Dissertation: Abortion Rates in the American States: The Influence of Opinion and Policy on Abortion Utilization (later published by SUNY Press, 1996)

Teaching Experience

Delta College, Social Science Division, 1996-present

University of the Pacific, Dept. of Political Science, 1995-96

California State University Stanislaus, Political Science, 1995-96

University of Evansville, Dept. of Political Science, 1993-94

Other Experience

Newspaper Editor, The Joliet Times Weekly (1987-88), The Wilmington Free Press (1986-87)

Staff of U.S. Rep. Paul Simon (D-IL, 1984)

Teaching Awards & Honors

Marynov Outstanding Teaching Fellowship, Northern Illinois University, 1992

CTA New Educator Award, 1999

Student Government Leadership By Example Award, 1999, 2003

Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society Teacher Recognition, 2000, 2002, 2007

Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award, 2004

Books

Attitudinal Decision Making in the Supreme Court of Canada.  2007.  Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press (with C. L. Ostberg).

Abortion Rates in the United States: The Influence of Opinion and Policy. 1996. New York: State University of New York Press.

Scholarly Articles

Attitudinal Conflict & Consistency: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts.  Comparative Political Studies.  2008.  41: (with C. L. Ostberg, D. R. Songer, and S. W. Johnson, forthcoming).

Judicial Behavior on the Canadian Supreme Court: Attitudinal Conflict in Right to Counsel Cases, 1984-2002. Political Science Quarterly. 2006-07. (with C. L. Ostberg) 121 (4): 677-97.

Strategic Leadership and Political Change on the Canadian Supreme Court: Analyzing the Transition to Chief Justice. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 2005. (with C. L. Ostberg) 38 (3): 653-73. Article was selected as a finalist for the 2006 John McMenemy Prize for best article published in the CJPS in 2005.

Leaders, Outsiders, and Followers: Task and Social Leadership on The Canadian Supreme Court in the Early Nineties (with C. L. Ostberg and Craig R. Ducat). 2004. Polity 36 (3): 505-28.

Acclimation Effects on the Supreme Court of Canada: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Judicial Folklore (with C. L. Ostberg and Craig R. Ducat. 2003. Social Science Quarterly 84 (3): 704-22.

Attitudinal Dimensions of Supreme Court Decision Making in Canada: The Lamer Court, 1991- 95 (with C. L. Ostberg and Craig R. Ducat). 2002. Political Research Quarterly 55 (1): 235-56.

Attitudes, Precedents and Cultural Change: Explaining the Citation of Foreign Precedents by the Supreme Court of Canada (with C. L. Ostberg and Craig R. Ducat). 2001. Canadian Journal of Political Science 37 (2): 377-99.

Search and Seizure Cases in the Supreme Court of Canada: Extending an American Model of Judicial Decision Making Across Countries (with C. L. Ostberg). 1999. Social Science Quarterly 80 (4): 757-74.

Dimensions of Attitudes Underlying Search and Seizure Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada (with C. L. Ostberg). 1998. Canadian Journal of Political Science 31 (4): 767-87.

Effects of Public Opinion on Abortion Policies and Use in the American States (with Robert B. Albritton). 1995. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 25 (4): 91-106.

The Abortion Rate Paradox: The Impact of National Policy Change on Abortion Rates. 1995. Social Science Quarterly 76 (3): 607-17.

Book Chapters

A LISREL Model of Public Opinion on Abortion.  1993.  Chapter 3 in Understanding the New Politics of Abortion, Malcolm Goggin, ed.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 57-70.

Published Book Reviews

Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors, by Helena Silverstein.  Law & Politics Book Review 17 (2007): 808-10.

What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision, edited by Jack M. Balkin.  Law and Politics Book Review 16 (2006): 189-94.

The Abortion Rights Controversy in America: A Legal Reader, edited by N. E. H. Hull, Williamjames Hoffer, and Peter Charles Hoffer.  Law and Politics Book Review 15 (2005): 5-7.

Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War, by William Saletan.  Law and Politics Book Review 13 (2003): 1-3.

Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, by Mark Tushnet.  Law and Politics Book Review 7 (1997): 517-19.

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas, by Stephen Feldman.  Law and Politics Book Review 7 (1997): 164-66.

Abortion Politics in the American States, edited by Mary Segers and Timothy Byrnes.  Publius: The Journal of Federalism 25 (1995): 108-9.

Manuscript Referee for:

American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, Polity, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, State Politics & Policy Quarterly

Manuscript Reviewer for:

Keeping the Republic, Power & Citizenship in American Politics, by Christine Barbour and Gerry Wright, Houghton-Mifflin

American Government: Historical, Global and Popular Perspectives, by David Yalof and Kenneth Dautrich, Wadsworth

Grants:

Canadian Government Faculty Research Grant Award, 2004, The Ideology of Supreme Court Justices ($5,000), with C. L. Ostberg.

Canadian Social Science and Humanities Federation Aid to Scholarly Publications Program Grant (ASPP).  Publication subvention grant for Conflict and Consensus: Ideological Decision Making in the Supreme Court of Canada.

STAR Teaching & Research Grant, San Joaquin Delta College Foundation, 2006, Improving Quantitative Literacy in the Social Sciences through Hands-on Learning ($1,000)

Recent Conference Presentations:

Limitations to the Estimation of Ideological Behavior: Evidence from the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts (with C. L. Ostberg).  Paper prepared for presentation at the Midwest Political Science Association, April 3, 2008, Chicago.

In a Different Voice: Gender Differences in the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts (with C. L. Ostberg).  Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 13, 2007, Chicago. [click here for a copy of the paper]

Panel Participant for "Are California Community College Graduation Rates too Low?," Insight Radio Program, Capital Public Radio (KXJZ/KUOP), February 7, 2007.

Debate Panelist for U.S. Congress District 11 Race (CA), League of Women Voters and Stockton Chamber of Commerce, May 10, 2006.

Shouldn't Prerequisites be an Academic and Professional Matter?  Workshop panelist at the annual meeting of the Academic Senate of the Community College of California, April 27, 2006, San Francisco, CA.

Ideological Consistency and Judicial Behavior on the post-Charter Canadian Supreme Court (with C. L. Ostberg).  Paper prepared for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, November 18, 2005, St. Louis, MO.  [click here for a copy of the paper]

The Nature and Extent of Attitudinal Decision Making in the Supreme Court of Canada (with Donald Songer, Susan Johnson, and C. L. Ostberg).  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3, 2004, Chicago, IL.  [click here for a copy of the paper]

Equality Cases and the Attitudinal Model in the Supreme Court of Canada (with C. L. Ostberg).  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, June 2, 2004, Winnipeg.  [click here for a copy of the paper]

Economic Cases and the Attitudinal Model in the Canadian Supreme Court (with C. L. Ostberg).  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2004, Chicago, IL.  [click here for a copy of the paper]