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Political Science and Public Administration Faculty
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
 Bethany Barratt
Assistant Professor of Political Science
bbarratt@roosevelt.edu
Dr. Barratt earned her PhD from the University of California in 2002.
Her dissertation was titled 'Aiding or Abetting: Human Rights, Economic Concerns, and Foreign Aid Decisions." She is author of a the forthcoming book Human Rights and Foreign Aid from Routledge, as well as of articles on human rights, foreign aid, US, British, Canadian, and Australian foreign policy, and counterterrorism, in Political Research Quarterly, The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and edited volumes from Ashgate and Lexington Books. She has also taught in a number of jails and prisons. She is an officer or member of several scholarly associations including the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the Women's Caucus for International Studies, and ISA-Midwest. For three years she was the campus coordinator of annual benefit productions of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues", which raises funds for local anti-domestic violence organizations.
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 LaVonne A. Downey
Assistant Professor of Public Administration
ldowney@roosevelt.edu
Research interests and partnerships with area hospitals. Research focus is on identifying and solving health care issues, ideology and effects of changes on standards of care, especially for underserved. Method of teaching is very interactive with a focus on creating skills that students can in worksites.
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Jeffrey Edwards
Associate Professor of Political Science
Mansfield Professor of Social Justice
jedwards@roosevelt.edu
Jeffrey Edwards has taught at Roosevelt University since 1988. He earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota, and during the 1995-96 school year was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His teaching and research span interests in the city, movements for social and political change, and democratic theory and practice. He is currently studying strategies and proposals for democratic reform at all levels of the US political system.
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 Christian W. Erickson
Assistant Professor of Political Science
cerickso@roosevelt.edu
Christian W. Erickson has taught at Roosevelt University since 2002. He received his Ph.D. in political science, with a designated emphasis in social theory and comparative history, from the University of California, Davis in 2004. His general teaching and research areas are international relations and comparative politics. His primary research focus is comparative internal security policy, especially the human rights and civil liberties implications of counterterrorist policies and activities, and cultural representations of intelligence and security agencies in television and film. His recent publications include, "Counter-Terror Culture: Ambiguity, Subversion, or Legitimization" in the Security Dialogue (2007), "Prudence or Panic? Preparedness Exercises, Counterterror Mobilization, and Media Coverage - Dark Winter, TOPOFF 1 and 2" in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2004) (coauthored with Bethany Barratt) and a series of entries in the Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence.
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 Paul M. Green
Arthur Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies
Director of the Institute for Politics
Arthur Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies at Roosevelt University
pgreen@roosevelt.edu
Paul Green is Director of the Institute for Politics and Arthur Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies at Roosevelt University. He is also the Political Analyst for WGN Radio, guest columnist for Crain's Chicago Business, and the author of several books and articles on Illinois and Chicago politics. His latest publications, co-authored with Mel Holli, are entitled World War II Chicago and The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, 3rd edition.
Professor Green is frequently quoted and interviewed by the national news organizations for his views on the American political scene. His name appears frequently as an expert in news stories in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek. He has also lectured at universities in Europe, Asia, and Africa and was one of a few American academics/ journalists to travel with the candidates for British Prime Minister in 1997.
Paul is also a former elected official. He served as Monee Township Supervisor from 1977 to 1983.
Paul received his BA at the University of Illinois in History and Political Science and his MA and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He is married to Sharon Green, Director of Programs and Strategic Planning-Institute for Women's Health at Northwestern University. They have two adult children.
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 David K. Hamilton
Professor of Public Administration
Department Chair
dhamilto@roosevelt.edu
David K. Hamilton teaches local government policy courses and human resource management in the MPA program. Current research interests include regional governance, county government reform, and local government service delivery. He is author of Governing Metropolitan Areas: Response to Growth and Change (Garland Publishing, 1999). He has published articles on county home rule charter writing commissions, regional governance issues and local government topics in a number of journals including Public Administration Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, State and Local Government Review, Public Personnel Management, and National Civic Review. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
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 Joanne Howard
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration - Academic Year 2007-2008
jhoward@roosevelt.edu
Professor Joanne Howard joined Roosevelt University in the Fall 2007. A more detailed profile will be posted soon.
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James T. McHugh
Professor of Political Science
Chair, Legal Studies Program
Coordinator, North American Studies Program
jmchugh@roosevelt.edu
James T. McHugh was appointed as an assistant professor at Roosevelt University in 1991. He received tenure and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1996 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2003. He is chair of the Legal Studies Program at Roosevelt University and coordinator of the North American Studies Program. He also is listed as an adjunct professor of The John Marshall Law School. He attended the University of Vermont, the University of Edinburgh, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he earned his doctorate. Among his many scholarly activities, he is past-president of the Illinois Political Science Association, a member of the executive council of the New England Political Science Association, academic liaison for the Canadian Consulate General of Chicago, and editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Political Science. He has published widely and his research and teaching interests include public law, political theory, and Canadian politics.
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 Anna Marie Schuh
Assistant Professor of Public Administration
aschuh@roosevelt.edu
Dr. Anna Marie Schuh received her Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago, her Master of Science in the Management of Public Service from DePaul University, and her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She has been an Assistant Professor at Roosevelt University since August 2002. In the 2001-2002 academic year, she was a Visiting Professor at DePaul University. Between 1988 and 2001, she was an adjunct professor at DePaul University, Roosevelt University, and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She retired from the Federal government after 36 years, having spent thirty years in the Federal human resource management area, 20 years as a manager, and 5 years as a senior executive.
Her research interests include: the public policy change process, civil service systems, the presidency, and institutional values. She is the author of Timing Successful Policy Change (University Press of America). She also has published the following articles: "Institutional Values: The Foundation for Civil Service Change" in Public Personnel Management;"Maybe Wilson Was Right: Espoused Values and Their Relationship To Enacted Values" in the International Journal of Public Administration; and "Presidents: Do They Walk their Talk" in White House Studies.
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 Lin Ye
Assistant Professor
lye@roosevelt.edu
Dr. Ye joined Roosevelt University in August 2006. He teaches several MPA core and elective courses, including quantitative analysis, budgeting and finance, economic development, and urban policy. He also teaches an American Politics course for the undergraduate political science program. His research interest includes public administration, urban development, and planning issues. He has published articles at Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Planning Literature, and China Public Administration Review. His research work on housing studies has appeared in several edited book chapters and research reports. He also conducts research on various comparative urban issues in China and the United States. Dr .Ye earned his PhD (2006) and MPA (2002) degrees from the University of Louisville and his bachelor’s degree (1999) from Shanghai Jiaotong University..
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