Nayef H. Samhat

Centre College

600 West Walnut Street

Danville, KY

(859) 238-5200

samhat@centre.edu

Education

 

June 1995        Ph.D., Political Science

Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, Evanston, IL

International Relations, Minor: Comparative Political Economy.

Dissertation: ‘Knowledge and Discourse: The Issue Construction of Climatic Change in International Politics’.

 

May 1985        Master of International Affairs (International Finance)

Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY

 

May 1983        Bachelor of Arts (International Economics)

George Washington University, School of International and Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.

 

May 1981        Associate of Arts

Bradford College, Bradford, MA

 

Current

2005 –             Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Associate Professor of Government and International Studies, Centre College, Danville, KY

Chair, Division of Social Studies

 

2004 – 2005    Associate Professor of Government and International Studies, Centre College, Danville, KY

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2002 – 2004    National Endowment for the Humanities Associate Professor of Government and International Studies, Centre College, Danville, KY

 

1996 – 2002    Assistant Professor of Government and International Studies, Centre College, Danville, KY

 

Publications

 

‘American Foreign Policy, Legitimacy, and the Global Public Sphere,’ Peace Review, 18(2) 2006, with Rodger A. Payne

 

‘International Regimes and the Prospects for Global Democracy,’ The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 6(1) 2005.

 

Democratizing Global Politics, with Rodger Payne, University of Louisville., SUNY Press, 2004. SUNY Press website and the book page.

 

‘Regimes, Public Spheres, and Global Democracy: Towards the Transformation of Political Community,’ Global Society 17(3) July 2003, with Rodger Payne.

 

‘Human Rights and International Political Community’, in Daniel Nelson, ed., Global Society in Transition (New York and The Hague: Kluwer Publishers, 2002).

 

‘Global Environmentalism and Political Community’, with Heather Bradley and Jane Elizabeth Owen, Peace Review (Vol. 12, December 2000).

 

‘Middle Powers and American Foreign Policy: Lessons from Irano-US Relations’ Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2000).

 

‘Human Rights Regimes and the Emergence of International Political Community,’ International Politics (Vol. 36, December 1999).

 

‘Deterritorializing Community: A Genealogy of Climate Change’ Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution, November 1998.

 

‘International Regimes as Political Community’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol. 26, 1997)

 

Book Reviews:

 

Reviewed article, “Controlling Heights of Political Science Education: A Survey of Political Economy Courses from an Author-Based Perspective,” for Journal of Poltiical Science Education.

 

Oran R. Young, The Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change: Fit, Interplay, and Scale (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), in Journal of Peace Research 40(6) November 2003.

 

Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, Richard Devetak, Jacqui True and Matthew Paterson, Theories of International Relations, (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), in Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol. 26, No. 1, 1997).

 

Other Published Articles

 

‘US Must Put Iraq Back Together Again,’ Lexington Herald Leader, March 5, 2006.

 

‘Iraq and the Future of American Policy,’ Peaceways, February 2006.

 

‘Rules of Engagement,’ Cincinnati Enquirer, April 25, 2004.

 

‘Peace in Israel’s Hands,’ Lexington Herald Leader, November 17, 2003.

 

‘War won’t make US safe,’ Lexington Herald-Leader, December 2, 2002.

 

‘The Question of Palestine’

CentrePiece, 43(1) 2002

 

‘Political Islam and America’s Response’

Syndicated to Religion News, October 23, 2001.

 

‘Rethink US Israeli Policy and the Roots of Islamic Radicalism’

Lexington Herald-Leader, October 20, 2001.

 

‘Arabs Under Siege’

Miami Herald, May 4, 2001

 

‘Arabs, not Israelis, Under Siege in Middle East’

Danbury News-Times, May 4, 2001

 

‘Well-armed, U.S. backed Israel is not the underdog in Mideast’

Lexington Herald-Leader, June 4, 2001.

 

‘Views on Kosovo: Getting There, Getting Out’

Lexington Herald-Leader, April 30, 1999

 

‘U.S.  Interests in Iraq: Better to Step Back from the Brink’

Lexington Herald-Leader, September 30, 1996.

 

Conference Presentations and Research

 

‘The Virtual Classroom: Teaching Middle East from the Centre’

Paper presentation to the Second World Conference on Middle East Studies, Amman, Jordan, June 12-16, 2006.

