Mark A. Jubulis

Mark Jubulis is from Buffalo, NY and received his Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. He was a Fulbright scholar in Latvia while working on his book Nationalism and Democratic Transition: The Politics of Citizenship and Language in Post-Soviet Latvia. He has been teaching at Gannon for more than 25 years and has taught a wide range of courses. His political science research and teaching interests include the European Union, Russia, China, nationalism, democracy and totalitarianism. He also devotes attention to the nature of a genuine liberal arts education and the life and thought of Saint John Henry Newman. He encourages his students to pursue study abroad opportunities and to supplement their work in political science with a minor or dual major in another academic discipline. Go Irish! Go Bills!

Courses Taught

Recipient of Gannon's Student Government Association “Excellence in Teaching Award” in 2004

- POLI 111 Intro to US Government

- POLI 133 Intro to International Relations

- POLI 220 Comparative Government

- POLI 343 US Foreign Policy

- POLI 360 Political Theory

- POLI 400 Senior Seminar

- Regional Studies: European Union, Russia, Islamic World

- Special Topics: Totalitarian Regimes, Nationalism, Democracy, American Political Thought, Political Rhetoric & Leadership

- Honor's Seminar: Catholic Encounters with the World

- THEO 390 The Life & Thought of John Henry Newman

Educational History

- University of Notre Dame, Government and International Studies, M.A. 1992, Ph.D 1997

- Canisius College, B.A. History and International Relations, 1988

Professional Societies

- Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism

- Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

- The Saint John Henry Newman Association of America

- University Faculty for Life

Publications

"The External Dimension of Democratization in Latvia: The Impact of European Institutions," International Relations, Vol. 13, No. 3, December 1996, pp. 59-73.

Nationalism and Democratic Transition: The Politics of Citizenship and Language in Post-Soviet Latvia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.

"The Persistence of the Baltic Nations under Soviet Rule: An Ethno-Symbolist Critique of Modernist Perspectives on the Breakup of the USSR," in Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow, and Andreas Sturm, Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations, Routledge, 2007, pp. 179-197.

"Teaching the Totalitarian Experience Through Literature," The Civic Arts Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2013, pp. 4-7.

"Recovering the Lost Tradition of Catholic Higher Education: The Enduring Relevance of Newman's Insights for the Contemporary University," in Robert Christie (ed.), Saint John Henry Newman: Preserving and Promulgating His Legacy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 166-187.

Book reviews published in The Review of Politics, Journal of Baltic Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Slavic Review, Demokratizatsiya, The American Political Science Review, and the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

Scholarship-Research

Fulbright Research Fellowship at the University of Latvia, 1994-1995

My major research interests include the subjects of nationalism and citizenship policies in Europe and the former Soviet Union, the life and thought of Saint John Henry Newman, and the purpose and character of a Liberal Arts education. Additional interests include America's founding principles and the formation of America's national "creed" and civic identity, the principles that guide American foreign policy, and the relationship between the effort to construct the European Union and the strength of national identity and democracy at the state level. Genral themes of interest include nationalism, democracy, totalitarianism, globalization, technocracy, political philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.