Gordon B. Smith
Gordon B. Smith is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Walker Institute. He is the author or editor of nine books and more than 30 articles and book chapters on Russian politics and law. His latest work, State Building in Russia, was published in 1999. Professor Smith frequently travels to the former Soviet Union, conducting research and lecturing to Smithsonian groups.
He serves on, Editorial Board of PRAVO: A Journal of Russian Law Past and Present. He was a member of the National Advisory Board of the Rule of Law Consortium, a project designed to assist the Russians in reforming their legal system. He has also assisted with the introduction of jury trials in Russia, in conjunction with the American Bar Association. Dr. Smith has been a fellow of the Harvard University Russian Research Center, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Smithsonian Institution, and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of Birmingham University in England and the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. In 1975-1976, he was a Fulbright exchange professor at Leningrad State University Law School. In addition, he has received research support from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the Earhart Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Toyota Foundation.
Dr. Puchala earned a Ph.D. in the field of International Relations from Yale University in 1966. He is a student of International Relations Theory, particularly as it addresses problems of international cooperation, organization and integration. He is also a specialist on Western European International Relations and the politics and economics of the European Union. Prior to his appointment at the University of South Carolina, Puchala taught at Yale University, the State University of New York at Buffalo and at Columbia University, where he also served as Associate Dean of the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Institute on Western Europe. He has been a consultant to the State Department and the Foreign Service Institute, the United States Department of Commerce, the United Nations and various academic institutions and foundations. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, as Chairman as the Council for European Studies, as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Community Studies Association and as President of the South Carolina Political Science Association. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Puchala has conducted numerous research projects in Western Europe and elsewhere under grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, the German Marshall Fund and the United States Department of Education. His publications include: Western European Perspectives on International Affairs, International Politics Today, Global Food Interdependence, Fiscal Harmonization in the European Communities, The Challenge of Relevance: The United Nations in a Changing World Environment, Immigration Into Western Societies, Visions of International Relations: Assessing an Academic Discipline, and Theory and History in International Relations.
Jerel Rosati is a Professor of political science and international studies and has been at the University of South Carolina since 1982. His area of specialization is the theory and practice of foreign policy, focusing on the United States policymaking process, decision-making theory, and the political psychological study of human cognition. He received his B.A. in political science at U.C.L.A.; his M.A. in political science at Arizona State University; and his Ph.D. in international relations at American University in Washington, D.C. He has been a Research Associate in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service, Visiting Professor at Somalia National University, and Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China. He has served as President of the International Studies Association's Foreign Policy Analysis Section and President of the Southern region of the International Studies Association.
He is the author and editor of five books and over forty articles and chapters. His books include The Carter Administration's Quest for Global Community: Beliefs and Their Impact on Behavior, The Politics of United States Foreign Policy (which has been translated in Mandarin Chinese), The Power of Human Needs in World Society, Foreign Policy Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change, and Readings in the Politics of United States Foreign Policy. His articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as International Journal, International Studies Review, Journal of Political & Military Sociology, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and World Politics, as well as The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Policy.
His intellectual and teaching interests range from American politics and history, United States foreign policy, the Vietnam War and the sixties to the dynamics of world politics and global change, the nature of human interaction, and political psychology. He has been awarded the Outstanding Professor of the Year in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the South Carolina (Honors) College, the Outstanding Teacher in International Studies in the Department of Government & International Studies, Excellence in Teaching by the University of South Carolina Alpha Chapter of the Mortar Board Honor Society, and Outstanding Teacher in Political Science by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha (The National Political Science Honor Society). In addition to the usual undergraduate and graduate students, he has taught a course on pedagogy for Ph.D.'s in political science and international studies. He has also been awarded, and participated in, a number of instructional grants at the state and federal level (usually through USIA) as Academic Director, Field Director, and/or Project Director where he has taught Bulgarians, Chinese, Israelis and Palestinians, Somalis, Master's of International Business students, and high school teachers.
He has mentored numerous undergraduate and, in particular, graduate students who have gone on to excel in a variety of professional careers and throughout academia.
Maria Anastasiou
Mrs. Maria Anastasiou is a native of Cyprus. She first came to the United States in 1994 on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of North Carolina (UNC)—Chapel Hill. She received her BA in economics and international studies from UNC—Chapel Hill and her MA in international studies from the University of South Carolina (USC).
Mrs. Anastasiou is now a Ph.D. candidate at USC’s Department of Political Science. Her interests include foreign policy analysis, international relations, and comparative politics. Her dissertation research focuses on conflict management and negotiation in ethnically divided groups.
Maria has been working at the Walker Institute for the last 6 years and has taught International Relations Theory and Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science. She has also taught modern Greek at the Greek Orthodox Church in Columbia for three years and is currently the Vice president of the Hellenic Society “Paideia” of South Carolina, a non-profit cultural and educational organization that has Chapters in the US, Greece, and Brazil. She is happily married and the proud mother of a two year old boy.
Sallie Buice
Kelly O'Reilly
Kelly is a doctorial candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. His primary field of study is international relations focusing on the areas of international security and conflict. Before coming to the University of South Carolina, Kelly was awarded a MA in International Studies from Marquette University where he returned to academia after practicing law in the metropolitan Milwaukee area for five years. He holds a JD from Emory University School of Law located in Atlanta, GA and received his BA in Government from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. Kelly currently serves as the president of the Political Science Graduate Student Association for the 2005-2006 academic year.
Julie Loggins
Julie is a Ph.D. candidate originally from Sparta, NC and is studying international relations and comparative politics. She received her B.A. in politics from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC in 1997. After leaving Wake Forest, Julie taught U.S. Government, Spanish I, U.S. History, and Algebra I at Oak Hill Academy, a private boarding high school in Mouth of Wilson, VA.
Julie teaches in the Department of Political Science and has taught the following courses for a total of 15 classes to date.
* Introduction to Politics
* Controversies in World Politics
* Introduction to Comparative Politics
* Conduct and Formulation of US Foreign Policy
* Contemporary US Foreign Policy
Additionally, Julie has directed one honors thesis, served as a reader on another, and supervised two independent study courses.
Julie's interests include international conflict, foreign policy, international relations theory, and research methodology. Her research is focused on explanations of deviant state behavior, foreign policy coherence and consistency over time, legislative-executive relations in the realm of foreign policy, as well as development and microfinance. Her dissertation involves the explanation of seemingly irrational and aberrant state behavior. She is utilizing theoretical frameworks from the fields of social psychology and organizational theory and behavior in addition to international relations theoryto help create a more unified view of state behavior.
Kristina Sabia
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