VITAE\RESUME
WALTON BROWN FOSTER
Office
(860) 832-2961
Fax: 860-832-3013
Homepage:
www.polci.ccsu.edu\brown
OFFICE: Department of Political Science
Central Connecticut
State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, Ct. 06050
EDUCATION
INSTITUTE
FOR EDUCATION LEADERSHIP, WASHINGTON, D.C.
1987 to 1988: Education Policy Fellowship Program
UNIVERSITY
OF GEORGIA
1983 to 1984: Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of
Political Science
UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR
1982: Ph.D./MA. Political Science
Areas: American Foreign Policy, International Relations, Comparative
Politics, Political
Economy, Africa and Latin American Politics, African American and
Race\Ethnic
Politics, Religion and Politics, International
Terrorism, International Ethics
1977: B.A. Political Science
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
CENTRAL
CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
1997-present:
Department of Political Science, Professor
1989-1997: Department
of Political Science, Associate
Professor
1984-1989: Department
of Political Science, Assistant
Professor
CHARTER
OAK STATE COLLEGE
2000 to present: Online course
developer and instructor
YALE
UNIVERSITY
Spring 1987: Department
of African American Studies, Visiting
Lecturer
UNIVERSITY
OF GEORGIA
1982-1983: Department of Political Science, Assistant
Professor
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE
2005-2007 Chairperson Departmental
Evaluation Committee--Department of Political Science
2003:
Chair, Distance Learning Committee, Charter Oak State College
1995-1997: Dean of the
Consulting Faculty , Charter Oak State
College.
1992-1995: Chairperson, Department of Political Science, Central
Connecticut State University.
Spring 1991: Acting Chairperson,
Department of Political Science, CCSU
1993-present: Editorial Staff member (copy editor), AFRICA
UPDATE
WORKING
PAPERS AND RESEARCH
Book
proposal African American Experience and US Mideast Policy pending review
by select publishers.
RESEARCH
AND PUBLICATIONS
"Thinking Outside of the Box in a New Era of Proliferation," WIISWORDS, Winter 2007, Publication of Women in International Security, Washington, DC.
The African Experience: Past, Present, and Future, Whittier Publications, (New York) 2006, Emeagwali and Walton Brown Foster, editors.
“Terrorism
and Africa", PROTEUS,
“Jim
Crow and South African Apartheid,” Africa Update, Vol. IX, #4, Fall 2002
“Thinking
the Unthinkable: Terrorism and HIV/AIDS,” Africa Update,
Vol. VIII, #4, Fall 2001
“Conflict
Resolution in Africa and Latin America,” found in Gustavo Mejia, Democracy
and Human Rights in African-Hispanic Encounters, University Press of the
South, New Orleans, 2001
Reaching
for Higher Ground: Democracy and Race in Brazil, Britain, and the United States,
published by The Edwin Mellen Press, February 1997.
"US
Post-Cold War Foreign Policy in Africa," AMERICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES,
"Hazel
N. Dukes", NOTABLE BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN, VOL. II, Gale
Research Inc.
"Maria
Coles Lawton", NOTABLE BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN, VOL. II
"Presidential Influence and American Nonproliferation Policy," PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY,
Summer 1994.
"EC-92
and Africa: Africa and the Post-Cold War Economy," TRANSAFRICA
FORUM, Fall, 1992.
"The
Forgotten Past: Relations between Africans and Amerindians," PROTEUS,
Spring 1992.
"Haiti
and Us", THE CRISIS, August/September, 1988.
"Racism:
Made in Japan", BUSINESS AND SOCIETY,
Summer 1988, Volume 66.
"The
Politics of Higher Education," BLACK ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION,
June 15, 1988.
Encyclopedic Entries (researched)
"AfroHispanics," LATINO ENCYCLOPEDIA, Afro-Cubans," LATINO ENCYCLOPEDIA, Salem Press, Pasadena, California, Spring 1994.
Newspaper Editorials
Living with Nuclear Weapons”, OP-ED, The Herald of New Britain, Sunday,
September 14, 2003.
"U.S.
Should Cut Losses in Haiti", HARTFORD COURANT,
Editorial, October 4, 1987.
BOOK
REVIEWS
Beverly
Crawford. ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: EAST/WEST
TRADE, INVESTMENT AND FINANCE, Columbia
University Press, found in PERSPECTIVES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE,
1994.
Sean
M. Lynn-Jones and Steven Miller. AMERICA'S STRATEGY IN A CHANGING
WORLD: AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY READER, found in THE NATIONAL
POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Fall 1995.
Francis
T. McNamara. FRANCE IN BLACK AFRICA, found in
PERSPECTIVES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE,
Fall 1990.
Edmond
Keller. REVOLUTIONARY ETHIOPIA, found in PERSPECTIVES IN
POLITICAL SCIENCE, Spring 1990.
William
Zartman. POSITIVE SUM: IMPROVING NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS,
found in PERSPECTIVES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, Spring 1988.
