Faculty Profiles

Shaheen Ayubi
James A. Dunn 
Richard Harris
Russell S. Harrison
Jenny Kehl
Arthur Klinghoffer
Aman McLeod
Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Department Chair
Alan Tarr
Wojtek Wolfe

SHAHEEN AYUBI, Assistant Instructor
B.A., St. Joseph's College, Karachi; M.A., University of Karachi; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Phone: 856-225-2974; Email: sayubi@camden.rutgers.edu

Dr. Ayubi teaches a broad range of courses in International Politics and Comparative Politics that range from issues dealing with international terrorism to politics in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of developing areas. She is the author of several books and articles including NASSAR AND SADAT and Co-edited The IRAN-IRAQ WAR. She is also the co-author of THE USE OF SANCTIONS IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, Philadelphia Policy Papers and currently serves as a book reviewer for the journal CHOICE.

Professor Dunn teaches courses in comparative public policy, public administration, Western European politics, and transportation and urban issues. He is the author of two books, Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies and the Politics of Mobility and Miles To Go: European and American Transportation Policies, and numerous articles in journals such as Scientific American, Transportation Quarterly, Journal of Public Policy, Comparative Politics, American Behaviorial Scientist, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management on the political and administrative challenges facing transportation policy makers. He spent a year in Germany studying German and European transportation policy as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universities of Bonn and Stuttgart, and received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study French transportation policy in Paris. He was a member of the U.S. research team on MIT's Future of the Automobile Program. He also is a recipient of the Rutgers Presidential Award for Distinguished Public Service for his role as Chair of the South Jersey Transit Advisory Committee, to which he was appointed by Governor Brendan Byrne and reappointed by Governor Tom Kean.

Professor Harris teaches and writes in the areas of American Politics and Public Policy, with specializations in Business/Government Relations and Environmental Policy. In addition to publishing books on these topics with Duke University Press and Oxford University Press, Dr. Harris has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Brookings Institution. He also has received support for innovative teaching as well as the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers-Camden. He currently serves as Director of the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs, a campus-wide institute for applied research and public service.

Dr. Russell Harrison is available to help students participate in both the internship program and honors program. His research interests focus on state and local government issues of the types facing officials in New Jersey, such as inequality of public school finance, exclusionary zoning, and the need for professionalization of the public sector. He teaches courses in state and local government, program evaluation research methods, the use of computers, quantitative analysis, surveys and policy research in government and law, as well as coordinating the internship and honors programs. He actively assists federal, state, and local government agencies with public service research, has been a leader in various professional associations, and offers graduate level courses in public administration.

Dr. Kehl conducts research and teaches courses in Political Economy and Development, with emphases on democratic institutional development and foreign direct investment.  Dr. Kehl’s specific interests include government negotiations with foreign investors and conflict in the manufacturing and extractive/resource sectors.  She is currently teaching Comparative Politics of Developing Nations in the Department of Political Science and International Economic Development in the Graduate Department of Public Policy and Administration.  She has published research in Politics and Political Science (under APSA), Millennium (under ISSEI), the African Finance Journal (under ACIA), and has forthcoming research from recent field work in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia.              

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AMAN MCLEOD, Assistant Professor

B.A., Amherst College; J.D., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Phone: 856-225-6874; E-mail: amcleod@camden.rutgers.edu
Vita

Dr. McLeod studies judicial behavior, judicial selection systems, international law and comparative legal systems.  Dr. McLeod teaches courses on American and comparative constitutional law, criminal procedure, American politics and international law.  He has also written articles and chapters focused on judicial behavior, judicial selection and voting rights.    

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KIM EZRA SHIENBAUM, Associate Professor
B.A. Leeds; M.S., London School of Economics; Ph.D., NYU
Phone: 856-225-2971; E-mail: shienbau@camden.rutgers.edu

Dr. Shienbaum's research and teaching interests focus on American Politics  and selected international issues and she teaches a wide range of courses in that area, ranging from The American Presidency to Politics and Culture. Her books include, AMERICAN SHOCKWAVE:  Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Its Global Impact , BEYOND THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION:  A Reassessment of the Role of Voting in Contemporary American Politics and LEGISLATING MORALITY: Private Choices on the Public Agenda. Most recently she co-edited and contributed to BEYOND JIHAD:  Critical Voices from Inside Islam (co-editor Jamal Hasan).  Over the years she has also published several articles in respected and peer reviewed academic journals.

Dr. Shienbaum has made an outstanding contribution to one of the University's core missions: public outreach.  She created, hosted, and produced the nationally syndicated public affairs radio series HEAD TO HEAD , which was heard on over 75 radio stations across America.  From 1995 until 1998, HEAD TO HEAD was funded by America's largest pension fund, TIAA-CREF.

Dr. Shienbaum is departmental  advisor to students in the National Security, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism minor.

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ALAN TARR, Professor II
B.A., Holy Cross; M.A., Ph.D., Chicago
Phone: 856-225-2970; E-mail: tarr@camden.rutgers.edu
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Professor Tarr is a specialist in constitutional law and the judicial process and also teaches courses in the history of political theory. He is a Director of the Council for State Constitutional Studies, the editor of a major reference series on American state constitutions, and the author of numerous books and articles on constitutionalism. He has been a consultant on the development of sub-national constitutions in Russia and South Africa. 

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WOJTEK WOLFE, Assistant Professor
B.A., Binghamton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder
Phone: 856-225-2972; E-mail: wojwolfe@camden.rutgers.edu
Website:  www.wojtekwolfe.com

Professor Wolfe's current research programs focus on multiple areas including US foreign policy, US-China relations, and energy security issues. He is the author of "Winning the War of Words: Selling the War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq."  His teaching interests include US foreign policy, security studies, national security policy issues, and US China affairs.

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