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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor, Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, August 2007–present
Head, Political Science, August 2015–present
Interim Head, Political Science, June-August 2015
Acting Head, Political Science, August 2013-August 2014
Associate Professor, Political Science, August 1999–2007
Professor (0%), Recreation, Sport and Tourism, August 2016-present
Faculty Affiliate: Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy, European Union Center, Global Studies Program, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, School of Earth Sciences and the Environment, Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities
Director, European Union Center, University of Illinois, July 2006–June 2010
Associate Director for Academic Affairs, August 2001–June 2006
Acting Director, July–December 2003
Program Board, August 2000–June 2010
U.S. Coordinator, Good Governance Consortium, August 2003–2010
Assistant Professor, Political Science, and Assistant Research Scientist, School of Public Policy,
University of Michigan, September 1992–June 1999
Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, April–June 1992
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Rochester, January 1990–July 1992
Instructor, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Summer 1989
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Political Science, December 1990
M.A., Political Science, June 1987
Stanford University
B.A., with Distinction, International Relations, German Studies, both with Honors, 1984
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Commencement Address, “Shenanigans,” LAS Honors Convocation, 30 April 2017.
Leslie Hewes Award for the Best Paper in the Social Sciences published in Volume 22 of Great Plains Research, for “Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and Trans-Mississippi West.”
Commencement Address, “Doing What You Don’t Do,” LAS Honors Convocation, 1 May 2011.
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2011.
LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2011.
Honored with creation of the Robert Pahre Student Scholarship Fund at the European Union Center, University of Illinois, 2010.
Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, by vote of graduate students in Political Science, 2010, 2014, and 2015.
Clarence A. Berdahl Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Political Science, 2007.
“List of Instructors Rated Excellent by their Students,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 1999 (PS 375), Spring 2000 (PS 296), Fall 2002 (PS 480), Spring 2003 (PS 378), Spring 2005 (PS 385), Fall 2005 (PS385), Spring 2010 (PS199 Discovery, PS 586), Summer 2010 (PS 199 YST), Spring 2011 (PS 457), Summer 2011 (PS 199 YST), Fall 2011 (PS 199 DSC, PS 457), Spring 2012 (PS 393), Fall 2012 (PS 199 DSC, PS 225); Summer 2014 (PS 224); Summer 2015 (PS 224); Summer 2016 (PS 224), Spring 2017 (PS 225).
PUBLICATIONS–Book length
National Park Interpretation in the West, editor of special issue of The Journal of the West, Summer 2011.
Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The “Agreeable Customs” of 1815-1914, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation, editor, Palgrave, 2006.
International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
Leading Questions: How Hegemony Affects the International Political Economy, University of Michigan Press, 1999.
New Games: Using Game Theory to Link and International and Domestic Politics, special issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1997, co-edited with Paul Papayoanou.
Creative Marginality: Innovation at the Intersections of Social Sciences. Westview Press, 1990, with Mattei Dogan.
PUBLICATIONS–Articles in refereed outlets
“Teaching Politics in the National Parks,” Journal of Political Science Education, with Carie Steele, 11(3): 1-18, 2015.
“Party On! Political Parties in European Foreign Economic Policies,” Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 15(11): 35-47 (Spring/Summer 2014), with Kostas Kourtikakis,.
“What Makes it Wild? Visitors’ Constructions of Wildlife and Wilderness in the Greater Yellowstone Area,” International Journal of Wilderness 19(3): 25-31, December, 2013, with Carie Steele.
“Reconsidering National Park Interpretation on the Great Plains and Trans-Mississippi West,” Great Plains Research, 22 (2): 99–122, Fall 2012 (lead article), awarded the Leslie Hewes Award for the Best Paper in the Social Sciences published in Volume 22 of Great Plains Research.
“Political Opposition to Transboundary Cooperation in the Greater Yellowstone Area,” Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies 17(2): 99-128, August 2011.
“Patterns of National Park Interpretation in the West,” Journal of the West 50(3): 7-13, Summer 2011.
“Telling Yellowstone’s Stories,” Journal of the West, 50(3): 31-42, Summer 2011.
“Showdown at Yellowstone: The Victims and Survivors of Ecosystem Management,” Journal of the West 50(1): 66-73, Winter 2011.
“Fort Davis National Historic Site: An Indian Fort Without Indians,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 37: 3-27, 2011 (lead article).
“One Case to Rule Them All: Theoretical Synthesis and the Repeal of the Corn Laws,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 27-A, pp. 279–292, 2009.
“International Cooperation as Interagency Cooperation: Examples from Wildlife and Habitat Preservation,” Perspectives on Politics 7(4): 883-899, December 2009.
“Privatizing Isle Royale? The Limits of Free Market Environmentalism,” George Wright Forum 25(3): 23-39, March 2009.
“The Myths of Turkish Influence in the European Union,” Journal of Common Market Studies 47(2): 357–384, February 2009, with Burcu Uçaray-Mangıtlı.
“Culture and Power – wo bleibt die Ökonomie?” Erwägen – Wissen – Ethik 17(1): 34-37, April 2006, with Gerhard Fink.
