Diane J. Heith, Ph.D is an
Associate Professor and Chair of the Government and Politics
Department at St. John’s University. She is the author of Polling
to Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership, and The
Presidential Road Show: Public Leadership in a Partisan Era
(forthcoming ), co-author of American Presidents and the
American Presidency (2013) and co-editor of In the Public Domain:
Presidents and the Challenges of Public Leadership. Her research
interests and expertise focus on the Presidency, Media, Public
Opinion, and American Politics generally. Her work has appeared in
Public Opinion Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political
Science Quarterly, The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law,
The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, White House Studies and
Congress and the Presidency. She received a B.A. from Cornell
University, and an MA and Ph.D from Brown University.
William Byrne, Ph.D is an
Associate Professor of Government and Politics on the Staten Island
and Queens campuses of St. John’s University. He is the author of
Edmund Burke for Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics
(2011) as well as numerous scholarly publications on modern
political thought, on core problems of liberal democracy and late
modernity, and on the role of cultural elements in society and
politics. He is associate editor of the scholarly journal
Humanitas, is active in professional societies, and assists with
campus student groups and activities. A former Congressional staff
member, he earned a B.A. in History from the University of
Pennsylvania, an MBA from George Mason University, and holds a
Ph.D. in Politics from The Catholic University of America.
Fred P. Cocozzelli, Ph.D
is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s
University. He researches and writes on multilateral interventions,
post-conflict reconstruction, social policy, minority rights, and
the politics of Kosovo and the greater Balkans. He is the author of
War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict, a number of
academic articles, and a contributor to Social Policy and
International Interventions in Southeastern Europe. From July 1999
to August 2000 he worked as a senior field officer for humanitarian
assistance and a consultant in Kosovo. He holds a Masters of
International Affairs from Columbia University's School of
International and Public Affairs, and a PhD in political science
from the New School for Social Research.
William Gangi, PhD. is a
Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s University. He
holds a BA and MA from St. John’s University and a PhD from the
University of Notre Dame. Dr. Gangi’s primary field
of research is in American Constitutional law; he has secondary
interests in American
Government, American Theory, Comparative Law, and Public
Administration. He
serves also as the Internship Coordinator for the Government and
Politics Department.
Dr. Gangi is author of Saving the Constitution from the Courts,
numerous articles and book reviews. He has testified as an
expert witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee and has
delivered dozens of lectures at various law schools as a lecturer
for The Federalist Society.
David W. Kearn, Jr., Ph.D.
is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics. During the 2010-2011
Academic Year, Dr. Kearn conducted research at the RAND Corporation
in Washington, DC as an inaugural Stanton Nuclear Security
Fellow. He is the
author of Facing the Missile Challenge: U.S. Strategy and the
Future of the INF Treaty, (RAND 2011). His research and teaching
interests include international relations theory, U.S. Foreign
policy, military innovation, comparative grand strategy, arms
control and nonproliferation, and the causes of major war. Dr. Kearn is a graduate of
Amherst College, holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and
received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of
Virginia.
Barbara Koziak, Ph.D is an
Associate Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s
University, and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies
Minor. She is the author of the book Retrieving
Political Emotion: Aristotle, Thumos and Gender among others
works. Her expertise lies in ancient political
philosophy particularly Aristotle and contemporary political
theory, especially feminist political theory. Her research interests
include theories of emotion and politics, democratic theory and
truth commissions, politics of marriage and family benefits, and
the role of film narratives in political socialization, and
activism and advocacy training. She holds a BA from the
University of Texas at Austin and an MA and PhD from Yale
University.
Azzedine Layachi, PhD. is
a Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s University.
His research interests include economic development, political
change, political Islam, Middle East politics, African politics,
and politics of ethnicity. He is the author of several books,
journal articles and book chapters. His books include The United
States and North Africa: A Cognitive Approach to Foreign Policy;
Economic Crisis and Political Change in North Africa; State,
Society and Liberalization in Morocco: The Limits of Associative
Life; and Global Studies: The Middle East. He contributed a number
of articles to Arab Studies Quarterly, Middle East Quarterly, the
Journal of North African Studies, The Middle East Report and
Information Project, Mediterranean Politics, Middle East Insight
and Foreign Affairs. He is member of the Executive Board of the
American Institute of Maghribi Studies (AIMS) and of the Advisory
Board of the Maghreb Center (Washington, D.C.). He is former
President of the Northeastern Political Science Association and of
the New York State Political Science Association. He holds a
Bachelor’s Degree from the Institut des Etudes Politiques of the
University of Algiers, Algeria, and a Master's Degree and a Ph.D.
in International Affairs from New York University.
Frank Le Veness, PhD. is a
Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s University. He
received a BS, MA and PhD from St. John’s University. His research
interests include Caribbean and Latin American Politics and
Integration, comparative systems; Puerto Rico; Methodology,
development politics, and international political economy. He
has received numerous honors including: Pietas, Outstanding
Achievement for Faculty, Outstanding Alumni Achievement,
International; Eisenhower Award, ROTC; Distinguished Service Award,
Caribbean Studies Assoc. (San Juan); Certificate of Merit, Governor
of New York; Global Achievement Award, Global Business and
Technology Assoc. (Moscow); Andrew J. Bartilucci excellence award.
He is the author of numerous presentations and publications,
including, coeditor, Women Leaders in Contemporary U.S.
Politics.
William Nester, PhD is a
Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s University. He
is the author of twenty-five books that explore varying dimensions
and subjects of international relations and power. He taught at the
School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London
from 1987 to 1989, and since then at St. John's University. He
received a BA in international studies and history from Miami
University of Ohio, and a MA and PhD in Political Science from the
University of California at Santa Barbara.
Robert F. Pecorella, Ph.D.
is an Associate Professor with the Department of Government and
Politics and currently serves as Director of the Institute for Core
Studies at St. John’s University. His primary fields of interest
are public administration, urban governance, state and local
politics, and research methods. He is the author of
Community Power in the Postreform City, the coauthor of Politics
and Structure, and the co-editor of Governing New York State. His articles have appeared
in Polity, Public Administration Review, the Journal of Urban
Affairs, and the Journal of Catholic Social Thought. He was a
Professor-in-Residence with the New York State Assembly Intern
Program between 1986 and 2005. He received a BA from St.
John’s, an MA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Pennsylvania
State University.
Luba Racanska, PhD. is an
Associate Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s
University. She received a B.A. from Yale University, and an MA and
Ph.D from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Uma Tripathi, PhD. is an
Associate Professor of Government and Politics at St. John’s
University. She received a B.A. and MA from the University of
Bombay, and a Ph.D from Notre Dame University.