 Bradley Canon
Research
Professor of Political Science. Dr. Canon has been around the department longer than anyone else, coming in 1966 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Over the next 30 years, he served two terms as Department Chair, a couple of years as Acting Chair and a year as Acting Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. He has served on a few important committees around the university and lots of near-useless ones. He is also quite active in the profession and is a past President of the Southern Political Science Assn. and former section chair of the Law and Courts Section of the APSA. Dr. Canon's interests lie largely in the law, courts and judicial politics area. His co-authored book, JUDICIAL POLICIES: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT, 2nd Ed., was published in 1999. His research has appeared in the discipline's major journals (American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Polity, American Politics Quarterly, and Law & Society Review) as well as in other journals and books. Dr. Canon has supervised a dozen Ph.D. dissertations. He has coauthored several articles and conference papers with graduate students, and one with undergraduates. Dr. Canon is now semi-retired, teaching only during the spring semester.
Area of Specialization
Law, Courts and Judicial Politics.
Selected Publications
JUDICIAL POLICIES: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT, 2nd Ed. (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1999) (coauthored with Charles A. Johnson)
"Studying Bureaucratic Implementation of Judicial Policies in the United
States: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches," pp. 76-100, in Marc
Hertough and Simon Halliday, eds., JUDICIAL REVIEW AND BUREAUCRATIC IMPACT: INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
"Explaining the Competitiveness of Gubernatorial Primaries," LV Journal of Politics 454-471 (1993) (coauthored with William Berry) |
 Charles Davis
Research
Professor, received his B.A. from Centre College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. His primary teaching and research interests are Latin American politics, U.S.-- Latin American relations, and comparative political behavior. His secondary fields include American political thought and Appalachian politics. Dr. Davis wrote Working-Class Mobilization and Political Control: Venezuela and Mexico (1989), as well as various articles in academic journals including American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Society, and Western Political Quarterly.
Area of Specialization
Latin American politics, U.S.-- Latin American relations, and comparative political behavior. |
 Herbert Reid
Research
Professor of Political Science, received his B.A. from the University of Kansas, his M.A. from the University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. His major teaching and research interests are in contemporary political philosophy, American political thought and culture, Appalachian politics, globalization theory, and political and social ecology. His articles have appeared in leading journals of social and political theory such as Rethinking Marxism, Theory and Society, and Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. He also contributes to journals such as New Political Science, Ethics and the Environment, and the Journal of Appalachian Studies. He is a member of the editorial board of Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. He has served as Environmental Studies Director and Director of UK's Appalachian Center. He is a member of UK's Committee on Social Theory and of the Appalachian Studies Program. For the past three years, he has served as a Co-PI for the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program.
Area of Specialization
Contemporary political philosophy, American political thought and culture, Appalachian politics, Environmental politics and green political thought.
Selected Publications
"Globalization, Democracy and the Aesthetic Ecology of Emergent Publics for a Sustainable World: Working from John Dewey," Asian Journal of Social Science 34, 1 (2006), 22-46 (co-authored with Dr. Betsy Taylor) |
 John Stempel
Research
JOHN D. STEMPEL is Senior Professor of International Relations at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. , From 1993 to June of 2003, Stemple was Director of the School. Graduating cum laude from Princeton University in 1960, Dr. Stempel was a U.S. Navy officer from 1960-1962 before studying political science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his M.A. in 1963 and his Ph.D. in 1965. His primary teaching and research fields are Diplomacy, Comparative Politics (India, Iran) and International Relations (Middle Eastern Politics, Diplomacy, Cross Cultural Negotiation and Bargaining). He wrote Inside the Iranian Revolution (Indiana University Press, 1981), another monograph on Religion and Diplomacy, and several articles on foreign policy issues. He was twice editorial chairperson of the Foreign Service Journal, and is a member of the University Press of Kentucky Editorial Board. Prior to coming to Kentucky in 1988, Dr. Stempel completed a distinguished 23-year career in the United States Foreign Service. He served in three major Third World regions: first in Africa, working in Guinea, Burundi and Zambia; during 1975-79 he was posted to the U.S. Embassy in Iran; and in 1985-88 he served as U.S. Consul General for South India at Madras. During his assignments in Washington, he held positions as the State Department's Crisis Center Director and as Director of the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs in the Secretary of Defense's office. He is a member of the New York Council of Foreign Relations and the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Council for Kentucky. He is active in the International Studies Association, serving as Southern Region President in 2000, and is currently on the executive council of the Diplomatic Studies Section of ISA.
Area of Specialization
Comparative politics (India, Iran) and International Relations (American Foreign Policy, International Economic Statecraft, International Bargaining and Negotiation, and National Security Policy)
Selected Publications
Religion and Intelligence," forthcoming in International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
Contemporary Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: The Intertwining, paper published as a chapter in Multinational Policy Toward World Peace, Univ. of Illinois., 2002
Faith, Diplomacy and the International System, monograph published as a discussion paper by the European Diplomatic Studies Programme, No. 69. Published 2000
"Error, Folly, and Policy Intelligence," International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Fall 1999, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 267-281.
Entry on U.S. State Department in Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, Oxford University Press, 1997. |