Faculty & Staff
Katalin Fabian, Associate Professor
Special interests: earned her university diploma from the University of Economics in Budapest, Hungary. After finishing her studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, she obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She has held research positions at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center in Mt. Holyoke, MA and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Professor Fabian teaches international and comparative politics, focusing on European integration, international conflicts and their resolutions, and transnational social movements. Her research focuses on how women and their organizations participate in the new democracies of postcommunist countries. In 2004, she received the Student Government’s Superior Teaching Award. Her publications include: Globalization: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe (Elsevier, 2007); Contemporary Women’s Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
Kirby Hall 103
(610) 330-5392
fabiank@lafayette.edu
Homepage: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~fabiank/
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00– 5:30 p.m. (with the exception of every first Tuesday of the month), and by appointment.
John Kincaid, Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service
Ph.D., Temple University.
Special interests: federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state and local government.
Kirby Hall 001
(610) 330-5597
kincaidj@lafayette.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 a.m. and 2:30-3:15 p.m., and by appointment.
James E. Lennertz, Associate Professor
J.D., Harvard Law School, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Special interests: constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, United States politics, environmental law and politics.
Kirby Hall 208
(610) 330-5391
lennertj@lafayette.edu
Homepage: http:// ww2.lafayette.edu/~lennertj/home.html
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10:00-11:00 a.m., Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m.-noon, and by appointment.
John T. McCartney, Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa.
Special interests: Black politics and political thought; Latin America and the Caribbean; African politics. Leads study tour to Caribbean.
Kirby Hall 112
(610) 330-5394
mccartnj@lafayette.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 9:00-9:50 a.m., and by appointment.
Joshua I. Miller, ProfessorJosh Miller is a product of Chicago, the University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A), and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.). He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630-1789 (Penn State Press, 1991) and Democratic Temperament: the Legacy of William James (University of Kansas Press, 1997). His most recent article is “Conservative Democracy in [Sheldon Wolin’s] Politics and Vision,” Theory and Event ( 2007). He has long labored on a manuscript concerning “The Politics of Fashion” and teaches a senior seminar on that topic. Articles from the manuscript have appeared in Fashion Theory and Polity. In Spring 2010 he will offer a new seminar on Politics and Literature.
Kirby Hall 100
(610) 330-5402
millerj@lafayette.edu
Homepage: http://sites.lafayette.edu/millerj
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Monday, 2:45-4:00 p.m., Wednesday, 1:15-2:30 p.m., and by appointment.
Bruce Murphy, Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights
Ph.D., Univerity of Virginia.
Special interests: constitutional law, rights and liberties and judicial biography.
Kirby Hall 200
(610) 330-5395
murphyb@lafayette.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:45-2:45 p.m., and by appointment.
Seo-Hyun Park, Assistant Professor.Her research interests include international security, alliance politics, national identity politics, causes of war, the role of sovereignty in international relations, and East Asian politics. She teaches Introduction to International Politics, East Asian International Relations, Asian Security, and Global Conflict and Cooperation. Park received her Ph.D. from Cornell University (2009) and M.A. from the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (2001). Prior to coming to Lafayette, she taught at Stanford University and conducted research in Japan and Korea as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo and at Yonsei University. Park has been a recipient of the Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Mellon Fellowship, the Cornell University Einaudi Center’s Carpenter Fellowship, and most recently, research fellowships from the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University.
102 Kirby Hall
610-330-5412
parksh@lafayette.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Wednesday 10am-12pm and by appointment. (On temporary leave: September 15-December 1, 2009)
Ilan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and LawBA & MA, Tel-Aviv University, 1969 and 1971
MA & Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972 & 1974
Teaching interests: International Politics, Comparative Politics, Middle East politics, and American Foreign Policy.
Research interests : Ethnic Politics and Majority-Minority Relations, US Foreign Policy, and the Israeli Right. Peleg also serves as an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.
Kirby Hall 207
(610) 330-5396
pelegi@lafayette.edu
Homepage: http://sites.lafayette.edu/pelegi
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:45-4:45 p.m., and by appointment.
Helena Silverstein, Professor and HeadB.A., University of Pennsylvania
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Washington
Special Interests: A specialist in law and society, Professor Silverstein teaches courses in constitutional law, law and social movements, and political theory. Her recent research has focused on laws mandating parental involvement in the abortion decisions of pregnant minors. She is author of Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors (NYU Press, 2007) and Unleashing Rights: Law Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement (University of Michigan Press, 1996).
Kirby Hall 101
(610) 330-5389
silversh@lafayette.edu
Homepage: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~silversh/
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1:00-5:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Elizabeth (Liz) Suhay, Assistant ProfessorB.A. History & Political Science, 1995 and Ph.D. Political Science, 2008 from the University of Michigan.
Special Interests: Political Behavior, especially Political Psychology, with a focus on American politics. Research interests include emotions & politics, group identity & prejudice, political values & ideology, authoritarianism, and biology & politics. Courses include Political Opinion & Participation in the U.S., Political Parties & Elections in the U.S., and Emotions & Politics.
Kirby Hall 111
(610)438-5062
suhaye@lafayette.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 p.m., and by appointment
Visiting Faculty
Angelika von Wahl, Visiting Associate Professor
B.A. Ludwig Maximilians University, M.A. and Ph.D. Free University of Berlin
Special Interests: Angelika von Wahl is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Law and is also teaching in the International Affairs Program. She studies comparative and international politics with an emphasis on public policy in post-industrial states, specifically the USA, Western Europe, and Japan. Her research focuses on two areas: 1. Welfare states and gender and 2. Global human right and reparations. She has published two monographs and numerous articles in journals such as West European Politics, Social Politics, and German Politics and Society. Her latest publication is “The Politics of Reparations: Why, When and How Democratic Governments Get Involved” in Historical Justice in International Perspective, Manfred Berg and Bernd Schäfer (eds.)(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2008). A number of publications on human rights and social policy are forthcoming. Professor von Wahl is on leave from San Francisco State University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations. She has also been Adjunct Associate Professor and German Academic Exchange Professor (DAAD) in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Fulbright Student in Political Science at Duke University.
Kirby Hall 110
(610) 330-5588
vonwahla@lafayette.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours: Mondays, 3:00-4:00 p.m., Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Part-Time Faculty
Leslie Muhlfelder, Adjunct Professor,Vice President for Human Resources and General Counsel.
J.D., Georgetown University.
Special interest: gender and the law.
Markle Hall 12
(610) 330-5060
muhlfell@lafayette.edu
Kirby Library
Ana Ramirez Luhrs
MLIS, Rutgers University, BA Political Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Reference librarian for the Government & Law Department and Skillman Library. Collection developer for International Affairs, Government & Law, and Spanish library collections.
Kirby Library
(610) 330-5398
luhrsa@lafayette.edu
Douglas Durrenberger
BA Political Science, Moravian College. Kirby Library Assistant for serials, technical services, and circulation desk support.
Kirby Library
(610) 330-5399
durrenbd@lafayette.edu
Staff
Terry A. Cooper, BA History, Lehigh University. Administrative Assistant, Meyner Center.
Kirby Hall 002
(610) 330-5598
coopert@lafayette.edu
Ruth Panovec, Secretary.
Kirby Hall 201
(610) 330-5390
panovecr@lafayette.edu