JENNIFER STERLING-FOLKER
Department of Political Science 365 Fairfield Way, Unit 1024 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-1024 (860) 486-2440 [email protected]
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Political Science, 1993. Dissertation Title: "Domestic Realism" University of Chicago, M.A. in Political Science, 1988. Thesis: "ASEAN and the Roots of Regional Cooperation" University of New Hampshire, B.A. in Political Science and Art History, 1983. Graduated magna cum laude
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Full Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 2011 to present Endowed Professor, Alan R. Bennett Honors Professor of Political Science & Honors Director, University of Connecticut, 2013 to 2019 (6-year terminal position) Vice-President, International Studies Association Governing Council, 2017-18 Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, International Studies Association Governing Council, 2017-19 International Advisory Board Member, Bristol Studies in International Theory Series, 2019 to present. Advisory Board Member and Reviewer, SAGE Handbook of History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations, 2016 to present Co-Editor, Review of International Studies, British International Studies Association, 2011-2015 (co-edited with Kimberly Hutchings, George Lawson, Mathias Albert) Co-Editor, International Studies Review, International Studies Association, 2008-2012 (co-edited with Mark Boyer) Series Editor, Dilemmas of World Politics, Westview Press, 2010-2013 Editorial Board Member, International Studies Intensive Book Series, Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, 2006-2010 Associate Editor, International Studies Perspective, International Studies Association, 2000-2004 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 2003-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 2001 to 2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 1994 to 2001
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
International Relations Theory International Organization & Law Philosophy of Science & Disciplinary History Nationalism, American Foreign Policy International Political Economy
BOOKS
Making Sense of International Relations Theory (Iraq). (2013) 2nd edition. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner Press.
Making Sense of International Relations Theory (Kosovo). (2006) Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner Press.
Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy: Explaining U.S. International Monetary Policy-Making After Bretton Woods. (2002) Albany, NY: SUNY Series in Global Politics.
ARTICLES & SYMPOSIUM
“Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: COVID19 and Beyond,” Forum Editor, and “Nationalism, World Order, and the Covid-19 Pandemic,” Individual Contribution to the Forum, (2021), International Studies Review. https://academic.oup.com/isr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isr/viab018/6273326?login=true
“Listening in on the NCR Conversation.” (2020) International Studies Review. Contribution to “Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism at Theory’s End” Vol 22, issue 2: 21-23.
“All Hail to the Chief: Liberal IR Theory in the New World Order.” (2015). International Studies Perspective., vol.16, issue 1 (February): 40-49. Contribution to a special symposium on "Diversity in IR Theory."
“A Disagreeable Dinner Guest? Waltz and the Study of Global Governance,” (2014). Australian Journal of Political Science. Prepared for inclusion in a special issue, “Waltz Today: Reflections on the Legacy of Kenneth N. Waltz,” 49(3, August): 530-34.
“The Emperor Wore Cowboy Boots.” (2008) International Studies Perspective, vol. 9, no. 3 (August): 319-330. Contribution to a special symposium on "American Empire."
“Lamarckian With a Vengeance: Human Nature and American International Relations Theory.” (2006) Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 9, no. 3 (September): 227-246. Solicited contribution prepared for the Symposium “The Return of Human Nature in IR Theory?”
“Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide.” Co-author with Rosemary E. Shinko. (2005) Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Special Issue, vol.33, number 3 (June): 637-664. Reprinted in Power in World Politics, editors Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams, eds., London/New York: Routledge 2007.
"Realist-Constructivism and Morality." (2004) International Studies Review, vol. 6, issue 2 (June): 241-43. Contribution to a special symposium on "Realism-Constructivism."
"Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading." (2002) International Studies Review, vol. 4, issue 1 (Spring): 73-97.
Editor (on behalf of the ISP Editorial Team). "Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking up the Challenge of Craig Murphy's Presidential Address." (2001) International Studies Perspective, volume 2 (November): 340-370.
"Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared" (2000) International Studies Quarterly, vol. 44 (March): 97-119.
"Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables." (1997) International Studies Quarterly, vol. 41 (March): 1-25.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Unipolarity and Nationalism: The Racialized Legacies of an Anglo-Saxon Unipole,” (Forthcoming) In Polarity in International Relations: Past, Present, Future, eds. Bertel Heurlin, Nina Græger, Anders Wivel, Ole Wæver. Palgrave Macmillan.
“NeoLiberalism.” (2021). In International Relations Theory: Discipline and Diversity. Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds., 5th ed. Oxford University Press.
“Confessions of a Teaching Malcontent: Learning to Like What You Do.” (2019) In Journeys through Teaching World Politics: Narratives of Pedagogical Development, editor Jamie Frueh. Palgrave MacMillan: 77-90.
“Be Careful What You Wish For: Positivism and the Desire for Relevance in the American Study of IR,” (2017). What’s the Point of International Relations?, Rorden Wilkinson, Jan Selby and Synne Dyvik eds. Routledge.
“The Future From Inside the Liberal World Order,” (2016). International Relations Theory Today, Ken Booth and Toni Erskine eds. 2nd ed. Wiley.
