Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Administrative Assistants

Lisa Mabardy

Cyndy Northgraves

Ivan Arreguin-Toft
Visiting Assistant Professor
iarregui@wellesley.edu

Ivan Arreguoin-Toft's teaching and research interests include asymmetric conflict (insurgency, counterinsurgency, and terrorism), women and power, Russian foreign policy, interstate politics, and international relations theory. His most recent book is How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His current book manuscript explores the military and political consequences of the deliberate targeting of civilians in war, and is entitled The [F]utility of Barbarism. In addition to his teaching position at Wellesley College, he is currently a research fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights, and an inaugural fellow in the Kennedy School's Women in Public Policy Program.

Tom Burke
Associate Professor
B. A., University of Minnesota; M. A., Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley
tburke@wellesley.edu

Tom Burke writes and teaches about law and American politics. He has recently focused on legal implementation—how “law on the books” translates, or fails to translate,into social practices. His article, “The Diffusion of Rights,” with co-author Jeb Barnes, was published in the fall, 2006 issue of Law and Society Review. He has published articles on the Americans with Disabilities Act, disability politics in the European Union, American campaign finance law, and the place of rights in American politics. He is the co-author, with Lief Carter, of the updated 7th edition of Reason in Law (2007), and the author of Lawyers, Lawsuits and Legal Rights: The Struggle Over Litigationin American Society (2002). At Wellesley, Tom teaches the introductory American politics course, and courses on health politics, disability, the First Amendment and legal institutions. He will be on leave at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California-Berkeley in Fall, 2007.

Christopher D. Candland
Associate Professor
B. A., Haverford College; M. A., Ph. D., Columbia University
ccandlan@wellesley.edu

Christopher Candland teaches courses on Comparative Politics; Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment; Politics of South Asia; International Relations of South Asia; Literature and Politics of South Asia; Politics of Community Development; and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Religion, and Violence. Candland's research is concerned with the politics of education, health, and labor in Southern Asia. Candland earned his B.A. from Haverford College, where he studied philosophy, religion, and fine arts.

Candland's book Labor, Democratization, and Development in India and Pakistan was published by Routledge in 2007. His co-edited volume The Politics of Labor in a Global Age was published by Oxford in 2001. He has published more than one dozen book chapters and several articles in peer-reviewed journal, including The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Critical Asian Studies, The Iranian Journal of International Affairs, The Journal of International Affairs, New Political Economy, and Policy Sciences. Topics include obstacles to human development in Pakistan; religious education in Pakistan; religion and community development in Southern Asia; labor unions and privatization patterns in South Asia; U.S. democratization initiatives in the Middle East; trade and international labor standards; and constitutionalism in Indonesia. His present research is on reproductive health in Indonesia and educational reform in Pakistan. Most of his publications, working papers, and course syllabi are available here.

Candland has worked for the United Nations on disarmament, for the U.S. House of Representatives on trade and labor standards, and for the U.S. Department of State on international labor affairs.

Debra Candreva
Visiting Assistant Professor
B. A., Tufts University; Ph. D. Johns Hopkins University
dcandrev@wellesley.edu

Debra Candreva specializes in Political Theory. She has taught previously at Wellesley in the Fall of 2000, and also has taught at Boston University and Johns Hopkins. Her publications include The Enemies of Perfection: Oakeshott, Plato and the Critique of Rationalism (Lexington Books, 2004), and “Oakeshott and Plato: a Philosophical Conversation,” in The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott, ed. Corey Abel and Timothy Fuller (Imprint Academic, 2005). She is currently working on a project that examines the historical and current connections between rationalism and imperialism.

Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Science
B. A., Oberlin College; M. A., Ph.D., Harvard University
edesombr@wellesley.edu

Beth DeSombre came to Wellesley in 2001 after teaching at Colby College for six years.  Her main focus is international environmental politics and law.  She also works on international law and international organization.  Recent projects have involved the impact of flag-of-convenience shipping, the regulation of international fisheries, and global environmental institutions generally.  A new project examines the changing costs of implementing global environmental agreements. Her first book, Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power (MIT Press, 2000) won the 2001 Chadwick F. Alger Prize for the best book published in the area of international organization, and the 2001 Lynton Caldwell Award for the best book published on environmental policy. A second edition of her textbook, The Global Environment and World Politics (Continuum, 2002) has been published in 2007. She is also the author of Flagging Standards: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea (MIT Press, 2006), and Global Environmental Institutions (Routledge, 2006).

