Gordon L. Bowen
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and International RelationsMary Baldwin College,
Staunton, Virginia 24401
Contact information: Professor Bowen now lives in Temecula, California: (951) 506-7871 home; (540) 290-2161 cell.
email: gbowen@mbc.edu
websites: teaching website; departmental website
I. EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1973, University of California at Santa BarbaraDissertation (Political Science): "Interests and Ideals: United States Foreign Aid to Latin America, 1960-1965"B.A. 1972, San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)
II. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1983 -2012 Mary Baldwin College (hereafter: MBC), Staunton, Virginia 24401
rank: Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations (retirement began Sept. 2012)
rank: Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Other full-time Political Science teaching experience:Assistant Professor (1983-87); Associate Professor (1987-93); tenured (1990);
Department chairman of Political Science: 1987-2001, 2003, 2009 - Sept. 2012; Department chairman of International Relations: 1985- Sept. 2012.classes formerly taught:
Unusual Teaching Experiences:
- 1979-1983 Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri
- 1978-1979 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
- 1977-1978 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
Overtime MBC political science teaching to Adult students (1985-2000) at satellite campuses in Roanoke and Richmond VA; and via internet (1996-2000, 2006-2008).Overtime MBC political science teaching to Adult female correctional inmates (1994, 1997) at Goochland VA Correctional Facility.
III. PUBLICATIONS by Professor Gordon L. Bowen
Published works:
2011 "More than al Qaeda and its Affiliates: the Popular Appeal of the Terrorist Threat to the National Security of the United States," Can America Maintain its Political, Military and Economic Preeminence? Sixteen Key Challenges, Kim Ezra Shienbaum, editor (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press): 203-254. ISBN: 978-0-7734-1511-9.
2011 "Has outreach to the Muslim World by the Obama Administration had an impact on Muslim attitudes toward terrorists and terrorism?" Middle East Review of International Affairs 15, 1 (August 2011).
2010 "Creation of Israel," The Forties in America, Thomas Tandy Lewis , editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 535-537.
2009 "The Legacy of Samuel P. Huntington: His Contributions to International and Area Studies," Virginia Review of Asian Studies XII (Summer online edition / Fall print edition): 209-212.
2009 "Foreign Policy of the United States," The Nineties in America, Milton Berman, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 346-349.
2009 "Israel and the United States," The Nineties in America, Milton Berman, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 363-365.
2009 "Measuring the Enemy: Social Support for Islamist Terrorism," Terrorism's Unanswered Questions, Adam B. Lowther and Beverly Lindsay, editors (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International): 32-59.
2008 "Foreign Policy of the United States," The Eighties in America, Milton Berman, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 387-390.
2008 "Book Review: John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think and Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics. Mansoor Moaddel, editor," Southeast Review of Asian Studies XI (Fall): 221-225.
2008 "1968: Huntington Examines Processes of Change in Developing Countries," Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970, Robert F. Gorman, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 330-332.
2007 "Book Review: John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think and Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics. Mansoor Moaddel, editor," Virginia Review of Asian Studies XI (Fall): 195-197. (Link to online full text of review).
2007 "1910: Angell Advances Pacifism," Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1940, Robert F. Gorman, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 790-792.
2007 "Rothschild Is First Jewish Member of British Parliament," Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century, 1801-1900, John Powell, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 966-968.
2006 "Intensive Israeli Counter-Terrorism Study," Mary Baldwin College Magazine 20, 1 (Fall 2006): 11.
2006 "A Small Subset? Measuring Social Support for Islamist Terrorism in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia," Southeast Review of Asian Studies XXVIII (Fall): 131-150. (Link to online version).
2006 "Revisiting the Pyramid: Militant Islamism as a Revolutionary Movement," Virginia Review of Asian Studies IX (Fall): 49-84. (Link to online version of the article; link to Table of Contents of VRAS)
2006 "War Powers Resolution of 1973," The Seventies in America, John C. Super, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 961-962.
