UAF Department of Political Science Contact Information

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Faculty

Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.

Brandon Boylan, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science, Department Chair

GRUE 613B

Department Chair

Curriculum Vitae
Carol Gray, Ph.D.

Carol Gray, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Public Law

GRUE 603A

Curriculum Vitae
Alex Hirsch, Ph.D.

Alex Hirsch, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

GRUE 603

Curriculum Vitae
Amy L. Lovecraft, Ph.D.

Amy L. Lovecraft, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

GRUE 602B

Curriculum Vitae
Chanda L. Meek, Ph.D.

Chanda L. Meek, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science

GRUE 604B

Curriculum Vitae
Jeremy Speight, Ph.D.

Jeremy Speight, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science

GRUE 602A

Curriculum Vitae
Russell Luke, Ph.D.

Russell Luke, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

GRUE 601B

Curriculum Vitae

Former Faculty

Dr. James N. Gladden

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 UAF 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

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 UAF 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

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 University of Alaska Fairbanks, 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.