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Professor & Department Chair
Director, European Studies Program
Phone: 888-2799
E-mail: occhipij@canisius.edu
John D. Occhipinti joined the faculty in 1996 and is director of the European Studies program. He is a native of Buffalo and a graduate of St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute. Occhipinti earned his BA from Colgate University, where he majored in international relations and German literature and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. While an undergraduate, Occhipinti studied in Freiburg, Germany. After graduation, he returned to Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, this time in Tübingen in 1989-1990, when the Berlin Wall was opened. He earned his MA and PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryland at College Park. His doctoral field research was conducted in Berlin on the transformation of the East German police after German unity.
Occhipinti’s course on Comparative Government and Politics (PSC 150) introduces students to politics outside the United States and employs the cooperative team learning approach in which students learn from each other while working in small groups. Occhipinti also teaches on “International Crime after 9/11” (PSC 345), which features guest speakers from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Each fall, Occhipinti teaches a course on the European Union (EU) (PSC 355) that relies on a mix of multi-media power point presentations, active learning and student presentations. Related to this course, he is the advisor for the EuroSim student club, which helps students prepare for an annual international, intercollegiate simulation of the EU, held in Europe and the US in alternating years. When EuroSim is hosted in Europe, Occhipinti guides his students on two weeks of travel and touring in several European cities.
Occhipinti has published extensively on internal security policy in the EU, including The Politics of EU Police Cooperation: Toward a European FBI? (Lynne Rienner, 2003) and a chapter in the popular edited volume, The European Union: How Does it Work? (Oxford University Press, 2008). He has also lectured for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and spoken at the U.S. State Department for its Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). In August of 2005, Occhipinti was invited by the State Department to brief the newly appointed US Ambassador to the European Union on internal security policy in the EU.
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Assistant Professor
Phone: 888-2697
E-mail: diciccoj@canisius.edu
Jonathan M. DiCicco received his doctorate from Rutgers University and joined the Canisius College faculty in 2006. His research focuses primarily on international conflict and its resolution, foreign policy decision-making, and U.S. defense policy. DiCicco has published articles in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Naval War College Review, has published chapters in Progress in International Relations Theory (MIT Press) and Presence, Prevention, and Persuasion (Lexington Press), and is co-editor of an introductory textbook on international relations. His most recent research projects explore the dynamics of long-term rivalries between states, including the U.S.-Soviet rivalry during the Reagan administration.
At Canisius, DiCicco teaches Introduction to International Relations (PSC 140), American Foreign Policy (PSC 245), and the Seminar in International Relations (PSC 442), as well as more specialized courses on international organizations, the global political economy, war and its consequences, and a semester-long simulation of the National Security Council. He advises the student-run International Affairs Society and serves on a committee that helps students prepare applications for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship competition. Before arriving in Buffalo, DiCicco conducted research for the Department of Defense and served as associate director of the Center for Global Security and Democracy, a think tank and global service-learning organization.
DiCicco is an active member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the Peace Science Society (international), and other scholarly organizations, including Phi Beta Kappa. He is a voracious consumer of print, on-line, and television news regarding international issues and challenges his students to keep up.
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Professor
Phone: 888-2699
E-mail: galie@canisius.edu
Peter J. Galie received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. He came to Canisius College in 1972 as chair of the Political Science Department, a position he held until 1992. He returned to that position in the fall of 2003.
Galie is also the director of the Raichle Pre-Law Center at Canisius. His expertise is in the area of state constitutional law and New York constitutional law and history. He has published numerous articles and two books in these areas. The books are The New York State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Press, 1991) and Ordered Liberty: A Constitutional History of New York (Fordham University Press, 1996).
He was invited to membership in the New York Academy of Historians. The organization’s purpose is to encourage the study of history and to represent the interests of those who actually work in classrooms, archives, and historical societies. Membership is limited to historians with a demonstrated record of accomplishment in New York history including as authors, archivists, public historians, teachers and administrators.
Galie participated in a panel discussion sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute in Albany on May 29, 2008. Acting Lieutenant Governor Joseph Bruno and Assemblyman Robin Shimminger joined him and other leading scholars of the New York Constitution to address the issue of gubernatorial succession in New York State. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York conducts research on the role of state and local governments in American federalism, education, and on the management and finances of states and localities.
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Associate Professor Director, Urban Studies Program
Phone: 888-2698
E-mail: hardwick@canisius.edu
Kevin R. Hardwick joined the Department of Political Science at Canisius College in the fall of 1989. His involvement in politics and the policy process dates back to his senior year in high school when he was elected to a seat on the Susquehanna Valley Board of Education in the Binghamton area. After serving his three-year term on the school board, Dr. Hardwick was elected councilman in the Town of Binghamton, New York; a post he held for eight years. In 1986 he was appointed Administrative Assistant to the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, Warren M. Anderson. He served in this capacity until Senator Anderson's retirement in December of 1988.