 

‘American Foreign Policy, Deliberation, and Legitimacy in the Public Sphere,’ co-authored with Rodger A. Payne.

Presented to the International Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, March 2005.

 

‘Pragmatism and International Regimes: Constructing Practical Governance and Cosmopolitan Democracy.’ Paper presented to the International Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, March 2004.

 

‘The Failure of Ideology and Barriers to Democracy in the Arab: Regime, Religion, and Rivalry.’

Presented to the 2003 American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2003.

 

‘Regimes, Deliberation and Democracy,’ co-authored with Rodger Payne, University of Louisville.

Presented to the 2002 International Studies Association meeting, New Orleans, LA, March, 2002.

 

‘Reflections on Public Spheres, Regimes, and Global Democratic Practice.’

Presented to the 2002 Kentucky Political Science Association Meeting, Williamsburg, KY, March 1-2, 2002.

 

‘Publicity Norms and Global Democratic Practice: Transparency and Participation in the World Trade Organization,’ co-authored with Rodger Payne, University of Louisville. Presented to the 2001 International Studies-South, Regional Conference, Wake Forest University, October 14-15, 2001.

 

‘The Legitimacy of the Neoliberal Trade Regime,’ co-authored with Rodger Payne, University of Louisville

Presented to the 2001 International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February 2001

 

‘Bringing Regimes “Back In”: A Critical Theory of Political Community’

Paper presented to the 2000 International Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, March 2000.

‘A Critical Theory of International Regimes’

Paper presented to the Kentucky Political Science Association, Danville, KY, March 2000.

 

‘Teaching Politics in International Relations’

Paper presented to the 1999 American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 1999.

 

‘Human Rights and International Political Community’

Paper presented to the 1998 American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 1998.

 

‘Deterritorializing Space, Respatializing Community: A Genealogy of Climate Change’

Paper presented to the 1998 International Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March 1998.

 

‘Networking Global Technoscientific Knowledge: Reading Foucault into a Global Environmental Change Paradigm’ Paper presented to the 1997 International Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 1997.

‘Middle Powers and American Foreign Policy: A Model for Managing World Politics with Lessons from Irano-US Relations’ with Margaret Juergens, Centre College.

Paper presented to the 1997 Kentucky Political Science Association, Bowling Green, KY, March 1997.

 

‘A Global Class in a Global Era: Reflections on Capital, the State and Labor’

Unpublished paper, May 1996.

 

‘The Meaning of International Cooperation: A Reflective Response to an Unasked Question’

Paper presented to the 1996 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 1996.

 

‘The Knowledge and Power of Global Technoscience: Geocentric Discourse Confronts the Practice of Sovereignty’

Paper delivered to the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April, 1995.

 

‘Eco-knowledge in an Era of Eco-Science’

Paper delivered to Northwestern University's Environmental Policy Program workshop, Globalizing Ecology, Evanston, IL, March 31, 1995.

 

‘Discourse and Change in International Society: The Issue Construction of Climatic Change’

Paper delivered to the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 14-16, 1994.

 

‘Knowledge, Discourse, and International Cooperation’

Paper delivered to the Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 30 - April 2, 1994.

 

‘Scientific Knowledge and International Politics: Constructing Complexity in International Politics’

Paper delivered to the Wisconsin Political Science Association Meeting, Oshkosh, WI, October 1-2, 1993.

 

Professional Activities

 

Media

§         Interview, Breakfast Club, Kingston, Jamaica, May 2006.

§         Panel Participant on KET’s Kentucky Tonight, June 27, 2005; October 3, 2005.

§         Interviews: Tampa Tribune, September 2005; Voice of America, January 23 2005.

§         Interviews: Gwyneth K. Shaw, Orlando Sentinel “War Decision May Be As Fateful For Bush As For Saddam ; A ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ Is Emerging As An Alternative To U.N. Approval,” Jan 27, 2003 [syndicated]; KCR Talk Radio, Ottawa Canada, March 2003; Lisa Anderson Chicago Tribune, Kuwait makes clear its support for latest U.S.-led war Emirate recalls neighbors' glee at 1990 invasion,” Mar 31, 2003 [syndicated]; Detroit News, August 2003. Advocate-Messenger, December 2003, Semana (Colombia).

§         Panel participant on KET’s Kentucky Tonight, September 9, 2002. Topic: US Foreign Policy.

§         Interview, Patrick Timmons, “State Department Looks into Causes of Anti-Americanism,” Daily Texan, August 30, 2002. Circulated on U-wire.

