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Graduate Program
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Contents:
Introduction
Ph.D.
Program We expect our graduates to possess a broad understanding of the discipline, specialized expertise in one or more areas, and competence in social science methods. First-year students are required to take at least one reading course in three of four fields. During their study at Cornell, students must complete 12 graduate-level courses in Government and related fields. (Up to three courses may be transferred from graduate programs at other institutions.) Doctoral students must demonstrate
competence in either a foreign language or statistics and complete at
least three major research papers prior to admission to candidacy. In
addition, they are expected to serve as teaching assistants for at least
one semester. Experience in undergraduate teaching under the supervision
of a faculty member is essential preparation for an academic career and
an important component of the graduate program at Cornell. Most Ph.D.
students serve as teaching assistants for at least two years.
Research
Facilities and Resources Cornell offers intensive instruction in virtually all modern languages, including many of those less commonly taught, such as the Andean languages of South America and numerous languages of South and Southeast Asia. Graduate students are encouraged
to participate in Cornell's distinguished network of interdisciplinary
research activities. Those include the programs affiliated with the Mario
Einaudi Center for International Studies: separate area studies programs
in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Latin America; Slavic and
Eastern European Studies; the Peace Studies Program; the Western Societies
Program; Gender and Global Change; and the International Political Economy
Program to name only a few. Other important centers for students include:
the Institute for European Studies, Center for the Environment (with ten
topical programs), the Society for the Humanities; the Women's Studies
Program; the Program on Ethics and Public Life; the Program in Visual
Culture; the Africana Studies and Research Center, and the Cornell Institute
for Social and Economic Research (CISER), and the Cornell International
Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development.
Application
and Financial Assistance Applications are reviewed and evaluated without reference to financial need. Under normal circumstances, and contingent on satisfactory academic progress, we provide full financial support for five years of graduate study. Regularly admitted students typically receive a full fellowship for their first year and last year. The remaining financial support usually takes the form of teaching assistantships. Students who do field research for their dissertation typically require support from external sources. Several of the area studies programs at Cornell provide fellowships for this purpose on a competitive basis. We encourage and help our students pursue these and other opportunities for outside support.
Methodology Introduction to Statistics American Politics Government and Public Policy Comparative Politics Comparative Political Ecology International Relations Field Seminar in International
Relations Political Theory Secession, Intervention &
Just War Theory
Cornell University is situated in Ithaca, a small city in central New York on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes. The expansive campus, overlooking the lake and bounded on two sides by deep glaciated gorges, is acknowledged to be one of the most scenic in the world. About 3000 acres of trails, ponds, gardens, and biological research facilities are administered by Cornell Plantations. Ithaca is a pleasant and livable city of humanscale, with varied and affordable shopping establishments and restaurants (including the world famous Moosewood Restaurant). There are excellent facilities for most indoor and outdoor sports. The area has a lively arts community; year-round concerts, theater, and musical events are presented at Cornell and Ithaca College featuring world-class performers. In addition to the films at numerous commercial theaters, a year-round program from early classics to the most recent avant garde offerings-are presented by Cornell Cinema. Formal lectures, conferences, and seminar series bring to the Cornell campus leading international figures in all the academic disciplines and in public affairs. Housing for graduate students
is available within walking distance of the campus, in residential areas
within the city of Ithaca which are served by Ithaca Transit, and in the
rural surrounding areas. Excellent medical services can be found in the
City of Ithaca and at Cornell's Gannett Health Center.
