- Instructor - Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
- Instructor - Modern Greek Studies Program, Rutgers University
Degrees:
- PhD - Political Science, Rutgers University
- BA - Political Science, The College of New Jersey
- BA - History, The College of New Jersey
Website: http://michael-rossi.demokratio.info/
At Rutgers since 2000
I first began my foray into the history, geography, culture, and societyof Southeastern Europe with a class on the Byzantine Empire at The Collegeof New Jersey (then Trenton State College), taught by John Karras, a Rutgers History alum and student of the renowned Peter Charanis. Since then, my academic interests have primarily focused on the political, social, and cultural development of Greece and Serbia, with comparative studies between the Balkans and Central Europe and with the Middle East.
More generally, I am interested in the relationship between political culture and the role of state-sponsored historical memory as a way of explaining the popularity, endurance, and at times weaknesses of political institutions. This forms part of a larger area of study on transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy and the changing attitudes towards
collective identity vis-a-vis exogenous developments.
NEW COURSES OFFERED
- 01:790:389/01:489:3xx - Politics and Culture in Greece and the Balkans
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
- 01:790:103 - Introduction to Comparative Politics
- 01:790:315 - Politics and Culture
OTHER COURSES TAUGHT
- Introduction to International Relations\
- European Politics
- The European Union
- Globalization and the Non-Western World
- International Organization
- Theories of Democratic Transition
- Democracy and Nation-Building in the Balkans: 1453 - Present
PUBLICATIONS
2014 “Ending the Impasse in Kosovo: Partition, Decentralization, or
Consociationalism?” Nationalities Papers vol 42, no. 5 (September), pp.
867 – 889.
2013 “Five Inconvenient Truths about Kosovo”, TransConflict (July 17,
2013)
http://www.transconflict.com/
2012 “In Search of a Democratic Cultural ‘Alternative’: Serbia’s European
Heritage from Dositej Obradović to OTPOR.” Nationalities Papers vol.
40, no. 6 (November), pp. 853 – 878.
2009 “The Party’s Over: After the Initial Euphoria, Kosovo Faces an
Uncertain Future”, Prague Post (February 26, 2009).
http://www.praguepost.com/opinion/661-the-partys-over.html
2008a “Czechoslovakia: Resistance to Soviet Political and Economic Rule.”
In The International Encyclopedia of World Protest and Revolution: 1500 to
the Present, Immanuel Ness, ed. (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. 948 –
952.
2008b “Tomas Masaryk (1850 – 1937).” In The International Encyclopedia of
World Protest and Revolution: 1500 to the Present, Immanuel Ness, ed.
(Blackwell Publishing, 2008), pp. 2251 – 2252.
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association