Name: ALPEROVITZ Gar
Bio:(Ph.D., Cambridge University, UK, 1964; Professor), Political-economic theory, particularly systems theories and related issues of insitutional design involving equity and ecological implications; comprehensive policy regimes appropriate to the era of globalization; special attention to community stabilization strategies; the history and future of nuclear weapons; long-term arms control and disarmament strategies.
Email: GAR@bss2.umd.edu

Name: BUTTERWORTH Charles
Bio: (Ph.D., Chicago,1966; Professor), Political Philosophy, Law and Society. Research interests include the history of political philosophy, especially in the classical Greek, medieval Islamic and Enlightenment periods, the political novel and short story as they relate to the Israeli-Palestinian dilemma.
Awards: 1990-1991 UMCP Distinguished Scholar-Teacher award
Email: CEBWORTH@bss2.umd.edu

Name: CONCA Ken
Bio: (University of California, Berkeley, 1990; Assistant Professor), International Relations, Third World Politics, Latin American Politics, Environmental Politics. Research interests include the relationship between national sovereignty and ecological interdependence, environmental conflict and cooperation, democratization in Latin America, the impact of social movements in world politics, and global bargaining on North-South issues.
Email: KCONCA@bss2.umd.edu

Name: DAVIDSON Roger
Bio: (Ph.D., Columbia 1963; Professor),American Politics, Congress, the Presidency, and National Policy Making. Research interests include leadership, structural, and work-load changes in the "post-reform" Congress.
EmailRDAVIDSO@bss2.umd.edu

Name: DAVIES John
Bio: (Ph.D. Maharishi International University, 1988; Assistant Research Scientist),American Politics, Congress, the Presidency, and National Policy Making. Research interests include leadership, structural, and work-load changes in the "post-reform" Congress.
EmailJDAVIES@bss2.umd.edu
Awards: 1995-1996 Teaching Excellence Award
1994-1995 Ronald E. McNair Outstanding Mentor Award (twice)

Name: DAWISHA Karen
Bio: (Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1975; Professor), Soviet Foreign Policy, Soviet Domestic Policy; Eastern Europe. Research interests include Soviet Third World relations and U.S.-Soviet relations.
Email: KDAWISHA@bss2.umd.edu

Name: ELKIN Stephen L.
Bio: (Ph.D., Harvard,1969; Professor), Political Economy, Political Theory, Policy Analysis, American Politics. Research interests include a theory of the American regime based on an interpretation of State-market relations, a critique of economic rationality and a theory of political rationality, and constitutional theory.
Awards: 1992 Best Teacher Award, Government Graduate Students Association
Email: SELKIN@bss2.umd.edu

Name: FRANDA M.
Bio: (Ph.D., Chicago, 1966; Professor), Policy Analysis, Political Economy, Comparative Politics. Research interests include the impact of Japanese-American relations on the domestic politics of the two countries, a study of the relationship between Thai politics and Thai developmental strategies, and the policy dynamics of the democratization processes in Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Email: MFRANDA@bss2.umd.edu

Name: GIMPEL James
Bio: (Ph.D., Chicago, 1990; Associate Professor), American Voting Behavior, Campaigns and Elections, State Politics, Congress, American Political Development, Public Policy Implementation, Quantitative Methods. Research interests include American politics, voting behavior, public opinion, quantitative methodology and the relationship between state and national political trends.
Email: JGIMPEL@bss2.umd.edu

Name: GLASS James
Bio:(Ph.D., Berkeley, 1970; Professor), Political Philosophy and Theory, Political Psychology. Research interests include the psychiatry of political life, the psychodynamic interpretive structures of groups, the political implications of internal mental states, and the relations between psychodynamic interpretive structures and bureaucracies.
Email: JGLASS@bss2.umd.edu

Name: GRABER Mark
Bio: (Ph.D., Yale, 1988; J. D. Columbia, 1981; Associate Professor), Public Law, Constitutionalism, American Political Development and Political Thought, Political Theory. Research interests include the political history, theory and practice of judicial review, the economic prerequisites of civil liberties, American legal thought, the constitutional status of the law in action (with particular reference to abortion), and the nature of constitutional thinking in divided societies.
Email: MGRABER@bss2.umd.edu

