51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø Department of Political Science Contact Information
Faculty
Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Department Chair
GRUE 613B
Department Chair
Former Faculty
Dr. James N. Gladden
Professor Emeritus
Retired 2010
Dr. Gladden has a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Indiana University and an M.A. from the University
of Houston. He came to the 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø faculty in 1985 and taught courses on environmental
policy and politics, ethics and social issues, and the history of Western and American
political ideas. Dr. Gladden was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria, serving as a senior
lecturer at the University of Jos. He taught courses in public policy and federalism,
and worked on a rural development project.
Dr. Gerald McBeath
Professor Emeritus
Retired 2014
Dr. Gerald (Jerry) McBeath was educated at the University of Chicago (BA, social sciences,
1963; MA, international relations, 1964) and the University of California at Berkeley
(Ph.D., political science, 1970). He joined the 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø faculty in 1976 after teaching
at Rutgers College and the City University of New York. His publications include about
55 journal articles and 14 books, the most recent of which are Education Reform in the American States (McBeath, Reyes & Ehrlander, 2008), The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska (McBeath, Berman, Rosenberg & Ehrlander, 2008) and Environmental Change and Food Security in China (McBeath & McBeath, 2010).
Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg
Faculty member, 1993-2014
Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department
of Social Sciences at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, USA.
He holds a Ph.D. and Masters of Arts in Political Science from the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA). Before joining the IIT faculty, he spent twenty years in the Department
of Political Science at the 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø, where he served multiple
terms as department chair. He has held visiting professorships at St. George’s University
in Grenada (West Indies) and the Universidad Abierta Interamericana in Buenos Aires.
His research and teaching interests include the relationship between economic globalization
and sustainable development and accountability in global environmental governance.
He has co-authored two books with major academic published in the United States and
the Netherlands, and has published several articles in peer-reviewed academic journals
and chapters in edited volumes. He has been co-principal investigator on two grants
from the US National Science Foundation, and has won several commendations and awards
for his teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.