Jeremy M. Teigen (B.A. Wisconsin, Ph.D. Texas) teaches courses on American government, elections, and political methodology. He is currently serving as the convener of the political science major. His research interests include elections and voting behavior, political participation, conscription, and the politics of military service. He is published in Political Research Quarterly, Political Communication, Armed Forces & Society, European Security, and Social Science Quarterly. Website.

Assistant Professor Wooseon Choi

Wooseon Choi (Ph.D. Chicago) specializes in comparative politics and international relations. He offers classes on Chinese politics, foreign policy, and East Asia. He is published in Security Studies and is working on his book on Chinese-U.S. relations.

Associate Professor Michael Fluhr

Michael Fluhr (B.S. U Penn, M.A. NYU) offers courses on American government, US involvement in Vietnam, and the war in Iraq. His research encompasses American foreign policy.

Associate Professor Ronald Hayashida

Ron Hayashida (B.A. Cornell University, Russian Area Certificate Columbia University, Ph.D. Columbia University, Political Science) specializes in comparative politics, specifically Soviet, Russian and East Asian politics. He has also taught European Politics, Asia Pacific Political Systems, the Political Science Seminar as well as Russian and East Asian history. He has been an exchange researcher in Moscow State University’s Faculty of History and the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences through the American-USSR Exchange Program. His interest in the politics of the Pacific Islands, specifically of Papua New Guinea, is the basis of his current research on the Bougainville Rebellion and its Aftermath. He is also engaged in a broad work in progress on the Comparative Politics of the Pacific Islands: Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. He initiated Asian American studies at Ramapo with his American Studies’ course Asian Pacific Americans. He has been an adviser to FASA, the Filipino American Students’ Association, since its inception in 1999. He has been the Faculty Administrator of Ramapo’s Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, until recently. He has been published in Asian Survey, Slavic Review, East European Education Review, the Hawaii Journal of History, and others.

Associate Professor Jennefer Mazza

Jennefer Mazza (B.A. Brooklyn College, Ph.D. Rutgers) frequently teaches the senior seminar for political science majors. Her areas of specialization are political theory, American political thought, and American politics.

Dean Hassan M. Nejad

Hassan Nejad (B.A. Tehran University, M.A. California State University, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Southern Illinois University) is the dean of the School of American and International Studies since fall of 2008. He teaches courses on international law, international organizations, the Middle East and North Africa, Globalization, and Island and Politics. His research interests include the international criminal justice system, international humanitarian and environmental law, conflict resolution in the Middle East, and the UN.

Professor Clifford Peterson

Cliff Peterson (B.A. Rutgers, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) teaches courses on international relations, and terrorism, as well as the United Nations. His research interests include the interaction between national and global interests and has written and consulted on the internationalization of higher education.

Rebecca Root (B.A. Eckerd College, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst) has a joint appointment in the Political Science and International Studies programs. She teaches courses on the politics of developing nations, Latin America, conflict resoltion, and human rights. She has recently published an article in Human Rights Quarterly and is working on a book on transitional justice in Peru.

Assistant Professor Daniel Skinner

Daniel Skinner (B.A. SUNY Stony Brook, Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center) teaches courses in political theory and American politics. His research interests include the relationship between rhetoric and political theory, medical politics, gender, and post-colonialism. In addition to a series of articles on rhetoric and political theory, he is working on a book manuscript that examines medical necessity as a form of political rhetoric.

Assistant Professor Michael A. Unger

Mike Unger (B.A. SUNY Binghamton, Ph.D. Texas) teaches courses on American politics, the Supreme Court, and public opinion. His research interests include the intersection of political institutions and public opinion, and he is published in American Politics Research. Prof. Unger is the faculty advisor for the Ramapo College chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national Political Science Honor Society.

Professor Emeritus Stephen Arianas

Stephen Arianas (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Rutgers) taught political science courses at Ramapo College for decades before his retirement in 2006. He specializes in American government, the U.S. Presidency, the U.S. Supreme Court and judicial style, as well as the Australian judiciary.

 

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