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Joshua Forrest

Joshua Forrest, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, History
Professor and Chair, Political Science
412-536-1809; Cell: 412-478-5628

education:

  • Ph.D., Political Science & Public Administration, University of Wisconsin (1987; 1978)
  • B.A., French Area Studies, University of Wisconsin (1976)
  • Junior Year Abroad (French Civilization), University of Aix-Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France (1975-76).

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

  • A Human Right to Local Autonomy: The Quest for Local Control (Rowman & Littlefield), 2021.
  • Subnationalism in Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2004.
  • Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau (Ohio University Press), 2003.
  • Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions (University of Rochester Press), 1998.

CURRENT RESEARCH:

  • The Politics Of Local Autonomy

Research Scholarships:

  • Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University, Germany, 2016.
  • University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School for Public & International Affairs, 2002-2003.
  • Fulbright Faculty Research in Namibia: Political Decentralization, 1992-1993. 
  • Junior Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 1987-1989. 

TEACHING INTERESTS:

  • Comparative Public Policy; Decentralization
  • Weak States; Peasantry
  • History & Politics of France
  • History & Politics of Africa
  • Formation of the U.S. 1607-1865; also, American Values & Beliefs
  • History of Western Political Thought; Comparative Political Theory

JOINED LA ROCHE University: 

  • 2004

 Previous Positions:

  • Adjunct Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh Graduate School Public & International Affairs, 2002-04.
  • Associate Professor, University of Vermont, 1989-2002.

HOMETOWN: 

New York City

Personal Interests:

Secular Judaism; la francophonie; baroque music; science fiction.