“Disciplining Human Nature: The Evolution of American Social Scientific Theorizing.” Co-author with Jason Charrette. (2015). In Human Beings in International Relations, Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan, eds. Cambridge University Press.
“Realism.” Co-author with Jason Charrette. (2013). In International Organization and Global Governance. Thomas G. Weiss & Rorden Wilkinson, eds. London: Routledge.
“Constructivism.” Co-author with Dina Badie. (2011). In The Routledge Handbook of American Foreign Policy. Steven Hook and Christopher Jones, eds. London: Routledge.
“Realist Theorizing as Tradition: Forward Is As Forward Does.” (2009) In Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation. Annette Freyberg-Inan, Patrick James, and Ewan Harrison eds. John Hopkins University Press.
“Neoclassical Realism and Identity: Peril Despite Profit Across the Taiwan Straits.” (2009) In Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, Steven Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey Taliaferro, eds. Cambridge University Press.
“Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide.” Co-author with Rosemary E. Shinko. (2007) In Power in World Politics, editors Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams, eds., London/New York: Routledge. (Reprinted from Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Special Issue, vol.33, number 3, (March 2005): 637-664.
"Conflict and the Nation-State: Magical Mirrors of Muggles and Refracted Images." Co-authored with Brian Folker (2006) In Harry Potter in International Relations, Daniel Nexon and Iver B. Neumman, eds. owan and Littlefield.
"Realist Global Governance: Revisiting Cave! hic dragones and Beyond." (2005) Contending Perspectives on Global Governance: Coherence, Contestation, and World Order. Matthew Hoffmann and Alice Ba, eds. London: Routledge.
“Evolutionary Tendencies in Realist and Liberal Theory.” (2001) In Evolutionary Interpretations of World Politics, ed. William R. Thompson. New York: Routledge.
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: ‘Assertive Multilateralism’ in Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy- Making," (1998) In After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World, ed. James M. Scott. Duke University Press.
“Democratic Ideals and the American Public Library.” Co-author with Arthur W. Hafner (1993) In Democracy and the Public Library. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
“The American Public Library and the Constitutional Right to Freedom of Expression.” Co-author with Arthur W. Hafner (1993) In Democracy and the Public Library. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
"The Kreimer Case." Co-author with Arthur W. Hafner (1993) In Democracy and the Public Library. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
BOOK REVIEWS
“The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations,” by Barry Buzan and George Lawson. International Politics Reviews, vol. 3, issue 2 (October 2015): 1-3. Other forum review participants included Halvard Leira, Ann Towns, Barry Buzan and George Lawson.
“International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy” by Vincent Pouliot. H-Diplo/ISSF Series on International Security Studies, Electronic Review Roundtable. (March 2011). Other roundtable review participants included Catherine Lu, Peter Jackson, Ole Jacob Sending, Robert Jervis, Andrei Tsygankov, and James Goldgeier.
“International Society and Its Critics,” edited by Alex J. Bellamy, “Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace,” by Charles Lipson, and “Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States,” by Jeremy A. Rabkin. Journal of Politics, vol. 68, no.2 (2006): 461-5.
"Social Construction and the Logic of Money," by Samuel Barkin, and "Governing the World's Money" by David Andrews, et.al. Perspectives on Politics, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2004): 194-6.
"The Moral Purpose of the State: Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations" by Christian Reus-Smit. American Political Science Review, vol. 95, no. 1(March 2001): 264-5.
"Games Advisers Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations" by Jean Garrison. Journal of Politics, vol. 62 (November 2000) no. 4.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES & DIGITAL NETWORKS
“Review by Jennifer Sterling-Folker.” (2021) “H-Diplo Teaching Roundtable XXII-23 on Teaching IR’s Paradigms,” H-Diplo Network (online), Diane Labrosse, ed. (January 29): https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/7159136/h-diplo-teaching-roundtable-xxii-23-teaching- ir%E2%80%99s-paradigms
Co-author Laura Janik. “Neoliberal Institutionalism.” (2011) In International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Edited by Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Bertrand Badie, and Leonardo Morlino. SAGE Publications.
“International Relations Theory.” (2010). In The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Edited by George Kurian, et. al. CQ Press.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Article manuscript. “Nationalism in the Study of International Relations.”
Book manuscript. American in Hawaii: Nationalism in Everyday Practice.
Book manuscript. Realism and Global Governance. Proposal prepared for inclusion in Global Institutions Series, series editors Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, Routledge.
Article Manuscript. “That’s One Hell of an Act: The Aristocrats and Patriotic Subversion After 9/11.” Presented at the International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008. Revised for presentation at the 7th Pan-European International Relations Conference, Stockholm, September 2010
GRANTS & FUNDING
2019 Scholarship Facilitation Fund Grant (Fall), “American Nationalism and Hawaiian Sovereignty Movements,” Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Connecticut, $1829.00
2019 Honors Core Course Enrichment Funding, “Excavating the International in Everyday Practices, University Honors Program, University of Connecticut, $471.52
2018 Honors Core Curriculum Grant, “Excavating the International in Everyday Practices,” University Honors Program, University of Connecticut, $5,000 base award, $750 supplies and expenses.
