Louisa Sue Hulett FIELDS: International Relations
Department of Political Science Religion & Politics, U.S. Politics
Knox College U.S. Foreign Policy, theory, and
Galesburg, IL 61401 International Organizations
(309) 341-7475 email:
FAX 309-341-7824
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1980- Knox College, Professor. (Department Chair 1996---)
1995 ACM Exchange Professor, Krasnodar, Russia
1986 University of Illinois (Urbana), Visiting Associate Professor.
Seminar on deterrence and course on International Security.
1978-80 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Visiting Assistant Professor.
Graduate Courses Taught: U.S. Foreign Policy, National Security
1975 Instructor, California State University, Long Beach.
EDUCATION
1/1979 Ph.D., University of Southern California, International Relations
1/1973 A.M., University of Southern California
6/1971 A.B., University of Southern California
8/1971 Universite de Geneve (Certificate)
HONORS AND AWARDS
1982-84 Earhart Research Fellowship Grants
1983-84 Nominated for NATO Research Fellowship by CIEE
1984 Exxon Grant (Summer)
1986-88 Earhart Research Fellowship Grant
1988 Illinois Humanities Council Grant, Project Director
1987-88 PICAS - University of Michigan Faculty Fellowship
1987-88 Ford Foundation Fellowship (Sabbatical)
1990-93 Lilly Education Grant
1990--- Knox College Faculty Development Funds
1994 Knox Distinguished Teaching Prize
1995-97 Knox College Faculty Initiative Development Grant
2001 Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter Grant (and in 1997)
2002 Hewlett Diversity Speakers Grant (Knox)
2003 Environmental Studies grant to enhance International Relations class (Knox)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Chaired panel and delivered paper, “Christianity, Culture, and the College Campus,” for Conference of
Christians in Political Science, Bethel College, June 5-7, 2003
Faith and Learning Conference at Pepperdine College (4-5 October 2002)
Ivy Jungle College Ministry Conference, (Nov. 2002 and 2000)
“Exploring Moral Formation” Conference, Wheaton College, October 2001
“The Historical Jesus,” seminar at Westmont College with Robert Gundry, July 2001.
Pepperdine’s Religion and Public Policy Conference (1999)
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, faculty conference, University of Illinois, 1998
Euroconference participant: Costs/Benefits of Europeanization, Vienna 1995
C. S. Lewis Summer Institute on Science and Faith, Queen's College, Cambridge, 1994
Coolidge Fellow, Association of Religion and Intellectual Life, 1995
Faculty Seminar on Teaching National & Int'l. Security, Fletcher School, July 1993.
Faculty Development Seminar, Russia, Council on Intl. Educational Exchange, 1992.
Faculty Associate: Arms Control and International Security, University of Illinois
Associate Member: Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies.
Department of State Scholar - Diplomat Seminar, 1980 and 1983.
Institute of European Studies, Seminar on West Germany, 1984.
Chaired Foreign Policy Panels: 1982 MWPSA and 1988 ISA meetings.
Member: International Studies Association (ISA); Midwest Political Science Assoc.
(MWPSA); & American Political Science Assoc. (APSA).
Reviewer: University Press of America, Air University Review, Choice, Western
Political Quarterly, Teaching of Theology and Religion journal, Westview, etc.
INVITED LECTURES, TALKS, AND PANEL PARTICIPATION
Knox College & Global Centers Panel Member, “War in Iraq?” 1/03 and 5/13/03
Knox College addresses on Terrorism and Just War Tradition (9/01 and 11/01)
National Public Radio (New Jersey), commentator on BMD, 3/01.
University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Bradley University, Carl Sandburg
College, Rotary, Kiwanis, and other local Service Clubs.
Local Television, Radio, and Newspaper interviews.
Panel chair 1992 Quad-Cities World Affairs Conference, "Post Communist Era."
Participant: 1983 American Academy of Arts & Sciences Symposium - Nuclear Weapons
Assoc. Colleges of the Midwest Conference: "Liberal Arts in New International
Perspective," 1984.
Evaluator: 1983 Central Illinois World Affairs Conference, "The New Europe and
the U.S.", for the Illinois Humanities Council.
Organized (and participated in) Knox Nuclear Week (1984 & 1986): Included speakers from US and Soviet governments and representatives from universities, American Catholic Bishops, American Friends Services, Nuclear Freeze groups, etc.
Organized and advised similar seminar on “glasnost” and the USSR (1987/88).
Short Course, "How Not to Reinforce Undergraduate Cynicism," APSA 1997.
Delegate, Baptist General Conference, Midwest meeting, 1998.
COLLEGE COMMITTEE WORK AND ADVISING
Chair Pro Tem of faculty 1990-1993 and President's Planning and Priorities Council (1993-98) COMMITTIES: Executive, Curriculum, Academic Affairs, Administrative Personnel, Athletic (Chair, 1983, 1988, 1998-2003), Faculty Representative to Midwest Athletic Conference (President 1988-1989), and Religious Studies Program, etc.
Search Committees: Dean of the College, Director of Admissions, Director of Athletics.
