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Youngshik Bong's research interests include: territorial disputes in Asia, anti-Americanism and US-Korea alliance, reconciliation between North and South Korea. I have taught at a post-doctoral fellow at Wellesley College and Yonsei University (Korea) before coming here. He is an avid sports fan!

Chris Cook focuses on American foreign policy and humanitarian
intervention. His current interests involve American support for the intervention of other nations and international organizations to stop gross human rights abuses and dealing with complex human emergencies.

George T. (Sam) Crane

Professor

Sam Crane specializes in the politics of East Asia and international political economy. His current research explores the idea of economic nationalism.

Monique Deveaux
Associate Professor

Monique Deveaux concentrates in moral and political thought. Her current work deals with the ways that cultural group rights challenge the liberal norms of democratic states.

Ruth Groff specializes in political theory. Her focus is on the history of Western political thought and its relationship to other areas of concern within Western philosophy.

Robin Hayes
Bolin Fellow

Robin Hayes is currently completing a combined doctorate in African
American Studies and Political Science at Yale University with the help of a Bolin Fellowship. Her dissertation, "From African Independence to Black Power" examines the mechanisms of transnational exchanges between social movements in the African diaspora. She specializes in the fields of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Contemporary Theory and Comparative Politics."

Professor James's interests lie in critical race and gender theory and incarceration studies. Her current research examines: narratives by incarcerated writers, the Central Park Case and contemporary memory, African American women in national politics, 1964-2004.

Cathy Johnson analyzes American policy-making and implementation, especially as it applies to social policy. Her recent work has dealt with welfare reform and with the way that children are characterized and involved in legislative debate.

Marc Lynch
Associate Professor
(On leave Fall '05)

Marc Lynch works on international politics, with a specialty on the Middle East. His current research looks at sanctions on Iraq.

Michael MacDonald
Professor
(On leave 2005-2006 academic year)

Michael MacDonald works on extreme, revolutionary or violent, challenges to established states, and the prospects for democracy when such challenges are successful.

James E. Mahon, Jr.
Professor

Jim Mahon specializes in comparative political economy. He is now working on fiscal politics and the reform of the state in Latin America.

George E. Marcus
Professor
(On leave 2005-2006 academic year)

George Marcus works on political psychology, electoral behavior, public opinion, and theories of democracy and methodology.

James McAllister
Associate Professor

James McAllister focuses on ambiguity and opportunity, as well as constraint, in foreign policy. His current work examines American foreign policy during the Vietnam war.

Nicole Mellow concentrates in the field of American politics, with a
particular focus on American institutions. She is currently engaged in work on American political development.

Darel E. Paul
Assistant Professor

Darel Paul concentrates on international political economy and political geography. His current work focuses on scale and localism in global neo-liberalism.

Mark Reinhardt specializes in recent and contemporary political and cultural theory. He is currently working on slavery and freedom in 19th century America and on the politics of contemporary visual culture.

Cheryl Shanks concentrates on international politics, with a special interest in policies that maintain and recreate sovereignty. Her current research focuses on issue-specific territoriality in international law and policy.

Arun Swamy’s interests include ethnic politics, political economy,
democracy and democratization in developing countries, and the regional politics of South Asia. His current work deals with the relationship between competition over natural resources and violent ethnic conflict.

George Thomas specializes in American constitutional theory and development. His current work focuses on the Constitution as a framework of governance.

Alex Willingham works on policy, practices and theories concerning access and representation in the political system. This includes the pattern of responses to suffrage issues in U. S. political development, the prohibitions on racial discrimination under the 1965 Voting Rights Act and its amendments, and the implication for mature democracies of the reenergized voting reform debate at the turn of the 21st century.