Allan D. Cooper, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
Dr. Cooper's area of research is in international politics with a special interest in studying countries and regions undergoing fundamental transformations in their political identities. He is the author of U.S. Economic Interests and Political Power in Namibia, Allies in Apartheid: Western Capitalism in Occupied Namibia, The Occupation of Namibia: Afrikanerdom's Attack on the British Empire, Ovambo Politics in the Twentieth Century and The Geography of Genocide. He has done research in South Africa, Namibia, Morocco, Tunisia, Cuba, China, Taiwan, UK, Switzerland, Hungary, Czech Republic, India and Kashmir. He was a Fulbright lecturer in Russia during 2003. Currently he is working on a manuscript that explores how “beauty” has been used as a political ideology to sustain patriarchal societies throughout history.

Sarah Fatherly, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Dr. Fatherly's main areas of interest are early American history and women's history. She teaches courses ranging from the history of colonial America to the American Revolution to the U.S. Civil War, as well as courses in U.S. women's history. Dr. Fatherly has published articles on colonial women’s education and early American libraries. Her book Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia will be published in 2008 by Lehigh University Press. She is currently working on a microhistory of Charlotte Browne, the matron of the British Army hospital in North America during the Seven Years’ War. Dr. Fatherly is the advisor of the college’s Beta Zeta chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary, as well as director of Women’s Studies Program.

Debora Halbert, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science and Department Chair
Dr. Halbert teaches law and political theory courses at Otterbein and maintains a research and publication interest in intellectual property law, primarily copyright law. She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding Property Rights and Resisting Intellectual Property. She has also published numerous articles on the subject. Her current interests include resistance to neoliberal globalization, the narrative struggle to construct alternatives to globalization, and the process of creativity as it relates to copyright law.

Elizabeth K. MacLean, Ph.D., Professor of History
Along with teaching the 20th century American history courses as well as Soviet history at Otterbein, Dr. MacLean has participated for many years in the Ohio Academy of History, serving as its president from 2001-02. Her area of research is 20th century American political and diplomatic history, with a focus on biography. Dr. MacLean's articles and publications have centered on the controversial role of Joseph E. Davies, first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under Woodrow Wilson and unofficial adviser on Soviet-American relations to Franklin Roosevelt.

Marsha R. Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Robinson teaches the African and African-American survey courses, as well courses on African women and the family, African business and labor history, and the African diaspora. She is revising a monograph on ancient Saharan feminism as it affects Islamic, Spanish and American legal and political history using French, Arabic and Spanish sources in Morocco, Spain, England and Ireland. She also involves students in a local oral history project on the African diaspora as it occurs in the Columbus, Ohio area. Among her publications are an article on the significance of genetic testing results to the African Berber contribution to Spanish history and a co-authored, forthcoming chapter in an anthology on women and slavery around the world.

Louis H. Rose, Ph.D., Professor of History
Dr. Rose researches and teaches in the field of nineteenth and twentieth-century European history, with a focus on intellectual and cultural history. Most recently, he published The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients. His book, The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science won the 1999 Austrian Cultural Institute Price for Best Book in Austrian Studies.

La Trice Washington, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science
La Trice's teaching area is National Institutions and Public Administration. Her research interest includes Congress, Intergovernmental Relations, Public Policy Formulation, Implementation and Treatment of War Veterans in the United States and abroad, and role orientations of policy makers. She is also an American Political Science Association Fellow and an American Political Science Association Ralph Bunche Scholar. Her dissertation on Congress, The Veterans Millennium Health of 1999 was published in 2003. Her book, The Veterans Millennium Health Care Act of 1999: A case study of the role orientations of legislators, executive and interest groups in 2003 by University Press of America. She was a contributing author of Affirmative Action which includes a discussion of important people, events and cases in American History. Her current research projects include: Chronicling stories of War Veterans, Role Orientations of Legislators in the 109th Congress and the Relationship between Politics and Religion.

Richard J. Yntema, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
My primary teaching responsibilities and research interests span Medieval and early modern European history. I am especially interested in exploring long-term economic change. Currently I am working on a monograph that explores the transformation of Holland's brewing industry between 1300 and 1800. I have published several articles related to the industry's development.

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