2006 "Foreign Policy of the United States," The Seventies in America, John C. Super, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 395-399.
2005 "Book Review of Edward LeRoy Long, Jr. Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians," in Southeast Review of Asian Studies XXVII (Fall): 219-223. (scroll down at above address when using this link). republished: Virginia Review of Asian Studies VIII (Fall 2005): 301-304
2005 "Israel is Necessary" Virginia Review of Asian Studies VIII (Fall): 63-68. (Alternate version with active links to sources cited.)
2005 "Hungarian Revolt," The Fifties in America, John C. Super, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 456-458.
2005 "Guatemalan Invasion," The Fifties in America, John C. Super, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 400-402.
2004 "The United Nations and the Contemporary World Crisis," Virginia Review of Asian Studies (Fall): 115-124.
2003 "Guatemalan Death Squads Target Indigenous Indians" in Human Rights Violations, Charles F. Bahmueller, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 548-554.
2002 "How Much Does Freedom Matter? An American Foreign Policy for the 21st Century,” Virginia Review of Asian Studies IV (Fall): 101-114.
2002 "Israel Destroys Iraqi Nuclear Reactor" in Great Events: 1900-2001 revised edition, v. 5 (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 2026-2028.
2002 "Congress Bans Covert Aid to Nicaraguan Contras" in Great Events: 1900-2001 revised edition, v.5 (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 2063-2064.
2002 "Guatemala Takes Steps Toward Peace" in Great Events: 1900-2001 revised edition, v. 7 (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 2577-2579.
2002 "Guatemalan Death Squads Target Indigenous Indians" in Great Events: 1900-2001 revised edition, v.5 (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 1911-1913.
2001 "Review of Stephen Streeter, Managing the Counterrevolution," International History Review 23, 4 (December): 181-183.
2001 "War Crimes" in Magill's Guide to Military History, John Powell, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 1624-1627.
2001 "Guatemalan Civil Unrest" in Magill's Guide to Military History, John Powell, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 633-634.
2001 "Argentine Dirty War" in Magill's Guide to Military History, John Powell, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 111-112.
1999 "Guatemala," in World Conflicts and Confrontations, Charles F. Bahmueller, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 130-139.
1999 "Nicaragua" in World Conflicts and Confrontations, Charles F. Bahmueller, editor (Pasadena CA: Salem Press): 140-149.
1996 "Guatemala Takes Steps Toward Peace, 1994," The Twentieth Century: Great Events, Supplement (Pasadena CA: Magill Books/Salem Press): 1640-1642. republished (2002) in Great Events: 1900-2001 (above).
1993 "Indigenous Indians Become the Target of Guatemalan Death Squads," in Great Events from History II: Human Rights, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press): 1972-1977. republished (2002) in Human Rights Violations (above), and in Great Events: 1900-2001 (above); both from Salem Press.
1992 "Congress Prohibits Covert Aid to Nicaraguan Contra Rebels," in The Twentieth Century: Great Events (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press): 1132-1134. republished (2002) in Great Events: 1900-2001 (above).
1992 "Israel Destroys an Iraqi Nuclear Reactor," in The Twentieth Century: Great Events (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press): 1114-1116. republished (2002) in Great Events: 1900-2001 (above).
1989 "Presidential Action and Public Opinion about U.S. Nicaraguan Policy: Limits to the 'Rally 'Round the Flag' Syndrome," P.S.: Political Science and Politics 22, 4 (December 1989): 16-21.
1988 "U.S. Approaches to Guatemalan State Terrorism, 1977-1986," in Terrible Beyond Endurance? The Foreign Policy of State Terrorism, ed. Michael Stohl (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press): 119-163.
1987 "Four Candles in the Wind: Once More the Disappeared," Commonweal CXIV, no. 22 (December 18): 726-727.
