Bob has taught at Colorado College since 1971 in the Political Science Department and is currently the Department Chair.. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1972, having previously taken an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia in 1965 and a B.A. from Carleton in 1963. He is a member of the Middle East Studies Association, The American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and the Middle East Institute. His specialty is comparative politics, especially the politics of the Middle East, but he also teaches courses on the international relations of the Middle East and Islamic history, as well as introductory courses in the Political Science.  On three occasions he has taught in the ACM programs in Florence, Italy. 

He translated from the French a book by the Algerian author, Mohammed Arkoun, Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers (Westview,1994), and is the author of Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity. (Westview, 1997).  He is currently at work on a manuscript about religion and politics in the Middle East.

Lee is married to  Susan Ashley of the History Department. They have two sons, William and Matthew.

Courses:

PS 101  What is Politics?
PS 203  Israelis and Palestinians (with emphasis on writing)
PS 313  Comparative Politics:  The Middle East
             and North Africa
PS 314  International Politics of the Middle East
            and North Africa
FYE  (HY 200 and PS 203) The Search for Islamic
        Order: Yesterday and Today