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
2015 Presenter at “What is the Point of IR?” Conference, University of Sussex, UK. December 10-11. Presentation Entitled: “Be Careful What You Wish For: In Defense of Incoherence and Irrelevance in American IR.”
2015 Speaker, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, January 20. Presentation entitled: “Darth Realism: Confronting the Dark Side of Global Governance.”
2013 Presenter at “International Relations Theory Today” Conference, University of Aberystwyth, Wales, September 13. Presentation entitled: “"Theorizing IR in a Liberal World Order.”
2013 Speaker, Colloquium on Global Governance and Society (COGGS), University of Delaware, February 15. Presentation entitled: “Darth Realism: Embracing the Dark Side of Collective Identity.”
2011. Presenter at ISA workshop entitled, "Man, Agency, and Beyond” organized by Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan. Held prior to the ISA Annual Meeting Montreal, Canada, March 15. Paper: “Disciplining Human Nature: The Evolution of American Social Scientific Theorizing”
2006. Presenter at conference entitled: “Neoclassical Realism and the State," Organizers: Steven Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman & Jeffrey Taliaferro, Concordia University, Montreal, May 26. Paper presentation: “A Neoclassical Realist Guide to Economic Interdependence and Cooperation.”
2006. Speaker, Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago, Illinois, May 23. Presentation entitled: : “Realist Theorizing as Tradition: Forward Is As Forward Does.”
2006. Presenter at workshop, "What Way Forward for Contemporary Realism?" organized by Patrick James, Annette Freyberg-Inan, and Ewan Harrison. Held prior to the ISA Annual Meeting San Diego, California, March 21. Paper presentation: “Realist Theorizing as Tradition: Forward Is As Forward Does.”
2006. Presenter at conference entitled, "Realism and Constructivism: From Debate to Dialogue, II," organized by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Daniel Nexon, and Alexander Wendt, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, January 20. Paper presentation: "Immutability and Construction: The Practice and Ethics of Realism/Constructivism"
2005. Roundtable Participant, Northeast Circle Scholar: New Scholarship Roundtable, International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 18. Focus of the Circle was Anna M. Agathangelou and Lily H. M. Ling's "Seductions of Empire: Complicity, Desire, and Insecurity in Contemporary World Politics."
2005. Presenter at conference entitled, “Realism and Constructivism: From Debate to Dialogue I,” organized by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Daniel Nexon, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 29-30.
2005. Speaker, European Council, American University, April 1. Presentation entitled: “Realist Global Governance.”
2004. Presenter with co-author, Rosemary Shinko, at conference entitled "Facets of Power in International Relations," Millennium, London School of Economics, October 30-31. Paper presentation: "Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide."
2003. Speaker, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, November 28. Presentation on my book, Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy.
2003. Roundtable Participant, Northeast Circle Scholar: New Scholarship Roundtable, International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 7. Focus of the Circle was Patrick T. Jackson's "Occidentialism: Western Civilization and Postwar German Reconstruction."
2003. Presenter at conference entitled, "Identity and How it Matters," organized by Ted Hopf, Ohio State University, May 29-June 1. Author comments/responses to Theories of International Cooperation.
2003. Speaker, 72nd Foreign Policy Seminar, Department of History, University of Connecticut, February 21. Presentation entitled "Explaining Kosovo: Alternative Lens and Competing Interpretations"
2002. Presenter at conference entitled, "Contending Perspectives on Global Governance," organized by Matt Hoffmann and Alice Ba, University of Delaware, October 17-20. Title of Presentation: "Realist Global Governance: Cave! hic dragones Revisited."
2002. Speaker, Colloquium on Global Governance and Society, Political Science and IR Speaker Series, University of Delaware, February 21. Title of Talk: "Realist Global Governance: Cave! hic dragones Revisited."
2000. Northeast Circle Scholar: New Scholarship Roundtable, International Studies Association --Northeast, Annual Meeting, Albany, New York, November 10. Focus of the Circle was my book, Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy.
1999. Speaker, International Security Program's Friday seminar series, BCSIA, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, October 15. Title of Talk: "Evolutionary Tendencies in Realist and Liberal Theory."
1999. Speaker, "In Celebration of United Nations Day," Unitarian-Universalist Church, Hartford, CT, October 24.
1998. Presenter at conference entitled, "Evolutionary Approaches to International Relations," organized by William Thompson, Indiana University, Bloomington, December 4-6. Title of Presentation: "Evolutionary Tendencies in Realist and Liberal Theory."
1998. Panel Participant, "United Nations Day and the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights," Sponsored by the UN Association, Northeast Chapter, Storrs, October 24.
1997. Speaker, Josiah Charles Trent Speaker Series in International Law and Institutions, Duke University, February 28. Title of Talk: "Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables."
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
2021 Panel Chair, Discussant and participant, International Studies Association, Virtual Annual Meeting, April 6-9. "New Directions in Neoclassical Realism Research: World Order, State Foreign policy, and Contending Forces in World Politics."
2020 Panel Chair and participant on 2 panels, International Studies Association Northeast, Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference due to COVID Pandemic, November 5-6. “International Relations Theory and the COVID19 Global Pandemic” (Chair, participant); “Bringing Our Whole Selves (or “selves”) to the Classroom” (participant).
