courses (2008-09)
FYS 101: Revolutionary Music (First Year Seminar) (fall 08)
PS 131: International Relations (fall 08)
PS 240: The United Nations (Spring 09)
SPS 490: Senior Seminar (Spring 09)
SPS 495: Senior Internship Seminar (Fall 08)
SPS Program website: http://community.pmc.edu/sps
college activities
Committees:
Academic Planning Committee
Quantitative Reasoning Committee
Recruitment and Retention planning committee
Committee on Foundational Learning
research and publications
"Passive Resistance." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2008.
"Nonviolent action, trust and building a culture of peace" (with Michelle Cromwell). In Joe de Rivera, ed. Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace. Forthcoming 2008, Springer Publishers.
Democratic transitions and the transformation of conflict.
Recipient of 2002-03 Small Research Grants from the American Political Science Association to study the processes of democratic transition in El Salvador
Trips to El Salvador in 2002 and 2003. Interviews with political actors and activists on the status of Salvadoran democracy -- included negotiators of the 1992 Peace Accords, retired military officers, legislators and local governmental officials.
"Exit, Voice and the Left in El Salvador." (Paper presented at 2003 national meetings of the American Political Science Association)
Social movements and nonviolent social change
(Associate Editor) International Encyclopedia of Peace , edited by Nigel Young. Oxford University Press. In progress.
Protest, Power and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, edited with Roger Powers. Garland Publishing 1997. Booklist review. link to Amazon.com: Protest power and change