Faculty
Joseph Bigott
Assistant Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-2865
Office: CLO 252
email: bigott@calumet.purdue.edu
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J. Craig Hammond
Assistant Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-2025
Office: CLO 290
email: hammondj@calumet.purdue.edu
Personal Web Page: http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/HammondJ
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Miriam Joyce
Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-2585
Office: CLO 201
email: mjoyce@calumet.purdue.edu
B. S. Columbia University,
M.A. Manhattan College,
Ph.D. (1979) Fordham University
Teaching Interests:
Biography
Britian
Middle East
Research Interests:
Middle East
The British Empire
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Edward P. Keleher
Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-2871
Office: CLO 209
B.Sc., St. Louis University
M.A. St. Louis University,
Ph.D. (1965) St. Louis University
Teaching Interests:
European History
History of Nationalism
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Saul Lerner
Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-2329
Office: CLO 213
email: lerner@calumet.purdue.edu
B.A. Youngstown University
M.A. University of Kansas
Ph.D. (1967) University of Kansas
Teaching Interests:
Intellectual History
Economic History
The Holocaust
The History of the 1960's
Research Interest:
The Holocaust
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Val Martinez
Assistant Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-3116
Office: CLO 254
email: martinev@calumet.purdue.edu
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Wendy St. Jean
Assistant Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-4161
Office: CLO 211
email: stjeanw@calumet.purdue.edu
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Norman Lance Trusty
Professor Emeritus of History
Teaching Interests:
Colonial and Early AMerican History
Civil War
History of NorthWest Indiana
Research Interests:
History of Northwest Indiana
The Colonial Period
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Richard A. Van Orman
Professor of History
Telephone: 219/989-2474
Office: CLO 207
Teaching Interests:
History of Crime
Organized Crime
Research Interests:
History of Crime
The History of Organized Crime
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Richard Vernier
Visiting Instructor of History
Telephone: 219/989-4118
Office: CLO
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Frank Colucci
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Telephone: 219/989-2488
Office: CLO 292
email: coluccif@calumet.purdue.edu
B.A. Syracuse University
M.A. University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. (2004) University of Notre Dame
Teaching Interests:
Constitutional Law
Civil Liberties
Judicial Policies
Law and Society
Research Interests:
U.S. Supreme Court
Constitutional Theory
Federalism
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E. Gene DeFelice
Associate Professor of Political Science
Telephone: 219/989-2687
Office: CLO 203
B. A. Hofstra University,
M.A. University of Chicago,
Ph.D. (1971) University of Chicago
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Maurice Eisenstein
Associate Professor of Political Science
(219) 989-2688
Office: CLO 294
email: m_eisens@calumet.purdue.edu
B.Sc. Purdue University,
M.A. Purdue University,
Ph.D. (1993) Purdue University
Teaching Interests:
Public Policy
Public Administration
Methodology and Policy Analysis
Environmental Policy
Political Theory and Philosophy
Research Interests:
Change in Public Organizations
Post-Modernism and Political Theory
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Manfred W. H. Grote
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
email: grote@calumet.purdue.edu
B.A. University of Kansas
M.A. University of Maryland
Ph.D. (1967) University of Maryland
Teaching Interests:
International Relations
American Foreign Policy
Comparative Eastern European and Russian Politics
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Nicky Ali Jackson
Associate Professor of Political
Science
Telephone: 219/989-2352
Office: CLO 205
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Richard Rupp
Interim Department Head and Assistant Professor of Political Science
Telephone: 219/989-2134
Office: CLO-296
email: rrupp@calumet.purdue.edu
B.A. California State University, Hayward
M.A. California State University, Sacramento
Ph.D. (1997) University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching Interests:
Introduction to International Relations (POL 130)
Governments of the World (POL141)
Introduction to U. S. Foreign Policy (POL 231)
The Middle East (POL 309)
Post-Communist Europe (POL 390)
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Post-Communist Europe (pol 390)
International Organization (POL 433)
International Law (POL 435)
United States Foreign Policy Making (POL 439)
Governments and Politics of Russia (POL 442)
Research Interests:
International Security Organizations
Post-Cold War Armed Conflicts and Humanitarian Interventions
NATO Expansion
Additional Information:
A native Californian, Prof. Rupp worked on a variety of political campaigns and served as a Senate Fellow with the California legislature before pursuing his Ph.D.. His research and teaching interests center on international relations, with a particular focus on cooperation amount the major powers during times of armed conflict. His classes feature student-led simulations of international conflicts. Prof. Rupp has spent a considerable amount of time in the Balkans researching the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He has published several book chapters and journal articles on the subject.
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