1987 "Prospects for Liberalization by way of Democratization in Guatemala," in Liberalization and Redemocratization in Latin America, ed. George Lopez (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press): 33-56.
1987 "The Iran-Contras Affair and the End of the Reagan Presidency," Occasional Papers of the Virginia Consortium on Asian Studies IV (Spring): 210-218.
1985 "The Political Economy of State Terrorism," in Human Rights and Third World Development, eds. George Sheperd and Ved Nanda (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press): 83-124.
1985 "How Things are Getting Better in Guatemala," Commonweal CXII, no. l8 (October 18): 555-558.
1985 "News, too, Disappears," Commonweal CXII, no. 18 (October 18): 556.
1984 "Our Missing Colleagues," Academe LXX, no. 4 (September / October): 33.
1984 "No Roadblocks to Death: Guatemala's War Against the Church," Commonweal CXI, no. 12 (June 15): 361-364.
1984 "Another Country?" Commonweal CXI, no. 12 (June 15): 362.
1984 "United States Policy Toward Guatemala, 1954-1963," Armed Forces and Society X, no. 2 (Winter): 165-191.
1984 "Guatemala: A New Form of Totalitarianism?" Commonweal CXI, no. 3 (February 10): 76-78.
1984 "Guatemala: The Origins and Development of State Terrorism," in Revolution and Counterrevolution in Central America and the Caribbean, eds. Donald Schulz and Douglas Graham (Boulder, CO: Westview Press): 269-300.
1983 "American Foreign Policy Toward Radical Change: Covert Operations in Guatemala, 1950-1954," Latin American Perspectives X, no. 1 (Winter): 88-102.
1982 "Practical Politics and Women's Education," News for Teachers of Political Science, no. 34 (Summer).
1982 Book review of Ved Nanda, et.al., Global Human Rights, in Journal of Politics 44, no. 1 (February).
1981 Book review of Andrew Pierre, ed. Arms Transfers and American Foreign Policy, in Journal of Politics 43, no. 1 (February).
1979 Book review of William Blanchard, Aggression American Style in Western Political Quarterly 32, no. 2 (July).
1975 "An International and Comparative Politics Workshop," News for Teachers of Political Science, no. 6 (Summer).
IV. Op-Ed and Editorial publications by Prof. Gordon L. Bowen: go here.
V. PAPERS PRESENTED TO PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2010 Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, panel on Reaching out: Islamist Dawah and its Appeals. Paper presented: "Has outreach to the Muslim World by the Obama Administration had impact on Muslims' attitudes toward terrorists and terrorism?"
2009 Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, panel on The Implications of Islamic Dawaah and the Future of Islamic Migration. Paper presented: "More than al-Qaeda and its Affiliates: The Popular Appeal of the Terrorist Threat to U.S. National Security."
1999 Virginia Conference of Political Scientists, panel on The State and Human Rights. paper: "Do Multilateral Institutions Advance U.S. Interests? Assessing the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia." Updated 2004 version available online here.
1989 University of Virginia Conference on the Role of Public Opinion in Governance: "Presidential Action and Public Opinion about U.S. Nicaraguan Policy: Limits to the 'Rally 'Round the Flag' Syndrome."
1989 Virginia Social Sciences Association: "Measuring Human Rights Improvements Amid Systematic State Terror: Guatemala in the 1980s."
1988 Michigan State University Conference on State Organized Terror: the Case of Violent Internal Repression: "Legacies of Latin American State Terrorism: Barrier to Democratization in Argentina and Guatemala."
1984 Southern Labor Studies Association: "Regime Type, Political Violence and the Workers' Movement in Central America."
1982 Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research and Development in the Third World: "Development and Human Rights."
1982 Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Santa Barbara CA): "The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity: From Counter-elite to Mass Movement."