Roxanne L. Euben
Mildred Lane Kemper Professor
B. A., Wesleyan University; M. A., Ph. D., Princeton University
reuben@wellesley.edu

Roxanne L. Euben's research and teaching is located at the intersection of Western and non-Western political theory--a newly emerging field called comparative political theory--with a specific focus on the relationship between Islamic and Western political thought. She is the author of Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search Of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2006), Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton University Press, 1999), and is co-editor of a forthcoming reader on contemporary Islamist political thought (Princeton University Press). She has also written a variety of articles/chapters on comparative political theory, including "Jihad and Political Violence" (Current History, 2002), "Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory," Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), "Contingent Borders, Syncretic Perspectives: Globalization, Political Theory and Islamizing Knowledge," International Studies Review, (Spring 2002), Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices, in What is Political Theory? (Sage Publications, 2004) and "A Counternarrative of Shared Ambivalence: Some Muslim and Western Perspectives on Science and Reason" (Common Knowledge, 2003). Euben has previously been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wellesley.

Stacie Goddard
Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D. Columbia University
sgoddard@wellesley.edu

Stacie Goddard specializes in international relations theory, with a specific focus on international security. She is particularly interested in sociological models of rhetoric, studying how changes in rhetoric can influence bargaining and conflict. Currently she is working on her manuscript, Uncommon Ground: indivisible territory and the politics of legitimacy, which analyzes how territory becomes indivisible: why it that places such as Ulster, Germany, Jerusalem, and Kashmir appeared non-negotiable at certain moments of history. Her work on indivisibility was recently published in International Organization. Other research has been published in International Security and the European Journal of International Relations. Goddard has been a fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Security Studies at Harvard University; the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; the Center for International Studies at Princeton University; and the Center of International Studies at the University of Southern California.

Hahrie C. Han
Knafel Assistant Professor
B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D. Stanford University
hhan@wellesley.edu

Hahrie C. Han is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College.  Han received her Ph.D. in American Politics from Stanford University and her B.A. in American History and Literature from Harvard University.  She served as a National Issues and Policy Advisor to Senator Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign in 1999-2000, where she focused on issues related to the environment, campaign finance reform, race relations, and agriculture.  She also served as a Research Associate with the National Issues Project in Washington D.C from 1997-1999.  Han’s principal research interests focus on political participation, congressional elections, and the role of organized interests in American politics.  She is currently working on a book examining the sources of people’s motivation to participate in politics and the implications this has for institutions of democracy.  Her work has been published in places including the British Journal of Political Science and Legislative Studies Quarterly.  Han was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 2002-2005, and received Stanford University’s Centennial Teaching Award in 2002 and Wellesley College’s Apgar Award for Innovative Teaching in 2006.

Robin A. Harper
Visiting Assistant Professor
BA, Smith College; MIA, George Washington University; MPA, Columbia University; M.Phil. & Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York
rharper@wellesley.edu

Robin A. Harper focuses on issues of immigration, citizenship, and civic engagement. She is especially interested in the interaction between public policy and behavior. She is teaching American Politics, the Presidency and a seminar on Citizenship. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation, "Does Citizenship Really Matter? An Exploration of the Role Citizenship Plays in the Civic Incorporation of Permanent Residents and Naturalized Citizens in New York and Berlin." She has taught at the City University of New York before coming to Wellesley. She is also working on a research project on naturalization ceremonies and processes comparing classic immigration, civic- and ethnic-based states.

William A. Joseph
Professor
B. A., Cornell University; M. A., Ph. D., Stanford University
wjoseph@wellesley.edu

Bill Joseph's major area of research interest is contemporary Chinese politics and ideology, particularly the radicalism of Mao Zedong and its impact on China's political and economic development. In addition to China, his teaching interests include the Vietnam war, revolutionary movements, communist and post-communist regimes, and the political economy of development in the Third World. He has recently co-edited Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas, 4th edition (2006) and The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 2nd Edition (2001). He is an Associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. Mr. Joseph has served as the faculty director of the Elisabeth Luce Moore '24 Wellesley-Yenching Program, which supports the College's ties to Asia, and director of Wellesley's International Relations and East Asian Studies programs.

Marion Just
Professor
B. A., Barnard College; M. A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph. D., Columbia University
mjust@wellesley.edu

Marion Just's research focuses on elections, politics and the media. She is a co-author of several books, including Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign, Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning (both from University of Chicago Press) and The Election of 1996 (Chatham House) as well as journal articles and contributions to edited volumes. Ms. Just is a Research Associate at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Harvard University. She was a member of the original Coordinating Team for Web, White & Blue, an Internet voter information project jointly sponsored by the Markle Foundation and Harvard's Shorenstein Center. In 1998 she served on the Campaign Reform Task Force and is currently a member of the board of the Reform Institute. Ms. Just is a consultant to the Local News Study of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. She is a past president of the Northeastern Political Science Associationand the New England Political Science Association and former Chair of the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent paper is about negativity in election campaigns. In 2002, Ms. Just received an "Excellence in Mentoring Award"from the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association.

