- Soka University of America

Assistant Professor of American Government and Politics

Phone: 949-480-4037
Fax: 949-480-4126
Email: okirshner@soka.edu

Education

Positions Held

At SUA since 2006
2001-2006, Lecturer, University of Minnesota
1998-2001, Visiting Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center
for Chinese and American Studies
1997-1998, Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College
1996-1997, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
1994-2006, Senior Fellow, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

Research Interests

Selected Papers, Publications & Lectures

"Going Global: The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1945," Politics & Policy, Volume 37, Number 1 (February 2009)
"Superpower Politics: The Triumph of Free Trade in Postwar America," Critical Review, Volume 19, Number 4 (Fall 2007)
"Triumph of Globalism: American Trade Politics," Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Number 3
(Fall 2005). Reprinted in, The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy, 5th Edition, Eugene R. Wittkopf and James M. McCormick, eds., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007
The Bretton Woods-GATT System: Retrospect and Prospect After Fifty Years, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, editor
From the Bottom-Up: Washington's Tradition of Democratic Economic Development, Olympia, WA:
The Evergreen State College, 1984; rpt. 2001

Courses Taught at SUA

Selected Honors & Awards

Soka University of America Professor of the Year, 2009-2010
Soka University of America Professor of the Year, 2008-2009
Freeman Professor of Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center
for Chinese and American Studies, 2000-2001
Brecht Dissertation Fellowship, The New School for Social Research, 1992-1993
Henry H. Arnhold Fellow, The New School for Social Research, 1991-1992
New School Prize Fellow, The New School for Social Research, 1987-1991
BA with Honors, The Evergreen State College, 1984

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