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Linda Gerber Quest

Political Science Department

Pace University, New York City, NY 10038

(212) 346-1455, FAX (212) 346-1467, Lquest@pace.edu

Educational Background

B.A., M.A., Pennsylvania State University

“Analysis of Aristotle’s Presentation of the Twelve Moral Virtues in the Ethics”

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

“Antidemocratic Movements in the United States after World War I”

Employment Experience

American Academy of Political and Social Science, editorial assistant, The Annals, Monographs

Adelphi University (Garden City, NY), Assistant Professor, Political Science

Pace University (New York, NY), Political Science, Professor (presently)

Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta, Pi Lambda Sigma

Pi Gamma Mu, Pi Sigma Alpha

Distinguished Teacher of the University, Adelphi University

Student Activities Faculty Award, Pace University (twice)

Student Activities Faculty Award, Pace University

Sears-Roebuck Foundation Award, Pace University

Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence, Pace University

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

Review essay of Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies, International Social Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 3 & 4 (2013).

Review essay of Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman, and Sanford Schram, eds. Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis, International Social Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 1 & 2 (2013).

Review essay of John Levi Martin, The Explanation of Social Action, International Social Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 3 & 4 (2012).

Review essay of Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order, International Social Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 1 & 2 (2012).

Review essay of Philip N. Howard, The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, International Social Science Review, Vol. 86, No. 3 & 4 (2011).

Review essay of Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, International Social Science Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 & 4 (2010).

Review essay of Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It, International Social Science Review, Vol. 83, No. 1 & 2 (2008).

“Unsustainable Poverty,” International Advances in Economic Research, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May 2007).

“Unstalling Development in Challenged Countries,” International Advances in Economic Research, Vol. 12, No. 3 (August 2006).

“Kleptocracy: Curse of Development,” with Patricia Gloster-Coates, International Social Science Review, Vol. 80, No. 1 & 2 (2005).

“Corruption vs. Development,” International Advances in Economic Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Feb. 2004).

“Development—Yes or No: Loyalty, Repression, Corruption,” International Advances in Economic Research, Vol. 9, No. 3 (August 2003).

Online (refereed prior to acceptance)—

“Development and Its Enemies,” International Psychohistorical Association, posted June 2007.

“Pedagogical Approaches to Southern Hemisphere Development,” with Patricia Gloster-Coates, Northeastern Political Science Association, posted Nov. 2007, Teaching and Pedagogy section.

“Traps and Exits for Third World States,” Northeastern Political Science Association, posted Nov. 2003, Political Economy of the Third World section.

Ongoing Campus Activities

Pi Gamma Mu (international honor society in social sciences)—faculty sponsor New York Tau chapter (1983 through present): Joseph B. James Incentive Chapter Award 1987, 1999; Roll of Distinction 1989 and annually and currently, Hall of Fame (elected 2011, triennial convention)

Venue for “People and Politics” speaker series, vehicle for informal publication of Political Science Lexicon (last updated 2010), Current Global Issues, Classroom Conversations, Current Events in Satire and Cartoons

Faculty Council—Academic Resources Committee, Student Affairs - Scholastic Standing Committee

Political Science Department—Bylaws committee (lead), and ad hoc

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