Emeriti
Glenn Brooks - became Professor Emeritus in 1996. He received his B.A. magna cum laude (1953) and M.A. (1956) from the University of Texas, and his Ph.D. (Distinction) from Johns Hopkins University in 1960. He joined the College faculty in 1960. In 1967-68 he was a Rockefeller Visiting Lecturer at University College-Nairobi in Kenya. From 1968 until 1970 he served part time as Faculty Assistant to the President, assisting in the development of the Colorado College Plan. In 1978-79 he held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Princeton University. He was appointed Dean of the College and Faculty in 1979 and held that position until 1987, when he returned to the department. His principal research interest was in the politics and management of higher education. He was a staff author, with Malcolm Moos and Francis Rourke, of The Campus and the State (1959); author of When Governors Convene (1961); and co-author with Francis Rourke of The Managerial Revolution in Higher Education (1967), along with articles and reports. He is currently engaged in evaluations of civilian university programs on U.S. military bases for the American Council on Education.
Lief Carter - served as CC's McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership from 1995 to 2004. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1973 to 1995. Before going to Georgia he received undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, served in the Peace Corps in Bolivia, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Carter published major texts in constitutional law, legal reasoning, and administrative law. He was the first faculty member at the University of Georgia to receive the top award for teaching in two different years, and he won national awards and recognition for both research and teaching from the American Political Science Association. He served as visiting professor at Brown University and the University of Washington. His book, Reason in Law, first published in 1979, appeared in its ninth edition in 2016 from the University of Chicago Press. In 2001 he was a scholar in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. At CC, he taught courses on leadership, constitutional law, and the politics of the legal process. Lief passed away January 2, 2023.
Curtis Cook - taught at Colorado College from 1983 to 2022. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1975 and a B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy in 1959. Before coming to CC, he was chair of the Department of Political Science at the Air Force Academy, where he taught from 1974 to 1982.
He is a member of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, the Atlantic Council, and the Inter-University Consortium on Armed Forces and Society. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Council on Foreign Relations and of the Colorado Springs World Affairs Council. He is the editor of Constitutional Predicament: Canada after the Referendum of 1992, published by McGill-Queen's in 1994, co-editor with Professor Lindau of Aboriginal Rights and Self-Government: Canada in North American Perspective published by McGill-Queen's in 2000.
Tom Cronin - (Stanford University, PhD) was the McHugh Professor of American Institutions and Leadership at Colorado College. He is President Emeritus of Whitman College (1993-2005) and a past Acting President at Colorado College (1991). He served as President of the Presidency Research Group, President of the Western Political Science Association, and on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association. He authored and co-authored best-selling text-books on American government and the American presidency. He won several awards for teaching, advising and for his research, including the American Political Science Association's Charles E. Merriam Award for significant contributions to the art of government.
His latest books are Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018); Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox (Paradigm Publishers, 2012); Colorado Politics and Policy: Governing a Purple State, co-authored with Robert D. Loevy (University of Nebraska Press, 2012); and The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, 5th edition, co-authored with Michael A. Genovese (Oxford University Press, 2013). He published many articles in major political science and public policy journals, as well as in Science, Saturday Review, The New York Times Magazine, TV Guide, and The Daily Beast.
David Finley - taught at Colorado College from 1963 to 1998. He was Dean of the Faculty and College from 1987 to 1992. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1966 and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1955. He is a member of the APSA, AAASS, and the International Studies Association. He is the author (with Jan F. Triska) of Soviet Foreign Policy (Macmillan, 1968). He is married to Judy Finley. They have one son and two daughters, both of whom are CC graduates.
David C. Hendrickson - taught at Colorado College from 1983 to 2021, and was chair of the Political Science department from 2000 to 2003. Hendrickson received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1982.
Hendrickson is the author of seven books, including Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations, 1789-1941 (2009) and Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (2003), both published by the University Press of Kansas.
He attended Colorado College from 1971 to 1976, taking a year off after sophomore year. Although a History major, he took many courses in the Political Science department, to which he returned as a Professor in 1983. He received tenure at Colorado College in 1989, became a full professor in 1996, and was Robert J. Fox Distinguished Service Professor from 2004 to 2009.
