A. James McAdams
(Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1983), William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs, is Director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, as well as a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He has written widely on the two-state period of German history (1949-1989) and its aftermath, and continues to work on the politics of authoritarian regimes. Recently, he has also written about the impact of state surveillance of the Internet on democratic processes and personal liberty. He has taught courses on the comparative politics and foreign policies of Eastern and Western European states; technology and politics, and other subjects; most recently, he has taught "Ten Images of Hell in the Twentieth Century." He is the author of East Germany and Detente (Cambridge, 1985), Germany Divided (Princeton, 1993), and Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge, 2001); coauthor of Rebirth: A History of Europe, and Introduction to Comparative Politics; and editor of Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies and the forthcoming Review of Politics School. He has published articles in The Review of Politics, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Comparative Politics, and other journals. He has received the Charles Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching (1995), the John Kaneb Teaching Award (2001), and the John Madden Teaching Award for First-Year Students (2001). In 1997, he was awarded the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German Studies. Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, he was Robert K. Root University Preceptor at Princeton University .
Director of Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Advising specialties:
Rhodes; Marshall; Fulbright; Truman; Foreign Service; graduate school in political science and foreign affairs
Research and Teaching Interests:
German politics; transitional justice; law and society; politics of the internet
Contact Information
Academic Office: 211 Brownson Hall
Email: A.J.McAdams.5@nd.edu
Phone: 574-631-5253
Mailing Address:
211 Brownson Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0368