2019 Panel Chair and discussant, American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November 7-10. “Fascism and Ethnonationalism.”
2019 Panel Chair, participant and discussant on 4 panels, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 27-30. “Re-Envisioning International Relations: Toward a Social Evolutionary IR” (Discussant), “Regional Studies, Organizations and Regime Types Poster Session” (Discussant), “New Directions in Realism” (Chair), “Journeys Through Teaching World Politics” (Participant).
2018 Panel participant and discussant in 3 panels, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 3-7. “Pedagogy Shark Tank: Workshopping Techniques of Effective IR Teaching” (Participant), “Neoclassical Realism Reconsidered: Theoretical Innovations” (Discussant), “Journeys in Undergraduate Teaching: Finding and Owning Your Pedagogy” (Participant).
2017 Co-Presenter with Lucas Bladen, “Stigmatized: A Study of Refugee and Economic Migrant Integration in French Politics and Culture,” New England Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, April 21-22,
2017 Panel Chair and participant in seven panels, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February 21-25. “Honoring Yale H. Ferguson & Richard W. Mansbach” (Participant), “The Academy as a Hostile Work Environment” (Chair), “IR in the Prison of Political Science” (Participant), “The History of IR Theory” (Participant), “What’s the Point of IR?” (Participant), “Plenary Session: Best Practices, Recommendations and Strategies to Transform ISA’s Professional Culture(s)” (Participant), “Power and Peace: Systemic Constraints and Domestic Conditions for Peaceful Change” (Participant).
2016 Panel Chair and participant in three panels, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, March 16-19. “International Regimes: Constrainer or Enabler?” (Chair). “Politics of Global Economy,” (co-Discussant). Junior Scholar Symposium’s “Probing IR Theory” panel (Discussant & Mentor, sponsored by ISA).
2015 Panel Chair and participant in five panels, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 17-21. “Advances in Thinking About Realism” (Chair). “Author Meets Critics: Barry Buzan and George Lawson, The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2015” (Participant). “Global Governance, Drivers of Change: States and Their Agents.” “Post-Tenure Mentoring for Women Roundtable.” “Professional Development Café” (sponsored by ISA).
2014 Participant in two Roundtables and a two-day funded Workshop, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 24-28. “Women’s Leadership in ISA: Experience and Advice,” “Professional Development Café: Journal Publishing.” “Philosophy and Inquiry in International Relations”
2013 Participant on two International Studies Association Innovative Panels, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 3-6. “Why Theories of IR Need Theories of Foreign Policy” and “Mapping the Universe of IR Theories.”
2012. Roundtable Participant, Joint BISA-ISA International Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 20-22. “Diversity in IR Theory: Liberalism.”
2012. Roundtable Chair, Workshop Roundtable Participant, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 1-4. Roundtable Chair, “Ask the ISA Editors Roundtable: Everything You Need to Know About Publishing in ISA Journals.” Workshop Roundtable Participant, “Human Nature, Agency and Beyond: The Individual in International Relations.”
2011. Roundtable Chair, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 16-19. “ISA Journal Editors Roundtable: Everything You Want to Know About Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask.”
2010. Presenter, 7th Pan-European International Relations Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 9-11 September. “One Hell of an Act: US Patriotism and the March to War After 9/11”
2010. Roundtable Participant, Chair, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 17-20. Roundtable Participant, “Roundtable on Vincent Pouliot’s ‘International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy.’” Chair, “Making Sense of International Relations Theory I: Iraq” and “Making Sense of International Relations Theory II: Iraq.”
2009. Roundtable Participant, Presenter, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, New York City, February 15-18. Roundtable Participant, “ISA Journal Editors Roundtable: Everything You Want to Know About Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask.” Presenter, “American Empire and the Practice of Academic Self-Delusion.”
2008 Roundtable Chair, Presenter, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 26-29. Chair for the Roundtable, “ISA Journal Editors Discuss the Publication Process.” Presenter, “That’s One Hell of an Act: The Aristocrats and Patriotic Subversion After 9/11” (co-author Brian Folker).
2007. Chair, Discussant, Presenter, Pan-European International Relations Conference, Turin, Italy, September 12- 15. Chair and Discussant Presenter for Panel, “Historical Sociology.” Presenter, “Violence and Liberal Universalism: The Work of Joseph Fawcett as a Harbinger of Hegelian Understandings of History,” co- author Brian Folker.
2007. Roundtable Participant, Presenter, Chair, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, February 28-March 3. Participant in “Roundtable on Empire.” Presenter, “Realist Theorizing as Tradition: Forward is as Forward Does.” Participant in “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: ISA Editors’ Discussion of the Peer-Reviewed Publication Process.” Chair for the Panel, “The Emergence of the Institutions of International Society: Great Powers.”
2006. Roundtable Participant, Chair, Discussant, International Studies Association Northeast, Annual Meeting, November 8-11, Boston, Massachusetts. Participant in “Roundtable on International Relations: The State of the Discipline,” Chair and Discussant for Panel, “Popular Culture, Identities, and Public Narration.”
