Curriculum Vitae Spring 2008

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Curriculum Vitae Spring 2008

Daniel C. Palm Curriculum Vitae Spring 2008

Office: Residence: Dept. of Political Science 12634 Daphne Dr. Azusa Pacific University Rancho Cucamonga, CA 921 Alosta Blvd. 91739 Azusa, CA 91702 cell (909) 899-7507 tel. (626) 815-6000, x3782 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Government, 1991, The Claremont Graduate School. Dissertation title: The Preparedness Debate, 1914-1917: Its Strategic and Moral/Political Significance. M.A. in Divinity, 1980, University of Chicago, Divinity School. B.A., 1979, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois; Classics major and Religious Studies major, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Fall 2003- Chair, Department of History and Political Science, Azusa Pacific University 1998- Associate Professor of Political Science, Azusa Pacific University 1995- 1998 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Azusa Pacific University 1990 - Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, California State University, San Bernardino 1995 - Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy 1996, ‘97: Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, Claremont McKenna College. 1994-1995: Lecturer, Dept. of History and Political Science, Azusa Pacific University. 1987-1995: Publications and Special Projects Director, The Claremont Institute. 1989-1990: Director, Asian Studies Center, The Claremont Institute.

UNDERGRAD/GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES TAUGHT, 1987 – Present. Comparative Political Systems International Relations History of American Foreign Affairs Geography and Politics International Organizations Terrorism Western Political Systems Developing Political Systems Perspectives on Statesmanship, War and Peace American Presidency Intro to American Government American Political Thought Freshman Writing Seminar Research and Writing Regional Security Theories of International Relations Daniel C. Palm, 2008-09 2

I. PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT A. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION “One World One Dream: PRC International Relations and the 2008 Beijing Olympics” Paper presented at the American Association of Chinese Studies, Richmond, Virginia, Oct. 6, 2007. “A New Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Developing World? Indicators from the Realms of Theory and Practice” Paper presented at the Southwestern Political Science Association meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 16, 2007. “A Chinese Version of Democracy? The 2005 PRC State Council White Paper on Democracy and Its Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy” Paper presented at the American Association of Chinese Studies, Riverside, California, Oct. 22, 2006. “Chinese Immigration, U.S. Citizenship, and American Political Thought” Paper delivered to the Annual Convention of American Association of Chinese Studies, Vanderbilt University, Oct. 2005. “Equality as a Political Principle in the Novels of Harry Leon Wilson,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, March 25, 2005, New Orleans. Discussant for “Progressivism—Revising the Principles of American Politics,” March 26, 2005. Discussant, “Morality and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion” Boston, American Political Science Association, Sept. 2002. Panel Chair and Discussant, “Seminar on Local Government” San Francisco, American Political Science Association, Sept. 2001. “Do Americans Enjoy Religious Freedom? Craycraft’s Thesis Put to the Test” A paper delivered at a Conference on Religion, American Chi Chou Theo-Philosophical Institute, December 11, 2000. Panel Chair and Discussant, Democracy in California: Sesquicentennial Reflections on Equality and Liberty in the Golden State, Oct. 27-28, 2000, Claremont, California. Colloquium participant, Political Philosophy and the City, Washington, D.C., August 27-28, 2000. Panelist, “Significance of the Second Amendment” Constitution Day Seminar, Claremont Institute, Sept. 17, 1999. Colloquium participant, Academics for the Second Amendment, San Francisco, Jan. 4-8, 1998. 1997 Salvatori Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., June 15-25, 1997. “Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech and a Greater Role for America” A paper delivered at the August 1996 meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco. Panelist, “Lessons of the Second World War: A Roundtable Discussion” A panel at the September 1995 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago. Panelist, “The ‘Laws of Nature,’ the Declaration of Independence, and the American Founding” at a conference sponsored by the Center for Economics and Business, Lynchburg, Virginia, October 12, 1994. Panel Chair and Discussant: “Security in Asia: Korea and Japan” at “New Directions in Asian- Pacific Security,” Conference co-sponsored by the Claremont Institute’s Asian Studies Center and the Institute of International Relations, June 1993. Daniel C. Palm, 2008-09 3

Panelist, “Can Democracy Survive Diversity?” Orange Coast College, Oct. 1993. Panelist, “Churchill and the Gulf War: A Roundtable Discussion.” A panel at the September 1991 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.

B. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND MAJOR ARTICLES Co-author with Thomas Krannawitter, One Nation Under God? The ACLU and Religion in the American Public Square (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Contributing Editor of On Faith and Free Government (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). “The Least Secure Right?” in Ken Masugi and Brian Janiskee, eds., The California Republic: Institutions, Policy, and Statesmanship (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). Co-editor and author with Timothy Wheeler, A Citizen’s Guide to the Second Amendment (The Claremont Institute, 2002). “The Founders’ Perspective on Foreign Alliances” in Foreign Entanglements: An Institutional Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy (Pacific Research Institute, 2001). “The Genesis of Strategic Military Planning in the United States Army,” in Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold Rood (University Press of America, 1994). “The War Powers Act and Presidential Power,” in The New Federalist Papers (University Press of America, 1988). Editor, “The Future of the United States Air Force,” Internal document for Air Force and Dept. of Energy, 45 pp., (Los Alamos: U.S. Department of Energy, 1992). “California Workfare Reform and Decentralization” Golden State Briefings, August 1990.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN PROGRESS

 Document Collection: Christians and Communism  Book Manuscript: Values: A Brief History of the Word that Defines Our Time  Book Manuscript: Politics and Time  Article in progress for Perspectives in Political Science: “Equality in Literature: Rediscovering the Novels of Harry Leon Wilson”

BOOK REVIEWS Review of Saul Cornell, A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America, in The Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2008. Review of H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel, The Militia and the Right to Bear Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent,” Claremont Institute website, www.claremont.org, Feb. 8, 2005. Review of Josh Sugarmann, Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns, in The Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2002. Review of Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr., The American Myth of Religious Freedom in Christian Scholar’s Review, Winter 2000-01. Daniel C. Palm, 2008-09 4

Review of H. Wayne House, The Christian and American Law in Christian Scholar’s Review, Summer 1999. Review essay of John Henry Newman, The Idea of the University in David Weeks and Diana Glyer, eds., The Liberal Arts in Higher Education (University Press of America, 1998). James Smith, The Idea Brokers, Reviewed in Political Communication and Persuasion, Spring 1992. Anthony McDermott and Kjell Skjelsbaek, The Multinational Force in Beirut, 1982-1984, Reviewed in Perspectives on Political Science, March 1992. Anthony Cordesman and Abraham Wagner, The Lessons of Modern Warfare. Reviewed in Perspectives on Political Science, Winter 1992. Numerous short book reviews in The Claremont Review of Books, 1982-1986.

OTHER PROFESIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Academic Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C.  Academic Review Team Member and co-author of Accreditation report for Great Lakes University, Michigan, for the American Academy of Liberal Education, Washington, D.C., August 2005.  Peer Review for Lexington Books, publishers of Gary Wood, Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional Government (2003).  Peer Review for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers of Ken Masugi and Brian Janiskee, Democracy in California (2002).  Project Grant Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities, Bicentennial of the Constitution, 1987.  Editor and Contributor, The Minnesota Monitor, October 1989 - March 1990.  Editor, The Asia Column, 1987-1990.  President, Claremont Graduate School Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society, 1984-85

II. UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE RECENT CAMPUS/COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

 “Teaching About Terrorism in Christian Secondary Education” Presentation at the Association of Christian Schools International, Anaheim, Nov. 19, 2007.  Lectures on Politics and Theology and History of Religion in America, American Chi Chou Theo-Philosophical Institute,, Hualien, Republic of China on Taiwan, Aug. 23-27, 2007.  External Program Reviewer for Political Science Department, California Baptist University, April 2007.  “Ronald Reagan and the Challenges of Our Time” Remarks at the Reagan Library for the Azusa Pacific Office of Estate Planning, Nov. 16, 2006.  Lecture on the ACLU and Religion in America for the American Chi Chou Theo- Philosophical Institute, Nov. 10, 2006.  Program Review Committee Chair for Azusa Pacific Biology/Chem Dept., Spring 2006.  Lecture on Dachau and Hitler’s Final Solution for APU Business Student Travel to Europe, May 12, 2006.  Undergraduate Studies Council member, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08.  Personnel Search Committee for APU High Sierra Program Director, Spring 2006.  Panelist for Common Day of Learning “Success in Graduate School” 2005, 2006, 2007. Daniel C. Palm, 2008-09 5