Jerry
Hough. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE THIRD WORLD: SOVIET DEBATES AND AMERICAN
OPTIONS, found in PERSPECTIVES IN POLITICAL SCIENCE,
Spring 1987.
CONSULTING
EXPERIENCE
1995-1996:
Consultant to the Contemporary
Issues Program and faculty, Bloomfield
High School, Bloomfield, Ct.
1994-present:
Instructor
for the Online Distance Learning courses, Charter
Oak State College
1987-present:
Charter Oak College, Farmington, Ct.
consulting faculty member for the Board of
Summer
1985: Hartford Board of Education
Sexual Harassment Consultant.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
October 2006: African American in Higher Education in Connecticut, Yale
University, Conference Coordinating Committee Member.
November
2003: Panel Discussant on the topic of American Policy Toward
Africa at the African Studies Association meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
June
2003: Conference on ONLINE LEARNING, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT.
June
2003: PWASS Conference
participant/attendee—Weapons of Mass Destruction, Amherst, Massachusetts.
June
2002: PWASS Conference
participant/attendee—America and the World: The Future US Foreign Policy after
9/11. Amherst, Mass.
February
2002, Speaker on panel, Black History: A Retrospective, CCSU, Africana Studies,
African American History Month Symposium.
Spring
1998: Panelist on a public
television broadcast, The Amistad: a Connecticut Public Broadcasting
Production.
Spring
1997-99: Guest Lecturer for the
Southern Connecticut Library Association Library series on the Amistad and
Discussion series entitled, Choices for the 21st Century: American
Foreign Policy.
November
1995: Panel Chair, Conference on
African Economic Recovery, CCSU, African Studies
Conference.
November
1994: Presenter, African Studies
Conference, Central Connecticut State University
November
1992: Panel and Paper
Discussant for panel entitled, "The Economy, Political Development and the Citizen",
Northeast Political Science Association meeting
November 12‑14, 1992, Providence,
Rhode Island.
March
1990: Appeared
as a guest in the WHC-TV program entitled,
Great Decisions.
Guest speaker in the Great Decisions Program, New
Spring
1990: Worked
as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Academic
Affairs. In this capacity I:
‑worked on revising the Faculty Handbook
‑designed a
Faculty Fellow program for future participants
‑queried issues such as the budget, academic planning, etc.
November
1989: Presented paper at the Northeast Political Science
Association Conference, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
"The American Executive and Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy".
Summer
1989: Attended the Yale Summer Institute's
program on the of Teaching of Africa,
July
10-14, 1989.
Fall
1988: Participant in "The Women's Conference," sponsored by The
Permanent Commission on the Status of
Hartford Women. Presented research on Sexism
and Classism: Process, Dynamics and Impact on March 29.
Organized a lecture series on
Africa. The lecture series was the
result of a grant proposal that I wrote and
submitted to the International Affairs Center,
CCSU, Center for Excellence.
1987: Organized and Moderated a
Symposium on South Africa.
-
Moderator for a panel on 'The Media and Ethics', sponsored by the
Institute of Practical Politics, CCSU.
- Guest
speaker, WGAB radio program on South Africa.
-
Moderator for panel discussion on Black American
History, in celebration of Black
History month, CCSU.
1986: Presenter; New England
Political Science Association. Paper entitled, "American Women and American Foreign Policy."
- Moderator of a University wide
panel on 'Terrorism", at CCSU.
1985:
Discussant; New England Political Science Association. Panel entitled "Political Process and Development in the Third Worl
-
Guest speaker; CCSU radio programs entitled, "Politics in the Middle East"
and "The Bristol Abortion Referendum Survey.
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE
Program
Committees:
Peace Studies Program Committee
Latin American Studies Committee
African
American
Studies Committee
African(a) Studies Committee
General Education (Dean's Discussion
Group)
Women's Studies Committee
University
Committees:
2001-present At-Large-Representative to CCSU-AAUP
2001-02 University Professorship Committee
1997-99 Sabbatical Leave Committee
1997-99 University Planning Committee
1996 Presidential Inauguration Committee
Fall 1995: Member, CSU-System
Planning Committee
1994-1995: President of the
CCSU University Senate
1993-1994: Department Chair Senate representative, University
Senate.
Other
Committee Work:
Parking Appeals.
Sexual Harassment Advisory Committee.
Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.
Academic Standards Committee.
Summer
Curriculum Grant Committee
Human
Relations Committee.
COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES
Board
Memberships:
Northeast
Regional Advisory Committee, Connecticut Department of Social Services (present)
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (present)
Former Board Member Greater Hartford NAACP
Former Board Member, Greater Hartford Urban League
Former Board Member, Prudence Crandall Center for Women
Former 1st Vice President; Connecticut Caucus of Black Women for Political
Action
Former Member Hartford Chapter of The Coalition of 100 Black Women
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
American
Political Science Association
National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Women in International Security
Institute for Education Leadership
New England Latin American Studies Association
CCSU: American Association of University Professors.
AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS
2004
Who’s Who in America
1988 Outstanding
Young Women in America
REFERENCES
UPON REQUEST
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