Curriculum Vitae

Robert Koulish, Ph.D.

Work: Philadelphia University

School House Lane and Henry Ave 

Philadelphia, PA 19144

Associate Professor Law and Society

Chair, Law and Society Program

410 925-3894 (mobile)

koulishr@philau.edu

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. (Political Science)

Dissertation Title: “Bordering on Chaos: Ad-hoc and Arbitrary Decision Making in the U.S. Immigration Bureaucracy”

University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. (Political Science), Mills Fellowship

University of Pennsylvania, B.A.

Courses Taught

• Immigration law
• Immigration Politics and Policy
• Law and Society
• Public Policy
• Education Policy
• Urban Politics/Policy
• Human Rights
• Race and Inequality
• Media and Democracy
• Service-Learning/ Community Development
  

Recent Op-Ed Columns

• ""Immigration Reform, But At What Cost?" Op-Ed Baltimore Sun, Thursday, September 17, 2009
• “Making Real ID real” Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, February 6, 2008

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.realidcon07feb07,0,4262454.story

• · “Facing Manipulation on Immigration” Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, October 31, 2007 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.immigration31oct31,0,2883986.story
• “Turning to Corporate America to Save the World” Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, July 22, 2007  http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.bono22jul22,0,1920288.story
• “Conservatives Waging War on Non-Profits” Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, February 16, 2007. http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0216-20.htm
• “A Corporate Takeover of American Borders” Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun, August 21, 2006.  http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0821-20.htm 

Book (forthcoming)

• Immigration and American Democracy: Subverting the Rule of Law, to be published by Routledge Press in 2009.

Publications

• Sections from “Blackwater and the Privatization of Immigration Control,” to appear in The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader, (second edition) edited by Richard Delgado, (N.Y.U. Press)
• “Blackwater and the Privatization of Immigration Control,” Saint Thomas Law Review (Fall, 2008)
•  “Baby Boomers and the Death of Political Speech: An Unintended Consequence of Bono’s Red Campaign,” Pepperdine University School of Law's Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law (Spring, 2008).

• “Profit, Plenary Powers and Militarization: A ‘Perfect Storm’ Scenario for Immigration Control," 3 Journal Migration and Refugee Issues (No.4) (2007)
• “Privatizing the Leviathan Immigration State” MR-zine (Monthly Review online), (July 20, 2007). mrzine.monthlyreview.org/koulish200707.html
• Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into the Accounting Curriculum,” in Advances in Accounting Education (Volume 8, 2007, co-authored).
•  “Hungarian Attitudes about Minority Rights,” 57 Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies) (2) (March 2005).
• “Attitudes Towards Roma Minority Rights in Hungary: A Case of Symbolic Violence, Doxa, and the Legitimization of Roma Inferiority.” 31 Nationalities Papers Journal 3 (2003).
• “Opportunity Lost? The Social (Dis)Integration of Roma Minority Rights in Post-Transition Hungary.” 8 Journal of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 1(2002).
• “Building Colonia Land Policy From the Inside Out,” with Marlynn May, Irregular Settlement and Self-Help Housing in the United States. Lincoln Institute monograph series (2001). http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/dl/586_may_koulish.pdf
• What Roma Want: A Survey of Hungarian Roma and their Minority Rights, Budapest: Mediant Publishing. (2001) (in English and Hungarian).
• “Teaching Diversity through Service-Learning Immigrant Assistance,” Transforming the Classroom, Transforming the World. Carolyn O’Grady ed. Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. (2000).
• “Community Impact: Defining and Assessing the Intentional Community,” Assessing Internal and External Outcomes of Service-Learning Collaborations. Learn and Serve America monograph series. (1998).
• “Citizenship Service Learning: Becoming Citizens by Assisting Immigrants,” PS: Political Science and Politics. (1998).
• “Joining Academy and Community in a Collaborative Educational Venture,” with Marlynn May, Teaching Sociology. (1998).
• “Civil Rights Violations in a South Texas Border Community,” 4 Rio Bravo: A Bilingual Journal of International Studies. (1995).
• “U.S. Immigration Authorities and Border Communities,” Migration World Magazine. (Sept-Oct. 1995).
• “Human and Civil Rights Abuses at the U.S.-Mexico-Border,” 3 Poverty and Race. (Oct. 1994).
• “U.S. Immigration Authorities and Victims of Human and Civil Rights Abuses: The Border Interaction Project Study of South Tucson, Arizona, and South Texas,” University of Arizona Mexican American Studies and Research Center Working Paper Series No. 20. (June 1994).
• “Systemic Deterrence Against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of a South Texas Immigration District,” 19 New York University Journal of Law and Social Change. (1992).