§         Guest on Catherine Dunn Newshour, Wisconsin Public Radio, August 19, 2002.

§         Panel participant on KET’s Kentucky Tonight, April 1, 2002. Topic: The War on Terrorism.

§         Guest on Sunday Morning with Bill Goodman, radio talk show, March 17, 2002.

§         Guest on Sunday Morning with Bill Goodman, radio talk show, March 10, 2002.

§         Guest on Sunday Morning with Bill Goodman, radio talk show, December 16, 2001.

§         Guest on Sunday Morning with Bill Goodman, radio talk show, November 4, 2001.

§         Panel participant on KET’s Kentucky Tonight, October 29, 2001. Topic: The War on Terrorism.

§         Guest on ‘Talk of the Town’, WHIR Radio, Danville, KY, October 10, 2001.

§         Guest on The Jane Norris Show, WHAS Radio, Louisville, KY, September 17, 2001.

§         Panel participant, ‘Attack on America’, Kentucky Tonight WKET, Lexington, KY, September 17, 2001.

§         Panel participant , ‘US Foreign Policy’, Kentucky Tonight WKET, Lexington, KY April 23, 2001.

§         Panel participant, ‘US Foreign Policy’, Kentucky Tonight WKET, Lexington, KY, November 2000.

§         Panel participant, ‘US Foreign Policy’, Kentucky Tonight WKET, Lexington, KY, May 1999.

 

Reviews

§         Reviewer for International Studies Quarterly

§         2006, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         2005, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         2004, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         2003, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         2002 Reviewer, International Politics.

§         2002, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         Reviewed Global Political Economy for Addison Wesley Longman Publishers, November 2001.

§         2001, Reviewer, International Politics.

§         2001, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         2000, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         1999, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         1998, Reviewer, International Politics.

§         1998, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

§         1998, Reviewer for Prentice Hall, Politics in Central and Eastern Europe.

§         1997, Advisory Board for Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

§         1997, Reviewer, Northedge Essay Competition for Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

§         1997, Reviewer, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

 

Guest lectures and panels

§         Roundtable Participant, “Terrorism and Homeland Security,” Kentucky Political Science Association, Georgetown, Kentucky, March 5, 2004.

§         Public lecture, “The Middle East,” Boyle County Public Library Brown Bag Series, January 29, 2004.

§         Panel participant, “Iraq, the US, and the Future,’ University of Kentucky, October 30, 2003.

§         Public lecture, “Arab Democracy and the United States,” Food for Thought Series, Centre College, October 7, 2003.

§         Panel participant, “Iraq: War and Its Consequences.” Gaines Center for the Humanities, University of Kentucky, October 24, 2002.

§         Panel Participant, ‘September 11: One Year Later.’ University of Kentucky, September 11, 2002.

§         Public Lecture, ‘The Rhetoric of Terrorism.’ Morehead State University, May 2, 2002.

§         Public Lecture, ‘Global Democracy in Our Turbulent World.’ United Nations Society of Lexington, April 2002.

§         Speaker at the Rotary Club of Danville, March 8, 2002. Topic: What is the Question of Palestine?

§         Roundtable participant, “Post-9/11 and The War on Terrorism,” 2002 Kentucky Political Science Association Meeting, Williamsburg, KY, March 1 – 2, 2002.

§         Speaker, Food for Thought Series, Centre College, “The Question of Palestine.” February 13, 2002.

§         Speaker at the Rotary Club of Danville, December 7, 2001. Topic: 9-11 and Political Islam.

§         Panel participant, ‘September 11 and the Middle East: Sorting It All Out’, University of Kentucky, November 5, 2001.

§         Speaker at Presbyterian Church, Danville, KY, November 4, 2001. Topic: The Sources of Islamist Discontent.

§         Speaker at Hogsett Elementary School – background talk for teachers, Q & A for students, on-11 and Islam, October 26, 2001.

§         Panel participant, ‘Terrorism, Conflict and America’, University of Kentucky, October 16, 2001.

§         Panel participant, ‘Providing Context for Troubled Times’, Centre College, October 14, 2001.

§         Panel Chair, ‘Theorizing About Democracy,’ 2001 International Studies South, Regional Conference, Wake Forest University, October 2001.

§         Panel participant, ‘Tragedy in Context’, Centre College, September 16, 2001.