2006. Presenter, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 30-September 3, 2006. “Neoclassical Realism: The Third Image Reversed.”
2006. Chair, Discussant, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 22- 25, 2006. Chair and Discussant for Panel: "Regional Differentiation in Threat Perception: Sociological Origins of Threat Perception the US, China and South-east Asia." Chair for the Panel, "Constructing Ethics in IR Theory Along the Liberal/Postmodern Divide."
2005. Participant, Conference on "Early Modern Terrorism: Atrocity and Political Violence, 1500-1700," Organizers: Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, November 5-6, 2005, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England.
2005. Discussant, International Studies Association Northeast, Annual Meeting, November 18-19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Discussant for Panel " Constructing Ethics in IR Theory."
2005. Presenter, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, March 1-5. Presenter, “The Ethical Dilemmas of Doing Realism.”
2004. Roundtable Participant, Discussant, Northeast International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, November 11-13, Boston, Massachusetts. Participant in “Roundtable on Ethics in IR.” Discussant for Panel, “Social Constructivism and Norms”
2004. Presenter, Discussant, Fifth Pan-European Meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and its Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR), the Hague, the Netherlands, September 9-11, 2004. Presenter, "Organizing the Inter-National: Neoclassical Realism and the Third Image Reversed." Discussant for panel, “From International Relations to Global Politics: An Evolving Field III”
2003. Discussant, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 28-31. Discussant for Panel, "History and Knowledge in the Westphalian System."
2003 Presenter, Chair, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, February 25-March 1. Presenter, "Realist Global Governance: Revisiting Cave! Hic Dragones and Beyond." Chair and Organizer of the Panel, "Making Sense of IR Theory."
2002. Presenter, Chair, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 23-27. Presenter, "Crisis in the Discipline: International Relations and the Sociology of Knowledge Problem." Chair and Organizer of the Panel, "Describing an Elephant with IR Theory: The Post-Cold War Balkans From Different Theoretical Perspectives."
2001. Presenter, Chair, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 20-24. Presenter, "Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading." Chair of the Roundtable, "Taking Up the Challenge of Craig Murphy's Presidential Address: An Interactive Workshop on Teaching Undergraduate International Studies"
2000. Presenter, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 15-19. "Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared."
1999. Presenter, Association of Politics and Life Sciences, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 2-4. "Theories of International Relations and Evolutionary Biology: Parallels, Problems, and Prospects"
1999. Presenter, Chair, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 2-4. Presenter, "Realism and a Communitarian European Identity." Chair of the panel, "The Empirical Payoff of Identity Research."
1999. Presenter, Discussant International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 16- 20. Presented "Realism and a Communitarian European Identity." Discussant for Panel, "Constructivist Approaches to the Study of International Relations"
1997. Participant in Roundtable on After the End (edited volume, under publications), American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 28-31.
1997. Presenter, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 18-22. "Cooperation is Not Enlightened Self-Interest: A Realist Explanation for the Immutability of Domestic Interests and International Cooperation."
1996. Discussant, New England Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine, May 3-4. Panel, "European Defense Issues."
1996. Presenter, Chair, Discussant, International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, April 16-20. Presenter, "Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables." Chair and Discussant for panel, "Social Movements, Transitional NGOs, and IOs: A Regional Assessment." Chair for panel, "Spaces and Displacements in the Post-Cold War Organization of International Affairs." Chair for panel, "Reassessing Realism."
1996. Presenter, Chair International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14-16. Presented, "Is Cooperation Enlightened Self-Interest or Realist Balance of Threat in the Domestic Realm?" Presented, "Why a Communitarian European Identity Cannot Be Built: A View From the Realist Trenches." Chair for panel, "Realist Explanations for International Cooperation."
1995. Presenter, New England Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine, May 5-6. "The Study of International Cooperation is What IR Scholars Have Made of It."
1995. Discussant, International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Newark, New Jersey, November 9-10. Panel, "Policy Challenges in the Changing International System"
1994. Discussant, International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, November 10-12. Panel entitled, "Conflict Processes: Rationality, Irrationality, and Balance."
1992. Presenter, Northeast International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, November 12-14. "Bureaucrats, Cooperation, and the 1985 Plaza Accord." Received the Frederick Hartmann Award for best graduate student paper at the Conference.
1991. Presenter, European Community Studies Association, Biennial Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May 22-24. "Domestic Bureaucracies and International Organizations: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany in the European Communities."
COURSES TAUGHT AND OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1994- Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut (Fall to Present). Proseminar in IR Theory (graduate); Foreign Policy Analysis (graduate); Nature of Political Inquiry (graduate); International Political Economy (graduate); International Organization and Law (graduate and undergraduate); Honors Core Excavating the Everyday in IR (honors undergraduate); Senior Seminar (honors undergraduate); Senior Thesis (honors undergraduate); Theories of International Relations (undergraduate); Security and Human Rights in the Former Yugoslavia (graduate and undergraduate); The EU the Post-Cold War Era (graduate and undergraduate); Introduction to International Relations (undergraduate); Nationalism and World Order (undergraduate).