Recent Media Interviews

• Television Interview: “Frontline-USA” (with Avi Lewis), Blackwater and Privatization of Immigration Control,” February 20, 2008.
• Pacifica Radio Interview: “Talk-Back” with Hugh Hamilton: “The Corporate Takeover of America’s Borders” NYC Pacifica Radio: WBAI FM, August 23, 2006.
• Pacifica Radio Interview: “Talk-Back” with Hugh Hamilton: “Conservatives Waging War on Non-Profits” WBAI FM, February 21, 2007.

Grants

• Department of Justice sub-grant for Juvenile and Child Victimization (2007) ($80,000)
• Baltimore Family League for Community School Funding at Dallas Nicholas Elementary School  (2006) ($50,000)
• Baltimore Family League for BOOST after school funding at Dallas Nicholas (2006) ($100,000)
• Abel Foundation (December 2004) to Goucher College for Service-Learning Collaborative at 2526 North Charles Street ($50,000)
• Goucher College Summer Research Grant (2003, 2004).
• CNS Partnerships for Healthy Students and Schools (PHSS), Mini-Grant for Service-learning Faculty Fellows Workshop with Goucher College Education Department (received $5,000, spring 2003)
• Federal Government Grant for Immigrant-based Multi-Lingual Tax Assistance Service-Learning Project (Lead Investigator; $53K for FY2001)

• Bentley College Faculty Research Grant (2001)
• Federal Government Grant for Immigrant-based Multi-Lingual Tax Assistance Service-Learning Project (Lead Investigator; $100K for FY2000)
• Bentley College Faculty Research Grant (2000)
• Fleet-Boston Grant for Service-Learning  (1997-2001) ($10K annually)
• Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges 2+4=Service on Common Ground (1997-1999) (10K annually)
• Bentley College Faculty Development Grant (1998)
• Bentley College Summer Research Grant (1998)
• Bentley College Summer Research Grant (1997)
• Bentley College Faculty Development Grant (1997)
• Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) (1992) ($10K)

Administrative Experience

• Founding Chair of Law and Society Program at Philadelphia University (2008-)
• Founder and Administrator for Goucher College’s “The Old Goucher Neighborhood Collaborative” at 2526 North Charles St. (2004-2008)
• Director Service Learning Goucher College (2002-2008)
• Director of Bentley Service-Learning Center (1998-2001). Largest Service-Learning Program of all U.S. Business Colleges.  Center highlighted for excellence in Templeton Guide to University-based Character Development (1999) as well as AACU Guide to Service-Learning Programs (1999)
• Associate Director of Bentley Service-Learning Center (1997-1998)
• Director of Bentley Immigrant-Assistance Program (BIAP) (1997-1998)
• Director of Community Research and Policy Studies Center (CoRPS) at Beloit College (1995-1996)

Teaching Experience

Philadelphia University (2008-)

• Intro to Law and Society
• Criminal Law and Justice
• American Government and Law
• Constitutional Law

Goucher College  (2002-2008)

• Immigration Politics (fall, 2006)
• Urban Politics: Baltimore Politics (spring 2006)
• International Media and Communications (spring 2006)
• Frontiers: Building Communities (fall, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006).
• Understanding Inequality (spring 2003)
• Making Connections: A Service-Learning Liberal Arts Capstone (spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
• Media and Democracy (fall, 2003, 2004)

Visiting Adjunct Professor: University of Vermont (summer 2002, 2003, 2005)

