Professor of Politics and Government and Coordinator of the Global Studies Program
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8197

E-mail: FarrellM@ripon.edu

Personal Web Page

Education

• B.A. in political science, DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
• M.A. in international relations, University of Chicago
• Ph.D. in political science, University of Chicago

Awards and Honors

• Severy Outstanding Teaching Awards, 1987, 1997
• Thirteen research and travel grants awarded by agencies including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation and the DAAD
• Midwest Faculty Fellow, Regional Worlds 1998-99, The University of Chicago
• Chair, Faculty Development Committee, Ripon College
• Executive director, Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
• Member, Central Europe/Russian Task Force Steering Committee, Global Partners Project of the ACM, GLCA and ASC
• Coordinator: Ripon College Global Studies Program; ACM Study Abroad Programs in Japan, China, Russia
• Faculty adviser: Ripon College Democrats; Black Student Union

Areas of Interest

• The globalization debate
• Chinese politics and U.S.-China relations
• Epistemology of the social sciences

Recent Publications

• "Finland" in Collier's Russian Encyclopedia (Moscow: Central European University Press/Open Society Institute, 1999)
• "The Republic of Finland: Suomen Tasavalta," in The World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, Deborah A. Kaple, ed., third edition, (New York: Facts on File Press, 1999)
• "Global Power or East-Asian Tinderbox? China in the Post-Deng, Post-Cold War Era," in "The Rise of East Asia: Conflicting Visions of the Pacific Century," ed. Mark Berger and Douglas Borer, (Routledge, 1997)
  

Reviews:

• Bent Flyvbjerg, "Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again" in "Perspectives on Political Science," 2002
• Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Edge of the World As We Know It," and Michael E. Latham, "Modernization as Ideology" in "The Review of Politics," spring 2001
• David Zweig, "Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era" in "Political Geography" (UK), winter 1998-99
• A. Dirlik, et al., eds., "Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong" in "China Information" (The Netherlands), fall 1998
• Asoka Bandarage, "Women, Population and Global Crisis" in "Political Geography" (UK), summer 1998
• Robert Jervis, "System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life" in "Perspectives on Political Science," summer 1998
• Mario Bunge, "Finding Philosophy in Social Science" in "Perspectives on Political Science," fall 1997

Current Courses Taught

• POL 112 Global Political Economy
• POL 180 Survey of World Cinema
• POL 502 Senior Seminar