Assistant Professor of Politics and Government
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8736

E-mail: ColucciL@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D. political science, University of London
• M.S., educational administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A., history, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.A., international relations, history and political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Awards and Honors

• Former foreign service officer, U.S. Diplomatic Corps
• International relations-policy consultant, Gerson Lehrman Group
• Group study exchange team leader to Taiwan, spring 2005
• Fulbright Memorial Fellowship to Japan, fall 1997
• Korean Society Fellow, summer 1997
• Educational team leader, Russia, spring 1997
• Team leader, U.S.-Japan Close-Up Fellowship to Japan, fall 1996
• Fulbright scholar to China, summer 1996
• Keizai Koho Fellowship to Japan, summer 1995

Areas of Interest

• International relations
• National security
• Foreign policy
• Comparative politics
• Intelligence and security
• Area studies (especially East Asia, Russia and Western Europe)
• International law
• American government
• American, European, Asian history

Recent Presentations/Publications

• Presentation, "International Politics," Contemporary American Foreign Policy, conference, University of Athens, 2007 (forthcoming)
• Presentation, "Global Security in the 21st Century - The Bush Doctrine," University of Oxford, 2006
• Presentation, "East Asian Security Issues," IIE Conference, 2003
• Presentation, "U.S. National Security Interests in Asia," 2003
• Wrote nonpolitical speech for U.S. President commemorating the Battle of Okinawa and U.S. Japan current relations, Okinawa G-8 Summit, 2000
• Review of political biography about Deng Xiao Ping, "Education About Asia Magazine," 1998
• Fulbright report about the modernization of the Chinese military, 1996
• Article, "Social Transformation in China Due to Economics," 1996
• Comparison report of American and Japanese secondary educational systems, 1996

Current Courses Taught

• POL 220 American Politics and Government
• POL 341 Public Policy Analysis
• POL 385 Terrorism and Intelligence