Dr. Hardwick received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His research interests include state legislative politics and the politics of municipal service distribution. In addition to teaching introductory American government courses, he also teaches courses in public policy, public administration, state & local government, the presidency, American Catholics in the Public Square and urban politics. He is a former chair of the Political Science Department and currently serves as the Director of the Urban Studies Program. He also hosts Hardline with Kevin Hardwick, a weekly WBEN radio program on local politics.
Dr. Hardwick was a member of the City of Tonawanda Charter Review Commission and was elected First Ward Councilmember in the City of Tonawanda in 1995. He was re-elected to this post twice. He did not seek reelection in 2001 so that he could challenge the Chairman of the Erie County Legislature for a seat on that body. In that race, he suffered his first defeat in seven tries for elected office. In 2003, he again challenged the Chairman of the Legislature. After winning the Republican primary, Dr. Hardwick lost by a narrow margin in the general election. His unique blend of formal training and practical political experience contributes to lively discussions in all of his classes.
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Professor
Director, Fitzpatrick Institute of Public Affairs and Leadership
Phone: 888-2694
E-mail: haselswm@canisius.edu
Professor Michael V. Haselswerdt received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Davis and his doctorate from Michigan State University. He has taught at Canisius College since 1974.
Working on political campaigns and splitting firewood are two of Haselswerdt’s passions. For his day job, he teaches courses in American political behavior, the US Congress and research methods.
Haselswerdt was recently named Director of the new Fitzpatrick Institute of Public Affairs and Leadership. The Fitzpatrick Institute is devoted to expanding the vision of the Fitzpatrick family regarding the training of political leaders. The prominent Fitzpatrick Lecture Series will be maintained, and there will be additional programming and activities that will expose students to leadership opportunities.
Since 1998, Haselswerdt has organized an annual trip to Washington, D.C. for students. During the three-day program, students meet Canisius alumni who work on Capitol Hill and other government agencies, in lobby and research firms and media companies. The experience makes students better aware of opportunities after graduation.
Haselswerdt believes in learning through doing. In 1988, he was on the National Advance staff for Dukakis for President, traveling around the country setting up campaign events for Michael and Kitty Dukakis. Consequently, he teaches a popular course on Presidential Campaign Advance every four years and as a result, several former students have worked on presidential campaigns.
In 1996, Haselswerdt worked as an analyst for Peter Hart Research Associates in Washington, D.C. Hart Research is one of the premier public opinion research firms in the world. He applies some of what he learned there when teaching research methods.
He has published articles in scholarly journals and resource books. During his last sabbatical, he was the first to use individual-level data from government documents to study the voting behavior of ex-felons in Erie County. His estimate of ex-felon turnout, which is much lower than those derived from statistical estimates, will contribute to the debate over ex-felon disenfranchisement policies. This study will be published in Social Science Quarterly in June, 2009. He plans to replicate this study with statewide data in New York, and after that, he will then examine whether any criminal justice variables, such as severity of offense or number of convictions, predict future voting behavior. He is also working, with student Charles Kruly, on a study that examines how indicators of county government characteristics and county government activity in New York affect variables that measure the quality of life in a county.
Haselswerdt has been involved in several local political campaigns and he is frequently asked by the media to comment on local, state and national issues. His most inspirational fictional character is Gnossos Pappadopoulis, while Schuyler Colfax remains his most memorable historical figure.
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Adjunct Professor
Director, Raichle Pre-law Center
Phone: 888-2884
E-mail: klumpr@canisius.edu
A Buffalo attorney, Klump is a graduate of Canisius College (B.A. Political Science), and earned both an M.A. in Political Science and a J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught American government and constitutional law at Canisius since 1984, and is an attorney with the U.S. District Court in Buffalo. He is the president of the Buffalo Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.
In November 2002, Klump was presented with the New York State Bar Association (NSBA) Law-Related Education Distinguished Service Award for his years of dedicated teaching at Canisius, as well as his role as a faculty adviser to the Canisius chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, a pre-law organization. Since 1991, he has led an annual four-day trip to Washington, D.C. to attend Supreme Court oral arguments, and visit Congress, the White House, and historic sites in Virginia. Klump is a member of the Canisius College DiGamma Honor Society, which recognizes Canisius alumni, faculty and staff who have distinguished themselves, over an extended period of time, through exemplary service to the college. He was also recognized with the Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award by the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2008, he received the “Outstanding Pre-Law Faculty Award" from Phi Alpha Delta.