Name: GURR Ted Robert
Bio: (Ph.D., New York University, 1965; Professor), Comparative Politics, Conflict Analysis, Ethnicity, Theory of the State. Research interests include a global study of minorities' rights and involvement in conflict, the dynamics of the growth of the state in western societies since 1800, and the sources and consequences of coercion by the state.
Email: TGURR@bss2.umd.edu

Name: HAUFLER Virginia Ann
Bio: (Ph.D., Cornell, 1990; Associate Professor), International Political Economy, International Relations, International Organization. Research interests include the politics of global finance; the effectiveness of international institutions; political risk; and the political economy of multinational corporations.
Awards: 1991 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
1991 Panhellenic Council Outstanding Teacher Award
Email: VHAUFLER@bss2.umd.edu

Name: HEISLER Martin
Bio: (Ph.D., UCLA 1969; Professor), Fields of teaching and research interests are in Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Sociology. Current research deals with the peaceful management of ethnic relations, domestic and international aspects of migration, comparative security studies, and the transformations of modern states and the international system.
Email: MHEISLER@bss2.umd.edu

Name: HERRNSON Paul S .
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Bio: (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1986; Professor), American Politics, Political Parties, Legislative Process, Interest groups. Research interests include party organizational development, campaign finance, election campaigns, and party activity in Congress.
Awards: BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
UMCP Excellence in Teaching Award
Panhellenic Council Outstanding Teacher Award
Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship
Pi Sigma Alpha Outstanding Faculty Award
Email: PHERRN@bss2.umd.edu

Name: JOHNSON Ollie
Bio: (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1993; Assistant Professor), Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Comparative Racial and Ethnic Politics. Research interests include party politics and regime change in Latin America, Black politics in the Americas, and comparative analysis of the question of power.
Awards: 1997 BSOS Teaching Mentoring Award.
Email: OJOHNSON@bss2.umd.edu

Name: KAMINSKI Bartlomiej
Bio: (D.SC., Warsaw, 1972; Associate Professor), Political Economy, International Political Economy, International Relations. Research interests include politics and economics of post-communist societies, Western assistance programs to the post-communist countries, international trade theory and policy, and the role of state (central vs. local government) in post-communist societies.
Email: BKAMINSK@bss2.umd.edu

Name: KAUFMAN Edy
Bio: (Ph.D., Sorbonne, Paris, 1970; Visiting Associate Professor), International Relations, Comparative Politics with regional specialization in Latin America and Middle East. Main issue-area of teaching and research is Human Rights in World Politics. Other research interests include democratization in developing countries, military and politics, the relevance of democracy to peace, intra and inter-state conflict management.
Email: EKAUFMAN@bss2.umd.edu

Name: LALMAN David L.
Bio: (Ph.D., Rochester, 1985; Associate Professor), International Relations and Formal Theory. Research interests include decision theoretic and game theoretic explanations of international conflict and includes analyses of alliance behavior, crisis escalation and crisis resolution.
Email: DLALMAN@bss2.umd.edu

Name: MARANDO Vincent L.
Bio: (Ph.D., Michigan State, 1967; Professor), State and Local Government, Urban Politics, Metropolitan Administration, Federalism. Research interests include the effects of the termination of general revenue sharing on city government and a project on the changing nature of local government.
Email: VMARANDO@bss2.umd.edu

Name: MATTHES, Melissa
Bio: (Ph.D., UCSC, 1994; Assistant Professor), Feminist Political Theory; Ancient and modern Political Theory, Theories of Feminism. Research interests include history of political theory, sexual violence and political foundlings, cultural studies and representations of women in popular culture.
Email: MMATTHES@bss2.umd.edu

Name: MCINTOSH Wayne
Bio: (Ph.D.,Washington University, 1981; Associate Professor), American Government, Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, Judicial Politics, Courts and Public Policy, Public and Private Law, Political Inquiry and Methodology, Urban Politics. Research interests include mathematical modeling; law, society and politics.
Awards: 1990, 1996 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
1995-1996 CTE-Lilly Teaching Fellow
Email: MCINTOSH@bss2.umd.edu