1993-94 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts (Fall to Spring). IR Theory in the Post-Cold War Era; Government and Politics in Japan American Foreign Policy; Introduction to Research Methods.
1993 Lecturer, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (Spring). Government and Politics in Japan
1993 Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Spring). International Relations.
1993 Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, Manchester campus (Spring). American Foreign Policy.
1984-86 Social Studies Teacher, Sacred Heart High School, Kingston, Massachusetts (Fall to Spring). American Government; Methods of Historical Research
ACADEMIC HONORS
2019 2019 Honors Program Faculty Member of the Year, University Honors Program, University of Connecticut
2017 Alumni Association Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award at the Undergraduate Level, University of Connecticut
2011 Alumni Association Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award at the Graduate Level, University of Connecticut
2007 Nominated for the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, University of Connecticut
1996 Honorary Faculty Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, University of Connecticut
1995 Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut Research Foundation
1992 Frederick Hartmann Award for best graduate student paper presented at the International Studies Association--Northeast, Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, November 12-14
1991-92 Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago dissertation fellowship, full tuition and living stipend.
1990-91 Margaret Yardley Fellowship, partial tuition, awarded by the NJ State Federation of Women's Clubs, University of Chicago.
1989-90 MacArthur Scholarship, full tuition and living stipend, awarded by the Council for Advanced Studies on Peace and International Cooperation, University of Chicago.
1986-89. Century Scholarship for full tuition and living stipend, University of Chicago.
1983 Phi Beta Kappa, University of New Hampshire.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2021 Participant, “Critical Thinking Activities and Assignments,” Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, April 5.
2021 Participant, “Webex Advanced Features (Webinar),” Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, January 11.
2021 Participant, “Managing and Facilitating Your Online Course (Webinar),” Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, January 6.
2020 Participant, “Developing & Facilitating Online Discussions Webinar,” Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, August 24
2019 Participant, “Mixing It Up: Adding Variety to your Classroom Instruction,” Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, January 23.
2013 Participant, “Adding Instructional Design Basics to Your Tool Box,” Lunchtime Seminar, Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Institute of Teaching and Learning, February 10.
2013 Participant, “Responding to Student Writing: Are There Better Ways to Grade,” Lunchtime Seminar, Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Institute of Teaching and Learning, February 7
2012 Participant, “Why Faculty Fail in the Classroom,” Lunchtime Seminar, Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Institute of Teaching and Learning, October 1.
2011 Participant, “Teaching with Technology Options for Writing Courses,” Brown Bag Seminar, Sponsored by the University of Connecticut, Institute of Teaching and Learning, January 26.
2010 Participant, “Winter Teaching Institute: Inclusive Teaching,” Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Institute of Teaching and Learning, January 16.
2009 Participant, “Public Speaking in the Large Class” Tutorial, Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Institute of Learning, May 18-22.
DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (MAJOR ADVISER)
Frank Griggs, “The Grapes of Development’s Aftermath: Climate Change, Displaced Persons, and Conflict.” April 2019. Assistant Professor, Stamford Campus, University of Connecticut.
Kelly Delaney, “Frames of Reference: Secularism, Religion, and Terrorism in the 21st Century.” April 2019. Assistant Professor, Community College of Rhode Island.
Joshua Stapel, “Protecting the Liberal International Order: The Institutionalized Cooperation among the United States, the European Union, and Canada and the Organizational Development of IGOs.” November 2017.
Melanie Meinzer, “Agents of Change? Critical IR, Foreign Aid and Political Consciousness in Palestinian Education.” July 2017. Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College, Minnesota,
Jason Charrette. “A Difference that Makes a Difference: The Role of the United States in World Society,” August 2016. Assistant Professor, Casper College, Wyoming.
Kevin Generous. “Procuring Swords for Plowshares: Congressional Use of Strategic Weapons Acquisition to Influence U.S. Arms Control Negotiations.” February 2016. Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eastern Connecticut State University, Connecticut.
Dina Badie. ““Strategies for Survival: The US-GCC Security Alliance and the Political Economy of Oil,” June 2012. Assistant Professor, Centre College, Kentucky
Chaka Uzondu. “The Imperial Relations of Food: Food Sovereignty and Self-Determination in World Politics.” May 2010. IHRE International Human Rights Exchange, New York.
Robert Bosco. “Moderating Islam: Security, Religion, and the Western State,” April 2010. Assistant Professor, Centre College, Kentucky.
Craig Albert. “The Identity/Violence Nexus: Measuring the Relationship Between Ethnic Group Identity and Intensity of Violence in Contentious Political Arenas,” December 2009. Assistant Professor, Augusta University, Georgia.
Jason Rich. “Coercion and Compellance: Systemic and Contextual Constraints,” November 2009. Affiliated Faculty, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech, Georgia.
Scott Creamer. “Assessing Offense-Defense Theory: A Structural Explanation for Intrastate War and Ethnic Conflict,” June 2009. Professor, Valencia College, Florida.
Derick Becker. “South Africa’s Neoliberal Turn: The Localization, Adaptation, and Evolution of International Ideas,” October 2008. Assistant Professor, Sarajevo University, Bosnia-Herzegovenia.