“Hegemony and the International Economy,” Comparative Sociology 4(3-4): 451-477, December 2005.
“Patently Misleading: Partial Implementation and Bargaining Leverage in Sino-American Negotiations on Intellectual Property Rights,” International Organization, 59(3): 695-730, Summer 2005, with Andrew Mertha.
“Formal Theory and Case-Study Methods in EU Studies,” European Union Politics 6(1): 113-146, January 2005.
“House Rules: Institutional Choice and United States Trade Negotiations,” Conflict Management and Peace Sciences 21(3): 195-213, Fall 2004.
“Most-Favored-Nation Clauses, Domestic Politics, and Clustered Negotiations,” International Organization 55(4): 861-892, Summer 2001.
“Divided Government and International Cooperation in Austria-Hungary, Sweden-Norway, and the European Union,” European Union Politics 2(2): 131-162, Spring 2001.
“Reactions and Reciprocity: Tariffs and Trade Liberalization in 1815-1914,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(4): 467-492, August 1998.
“Endogenous Domestic Institutions in Two-Level Games: Parliamentary Oversight in Denmark and Elsewhere,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 41(1):147-174, February 1997.
“Using Formal Theory to Link International and Domestic Politics,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 41(1): 4-11, February 1997, with Paul Papayoanou.
“Patterns of Knowledge Communities in the Social Sciences,” Library Trends 45(2): 204-225, Fall 1996.
“Mathematical Discourse and Crossdisciplinary Communities: The Case of Political Economy,” Social Epistemology 10(1): 55-73, 1996.
“Positivist Discourse and Social Scientific Communities: Towards an Epistemological Sociology of Science,” Social Epistemology 9(3): 233-255, 1995.
“Multilateral Cooperation in an Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 38(2): 326-352, June 1994.
“Histoire Sociologique et Sociologie Historique aux Etats Unis,” L’année sociologique, October 1991, with Mattei Dogan.
“Noile Ştiinţe Sociale,” Alternative: Revista Independentă de Critica series II, vol. 15-16: 10-11, August 1991, with Mattei Dogan.
“Scholarly Reputation and Obsolescence in the Social Sciences: Innovation as a Team Sport,” International Social Science Journal 125: 417-427, August 1990, with Mattei Dogan.
“Les Sciences Sociales: Segmentations et Croisements,” Symposium: Les Enjeux, Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1990, pp. 1119-1126, with Mattei Dogan.
“Hybrid Subfields in the Social Sciences: Origins and Contemporary Patterns,” International Social Science Journal 121: 457-470, August 1989, with Mattei Dogan.
“The Fragmentation and Recombination of the Social Sciences,” Studies in International Comparative Development 24(2): 1-18, June 1989, with Mattei Dogan.
“The Break-up of the German Weak Declension,” Leuvense Bijdragen 74(1): 53-62, 1985.
PUBLICATIONS–Book chapters
“Material Falsehoods: Living a Lie at This Old Fort,” Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture, edited by Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman, Springer, 2015, Chapter 4, pp. 61-80.
“Teaching the Parks,” in Proceedings of the 2013 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, edited by Samantha Weber. Hancock, Michigan: George Wright Society, 2014, pp. 127-133, with Carie Steele.
“Telling Stories of Nature and Humans in Midwest National Parks,” in Proceedings of the 2013 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, edited by Samantha Weber. Hancock, Michigan: George Wright Society, 2014, pp. 121-126.
“Theoretical Concerns in Networks of Protected Areas: Symmetry and Asymmetry” in Proceedings of the 2011 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, edited by Samantha Weber. Hancock, Michigan: George Wright Society, 2012, pp. 260-64.
“Game-Theoretic Insights into Effective Cooperation Among National Parks and Indian Tribes,” in Protected Areas in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 2009 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, edited by Samantha Weber. Hancock, Michigan: George Wright Society 2010, pp. 67-72.
“Divided Government and International Cooperation: An Overview,” in Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation, edited by Robert Pahre, Palgrave, 2006, pp. 1-20.
“Divided Government and International Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century,” in Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation, edited by Robert Pahre, Palgrave, 2006, pp. 107-132.
“Conclusion: Democracy and Foreign Policy,” in Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation, edited by Robert Pahre, Palgrave, 2006, pp. 175-200.
“The Political Economy of European Integration in a Spatial Model,” in The Political Economy of European Integration, edited by Erik Jones and Amy Verdun, Routledge, 2004, pp. 179-190.
“Tariffs and Modern Political Institutions: An Introduction,” in International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001 (with McGillivray, McLean, and Schonhardt-Bailey).
“Agreeable Duties: The Tariff Treaty Regime in the Nineteenth Century,”in International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
“Comment: Labor Standards, Trade Sanctions and the Hijacking Hypothesis,” Constituent Interests and U.S. Trade Policies, edited by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert Stern, University of Michigan Press, 1998, pp. 255-262.
“British Hegemony and the Repeal of the Corn Laws,” in The Rise of Free Trade, volume 4, Free Trade Reappraised: The New Secondary Literature, ed. Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 570-596.