Graduate
Field Faculty Members and Their Areas of Specialization Cornell's graduate field of Government has a large and diverse faculty representing the major theoretical, methodological, and substantive areas of contemporary political science. The ratio of faculty to graduate students is excellent; students have the opportunity to work closely with one or more members of the faculty. The faculty makes a special effort to place successful Ph.D. candidates in their first professional position in what has become a highly competitive and very selective academic market. Christopher Anderson (Ph.D., Washington University). Comparative politics, political economy, political behavior, political participation, inequality, elections, democracies. Richard Bensel (Ph.D., Cornell University). American political development, political economy, state theory, parties and elections. Susan Buck-Morss (Ph.D., Georgetown University). Critical theory and continental theory (including Russia); visual culture and social theory; political economy and the politics of identity. Valerie Bunce (Ph.D., University of Michigan). Comparative and international politics. Post-communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; transitions to democracy in Europe; regional cooperation and conflict after the Cold War. Allen Carlson (Ph.D., Yale University). International relations. Chinese foreign policy Matthew Evangelista (Ph.D., Cornell University). International relations; ethical issues in international affairs. Comparative Foreign Policy. Jason Frank (Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University). Political theory, American political thought. Ronald Herring (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). Comparative politics, South Asia; political economy; development, environmental politics. Michael Jones-Correa (Ph.D., Princeton University). American politics; inter-ethnic conflict, negotiation and coalition-building in US urban areas; social movements; racial and ethnic identity in the United States; Latin American politics. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Feminism: women's movement and state policies; Indian politics: gender and ethnicity. Peter J. Katzenstein (Ph.D., Harvard University). Security policy and political economy; relation between international and domestic politics; Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia. Jonathan Kirshner (Ph.D., Princeton University). International relations, international political economy, political economy and national security. Isaac Kramnick (Ph.D., Harvard University). Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to the present. Theodore J. Lowi (Ph.D., Yale University). American government and politics. Public policy and administration. Sherry L. Martin (Ph.D., Michigan University). Comparative politics (Japan); American politics; mass political participation; party systems; gender and politics, political socialization. Devra Coren Moehler (Ph.D., University of Michigan). Comparative politics. Political economy of development, research methodology Kenneth Roberts (Ph.D, Stanford University). Comparative politics. Latin American politics, comparative political economy, party systems and political representation, labor and social movements. Diane Rubenstein (Ph.D,
Yale University). Political Thought; Contemporary continental political
theory (Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lacan, Althusser, Bourdieu, Agamben),
Psychoanalysis and politics, Political Rhetoric, Western Marxism, Comparative
ideology, Visual Studies. M. Elizabeth Sanders (Ph.D., Cornell University). American political development, social movements, regulation. Martin Shefter (Ph.D., Harvard University). Urban politics; American political development; American political institutions. Anna Marie Smith (Ph.D., University of Essex). Contemporary democratic theory, post-structuralist theory, theoretical approaches to the study of racism; lesbian and gay studies. Sidney G. Tarrow (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Comparative politics: Western Europe; social movements and political parties; comparative communism. Nicolas van de Walle (PhD. Princeton University). Comparative politics. Political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa; on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform. The John S. Knight Professor of International Studies. Professor of Government and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Christopher Way (Ph.D.,
Stanford University). International relations; International political
economy.
Additional Faculty in the Graduate Field of Government Mabel Berezin (Ph.D., Harvard University). Comparative and Historical Sociology, Culture, Political Institutions and Ideologies, Theory, Qualitative Methods, Economy and Society. Maria Lorena Cook (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Comparative politics: Latin America, Mexico; political economy, comparative labor movements, social movements. Terence Irwin (Ph.D., Princeton University). Greek philosophy; ethical theory and Kant; history of ethics. Sydney van Morgan (Ph.D., Cornell University). Comparative politics; Western Europe; nationalism and identity politics; contentious politics; comparative political parties and elections. Victor Nee (Ph.D., Harvard University). Theory, Economic Sociology, Stratification/Inequality, Immigration and Race, Transitions from State Socialism. Judith Reppy (Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University). Peace studies, military; science and technology. Henry Shue (Ph.D. Princeton,
1970). Ethical issues that arise in international affairs, especially
issues about the foreign policy of the United States; relative priority
of economic rights; the strength of obligations across national boundaries;
the morality of nuclear deterrence; the justice of international cooperation
on the environment. He was a founding member of the Institute for Philosophy
and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Lowell Turner (Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley). Comparative political economy; Western
Europe; German unification, comparative labor.
Emeriti Faculty Benedict R. Anderson (Ph.D., Cornell University). Comparative government: nationalism; militarism; Southeast Asian studies, especially Indonesia and Thailand. Professor Emeritus. Martin Bernal (Ph.D., King's College, Cambridge). Comparative politics of the Middle East, Africa and East Asia; history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge. Professor Emeritus. Milton J. Esman (Ph.D., Princeton University). Ethnic politics; development politics and Administration. Professor Emeritus. Vivienne B. Shue (Ph.D., Harvard University). State and society in contemporary China; culture and politics in China; topics in Chinese political economy. Professor Emeritus. Norman T. Uphoff (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Comparative politics: Third-World development; local institutions and participation; South Asia; political economy; development administration. Public policy; sustainable development.
It is the policy of Cornell
University to actively support equality of educational and employment
opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program
or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited
discrimination involving but not limited to such factors as race, color,
creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, age
or handicap.
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