Joel Krieger
Norma Wilentz Hess Professor
B. A., Yale University; Ph. D. Harvard University
jkrieger@wellesley.edu

A scholar of comparative and international politics, Joel Krieger, born in 1951, earned his B.A. in political science from Yale University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1979. Currently the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, he has also been a visiting professor at such prestigious institutions as Columbia University and New York University and a research fellow at Cambridge University and Harvard University. Professor Krieger is the recipient of numerous academic distinctions and has received research grants, fellowships, and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Council for European Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Commission of the European Communities. Krieger is the author and editor of numerous articles and books on British and European politics, political economy, comparative social policy, the role of new information and production technologies in national competitiveness, and the political and policy challenges of globalization.

Katharine H. S. Moon
Professor
B. A., Smith College; M. A., Ph. D., Princeton University
kmoon@wellesley.edu

Katharine H.S. Moon is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations (Columbia University, 1997; Korean edition by Sam-in Publishing Co., 2002) and other publications on the U.S.-Korea alliance and social movements in Korea and Asia. They are available in edited volumes and academic journals such as Asian Survey and The Journal of Asian Studies and Korean publications such as Changjak gwa Bipyeong, Dangdae Bipyeong, and Newsweek Korea. Currently, Moon is writing a book on “anti-Americanism” in Korea-U.S. relations from the perspective of Korea’s democratization and the politics of social movements. Moon received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 to conduct field research in Korea on this subject and was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in 2002-03. Professor Moon has also served as a trustee of Smith College and as a research consultant in the Office of the Senior Coordinator for Women’s Issues in the U.S. Department of State, focusing on issues related to the trafficking of women and children. Moon currently serves on the editorial board of several journals of international relations and politics and consults for NGOs in the U.S. and Korea. She also serves on policy task forces designed to examine current U.S.-Korea relations.

Craig N. Murphy
M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations
B. A., Grinnell College; M. A., Ph. D., University of North Carolina
On Leave, 2007-08
cmurphy@wellesley.edu

Craig Murphy's teaching and research interests include international political economy, north-south relations, and international organization. His most recent books are The UN Development Programme: A Better Way (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development (Routledge 2005). He is past-president of the International Studies Association, past-chair of the Academic Council on the UN System and one of the founding editors of the international public policy journal, Global Governance. He is currently collaborating with his wife, JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT, on a history of voluntary consensus standard setting in industrial and social fields.

Robert Paarlberg
Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science
B. A., Carleton College; Ph. D., Harvard University
rpaarlbe@wellesley.edu

Several of Rob Paarlberg's courses in the political science department draw upon his current research and consulting interests, which are in the area of international food, agriculture, and science policy. Since 1999 he has published two university press books, one on the reform of U.S. agricultural policy and another on policies toward genetically modified crops and foods in developing countries. His current projects include a book on agricultural science in Africa and a consulting project on biofortified foods for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has also published a policy monograph on U.S. foreign economic policy with the Brookings Institution, and on environmentally sustainable agriculture for the Overseas Development Council. Prof. Paarlberg maintains ongoing consulting relationships with the National Research Council, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the National Intelligence Council, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. In 2004-05 he was a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and he remains an associate of the Harvard Center for International Affairs.

Wilbur C. Rich
Professor
B. S., Tuskegee Institute; Ed.M., Ph. D., University of Illinois
wrich@wellesley.edu

Wilbur Rich's major areas of research interest are urban politics, presidential politics, public policy, and minority politics. His latest book is David Dinkins and New York City Politics. His latest edited book is African American Perspectives on Political Science. His other interests include political biographies, public school politics, and organizational theories. Most of his organizational theory research appears in conference proceedings and academic journals. He is the current president of Urban Section of the American Political Science Association. He is also vice president of the New England Political Science Association.

Alan H. Schechter
Professor (Emeritus)
Director, Wellesley Washington Summer Internship Program
B. A., Amherst College; Ph. D. Columbia University
aschecht@wellesley.edu

Alan Schechter has taught American constitutional issues, politics, and public policy at Wellesley College for 45 years. He was chairman of the Political Science Department from 1970-1976 and from 1979-1982.  Before coming to Wellesley, he received a B.A. from Amherst College, studied at Yale Law School, and earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University. He was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2003, but continues to direct the Wellesley Washington Internship Program and a Wintersession course entitled "Washington Decision-Making."

Professor Schechter was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President Clinton in 1994, reappointed in 1997, and selected for a third three year term in 2000. He was vice chairman of the Board in 1997 and 1998, and chaired the Board for three years. The Fulbright Board works closely with Congress, supervises the operation of the exchange program in 140 countries and awards more than 5,000 scholarships annually to foreigners and Americans to study, teach and conduct research in the US and abroad.