1982 International Studies Association: "Revolution and Counter-revolution in Guatemala."
1981 International Studies Association: "American Covert Actions Against Castro's Cuba."
1979 Western Political Science Association: "Penetration in U.S. Foreign Policy: Covert Operations."
1978 Western Political Science Association: "Political Change: A Research Model."
VII. OTHER INTERESTS AND INFORMATION
Website Content Developer:
MBC Department of Political Science webpage: designed (1996) and maintained (1996-present) first departmental webpage at the College. Site includes political science curriculum, research resources, political science faculty biographies, and political science students' sections.Academic Assessment Work:Personal Teaching Website: designed and maintain (2000-present) personal teaching website for current courses and related research resources. Designed and maintain "Warlinks," a set of online resources regarding the Global War on Terrorism (2001-present).
1996-98, 2001 Grader, and Test Question writer 1998-99, Advanced Placement Examination in Government: Comparative, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Corporation.Community Leadership:1997-1999 MBC Task Force on Assessment of General Education Program
Democratic Party Central Committee of Staunton Virginia, 1987-96College Service:Elected delegate, 1992 Democratic Party Nominating Convention for U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia Sixth Congressional District
Elected delegate, 1992 U.S. Presidential Nominating Caucuses (district and state levels)
Elected delegate, 1980 Missouri U.S. Presidential Nominating Caucuses (precinct, county, U.S. Congressional District, and state levels).
Department chair, Political Science (MBC, 1987-2001, 2003, 2009-present) and International Relations (MBC, 1985-present)Memberships: Academic Associate, Atlantic Council of the United States (1995-2012); Academic Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (2006-2007); American Political Science Association; Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.Chairman, International Studies Committee (1986-89); Director of International Education policy (MBC, 1989-present).
Member, Task Force on General Education reform (MBC, 2002-2008).
Member, Educational Policy Committee (MBC, 1987-90, 1999-2000, 2005-2009).
Member, Global Honors Scholars Committee (MBC, 2010-2012).
Member, Supervising Committee for the creation of a Criminal Justice Major (MBC, 2010-present).
Member, Task Force to develop, and Leadership Committee to supervise and assess curriculum for the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership (MBC, 1993-99, 2002-2004; chair: 2002-2003).
Division Coordinator for Social Sciences, overseeing departments of: Business Administration, Communications, Economics, Health Care Administration, History, Political Science, Sociology, and Social Work (MBC, 1995).
Member, Planning and Assessment Committee (MBC, 1995-96).
Member, Faculty Status Evaluation Committee (a.k.a.: college-wide promotion and tenure committee; MBC, 1990-1994).
Member, Advisory Board, Health Care Administration Program (MBC, 1990-present)
Member, President's Advisory Council (MBC, 1988-90).
Member, Campus Task Force on Campus Computerization (MBC, 1986).
Member, Institutional Long-Range Planning Committee (MBC, 1984-1985).
Chairman, Faculty Senate of Stephens College (1982-1983)
Foreign Research and Study: Israel and West Bank; Mexico, Guatemala, Italy, Spain, Canada, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Western Europe.
Personal Information: born 1950 in Pasadena, California; married 1970-present to the former Linda Green of North Hollywood, CA, a retired teacher and formerly Chair of Special Education Department at Robert E. Lee High School, a part of the Staunton City (VA) Public Schools. Gordon and Linda Bowen are parents of two adult daughters: Jennifer (B.A., J.D., University of Virginia), a member of the California, Missouri and Kansas Bar Associations, and an attorney in Kansas City, MO; and Lisa (B.A., University of Virginia; M.A.T., Brown University), a history/social studies teacher in metropolitan Los Angeles. Jennifer and her husband Jeff (a high school history teacher in the suburban Kansas City area) are the parents of three of Gordon and Linda's grandchildren: Ben, Maggie, and Zach. Lisa and her husband Rob, a medical doctor, reside in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and are the parents of two of Gordon and Linda's grandchildren, Noah and Jacob. In Sept. 2012, Prof. Bowen retired from teaching at Mary Baldwin College and will relocate in his retirement to California.