Welcome to the faculty research page. The purpose of this page is to keep you updated
on our faculty's most recent work, achievements and academic projects. If you have any
questions concerning this research, please contact the faculty member directly.

Thomas Breslin
Dr Breslin is presently the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. He is
currently writing a book on the ethnicity of American presidents
as a major factor in American foreign policy, and he is also developing
a comparative study of Roman Catholic missionary activity in early
20th century China.

John Clark
Dr Clark is currently working on his monograph, titled "The
Congolese Democratic Experiment in Comparative Perspective."
In 2005 he published an article in Comparative Studies in Society
And History that compares the democratic experiments in Benin and Congo.

Schlomi Dinar
Professor Dinar's research spans four general fields including,
'new' or 'non-traditional' security issues, international environmental
politics, negotiation, and conflict resolution. One topic of special
interest, which straddles all four fields, is 'hydro-politics.' Both
the intricacies of conflict and cooperation over transboundary
freshwater as well as the essence of agreements negotiated between
river riparians are key aspects of Dr. Dinar's work. With respect
to cooperation and negotiation, his focus is on the actual design
of an agreement and the manner by which it can encourage
participation and compliance among the parties. In general,
Dr. Dinar emphasizes the role of geography in understanding
and analyzing directional environmental externalities. Though
his research tends to be global in perspective, his regional
interests include, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Jennifer Gebelein
Dr Gebelein is a physical geographer. Her research focus is
land cover change and land use throughout the Caribbean
islands. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled
"A Naturalist's Perspective on Cuba" focusing on how the
landscape has changed over the past 50 years. Additionally,
Dr. Gebelein is working on research comparing several land
cover maps for four Antilles islands as a study of scale,
applicability for various research projects, and a dendogram
linking the many classes from one land cover map to another.
Professor Gebelein is also working with researchers in the
School of Landscape Architecture developing a Master Plan
for the Havana province.

Paul Kowert
Professor Kowert conducts research on the international politics
of national identity, the psychology of political behavior, and
comparative foreign policy. With Professor Katja Weber, he is
now completing a co-authored book, Cultures of Order: The
Normative Politics of Postwar German Foreign Policy, that
offers a constructivist account of how states promote international
order. It explores a succession of debates in Germany (and Japan)
to make the case that states must adopt one of a limited group of
strategies to accomplish this purpose. Professor Kowert is also
currently working on another book project, supported by the Social
Science Research Council and the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science, that explores the way conceptions of national identity
have changed over time in US-Japan relations and the consequences
these changes have had for their foreign policy choices. Other recent
research projects focus on the psychology of leadership and learning
in US foreign policy and include Professor Kowert's recent book,
Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors? (2002).

Wei Liang
Dr Liang submitted the following article "International Political
Economy of Standard: A Case Study of 3G Standard, Government
Regulation and Global Competition", to the Journal of Political
Economy, May 2005. She also has two book chapters in the edited
book "The Making of China's Foreign Trade Policy: Implications
for the World Trading System", Routledge, Forthcoming.

Patricia Price
Professor Price's current research examines the transformation
of inner-ring ethnic enclave neighborhoods, focusing on in
Miami's East Little Havana neighborhood. She is part of a
6-member faculty team conducting comparative field research
on the relationship between civic and place engagement in Miami,
Phoenix, and Chicago. Several graduate and undergraduate
research assistants are also supported by this project in each site.
This research is funded by a National Science Foundation Human
and Social Development grant. Professor Price is a co-author of
The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography,
10/e (W.H. Freeman, 2005), and is currently working with Tim Oakes
at the University of Colorado to co-edit The Cultural Geography Reader
(under consideration by Routledge).

Elizabeth Prugl
Dr Prugl's current research foci include gender and agricultural policy
reform in the European Union; gender mainstreaming; and the
theoretical intersection of feminist and constructivist approaches
in International Relations. Prof. Prugl's recent publications include
"Gender Orders in German Agriculture: From the Patriarchal Welfare
State to Liberal Environmentalism" in Sociologia Ruralis (October 2004);
"Gender and War: Causes, Constructions, and Critique" in Perspectives
on Politics (June 2003); "Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart
or Sharing the Middle Ground?" with Birgit Locher in
International Studies Quarterly (March 2001) and The Global
Construction of Gender:Home-Based Work in the Political
Economy of the 20th Century (Columbia University Press, 1999).

Ken Boodhoo
Dr Boodhoo is currently working on a book
titled "Protestantism in Haiti". Five chapters
have been completed thus far. Dr Boohoo is
an expert on the Caribbean Basin and the Third
World with special emphasis upon development
policy, practical indicators of development,
and the relationship of foreign policy to development.

Information is slowly being added to this page, if you do not see
a faculty member listed here, it is because their most recent
information is currently unavailable. This information is being
updated during the week of November 29, 2005 onward.