DANIEL SKIDMORE-HESS
Department of Criminal Justice,
Social, and Political Science

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Savannah, GA 31419
(912) 921-5674
(912) 921-5876 (fax)
email: mailto:skidmoda@mail.armstrong.edu

Curriculum Vitae – May 2007

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993

M.A. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987

B.A. History, Oberlin College, 1985

Grad. cert. Jewish Studies, Gratz College, 2008 (expected completion)


RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Critical Approaches to Political Economy and the State

- Modern and Contemporary Political Thought

- Religion and Political Philosophy with an emphasis on Jewish Thought

COURSES TAUGHT

Political History of America and Georgia
Ethical Theories and Moral Issues in Government
Religions of the World
American Political Thought
Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Europe
Classics of Political Thought
Religion and Political Thought
Politics and the Visual Arts
Public Leadership and Ethics in Theory and Practice
Special Topics in Political Science: Elections & American Democracy (planned for Fall, 2008)

PUBLICATIONS AND RECENT PRESENTATIONS

U. S. Politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, Conservative Shift, book co-authored with Ronald W. Cox, Lynne Reinner Publishers Inc., Boulder, CO 1999

Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball, co-author to Ronald W. Cox, McFarland Publishers, Jefferson NC, 2006
 
Haredim,” co-authored with Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, ABC-CLIO (forthcoming)
 
"The Danish Party System and the Rise of the Right in the 2001Parliamentary Election," International Social Science Review, Fall-Winter 2004
 
"Seretse Khama and the Political 'Miracle' of Botswana," with Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Conference Proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, October 2004

"Baseball Competitiveness & the Free Agency Era," with Ronald W. Cox, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, volume 11 #1, Fall 2002

"Review Essay: Global Capitalism and the Political Economy of Transition in South Africa," Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 2002, volume XIX #2

"In Africa? Interpretations of Religion and Politics," review article, Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 2000, Volume XVII #2

"Globalization and/or Democratization?: A Review Essay," African Studies Review, Spring 1998, pp. 147-150

"Bentham", "Conflict Theory", "Natural Law" entries in Crime and the American Criminal Justice Systems, edited by Frank Schmalleger, Greenwood Press, 1997

"The Politics of the 1993 NAFTA Vote," Ronald W. Cox, co-author, Current Politics and Economics of the United States, volume one, #2/3, 1995

"Assessing the Business Conflict Model as State Theory," Ronald W. Cox, ed., Business and International Politics, Westview Press, 1996

"Danish Social Democracy at Risk: Assessing the 2001 Election in Denmark," Southern Political Science Association conference, Savannah GA, November 2002

"'Have we not an equal Interest with the Men of this Nation?' Patriarchy and the Gendered Contradictions of John Locke," Women's Studies Conference, Armstrong Atlantic State University, March 2002

"NAFTA and the Political Economy of Regional Integration in North America," invited lecture, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, October 2001

Public lecture, "Are Your Votes Really Counted? The Impact of the Electoral College on Voter Participation," with Richard Cebula, sponsored by Political Science and Economics Clubs. Armstrong Atlantic State University, April 2000

"The Globalization of Capital: Business and the State During the Johnson and Nixon Years," invited lecture, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies, Florida International University, Miami, March 1999

GRANTS RECEIVED

Research Grant, Armstrong Atlantic State University faculty research grant for research on Danish political parties
and elections, 2003

Research Grant, European Union studies program, University System of Georgia, for research on balance of payments issues in British Public Records Office, Summer, 1999

Research Grants, Armstrong Atlantic State University faculty research grant for work on trade policy in the Lyndon B. Johnson & Gerald R. Ford presidential archives, 1998 & 200

Research Fellowships, Gerald R. Ford Library Foundation for research on foreign economic policy issues, grants awarded in 1996 and 2001

National Endowment for the Humanities, East-West center Workshop Grant to incorporate material on Chinese philosophy, politics, and culture in undergraduate curriculum, March 1997


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Interim Head, Department of Criminal Justice, Social, and Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 2003-2004

Coordinator of Bachelor of Arts program in political science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 2003

Associate Professor of Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah GA, 1999 to present

Assistant Professor of Political Science. Armstrong State College, 1993-1999

Director of Institutional Research (interim), Armstrong State College, 1994-1995

Visiting Professor, Institute for European Studies, University of Southern Denmark, S˘nderborg, Fall 2001

Graduate Faculty, School of Graduate Studies, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1997 to present

Chair of Finance Committee, 2000-2002 Association of Third World Studies

Elected faculty representative, University Curriculum Committee, 1998-2002

College of Arts and Sciences representative, Governance Committee of the College of Education


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