Mary Troy Johnston
Associate Professor of Political Science
Phone: 504-865-2350
E-mail: johnston@loyno.edu
In 1978, Mary Troy Johnston, a student at Smith College, went to Geneva, Switzerland to study government. She has been doing practically the same thing ever since. She earned a PhD from Tulane University and in 1989 joined the Loyola University faculty. Her academic specialization is European and comparative government, the field in which she authored "The European Council: Gatekeeper of the European Community." Her new teaching interests include global issues. In her research, she has branched into international politics with an emphasis on the emerging common European foreign policy, especially in the area of humanitarian intervention. Her experiences growing up in Arkansas during the Civil Rights movement, across the river from Memphis, Tennessee, and attending a women's college continue to direct her concerns to issues of race and gender on campus.