• Education, Media and Democracy 

Assistant Professor of Government: Bentley College Department of Government (1996-2002 )

Courses Taught:

• Global Citizenship: Rights and Responsibilities (new course)
• American Government
• Public Policy  
• Political Protest in the United States    
• Politics of Immigration  (new course)
• The City/State Government
• The Role of Community Service in a For-Profit Organization  (new course, co-teach)

Lecturer: Beloit College Department of Political Science (1995-1996)

Courses Taught:

• State and Local Politics

Lecturer: Edgewood College Department of Social Science (1995)

Courses Taught:

• American Government

Lecturer: University of Texas-Pan American Department of Political Science (1990-1992)

Courses Taught:

• The Politics of Immigration
• American Government Part I
• American Government Part II

Teaching Assistant: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught:

• Law, Politics and Society
• Political Ideologies

Professional Activities: Public Lectures, Conferences, Workshops and Ceremonies

• Panel Presentation, Federalization of Immigration Control, at Law and Society Association Conference, in Denver, May 2009.
• Panel Paper Presentation, Baby Boomers and the Death of Political Speech: An Unintended Consequence of Bono’s Red Campaign, at Law and Society Association Conference, in Montreal, May 29, 2008.
• Panel Paper Presentation, Blackwater and the Privatization of Immigration Control, at Law and Society Conference, May 31, 2008, Montreal.
• Panel Presentation at Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Panel: Poverty, Ideology and the Media in Philadelphia, Pa. March 6-8, 2008.
• Paper Presentation, Profit, Plenary Powers and Militarization:  A 'Perfect Storm' Scenario for Immigration Control at LatCritXII, in Miami, Fla. October 4-6, 2007.
• Public Lecture Series,  “Hungarian Roma Self Governance: Help or Hindrance?” at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, (CREECA) and Center for European Studies (CES), in Madison, WI, (September 28, 2006)
• Paper Presentation at the annual Law & Society Association Conference, “Liberty With Strings: A Geography of Public Space in Urban America,” in Baltimore MD., (July 6-8, 2006)
• Panel Presentation at the annual Community School Initiative Conference, on university-community partnerships. Baltimore, MD., (June 15-16, 2006).
• Panel Presentation on community schools at annual HUD COPC Conference, "Leadership and Sustainability for Community/University Partnerships." Baltimore MD., (March 29-31 2006).

• Presented Paper and Chaired Panel: “It Takes A Village with a Camera, Community Building Through Media Literacy,” for American Media Literacy Association Conference, in San Francisco, CA. June 2005.
• Presented Paper at International Civic Engagement Conference in Reno, Nevada, “It’s all Text: Media Literacy and Service-Learning,” (October, 2004).
• Chaired Panel and Presented Paper at National Media Education Conference in Baltimore, MD. “Service-Learning and Media Literacy,” organized by the Alliance for a Media Literate America. (June 28-July 1, 2003)
• Participated in “The International Conference, Universities, Schools, and Community partners for effective Education, Community Building and Democracy, at University of Pennsylvania, (April 7-8, 2003)
• Participated in Action Coalition Media Education (founding convention on democratic media education), Albuquerque, NM, (October 15-16, 2002)