“Wider and Deeper: The Links between Expansion and Enlargement in the European Communities,” Chapter 6 in Towards a New Europe: Stops and Starts in Regional Integration, edited by Gerald Schneider, Patricia A. Weitsman, and Thomas Bernauer. Praeger/Greenwood, 1995, pp. 111-136.
PUBLICATIONS—Reprints and translations
l’Innovation dans les Sciences Sociales: la Marginalité Creatrice, by Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1991, with Mattei Dogan. Translation of Creative Marginality, modified for a French audience.
Las Nuevas Ciencias Sociales: La Marginalidad Creadora. Mexico City: Editorial Grijalbo, 1993, with Mattei Dogan. Translation of l’Innovation dans les Sciences Sociales.
Noile Ştiinţe Sociale: Interpenetrarea disciplinelor. Buchareşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1993, with Mattei Dogan. Translation of l’Innovation dans les Sciences Sociales, Nicolae Lotreanu, trans.
“Mathematical Discourse and Cross-Disciplinary Communities: The Case of Political Economy,” in Discourse Synthesis: Studies in Historical and Contemporary Social Epistemology, edited by Raymond G. McInnis, Greenwood, 2001. (reprint)
“Most-Favored-Nation Clauses, Domestic Politics, and Clustered Negotiations,” Rational Design: Explaining the Design of International Institutions, edited by Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal, Cambridge, 2004 (reprint)
BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Photography resume available by request.
“Reimagining the National Park System,” The Blue Review, September 12, 2017, https://thebluereview.org/reimagining-national-park-system/
“Sandy Solitude On Memorial Day,” National Parks Traveler, May 24, 2017, with three photographs, https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2017/05/sandy-solitude-memorial-day
“Yellowstone’s Snake River Country: In Backpacking Heaven,” with five photographs, News-Gazette, December 11, 2016, p. F-6, and http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2016-12-11/travelyellowstone-national-park-backpacking-heaven.html
Behind the Scenes, Illinois News Bureau, three blog posts
“Between wilderness, tourism and civilization,” July 18, 2016, https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/385407
“A night in grizzly country,” with four photographs, July 21, 2016, https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/386169
“Tourist behaving badly,” with five photographs, July 25, 2016, https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/387875
“What’s Most Important for the Future of Our National Parks?” Interviewed by Craig Chamberlain for the “A Minute With” feature on Illinois home page, June 8, 2016, https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/370816
“Native-American Meta-Interpretation,” Legacy, September/October 2015, pp. 25-27, with Audrey Neville.
“Abraham Lincoln: Park Interpreter,” Legacy, July/August 2015, pp. 36-37.
“Fifty Years Of The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee,” National Parks Traveler, 20 April.
Review of Stan Stevens, editor, Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas: A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights, in Native American and Indigenous Studies, 2015.
“Study on How Tourists Use Social Media in Wilderness,” International Journal of Wilderness 20(3): 36, 38 (December, 2014), with Audrey Neville, with photograph.
“Talking Back at Washita,” Legacy, January/February 2014, pp. 32-35, with four photographs.
“A Duo Of Dunes: Indiana Dunes and Sleeping Bear Dunes,” National Parks Traveler, October 14, 2013, with four photographs.
“Midwestern Gems: Illinois Is Surrounded by States with Natural National Parks,” Illinois Issues July/August 2013, pp. 1-5 (cover story), with nineteen photographs.
“America’s Smallest National Park,” National Parks Traveler, May 6, 2013
“Wake, Nicodemus!” National Parks Traveler, April 8, 2013.
“Teaching Park Politics In Yellowstone National Park,” National Parks Traveler, March 3, 2013.
“Unexpected Treasures on Nebraska’s High Plains: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument,” National Parks Traveler, September 30, 2012, with four photographs.
“Walking On The Wild Side Of Dinosaur National Monument,” National Parks Traveler, April 24, 2012, with four photographs.
“How the Cherokee Fought the Civil War,” Indian Country Today, 28 March 2012, pp. 34-37, with photograph; reprinted online.
“No Longer Circling the Wagons: Many National Parks Get Indian Stories Wrong,” Indian Country Today, 7 September 2011, pp. 20-25; reprinted online, with photograph
Reprinted: National Parks Traveler, Save the Tribe, Patrick Henry Press News.
“Ecosystem Management,” Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West, edited by Steven L. Danver, Mesa Verde Publishing/CQ Press, 2013, pp. 300-301.
“Green River,” Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West, edited by Steven L. Danver, Mesa Verde Publishing/CQ Press, 2013, pp. 364-366.
“National Park Service,” Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West, edited by Steven L. Danver, Mesa Verde Publishing/CQ Press, 2013, pp. 488-490.
“A journey through wild, rugged terrain,” News Gazette, May 29, 2011, p. F6, with four photographs.
“Hidden Gems: Less famous national parks offer special finds,” Bloomington Pantagraph, 10 October 2010, pp. F1, F6 with two photographs, reprinted online.
“The National Park Service offers choices in your own backyard,” Decatur Herald & Review, 3 August 2010, pp. D1-D2, with five photographs, reprinted online.