Name: OPPENHEIMER Joe
Bio: (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971; Professor), Methods of Theory Construction and Formal Theory, American Politics. Research interests include coalitions, democratic processes, political participation, collective action (all in formal theory and political economy); substantive research on international organizations, distributive justice, environmental policy, and social welfare policies.
Awards: 1994 Honorary Member of National Golden Key Society
1996 Celebrated Teaching Award
1988 BSOS Award for Outstanding Teaching
Email: JOPPENHE@bss2.umd.edu

Name: PEARSON, Margaret M.
Bio: (Ph.D., Yale, 1986; Associate Professor), Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics (both foreign and domestic), International Political Economy. Research interst include interatction between economic reforms and political liberalization in China, democratization in socialist countries, and of China in the global economy.
Email: MPEARSON@bss2.umd.edu

Name: PHILLILPS Warren
Bio: (Ph.D., Hawaii, 1969; Professor),International Relations Theory, Development, Policy Planning and Foreign Policy, International Political Economy. Research interests include the relationship between political and economic strategies of development; the relevancy of certain problem solving strategies for various scenarios of conflicts in development (ethnicity, clan conflict, dependency, security and resource conflicts). Specific areas of interest include Egyptian debt reduction and North-South economic transformation.
Email: WPHILLIP@bss2.umd.edu

Name: PIPER Don C.
Bio: (Ph.D., Duke, 1961; Professor Emeritus), International Law, International Organization, International Relations. Research interests include rules of international law relating to foreign investment, international crimes, use of sanctions in international law, and the ethical and legal formulation of the rules of war.
Awards: 1996 Regents Award for Excellence in Teaching, Univ of Md.
1994-1995 CTE-Lilly Teaching Fellow
1982-1983 BSOS Teaching Excellence Award
Email: DPIPER@bss2.umd.edu

Name: PIRAGES Dennis
Bio: (Ph.D., Stanford, 1969; Professor), International Relations, Technology and Public Policy, International Political Economy, Environmental Studies. Research interests include development of an ecological theory of international relations, technology and the future of international politics, the social impact and management of new technologies and cross-national comparisons of societal performance.
Email: DPIRAGES@bss2.umd.edu

Name: QUESTER George
Bio:(Ph.D., Harvard, 1965; Professor), International Politics, Military Policy and Arms Control, American Foreign Policy. Research interests include international political complications caused by the trans-boundary flow of radio and television signals, the spread of nuclear weapons, Soviet and American doctrines of deterrence and nuclear war strategy, prospects for the conventional defense of NATO, prospects of female military service, the prevention or containment of terrorism.
Email: GQUESTER@bss2.umd.edu

Name: SCHREURS, Miranda A.
Bio: (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996; Assistant Professor), Japanese Domestic and Foreign Policy; Comparative Politics of Japan and Germany; Comparative Politics of Japan and Korea; Political Economy of Northeast Asia; Comparative Environmental Politics; Field Research Methods. Research interests include comparative national policy-making for international problems; Japan's and Germany's roles in international politics; East-Asian regime formation; and comparative politics approaches to the study of global environmental politics.
Awards: 1997 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
1996 University of Maryland Teaching Excellence Award
Email: MSCHREUR@bss2.umd.edu

Name: SOLTAN Karol
Bio:(Ph.D., Chicago, 1983; Associate Professor), Political Economy, Political Theory, Public Choice, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Law and Society, Public Policy. Research interests include the development of a "constitutionalist" theory of collective choice, with applications in the spheres of democratic theory; theory of bargaining and game theory; legislation and public law; and theories of justice.
Email: KSOLTAN@bss2.umd.edu

Name: STARKEY Brigid
Bio:(Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1991; Research Assistant Professor), International Relations, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Computer Simulation. Research interests include Middle East politics, international negotiation and conflict studies.
Email: BSTARKEY@bss2.umd.edu

