Subjects and degrees: American and British national politics; public policy; voters, parties & elections; presidency; executive politics, public administration & bureaucracy; public organization theory; West European politics; and international relations. Research focus: official transparency and freedom of information in the US and UK.

• Johns Hopkins University: MA 1980, PhD 1982, in American Government & International Relations.
• University of Oxford (UK): BA 1976, MA 1981, in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (member of Keble College).

• Chappell Award for Academic Enrichment and Scholarship, Huntingdon College, May 2008
• Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Inaugural Greek Awards Convocation, Huntingdon College, April 2008
• Exemplary Teacher Award (with honorarium), US Methodist Board of Higher Education, 2006.
• Open scholarship; Distinction in examinations (six awarded), University of Oxford, UK.
• College prize, Keble college of the University of Oxford, UK.
• Full graduate fellowships, the Johns Hopkins University; Huber dissertation fellowship, Wellesley college.
• Plaques for teaching and service excellence from UNI and CUNY.
• Languages: fluent French; Spanish; some German, Italian and Latin; extensive travel.

Division chair, History, Politics and Psychology, August 2011-.

Member of Dean's Council, August 2011-.

Department chair, History and Political Science, responsible for recruiting, advising up to 70 majors, curriculum, assessment, budgeting and placement.

Third 5-year comprehensive curriculum review in political science, 2010-11: obtained approval for new courses in World Politics; Southern Politics; Public Organiztions and Policy; and Terrorism and Developing Countries. Two courses were also approved for HC's new Honors core.

Department chair, Political Science, 2008-2011

Program coordinator for political science 1996-2008.

Teaching 15 political science courses, and additional courses, 4-7 preparations per term, at Huntingdon college.

Recruiting, advising and placing up to 44 student majors.

Designed and implemented major fields in political science; international studies; European studies; public administration; and public affairs, 1996-2004.

Additionally, 7 interdisciplinary symposia, one or two in most years, 1996-.

Strong record among alumni: measured by seniors and alumni satisfaction surveys, entry to law and graduate schools, law review boards, passage of Bar exam and one bronze star, US army.

Created course in Current Affairs for School of Professional Studies, HC, 2006; European studies seminar for AUM's MIR program, summer 2005; and seminar for HC in Third World Politics and Terrorism, 2005.

Team taught and co-led study abroad on German politics, economics and society, to Bavaria, May 2007.

Led and taught study abroad on British Politics, Jan. '04 and May '06, with distinguished speakers at the University of Oxford (2), House of Commons (2) and King's College, London.

• Wellesley College and Colby College; University of Northern Iowa and City University of New York..
• Taught graduates; mature; diverse; lifelong; and traditional students; in day, evening and online classes; senior theses; and capstones.
• Supervised several major fields, interdisciplinary programs, and internships
• Director of faculty-student Justice symposium with anthology, events, 1998-2001.
• Convener of faculty research symposium (UNI); mentor of faculty.
• Committee leadership: chaired tenure, promotion and development; core curriculum, chaired travel; chaired academic services; also self-study, education policy, faculty and dean searches.
• Master's level program design; comprehensive exams; supervised senior theses and master's research.
• Faculty seminars: director of "Justice" faculty seminar, 1998-2001; convener of faculty seminar, 1994-96.
• Faculty seminar, recent history, Harvard, June 2005; and Harvard's centers for European studies and for international affairs, 1983-5.

