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John joined the faculty of the Political Science Department in the fall of 2002. Gould is a cum laude graduate of Williams College with a double major in Political Science and Studio Art. He did graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he earned at M.A.L.D. degree in 1990, and Columbia University, where he earned his Ph. D. in February, 2001. His dissertation topic: "Beyond Creating Owners: Privatization and Democratization in the Czech and Slovak Republics, 1990-1998." He speaks French and some Slovak. Gould taught high school history at the Chapin School in New York from 1984 to 1986 and at the American School of Paris from 1989 to 1991. After returning to graduate school, he held a number of prestigious fellowships including a Robert Schuman Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in the spring of 1998. He has taught in the Political Science Department of Tufts University and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Graduate School of International Studies, Denver University, during the 2001-2002 academic year. Gould maintains an active research program in the field of comparative and international political economy with a particular focus on the role of postcommunist privatization on political regime change. He specializes in Slovak and Czech politics, but his recent work includes case studies from Kosovo, Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Chad. He has published refereed journal articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Business and Politics, and Review of International Political Economy. He also writes analytical briefs on Central European politics for Oxford Analytica. Gould is pleased to serve on the board of academic advisors at the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict. He belongs to the American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies and the International Studies Association. |
Courses: PS101: What is Politics?
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