Prior to joining the Fulbright Board, Professor Schechter had extensive experience in international educational activities, beginning in 1960 when he was a Fulbright Scholar at the International Court of Justice and the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His research led to a book on international administrative law published by the Royal Society of International Affairs of the University of London. He returned to Columbia University to complete his Ph.D. dissertation on the impact of government service on presidential appointees from the business community in the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy eras.

One of Professor Schechter's books, Contemporary Constitutional Issues, published by McGraw-Hill, focused on the law and politics of six major domestic issues: voting rights, dissent and the war in Vietnam, crime in the streets, fair housing, public aid to parochial schools, and northern school segregation. He has also written on housing discrimination in American suburbs.

He revised and edited The Policies of the Fulbright Scholarship Board, a volume which defines all of the rules of the Fulbright Program. In addition, while on the Board, he wrote research papers on "The Fulbright Program in Russia and the Newly Independent States" and on "Linking the Fulbright Program with International Organizations and Non-profit Groups Around the World".

For many years, Professor Schechter has written articles on the Supreme Court and the Constitution which have been published in newspapers around the country. These columns focus on such topics as constitutional principles, presidential power, freedom of expression, equality for women, legislative apportionment, individual liberty.  He has published articles and reviews in the American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Urban Affairs Quarterly, the Columbia Journal of World Business, Fordham Law Review, and Perspective.  He also serves as a consultant to law firms on questions of judicial review and statutory interpretation.

Professor Schechter has frequently lectured abroad on American politics, elections, and law under the auspices of the United States Information Agency and the Department of State.  In the past thirty years, he has appeared on commercial and public television and radio programs broadcast in Italy, France, Germany, England, Russia, Poland, Switzerland, Holland, India, Japan, Malta, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.

In the course of his career, Professor Schechter has received numerous awards. In addition to the Fulbright Scholarship noted above, he has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Ford Foundation, the US Steel Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, and the Huber Foundation for his research and his commitment to undergraduate teaching.

Nancy Scherer
Assistant Professor
B.A., Lafayette College; J.D., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
nscherer@wellesley.edu

Nancy Scherer has research and teaching interests in American politics with a primary emphasis on judicial politics and law. She is the author of the book Scoring Points: Politicians, Activists and the Lower Federal Court Appointment Process (Stanford University Press, 2005). She has also published in the journals Political Science Quarterly, Law and Society Review and Judicature, and has a forthcoming article (2008) in the Journal of Politics on topics such as judicial decision-making behavior and judicial appointment politics. Currently, her research is focused on diversifying the racial and gender make-up of the federal judiciary, and its potential impact on citizens’ views of the justice system. She was the 2002 recipient of the Edwin S. Corwin Award, given by the American Political Science Association, for best dissertation on public law.

Edward Stettner
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor
B. A., Brown University; M. A., Ph. D., Princeton University
estettne@wellesley.edu

Ed Stettner teaches a range of political theory courses, and is interested in a number of issues in theory. For example, in recent years he has directed 370 Senior Honors projects on issues of gender equality in American political thought, the meaning of the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, and the political theory of such diverse figures as St. Thomas Aquinas, Niccolo Machiavelli, G.W.F. Hegel, Isaiah Berlin, John Marshall, and Franklin Roosevelt. However, his own research interests are in American political thought, particularly in the early years of the 20th century. He published a book, Shaping Modern Liberalism: Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought, which argues that Croly, a journalist who founded the New Republic, was important in the development of the modern American conception of liberalism. Currently, Prof. Stettner is researching American socialist thought in this period.

Lois Wasserspring
Senior Lecturer
B. A., Cornell University; M. A., Princeton University
lwassers@wellesley.edu

Lois Wasserspring has, since her own undergraduate days, been fascinated by the richness and complexity of Latin American culture and politics. She has both traveled widely and lived extensively in Latin America, with particular research interest in Mexico, where she has been both a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Professora Visitante at El Colegio de Mexico, and Cuba. As a student of Comparative Politics, Ms. Wasserspring has been broadly interested in issues of Third World development, socialization, political culture and political participation. Most recently, her research has focused on issues of gender and the development process. Ms. Wasserspring is currently engaged in two research projects, one analyzing the impact of the Cuban Revolution upon women's lives, and the other focusing upon women artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico and the inter-connections between gender and poverty in Mexican rural development. She is the author of the book, Oaxacan Ceramics; Traditional Folk Art by Oaxacan Women (2000). She is co-director of Wellesley's Latin American Studies program. During her sabbatical leave in 1997-98, Ms Wasserspring was a visiting research associate at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.