• "From Electronic FOIA (EFOIA) to e-Government: the Development of Online Official Information Services, 1985-2009," in Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, G. David Garson and Chris Shea, eds. CRC Press,  2010.
• "Tide of Security Secrecy, Tide of Transparency: The G.W. Bush and Obama Administrations, 2001-2009," in Handbook of Public Information Systems, Third Edition, G. David Garson and Chris Shea, eds. CRC Press,  2010.
• With Bradley Best, "Program Evaluation and Review Technique - Critical Path Analysis," in Jack Rabin (ed) Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, (Marcel Dekker, 2003). [Abstract online]
• Newspaper columns, April 2003: "Bush Thrives on War," "Blair Takes Greater Risks," and "Taking War on Faith."
• "FOIA & Federal Information Policy in the 1980s and 1990s," in G. David Garson (ed), Handbook of Public Information Systems (NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000). Contents.
• "Electronic Access to Public Records," in G. David Garson (ed), Handbook of Public Information Systems (NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000).  Contents.
• Editor of Justice, Third edition anthology 1999; and Fourth edition, 2001.  Boston, MA: Copley Publishing.
• 4 Book reviews in European Studies Journal, 13(1):78-88, 1996. and 5 reviews in ESJ, 12(1):108-123, 1995.
• "Reinventing (Open) Government: State and Federal Trends." Government Information Quarterly, 12(4):427-455 (Fall 1995). Abstract & Contents.
• "Next Cycle of FOIA Policy? A Model for the Electronic Future." Access Reports 20(13):3-10 (22 June 1994.)
• "New Technologies and FOIA Processing: Part I."and "Part II."  Access Reports, 19(15):2-7 & (16):4-9(1993)
• Review essay of 3 books on Thatcherism, in the American Political Science Review, 86(1):269-270 (March 1992).
• 15 encyclopedia entries in L. Sandy Maisel (ed), Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections, (New York: Garland publishing, 1991).
• "Freedom of Information: Developments in the United Kingdom." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 3(4):465-474 (Winter 1989).
• "Simulations in Political Science: a Review Essay." Social Science Computer Review, 7(3):369-377 (Fall 1989).
• The Freedom of Information Act: From Pressure to Policy Implementation. PhD Dissertation (Johns Hopkins University, 1982).

• Paper proposed for delivery to the panel on Counter Corruption Strategies of the International Conference on Democratic Governance, at the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, 8-9 Aug. 2012
• "Preventing and Detecting Public Corruption: From Freedom of Information to Transparency," chapter proposed for 2013, in Yahong Zhang, Ed., Government Counter Corruption Strategies: A Public Solutions Handbook, M.E. Sharpe, as part of Marc Holzer, Ed., “The Public Solutions Handbook Series”.
• "Transparency Policies in the G.W. Bush and Obama Administrations, 2001-2012," chapter proposed for 2013, in Yahong Zhang, Ed., Government Counter Corruption Strategies: A Public Solutions Handbook, M.E. Sharpe, as part of Marc Holzer, Ed., “The Public Solutions Handbook Series”.
• "Transparency, FOI and Wikileaks versus US National Security Secrecy: The Obama and Bush Administrations."  Paper to be presented to a panel, "Current and Future Issues in Public Administration as they affect administrative culture," at the World Congress of the International PSA, Madrid, July 2012
• Chair, panel "Ethics in Public Administration, including corruption /anti-corruption," at the World Congress of the International PSA, Madrid, 8-12 July 2012