“Solitude, scenery make Texas’ Big Bend National Park a big wonder,” News Gazette, 11 April 2010, p. F-6, with five photographs, reprinted online.
“The Politics of Mammoth Cave National Park,” Political Science Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2010.
“Should the Free-Market Manage Public Parks?” in Change and the Heartland 1: 12-13, Environmental Change Institute, University of Illinois, June 2010.
“Commentary: International Political Economy and the Great Recession: Introduction,” International Interactions 35(1): 1-2.
“The Politics of Wildlife and Wilderness in the Greater Yellowstone Area,” Political Science Alumni Newsletter, Summer 2009.
“The Perils of Partnership,” Opinion-Editorial, News-Gazette, 13 October 2008, p. B-1.
Review of Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist by Sharon Fisher, Slavic Review 67(1): 214-5 (Spring 2008).
Review of The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration by Glyn Morgan. Journal of Church and State 49(1): 145-146 (January, 2007).
“The European Constitution: Gambling for Small Stakes?” The Illinois International Review, 2: 6-7, Spring 2006.
Review of Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation 1850-2000, by Andrew G. Brown, for World Trade Review, 2004.
Review of Negotiating the World Economy, by John S. Odell, for Perspectives on Politics 1(2): 462-463, June 2003.
Review of Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy, by Michael J. Gilligan, for American Political Science Review, 93(3): 1039, December 1999.
Review of Friends but No Allies, Stephen C. Neff, for American Political Science Review 86: 591, June 1992.
Review of The Limits of Rationality, Karen Schweers Cook and Margaret Levi, eds., for Political Psychology 14: (1) 177-179, March 1993.
GRANTS (excluding conference and travel support)
“Online and Experiential,” Provost’s Initiative on Teaching Advancement, July 2014, Illinois Provost’s Office ($6,900).
“Online Learning Activities,” Faculty Retreat Teaching Grant, May 2014, Illinois Provost’s Office ($4,000).
“Engaging the European Union: Institutions, Networks, and Policies in Transatlantic Relations,” “Focal Point,” Graduate College, University of Illinois, 2011-12, with A. Bryan Endres and others ($12,000).
Primary Investigator, European Union Center Title VI gran t#P015A100183 ($935,004) and Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grants #P015B100183 (about $1,080,000), US Department of Education, over 2010-14. Transferred to A. Bryan Endres, 2010.
Campus Research Board, “Markets and States and National Park Interpretation of Native Americans,” $19,250, March 2010.
Primary Investigator, European Union Center, “Getting to Know Europe: From Coal to Corn,” €100,000, October 2008–September 2009.
Primary Investigator, European Union Center Title VI grant ($827,428) and Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grants (about $500,000), US Department of Education, over 2006-2010.
Fulbright Research Scholar, “Euroskepticism and Legislative Politics,” Wirtschaftsuniversität, Vienna, April – June 2005, €7400.
Primary Investigator, “Good Governance Consortium,” US Department of Education (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education), award number P116J030027-04; the consortium was also awarded an associated grant from the European Commission (Bruce Murray, PI). Total (dollars and euros) was about $400,000 over 2003-2006.
Co-Primary Investigator (Kieran Donaghy, PI), European Union Center Title VI grant and Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grants, US Department of Education, $711,114 over 2002-2005.
Co-Primary Investigator (Kieran Donaghy, PI), “The Transformation of Europe,” European Commission, $65,303, AY 2003-2004.
Educational Technology Board of the University of Illinois, “Politics and Culture of the European Union,” $12,000, with Nancy Blake and Bruce Murray, 1999
ADDITIONAL TEACHING CONTRIBUTIONS
Politics in Yellowstone, eTextbook with videos, for Political Science 224 online, Spring 2016, with Audrey Neville.
Developed online learning activity based on a “virtual field trip” to Indiana Dunes, May-December 2014, with Audrey Neville. Delivered in PS 225, Spring 2015.
“Virtual Field Trip,” Video featured in Illinois Faculty Retreat, mini-grants, 5 March 2015, archived at http://www.conferences.illinois.edu/facultyretreat/videos.html
“Engaging International Students,” Video featured in Faculty Retreat, 5 March 2015, archived at http://www.conferences.illinois.edu/facultyretreat/videos.html
Developed online version of Political Science 225, revamped once.
WORKING PAPERS (Papers disseminated formally through institutional series.)
“The Vienna Diplomatic Program: Goals and Outcomes in a Non-Traditional Study Abroad Program,” European Union Center Working Paper Series 8(1), 2011
“The Myths of Turkish Influence in the European Union,” European Union Center Working Paper Series 6(2), 2006, with Burcu Uçaray-Mangıtlı.
“Formal and Informal Ratification in the Intergovernmental Policies of the European Union,” European Union Center Working Paper Series 3(1), 2004.
“Integration and the European Union: A Public Goods Analysis,” School of Public Policy Research Forum on International Economics, Discussion Paper No. 377, 1995.
“A Political Support Model of Tariff Liberalization,” School of Public Policy Research Forum on International Economics, Discussion Paper No. 374, December 1995.
“Who’s on First, What’s on Second”: Actors and Institutions in Two-Level Games,” Institute of Public Policy Studies Research Forum on International Economics, Discussion Paper No. 352, March 1994.
