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Joseph Bigott

Assistant Professor of History

Telephone: 219/989-2865
Office: CLO 252
email:

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J. Craig Hammond

Assistant Professor of History

Telephone: 219/989-2025
Office: CLO 290
email:
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:

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:

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:

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Wendy St. Jean

Assistant Professor of History

Telephone: 219/989-4161
Office: CLO 211
email:

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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:

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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