Hendrickson wrote three books with his former professor at Hopkins, Robert W. Tucker, including The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose (Council on Foreign Relations, 1992), Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (nominated by Oxford University Press for a Pulitzer Prize, 1990), and The Fall of the First British Empire: Origins of the War of American Independence (Johns Hopkins, 1982). He is also the author of The Future of American Strategy (Holmes and Meier, 1987) and Reforming Defense: The State of American Civil-Military Relations (Johns Hopkins, 1988).
Hendrickson was the Whitney Shephardson fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1991-92. He received fellowships from the The Lehrman Institute, the Olin Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He served on the editorial board of Ethics and International Affairs from 1994 to 1999. His Peace Pact was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine.
He was a book reviewer ("United States") for Foreign Affairs (from 1994 to 1998) and published essays in a variety of foreign policy journals, including World Policy Journal, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Ethics and International Affairs, Orbis, and Survival.
His website, which contains full text links to his essays and various instructional materials, is www.davidhendrickson.org.
Robert Lee - taught in the Political Science Department from 1971-2020. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1972 with a dissertation on colonial Algeria. He earned an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia in 1965 and a B.A. from Carleton College in 1963. His specialty is comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa. On three occasions he taught in the ACM programs in Florence, Italy, and he once taught in the CC semester in France. Lee is working on a manuscript about politics and culture in the Middle East and North Africa. The second edition of his book, Religion and Politics in the Middle East (Boulder: Westview Press), appeared in 2014. He edited and translated a book by the Algerian author, Mohammed Arkoun, Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers (Westview, 1994), and is the author of Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity (Westview, 1997). Lee is married to Susan Ashley of the History Department. They have two sons, William and Matthew. He is an avid golfer.
Bob Loevy - taught at Colorado College from 1968 to 2011. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He worked on Capitol Hill for several years in the 1960s. He participated as a campaign consultant or campaign manager in a number of political campaigns in Colorado. He is the author of The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process (State University of New York Press, 1995); The Flawed Path to the Governorship 1994: The Nationalization of a Colorado Statewide Election Campaign (University Press of America, 1996), Colorado Politics and Government: Governing the Centennial State (with Thomas E. Cronin) (University of Nebraska Press, 1993); To End all Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (University Press of America, 1990), American Government: We Are One (with John Whitman et al.) (Coronado, 1987), and he is the editor and major contributor to The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law that Ended Racial Segregation (State University of New York Press, 1997). He also self-published his book, Small States First, Large States Last: Reforming the Presidential Election Process 2000 on his web site.
Retired
Andy Dunham - taught at Colorado College from 1980 to 2014. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1981 and a B.A. From Haverford College in 1969. His dissertation at Chicago ("Health and Politics") won the William Anderson Award (1982) given by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in 1980 and 1981 in intergovernmental relations. He was a Congressional Fellow in 1983-84, where he served as Legislative Assistant to Senator Max Baucus and Health Advisor to Senator Gary Hart. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the National Women's Studies Association, and the Western Political Science Association. He organized the "Public Policy" section for the annual meeting of the WPSA in 1993-94 and served from 1983 to 1993 on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
In Remembrance
Andrew Price-Smith (1968-2019) - Professor Andrew Price-Smith, David Packard Professor of International Relations and Director of the Global Health Initiative, passed away after a long and difficult struggle with cancer in 2019. He faced this ordeal with exemplary grace and courage. He is survived by his wife, Janell Price-Smith, and their two children. Professor Price-Smith joined the CC faculty in 2005 and served as chair of the political science department from 2013-2016 and as the founding director of the Global Health Initiative. Drew's research focused on the effects of diseases, environmental change, and energy scarcity on the security of nations and taught courses on the environment, health and security, and international relations. APS was an integral part of the Political Science Department, and Colorado College. He left a resounding impact with all he met, especially with his students. He was a fantastic and engaging professor who always cared deeply about his students. He is greatly missed.