• Presented Public Lecture on Roma in Eastern Europe for Geography of Europe Course at the University of Vermont, (April, 2002)
• Presented Paper at Northeastern Political Science Association Meetings in Philadelphia, Pa. “Ethnicity Matters: A Look at Roma Identity.” (November 2001)
• Chaired Panel, Ethnicity, Race and Politics at Northeastern Political Science Association Meetings in Philadelphia, Pa. (November 2001)
• Participated in University of Vermont John Dewey Project Summit on Progressive Education (October 2001).
• Presented Paper at Conference, “Irregular Settlement and Self-Help Housing,” at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, in Cambridge. (September 2001).
• Chaired Panel discussion on “Identities in the Balkans” at International Conference "Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe," organized by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques with the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) (Paris).  (July 9-10, 2001)
• Presented Paper at International Conference "Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe," organized by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques with the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) (Paris) (July 9-10, 2001)
• Attended American Bar Association and American University Workshop on Low Income Taxpayer Clinics, in Washington D.C. (May 9-10, 2001)
• Chaired Panel on International Service-Learning at Massachusetts Campus Compact Annual Conference, Asking the Hard Questions: Visions and Strategies for Civic Engagement in Higher Education, in Waltham MA. (March 2001)
• Presented Keynoted Address at Partners Foundation Conference on Roma in Budapest. (January 26-27, 2001)
• Presented Public Lecture at Budapest University of Economic Sciences (BUES), “Do Minority Rights Matter in Hungary: A Case for Shifting the Focus of Minority Self-Government from Culture to Politics. (October 17, 2000) 
• Attendee at Harvard University Workshop on Post-Socialist Politics and Gender, at Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies.  (October 6, 2000)
• Participated in Yale University Poverty Project Workshop, at Institute for Comparative Social Research. (September 22, 2000)
• Presented Keynote Speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Society of Collegiate Scholars. (September 19, 2000)
• Conference Participant on Hungary and the Fall of Communist Dominoes. Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Washington D.C. (May 2, 2000) 
• Attended Boston University Conference, The Right of Return: Palestinian Refugees & Prospects for a Durable Peace. (April 2000)
• Attended at Budapest Conference, Democratic Transition: Ten Years Later. (June 17, 1999)
• Presented at National Business School Network—Inner City Leadership Conference, Boston, MA (April 23, 1999)
• Presented at National Service Learning Conference, sponsored by National Youth Leadership Council, San Jose CA. (April 19, 1999)
• Participated in Interaction Associates Workshop, “The Power of Collaborative Action” (June 15-17, 1998)
• Presented at Bentley College Workshop on Job Loss.  (June 9-11, 1998)
• Presented at Campus Compact Conference, Scottsdale, AZ. (May 1998)
• Participated in Training Conference on Leadership and Capacity Building, National campus Compact 2+4 Common Ground, Cocoa Beach, FL. (January 31-February 3, 1998)
• Delivered “Action Research as Service Learning” at National Society for Experiential Education National Conference: Reflecting on Practice. Kansas City, MO. (October 22-25, 1997)
• Presented Community Service and Service Learning: Working for Democracy, Diversity, and Citizenship Conference, Waltham, MA, sponsored by Campus Compact (May 29-31, 1997) 
• Reactor at Conference on New Approaches to International Law, Fin de NAIL: A Celebration, Harvard University. (May 9 - 11, 1997)
• Presented “The New Federalism and old Politics of Immigration” to the New England Political Science Association Meeting, New London, CT.  (May 1997)
• Participated in the 1997 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Panel: The Consequences of Devolution. (April 10 - 12, 1997)
• Served as Mentor for Associated Colleges of the Midwest  (ACM) Minority Student Scholar Conference at Carlton College, MN. (October 4 - 5, 1996)
• Presented at conference sponsored by Northeastern University entitled “What’s Going On:  The Effects of Welfare Reform,” in Boston, MA. (October 26, 1996)
• Participated in conference sponsored by MA Bar Foundation on Immigrants and Welfare Reform: Response to Changing Times, in Cambridge, MA sponsored by MA. Bar Foundation.  (November 26, 1996)
• Chaired and was Discussant at Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Panel:  Citizens, Officials, Texas. (April 18-20, 1996)
• Presented “Orchestrating the Rogue Elephant: Institutionalizing Human Rights Abuses at the Mexico-US Border,” at the IX Conference of Mexican and American Historians, Mexico City, Mexico (1994).
• Moderated Immigration Panel for U.W. Havens Center Conference: “Beyond NAFTA: Toward equity and Sustainability.” (October 1994)
• Presented “Documenting Interactions Between Border Communities and Immigration Authorities.” Paper delivered at Facets of Border Violence Conference, University of Texas at El Paso (1993).
• Presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association  paper entitled “The State at the Margins of Society: Systemic Deterrence Against Asylum Seekers.” Reviewed at roundtable: “Organizational Behavior—How Distinctive is the Immigration Context?”, Philadelphia, PA (1992)
• Presented “Administrative Appellate Review in the Immigration Context,”at annual meeting of Law and Society Association. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (1991)
• Presented “Political Asylum: The 1980 Refugee Act Ten Years Later,” at annual meeting of Southern Political Science Association. (1990)

