DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT

Faculty

ERIN ACKERMAN, Assistant Professor of Government, received a B.A. from American University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She is the co-author (with Benjamin Ginsberg) of A Guide to the U.S. Constitution (Norton 2007). Professor Ackerman’s research and teaching interests include the law and politics of reproductive health, women and law, American and comparative constitutional law, biomedical policy, and American political development.

GEORGE ANDREOPOULOS is Professor of Government and a member of the doctoral faculty of the Political Science and Criminal Justice programs at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center.  He is also the Director of the recently established Center for International Human Rights.  Professor Andreopoulos studied history, law, and international relations at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge.  Before coming to CUNY, he taught for several years at Yale University, where he was the founding Associate Director of the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights.  Professor Andreopoulos has written extensively on international security, international human rights, and international humanitarian law issues.  His publications include Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe (with Zehra Arat and Peter Juviler, Kumarian Press); Concepts and Strategies in International Human Rights (ed.) (Peter Lang); The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (with Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman, Yale University Press); and Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (with Richard Pierre Claude, University of Pennsylvania Press).  The Human Rights Education book was issued in Japanese (Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd.) and Chinese translations, will soon appear in a Portuguese translation (Editoria da Universidad de Sao Paulo), and was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Education.  Professor Andreopoulos is currently completing a book on Humanitarian Intervention for Yale University Press and serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review.  Over the years, he has participated in several human rights missions, most recently in Sierra Leone to study and prepare recommendations on accountability mechanisms in that country.  During 2003-2004, Professor Andreopoulos served as President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association, and for 2004-2007, as Chair of the Section's Book Award Committee.  He recently received a significant grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for a project entitled "Policing Across Borders: the Role of Law Enforcement in Global Governance."

BRIAN ARBOUR, Assistant Professor of Government, received a B.A. from Pomona College and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests focus on political communication and campaign strategy in congressional elections. He teaches courses on American Government, political parties, the news media, and campaigns and elections. See his Curriculum Vitae.

DESMOND ARIAS, Associate Professor of Government, received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  His research focuses on security and politics in developing societies.  In 2006, the University of North Carolina Press published Professor Arias' book, Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security.  The volume examines the politics of crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro shantytowns.  He has published articles on the politics of crime, NGOs, social mobilization, and human rights in Latin American Politics and Society, Qualitative Sociology, and The Journal of Latin American Studies.  Professor Arias has also published a chapter on academic freedom in Latin America in Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century (Stanford University Press 2006) and is currently completing a multi-country study of police reform in Latin America that has received funding from the Tinker Foundation.  In 2008, he will begin a study of conflict in Latin America with support from a Fulbright Fellowship and a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.  Professor Arias teaches classes on comparative politics and comparative criminal justice and is a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate School.

JANICE BOCKMEYER, Associate Professor of Government, received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  She has also taught at the Free University of Berlin, Brooklyn College and Queens College.  Professor Bockmeyer's primary research interests are comparative urban politics, global migration and immigrant urban participation, federalism and urban politics, community revitalization and housing policies.  Her publications include articles in Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, the Social Science Journal, Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen and German Politics and Society.  Professor Bockmeyer's current research on immigrant political incorporation appears in Toward a New Metropolitanism (eds. G. Lenz, F. Ulfers and A. Dallman, Winter Verlag, 2006) and Governing Cities in a Global Era (eds. R. Hambleton and J. Gross, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).  She has served as manuscript referee for Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of the Community Development Society, State and Local Government Review, Congressional Quarterly Press, McGraw-Hill, and Associated University Presses, as well as grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY.  In 2006, Professor Bockmeyer was awarded the Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society Outstanding Teacher Award by the John Jay College Chapter.  She offers courses on comparative urban politics, urban politics, New York City politics, and state and municipal government, and is the faculty sponsor for the CUNY/Edward T. Rogowsky Internship Program in Government and Public Affairs, which includes internships in New York City, Albany, and Washington, DC.  Professor Bockmeyer serves as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Urban Section of the American Political Science Association for 2006-2008.  See her course syllabi and Curriculum Vitae.

JAMES S. BOWEN, Associate Professor of Government, earned a B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in the City of New York and a J.D. from Yale Law School.  His primary teaching and research interests are civil rights and civil liberties and the African Diaspora (using sociology and law as tools to explore aspects of that experience).  Professor Bowen has published in various law journals, including the founding issue of the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation, the Journal of Family Law, and the National Black Law Journal, on such topics as African-American family values, the problem of "boarder babies," peremptory challenge abuse, and the OAU (Organization of African Unity).  His current research projects include reparations and Critical Race Theory.

JAMES N.G. CAUTHEN, Associate Professor of Government and member of the Doctoral Faculty in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center, received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a J.D. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.  His research focuses on judicial innovation under state constitutions, state high court decision making, and death penalty appeals.  Professor Cauthen's articles have appeared in Judicature, Justice System Journal, Albany Law Review (State Constitutional Commentary), Criminal Justice Policy Review, American Review of Politics, and Journal of Criminal Justice Education.  He teaches courses on judicial process and state and federal constitutional law, and received an Outstanding Teacher Award from Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society in 2006.