 Served as Faculty Advisor for APU ROTC, Faith and Culture Club, and College Republicans.  “Progress or Return? The American Founders, Abraham Lincoln, and the Bioethics of Slavery” A lecture delivered for the Azusa Pacific Center for Research in Science Lecture Series, April 6, 2005.  “Something New Under the Sun? A Response to ‘Confessing Christ in a World of Violence,’” Remarks delivered at an APU campus Matatheis Roundtable Discussion, Feb. 22, 2005.  Grant Proposal with David Landers for Baldwin Park School District to U.S. Department of Education, “Teaching American History” Grant Program. $999,999 Grant Awarded, July 2004. Recruited four lecturers from APU History/Political Science faculty per year for this grant, 2005-2007.  “Citizenship in the Nation” Boy Scout Merit Badge Instructor for Sunset Council, La Verne, CA, May 8, 2004.  Chair and Panel Organizer, “College Teaching as a Career” Azusa Pacific University Common Day of Learning, March 3, 2004.  Respondent to John Milbank’s presentation, “The Gift of Ruling: Secularization and Political Authority,” CLAS guest lecturer, Oct. 30, 2003.  Speaker at Communiversity Colloquium on Proposition 54, the Racial Privacy Initiative, Oct. 2, 2003:  August 21, and Oct. 29, 2003 Guest Speaker on “Religion in American History” for Baldwin Park School District “Teaching American History” program.  Sept. 30, 2003: Speaker at first History/Political Science Dept. noontime Sandwich Seminar on the California Recall Election.  July 23, 2003 Guest on KPSI Radio, Palm Springs, Stan Layne Morning Show on California Governor Gray Davis recall.  April 3, 2003: Speaker at first History/Political Science department Colloquium, “The War with Iraq: Historical Perspectives.”  April 3, 2003: Led student discussion of the Iraq War organized by Dave Skarka at University Park dorm.  March 25, 2003: Led student discussion of the Iraq War organized by Gabriel Alaniz at Shire dorms, APU campus.  Nov. 5, 2002 Participant in Campus-wide International Awareness Day. Lecture Topic: “Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Christian Response”.  “Teaching American Political Ideas at the Elementary Level” and “Trends in Recent Court Decisions Concerning Prayer & Public Schools” Presentations made at the Association of Christian Schools International, Anaheim, Nov. 21, 2000.  Advisor to a Chinese Christian group, the American Chi-Chou Theo-philosophical Institute, El Monte, CA, 1995-present.  Volunteer Blood Donor, 1998-present.  Usher and VBS Group Leader, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 2001-present.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE/ONLINE ARTICLES

 “No Song and Dance” Claremont Institute Precepts, Jan. 2, 2003.  “A Time for Restraint—or Action?” Claremont Institute Precepts, Dec. 3, 2002.  “Reforming Our Political Rhetoric, A Word at a Time,” Claremont Institute Precepts, Sept. 30, 2001.  “Looking Back on Entebbe” Claremont Institute Precepts, July 4, 2001.  “First Do No Harm, Second Tell No Lies,” Claremont Institute Precepts, March 22, 2001.  “So Much for the Anti-gun Strategy,” www.claremont.org, Oct. 12, 2000. Daniel C. Palm, 2008-09 6

 “Lincoln’s Practical Wisdom: ‘Go to Work’” www.claremont.org, Feb. 12, 2000.  “The Great Meltdown . . . of Common Sense” San Gabriel Valley Tribune, July 17, 1999.  “What is Character--And Does It Still Matter?” APU Life, December 1998.  “Testing, Testing . . . Saddam Hussein’s Weaponry and the Lessons of History,” Nov. 11, 1997, The Claremont Institute.  “Truth in Tagganting” National Review, Sept. 16, 1996.  “Constitution or Substitution? How to Fix American Government,” Nationally syndicated by Public Research, Syndicated, April 1992.  “Activists Have Their Way with the L.A. Unified School District,” Golden State Briefings, (The Claremont Institute), Jan. 1992.  “Was the Panama Intervention Worth the Effort?” Nationally syndicated by Public Research, Syndicated, also published in The Proposition, January 1990.  Co-author with Edward J. Erler of “The Serious Case Against Criminalizing Semi-Autos,” The Proposition, March 1989.  “Gorbachev’s Not-So-Strange Bedfellows in Pyongyang,” The Proposition, December 1988.  “The Soviet Union Forges Closer Ties to North Korea,” Nationally syndicated by Public Research, Syndicated, December 12, 1988.  “How the United States Can Counter Soviet Diplomacy in the Pacific,” The Asia Column, November/December 1988.  “Taiwan: A Decade on Its Own,” The Asia Column, November 22, 1988.  “What Price Arms Control?” September 10, 1987, The Indianapolis Star.

III. MEMBERSHIPS/PROFESSIONAL LISTINGS

 American Association of Chinese Studies  American Political Science Association  Southwestern Political Science Association  Christians in Political Science  Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)  National Association of Scholars  Phi Beta Kappa, National Honors Society  Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honors Society  Who’s Who in American Education, 2005  Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005  Who’s Who in America, 2000

IV. RECENT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Republic of China, Taiwan (2007, 2001, 1996), Oxford, U,K. (2006), Israel and Palestinian West Bank (2005), Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (2004), Lithuania, Sweden (2003).

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