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Mike
McBride
Dr. McBride joined the Whittier College faculty in
1969. He specializes in Soviet, Russian, and
Eastern European politics, as well as the politics
of transition. Recently, Dr. McBride has
focused his time and energy on human rights and the
United Nations. He serves as a consultant for
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees. Dr. McBride spends several weeks
each year at the United Nations office in New York
or Geneva. He also heads up one of the oldest
Model United Nations program in the country.
Dr. McBride studied at Purdue University (B.A.,
Ph.D.).
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Ext. 4854 |
mmcbride@whittier.edu |
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Fred
Bergerson
Dr. Bergerson is a specialist in public
administration, the presidency and Congress, and
civil military relations. He came to Whittier
College in 1971 from Johns Hopkins (B.A.) and
Vanderbilt University (Ph.D.). Dr. Bergerson's
book, The Army Gets an Air Force, won a
prize from the American Political Science
Association as the best dissertation in public
administration. More recently, he has served
as a Fellow for the U.S. State Department in the
area of arms control, working on the issues of
conventional arms control and confidence building
measures. Dr. Bergerson has
also served as a Congressional Fellow in Washington,
D.C.
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Ext. 4853 |
fbergerson@whittier.edu |
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Jeremy Busacca
Professor Jeremy Busacca is presently a doctoral
candidate in the Political Science Department at
Claremont Graduate University. His two fields of
study are comparative politics and political theory.
He received his B.A. in Politics from UC Santa Cruz
in 1994, and was awarded his M.A. in International
Studies from CGU in 1999. His research interests
include social movements, ethnicity and nationalism,
identity formation, media studies, and political
sociology. His dissertation combines these
widespread fields by investigating how American
Indian Media portrayed the American Indian Movement,
and which levels of identity were being highlighted
and contested in these media. Outside of academia
and being an admitted news and current events
junkie, Jeremy's recreational activities include
cinema, hiking, and cooking.
Previously, Jeremy has been a lecturer at Chapman
University, Chaffey Community College, Cal Poly
Pomona, Pomona College, and Whittier College. He has
taught courses on non-violent social change, media
and politics, American government, classical
political theory and introductory courses in
political science and political theory.
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Ext. 4371 |
jbusacca@whittier.edu |
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John Neu
Dr. Neu is a lawyer and
specialist in African politics. He also teaches
courses in Constitutional Law, judicial process and
behavior, administrative law and criminal justice,
as well as Business Law in the Dept. of Business
Administration. Dr. Neu received his law degree
from Creighton U., his master's degree from Harvard
University, and his Ph.D. from the University of
Nebraska. He maintains an active license in
California and taught at Whittier’s Law School for
about 10 years. Dr. Neu is also active in the gay
rights movement, and is writing a book on how the
law relates to GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgendered) persons. He came to Whittier
College in 1971.
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Ext. 4306 |
jneu@whittier.edu |
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Joyce
Kaufman Dr.
Kaufman is a specialist in international relations,
American foreign policy, and Asian politics.
She attended New York University (B.A.) and the
University of Maryland (Ph.D.). Dr. Kaufman
runs a major foreign policy simulation on campus
each year that involves several local high schools.
She also serves as director of the Whittier Scholars
Program, recently called the crown jewel of Whittier
College by outside reviewers. Dr. Kaufman has
worked for the Defense Department, and recently
published a book on the future role of N.A.T.O.
She joined the Whittier College faculty in 1985.
Research
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Ext. 4808 |
jkaufman@whittier.edu |
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Deborah
Norden
Dr. Norden has been at Whittier College since 2000,
teaching courses on Latin American Politics,
Comparative Politics, Political Violence, and
Globalization. Her research has focused on Latin
American politics, especially civil-military
relations and democratization in Argentina and
Venezuela, as well as irregular transfers of power
and international democracy promotion. Norden’s
publications include Military Rebellion in
Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation
(University of Nebraska Press, 1996) and Argentina
and the United States: Changing Relations in a
Changing World (co-authored with Roberto Russell,
Routledge Press, 2002), as well several journal
articles and book chapters. Dr. Norden received her
B.A. from the University of Michigan, and her M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
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Ext. 4826 |
dnorden@whittier.edu |
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Owen Newcomer
Dr. Owen Newcomer has a Ph.D. in Political
Science from the University of Southern California.
After three decades of teaching American and
California Government and Politics, he now divides
his time between teaching and serving on the
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Ext. 4369 |
onewcomer@whittier.edu |
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