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Political Science and Public Administration Faculty
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
 Bethany Barratt
Associate Professor of Political Science
bbarratt@roosevelt.edu
Dr. Barratt earned her PhD from the University of California in 2002, and her BA in Political Science/History from Duke University in 1994. She is Director of the Joseph Loundy Human Rights Project, which joins forces with community partners in Chicago, London, and Jerusalem to draw and apply comparative lessons to make measurable gains in respect for human rights in urban settings, at home and abroad.
Professor Barratt conducts archival and field research in Central Asia, the UK, Canada, and Australia. She is author of “Human Rights and Foreign Aid” (Routledge, 2008), the forthcoming "The Politics of Harry Potter" (Palgrave McMillan, 2010), and coeditor of the forthcoming "Public Opinion and War: Lessons from Iraq" (Potomac, 2010). She has also authored 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. Besides her teaching experience at Roosevelt and the University of California, she has also taught in a number of jails and prisons.
She is an officer in several scholarly associations including the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Women's Caucus for International Studies. She also edits the H-Net Human Rights List. 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
Associate 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.
Member of Editorial board of Southern Medical Journal. Has recently published: How to Resolve the Conflict Within the Medicaid and Managed Care Marriage. The Effects of Deep Breathing Training on Pain Management in the Emergency Department. Utilization of the Emergency Department By Psychiatric Patients. What is the Impact of Free Drug Samples on Doctors? Assessing Adult Health Literacy in Urban Healthcare Settings.
“Frequency of Alternatives to Restraints and Seclusion and Uses of Agitation Reduction Techniques in the Emergency Department”,
Recent presentations at Pain Management in the ED and Customer Service. National Medical Association Annual Conference. July 2009
Pain Management in the Emergency Department and Its Relationship
to Patient Satisfaction. Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Conference June 2009
What are the indicators of Potential for Rupture for Ectopics seen in
the Emergency Department? Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Conference June 2009
Deep Breathing and Pain Reduction in the Emergency Department Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Conference June 2009
Patients understanding of Reasons for Admit, 12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, April 2008
Assessing Health Literacy of Patients in an Urban Health Setting, 12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, April 2008
Over Utilization of the ED by Psychiatric Patients at the International Psychiatric Organization, April 2008 Nice, France
Method of teaching is very interactive with a focus on creating skills that students can in worksites.
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Jeffrey Edwards
Department Chair
Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies
jedwards@roosevelt.edu
I joined Roosevelt’s Political Science Department in 1988, after graduate study at the University of Minnesota. My teaching and research focus on economic, social, and political power, conflict, and change in the US urban context. My most sustained research has been on the post-war Black movement in the US North; 1980s-1990s AIDS street activism; and urban gentrification from the 1990s to the present. I am just now turning to analyze LGBTQ activism, exploring how urban political economies have shaped, and been shaped by, that activism, and writing a narrative of LGBTQ political development that emphasizes this movement’s essentially local nature, despite the heightened media visibility of national organizations and citizenship claims in recent years.
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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, "Thematics of Counterterrorism: comparing 24 and MI5/Spooks" in Critical Studies in Terrorism (2008), "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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 Joanne Howard
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration - Academic Year 2007-2008
jhoward@roosevelt.edu
Joanne E. Howard, Ph.D., teaches courses for the Non-Profit Concentration and Non-Profit Certificate in Public Administration at Roosevelt University. She also teaches Introduction in Political Science. Prior to joining the faculty at Roosevelt University, she served on the adjunct faculty at DePaul University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in their graduate programs.
Dr. Howard has provided assistance to a number of nonprofit organizations in the areas of strategic planning and program evaluation. She has worked in higher education as a senior administrator for 20 years for The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Prior to moving to Illinois, she worked for the Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and in the Office of Migrant Education with the New Jersey Department of Education.
Dr. Howard has a particular interest in school finance reform and school budgeting. Her dissertation was a historical analysis of school finance reform in the state of New Jersey where she followed Robinson v. Cahill and Abbott v. Burke for 30 years.
Dr. Howard received her B.A. degree from Hampton Institute, M.A. from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago in public administration. She is a member of four nonprofit boards, and has been a member of the American Society for Public Administration for 30 years.
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Mark Kaplinsky
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science & Pre-Law Advisor
Academic Year 2009-2010
mkaplinsky@roosevelt.edu
Mark Kaplinsky first joined Roosevelt University as an adjunct professor in the Spring semester of 2007 after relocating to Chicago in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His teaching areas have included Public Law, American Political Institutions, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior and Urban Politics. In the academic years 1998-2004, he taught at the University of New Orleans in addition to acting as pre-law advisor. His second year as a Political Science instructor and pre-law advisor at Xavier University of New Orleans was disrupted by the storm. In the aftermath, he taught at Grand Rapids Community College.
Prior to embarking on a Political Science career, he received a Masters of Law in Admiralty from Tulane University in 1984, a Juris Doctor degree in 1978 and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1975. From 1978-1996, he practiced law, first as an assistant district attorney for the City of New Orleans and then as a general practitioner of civil law.
He studied Political Science at the University of New Orleans attaining Ph.D- ABD status in May 2001.
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 Anna Marie Schuh
Associate 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 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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