Politics Emeriti Faculty
Oberlin College recognizes its faculty members with emeritus status who have provided distinguished service to their academic department during their tenure.
The following professors from the Department of Politics have retired from Oberlin College. They remain engaged members of our politics community.
- Chris Howell
Biography
Teaching Interests: Comparative Political Economy, Welfare State, Comparative Politics, West European Politics, Trade Unions and Industrial Relations, Socialism, Left Politics and Parties.
Research Interests: Comparative Political Economy of Advanced Capitalist Societies, Trade Unions and Industrial Relations, Social Democratic, Labor and Left Parties.
- Paul Dawson
Biography
Professor of Politics Paul Dawson received a BA, MA, and PhD in political science from Michigan State University. His chief interest is in policy analysis, focusing on how leaders accumulate the “political capital” to be effective, and how students can learn to become such leaders. He has published a textbook on American politics and policy.
He taught a First-Year Seminar on political leadership and various courses on American government especially public policy, electioneering, and the presidency.
He received a Distinguished Teaching Award from Oberlin College in 2005.
- Harry Hirsch
Biography
Professor of Politics, Professor Hirsch earned his AB at the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD at Princeton University. His specialties are constitutional law and jurisprudence, gender and sexuality, and modern political theory. He has published several books and numerous articles on constitutional theory and practice, gay rights and politics, and the First Amendment. He teaches courses on constitutional law, gay and gender politics, and American political thought. During 2005-06 he also served as Dean of the Faculty.
- Ronald Kahn
- Sonia Kruks
Biography
Sonia Kruks, Robert S. Danforth professor of politics, earned her BA at the University of Leeds, U.K., and her PhD in Government at the London School of Economics. She has published books and articles on twentieth-century European political thought and contemporary feminist political theory, particularly focusing on Simone de Beauvoir. She teaches courses on political theory from ancient times to the present, recent Continental Theory and theories of democracy, and theories of social power.
- Ben Schiff
- Harlan Wilson