Political Science Faculty

Angela Bos - Instructor in Political Science
(330) 263-2411/ abos@wooster.edu

B.A., M.A., Minnesota, 2001, 2005; Minnesota 2007.

Angela L. Bos is an assistant professor of political science at the College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 2007. Her areas of expertise include U.S. national government, political psychology, gender and politics, civic education, media politics, and research methods.

Before joining Wooster’s faculty, Bos earned her B.A. from the University of Minnesota – Morris and her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D (2007) from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

Bos has presented two papers on pedagogy in political science at the American Political Science Association’s Teaching and Learning Conference.  One was on the use of constitutional convention simulations in U.S. National Politics Courses and the other was on more effective ways to teach research methods to undergraduates. Both are being prepared for publication. She has also published articles relating to the effects of individualistic and collectivistic content of civics curricula on high school students’ notions of citizenship and their levels of political participation.

Michelle J. Camou - Assistant Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2459/ mcamou@wooster.edu

B.A. Bates 1993; M.A. Colorado 1999; Colorado 2005.

Michele Camou is an assistant professor of political science at The College of Wooster where she joined the faculty in 2005.

Camou received her B.A. from Bates College (1995), and M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2005) from Colorado College.

Frieda Fuchs - Assistant Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2257 / ffuchs@wooster.edu

B.A. Brandeis 1985; M.A. California, Los Angeles 1988; Ph.D. Harvard 2001.

Frieda Fuchs is an assistant professor of political science at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 2003. She specializes in comparative politics, the welfare state and industrial relations, the politics of art restitution, and politics of the developing world. In addition, she has researched gender and protective labor legislation.

Fuchs received her B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Brandeis University (1985), her M.A. from the University of California-Los Angeles (1988), and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (2001).

A member of the American Political Science Association and the Council for Europeanists, Fuchs received a Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a Travel Grant from the American Political Science Association. Her most recent article, The Effects of Labor Protection on Women’s Wages and Welfare, was published in the journal Politics and Society.

Kent Kille - Associate Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2456 / kkille@wooster.edu

B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1991; M.A., Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1995, 2000

Kent J. Kille is an associate professor in the department of political science and chair of the international relations program at The College of Wooster. He has teaching and research interests in international organization, political leadership, peace studies, national identity, and active learning.  

Kille earned his B.A. with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1991). He first taught at Wooster as a visiting instructor from 1998-1999 and rejoined the faculty in 2000 from The Ohio State University, where he earned his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000).

Recent publications have appeared in the journals International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Review and Political Psychology. He is an associate editor for the International Journal of Peace Studies and special editor of the Autumn/Winter 2004 issue of Putting the Peace Tools to Work: Essays in Honor of Chadwick F. Alger. He also serves on the editorial board of International Studies Review. His current research focuses on the UN Secretary-General, which includes the solo-authored book From Manager to Visionary: The Secretary-General of the United Nations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and the edited volume The UN Secretary-General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership (forthcoming Georgetown Press, 2007).

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Matthew Krain - Associate Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2469/ mkrain@wooster.edu

B.A. Binghamton University, 1992; Ph.D. Indiana University, 1998.

Matthew Krain is associate professor of political science and chair of the department at The College of Wooster, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1998. He earned his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1992) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University (1998).

Krain specializes in international relations, comparative politics, and political sociology. In particular, he studies large-scale political violence (repression, revolutions, civil wars, ethnic conflict, human rights violations, genocide), state transformation (democratization, post-conflict state building), international intervention, globalization of the international political economy, and active teaching and learning techniques.

Krain is the author of Repression and Accommodation in Post-Revolutionary States (2000, St. Martin's Press), and co-editor of Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century (2000, Indiana University Press). He has also contributed articles on large-scale political violence, international relations, and active teaching and learning to a number of scholarly journals. In addition, he has served as president of the Active Learning in International Affairs Section of the International Studies Association, and as a consultant on a variety of projects, including an evaluation of a government-sponsored early warning system for genocides and politicides.