JACK JACOBS, Professor of Government, is Deputy Executive Officer of the Ph.D. program in Political Science at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.  He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia before coming to John Jay.  Professor Jacobs was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Tel Aviv University in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur at Leipzig University in 1998, and was the Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professor at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 2003-2004.  He has been the recipient of grants from the Forward Association, the Arthur Zygielbaum Memorial Fund, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among other sources.  Professor Jacobs is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (New York University Press 1992), which has appeared in German; the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (New York University Press 2001); and has published in such journals as Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fuer deutsche Geschichte, MEGA-Studien, Annali Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte, YIVO Annual, International Review of Social History, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, and Archiv. Jahrbuch des Vereins fuer Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung.  His research currently centers on Critical Theory and the image of the Jew.

BARRY LATZER is Professor of Government and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center and the Masters in Criminal Justice Faculty at John Jay.  He received a J.D. from Fordham University (1985) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1977).  Professor Latzer has published widely on capital punishment and criminal procedure law.  His casebook, Death Penalty Cases (Butterworth-Heinemann 2002), is now in its second edition.  He also wrote two books on state constitutional criminal procedure: State Constitutional Criminal Law (Clark, Boardman, Callaghan 1995) and State Constitutions and Criminal Justice (Greenwood Press 1991).  Professor Latzer briefly served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn and as appellate counsel for indigent criminal defendants in New York City.

JAMES P. LEVINE is Professor of Government and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  From 1993 to 1999, he served as Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Criminal Justice of the City University of New York located at John Jay College.  Professor Levine received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, winning the Edward S. Corwin Award (from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in public law completed in 1968).  Prior to coming to John Jay, he served on the faculties of Michigan State University, the University of Oregon, and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.  Professor Levine has published two textbooks on criminal justice (co-authored with Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo): Criminal Justice: A Public Policy Approach (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1980) and Criminal Justice in America: Law in Action (John Wiley 1986).  He is the co-author, with David Abbott, of Wrong Winner: The Coming Debacle in the Electoral College (Praeger 1991).  Professor Levine's most recent book is Juries and Politics (Wadsworth 1992).  He has published numerous articles on criminal justice institutions, criminal justice policy, and research methodology; his research has focused on jury behavior in recent years.  Professor Levine's work has appeared in such journals as Judicature, Criminal Law Bulletin, Criminal Justice Ethics, Journal of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies Forum, Law and Social Inquiry, Crime and Delinquency, Social Science Quarterly, Criminology, Public Policy, Law and Society Review, and Polity.

G. ROGER MCDONALD, Lecturer in Government, teaches core offerings in American government, public law, and political philosophy. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College and M.A. from the New School for Social Research. A recipient of a 2007 Pi Sigma Alpha distinguished teacher award, Mr. McDonald is a contributor to the Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court and the Encyclopedia of the United States Supreme Court (Macmillan, forthcoming).

JILL NORGREN, Professor Emerita of Government and emerita member of the Ph.D. program in Political Science at the Graduate School and University Center, received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  She taught courses on American politics, the legal treatment of subcultures in the United States, women and the law, and constitutional law. Professor Norgren has authored numerous journal articles and four books: Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President (2007); American Cultural Pluralism and Law (l988, l996, 2006) (with Serena Nanda); The Cherokee Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics (l996); and Partial Justice: Federal Indian Law in a Liberal-Constitutional System (l991) (with P.T. Shattuck).  Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Bar Association, and the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.  Professor Norgren is currently writing a legal and political biography of nineteenth century American lawyer, presidential candidate (l884, l888), and peace activist Belva A. Lockwood with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian, the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and PSC-CUNY.  Her preliminary work on Lockwood may be read in 23(1) Journal of Supreme Court History and the Wilson Quarterly (Autumn 2002).  She is the first member of the John Jay College faculty to be awarded a Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellows Award (for 2000-2001).