“A Model of Marshall and Multilateralism: Multilateral Cooperation When Equivalent Bilateral Agreements Fail,” Institute of Public Policy Studies Research Forum on International Economics, Discussion Paper No. 328, May 1993.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Discussant, Symposium on Sport for Development and Peace, University of Illinois, March 7, 2017.
Panelist for session on Virtual Reality and Online Learning, iSchool, University of Illinois, November 2, 2016.
“Designing a Virtual Field Trip to Yellowstone: Lessons for Online Learning and Video Interpretation,” Paper prepared for the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, “Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, and Conservation.” October 4-6, 2016, with Audrey Neville and Kate Labore.
“Interpreting Wilderness in the National Parks of the Western Plains.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Literature Association, Big Sky, Montana, September 21-24, 2016.
“Assessing Virtual and Physical Field Trips at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore,” Paper presented to the Parks and Environmental Behavior Research Group, Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism, University of Illinois, 28 April 2016, with Audrey Neville.
“Why Should Educators Combine Online and Experiential Learning, as an Alternative to Traditional Classroom Learning?” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, Portland, Oregon, February 12-14, 2016, with Audrey Neville and Carie Steele.
“Comparing and Assessing Virtual and Physical Field Trips,” paper presented at Midwest Political Science Conference, Chicago, April 16-19, 2015, with Audrey Neville.
“Combining Online and Experiential Learning,” paper presented at Midwest Political Science Conference, Chicago, April 16-19, 2015, with Audrey Neville and Carie Steele.
“Combining Online and Experiential Learning,” paper presented at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning,” Austin, Texas, January 4 – 7, 2015, with Audrey Neville and Carie Steele.
“Modeling the Political Environment for Transboundary Cooperation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” Paper prepared for the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, “Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, and Conservation.” October 6-8, 2014.
“Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Aggregation and Vision Projects,” Poster presentation at the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, “Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, and Conservation.” October 6-8, 2014.
“Euroskeptic Voting in European and National Elections: A Coalition Theory of European Voting,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 2014, with Elizabeth Radziszewski and Jamie Scalera.
“Telling Stories of Nature and Humans in National Parks,” Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the George Wright Society, March 11, 2013.
“Teaching the Parks,” Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the George Wright Society, March 11, 2013, with Carie Steele.
“This Old Fort: Renovating and Forgetting in the Great Plains,” Annual Meeting of the Western Literature Association, Lubbock, Texas, 9 November 2012.
“Resistance is Futile, You Will Be Assimilated: Parties, Coalitions, and the European Union,” Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University, 7 November 2012.
“Reconsidering National Park Interpretation on the Great Plains,” Paper presented at “1862–2012: The Making of the Great Plains,” Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Homestead National Monument of America, March 28-30, 2012.
“Indians in Cowboy Country / Cowboys in Indian Country,” talk to the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois, 23 September 2011.
“Theoretical Concerns in Networks of Protected Areas: Symmetry and Asymmetry” presented at the George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, New Orleans, March 2011.
Organizer and chair, “Social Science Sharing Circle,” George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, New Orleans, March 2011.
“The Vienna Diplomatic Program,” presented at “Impacts: Does Academic Exchange Matter?” organized by the Austrian-American Educational Commission and the Fulbright Commission, Vienna, November 2010.
Panel member, “Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Conservation,” Roots and Shoots, University of Illinois, 27 April 2010.
Panel moderator, conference on “Global Food Security Challenges,” Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, 23 April 2010.
“Ghosts at the Table: Euroskeptic Parties in the EU,” presented to the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, November, 2009.
“Game-Theoretic Insights into Effective Cooperation Among National Parks and Indian Tribes,” George Wright Society, Portland, Oregon, March 2009. Reprinted in Protected Areas in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 2009 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, edited by Samantha Weber, George Wright Society 2010.
“International Organizations, Reaction Functions, and the Structure of Trade Cooperation,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2008, with Zachary Elkis and Kati Suominen.
Discussant, Panel on Hegemony and the International Economy, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2008.
Invited participant, “EUComm 2020,” U.S. European Command, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, August 2008.
“Using Thought Experiments in Policy Proposals: Free Market Environmentalism and Privatizing Public Lands,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2008.
“International Cooperation as Interagency Cooperation: Examples from Wildlife and Habitat Preservation,” paper presented at the International Studies Association, Chicago, March 2007, and the International Society for the New Institutional Economics, Reykjavík, June 2007.
Organizer, Chair, and Discussant, “Problems of Transboundary Wildlife in North America,” panel at the International Society for the New Institutional Economics, Reykjavík, June 2007.
“Transboundary Coordination in North American Wildlife Management,” Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.
“Interagency Coordination among Wildlife Management Agencies in the Presence of Source-Sink Population Dynamics,” presented at the International Society for the New International Economics,” Boulder, September 2006.
“Trashing Central Europe: The Political Economy of Waste Policies in Hungary and the 2006, with Zsuzsa Gille.
“Euroskeptic Voting in European and National Elections,” presented at (1) Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2006; (2) Midwestern Political Science Association, April, 2006; with Elizabeth Radziszewski.