Name: STONE Clarence N.
Bio: (Ph.D., Duke, 1963; Professor), Urban Policy and Politics, Power and Leadership, and Historical Approaches to Political Economy. Research interests include the possibilities of urban social reform, the nature of political leadership, and the comparative analysis of urban regimes.
Email: CSTONE@bss2.umd.edu

Name: SWISTAK Piotr
Bio:(Ph.D., Chicago, 1987; Associate Professor), Mathematical Models In Social Science, Formal Theory, Behavioral Decision Theory, Methodology and Philosophy of Social Sciences. Research interests include models of collective action, bounded rationality, and regulatory enforcement.
Awards: 1997 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
Email: PSWISTAK@bss2.umd.edu

Name: TELHAMI Shibley
Bio:(Ph.D., Univeristy of California at Berkeley, 1986; Associate Professor), Anwar Sadat Chair in Population, Development, and Peace. Research interests include: politics of the Middle East, ethnic conflict, and international bargaining.
Email:STELHAMI@bss2.umd.edu

Name: TERCHEK Ronald
Bio: (Ph.D., Maryland, 1965; Associate Professor), Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Political Participation. Research interests include the assumptions and axioms of liberalism, with special attention given to the nature and role of rationality, choice, participation, and distribution.
Awards: 1993-1994 CTE-Lilly Teaching Fellow
1992 Teaching Excellence Award, Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Studies
1989 Teaching Excellence Award, Government and Politics Graduate Students
1985 BSOS Teaching Excellence Award
1969 Excellence in Teaching Award, Board of Regents, Univ. of Md
Email: RTERCHEK@bss2.umd.edu

Name: TISMANEANU Vladimir
Bio:(Ph.D., Bucharest, 1980; Professor), Communist Political Systems, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, and Political Theory. Research interests include forms of political participation, democracy building, the dynamics of political parties in East-Central Europe, and the theoretical foundations of civil society.
Email: VTISMAN@bss2.umd.edu

Name: USLANER Eric
Bio: (Ph.D., Indiana, 1973; Professor), American Politics, Legislative Politics, the Politics of Energy Policy, Congressional Election, Political Parties, Mass-Elite Relationships, Methodology and Formal Theory. Research interests include how values and institutions affect decision-making and policy outcomes, the role of norms in Congressional behavior, decision-making in Congress, energy policy-making in the United States and Canada, Congressional elections, and electoral politics in the United States and Canada.
Email: EUSLANER@bss2.umd.edu

Name: VIETRI Lois
Bio: (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1981; Lecturer), American Political Institutions, Developmental Public Administration, Southeast Asia, and Curriculum Development. Research interests include the normalization process, systems approaches to problem solving, and the organizational development challenges in communist and post-communist societies.
Awards: 1995 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Mentorship Award
1995 Excellence in Teaching Award, Office for the Dean of Undergraduate Studies
1993 BSOS Excellence in Teaching Award
1993 Curriculum Development Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence.
1993 College Park Parents Association Teaching Award.
1991 Teaching Recognition, University College, Univ. of Md
Email: LVIETRI@bss2.umd.edu

Name: WALTERS Ronald
Bio: (Ph.D., American University , 1971; Professor), American Politics; Afircan American Studies.
Email: WALTERS@bss2.umd.edu

Name: WILKENFELD Jonathan
Bio:(Ph.D., Indiana, 1969; Professor and Chair), International Politics, Comparative Foreign Policy, International Conflict, International Crisis, Middle East, Computer Simulation, Global Modeling. Research interests include analysis of international crises in 20th Century, computer simulation in foreign policy and global issues, and experimental work on negotiations.
Awards: 1982-1983 Maryland Association for Higher Education Distinguished Program Award
1984 University of Maryland, Annual Honors Convocation
1994 Maryland Association for Higher Education Distinguished Program Award, Instructional Category
Email: JWILKENF@bss2.umd.edu

Name: WILLIAMS Linda
Bio:(Ph.D., Chicago, 1977; Associate Professor), American Politics, Public Policy, Political Economy. Research interests include race, class, gender and politics; press, politics, and public policy; the American welfare state; urban politics; and public opinion and elections.
Email: LWILLIAMS@bss2.umd.edu