Dr. Jim Josefson
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of History &
Political Science 217
Flory Hall
http://www.bridgewater.edu/~jjosefso/ jjosefso@bridgewater.edu
Experience
Assistant Professor of
Political
Fall 2000-present
Assistant Professor of
Political
Fall 1998- Spring 2000
Assistant
Professor of Political
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,
Bachelor
of Science, May 1991
Major:
Political Science
University of Nottingham,
Year
abroad program, 1989-1990
Dissertation
“The Changing Construction of
Partisan Identity: Party Stereotypes of the
“A Genealogy of Republicanism in
Christian Thought,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association,
“Learning is Not
Fun: Reflections on the Liberal Arts and Living Your Best Life,” LiberalArtsOnline
Volume 6, Number 9, September 2006.
“Evil Luxury & Virtuous
Beauty: Ethical Consumption in
Republicanism,” presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
“Don’t
Argue Reflect: Reflections on Introducing Reflective Writing into Political
Science,” PS: Political Science & Politics 38.4: 763-767,
2005.
“The Pragmatism of Justice as Ethical Consumption”
with Kristin Marino (’04) (undergraduate research project), presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA,
November 2004.
“A Theory of Justice as Ethical Consumption,” presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association,
“Fighting for Power to Build
Peace: A Roadmap for Pacifist Politics
in the 21st Century,” paper presented
“A Theory
of Justice as Ethical Consumption”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association,
“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,
“An Exploration of the Stability of
Partisan Stereotypes”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association,
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,
“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,
“The Changing Construction of
Partisan Identity”, presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
“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 Addison Wessley
Longman
Reviewer for Party Politics,
Polity
Member, American Political
Science Association (lapsed)
Courses Taught
At
Politics and Government
in the
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
The American Presidency
in American Political Development
Personal Development in
the Liberal Arts
Honors
Ph.D. Candidate Qualifying
Examinations,
Political Inquiry and American Politics, Pass with
High Honors
Teaching Associate,
Magna Cum
Laude,
Chung Mo Pak Award,