Alfred J. DiMaio
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Division Coordinator, Social Science
Pre-Law Advisor

Education:   
B.A., Colby College ; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

John Ehrenberg
Professor of Political Science and Department Chair

Education: 
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University

Areas of Interest:
Professor Ehrenberg is a political theorist with special expertise in democratic and socialist thought, the history of political theory, and contemporary ideologies.  He has just finished his fourth book, Servants of Wealth: The Right’s Assault on Equality.  Earlier books are The Dictatorship of the Proletariat:  Marxism’s Theory of Socialist Democracy, Proudhon and His Age and Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea.  The last book was awarded the Michael Harrington Prize by the American Political Science Association’s Caucus for a New Political Science and has been translated into Japanese and Korean.  Professor Ehrenberg has published many articles in professional journals and has been translated into Japanese and Korean.  He has been presenting the results of his research at domestic and international meetings for years.

Contact Information:
Office:              H843
Telephone:        (718) 488-1193
Fax:                  (718) 488-1086
Email:               john.ehrenberg@liu.edu

J. Patrice McSherry
Professor, Political Science and Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Education: 
B.A., University of California-Berkeley; M.A. and Ph.D., CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Areas of Interest:
J. Patrice McSherry is an expert in Comparative Politics with a specialization in Latin America; International Relations; and Political Theory. Her key interests are civil-military relations and the political role of the military, the repressive program of the 1970s known as Operation Condor, changing forms of the state, democratization, human rights, political economy, security issues, North-South politics, and U.S. foreign policy.

Professor McSherry's first book, Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina, is a standard in the field, and her 2005 book, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America, has received excellent reviews. Regarded as one of the foremost scholars of Operation Condor, McSherry has been interviewed by numerous foreign and domestic journalists and has conducted research in seven countries. She received her second Fulbright Award in 2005 to conduct fieldwork on Condor in Uruguay (her first Fulbright was for a year of study in Argentina in 1992). McSherry's numerous articles on Latin American politics and civil-military relations have been published in such journals as Canadian Journal of Political Science, Latin American Perspectives, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, and Hispanic American Historical Review.

Professor McSherry is the Associate Editor for Latin American sections of Journal of Third World Studies and a member of the editorial board of Social Justice. McSherry is also the founding chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) program at LIU.

Contact Information:
Office: H-846
Telephone: (718) 780-4105
Fax: (718) 488-1086
Email: pmcsherr@liu.edu
About Patrice McSherry

Jayne S. Werner
Emeritus Professor of Political Science

Education:      
B.A., University of Pittsburgh ; Ph.D., Cornell University

Areas of Interest:
Professor Werner teaches American Foreign Policy and Asian Studies.  Her research covers the history and politics of Vietnam , including the Vietnam War, the social and cultural politics of colonial and contemporary Vietnam , state-society relations, and the politics of doi moi (economic reform).  In 1995-96 Professor Werner conducted research in a village south of Hanoi , looking at gender relations, the household, and the nation-state in northern Vietnamese society.  Her most recent publication is Gender, Household, State:  Doi Moi in Vietnam (co-edited with Daniele Belanger), Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2002.  Professor Werner is a member of the editorial board of Critical Asian Studies.  A recognized authority on Vietnam , Werner has organized international conferences on Vietnam at Columbia University and in Hanoi , and is known for her work on the Cao Dai religious movement in Vietnam .  She currently holds the position of Associate Research Scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University .  At the Brooklyn Campus of LIU, she was the Project Director of a faculty development grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  This program comprised 25 Brooklyn Campus faculty members and focused on Classic Texts of Non-Western Civilizations.

Contact Information:
Office:              H845
Telephone:        (718) 488-1195
Fax:                  (718) 488-1086
Email:               jayne.werner@liu.edu

Jose Ramon Sanchez
Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of Urban Studies

Education:
BA, Columbia University; MA, University of Michigan; PhD, New York University

Areas of Interest:
A political theorist who has concentrated on urban political economy, American politics and the nature of power, Sanchez is a respected authority on Puerto Rican and Latino politics. He has published widely in those fields and is author of the book Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States, published by New York University Press. He has served on the board of directors of a number of organizations, including the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, as well as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. He is currently on the boards of the Myrtle Avenue Redevelopment Corporation, the Center for Urban Educators, and is Chair of Board for the National Institute for Latino Policy. He is also a managing editor of the journal Critica/Latino.

Contact Information:
Office: H845 Telephone: (718) 488-3436 
Fax: (718) 488-1086
Email: Jose.Sanchez@liu.edu