Dr. Deborah Johnson-Ross

Education: A.B., Wofford College; M.S., Florida Institute of Technology; M.A., University of South Carolina; PhD, University of South Carolina.

Contact:

E- Mail: djohnson@mcdaniel.edu

Phone: (410) 386-4632

Office: Hill Hall 315

Debora Johnson-Ross' research and teaching interests focus on comparative and African politics. She has presented papers at many professional conferences including the African Studies Association and the International Society of Political Psychology. She has received grants and awards including the Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship from the Institute for the Study of World Politics. Professor Johnson-Ross is an experienced and talented teacher. She was recently awarded a Multicultural Teaching Fellowship at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she taught An Introduction to African Politics through Literature.

Professor Johnson-Ross is the 2001-02 Jessie Ball duPont Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Western Maryland College. She will offer courses such as Contemporary African Politics and the Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism this school year. Before coming to Western Maryland, Debora taught at Wofford College for three years offering a wide range of courses including Contemporary African Politics, Comparative Politics of Developing Nations, Ethnicity and Nationalism, African Politics through Literature, Politics of Global Feminism, Literature of Emerging Peoples, and African American Social Thought.

Professor Johnson-Ross' dissertation, a re-construction of Cameroon Anglophone identity, explores the politicization of identity, language and culture within a complex society where definitions of community, nation, and state are challenged. She is especially interested in self-identification and associative behavior in this context. Additional research interests include African political leadership and constitutional politics where ethnicity and alternative conceptualizations of identity influence democratization processes.

Her son, Richard, is a student at Yale University where he studies literature, theatre and music.

Favorite quote: Dare to pursue excellence.


	Dr. Debora Johnson-Ross 2001-2002 Jessie Ball duPont Visiting Scholar Education: A.B., Wofford College; M.S., Florida Institute of Technology; M.A., University of South Carolina; PhD, University of South Carolina. Contact: E- Mail: djohnson@mcdaniel.edu Phone: (410) 386-4632 Office: Hill Hall 315 Debora Johnson-Ross' research and teaching interests focus on comparative and African politics. She has presented papers at many professional conferences including the African Studies Association and the International Society of Political Psychology. She has received grants and awards including the Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship from the Institute for the Study of World Politics. Professor Johnson-Ross is an experienced and talented teacher. She was recently awarded a Multicultural Teaching Fellowship at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she taught An Introduction to African Politics through Literature. Professor Johnson-Ross is the 2001-02 Jessie Ball duPont Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Western Maryland College. She will offer courses such as Contemporary African Politics and the Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism this school year. Before coming to Western Maryland, Debora taught at Wofford College for three years offering a wide range of courses including Contemporary African Politics, Comparative Politics of Developing Nations, Ethnicity and Nationalism, African Politics through Literature, Politics of Global Feminism, Literature of Emerging Peoples, and African American Social Thought. Professor Johnson-Ross' dissertation, a re-construction of Cameroon Anglophone identity, explores the politicization of identity, language and culture within a complex society where definitions of community, nation, and state are challenged. She is especially interested in self-identification and associative behavior in this context. Additional research interests include African political leadership and constitutional politics where ethnicity and alternative conceptualizations of identity influence democratization processes. Her son, Richard, is a student at Yale University where he studies literature, theatre and music. Favorite quote: Dare to pursue excellence.