Related Professional Activities

• Law and Society Association, Collaborative Research Network for Citizenship and Immigration (2008-)
• Consultant for United Nations Development Project survey on Albanian Roma (summer 2007).
• Baltimore Community Radio Consortium (2006-) (create neighborhood based radio programming: citizen journalism, storytelling, information sharing and dialogue. Partners from the Baltimore community, Johns Hopkins University and Loyola College)
• Advisory Board for Maryland International College of Art (MICA) Community Arts Partnerships (CAP) Program (2006-)
• Steering Committee for Baltimore’s University-Community Partnership (2006-)
• Steering Committee for Dallas Nicholas Community School (2006-)
• Steering Committee for Baltimore Partnership Higher Education & Student Service-Learning (2002-)
• Text Reviewer for Wadsworth Publishing (2001)
• Research Fellow Budapest University of Economic Sciences (BUES) (summer 2000)
• Research Fellow at Bentley Center for Business Ethics (1997-98)
• Submitted testimony to House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration and Refugees for H.R. 2119 bill to Establish an Independent Review Commission (1993)
• Consultant for the American Friends Service Committee Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project (1992-1993)
• Commissioned by American Bar Association (ABA) to critique Report on Political Asylum submitted to Senate Judiciary Committee (1990)

Curriculum Development

• Developing Law and Society Major and Minor at Philadelphia University (2008-)
• Established course for Goucher Political Science Department on Immigration Politics (fall, 2006); Baltimore Politics (spring 2006)
• Established international intensive course on Border Crossing  (Com. 299) (spring 2004)
• Established interdisciplinary course on Service-Learning & Corporate Social Responsibility (ID 399 2000) (winner of national AICPA Award 2001)
• Established and taught interdisciplinary course on global citizenship (ICE 398)
• Established community-based introductory course on American Politics with focus on homelessness (class filmed by CNN November 1999)
• Established International Service-Learning at Bentley College which integrates Service-Learning and International Studies and Study Abroad Programs (1999)
• First-Year Initiative: Integrating Service-Learning into First-Year Student Program (1998)
• Developed American Studies Course (1997)
• Special topics cluster course for American Government with English Department (1997)

Awards/ Recognition

• Dallas Nicholas Elementary School (Baltimore) Certificate for Exceptional Service, 2008
• Greater Homewood Community Corporation (Baltimore) Public Education Partnership Award 2007
• Baltimore Women’s Housing Coalition Volunteer of the Year 2003
• Bentley College Innovation in Teaching Award (2001) (course on social responsibility and community service)
• AICPA/AAA Joint Collaboration Award (2001) (a national academic association award for curriculum development for interdisciplinary course on social responsibility--“The Role of Community Service in a For-Profit Organization”)
• Finalist National Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning (1998) (Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service)
• Bentley College Innovation in Teaching Excellence Award  (1997) (course on the Politics of Immigration)

Professional Associations

• Law and Society Association
• American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
• Association for Nationality Studies (ASN)
• American Association Higher Education
• American Political Science Association (APSA)
• Midwest Political Science Association
• National Society for Experiential Education

References:

Professor Rick Pringle (Ph.D.)

Goucher College

1021 Dulaney valley Rd

Baltimore, MD. 21204

410-337-6043

rpringle@goucher.edu

Professor Joel Grossman (Ph.D,)

Johns Hopkins University

Homewood Campus

Merganthaler 329

3400 N. Charles St

Baltimore MD. 21218

410-516-7542

jbgrossm@jhu.edu

Professor Larry Wissow, (MD, MPH)

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

703 Hampton House

Baltimore, MD 21205

410-614-1243

lwissow@jhsph.edu