(The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, formerly the Division of Social Science)

Professor Daniel DiSalvo, Chair • Department Office: NA 4/136 • Tel: 212-650-5940.

General Information

The City College offers the following undergraduate degree in Political Science:

B.A.

Program and Objectives and Careers

The Political Science Department offers a wide variety of courses on politics, law and government, foreign policy and international affairs. Courses explore political institutions of every kind: executive and legislative bodies; courts and legal systems; bureaucracies, political parties, interest groups and coalitions; international organizations; cooperation and conflict; and ethnic, religious and ideological movements. We try to understand where political power lies and, how it operates, whose interests it serves (who gets what, when, where, how). At the same time we not only examine how political institutions work, but also how they should work, what human values they serve, or violate; and what is the ultimate meaning and purpose of political life.

The department prepares people for careers in politics within city, state and national government; non-profit agencies and advocacy associations; international and non-governmental organizations; law; mass communications; social services; and various aspects of private and public planning institutions. However, our central vocation is to give students the knowledge and skills they will need to become active and productive citizens that can provide civic and global leadership.

Internships

The Political Science Department offers an Internship in Public and International Affairs, as well as information regarding internships in the New York State Assembly and State Senate, unions, environmental groups, and other governmental and non-governmental institutions. Students who wish to discuss available internships should consult a departmental advisor.

Departmental Activities

The Political Science Department sponsors a number of student organizations.

Awards

Student recipients are chosen by a committee of faculty committee.

Murray Gordon Scholarship & Ward Medal

Stanley Feingold Scholarship

Richard Goldberg Award

APO Scholarship

Hendel Award

Epstein Prize

Theodore Kupferman Prize

Bennett Prize

Ivo Duchacek Award

Marshall Berman Award

Faculty

Carlos Invernizzi Accetti, Associate Professor
B.A., Oxford Univ.; M.A., Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; Ph.D., Columbia Univ.

Sherrie L. Baver, Professor
B.A., Barnard College; M.Phil., Columbia Univ., Ph.D., Columbia Univ.

Richard B. Bernstein, Lecturer
B.A., Amherst College; J.D., Harvard Univ.

Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner, Professor
B.A., Univ. of the West Indies, M.Sc.; Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona

Vincent G. Boudreau, Professor and President of City College
B.A., LeMoyne College; Ph.D. Cornell Univ.

Bruce Cronin, Professor 
B.A., SUNY (Albany); M.A., New York Univ.; Ph.D. Columbia Univ. 

Daniel DiSalvo, Professor and Chair
B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Fordham Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of Virginia

Diana Greenwald, Assistant Professor
B.A., Georgetown University; PhD., University of Michigan 

Jean Krasno, Lecturer
B.F.A., Univ. of Illinois; M.A., Stanford Univ.; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center

John Krinsky, Professor
B.A., Swarthmore; Ph.D., Columbia Univ.

Rajan Menon, Spitzer Professor
B.A.Stephen's College, Delhi Univ. (India); M.A., Lehigh Univ.;

A. Dirk Moses, Anne & Bernand Spitzer Chair in International Relations
B.A. Univ. of Queensland; M.Phil. Univ. of St. Andrews; M.A. Univ. of Notre Dame; Ph.D Univ. of California, Berkeley,

Mira Morgenstern, Professor
B.A., City College; M.A., Yeshiva Univ.; Ph.D., Princeton Univ.

Andrew Rich, Professor and Dean, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
B.A. Univ. of Richmond; Ph.D., Yale Univ. 

Nicholas Rush Smith, Associate Professor
B.A., College of William & Mary; M.A., George Washington Univ.; M.A. Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D.

Professors Emeriti

Rajan Menon

Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner

Moyibi J. Amoda

Allen B. Ballard

Joyce Gelb

Diana Gordon

John Harbeson 

George N. McKenna

Edward V. Schneier