Faculty

Department Chair

Douglas T. Stuart
Professor of Political Science and International Studies; J. William Stuart and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies, Business and Management; Adjunct Professor, U.S. Army War College (1986).
Stern Center for Global Educ Room 105B
stuart@dickinson.edu
(717) 245-1930

Department Faculty

Douglas T. Stuart
Professor of Political Science and International Studies; J. William Stuart and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies, Business and Management; Adjunct Professor, U.S. Army War College (1986).
Stern Center for Global Educ Room 105B
(717) 245-1930 | stuart@dickinson.edu
B.A., Marist College, 1970; M.A., University of Southern California, 1974; Ph.D., 1979.
Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 1990-1991; Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1995-1996.

His teaching and research interests include American foreign policy, national security affairs, Asian and West European security. Dr. Stuart is also an Adjunct Professor at the U.S. Army War College.

Russell Bova
(on leave Fall 2011)
Professor of Political Science (1982).
Denny Hall Room 101
(717) 245-1550 | bova@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1977; M.A., Indiana University, 1980; Ph.D., 1985.
Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2010-11

Professor Bova teaches a variety of courses on international relations and comparative politics. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Russian politics and comparative democratization. His international relations textbook, How the World Works, and an accompanying book of readings, Readings on How the World Works, were published in 2009.

Michael J. Fratantuono
Associate Professor of International Studies, Business and Management (1988).
Althouse Hall Room 217
(717) 245-1075 | fratantu@dickinson.edu
B.A., Brown University, 1974; M.A., University of Rhode Island, 1982; Ph.D., University of Washington, 1988.
Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2004-2005; Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2005-06.

Professor Fratantuono is interested in international economics, government-business relations, and U.S. foreign economic policy. He has worked as a project manager in the software development industry. He has also been visiting professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College.

Kristine Mitchell
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies (2006).
Denny Hall Room 7
(717) 245-1220 | mitchelk@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., Oberlin College, 1997; M.A., Princeton University, 2003; Ph.D., 2006.

Professor Mitchell's teaching and research interests include European and EU politics, labor politics, and Left parties. She has conducted field research across Western Europe and has held visiting and short-term appointments at the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkeley, the Center for European Studies at New York University, the Sciences Po in Paris, and the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Recent articles include “Student mobility and European identity: Erasmus study as a civic experience?” (Journal of Contemporary European Research, December 2012); “From Whitehall to Brussels: Thatcher, Delors and the Europeanization of the TUC” (Labor History, February 2012); and “Erasmus University Student Exchange and European Identity” (with Jillian Laux, Open Citizenship, Winter 2011). Her edited volume, Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Inequality, Identity and Institutions (with Rachel Beatty Riedl and Sada Aksartova), was published in December 2006 in the Monograph Series of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Edward Webb
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies (2007).
Denny Hall Room 202
(717) 245-1009 | webbe@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., Cambridge University, 1992; M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

His teaching and research activities are mainly in Middle East politics, comparative politics and international relations. He contributes to Middle East Studies and Security Studies. He has particular interests in the interaction of religions and politics and the politics of education, as well as authoritarianism and empire. His interest in pedagogical applications of new technologies, including simulations, games, and social media, has led to him being appointed to the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. A former diplomat, he has lived and worked in the Middle East and Europe. Recent publications: Professor Webb contributed a chapter on “Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism” to 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook, edited by Ishiyama & Breuning (2011) and a chapter, “Should the Daleks Be Exterminated?” (with Mark Wardecker) to Doctor Who and Philosophy, edited by Smithka & Lewis (2010). His article “Engaging Students with Engaging Tools” was published in Educause Quarterly in 2009.

Andrew T. Wolff
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies (2008).
Stern Center for Global Educ Room 003
(717) 245-1968 | wolffan@dickinson.edu
B.A., Washington & Lee University, 1995; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2003; Ph.D., 2010.

His areas of teaching and research include U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic relations, NATO security policy, international relations theory, and European politics. Currently, his primary research concerns the geopolitics of NATO enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe. He has been a legal staff assistant in the United States Senate and an English teacher in the Czech Republic. Professor Wolff's article “The Structural and Political Crisis of NATO Transformation” was published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies in December 2009.