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Jerald Mast
Chair, Political Science Department; Professor of Political Science
Professor Jerald Mast primarily teaches and researches in the field of public policy, particularly the ways in which public values, opinions and participation affect the democratic character of decisions within the lawmaking process. He focuses on American government, specializing in the public laws and policies dealing with the environment and natural resources.
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Arthur I. Cyr
A. W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business; Director, A.W. Clausen Center for World Business; Director, International Political Economy Program; Professor of Political Science
Arthur I. Cyr is the director of the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business at Carthage, a first-class learning facility that prepares students for business leadership in our global economy.
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Ellen Hauser
Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies; Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Professor Ellen Hauser teaches courses in political science and women’s and gender studies. Those courses focus on global poverty, women and politics, African transitions, women of Africa, and women’s and gender studies theory.
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Paul Kirkland
Associate Professor of Political Science and Great Ideas
Prof. Paul Kirkland specializes in the study of political philosophy. He earned a B.A. in politics from Ursinus College in 1994, a master’s in political science from Fordham University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in political science from Fordham in 2002, and his book, Nietzsche’s Noble Aims: Affirming LIfe, Confronting Modernity was published in 2009 by Lexington Press.
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Christopher Lynch
Professor of Political Science and Great Ideas
Prof. Lynch earned his B.A. from St. John’s College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought. His translation and interpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Art of War was published by the University of Chicago Press. He is currently completing a book on war and foreign affairs in all of Machiavelli’s writings. He has also served as a Senior Advisor at the United States Department of State.
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Thomas Powers
Associate Professor of Political Science and Great Ideas
Prof. Powers teaches Constitutional Law and Religion and Politics at Carthage. His work related to the legal field explores the interrelationships between political theory and constitutional law in particular.
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Jeffrey Roberg
Professor of Political Science
Professor Jeffrey Roberg’s research and teaching previously focused primarily on the former Soviet Union and its successor states, exploring issues of human rights, nuclear proliferation, the safety of civilian and military nuclear programs in the United States and the former Soviet Union, and the relationship of the Soviet scientific community and political elites.
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Paul Ulrich
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Great Ideas
Paul Ulrich received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago, and he came to Carthage in 2004 after teaching previously at the University of Chicago, Kenyon College, and George Washington University. He works mostly on classic thinkers in political philosophy, and he is interested in political readings of literature and drama.
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