The Political Science and
International Relations Department Faculty
Professors:

Jane Bennett (chair)
(political theory, literature and politics)
Jane Bennett teaches contemporary political theory as well as courses in the history of political ideas. Her recent publications include THOREAU'S NATURE: ETHICS, POLITICS, AND THE WILD (Sage, 1994) and "The Enchantments of Modernity: Paracelsus, Kant, and Deleuze" (in CULTURAL VALUES, 1997). She is the Chair of the Department and the book review editor for an online journal of contemporary culture and politics called THEORY&EVENT.

Marianne Githens
(comparative politics, women and politics)
Marianne Githens teaches comparative politics, with a special focus on Europe. Her primary area of research has been women and politics and is the author of a recent study of British and American newspaper coverage of the abortion debates in Germany, Ireland and Poland. Her publications include ABORTION: PUBLIC POLICY IN CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (co-edited with Dorothy Stetson, Routledge 1996) and A PORTRAIT OF MARGINALITY REVISITED (with Jewel Prestage, Chatham House, forthcoming). Dr. Githens is the recipient of the 1996 Fairchild Award for a distinguished record of scholarship, teaching and service and in 1995 received an award from the Banneker Honors College for scholarship and work on behalf of human rights. Dr. Githens also heads the Women's Studies major at the College.

Lawrence K. Munns
(American politics)
Kay Munns teaches courses in American politics, survey research, quantitative methods, and American political culture. Dr. Munns' research interests include health and education policy in the U.S. and he has a continuing interest in the traditional Japanese arts, serving as a trustee for the American School of Japanese Arts. Dr. Munns leads the Department's Model Senate Program, offers a January term course on British politics in London, and also directs the major in American Studies.

Associate Professors:
Eric Singer
(international relations)
Eric Singer teaches international relations theory, international political economy, and courses in African politics. He is currently engaged in a research project on women's collectives in South Africa and leads a student trip to South Africa in the summers. Dr. Singer is the editor, with Valerie Hudson, of POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND FOREIGN POLICY (1992).

Assistant Professors:
Nicholas Brown
(public policy, American politics)
Nicholas Brown received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1996 after working for over fifteen years as assistant to a U.S. Senator. Dr. Brown teaches public policy and Congressional politics, and has a special interest in environmental policy. He also directs the Department's Hughes Field Politics Center, which supports student internships and sponsors a variety of activities designed to facilitate student invovlement in governmental and political affairs in the Baltimore-Washington region.

Elizabeth Cohn
(international relations, American politics)
Elizabeth Cohn is a specialist in Latin American politics and American foreign policy. She received her Ph.D. from American University after founding and directing the Central American Historical Institute, an independent educational and research center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Cohn is the author of articles on human rights, political and economic democracy in Central America, and the Cuban missile crisis. Dr. Cohn also directs the major in International and Intercultural Studies at Goucher.

Amalia Fried Honick
(international relations)
Amalia Honick received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University with a focus on international relations and security policy. Dr. Honick also teaches courses in the American experience in Vietnam and the Middle East and she leads the Goucher student delegation to the Harvard Model U.N.

Lecturers:
Susan Wilkens (constitutional law)
Ted Venetoulis (American politics).