DANIEL R. PINELLO, Professor of Government and Department Webmaster, was educated at Williams College (B.A.), New York University (J.D.), and Yale University (Ph.D.).  Cambridge University Press published his Gay Rights and American Law in 2003 (read reviews of the book here) and issued his textbook, America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage, in 2006 (read the first chapter here and reviews here).  His scholarship also includes The Impact of Judicial-Selection Method on State-Supreme-Court Policy: Innovation, Reaction and Atrophy (Greenwood Press 1995); "The New York City Court System," in Andrew Karmen (ed.), Crime and Justice in New York City (McGraw-Hill 1998); "Linking Party to Judicial Ideology in American Courts:  A Meta-Analysis," Justice System Journal (1999); "Homosexuality and the Law," in Kermit L. Hall (ed.), The Oxford Companion to American Law (Oxford University Press 2002); “Gay Rights, Teaching, and the Classroom Environment” (American Bar Association 2003); and "Is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a Homophobe?" (2005).  At the invitation of Professor Lee Epstein of Northwestern University School of Law, Professor Pinello delivered a paper ("Legislative Versus Judicial Strategies for Social Change: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage in New York State") at that institution's Fall 2007 Law and Political Economy Colloquium.  He was chair for the 2003-2004 term of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Caucus of the American Political Science Association and was the Caucus's Program Organizer for the APSA's 2003 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.  Professor Pinello recently served on the APSA's Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered in the Profession, and on the Dissertation Prize Committee of the Law and Society Association.  He participated on the APSA's 2003 Edward S. Corwin Award Committee (selecting the best doctoral dissertation in public law) and has been an external reviewer for Cambridge University Press, the Journal of Politics, Law & Social Inquiry, the Law & Society Review, the National Science Foundation, Routledge, and Stanford University Press.  Professor Pinello teaches courses on American government and politics, constitutional law, judicial processes and politics, and the law and politics of sexual orientation.  See his course syllabi and Web site.

PETER ROMANIUK, Assistant Professor of Government, received a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Adelaide and a Ph.D. from Brown University. His teaching and research interests include international relations, international security, international organizations, terrorism and counter-terrorism, sanctions, regional security in South and Southeast Asia, maritime security, and Australian politics and foreign policy. Professor Romaniuk has published numerous reports and articles on terrorist financing and United Nations sanctions. He teaches courses on international relations, and terrorism and international relations.  See his Curriculum Vitae.

ANDREW H. SIDMAN, Assistant Professor of Government, received a B.A. from Fordham University and a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University. His teaching and research interests include American elections, Congress, the Presidency, and political behavior. See his Web site.

HAROLD J. SULLIVAN, Professor of Government and Chair of the Department, earned a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.  He is the Chair of the Council of Chairs at John Jay College and has played a leading role in developing the College's current undergraduate curricula in Criminal Justice, Government, and Judicial Studies.  Professor Sullivan's primary teaching and research fields are public law and American national politics.  His research has focused on the intent requirement in equal protection litigation, on the implications of privatization of public services for civil liberties and civil rights, and most recently on the potentially racially discriminatory impact of the use of victim impact statements in death penalty cases.  Professor Sullivan is currently exploring the link between First Amendment protection of academic freedom and protection for privacy in the contemporary communications environment.  His articles have appeared in such journals as Public Administration Review, Journal of Law and Education, and Western Political Quarterly.  A revised second edition of Professor Sullivan's book, Civil Rights and Liberties: Provocative Questions/Evolving Answers (Prentice-Hall 2005), was released in July 2004.

ROBERT R. SULLIVAN, Professor Emeritus of Government, has a B.A. from Boston College and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.  He is the director of the Crime and Politics interdisciplinary program at the CUNY Graduate Center, has authored Political Hermeneutics (Penn State University Press 1989), and has translated and introduced Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Apprenticeships (MIT Press 1985).  Professor Sullivan has also authored about twenty-five articles in such journals as Orbis, the Journal of Church and State, Polity, the Review of Politics, the Midwest Review, Legal Studies Forum, and the Journal of Criminal Justice, as well as the Australian Journal of Politics and History, Philosophy of the Social Science in Canada and most recently the Howard Review in England.

 

Full-Time Substitute Faculty

ELISE LANGAN was educated at Northwestern University (B.S.), the University of Southern California (M.S.), and New York University (Ph.D. in International Education).  She is a specialist on European Union integration and France.  Dr. Langan's research interests are in EU higher education policy, minority access to French higher education, and French national identity.  Her dissertation, "The European Union: ERASMUS in Paris" (published by Nova Science Press, 2002), discusses the implications of EU higher education policy and its effects upon French citizenship.  Dr. Langan has publications with the Brookings Institution’s Center for the U.S. and France, Higher Education Policy, and the International Association of Universities, among others.  She is currently conducting research on the education of Muslims in France.  See her course syllabi.

GILA LISKA.

MICHAEL PARIS.

MATTHEW ZOMMER is a Ph.D. candidate in criminal justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  His research and teaching interests are in comparative criminal justice, the laws of war, and the treatment of prisoners under international law.  See his course syllabi.

 

Adjunct Faculty

ALISSA ACKERMAN.

ROBERT CAPANO.

JONATHAN CARLOZZI.

FRANCISCO DEL CASTILLO.

MICHAEL FISHER.

JACQUES FOMERAND.

BARBARA HONG.

ANDREAS KARRAS.

CHRISTINA KATSANOS.

SINEAD KEEGAN.

JONATHAN KRANZ.

WIL PINKNEY.

JASON SCHULMAN.

UTKU SEZGIN.

SUZANNE SHERBELL.

ROBERT SILVEY.

MARCOS SOLER.

DORINDA TETENS.

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