Dr. Pia Kohler Assistant Professor of Political Science
	603A Gruening 907.474.6503 ffpmk@uaf.edu Click on a picture to see a larger view Photo:
Dr. Pia Kohler joined the UAF Political Science Department in Fall 2006. She is from Switzerland, and moved to Canada for her undergraduate studies at McGill University where she studied physical geography and environmental science. She then shifted her focus to international environmental policy, earning a Masters of Environmental Sciences at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. This interest in the policy implications of environmental science was enhanced through work experience with the Secretariat to Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Conservation Union -- IUCN, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Dr. Kohler completed her PhD at MIT in International Environmental Policy, her research focused on how representative membership and a transparent and flexible process can improve science advice in multilateral environmental agreements. At UAF, her courses include: War, Peace, and Security; International Politics; International Environmental Law; and Canadian Government and Politics. Her research examines ways in which scientists are involved in policymaking. In particular, she has focused on science advisory bodies to multilateral environmental agreements including, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. At UAF, she is looking forward to to expanding her research to include the incorporation of traditional knowledge into environmental decision-making. [top]
Dr. James N. Gladden Professor of Political Science
	601B Gruening Building 907.474.5418 ffjng@uaf.edu Click on a picture to see a larger view Photo: Was taken in summer 2002 above the Arctic Circle in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Dr. Gladden sits by a set of caribou antlers, near Anaktuvuk Pass in the central Brooks Range.
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 UAF faculty in 1985 and teaches courses on environmental policy and politics, ethics and social issues, and the history of Western and American political ideas. His research interests are environmental policy and the politics of managing public lands in Alaska and other regions of the circumpolar north. He recently completed a study funded by the National Science Foundation on the politics of making land use choices for wilderness areas in northern Finland and Alaska. He has published several books and articles on related topics. 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. He was also on sabbatical leave as a visiting scholar at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. The research focus was on arctic wilderness as a policy concept. He has participated in several summer seminars and institutes sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Some topics were the environmental history of the American West and the environmental ethics of managing public lands in Alaska. [top]
Dr. Amy L. Lovecraft Assistant Professor of Political Science
	602 A Gruening Building 907.474.2688 ffall@uaf.edu Click on a picture to see a larger view Photo: Dr. Lovecraft hiking in the White Mountains north of Fairbanks on the weekend of the summer solstice. At the higher elevations in these mountains the sun will not dip below the horizon during this time, but there is often snow.
Dr. Lovecraft has served on the UAF political science faculty since 2001 and is currently also a Research Fellow with the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program (IDGEC). She received her B.A. in 1994 and began graduate studies in Austria as a Fulbright Scholar pursuing her undergraduate focus on international economics and European integration. Unable to resist North America for long she returned to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin focusing on American institutions, public policy, and political theory. Her dissertation analyzed transboundary natural resource policies between the United States and Canada. Now at UAF her courses include Political Economy; Canadian Government and Politics; the American Presidency; Science, Technology, and Politics; and Political Behavior. Working to foster interdisciplinary engagement among students she is active in the Northern Studies and the IGERT Resilience and Adaptation programs. In her research, Dr. Lovecraft explores Political Ecology through two complementary streams of investigation. The first examines how localized international (interlocal) institutions for natural resource governance create political capacity for cross-scale adaptive management in borderlands. Another branch researches the connections between science and politics in environmental policymaking. Currently she is principal investigator on the project “Understanding Northern Sustainability Debates: The Politicization of Science in Natural Resource Policymaking in the Canadian and American Circumpolar North” and a CO-PI researching “Fire-Mediated Changes in the Arctic System: Interactions of Changing Climate and Human Activities” both funded by NSF [top]
Dr. Gerald McBeath Professor of Political Science, Department Chair
	601B Gruening 907.474.6505 ffjam@uaf.edu Click on a picture to see a larger view Photo: Dr. McBeath outside and Ottoman Empire fort on the Bosphorus.
Dr. Gerald 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 UAF faculty in 1976 after teaching at Rutgers College and the City University of New York. His publications include about 40 journal articles and 9 books, the most recent of which are Alaska Politics and Government (with T. Morehouse, 1994), The Alaska State Constitution (1997), and Wealth and Freedom: Taiwan's New Political Economy. His research interests are the state and local politics of Alaska, federalism, Native politics, politics of circumpolar northern states, political development of Taiwan and mainland China, comparative politics of East Asian states, and both domestic and international political economy. [top]
Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg Professor of Political Science
	603B Gruening Building 907.474.6502 ffjr@uaf.edu Click on a picture to see a larger view Photo: It's a short but steep trek up Scott's Head for a spectacular view of Scott's Head/Soufriere Bay on the southern tip of Dominica. The bay and littoral are locally managed as a marine protected area and have figured prominently in Dr. Rosenberg's research on stakeholder participation.
Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg earned a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA in 1992, and has been on faculty at UAF since fall 1993. He teaches Introduction to Political Economy (PS 100x), Comparative Politics (PS 201), Democracy and Global Society (PS 202), International Political Economy (PS 323), Political Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (PS/HIST 467), and Political Economy of the Global Environment (PS 455/655). He is also UAF campus coordinator for the Alaska Universities Legislative Internship Program and coordinator for the UAF Global Studies program. Dr. Rosenberg is the author of several papers and book chapters on Cuban political economy, Mexican parties and interest groups, and participatory environmental management in the Eastern Caribbean. His current research evaluates the activities of development assistance agencies, multilateral lending institutions and non-governmental organizations as they affect the participation of local stakeholders in environmentally sustainable development projects. This research has taken him to Washington DC, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia, and Barbados. He co-authored Comparative Environmental Politics with Dr. McBeath, and the Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State, with McBeath and two co-authors. [top]

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