Faculty and Staff
International Relations Department Faculty Members
Other Key Faculty
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Stephen Stamos, (Ph.D. Antioch) Professor Stamos teaches and does research in the following areas: international economics and finance, economic development, globalization, and energy and environmental economics. He is the author of six books: Economics: A Tool for Understanding Society; International Economics; The ABC’s of International Finance; International Economic Policy; Exploring the Global Economy; and Energy Economics. He is currently doing a research project and book on the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. Also, in the Dominican Republic, he is working with a young student from the community of Gualete in the Puerta Plata region. This book is titled, Voices of the Campo and will be co-authored with Ramon Ocaly Gonzales Rojas, who is currently living in the city of Santiago. Finally, he is working on a new book, Globalization in the 21st Century: A Challenge for Liberal Arts Education and Professional Practitioners. He is Presidential Professor at Bucknell and is a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is a member of the Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies programs. He is a founding member of the ILTM program and has taught in the program every year as a core faculty member. Prof. Stamos has a B.A. in Social Science from San Diego State University, and M.S. in Social and Applied Economics, from Wright State University, and a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Union Institute.
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Hilbourne Watson, (Ph.D. Howard) Hilbourne A. Watson is Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University. He has taught at Bucknell since 1994. He teaches the Modern World System (Foundation Seminar), Theories of International Relations, Seminar in International Relations: Global Restructuring (Capstone), Race, Nation-State & International Relations, and International Relations, Caribbean. He specializes in areas within international political economy, international relations, and political theory. Among his recent publications are "Global Finance: the Role and Status of the Caribbean" in The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean, edited by Ivelaw Griffith, 2000; "Global Neoliberalism, the Third Technological Revolution and Global 2000: A Perspective on Issues Affecting the Caribbean on the Eve of the 21st Century" in Contending with Destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century, edited by Kenneth Hall and Denis Benn, 2000; "Themes in Liberalism, Modernity, Marxism, Postmodernism and Beyond: An Interpretation and Critique of Brian Meeks’ Re-Reading the Black Jacobins; James, the Dialectic and the Revolutionary Conjuncture" in The New Caribbean Thought, edited by Brian Meeks and Folke Lindhal, 2001; "Errol Barrow (1920-1987): The Social Construction of Colonial and Post-colonial Charismatic Leadership in Barbados" in Caribbean Charisma: Reflections on Leadership, Legitimacy and Populist Politics, edited by Anton Allahar, 2001; "Globalization as Capitalism in the Age of Electronics: Issues of Popular Power, Culture, Revolution, and Globalization from Below" in Latin American Perspectives, Issue 127, Volume 29, Number 6, 2002, pp. 32-43; "Rethinking Colonial and Post-Colonial Themes in the State of Nature, the State, Nationalism, Culture, and Cultural Sovereignty in the Caribbean" in Sargasso; A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture 2002, 1 (May 2003): 45-84; "Globalization, Contemporary Liberal Imperialism and the Caribbean" in Governance in the Age of Globalization: Caribbean Perspectives. Edited by Kenneth O. Hall and Denis Benn, 2003; "The 'Shiprider Solution' and Post-Cold War Imperialism: beyond Ontologies of State/Sovereignty in the Caribbean," in Living at the Borderlines: Issues of Caribbean Sovereignty and Development, edited by Cynthia Barrow-Giles and Don Marshall, 2003; "The Globalization of the Discourse on Gender and its Impact on the Caribbean" in Linden Lewis, ed., Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture in the Caribbean, 2003; "Guyana, Jamaica and the Cold War Project: the Transformation of the British West Indian and CARICOM Labor Movements into Agents of Cold War Globalization," in Caribbean Labor and Politics: Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley, edited by Perry Mars and Alma H. Young, 2004; "Liberalism and Neo-liberal Capitalist Globalization: Contradictions of the Liberal Democratic State" GeoJournal, Vol. 60, No. 1, Spring 2004; "Caribbean Marxism after the Neoliberal and Linguistic Turns: A Critical Interpretation," in The CLR James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, Vol. 10, No. 1, Winter 2004. Professor Watson’s work in progress includes research for a biography on the first Prime Minister of Barbados, the late Errol Walton Barrow and projects on globalization.  |
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David M. Mitchell, (Ph.D. Syracuse)
Professor Mitchell is both a member of the International Relations Program and the Department of Political Science. He teaches and conducts research in the following areas: Comparative Foreign Policy, United States Foreign Policy, Decision Making, Introduction to International Relations, International Relations Theory, and Globalization. Professor Mitchell has published on the influence of international and domestic factors on individual decision making in the context of negotiations. He has also published on the implications of variations in presidential leadership style on the formulation of policy and the outcomes of the decision making process. This research finds that variations in choice of advisory structure and the degree of centralization exercised by the president impacts who is involved in the decision making process, the nature of deliberations, the ability of advisors to influence the process, and the way in which disagreements are resolved. The resulting process policy shapes the outcomes produced by the president and advisors Professor Mitchell is currently drawing on his research on US foreign policy in order to address a range of questions regarding foreign policy decision-making in India. He is particularly interested in identifying the leadership style of Indian prime ministers and how these differences have had implications for the conduct and direction of Indian foreign policy. Prof. Mitchell has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University.  |
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Emek Uçarer, (Ph.D. University of South Carolina) Her recent publications include “Justice and Home Affairs,” (2007, in European Union Politics, 2nd ed., Michelle Cini, editor); “Burden-Shirking, Burden-Shifting, and Burden-Sharing in the Emergent European Asylum Regime,” 2006 in International Politics; “The External Impact of European Integration: The Case of Immigration Policies,” (2004, with Sandra Lavenex in Cooperation and Conflict); Migration and the Externalities of European Integration (2003, co-edited with Sandra Lavenex), “Mobilizing Ethnic Conflict: Kurdish Separatism in Germany and the PKK” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2001) (co-authored with Alynna J. Lyon); “Managing Asylum and European Integration: Expanding Spheres of Exclusion?” International Studies Perspectives (2001); and (co-edited with Donald J. Puchala) Immigration into Western Societies: Problems and Policies (Pinter, 1997). Professor Uçarer is currently working on two projects. The first seeks to determine if, how, why, and in what ways NGOs can exert influence—broadly defined—in international organizations such as the European Union in the realm of migration. This project also explores how changes in the institutional setting of an institution impinge upon the conduct of IGO-NGO interactions. The second project documents multilateral European responses (through the European Union as well as other pertinent organizations) to trafficking in women. This project tracks the emergence of countertrafficking as a European concern and analyzes the policy responses that have resulted.
