Scholarly Activities
Dr. Burns
Dr. Burns’ teaching and research interests include American Politics, Urban Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Public Policy, and other courses within the American Government subfield. In 2001, he was named a Norton Long Young Scholar by the American Political Science Association’s organized section on Urban Politics for his innovative work in urban politics. Dr. Burns was a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Small Research Grant in 2003. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Dr. Burns will be a visiting professor at Dartmouth University.
Dr. Burns’ research has appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Urban Affairs, Social Science Quarterly, and the Politics and Policy. He recently finished a manuscript on the conditions under which white leaders represent African American and Latino interests. He is working on a book-length manuscript on the causes and consequences of state takeovers of urban education in Compton, California, Hartford, Connecticut, and Newark, New Jersey. This project investigates how state government gains the support of residents, in general, and African American and Latino citizens, in particular, when it takes over urban education. He also examines urban public safety policy.
In 2006, Dr. Burns published Electoral Politics Is Not Enouth: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics (State University of New York Press).
Dr. Burns is also active on campus and in his field. He is the chair of the New Faculty Orientation Committee, he serves on the Membership Committee of the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Criminal Justice Studies.
In 2003, the Loyola Faculty Senate awarded its outstanding teaching award to Dr. Burns, and Loyola’s student government awarded him the Distinguished Faculty Service Award.
Dr. Burns is student adviser for Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Honor Society.
Dr. Dynia
Dr. Dynia published encyclopedia articles on a variety of areas of constitutional law and judicial politics. He also recently contributed a chapter on the study of political science to a book introducing students to the liberal arts. He submitted three encyclopedia articles to a new encyclopedia on the Supreme Court, and he is currently writing an entry for a forthcoming encyclopedia devoted to civil liberties. He continues working on the manuscript for a book on perennial issues of American constitutionalism.
Dr. Johnston
Dr. Johnston was co-editor of the book, Old Europe, New Security: Evolution for a Complex World published in 2006 in the United Kingdom by Ashgate Publishing Company and co-edited with Janet Adamski and Christina M. Schweiss. The book is a collaboration among scholars in the international field and at the U.S. Military Academy. In addition, she has contributed chapters to edited books on the EU Public Administration and British politics. Presently, she is working on a manuscript in the field of transatlantic and European Union studies which compares and contrasts security values in the United States and European Union.
Dr. Johnston has presented papers throughout Europe, in Budapest, Vienna, and the United Kingdom. Her research interests range from decision-making in EU institutions to transatlantic security relations. She is best known for her work on the EU Council of Ministers and the European Council, the latter the subject of her first book, The European Council: The Gatekeeper of the European Community, published in 1994 by Westview Press. She has recently written a paper on terror finance for the Jean Monnet Institute of the University of Miami, a program sponsored by the European Commission. She regularly contributes to conferences through the International Studies Association and the European Union Studies Association.
Dr. Raabe
In the three month time period of the planning and invasion stages of the Iraq war, Dr. Raabe was called upon to do on-air analysis for 12 TV regular news presentations and three Sunday morning news-in-depth broadcasts. He also acted as resource person for nine radio broadcasts concerning the Iraq war. While these presentations may be considered “community service,” given the nature of the subject matter, they involved much research and preparation to interpret events and trends in the war for the general public. This was in addition to his ongoing research and teaching obligations.
Student support services included working closely on strategies to get one student national fellowships such as Truman, Rhodes, Fulbright, and Gates. The business major, so far, has received one of the internationally prestigious Mitchell awards to attend an Irish university. This was in addition to normal departmental advising and Dr. Raabe’s status as College of Arts and Sciences pre-law adviser to students of any major interested in attending law school.
Dr. Renwick
In addition to his teaching and advising responsibilities, Dr. Renwick has served as a member of the University Honorary Degrees Committee, a board member of the Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy, a member of SORC, and he is a member of the Steering Committee for Loyola’s Centennial Campaign.
Dr. Renwick continued to serve as the director of the Institute of Politics, running the annual seven-month, 20-session seminar program, and spearheading the annual fundraising event.
In addition to his regular appearances as political analyst on Channel 4, Dr. Renwick gives many interviews each year. For instance, in 2002, he gave 98 interviews and made eight speeches, and he is sure the figures for 2003 will be about the same. These interviews and speeches serve to put Loyola’s name before the public and are an important part of his work at Loyola.
Dr. White
Dr. White’s teaching and research interests include Civic Education, Civil Discourse, and Civic Engagement, and other courses within the subfield of Political Theory. In 2004, he received the Loyola, City College Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005, he was named Professor of the Year for the state of Louisiana by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2006, he received the Loyola, City College Award for excellence in Community Service.
Dr. White’s research has appeared in Social Theory and Practice, International Studies in Philosophy, The Journal of Thought, The Journal of Information Technology Impact, and Bulletin de la Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise. He is currently at work on a critique of libertarian theories of the state.
Dr. White is also active on campus and in his field. He is Faculty Advisor for The Loyola Journal of Civil Discourse (http://www.loyno.edu/civildiscourse/), a bipartisan journal that publishes articles by professional speakers and student respondents that participate in forums and debates organized by the Loyola Society for Civic Engagement (LSCE), a student organization that ensures civil discourse from all perspectives on controversial issues. Documentation in the Journal of Civil Discourse gives prospective students, alumni, parents, community members and academics insight to intellectual life on Loyola’s campus.
Dr. White is currently serving as the Vice Provost for Academic Programs of Loyola University New Orleans and is the Faculty Adviser for The Loyola Society for Civic Engagement (LSCE).