Milton Clarke person
Milton Clarke is currently a professor of political science at Los Medanos College.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of
New York at Stony Brook and Master’s degree in international relations from the
California State University at San Francisco. In addition to classroom instruction,
Professor Clarke has dedicated much of his academic efforts towards developing
and coordinating various grant-supported projects featuring student participation,
including an economic impact study of the East Contra Costa county equestrian
community, local cable-access television programs, local international commerce
study, and a Journal of Public Issues and Policy. Professor Clarke developed courses in
international relations and “Civic Engagement” as well as team teaching a local civics
course with the current California Superintendent of Instruction Tom Torlakson.
Professor Clarke is especially proud of his past work as a news reporter for public
radio and researcher/writer for both a historical society and a public-interest center
on Africa in Oakland, California. For the last ten years he has written extensively
about California politics, contributing his work to various American politics textbooks.
Most recently, Professor Clarke was appointed vice president of his college’s
faculty union.
Charles Turner person
Charles C. Turner is a professor of political science at California State University, Chico.
His PhD is from Claremont Graduate University. He has taught at Chico State since 2000
and has served as department chair and as president of the Chico chapter of the California
Faculty Association. Turner’s published research focuses on the political behavior of
Congress and the Supreme Court, as well as on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Robert Bresler person
Robert J. Bresler received his AB degree from Earlham College and his PhD from
Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, the
University of Delaware, and Penn State University–Harrisburg, where he completed a
thirty-two-year career. During his time at Penn State, Professor Bresler served for some
years as the director of the School of Public Affairs. He has been a visiting professor at
the U.S. Army War College and the Franklin & Marshall College and a Senior Fulbright
Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He was the recipient of the James A.
Jordan Award for Teaching Excellence and the Outstanding Civilian Award from the
Department of the Army.
Professor Bresler is the National Affairs Editor of USA Today: The Magazine of
the American Scene, where he writes a regular column on American politics. His books
include Us vs. Them: American Political and Cultural Conflict from WWII to Watergate
and Freedom of Association: Civil Rights and Liberties Under the Law. His articles have
appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Politics and Society, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,
Commonweal, Inquiry, The Nation, Intellect, and Telos.
Joseph Karlesky person
Joseph J. Karlesky is the Honorable and Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government.
He received his Bachelor’s degree from La Salle College and his PhD in public law
and government from Columbia University. He is co-author of The State of Academic
Science: The Universities in the Nation’s Research Effort and of American Government,
an American government textbook. He has also authored the monograph “Thinking
About Environmental Policy.”
He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and has
served as a consultant for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on home rule for municipalities
and on academic science policy for the state of Montana. He has served as associate
dean for academic affairs at Franklin & Marshall and as codirector of the University of
Pennsylvania Master of Governmental Administration Program in Harrisburg.
His teaching and research interests focus on public policy, particularly the interrelationships
between public policy and science and technology and the consequences of
these interrelationships for policies in energy and health. He is currently doing research on
decision-making models and dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel. He regularly teaches
courses in American government, understanding public policy, public policy implementation,
and a seminar on health policy.
Robert Friedrich person
Robert J. Friedrich is an associate professor in the Department of Government at Franklin
& Marshall College, where he teaches courses in American government, public opinion
and mass political behavior, political ideology, and research methods. His research interests
are in electoral politics and electoral institutions, particularly the relationship between
seats and votes in legislative elections, and in political values and ideology. He has reviewed
manuscripts for the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political
Science, and the Journal of Politics, for which he also served on the editorial board. Dr.
Friedrich received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado and his master’s
and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of Michigan.
D. Grier Stephenson Jr. person
Donald Grier Stephenson Jr. is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Government at Franklin
& Marshall College. He is general editor of ABC-CLIO’s America’s Freedoms Series,
author of Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections,
and co-author of American Constitutional Law, 15th edition.
