Dr. Jim Josefson
Department of History &
Political Science 206
Flory Hall
Bridgewater College (o)
540-828-5322
Bridgewater, VA 24477 (h)
540-324-0468
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/ jjosefso@bridgewater.edu
Experience
Assistant Professor of
Political Science
Bridgewater College
Fall 2000-present
Assistant Professor of
Political Science
Syracuse University
Fall 1998- Spring 2000
Assistant
Professor of Political Science
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Fall 1997- Spring 1998
Education
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs
Ph.D., Political Science, 1997
Master of Arts, Political Science, 1993
Carroll College, Waukesha, WI
Bachelor
of Science, May 1991
Major:
Political Science
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England
Year
abroad program, 1989-1990
Dissertation
“The Changing Construction of Partisan Identity: Party Stereotypes of the United States Electorate, 1952-1994”
“Learning is Not Fun: Reflections on the Liberal Arts and Living Your Best
Life”, unpublished manuscript
written for PDP150, 2002.
“A Theory
of Justice as Ethical Consumption”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, 2002.
“Synthesizing Republican Motherhood with Republican Manhood: The Arts and Crafts Movement in American Political Development ”, with Emily Tulli and Emila Sutton (undergraduate research), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il, 2001.
with Douglas Elznic, Anne Perfield,
Sam Alcoff (undergraduate research project),
presented at the Annual Meeting of the New York Political Science Association Annual Meeting, NY, NY 2000.
“An Exploration of the Stability of
Partisan Stereotypes”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, Il, 1997.
Published in Party Politics, 6: 285-304, 2000.
"Simulating Issue
Networks in Small Classes Using the World Wide Web" with Kelly Casey,
Nicole Fish, and Sarah Peterson (undergraduate research project), Winter
2000. Published in PS: Political Science & Politics,
Dec 2000 33: 843ff.
“A Framework for the
Study of Identity Politics,” with Jonathan Bach, presented at the Annual
Meeting of the New York Political Science Association Annual Meeting, NY, NY
1999.
“A Critique of Rawls’s Hermeneutics of Translation” with Jonathan Bach , presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Newark, NJ, 1995, and published in Philosophy and Social Criticism, 23: 99-124, 1997.
“Divining the Spirit of Revolution: Evaluating Arendt’s Appropriation of Jefferson” with Sheri Fortier, John Keratsis, Cynthia Hollahan, and David Mach, (undergraduate research project), presented at the Annual Meeting of the New York Political Science Association Annual Meeting, NY, NY 1997.
“The Changing Construction of
Partisan Identity”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1996.
“Party Stereotypes in American Presidential Elections: 1952-1992”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Newark, NJ, 1995.
“Putting it in Writing: An Examination of Presidential Candidate Platforms in the 1992 Election” with Joseph Cammarano, Southeastern Political Review, 23:187- 204, 1995.
“Information Processing in the 1988 and 1992 Presidential Elections” with Joseph Cammarano, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Providence, RI, 1994.
Professional
Reviewer for Party Politics
Member, American Political
Science Association (lapsed)
Courses Taught
At Bridgewater College:
Politics and Government
in the United States
State and Local Politics
Public Policy
Classical Political
Thought
Women and Politics
American Constitutional
Development
Contemporary Political
Thought
The Legislative Process
Media & Politics
Seminar in International
Studies and Political Science
Foundations of American
Political Thought
Introduction to Political
Philosophy
Foundations of American
Political Development
The American Presidency
Honors
Ph.D. Candidate Qualifying
Examinations, Syracuse University,
Political Inquiry and American Politics, Pass with
High Honors
Teaching Associate, Syracuse
University, 1993
Magna Cum Laude, Carroll College, 1991
Chung Mo Pak Award, Carroll
College, 1991