Renee Scherlen

• Associate Professor of Political Science/Criminal Justice.
• B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
• Joined ASU in 1992.
• Office located in Whitener Hall, second floor, room 124.
• Phone- 828-262-6094
• E-Mail:scherlenrg@conrad.appstate.edu

 

 

** Faculty Advisor for International Relations Association, hosts of the Model UN held here at ASU every spring and fall**.

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Research Interests:

• Comparative Politics:
• Cuban Politics
• Mexican Politics
• Gender and Politics
• Globalization
• Democratization
• Transitions
• War on Drugs

 
• American Politics
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• U.S.-Cuban Relations
• U.S.-Mexican Relations
• NAFTA
• U.S.-Latin American Relations

Research/Publications:

•  “Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics,” to be presented at the Southern Criminal Justice Association Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, September 25-September 27, 2003.

 
•  “Globalization, Cuban-Style?” presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, March 26-March 29, 2003.

 
•  “The War on Drugs and Mexican Democracy” presented at the North Carolina Political Science Association Annual Conference, March 20 - March 23, 2002.

 
•  “Doomed Democracy?  Globalization, The War on Drugs, and Mexican Democracy,” presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.,  Sept. 6-8, 2001.

 
•  “Party Primaries and Democratization in Mexico,” presented at the 1st Annual William W. Brown Conference in Latin American Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 17, 2000 (by invitation)

 
• “Book Review: When the Personal is Political” NWSA, Volume 13, No. 3, Fall 2001, pg. 232-237.

 

 

• "Lessons to Build on: The 1994 Mexican Presidential Election." Journal of  Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. Spring 98, Vol. 40 Issue 1, pg. 19-37 (peer reviewed)

 
• "The Post-Cold War International Political Economy:  The Politics of Free Trade and NAFTA" in After The End:  Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Environment.  James M. Scott, ed.  Duke University Press (1998) (peer reviewed)

 
• "The Deafening Silence:  Chilean Accession to NAFTA," in NAFTA on Second Thoughts:  A Plural Evaluation.  David Davila, ed.  University Press of America (1998)

 
• “The NAFTA(ization) of Sexual Harassment: The Experience of Canada, Mexico, and the United States,” co-authored with Ruth Ann Strickland, NAFTA: Law and Business of the Americas, Spring 1997, Vol. 3, No. 2, pgs. 96-115. (peer reviewed)

 
• "The Accession of Chile:  The First Step From NAFTA to FTAA?"  in The First  Year of NAFTA:  A View From Mexico.  David Davila, ed.  University Press of America, 1996.

 
• "The Mexican Legal System" in Comparative Criminal Justice, Charles Fields and Ritcher Moore, eds.  Waveland Press, 1996, pgs. 307-320.

Courses Taught:

• Contemporary Cuban Culture (summer study abroad in Cuba)
• Contemporary Cuban Politics (summer study abroad in Cuba)
• Global Conflict & Global Mediation
• Globalization
• International Relations and Foreign Policy
• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Introduction to Latin American Studies
• Introduction to Political Science
• Politics and Government of Latin America
• Pro-Seminar in Comparative Politics (graduate class)
• U.S. Foreign Policy

• Faculty Advisor, International Relations Association
• Chair:  Latin American Studies Committee
• Member:  Women's Studies Committee
• Member:  International Studies Council