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Dan Zirker
Professor of Political Science
The University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton
New Zealand
[P] +64-7-838-4526
[F] +64-7-838-4510
[E] dzirker@waikato.ac.nz
Academic Experience & Education
Publications
Research Committee on Armed Forces
&
Society (RC #24)
Academic Experience and Education
- Former US Peace Corps volunteer (1970-72) in Northeast Brazil.
- B.A., Political Science and History (1974), University of Montana (USA).
- M.A., Political Science (1976), University of Montana (USA).
- Ph.D., Political Science (1983), University of Alberta (Canada).
- Lecturer, University of Alberta (1982-3).
- Assistant Professor, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota (USA, 1983-85).
- Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Political Science, University of Idaho (USA, 1985-98).
- Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1989-90).
- Acting Chair of the Political Science Department, University of Idaho (USA, 1991-2).
- Associate Director of the University of Idaho Honors Program (1992-93).
- Director, University of Idaho Honors Program (1994-1998).
- Dean of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Political Science, Montana State University-Billings (USA), 1998-2004.
- Director, University Honors Program, Montana State University-Billings (USA), 2000-2004.
- Interim Director, Environmental Studies Program, Montana State University-Billings, 2002-2003.
- Chair/Président of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society of the International Political Science Association (1999-2005).
- Executive Director, Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society of
the International Political Science Association (2005-2008)
- Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2004-2011.
- Professor of Political Science, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2004-present.
View some of my publications
Read my paper on agrarian reform in Brazil
Read my paper on democratic transition in Tanzania
Read a 2000 paper on military politics in Brazil, and the military's
identity crisis
Open Day Lecture on the US Presidential Elections of 2008 (ppt)
See a presentation of 'A Mufti Moment' (ppt)
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