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Zhiqun Zhu, (Ph.D. University of South Carolina) Zhiqun Zhu teaches at both International Relations and Political Science Departments at Bucknell. He is also MacArthur Chair in East Asian Politics. Professor Zhu’s teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, East Asian political economy, US-East Asian relations, and international relations theory. Prof. Zhu is the author of US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace (Routledge, 2006) and Understanding East Asia’s Economic Miracles (The Association for Asian Studies, 2009), and editor of Global Studies: China (McGraw-Hill, 2009). In addition, he is working on a book about China’s new diplomacy as it searches for oil and other resources around the world. His research articles have appeared on Asian Perspective, Global Economic Review, Journal of International and Area Studies, Journal of Asia-Pacific Affairs, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Yale Journal of International Affairs, etc. Dr. Zhu has won several research fellowships including a visiting fellowship to the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore, a POSCO fellowship at the East-West Center in Hawaii, and a Korea Foundation/Freeman Foundation research fellowship to Korea. Professor Zhu is also a frequent commentator on Chinese and East Asian affairs and has been interviewed by a dozen media outlets including appearance on CNN. Before coming to Bucknell, he taught at University of Bridgeport, Hamilton College, University of South Carolina, and Shanghai International Studies University. He received a PhD in political science from University of South Carolina in 2003. In the early 1990s, he worked as the chief information assistant to the Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs at the American Consulate General in Shanghai.
Rosemary E. Shinko received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and her doctoral research focused on deconstructive approaches to the study of sovereignty. Dr. Shinko is a postmodern IR Theorist and she has published articles in the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, International Studies Perspectives, and Millennium, Journal of Intenational Studies. She has also authored several book chapters. Her most recent conference presentations include "Sustaining the Myth of our Humanity in the Midst of War", "Bodies of Evidence: Writing the Body of Terror" and "The Enduring Allure of Liberal Ideals". Current projects include work on an article on Sovereignty for the International Studies Association Compendium Project, and a paper on Postmodern Subjectivities in International Relations for presentation at the International Studies Association Annual Conference to be held in New York City in February 2009. She recently published an article "Agonistic Peace: A Postmodern Reading" in Millennium Journal of International Studies' special issue on Peace. She has brought a host of very innovative teaching strategies and active learning projects to her classes at Bucknell. Global governance students researched, wrote and produced a series of global governance newscasts which they also filmed. The human rights seminar class wrote and published 2 Human Rights Newsletters, organized two in class human rights film festivals, and created and enacted a performative art piece as part of their final research projects in human rights. International law students participated in a weekly series of legal simulations. Setudents had an opportunity to play various roles throughout the semester. Ethics in IR class members created a variety of aesthetic projects such as short films, poster collages, editorial essays, and original works of art in their efforts to open creative pathways for thinking about what ethics in international relations can be. Dr. Shinko is currently working on a mock presidential election to be held in conjunction with global res college symposium activities this fall. Students will organize, design, and conduct all of the mock election daypanels, demographic studies, and election activities. She has published on the issue of student engagement in the international relations classroom and is presently working on an article on performativity in the IR classroom which draws upon upon her teaching experiences here at Bucknell. |
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Richard Waller Richard Waller joined the History and IR faculty in 1989. His BA and Ph.D are from Cambridge and his MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Malawi, Virginia and North Carolina. He teaches in the areas of Africa and Imperialism/Colonialism and does his research and writing on Africa (especially East Africa) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent publications are on livestock disease control in colonial Kenya (a major on-going interest), material memories of modern war in Africa, and juvenile delinquency during the colonial period. He is a member of the IR and African Studies committees, and faculty mentor for the Bucknell African Students Association. |
