Dr. Cynthia Boaz
Assistant Professor
Faculty Advisor, European Union Simulation (EuroSim)
Project Coordinator 2005-2007, American Democracy Project
231 Faculty Office Building
(585) 395-5671
Email: cboaz@brockport.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California at Davis, 2003.

M.A. in Political Science, University of California at Davis, 1995.

B.A. in Government, St. Mary's College of California, 1992.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, 1995.

Summer Institute in Russian Language, Indiana University. 1991.

MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:

COURSES TAUGHT AT SUNY BROCKPORT:

PUBLICATIONS:

Cynthia Boaz and Jack DuVall, “Defying Violence with Democracy: why grassroots civil society – and not 'nation-building' from on high – is key to the future of Iraq” in Sojourners Magazine, September-October 2006.

Cynthia Boaz and Michael Nagler, “Beyond Impeachment: Rebuilding a Political Culture” in Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney, forthcoming Summer 2006 from Seven Stories Press.

Kiera Slye and Cynthia Boaz, “Rehabilitating the Criminal Culture,” in Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, forthcoming Summer 2006.

"War and Peace in the Media" (introduction to special issue on media coverage of war). 2005. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17:4.

"War and Foreign Policy Framing in International Media." 2005. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17:4.

Bernadette Barker-Plummer and Cynthia Boaz, "War News as Masculinist Discourse.” 2005. Feminist Media Studies, 5:3.

"Hobbes versus Kant and the new Global Order.” Book Review: "Of Paradise and Power: Europe and America in the New World Order" by Robert Kagan. 2004. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 16:1.

Cynthia Boaz and Cheryl Schoenberg, "Refugees, War Criminals, and the Development of International Law.” 2002. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 14:2.

"Time for a New Paradigm.” Book Review: "Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Human Rights" by Geoffrey Robertson. 2002. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 14:2.

Donna Bahry, Cynthia Boaz, and Stacy Burnett-Gordon, "Tolerance, Transition, and Support for Civil Liberties in Russia.” 1997. Comparative Political Studies 30,4.

RECENT OP/EDS:

“Iraq war tramples Christian principles” April 2006, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

"Whatever Happened to Civil Discussion?" October 2005, Oregon Peace Works.

"People power is best vehicle for making changes in government" October 2006,
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

OTHER:

Dr. Boaz has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Austria, Germany, Czech  Republic, France, the UK, and Spain, where she teaches as a guest scholar at the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy MA Program in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies in Castellon de la Plana. She serves on the academic advisory board for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, and is the Rochester-area coordinator of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. She is also a big fan of the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Chinese director Zhang Yimou.