Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, 1995
• MA University of California, Davis, Political Science 1990
• BA University of Southern California, International Relations, 1987
• University of Southern California, Print Journalism, 1987

Theses

• Ph.D. International Environmental Cooperation: Air Quality Agreements as Bargaining Outcomes
• M.A. Democracy, War and Alliance

Research Support

• California Energy Commission PIER Program, 2001
• California Energy Commission, 2001
• National Science Foundation, 2000, 2001
• UC Riverside Academic Senate, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
• Energy Foundation, 1999
• UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1998, 1999
• State University of New York, Binghamton, Academic Senate, 1997
• UC Santa Barbara humanities research program, 1993
• IGCC Dissertation Fellowship, 1992,1993
• UCLA Latin American Center Research Grant, 1992
• University of California, Los Angeles Fellowship, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
• UCLA Department of Political Science Fellowship, 1990
• University of California, Davis Graduate Student Award, 1989

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Political Science, UC Riverside, 1997- present
• Assistant Professor, Political Science, Binghamton University, 1995-97
• Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Binghamton University, 1994-95
• Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, UCLA, 1993
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UCLA, 1991-92
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UC Davis, 1989-1990

Publications

1. Creating Distributed Generation Policy to Improve Air Quality: "Can We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too?:" Energy Policy Journal, forthcoming (with Jim Lents).
2. "Information and International Politics: an Overview," Technology, Development and Democracy: International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age, Juliann Emmons Allison, ed., pp. 3-24. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
3. Technology, Development and Democracy: International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
4. Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations, by Fiona Robinson. Boulder: Westview Press. Reviewed for Millennium: Journal of International Studies (---2002)
5. Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another, by Spencer A. Weart. New Haven: Yale University Press 1998. Reviewed for the Journal of Political Ecology:Case Studies in History and the Social Sciences 8 (May 2001): pp. TBA.
6. International Relations on Film, by Robert W. Gregg. Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 1999. Reviewed for the American Political Science Review.
7. "Peace Among Friends: A Feminist Interpretation of the 'Democratic Piece.''" Peace and Change 26 (--- 2001).
8. "Can We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too?: Creating Distributed Generation Policy to Improve Air Quality." Riverside: University of California, College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology, 2000, with Jim Lents.
9. "Fortuitous Consequence: The Scientific and Institutional Bases of the 1991 U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement," Policy Studies Journal 27: 347-360, 2000.
10. The Internationalization of Environmental Protection, Miranda A. Schreurs and Elizabeth Economy, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Rreviewed for the American Political Science Review 93, (June 1999): 495-6.
11. The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice, David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Reviewed for the American Political Science Review 92 (December 1998): 986.
12. "Trade Liberalization and the Natural Environment: Conflict or Opportunity?" Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability. New York: SUNY Press, 1997.
13. "United States Family Planning Policy and the World's Population Problem," Shades of Green, 1: 1-3,1991
14. "Birds of a Feather: Democratic Political Systems and Alliance Choices in the Twentieth Century," Journal of Conflict Resolution 35: 285-306 1991, with R. M. Siverson.

 

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