of the relationship between culture and politics.
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Rick Lau earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA. He taught at Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Rutgers in 1990.
His chief research interests include political cognition and political decision-making; media effects in political campaigns; the effects of metaphors in public opinion and political persuasion; institutional means for improving democratic representation; the role of self-interest in political attitudes and behavior; and health policy. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the Ford Foundation.
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790:303: Elections and Participation
790:348: Psychology and Politics
790:611: Public Opinion
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Robert Kaufman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has been a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs in l967-68 and again in l975-76. In l980-8l he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Research Fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1997. In 2000 and 2015 he was a Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a member of the Executive Council and as Treasurer of the American Political Science Association, and President of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association from 2015-2017.
He has written widely on authoritarianism and democratic transitions, and on the political economy of economic reform. His current research focuses on backsliding in democratic regimes in Latin America, other developing and post-communist countries, and the United States. Most recently, he is the co-author, with Stephan Haggard, of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World, from Cambridge University Press (2021), and Dictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses, and Regime Change (2016) from Princeton University Press, co-winner of the Best Book Prize awarded by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association.
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Democracy and Markets 790:395
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Ross K. Baker, Professor, received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a research Associate at the Brookings Institution before joining the Rutgers faculty. Professor Baker's fields of interest are: American Government and U.S. Legislative Politics.
He is the author of following books: "The Afro-American; "American Government" with Gerald Pomper and W. Carey McWiliams: "Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate"(Free Press), "The New Fat Cats"(Brookings); "House and Senate"and "Strangers on a Hill"(W.W. Norton); and "Is Bipartisanship Dead?"(Paradigm) He was contributing editor to American Demographics, a member of the editorial board of Polity, and is currently a Member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today.
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Roy Licklider, Professor of Political Science, received his B.A. from Boston University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from Yale. He taught at Tougaloo College before coming to Rutgers in l968. He has taught courses on civil wars, international relations, foreign and military policy, terrorism, research design, international political economy, and the comparative politics of higher education. His early research was concerned with nuclear strategy, comparative foreign policy, and the impact of economic sanctions on foreign policy, particularly the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74. His recent research has focused on how people who have been killing one another in civil wars with considerable skill and enthusiasm can sometimes-but more often than you might think--form working political communities. His last book was on merging competing militaries after civil wars, based on research supported by a Minerva grant from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. His current research is on how different collective memories of civil wars make them more or less likely to recur. He is Adjunct Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia and a member of the Security Sector Reform Workgroup of the Folke Bernadotte Academy (Sweden). He has taught at Princeton, Yale, and Columbia and consulted for the Political Instability Task Force, the State Department, and the United Nations. He has been President of the Comparative Foreign Policy Section of the International Studies Association, Program Officer at the Exxon Education Foundation, and a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Foreign Policy Research and the Columbia University Seminar on Reconciliation. For nineteen years he was a member of Charles Tilly's weekly faculty/student workshop, first at the New School for Social Research and then at Columbia. He lives in New York City with his wife Patricia who is a retired English professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York; their daughter Virginia Still is Bequests Officer for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He will retire from Rutgers on December 31, 2018, after being here for fifty years (in the same office).
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Professor Stephen Eric Bronner is a noted political theorist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Currently, he is Director of Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University, and member of Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair for Genocide Prevention. Professor Bronner is the Executive Chair of US Academics for Peace and an advisor to Conscience International. His activities in civic diplomacy led him to visit Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Darfur. Many of his experiences are discussed in works dealing with internal relations like Blood in the Sand (2005) and Peace out of Reach (2007). Professor Bronner was the recipient of the MEPeace Award by the Network for Middle Eastern Politics in 2011.
Along with various teaching awards, the Bronner received the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision (1991) and Honorable Mention for the David Easton Prize, which honored the best work of political theory of the last five years, for Reclaiming the Enlightenment (2004).
A prolific writer, Professor Bronner has published over 25 books and 200 journal articles, and his work has been translated in more than a dozen languages. He received the Charles McCoy Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Political Science Association in 2005.
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Susan Lawrence has served in leadership positions in the School of Arts and Sciences Office of Undergraduate Education since 2005 and became Interim Executive Dean on July 1, 2022.
An Associate Professor of Political Science, she is the author of the award-winning book, The Poor in Court: The Legal Services Program and Supreme Court Decision-Making and publishes in public law and on issues in higher education. As Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education from 2016 until 2022, she oversaw recruitment, curriculum, instruction, special programs, advising, and academic support for the more than 21,000 undergraduates in the School of Arts and Sciences.
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- Program Coordinator I, MA Program in Political Science - United Nations and Global Policy Studies
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