§         Panel Chair, ‘Human Rights and Cooperation’, American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston MA, September 1999.

§         1997 – 1998, Policy Consultant on Global Environmental Policy and International Trade Policy for Kentucky State Senator Ernesto Scorsone (candidate for 6th District, US House of Representatives).

 

Other activities

§         Friday Faculty Hour, April 15, 2005, on “The Global Politics of Global Climate.”

§         Friday Faculty Hour, November 11, 2005, “The ITAC Grant in the classroom.”

§         Eid al-Ftir dinner and talk. November 7, 2005, sponsored by the Muslim Students Association and Office of Religious Life.

§         ODK Life Stories, April 19, 2005.

§         Member, national board of Association of Arab-American University Graduates.

§         ACS Workshop on Collaboration and Middle East Studies, September 2003.

§         NITLE/CET Workshop on Technology and Middle Eastern Studies, July 2003.

§         Co-Director, Centre-in-London, Spring 2003.

§         Instructor, International Relations. Governor’s Scholars of Kentucky, Summer 2002.

§         Presenter, “Technology Dreams” workshop. Centre College, June 2002.

 

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

 

§         Frank B. and Virginia B. Hower Professorship, 2006.

§         ITAC technology grant for course development, 2005.

§         National Endowment for the Humanities Professorship, 2003 (2 year appointment).

§         Delta Delta Delta Sorority, Teacher of the Year, 2002.

§         Faculty Development Summer Research Grant, Summer 2002.

§         Faculty Development Summer Research Grant, Summer 2001.

§         Faculty Development Summer Research Grant, Summer 2000.

§         The David Hughes Award for best paper presented to the Kentucky Political Science Association Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, March 6, 1998.

§         Teagle Grant, Centre College, 1997.

§         ODK Leadership Fraternity, ‘Rookie of the Year Award’ for Teaching Excellence, Centre College, 1997.

§         1995 David Minar Prize for Outstanding Graduate Achievement and Research, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University.

§         University Scholarship, Northwestern University, January 1990 to December 1992.

§         Graduate Fellowships, Northwestern University, January 1990 to December 1992.

 

Teaching and Committee Service

 

Courses taught: Introduction to Politics, Introduction to International Relations, International Political Economy, International Organization, International Institutions, Global Society, International Relations Seminar, European Political Systems, Middle East Politics, Politics from Cairo to Calcutta, Geopolitical Conflict, Fifty Years of Indian Politics: Democracy and Development (Winter 1999, overseas course in India).

 

Committee Assignments, 2005 - 2006: Curriculum Committee; Ad-hoc Committee on Faculty Evaluation Forms.

 

Committee assignments, 2004-2005: Committee on Tenure and Promotion; Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on the Evaluation of Scholarship and Professional Activity; John C. Young Scholars Selection Committee.

 

Committee assignments, 2003-2004: Committee on Curriculum & Academic Standards; Education Committee.

 

Committee assignments, 2002-2003: Committee on Curriculum & Academic Standards; Sub-committee on Academic Standards; Planning and Priorities Committee; Chair, International Studies Search Committee.

 

Committee assignments, 2001-2002: Chair, Committee on Curriculum & Academic Standards; Planning and Priorities Committee; Faculty Steering Committee; Chair, International Studies Search Committee; Committee on Distance-learning.

 

Committee assignments, 2000-2001: Committee on Curriculum & Academic Standards; Chair, Academic Standards Sub-committee; Executive Committee; Planning and Priorities Committee; John C. Young Scholars Committee.

 

Committee assignments, 1999 – 2000: Curriculum Committee & Sub-committee on Academic Standards; Summer Curriculum Committee (Summer 1999); Executive Committee; Faculty Development Committee.

 

Committee assignments, 1998 – 1999: Curriculum Committee (Spring 1999); Chair of Summer Working Group on Curriculum Review (1998); College Executive Committee; Faculty Development Committee (elected position); International Studies Committee; Curriculum Committee; Summer Curriculum Reform Group (1999); Chair, Humana Distinguished Scholar Search Committee.

 

Committee assignments, 1997-1998: Faculty Development Committee (elected position); International Studies Committee; Strategic Planning Faculty and Curriculum Subcommittee; Chair of Sub-committee on Curriculum Delivery.

 

Convocations and Lectures Organized:

 

§         Sponsored Roy Ray Lecturer, Professor Richard Falk, Princeton University, April 2005.

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