Stephen E. Van Holde began teaching at Kenyon in 1990. He teaches courses in comparative politics, international relations, state theory, European politics, environmental politics and the politics of science as well as the Quest for Justice. He is a co-editor of The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces and is, with Michelle Mood, completing a book on the social and environmental impacts of Chinese consumerism. He also has written more widely in the fields of environmental politics and science and politics, authoring papers on topics such as the science and politics of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has contributed substantially to the International Studies Program and the Environmental Studies Program, serving on both their committees, and as chair of International Studies. In addition, he has taught in the Integrated Program in Humane Studies. He has served the College as a member of Senate, and chair of the Curricular Policy Committee. During the 2003-2004 and 2006-07 academic years he was the Fei Yi-Ming Professor of Politics at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China.

Education

B.A. Swarthmore College, 1979
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1993

Selected Publications

"Consuming China: Social, Political, and Environmental Consequences of China's Revolution." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 23-26, 2008.

"Consumption with Chinese Characteristics: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Consumer Revolution in China." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-5, 2005.

The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces. Comparative Social Research Yearbook, vol. 20 (2002), edited with Lars Mjoset (Elsevier, 2002).

"Killing for the State, Dying for the Nation," in The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces, ed. Stephen E. Van Holde and Lars Mjoset (Elsevier, 2002) (with Lars Mjoset).

Courses Taught

ENVS 461 Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
IPHS 114 Art and Authority
INST 201 Expansion of Internatonal Society
INST 401 Senior Seminar in International Studies
PSCI 101-102 The Quest for Justice
PSCI 260 International Relations
PSCI 313 Making of U.S. Foreign Policy
PSCI 340 Revolutions
PSCI 351 States, Nations, and Nationalism
PSCI 363 Global Environmental Politics
PSCI 480 Science and Politics