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Donald Will, Ph.D.
Dr. Will is Chair and Professor of Political Science and holds the Delp-Wilkinson Chair in Peace Studies. He has been a member of the Chapman faculty since 1987, and received his Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver. His research emphasis includes the comparative study of conflict and social change. For eleven years he served as a non-governmental observer at the United Methodist Office for the United Nations. He teaches courses such as Introduction to Peace Studies, Nonviolent Social Change, Race and Change in South Africa and the US, Peace and Conflict in the Middle East, Vietnam: War, Peace, and Legacy, Social Change in Cuba, Literature of Peace and Justice, Noam Chomsky: Intellectual and Dissident, and the Chapman University Freshman Seminar: The Global Citizen. |
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Gordon Babst, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Dr. Babst is Associate Professor of Political Science, and first joined the faculty at Chapman University in 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School. His major area of emphasis is political philosophy, and his research and teaching interests include religion and politics, theory and globalization, and issues of diversity and tolerance in the liberal-democratic political regime. |
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Arthur Blaser, Ph.D., J.D. Professor
Dr. Blaser is Professor of Political Science and has been on the Chapman faculty since 1981. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law. His major area of emphasis is law, international relations, and comparative politics, and his research and teaching interests include disability studies, human rights, and international nongovernment organizations. |
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Ann Gordon, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director of the Ludie and David C. Henley Research Lab
Dr. Gordon specializes in research methods, women and politics, political communication, voting behavior and public opinion. She is co-editor of Anticipating Madam President (Lynne Rienner, 2002), author of Playing Politics: An Active Learning Approach to American National Government (McGraw-Hill, 2004) and co-author of When Stereotypes Collide: Race, Gender, and Videostyle in Congressional Campaigns (Peter Lang, 2005). |
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Lori Cox Han, Ph.D.
Dr. Han joined the Chapman faculty in 2005 as Professor of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the faculty at Chapman, Dr. Han taught at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Her major area of emphasis is American government, with research and teaching interests in the presidency, women and politics, media and politics, and political leadership. She is the author of Governing From Center Stage: White House Communication Strategies During the Television Age of Politics (Hampton Press, 2001), and Women and American Politics: The Challenges of Political Leadership (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is also co-editor of Rethinking Madam President: Is America Ready for a Woman in the White House? (Lynne Rienner, 2007), The Presidency and the Challenge of Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, and In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenge of Public Leadership (SUNY Press, 2005), Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics (Facts on File, 2008), and Political Leadership, Vol. 2 of Leadership at the Crossroads (Praeger, 2008). In addition, Dr. Han is past president of the Presidency Research Group, an organized section of the American Political Science Association devoted to the study of the presidency.  Curriculum Vita |
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Nubar Hovsepian, Ph.D.
Dr. Hovsepian joined the Chapman faculty in 2004 as Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies. He completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before moving to Chapman, he was the Associate Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). He specializes in comparative politics and international relations, with research and teaching interests in Middle East politics, state formation and educational institutions, democratic processes, nationalism and social movements, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. |
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Angeliki Kanavou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dr. Kanavou is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and joined the Chapman faculty in 2006. She received her Ph.D. from the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Her teaching and research interests include political psychology, conflict resolution, peace studies, negotiation/mediation, and security studies. |
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David Shafie, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dr. Shafie's research and teaching interests include public policy, environmental politics, urban politics, and state politics. Dr. Shafie is co-author of Rethinking California: Politics and Policy in the Golden State (Prentice Hall, 2nd ed. forthcoming) and has published articles in American Behavioral Scientist and the Southeastern Political Review. His current research project, titled Regulatory Agenda-Setting and Environmental Risk, has received funding from the Morris K. Udall Foundation. |
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Fredric Smoller, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Dr. Smoller is Associate Professor of Political Science. He has been a member of the Chapman University faculty since 1983. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, and his major area of interest is American politics with an emphasis on the media. |
