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Invited Lectures:  “Models and Methods in Political Science,” Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, May 2016; Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May-June 2016.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Senior Specialist: Romania. May-June, 2014.

Invited Short-Course: "Research Methods and the Practice of Conducting Effective Research," Center for Health Policy and Public Health and the Department of Political Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. June 2013.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Senior Specialist: Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.  Duties included a short-course on research methodology, consulting with faculty, advising graduate students.  May-June, 2008.

Invited Short-Course, "The Methodology of Game Theory," Faculty of Political Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 2007.

Invited Short-Course, "The Craft of Making Political and Social Science," a one-week workshop on research methods for Ph.D. students from all over Denmark.  With Asbjorn Sonne Norgaard.  Danish Political Science Research School.  University of Southern Denmark, Odense.  September 2006.

International Programs Committee, San Diego State University, Faculty Travel Grant to Romania, to lay the foundations for a possible summer Study Abroad Course, June 2005.

Invited Short-Course, "The Craft of Political Science," a one-week workshop on research methodology for Ph.D. students from all over Denmark.  With Asbjorn Sonne Norgaard and Thomas Pallesen.  Danish Political Science Research School.  Arhus University, Denmark, August 2004.

Oxford Study Abroad Program, Summer Course, Invited Lectures on "Democratic Rules" and "Democratic Participation," Oxford, UK, August 2004.

Certificate of Appreciation, "For Nurturing Romanian Political Science," Romanian Society of Political Science, at the Third Annual Meeting, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 2002.  I act as international liaison for the Romanian Society of Political Science, which kindly presents the Best Paper award at its annual meetings in my name.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Lectureship, Centre for Comparative Welfare State Studies, Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg University, Denmark, Spring 2001. Duties included lectures to undergraduate and MA students and a special short-course on research methods for Ph.D. students.

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Fall 2001. Duties included Introduction to Politics lectures to the entire first year class (450 students) and a seminar on research methods for the MA students.

Invited Short-Course, "The Political System and Presidential Elections in the United States," Center for the Study of the United States, University of Havana, Cuba, April 2000.

Senior Consultant, Social Science Curriculum Development Program, sponsored by the USIA, administered by IREX and the American Council of Learned Societies. Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration, and Journalism, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1996 - 1999. Duties included periodic visits to the Faculty in Romania; meetings in New Orleans and Washington, DC to plan SSCD efforts and evaluate on-going projects; regular communications with IREX/ACLS administrators and with professors in Romania regarding progress; adviser and reviewer regarding research grant proposals, faculty development trips to the U.S., and applications for U.S. visitors to Romania; head of on-site grant evaluation team and chief author of evaluation report.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Lectureship, Department of Political Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Spring 1995. Duties included teaching research methods to the university's first graduating class in Political Science.

TEACHING AND ADVISING:

Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, Delta Chapter, San Diego State University, initiation December 2004.

Tulane Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1999. One of eighteen awarded by the University

Tulane Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1998. One of sixteen awarded by the University

Tulane Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1997. One of seventeen awarded by the University

Recognition, National Student-Athlete Day, Tulane University, 1997

Residential Fellow of the Year, Tulane Office of Housing and Residence Life, 1993

Tulane Committee for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education, Grant, Summer 1992

Tulane Summer Planning Grant, Ford Foundation/ACSEPT project, Summer 1991

Outstanding Undergraduate Professor, Paul Tulane College, Tulane University, 1991

Dissertation Chair for John Drew, winner of the William Anderson Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, 1989

RESEARCH:

San Diego State University, Awarded the inaugural Bruce E. Porteous Endowed Professor of Political Science, 2014-2016.

San Diego State University, Provost’s Critical Needs Fund, for a paper "Political Incentives and the Bias of Government Expenditures in Romania" to be delivered at the Society for Romanian Studies biennial meeting, Bucharest, June 2015.

San Diego State University. University Grants Program, for a project on "Electoral Reform and Political Results – The Case of Romania," Summer-Fall 2013.

College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, Critical Thinking Grants in the Humanities and Social Sciences, for project on "Minority Representation and Reserved Seats," Spring-Summer 2011.

College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, Micro-grant for the project, "A Tale of Two Palaces:  Semi-Presidential Government and Strategic Conflict in Romania," Spring 2009.

College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, "Mini-grant" to purchase documents and out-of-print books for project, "The Removal of the Property Qualification for Voting and the Democratization of America," Spring 2006.

David R. McGuire Research and Faculty Development Grant, Tulane University, Spring 2002.

American Philosophical Society: for a research project entitled, "Democratic Abuses in America: The Election of 1876," Fall 2001-Spring 2002.

State of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning and Alcorn State University: for a focus group project examining white student college preferences in Southwest Mississippi, research in consequence of the Court rulings in Ayers v. Fordice, Spring 1999.

The Twentieth Century Fund: for a research project, "Budgeting Entitlements," 1994-96.

Committee on Research, Tulane University, Small Research Grant, 1994.

The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race (ed. Rose), named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1993.

Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Summer Research Grants, 1990-94, 1999-2000.

Gerald R. Ford Foundation: Grant-in-Aid for research, March 1987.

Paper, "Income Redistribution and the Postwar American Regime," nominated by the Political Economy section for the 1986 Pi Sigma Alpha Award, given to the best paper presented at the annual American Political Science Association convention.

Russell Sage Foundation: one of four Postdoctoral Fellows invited to spend a year in residence at the Foundation, New York City, September 1984-August 1985.

Cornell University Junior Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1984.

American Council of Learned Societies: one of twelve awards to recent recipients of the Ph.D., to purchase leave time for a project entitled, "Democracy, Equality, and Growth in Keynesian America," Fall 1983.

Hatfield Fund for Economic Education: to obtain and access OECD data tapes, Fall 1982.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation: Grant-in-Aid for research, January 1982.