Adrienne Christiansen, associate professor of political science and director of the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching, has primary scholarly interests in the rhetoric of political campaigns and social movements, and the role of technology in shaping socio-political change. Recipient of Macalester’s 2008 Excellence in Teaching Award, she teaches two courses: CyberPolitics and Rhetoric of Campaigns and Elections. She is currently at work on a manuscript about political monuments in Cyprus.

Julie Dolan, associate professor and chair of the Political Science Department, focuses on American government and politics, women and politics, and bureaucratic politics. She is author or co-author of six books, including Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies and two editions of Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence.

Pete Ferderer, professor of economics, is an economic historian and macroeconomist with particular interests in financial markets and the business cycle. His current research focuses on over-the-counter security markets and their malfunctioning during the Great Depression. Recently, he has been incorporating insights from psychology and neuroscience into his research and teaching. He teaches courses including International Macroeconomics and Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Chuck Green, professor emeritus, chaired the Political Science Department for 10 years. His research interests include organizational studies, science technology policy, and education policy. He received the college’s Thomas Jefferson Award in 1981 and the Teaching Excellence Award in 1997. The Chuck Green Civic Engagement Fellowship for students honors and supports his legacy of social and organizational change based on an academic foundation.

Andy Overman, Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts, specializes in religion, culture, and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world. He teaches courses on the classical Mediterranean world, Greek and Roman world, archaeology, India and Rome, and issues facing the Modern Middle East. He has written widely on Christianity and Judaism, the Roman Empire, and archaeology of the Roman world. Professor Overman, also an archaeologist, directs the Omrit excavation in Israel.

Patrick Schmidt, associate professor of political science and codirector of legal studies, teaches the classic sequence of courses including U.S. Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties & Rights, while also maintaining research and teaching interests in the legal profession and lawyers, bureacracy and regulation, and information policy. Schmidt’s current book project is a study of information disclosure in American politics.

Clay Steinman, professor of media and cultural studies, was a journalist for Ralph Nader’s Capitol Hill News Service in the early 1970s. He worked as an editor and writer for the Associated Press, The Nation, and Xinhua/the New China News Agency, among others. He co-authored Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture and teaches media and film courses, including Film Analysis and Visual Culture; and Advanced Film Analysis.

Wendy Weber, visiting instructor in the departments of political science and international studies, teaches courses including Foundations of International Politics, Global Governance, Introduction to International Human Rights, and Humanitarianism in World Politics. She also serves on the Human Rights and Humanitarianism Concentration steering committee. Her academic interests are in changing patterns of global governance, especially in the areas of human rights and humanitarianism.