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Department of Politics
Cornell College
600 First Street
Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314-1098
Phone: 319-895-4300
Fax: 319-895-4284
Cornell E-mail:dloebsack@cornellcollege.edu
Fields of Interest
International Relations - Globalization; U.S. hegemony; theories of
international relations; U.S. foreign policy; international political economy;
North South relations
Comparative Politics - Latin American politics; ethnicity and ethnic
conflict; political economy of developing countries; political economy of Brazil;
democratic transitions
Recent research interests - Agricultural globalization and the local
Iowa responses to CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations); agricultural trade
and the WTO
Courses I Teach
U.S. Foreign Policy (syllabus)
International Politics (syllabus)
Comparative Politics (syllabus)
International Political Economy (syllabus)
Political Economy of Brasil (alternate years, taught in Brasil-syllabus)
Political Economy of Developing Countries (syllabus)
Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict (syllabus)
Introduction to Politics (syllabus)
Professional Responsibilities at Cornell College
Professor of Political Science Department
of Politics
Co-Chair, International Relations Program Committee
Member, International Business Program Committee
Member, Latin American Studies Program Committee
Member, Ethnic Studies Program Committee
Faculty Advisor, Cornell Democrats
Faculty Advisor, Amnesty International
Recent Awards/Honors
Participant, Five-Colleges program on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Amherst
College, June 2003
Fellow, NITLE Workshop on the Middle East and Islam, Middlebury College, July
21-30, 2002
Fellow, Workshop on the Japanese Economy, Tokyo, Japan, June 2-14, 2001 (administered
by the Japan Studies Program, Earlham College).
Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar,
University of Wisconsin, Summer 1997
Recent Professional Activities
Participated with Professor Charles Connell, Humanities Arts Interest Group
lecture, "Election Analysis: Fair and Balanced," Cornell College,
November 4, 2004
"Reflections on the 2004 Iowa Democratic Caucuses," annual meeting
of the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists, University of Northern Iowa,
October 30, 2004.
Organized and hosted the annual meeting of the Iowa Conference of Political
Scientists, Cornell College, October 2001.
"Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict," speech at Waldorf College, Forest
City, Iowa, February 22, 2001.
Discussant, "The Campaign Industry: A View from Within," workshop
at the annual meeting of the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists, Grinnell
College, October 28, 2000.
"America's Role in a Post-Cold War World," presented to the World
Affairs Institute, Bettendorf, Iowa, September 20, 2000
"Teaching Political Science "One-Course-at-a-Time'," poster session
presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 1998 (go here
to see the text of the paper).
"Globalization and the Brazilian Afro-Brazilian Movimento,"
paper presented at Illinois State University under the auspices of the Women's
Studies Program and the South-West Asian Studies Program, March 1998.
Frequent Commentator on Iowa and national politics
Interviews range from local media outlets to the New York Times to Reforma
in Mexico to Izvestia. Some examples include the following. Send me an e-mail
for more.
2004
November 3 - USA Today, quoted in an article about the country's
polarization over the election and the chance that President Bush would mend
that. "We're staring at some kind of political abyss here, in terms of
the divisions in this country," Loebsack said.
October 27 - interviewed on the elections by KVMR radio in Nevada City,
California.
October 21 - interviewed on the elections by Reforma, a major
Mexican daily and quoted extensively (in Spanish only).
October 19 - interviewed by KCRG-TV for a segment on the satellite voting
station at Kirkwood Community College, which Linn County Republicans challenged
was operating too close to a room where Cate Edwards was stumping for her father,
vice presidential candidate John Edwards. "It may be the case that the
Democrats out-organized the Republicans at Kirkwood, that's what is the bottom
line. Clearly no one broke any laws," he said.
September 3 - quoted in an Associated Press story about protesters detained
during President Bush's Cedar Rapids stop. "They kept changing the rules
on us," Loebsack said about authorities detaining people as they moved
to unauthorized locations around the event grounds at Noelridge Park.
2003
December 28 - New York Daily News - quoted in an article about
the possible vice presidential pick if Howard Dean wins the Democratic presidential
nomination. "Certainly (Florida Sen.) Bob Graham is the one most people
are speculating about. Right now, he's probably the top choice," Loebsack
said.
December 13 - Los Angeles Times - quoted regarding the Democratic presidential
candidates' attacks on front-runner Howard Dean and how that sits with Dean
supporters: "A lot of people are willing to cut him a tremendous amount
of slack … because they are hungry for a Democrat they can believe in,
and they believe in him," Loebsack said.
November 7 - Fox News Channel - guest on "The O'Reilly Factor."
The topic was Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean.
Other Activities
Member and past president, Iowa Conference of Political Scientists
Member, Education Subcommittee, Linn County 15-in-5 ad hoc committee
Board Member, Iowa Civil Liberties Union
Board Member, UNA-Iowa Division
Chair, 2002-present, Linn County Phoenix Club (created in 1999
to raise money for state legislative and county Democratic candidates for office)
Member, Linn County
Democratic Central Committee
Member, Second District Democratic Central Committee
In 2004, one of the Linn County coordinators for Howard Dean for President
In 2000, National Delegate for Bill Bradley, National Democratic Convention,
Los Angeles, California, August 13-17, 2000
Co-Chair, First Congressional District Bill Bradley for
President
Co-Chair, Linn County Bill Bradley for President
Hobbies/fun things: Following local, national and international political happenings, jogging
(I finished the Chicago Marathon in 2004), moderate weightlifting
Last updated: 3/2005
Site manager: dloebsack@cornellcollege.edu