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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Caleb Rossiter

Caleb Rossiter
E-mail: rossiter@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-2460
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After five years of teaching quantitative research methods for international relations at SIS, Professor Rossiter returned to the staff of the U.S. Congress in 2007 as Counselor to the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight He has been appointed an Adjunct Professor in SIS, and in the Spring semester of 2008 he will teach a seminar, “U.S. Foreign Policy toward Africa: Neo-colonialism, Globalization, or Reform?”

Professor Rossiter received his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from Cornell University in 1983. He has lectured at a number of universities (including West Point, Cornell, Missouri State, Berkeley, and Puget Sound), taught at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, published dozens of articles on the general topic of American neo-imperialism, and written books on the political uses of U.S. foreign aid in Africa and on the movement against the Vietnam War Many of his writings can be found at www.calebrossiter.com.

Professor Rossiter joined SIS in 2002 following a 20-year career as a practitioner of foreign and military policy. In the 1980’s he served on the staff of the congressional Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, writing research reports and legislation for Members of Congress trying to end U.S.-backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa. In 1992 he founded the advocacy group Demilitarization for Democracy, which prepared research reports and campaign strategies for efforts to end U.S. military support for dictators and to ban anti-personnel landmines, and in 1998 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 31st congressional district. He has been a consultant to a number of non-governmental organizations, including the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Peace Action, and the Rothko Chapel.

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