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. He is currently serving as convener (chair) of the political science program.

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 Ronald Hayashida

Ron Hayashida (Ronald 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

Laura McKenna (B.A. SUNY Binghamton, M.A. U Chicago, Ph.D. Graduate School and University Center CUNY) teaches courses on American politics, political theory, state politics, and the media. Her research interests include the political impact of new media, as well as the politics of education and gender politics. She is writing a book on the politics of motherhood. She has recently published articles in Public Choice and The Review of Policy Research.

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.

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

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.

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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