“The Myths of Turkish Influence in the European Union,” presented at (1) European Union Studies Association, Austin, May 2005; (2) Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, May 2005; presentations by coauthor Burcu Uçaray-Mangıtlı; (3) University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Zagreb, September 2005; (4) “Turkey and Europe,” Symposium of the Program on South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2006.
“The Political Asymmetries of Euroskeptic Parties and Coalition Governments: The Cases of Austria and Slovakia,” presented at (1) Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, October 2003; (2) Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, December 2003; (3) European Union Center, University of Illinois, February 2004; (4) Midwest Political Science Association, April 2004; (5) University of Zürich, May 2005; (6) University of Konstanz, May 2005; (7) Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, May 2005.
Discussant, International Studies Association, Honolulu, March 2005.
Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2003, April 2004.
Discussant, Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2004.
“Patently Misleading: Partial Implementation and Bargaining Leverage in Sino-American Negotiations on Intellectual Property Rights,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 2003, with Andrew Mertha.
“Formal and Informal Ratification in the European Union,” European Union Studies Association, Nashville, March 2003.
“Agreeable Customs: The Domestic Politics of Trade Cooperation,” Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, March 2002.
Chair, “Divided Government and International Cooperation,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2002.
“Divided Government and International Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2002.
“Is MFN Better for Spreading?” Paper presented at (1) Lake Arrowhead Conference on “How Does International Cooperation Matter? (If it Does),” UCLA Center for Political Economy, February 2000; (2) Mershon Center, Ohio State University, February 2000; (3) conference on “Political Geography of Trade,” Leitner Program in International Political Economy, Yale University, October 2000; (4) International Relations Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, December 2000; (5) Department of Political Science, University of California at Davis, December 2000.
Invited participant, “Global Leadership, Stability and Order: Hegemony and the Provision of International Collective Goods,” Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Hohenheim University, June 2000.
Chair and Discussant, “International and Domestic Politics,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, May 2000.
Roundtable on Partners and the Profession, Midwest Political Science Association, May 2000.
“Divided Government in Austria-Hungary, Sweden-Norway, the Zollverein, and the European Union,” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1999.
“Most-Favored-Nation Clauses, Domestic Politics, and Clustered Negotiations,” Conference on Rational International Institutions, University of Chicago, May 1998, and American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1998.
“Domestic Politics, Trade Policy, and Economic Sanctions: A Public Choice Model with Application to United States-Chinese Relations,” Conference on “Constituent Interests and U.S. Trade Policy,” University of Michigan, October 1997.
“House Rules: Institutional Choice and U.S. Trade Policy,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1997.
“Agreeable Customs: The Tariff Treaty Regime in the Nineteenth Century,” Conference on “Instituting Trade,” Washington University at St. Louis, May 1997, and American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1998.
Discussant, Conference on “Representation of Constituent Interests in the Design and Implementation of U.S. Trade Policies,” University of Michigan, November 8-9, 1996.
“Mathematical Discourse and Crossdisciplinary Communities: The Case of Political Economy,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November, 1995.
“Endogenous Domestic Institutions and Parliamentary Oversight of the European Union,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1995; also presented at Columbia University, October, 1995, and at International Studies Association, 1996
Panel Co-Chair, “New Games: Formal Theory after the Cold War,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1995.
Discussant, “Rational Choice in Comparative Contexts,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1995.
Organizer, Conference on “New Games: Formal Theory after the Cold War,” Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California (San Diego), May 1994 and March 1995 (with Paul Papayoanou).
“Endogenous Institutions in Two-Level Games,” paper presented at conference on “New Games: Formal Theory after the Cold War,” Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California (San Diego), May, 1994
“Symbolic Discourse and Crossdisciplinary Communities,” Paper presented at the Conference on “Knowledges: Production, Distribution, Revision,” organized by the association on “Group Research and the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Knowledge-Production,” University of Minnesota, April 14-17, 1994.
“Who’s on First, What’s on Second: Actors and Institutions in Two-Level Games.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September, 1993; George Washington University (November, 1993); also presented at George Washington University, at University of Michigan Junior Faculty Seminar, and at University of Michigan Tuesday International Economics Luncheon Group.
Panel Chair, “The Theory of Two-Level Games,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September, 1993.
Discussant, “American Politics and the Future of Trade Policy,” Center for International Business Education, University of Michigan, December, 1993.
“A Model of Marshall and Multilateralism: Multilateral Cooperation When Equivalent Bilateral Agreements Fail,” Paper presented at University of California at San Diego Project in International Security Affairs (February, 1993), Shambaugh-MCISS Conference on Formal Models of Bargaining in International Relations at the University of Iowa (April-May, 1993), and the University of Chicago Program on International Politics, Economics and Security (June, 1993).
“Reciprocity in Foreign Economic Policy: Linking State and Domestic Interests.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1991.
“Discrimination and Reciprocity in Trade Relations.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Vancouver, BC, March 1991.
“Political Science at the Crossroads of Social Science.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Buenos Aires, 1991 (with Mattei Dogan).
“Economic and Security Cooperation: A Framework for a Unified Model.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August-September 1990.