ADVISER: Political Science Honor Society, Model UN, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and for participants in Naval Academy's Foreign Affairs Conference, etc. Founder: Knox Christian Faculty Staff Fellowship.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Bush Mixing Power Politics and Democratic Idealism” Peoria Journal Star 6/1/03
“Bush Learned Cold War Lesson” Peoria Journal Star 3/23/03 Op-Ed.
“Is War Ever Preferable to Peace” Peoria Journal Star 2/2/03 Op-Ed
3 interviews on same topic for the Galesburg Register Mail, 2003
Published interview in NEWSWEEK on the Religious Right, 12/23/02.
“What to do about Saddam?” Peoria Journal Star 11/3/02, Op-Ed.
“Falwell Still Speaks for Some Christians,” Newsday 10/23/02, Op-Ed.
“US Must Fight Against Terrorism,” Galesburg Register Mail 9/25/01, Editorial
"Ahead of the Times," letter in COMMONWEAL (January 12, 2001): 2 & 4.
"Intervarsity on Probation" letter in Christianity Today (12/01/00).
"Prodigal Child Finds Faith" in Professors Who Believe, Paul Anderson, IVP, 1998.
Four Review Briefs on "Separation of Church and State" in Paul Finkelman, Religion and
American Law, Garland Press, 2000.
Christianity and Modern Politics (Editor). Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1993.
"Miracle of Mirage: Musings on Soviet Reform," Crossroads, (1991): 39-53.
"Catching Tigers," Communiqué: World Affairs Council Newsletter (Winter 1991).
From Cold Wars to Stars Wars: Debates over Defense and Détente. University Press of
America, 1988.
"From Cold Wars to Star Wars:" in Defense Analysis 2 (1986): 69-84.
"Deterrence and the Search for Assured Survival, " Crossroads (Fall 1986).
"The Debate Over Détente," International Problems 24 (Winter 1985): 90-103.
"Containment Revisited: U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1980's" Parameters 15 (Autumn
1985): 51-63.
"START, Stops, & Nuclear Strategy," Journal of Strategic Studies 7 (June 1984): 154-68.
"Rediscovered Continent: Soviet-US Presence in Africa," in Mekki Mtewa,, Perspectives
in International Development, New York: Aalekh Publishing, 1985.
Decade of Détente: Shifting Definitions. University Press of America, 1982.
"Western European Perspectives on East-West Détente in the 1970's and 1980's,”
Atlantic Community Quarterly Fall 1982.
"Carter, SALT II & Détente II, " Australian Journal of Politics History 28 (Fall 1982): 190-200.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Organizer & Speaker for series of Knox panels on Terror and Just War, 9/01
"The Religious Right,” American Sociological Association, August 2001.
"Russia and America in the Post-Cold War," ISA 1994.
Discussant on Low Intensity Conflict Panel, 1991 ISA meeting.
"Soviet-US Relations in the 1990's," International Studies Association (ISA) April 1990.
"Gorbachev and Glasnost, " inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society, 1989.
"Glasnost and US Relations," National Security Conference at the Center for Defense and
Strategic Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, April 1989.
"Reagan and the New Cold War," 1988 (ISA) meeting.
"Changing Patterns in US-Soviet Relations," 1988 MWPSA meeting.
"SDI: Systems, Survivability, Sense, and Nonsense," 1986 ISA.
"From Cold Wars to Star Wars: Regan's Nuclear Strategy," 1985 APSA meeting
"New Directions in Foreign Policy," 1985 (ISA/MIDWEST)
"To Be or Not To Be: Strategy & Survival in the 1980's" (ISA-MIDWEST) 1984.
"Deterrence and the Search for Assured Survival," (APSA) 1984.
"Africa & the New Cold War," 1983 Conference of the Assoc. for Advancement of
Policy, Research, & Development in the Third World.
"Containment Revisited," (APSA) 1983.
"New START for Soviet-US Relations: The Reagan Challenge," MWPSA, 1983.
"Soviet-US Relations in the 1980's" (ISA/MIDWEST) 1982.
"Decade of Détente," (MWPSA) 1982.
"Détente: Dead End or By-Pass," (ISA) 1982.
"The Rise and Fall of Soviet-US Détente," (ISA/MIDWEST) 1981.
"Four Schools of Thought on Détente," (ISA/SOUTHWEST) 1981.
"Carter, SALT II, and Detente", (ISA) 1980.
SUBMISSIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Review of Reaffirming Higher Education. Jacob Neusner. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000, in Teaching of Theology and Religion (submitted 2001)
Review for Fides et Historia on the Christian Right (submitted 2001)
“Christianity and War: Pacifism vs. Just War Tradition,” (submitted 11/01)
Christianity, Culture, and the College Campus (Intervarsity Press)
Fundamentalism, Freedom, and Fragmentation. (Grant proposal)
3-4 Book Reviews per year, Choice (since 1986)
REFERENCES
Lane V. Sunderland, Professor of Political Science, Knox College
Lawrence Breitborde, Dean of the College, Knox College
Robert F. Seibert, Professor of Political Science, Knox College
R. Lance Factor, Professor of Philosophy, Knox College
David S. Yost, Professor of Political Science, Naval Post Graduate School, Monterrey, CA
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