Jack Covarrubias
Assistant Professor of Political Science

TEL: 228.214.3260
FAX: 228.214.3242
E-mail: jack.covarrubias@usm.edu

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1. Education

    Old Dominion University- Norfolk, VA
    ABD International Studies
    Areas of Concentration: Conflict and Cooperation; American Foreign
    Policy Dissertation Title: “Sibling Rivalry: U.S.- European Relations and
    the Balkans War” Chair: Dr. Steve Yetiv, Professor of Political Science

    University of Southern Mississippi- Long Beach, MS
    M.A., Political Science (2004).
    Thesis Title: “Quantifying Primacy: Measuring US Influence in
    International Society”
    Chair: Dr. Tom Lansford, Associate Professor of Political Science
    GPA: 3.9

    B.S., Psychology (2002).
    Graduated Highest Honors
    GPA: 3.9

1. Employment

2008-               Assistant Professor of Political Science, The University of
                       Southern Mississippi, Department of Political Science,
                       International Development & Affairs.

2007-2008       Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, The
                      University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Political  
                      Science, International Development & Affairs.
                                     
2007-               Editor, Global Horizons Journal

2005-2007       Director, International Topics Journal

2005- 2007      Teaching Assistant, Old Dominion University

2004-2005       Research Assistant, Old Dominion University

2003-2004       Graduate Assistant, University of Southern Mississippi

1. Teaching Experience

          American Government                  US Foreign Policy
          Environmental Politics                  Terrorism
          International Law                          Political Development   
          Political Theory                            Research Methods        

1. Publications
   
   

          Books

America’s War on Terror: A Reader, 2nd edition, with Robert P. Watson and Tom Lansford (co-editors) (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Fall 2009).

Strategic Interests in the Middle East: Opposition or Support for US Foreign         Policy, with Tom Lansford (co-editors) (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, October   2007).

          To Protect and Defend: US Homeland Security Policy, with Tom Lansford and    Robert J. Pauly(Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006).

         
          Chapters, Articles, and Essays

           
“Fighting Two Wars,” in Robert Maranto and Tom Lansford, eds. Judging Bush, with Tom Lansford(Stanford University Press, 2009).

“Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the United States,” in Robert P. Watson, Tom Lansford, and Jack Covarrubias, eds., America’s War on Terror 2nd, with Tom Lansford (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2009).

“Rebalancing America’s War on Terror: President Obama,” in Robert P. Watson, Tom Lansford, and Jack Covarrubias, eds., America’s War on Terror 2nd, with Matthew Williams (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2009).

“The Limits of Military Power: The United States in Iraq,” in Robert P. Watson, Tom Lansford, and Jack Covarrubias, eds., America’s War on Terror 2nd, with Tom Lansford (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2009).

          “Preface,” in Jack Covarrubias and Tom Lansford, eds., Strategic Interests in      the Middle East: Opposition or Support for US Foreign Policy (Aldershot:         Ashgate Publishing, 2007).

          “Germany and the Middle East: The Construction of Moral Interests,” in Jack           Covarrubias and Tom Lansford, eds., Strategic Interests in the Middle East:           Opposition or Support for US Foreign Policy, with Chris White (Aldershot:          Ashgate Publishing, 2007).

          “The Best Defense? Iraq and Beyond,” in Robert Maranto, Doug Brattebo and   Tom Lansford, eds., The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils,         with Tom Lansford(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

          “Should the United States Use the Military to Enforce the U.S.-Mexico    Border?” with Jim Maness, in National Social Science Journal 24:2 (2005), 118-128.

          “The United States: Reluctant Sheriff or Potential Hegemon,” American   Diplomacy 8:2 (May 28, 2003).

          “Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the United States,” in Patrick Hayden,   Tom Lansford, and Robert P. Watson, eds., America’s War on Terror, with Tom          Lansford (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003), 3-18.

          Entries on Indian Removal Act and Colonial Suppression, The Suez Canal        Crisis and Arab Nationalism, and Tiananmen Square, America in World    History (M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming).

          Entries on John Adams, Patrick Henry, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Robert          Fulton, Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877 (Marshall          Cavendish, 2008).

Entries on Stephen A. Douglas, Sam Houston and Daniel Webster, in Spencer Tucker, ed., United States at War (ABC-CLIO, 2005).

          “Race Neutral Criteria,” in James Beckman, ed., The Encyclopedia of       Affirmative Action, with Tom Lansford(New York: Garland, 2003).

          Book review of Vaughn P Shannon, Balancing Act: US Foreign Policy and the    Arab-Israeli Conflict (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003).        Contemporary Security Policy 24:3 (2003).

Book Review of John Davis (ed.), the Global War on Terrorism: Assessing the American Response (New York: Nova, 2004). Politics and Ethics Review1:1(April 2005).