Discussant, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Washington, DC, March 1990.
“The Collapse of the Quadruple Alliance and the Rise of Free Trade in Britain.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, August 1989.
“The Fragmentation and Recombination of the Social Sciences.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of International Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 1988 (with Mattei Dogan).
OTHER INVITED TALKS AND PUBLIC OUTREACH
“Outstanding in the Field,” TEDxUIUC Salon, YMCA, Champaign, Illinois, November 15, 2017.
“Threats to the National Parks,” YMCA Friday Forum, Champaign, Illinois, October 6, 2017.
“Telling America’s Stories in the National Parks,” presentation to the Center for Idaho History and Politics, Boise State University, September 15, 2017.
Panelist, “The Politics of Protected Areas: National Parks, Monuments, and Wilderness,” Idaho Environmental Forum, Boise, September 14, 2017.
“Wildlife Management in the National Parks,” talk to the Wildlife Club, University of Illinois, 3 March 2015.
Graduate student teaching workshop, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University, 7 Wednesday 2012.
“Governance in the European Union: An Overview,” European Union Center 2012 Regional Faculty Conference, Chicago, 13 January 2012.
“Doing What You Don’t Do,” Commencement Address, LAS Honors Convocation, 1 May 2011.
Featured in University of Illinois Annual Report, 2011, “Best in Class: The Intersection of Politics and Nature,” p. 19.
“The Politics of the National Parks,” eight-lecture course at Osher Living and Learning Institute, Champaign, Illinois, January-March 2011.
Featured in University of Illinois News Bureau press release, “Politics Often Undermines Even the Best of Environmental Agreements,” Earth Day, 22 April 2010; reprinted in Inside Illinois, May 2010, http://news.illinois.edu/news/10/0422environment.html.
“The Politics of the National Parks,” Department of Political Science, Moms Weekend, 17 April 2010.
“Politics and Climate Change in the United States and Europe,” lecture as part of series, “Signs of Change: Climate and Humanity,” The Society for Environmental Studies, in conjunction with the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, 11 February 2010.
“Transboundary Wildlife Management in North America,” presentation to International Veterinary Medicine Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 4 February 2010. (Repeated in February 2011, February 2012, and April 2013.)
“Governing the European Union: An Introduction,” presentation to International Veterinary Medicine Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 28 January 2010. (Repeated in March 2011 and April 2012.)
Guest on Focus 580, WILL radio, “The National Parks,” 30 January 2010.
“America’s Best Idea: What Ken Burns Didn’t Tell You,” Osher Living and Learning Institute, Champaign, Illinois, 22 January 2010.
“The National Park Service vs. Wilderness,” Urbana Rotary Club, 29 December 2009.
Featured in LASNews in three stories by Doug Peterson, one main article (“Politics Gone Wild,” http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/2009/yellowstone/) and two sidebars (“What Ken Burns Didn’t Tell You,” http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/2009/burns/; and “Where the Wild Things Are,” http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/2009/wildthings/).
Recorded expert interview for use in GLBL 100: Introduction to Global Studies.
Guest on Focus 580, WILL radio, “The National Parks: What Ken Burns Didn’t Tell You,” 5 October 2009.
Led study tour to Strasbourg and Brussels, consisting of twelve K-12 teachers, two state legislators, two Illinois students, and one journalist, July 2009.
Introductory remarks, moderation and comments, “Europe Day,” Peoria Area World Affairs Council, 7 May, 2009.
“Greece, Cyprus, and the European Union,” talk at roundtable, “Greece in the 21st Century,” Illinois Program in Modern Greek Studies, Illini Center, Chicago, 25 April 2009.
“Transboundary Cooperation in the Greater Yellowstone Area,” talk at Global Crossings, Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall, University of Illinois, 5 April 2009.
“Transboundary Cooperation in the Greater Yellowstone Area,” talk at School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 29 January 2009.
“Introduction to the European Union,” presentation to Illinois Regional Workshop on the European Union, European Union Center, University of Illinois, 23 January 2009.
Guest on Addie Thaniel show, WSMN-1590 (Nashua NH), 28 December 2008, discussing the European Union.
“Political Opposition to Transboundary Cooperation in the Greater Yellowstone Area,” University of Illinois Institute for Government and Public Affairs, September 2008.
“Lions and Canids and Bears! Transboundary Cooperation in North America,” University of Illinois Department of Political Science, July 2008.
“Introduction to the European Union,” presentation to Summer Teacher Workshop of the European Union Center, 8 July 2008.
“Turkey and the European Union,” Turkey Across the Curriculum: From the Ottoman Empire to Today, Peoria Area World Affairs Council, Champaign, 7 June 2008.
“EU Accession and Eastern Europe,” Clark-Lindsey Retirement Community, February 2008.
“EU Accession and the [Eastern European] Region,” Illinois Agricultural Leadership Forum, 8 January 2008.
“Europe’s ‘Big Bang’: The Risks and Rewards of Enlargement,” panelist, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 18 September 2007.
“The European Union: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How?” 16 May 2007, Urbana Exchange Club.
