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Candidate Information for Sterling Johnson

(seeking the Green Party nomination for the 4th District US House of Representatives)

Sterling Johnson

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of Political Science
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
Anspach Hall 233
(517) 774-3100
Fax   (517) 774-1136
Email johns1s@cmich.edu


Education:

Ph.D. Political Science The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, 1979

Specialization:  
International Relations & American Foreign Policy, Peace
Research, Transnational Relations and African Politics
 
Minor Areas: 
American Politics and Public, Policy specialization
African-American and Urban Politics

 M. A.  Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1973
 Public Administration and American Politics

 B.A. Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, 1972
 Political Science and American History

 Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 36 hrs. Summer Course work
 toward M. Sc. in Computer Science, 1985-86


Employment

Associate Professor, Political Science, Central Michigan
University 1985-88 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Tougaloo College Tougaloo, Mississippi,

1985-1988 Adjunct Professor of Political Science Jackson State
University, Jackson, Mississippi,
Adjunct Professor of International and Comparative Politics,
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1979-84  U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C.

1982-84 Oceans and Environmental Sciences Bureau (OES/OFA).
Assisted Negotiations of Atlantic Fisheries Allocations
Department of State

1980-81 Non-Immigrant Visa Section Chief U.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru

1981-82 Political Reporting Officer, U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru

1975-79 Instructor, Behavioral Sciences, Columbus Technical
Institute Columbus, Ohio

1974-78 Research Associate, The Mershon Center, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio


Creative and Scholarly Activity:

Peace Without Justice: Hegemonic Instability and International
Criminal Law.  Forthcoming 2002
London:  Ashgate Publishing

Black Globalism: The International Politics of a Non-State Nation
April, Ashgate Publishing. 1998.
Textbook

Global Search and Seizure: The U.S. National Interest vs.
International Law, Dartmouth Press, London, 1994. Textbook

“Terrorism: Some Emerging and Enduring Themes” in Henry Han ed.
(with John Dinse) Henry Han Editor Terrorism and Political
Violence: Limits and Possibilities of Legal Control., Oceana
Press, New York, 1993.

“Caribbean Security and The Basin Initiative” Caribbean Studies
Newsletter, SUNY New York, Winter, 1990.

“The International Medical Activity of Columbus, Ohio” (with
Robert Woyach) Mershon Center Publications, 1974.

“The International Activity of Columbus' Black Community” Mershon
Center Publications, 1975.


Grants and Contracts

Director of Lilly Foundation Grant for "Improving Learning in the
Social Sciences"

Michigan International Development Educational Outreach Network
(MIDEON) Consortium Grant Developed with MSU


Professional Growth

1995-Present Board of Directors, National Council For Black
Studies

Presentations:

“Iraq and the Post-Cold War Imbalance of Power” The Annual
Meeting of the International Studies Association, Washington,
D.C. April 16-20, 1999.

“U.S. Hegemony and the Prospects for an International Criminal
Court”, The Annual Meeting of the International Studies
Association, Washington, D.C. April 116-20, 1999.

“Democracy and Development In Nigeria” Annual Meeting of the
Michigan Political Science Association Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo 1995.

"Human Rights In Africa" The Annual Meeting of the International
Studies Association Midwest, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, November, 1991.

"Symbolic Rhetoric vs. Symbolic Action: the U.S. Presidency and
Anti-Apartheid Policy," The Annual Meeting of the International
Studies Association, April 10-14 1990, Washington, D.C.

"Arms and Instability: The Superpowers and African Conflict" The
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association Midwest,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, November, 1990.

Discussant, International Studies Association University of
Illinois Champagne Urbana

Presentation "Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy Decision
Making" University of Mississippi


Community and University Service:

!999-2000 Tenure and Promotion Committee (HSBS)
1997-98  President’s  Executive Planning Committee
1997-99  Faculty Senate
1996     Search Committee for Dean of Humanities and Behavioral Science
1995     Honors Committee
1995     Committee On Committees
1993-94  Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors
1990     Committee to Select Minority Recruiter
1990-91  Academic Senate Public Broadcasting Committee (Chair)
1989-91  Faculty Association Executive Board
1988-89  Presidents Committee to Internationalize CMU
1988-89  Arts and Sciences Curriculum Subcommittee

Summer 1994, Taught Graduate Level International Relations Course
(PSC 551) Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara (UAG) Jalisco,
Mexico.

Spring 1991, Professor Exchange Program Groningen University, The
Netherlands. Taught Courses in the Law School and the American
Studies Program: American Foreign Policy and The Gulf War;
Introduction to International Relations; The Civil Rights
Movement and Public Law.

Specialization Teaching
International Law (PSC 555)
American Foreign Policy (PSC 453)
African Political Systems (PSC 340)
International Politics (PSC 150 and 551)
African American Politics (PSC 125)
Communism, Fascism and Democracy (PSC 375)
Introduction to Comparative Politics (PSC 242)
Model United Nations (PSC 458)


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