• "Towards a Typology of Outward Flows of Official Information in Liberal Democracies." A paper presented to the annual meeting of the Alabama Political Science Association, at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 30-31 March 2012.
• "FOIA to WikiLeaks: the evolution of concepts of access to official information," paper presented as illustrated keynote speech to the conference, “From FOIA to WikiLeaks: Where are the Limits to Openness?” Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia, 7-8 Dec. 2011.
• "From Formal-passive to Informal-active Transparency: Freedom of Information, eGovernance and WikiLeaks." A paper [PDF] prepared for presentation to the First Global Conference on Transparency Research, Rutgers University Newark, NJ, 18-20 May 2011.
• "Redaction and Release Systems Versus Data Dump: Transparency Programs and The WikiLeaks Classified Documents Scandal." A paper presented to the annual meeting of the Alabama PSA, at Samford University, Birmingham, AL, 15-16 April 2011.
• "Citizen of the World",  one-day (6 hour), intensive, illustrated course, Boy Scout Merit Badge Day, HC, Sep., annually since ca. 2004-.
• Illustrated lecture and seminar leadership, on the characteristics and challenges of American government, to visiting legislators from Kazakhstan, under the auspices of Freedom Forum, at Huntingdon College, February 2011.
• "eFOIA to eGovernment?  The Development of Online Official Information Services, 1985-2009."  Paper presented to the Alabama PSA conference, Huntsville, AL, Apr. 2010.
• Participant, Course on Pre-Law Advising, and Annual Conference, American PSA, 26-30 Aug. 2008
• Participant, International Conference on the Right to Public Information, Jimmy Carter Center, Atlanta, 27-29 Feb. 2008.
• Conference for Department Chairs, and Conference on Teaching and Learning, American PSA, Charlotte NC, Feb. 2007
• Shakespeare and Politics, paper for the Alabama PSA conference April 2006.
• Lecture "From the Miners to Major: Recent British Politics" [PPT] Buena Vista University, Iowa, plus faculty-student seminar and three classes, Sep. '05.
• Participant, national security workshop, Air Command and Staff College, Apr. '06; national security forum of Air War College, May '05; and distinguished educator tour, US Air Force, '05.
• Information and security in the W. Bush administration: paper, Alabama PSA, Apr. '05; FRAMP grant, HC, Jan. '05; paper, Southern PSA, Jan. '05.
• "China and Taiwan: Development, Coexistence and Tensions", Keynote for Model United Nations, at AUM, Apr. '04.
• "Strategy, Technology and Expertise: Falklands /Malvinas 1982."  Presented to SAASS and AWC schools, Air University, June & July '03.
• Foreign policy association, great decisions program, co-convened and presented, 2003-.

• Scholarly journal article reviewer, PS: Political Science and Politics (APSA, 2011-); International Studies Review, 2010-; Scientific Journals International, 2006-.
• Member of the editorial board of Open Government: A Journal on Freedom of Information, Feb.2009-.
• Thirty conference papers in political science; other panels chaired.
• Doctoral dissertation reviewer for Andhra University, India, 2000-.
• Reader, AP Government & Politics of the US examination, Educational Testing Service, 2010-
• Textbook, manuscript and proposal reviewer, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010-; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008-; Thomson Publishing, 2003-; Longman Pearson Publishing, 2003-; Polity Press, UK, 2003-, and Chatham House publishers (1990s).
• U.S. Food and drug administration, consultant 1986-96; also moderated panel in documentary film for FDA commissioner.
• Grant reviewer: Latin American area studies research grants consortium, Ford Foundation, 1998-2001.
• Television: guest analysis of politics, including twice on NBC nightly news (1996).
• Board member and webmaster, Alabama  World Affairs Council, 2002-.
• Presentations to service clubs: Rotarians, Kiwanis, Alaska World Affairs Council.
• Instructor's manuals (1990s) for Chatham House; for Peacock publishers and US Air Force ROTC.
• Educational software created, several internal grants received, additional conference papers on the subject.

Recruiting students, academic advising, placing interns and graduates.

Presentations for the academic colloquia of the President, 2007-08; and of the Dean of faculty, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Elected chair, Committee on Tenure, Promotion and Development, 2007-08; 2008-09; 2009-2010; and 2010-2011, which professionalized policies and procedures for observation and assessment of faculty, revised Faculty Manual, established requirement of pofessional activity for promotion to Professor.

Elected chair, travel committee, 2004-06, which maintained and adapted travel program and policy to budget reductions.

Elected faculty member, Dean of Faculty external search committees, spring 2004; and spring 2008.

Elected chair, core curriculum committee, which redesigned college core in two months, passed Nov. 2003.

Elected chair, academic services committee, which wrote technology use policy for college.

Committee work on core curriculum, honors, academic services, athletics, multidisciplinary majors.

Brought in many guest speakers from international relations, national security, politics and law; took field trips to courts, legislature, museums and conferences.

Adviser to political science club; award-winning academic and service fraternity chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon; College Democrats; and Model United Nations team.

Participant in faculty seminar which created new freshman core seminar, practicing the art of critical thinking (PACT), the QEP for HC's reaccreditation by SACS, 2010-.

Participant in First Year Experience freshman seminar, and faculty/staff seminars, May 2004-2007.