“Presentation Strategies for the UIUC Summer Institute,” UIUC Joint Area Centers International Summer Institute, 14 May 2007.
“The European Union at 50,” Focus 580 radio show, WILL-AM, 4 May 2007.
“History and Research Design in International Relations,” talk to graduate international relations seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, 9 February 2007.
“The European Union: A Spatial Approach,” talk at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 8 February 2007.
“History and Research Design in International Relations,” talk to graduate international relations seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, 9 February 2007.
“Turkey and the European Not-Quite-Union,” presentation to Summer Teacher Workshop of the European Union Center, July 2006.
“The Constitution of the European Union,” presentation to UIUC Ambassador Series lectures, Springfield, Illinois, 12 April, 2006; broadcast on WSEC and affiliates reaching over seven million viewers.
“The Politics of North American Wildlife Policy,” Clark-Lindsay Residential Community, October 2005.
“The United States of Europe? The Present and the Future of the European Union,” to the International Study Program, “Global Citizenship: America and the World,” week-long program organized by the Salzburg Seminar for the Community Colleges of New York, Salzburg, Austria, 23-30 April, 2005.
Featured in story, “EU Expansion May Alter U.S.’s World Role,” LAS News, Spring/Summer 2004, page 21.
“The Politics of the European Union,” Hungarian Summer Workshop, University of Illinois, June 2004.
“The European Union: Superstate or International Organization?” YMCA Friday Forum, April 2004, also broadcast on WEFT radio.
“Turkey Between East and West,” Forum, Illinois Research Program on the Humanities, February 2004.
“The European Union and International Trade,” Illinois Agricultural Leadership Forum, February 2004.
“The European Union: Superstate or International Organization?” University of Illinois Joint Area Studies Center Summer Institute, July 2003.
“Doing Business in Europe,” introductory lecture and roundtable participant, Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Illinois, at Palmer House Hilton, March 2003.
Introduced and hosted Consul-General of Austria, Ambassador Lecture Series, Sangamo Club, Springfield, Illinois, May 2003; also broadcast on WSEC-TV.
Legislative breakfast and briefing on international trade matters, Springfield, February 2003.
Introduced and hosted Consul-General of the Netherlands, Ambassador Lecture Series, Sangamo Club, Springfield, Illinois, January 2003; also broadcast on WSEC-TV.
“The European Union,” Department of Engineering, University of Illinois, October 2002.
“The Euro, the European Union, and You,” Clark-Lindsay Residential Community, March 2002.
“The Politics of Trade and the European Union,” Illinois Agricultural Leadership Forum, January 2002.
“The World Trade Organization and You,” Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, broadcast, videotape and webcast, 1999.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dissertation chair or co-chair (completed): Todd Allee (Michigan; now at Maryland), Jeff Cavanaugh (Illinois; placed at Mississippi State, now free-lance author), Scott Greenwood (Michigan; placed at California State-San Marcos), Blair Niece (now at Coastal Carolina), Jennifer Shulman (Michigan; now at Ernst & Young), Elizabeth Radziszewski (Illinois; placed at Yeshiva, now at Rider), Peter Rudloff (Illinois, placed at Oklahoma State), Huisheng Shou (Illinois, placed at Christopher Newport University, now an entrepreneur in Beijing), Carie Steele (Illinois, placed at Texas Tech), Doug Stinnett (Illinois; placed at Georgia); Burcu Uçaray-Mangıtlı (Illinois; placed at Ipek, Turkey
Committee on Departmental Services, American Political Science Association, September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2019.
Member, Board of Directors, Great Plains Trail Alliance, June 2012-present.
Judge, Euro-Challenge Competition, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 31 March 2009, and 27 March 2010.
Associate Editor, International Interactions, January 2009-December 2013.
Co-organizer, “Transatlantic Good Governance” conference at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 2004 (with Brian Gaines, Jim Kuklinski, and Bruce Murray).
Mentor, McNair Fellowship Program, for Neil Pandey.
Mentor, Senior Research Opportunities Program, for Morgan McClane-McKinney, 2009.
Co-organizer, “EU-topias” conference at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 2003 (with Matti Bunzl and Zsuzsa Gille).
Guest editor, Journal of Conflict Resolution 41(1), February 1997 (with Paul Papayoanou).
Editorial board: Social Epistemology, 1996-2001; Studies in International Economics, University of Michigan Press, 1998-2003; International Interactions, January 2009-December 2013.
External reader, promotion and/or tenure, seventeen cases. (Four leading private universities (one twice), one international university, nine major public universities, one master’s-level public university, one liberal arts college.)
Referee, journals: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Economic History Review, Economics and Politics, Encyclopedia of Creativity, European Political Science Review, European Union Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Great Plains Quarterly, International Interactions, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Economic History, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Political Science Education, Journal of Politics, Journal of World-System Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Native American Indian Studies, Policy Science Journal, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, PS: Political Science & Politics, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, Review of Policy Research, Security Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Southeastern Political Review, World Politics
Referee, presses: Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, W. W. Norton.
Referee, foundations and other: Israel Science Foundation, University of Leiden, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), University of Illinois Campus Research Board, Yellowstone National Park.