Michele L. Crumley. “The Internationalization of Russian Agriculture: Institutional Reforms and Domestic Constraints, 1972-2002,” November 2005. Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University, Tennessee.
Rosemary E. Shinko. “Deconstructing Sovereignty: The Underlying Liberal Narrative,” July 2005. Professional Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC.
Jiyoung Chin. “Domestic Institutional Choices: A Comparative Analysis of Trade Liberalization in OECD Countries,” May 2005. Biostatistician, Cegedim Strategic Data, New Jersey.
Neal Edison Coates, "Making Waves: The Bush and Clinton Administrations and the Law of the Sea," June 2004. Professor, Abilene Christian University, Texas.
John Walko, "The Efficient Realist: Technology as a Systemic Factor in the Interwar Balance and Wartime Preparedness of the United States," February 2003.
Murat Arik, "Security, Trade and Externalities: Explaining Change in Turkish Foreign Policy Behavior (1977- 1997), December 2001. Associate Director, Business and Economic Research Center, Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORING (MAJOR ADVISER)
Susan Naseri (2017-18), Leadership Legacy Experience, Faculty Mentor
Lorenzo Dahdal (2017-18) POLS Honors Thesis, “The Syrian Chess Game: USA, Russian, Saudi Arabian and Iranian Intervention in the Syrian Civil War.”
Susan Naseri (2017), Holster Scholar, “Respecting Refugees: An Evaluation of Refugee Integration Practices by Connecticut Service Providers.”
Lucas Bladen (2016-17), IDEA Grant, “No Place Like Home: A Study of North African Refugee and Immigrant Integration in French Politics and Culture.”
Lucas Bladen (2016), SHARE Award, “Realism, Refugees, and Global Governance.”
Lauren Davis (2015-16), POLS Honors Thesis, “Roma Reproductive Rights and the Case for Implementation: A Comparative Analysis of Rights Realization.”
Lucas Bladen (2015), Bennett Research Assistant, “Realism, Refugees, and Global Governance.”
Ashley Palma (2013-14), POLS Honors Thesis, “Dodge, Duck, Elude, and Eschew: Fluctuations in American Public Opinion Regarding Intervention in Darfur, Libya, and Syria.”
Robyn Caron (2013-14), POLS Honors Thesis, “Sprechen Sie Englisch? How English-German Bilingualism is Reshaping German National Identity.” Awarded “2014 Bennett Honors Thesis Writing Prize”; honorable mention for UConn’s 2014 “Aetna Writing Across the Disciplines Award.”
Garrett Rapsilber (2012-13) POLS Honors Thesis, “Banking on a Rescue: IMF Loan Size and its Relationship with US and Money-Center Bank Interests.”
Jason Labelle (2012-13), POLS Honors Thesis, “Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect”
Michael Malinics (2011-12), IMJR Capstone Project, “American Mediation in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict: A look at American Diplomatic efforts from 1990—present
Benjamin Smithwick (2010-11) POLS Honors Thesis, “Experts of Advocates: The Rise of Ideological Think Tanks and the Politics of Policy Analysis.”
Michael Brown (2007-08) POLS Honors Thesis, “Following the Angry Leader? Elite Criticism of the United States and it's Effect on Levels of Anti-Americanism”
Andrea Piascik (2006-07) POLS Honors Thesis, “Comparing Cancer Outcomes across Industrialized Nations: Accounting for the Differences”
Holgie Choi (2001-02) POLS University Scholar, “To Finally End Cold War Politics: The Effects of the Korean Reunification Process on Korea and the International Community's Response to it”
ACADEMIC SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
2018-2019 Member, Advisory Committee, Department of Political Science
2018 Participant, PSGA Panel on Successful Academic Publishing, Department of Political Science.
2018 Ad Hoc Proposal Reviewer, UConn IDEA Grant Proposal, Office of Undergraduate Research
2017 Member, CLAS Excellence in Research Awards Committee, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
2017 Guest Facilitator, Honors Adviser Update Session, UConn Honors Program
2016 Guest Facilitator, Honors Lunch Bunch, UConn Honors Program
2016 Member, IR Faculty Search Committee, Department of Political Science
2016 Member, Hiring Committee, Program Advisor Position, Department of Political Science
2016-2017 Co-Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Political Science
2015-2016 Member, PTR Procedures and Reform Committee, Department of Political Science
2015 Member, IR Faculty Search Committee, Department of Political Science
2015 Member, Honors Speaker Selection Committee, UConn Honors Program
2015 Member, Hiring Committee, Program Coordinator Position, UConn Honors Program
2013-present Endowed Professor and POLS Honors Director, Alan R. Bennett Honors Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
2013-present Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science
2013-2014 Field Chair, International Relations, Department of Political Science
2011-2013 Co-Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Political Science
2009-2011 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Political Science
2008-2010 Field Chair, International Relations, Department of Political Science
2008-2010 Member, Advisory Committee, Department of Political Science
2007-2008 Member, Head Search Committee, Department of Political Science
2006-2007 Member, Rhodes/Marshall Scholarship Faculty Committee, Office of National Scholarships, University Office for Undergraduate Education.
