SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Political Science Faculty
Dr. Christopher R. Cook
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching and research interests include international relations and
American foreign policy, specifically US policy for humanitarian intervention
and UN peacekeeping. He is currently conducting research on the US role for UN
missions in Sierra Leone and the Congo .
Dr. John K. Gamble
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington
Teaching and research interests are international law, Canadian politics, the European Union, and comparative politics. Dr. Gamble is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and more than fifty articles. He received research grants from the Ford Foundation in 1991, 1994, and 1996. He has been active in the American Society of International Law, including being a vice president (2001-2003). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the Chinese Yearbook of International Law, the Michigan International Law Journal, and the German Yearbook of International Law.
Dr.
Zachary T. Irwin
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Penn State University
Teaching and research interests include comparative politics and political theory, as well as the politics of Southeastern Europe. Dr. Irwin has published in scholarly journals such as East European Quarterly, Problems of Communism, and the World Today. He has contributed many book chapters particularly concerning former Yugoslavia. He has held fellowships from the Wilson Center, as well as Fulbright and IREX grants.
Dr.
Celise Schneider
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Houston
Celise Schneider received her doctorate in 1997 with an area specialization in political theory, with special concentration on modernity and its critics. Her teaching and research interests include the political theories of Plato, Machiavelli, and Marx, and Comtemporary Political Ideologies. In addition to Introduction to American National Government, she also teaches Introduction to Political Theory, Comtemporary Political Ideologies, American Political Theory, and War in World Politics.
Dr.
Robert W. Speel
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Teaching and research interests include most aspects of American politics, including elections and voting behavior, state and urban politics, Congress and the Presidency, and public policy, as well as ethnic and racial politics and Canadian politics. Penn State University Press published his book, Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States, about the creation of the regional divide of Red States and Blue States in the United States. He currently continues to research the development of regional movements and regional voting behavior in the United States and often speaks with media sources and to community groups about political campaigns and issues.