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Department
Phone: 907-474-7609
Fax: 907-474-7244
Email: uaf-polisci-dept@alaska.edu
P.O. Box 756420
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6420
Gruening Building
6th floor
RM 603 C/D
Faculty





Jeremy Speight, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department Chair
GRUE 602-A
Curriculum VitaeFormer Faculty

Professor Emeritus
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.

Professor Emeritus
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 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.