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Jeffrey S. Lantis - Associate Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2408 / jlantis@wooster.edu

B.A. Bethany College 1988; M.A., Ph.D. Ohio State 1991, 1994.

Jeffrey S. Lantis is an associate professor of political science, where he has been a member of the faculty at The College of Wooster since 1994. He is a Fulbright Scholar and an expert on international relations, foreign policy analysis, and international security.  

Lantis received his B.A. from Bethany College, summa cum laude (1988), before earning his M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) from The Ohio State University.

The author of The Life and Death of International Agreements (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008), Strategic Dilemmas and the Evolution of German Foreign Policy Since Unification (2002), and Domestic Constraints and the Breakdown of International Agreements (1997), Lantis also edited and contributed to Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International Influences on State Behavior (2001) and The New International Studies Classroom: Active Teaching, Active Learning (2000). He is author of articles in International Security, Comparative Strategy, International Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, International Negotiation, PS: Political Science and Politics, International Studies Perspectives, and other journals and edited collections.

Lantis is a member of the International Studies Association and past president of the Active Learning in International Affairs section of the International Studies Association. He also has extensive field research experience in Australia, Europe and North America.

Eric Moskowitz - Associate Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2457 / emoskowitz@wooster.edu

B.A. Earlham 1968; M.A., Ph.D. Indiana 1974, 1979.

Eric Moskowitz is an associate professor of political science and co-director of the Leadership and Liberal Learning Program at The College of Wooster, where he joined the faculty in 1984. He specializes in American politics with a focus on decision-making processes for both foreign and domestic policy. He also teaches and does research in the fields of the presidency, leadership, public policy, urban politics and policy, educational policy, racial politics, and constitutional law (civil rights).

Moskowitz received his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Earlham College (1968). After a stint in the military, he went on to earn his M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) from Indiana University.

Moskowitz has been a regular contributor to scholarly journals and anthologies, including such articles as "Race, Class, and Politics: A Reconsideration of William J. Wilson's Interpretation of American Racial History" in the National Political Science Review, and "Pluralism, Elitism, and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act" in Political Science Quarterly. His most recent published works have dealt with presidential decision making on the U.S. wars in the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, and Iraq. He also is currently exploring federal and state policy making efforts to reform public education.

Boubacar N’Diaye - Associate Professor of Black Studies and Political Science
(330) 263-2409/ bndiaye@wooster.edu

Boubacar N'Diaye is an associate professor of Africana Studies and political science at The College of Wooster. He joined the faculty in 1999 and is an expert on civil-military relations and related security issues. His course offerings and scholarly works focus to comparative politics, democratization, the military in politics, security sector reforms in Africa, Pan-Africanism, and themes of interest to Africa and its Diaspora.

N'Diaye earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University (NIU) where he also taught African Studies. He is the author of The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control: Botswana, Ivory Coast, and Kenya in Comparative Perspective (Lexington Books, 2001). He also edited a special issue of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology on military involvement in West Africa (winter 2000), and is the co-author of Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).

N'Diaye also does consulting work for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the World Bank, and the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. In addition, he is involved in various academic and advocacy endeavors designed to transform security establishments and institutionalize democratic governance in the security sector of African states.

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Mark Weaver - Professor of Political Science
(330) 263-2416 / mweaver@wooster.edu

B.A. Ohio 1970; M.A., Ph.D. Massachusetts (Amherst) 1973, 1979.

Mark R. Weaver is a professor of political science at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1978. He teaches courses in political theory, environmental politics, civil liberties, and the theory and practice of law. He also coaches Wooster’s nationally recognized Moot Court Team and is the summer director of the Environmental Analysis and Action Program that provides an opportunity for faculty and students to collaborate on research on local environmental issues.

Weaver’s current research focuses on the formation and structure of grassroots watershed groups and the processes through which local stakeholders make decisions about resource use and conservation practices. For the past five years he has been working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center to address a series of environmental issues in the Sugar Creek Watershed.

He has authored and co-authored several papers on such topics as Machiavelli and contemporary models of leadership, the politics of place in Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry, and learning sustainable development with a farm community.

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