Faculty
Arthur I. Cyr
A. W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, Director of the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business, Director, International Political Economy Program
Clausen Center 217
acyr@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5750
Arthur I. Cyr served as the president of the World Trade Center Chicago Association, the vice president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the faculty and international studies staff at UCLA, and a staff member of the Ford Foundation in the International and Education Divisions. He is the author of four books on international relations and British politics: After the Cold War — American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia (Macmillan/Palgrave and New York University Press, 1997; revised 2000), Liberal Politics in Britain (John Calder Ltd. and Transaction Press, 1977; revised 1988), U.S. Foreign Policy and European Security (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1987), and British Foreign Policy and the Atlantic Area: The Techniques of Accommodation (Macmillan, 1979).
Dr. Cyr also has authored the monograph Taiwan: The Commercial State (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 2003, rev. ed. 2005). His articles have appeared in professional journals and the popular press, including Scripps Howard News Service.
He is a graduate of UCLA and received a Ph.D. with distinction in political science from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was a Frank Knox fellow in England, an NDEA Title IV fellow, and a teaching fellow. He joined the Carthage faculty in 1998.
Thomas Groleau
Chair, Department of Business Administration, Associate Professor of Business Administration
Clausen Center 210
tgroleau@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5983
Thomas Groleau began his career teaching high school mathematics and working in the utility industry. After returning to school to earn his M.S.O.R. and Ph.D., he taught courses in information systems, operations and quantitative methods at a variety of institutions before settling at Carthage in 1999. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA).
Jerald Mast
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chair, Department of Political Science
Clausen Center 222
jmast1@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5397
Dr. Mast primarily teaches and researches in the field of public policy, specializing in the ways in which public values, opinions and participation affect the democratic character of decisions within the law-making process. Within his field of specialty, he focuses on American government and also researches public policy affecting environmental and natural resource issues. His most recent publication identifies emerging environmental threats in the National Strategy Forum Review. He has been a guest analyst of electoral politics on national and regional television as well as Wisconsin Public Radio.
Julio Rivera
Chair, Department of Geography and Earth Science; Associate Professor of Geography and Earth Science
David Straz Center 209B
julio@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5846
Julio Rivera teaches courses in geographic information systems (GIS); satellite imagery interpretation; and urban, economic and cultural geography. He administers and directs the Geographic Information Systems Laboratory. His research focuses on the development of suburban communities and how the design of the built environment enhances or impedes community life.
During a sabbatical in the 2004-05 academic year, Dr. Rivera worked with the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University examining trends in the development of the urban fringe in the Phoenix metropolitan area. He has traveled with students during J-term to Nicaragua.
Dr. Rivera came to Carthage in 1997 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught geography and worked as a GIS specialist. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Phi Kappa Phi), where he held fellowships for three years. He earned his B.A. in journalism and theology at Marquette University, and M.A. in higher education and student affairs at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Rivera is the author of a number of papers and has presented his work at regional and national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, National Council on Geographic Education, and the North American Cartographic Information Society. He currently serves on the executive board and is chair of the social science division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. He is the recipient of the 2002 Carthage College Distinguished Teaching Award.
Jeffrey Roberg
Associate Professor of Political Science
David Straz Center B10J
jroberg@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5805
Jeff Roberg has conducted research in the former Soviet Union and its successor states. More recently, he has been carrying out a cross-national study of human rights in the former Soviet Union and China. His book, "Soviet Science Under Control: The Struggle for Influence," was published in 1998 by Macmillan Press. Mr. Roberg joined the Carthage faculty in 1997, where his teaching responsibilities include courses in comparative politics and international relations. Mr. Roberg was named the Carthage Distinguished Teacher of the Year in 2003. He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA.
Pascal Rollet
Chair, Department of Modern Language, Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Lentz Hall 428
prollet@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5962
Pascal Rollet specializes in the popular culture of modern France and in 19th century French literature. He teaches French, Heritage and Spanish. He earned his licence es lettres d'enseignement d'Anglais from the University of Caen, France, his M.A. from the University of Kentucky and his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Since coming to Carthage in 1993, Rollet has been committed to the promotion of study abroad and to the development of multi-cultural awareness.
Robert Schlack
Chair, Department of Economics, Professor of Economics
Clausen Center 218
rschlack@carthage.edu
(262) 551-5831
Robert F. Schlack joined the Carthage faculty in 1975. His areas of interest and specialization have included international political economy, urban/regional economics, institutional economics, and cultural economics. He has taught, undertaken research, and led J-term study tours abroad on several ocassions during his career. These include a Fulbright lectureship (Bulgaria, 1992) and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the Research Lab on Russia and Eastern Europe (University of Illinois) for subsequent work on economies in transition. He visited China (1989) in the early years of its economic reforms (publishing "Economic Change in the People's Republic of China: An Institutionalist Approach"), and returned in 2005 with a J-Term class. He has also led J-term classes in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
For course and for curricular development, he has received grants from the National Council on Economic Education, the Lilly Endownment, the NEH, the NSF, and Faculty Research Awards from the College (most recently, as a participant in a "Value of Culture" workshop at Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University in 2003). In addition to presentations at professional meetings, his articles have been published by the Journal of Economic Issues, with a few being selected for abstracting by the Journal of Economic Literature.
He considers his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru (1964-66) integral to his liberal arts education. For leisure activities, he enjoys being outdoors (hiking, cross-country skiing, sea kayaking, motorcycling), the fine arts, and the company of family and friends.