2006 Member, People's Bank Internship Selection Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2005-2017 Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Political Science
2005-2009 Member, Colloquium Committee, Department of Political Science
2005-2007 Faculty Adviser, Albanian Student Organization, Student Activities
2005. Member, Dismissal Appeal Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2004-2007 Member, Advisory Committee, Department of Political Science
2004-2005 Member, Honors Curriculum, Task Force, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2003-2004 Member, Head Search Committee, Department of Political Science
2002-2009 Member, Steering Committee for IR Major, Individualized Major Program
2002-2003 Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Department of Political Science
2002-2007 Member, Curriculums Committee, Department of Political Science
2002-2007 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Department of Political Science
2002-2003 Teaching Mentor, Department of Political Science
2002-2003 Member, International Security Position Search Committee, Department of Political Science
1999-2006 Member, Steering Committee, European Studies Program
1997-2000 Member, Chancellor's Library Advisory Committee
1995-1999 Coordinator, Transfer Admissions for Study Abroad Students, Department of Political Science.
1995-1997 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Political Science
1995-2001 Faculty Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honor Society, Department of Political Science
1994-1995 Member, African-American Political Economy Position Search Committee, Department of Political Science
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE
2019 to present Member, International Advisory Board, Bristol Studies in International Theory Series., University of Bristol Press, editors Felix Berenskötter, Neta Crawford and Stefano Guzzini.
2017-19 Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, International Studies Association
2017-18 Vice President, International Studies Association
2016-present Member and Reviewer, Advisory Board, Handbook of History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations, SAGE Press, editors Andreas Gofas, Nick Onuf, and Inanna Hamati-Ataya
2015-present Member, International Advisory Board, International Relations
2013-present Member, Editorial Board, International Studies Review
2011-2012 Member, Editorial Board, International Interactions
2011-2016 Co-Editor, Review of International Studies
2010-2013 Series Editor, Dilemmas of World Politics, Westview Press
2009-2017 Member, British International Studies Association
2008-2012 Co-Editor, International Studies Review (co-edited with Mark Boyer)
2007-2012 Member, Editorial Board, Foreign Policy Analysis
2007-2012 Member, Editorial Board, International Studies Perspective
2006-2016 Member, Ex Officio & Elected, Publications Committee, International Studies Association
2006-2010 Editorial Board Member, International Studies Intensive Book Series, Rowan and Littlefield
2006 Member, Advisory Board, Millennium: Journal of International Studies.
2006 Member, Academic Program Review Team, Department of Political Science, University of Delaware, May 14-16, 2006.
2004-2013 Member, Editorial Board, International Studies Quarterly
2004-present Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of International Relations and Development
2003-2004 Member, Helen Dwight Reid Award Committee, American Political Science Association
2002-2005 Member, Nominating Committee, International Studies Association
2000-2004 Associate Editor, International Studies Perspective
2000-2006 Annual reviews for Grawemeyer Award for Improving World Order, University of St. Louis.
1995-1997 Board Member, Governing Council, International Studies Association--Northeast
1994-present Manuscript Reviews for American Political Science Review, Blackwell, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Journal of Political Science, European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Grawemeyer Award, Harcourt Brace, International Organization, International Politics, International Security, International Theory, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Review, Journal of Human Rights, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Politics, McGraw-Hill, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Palgrave Publishers, Perspectives on Politics, Review of International Studies, SAGE Handbook of History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations, Security Studies, Southeastern Political Review, Wadsworth Publishers, Westview Press.
1990-present Member, International Studies Association
1988-2010 Member, American Political Science Association
1988-1989 Resident Head, University of Chicago. Provided counseling and activities for Blackstone Hall, an undergraduate resident hall of 80 students.
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2009-2011 Chair, Ashford Board of Education, Ashford, CT
2007-2011 Elected Member, Ashford Board of Education, Ashford, CT
2006-2011 Member, Parent-Teacher Organization, Ashford, CT
2006-present Member, Ashford Historical Society, Ashford, CT
2006-present Member, Democratic Town Committee, Ashford, CT
2006-2007 Chair, Concerned Ashford Residents for Education, Ashford, CT.
2005 Press Coordinator, Ashford Concerned Taxpayers, A non-partisan political action committee devoted to Ashford’s future, Ashford, CT.
2005-2006 Member, Unitarian Fellowship of Storrs, CT.
2002-2006 Member, Nominating Committee for the Board of the Star Island Corporation, Portsmouth, NH.
1990-1991 Editorial Consultant, Electronic Data Publishing, Brooklyn, New York.
1989-1991 Freelance Writer, Editorial Consultant, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois.
1986-2009 Elected Member, Star Island Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1984-1986 Registrar, Star Island Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1080-1993 Past Chair, Steering Committee Member, Conference Registrar, Young Adults Weekend Conference, Star Island Summer Conference Center, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
CONTACTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Dr. David Yalof. Chair, Department of Political Science, (860) 486-2440, [email protected] Dr. Mark Boyer. Executive Director, International Studies Association, (860) 486-3156, [email protected]
OTHER REFERENCES Dr. Annette Freyberg-Inan. [email protected] University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences Dr. Kimberly Hutchings. [email protected] University of London, School of Politics and International Relations