James Quirk Senior Professorial Lecturer Department of Government
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Jim Quirk teaches a wide range of courses in American and comparative politics. He serves on the СÀ¶ÊÓƵ faculty senate and the СÀ¶ÊÓƵ committee on term faculty affairs. He will serve as a CTRL Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Faculty Fellow for 2023-2025.
Prof Quirk has developed and taught СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Core courses for Complex Problems, Habits of Mind, and W2 (writing and information literacy). He has been a faculty advisor for the SPA and University student-led organizations.
He has published in U.S. and international journals on online learning, comparative nation-building, globalization, and American foreign policy. He is a Fellow with the Institute for Policy Research and has taught at Loyola University Maryland, The Catholic University of America, and the Varna [Bulgaria] Univ. of Economics.
He lectures on American federalism at the U.S. Congressional Office for International Leadership. Among his favorite work outside the classroom is experience in Russia, the Balkans, Mexico, Israel/Palestine, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; naval engineering support for The Bishop Group; Middle East Dialogue at Catholic University; ICANN MEAC SWG; and working with СÀ¶ÊÓƵ's Center for Teaching, Research and Learning.
He received the 2022 SPA Award for Outstanding Community Engagement.
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Teaching
Spring 2024
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GOVT-110 Politics in the U.S.
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-294 Comm Service Learning Project: Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-322 American Political Parties
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HNRS-050 Honors Supplement: American Political Parties
Summer 2024
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-310 Intro to Political Research
Fall 2024
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-210 Pol Power & Am Pub Policy
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GOVT-322 American Political Parties
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
, Fellow, since 2019
, U.S. Congress. Lead discussions with young professionals from Russia, Ukraine, the Balkans, and Eurasia, since 2013
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Comparative Political Economy: The Political Economy of Firms, discussant Midwest Political Science Assn, 2023Â
Giga-Net Consultation, Member UN Global Digital Compact, 2022
Educause Review, 2022
New Explanations for the End of Regimes: Warnings for Democracies  Midwest Political Science Assn, 2022
 Orion Policy Institute, 2021
New Dynamics of Populism: Domestic and International Challenges L'Ouverture Institute for Diplomacy & Global Affairs, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2021
Bridges and Gaps: Europe and the Foreign Policy of New Presidents 27th International Conference of Europeanists, 2021
Executive Politics in an International Context, discussant and session chair Midwest Political Science Assn, 2021
"Future of Education in Times of Uncertainty" - plenary at Management in the 21st Century conference, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg, Russia, (2020)
from Online Learning - Educause Review (2020)
: What Incoming First-Year Students Want - APSA Educate (2020)
- Educause Review (2020)
- Educause Review (2016)
, ICANN - Middle East and Adjacent Countries - Strategy Working Group, 2016-2020
– Russia 2018, Bosnia 2014, Albania 2011, Croatia 2000, Bosnia 1997
AFRP Cultural Exchange Program to Israel and Palestine, 2017
, since 2015
, Mediterranean Quarterly (26:2, June 2015)
. Presentations in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Nis
/ The Catholic University of America, 2011-2013