Academic Career

Appointments

More than 50 years in the classroom

1974–presentProfessor of Political Science, DePaul University
2019–2022Fulbright / U.S. State Department Senior Specialist on the Balkans, Ukraine and post-Communist societies (also 2009–2014)
Fall 2009Visiting Lecturer, University of Virginia, Semester at Sea (also Fall 2006)
Fall 2002Visiting Professor, Budapest University of Economics & Public Administration
Fall 1999Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea
Fall 1984Visiting Professor, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
1970–1974Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Geneseo

DePaul University

PSC 150

Students learn to think about politics by comparing political systems outside the United States.

PSC 251

An introduction to the leaders, issues and shifting politics of today’s Russia.

PSC 257

How governments and their rivals use technology to influence people, and why political systems become vulnerable when governments fall behind.

PSC 351

Why revolutions start, how they unfold, and why some succeed while others fail.

PSC 353

A close comparison of countries that call themselves democracies, or say they are becoming one.

LSP 112

A study of leadership that asks how far one person can shape a society.

Dammrich Award for Academic Innovation, DePaul University, [confirm years]
Liberal Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
Distinguished Teaching Award, Honors Program, 2009
Fulbright / U.S. State Department Senior Specialist projects in Ukraine, 2015 and 2021
Honorary degree, Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (now Corvinus University, Budapest), 1985
Commencement speaker, Corvinus University, [year]