ALICE H. COOPER Dept of Political Science, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677 Tel: 662/915-5608; Fax: 662/915-7808; e-mail: acooper@olemiss.edu POSITIONS HELD 2012 -- Professor, University of Mississippi 1999 2012 Associate Professor, University of Mississippi 1995-1999 Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi 1988-1995 Assistant Professor, University of Virginia EDUCATION Harvard University Ph.D. Government 1988 Harvard University M.A. Government 1981 Oberlin College B.A. Government 1977 University of Bonn, Fulbright Exchange Government 1977-79 West Germany Student HONORS AND GRANTS (selected) 2011 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, Univ. of Mississippi 2007 College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, Univ. of Mississippi 1996 Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi 1991-92 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University 1984-1985 Ford Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship, Program in European Society and Western Security 1983-1984 Krupp Foundation Fellowship for dissertation field research. PUBLICATIONS Books: Paradoxes of Peace: German Peace Movements Since 1945, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1996.
Articles and Book Chapters: Difficult Decisions: The GAL and Schwarz-Gruen in Hamburg, German Politics and Society, 32:4, 2014, pp. 1-20. Biased or not? Organized Interests and the Case of EU Food Information Labeling (with Paulette Kurzer), Journal of European Public Policy, 20:5, 2013, pp. 722-740. Hold the Croissant! The European Union Declares War on Obesity, (with Paulette Kurzer), Journal of European Social Policy 21:2, 2011, pp. 1-13. Political Indigestion: Germany Confronts Genetically Modified Foods, German Politics 18:4, 2009, pp. 536-558. Consumer Activism, EU Institutions and Global Markets: The Struggle over Biotech Foods (with Paulette Kurzer), Journal of Public Policy 27:2, 2007, pp. 103-128. What s for Dinner? European Farming and Food Traditions Confront American Technology (with Paulette Kurzer), Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, Nr. 7, 2007, pp. 1035-1058. Social Movements in the Federal Republic, in James Sperling ed., Germany at 55: Berlin is not Bonn, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 206-226. Rauch ohne Feuer: Why Germany Lags in Tobacco Control (with Paulette Kurzer), German Politics and Society 21:3, 2003, pp. 24-47. Party-Sponsored Protest and the Movement Society: the CDU/CSU Mobilizes Against Citizenship Law Reform, German Politics, Vol. 11, Nr. 2, 2002, pp. 88-104. Media Framing and Social Movement Mobilization: German Peace Protest Against INF Missiles, the Gulf War, and NATO Peace-Enforcement in Bosnia, European Journal of Political Research, Vol 41, Nr.1, 2002, pp. 37-80. Peace Movements, in Gene Frankland and John Barry eds., International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, London, Routledge, 2002. Fünf Dekaden deutscher Friedensbewegung, in Jürgen Maruhn and Manfred Wilke, eds., Raketenpoker um Europa: Das sowjetische SS-20 Abenteuer und die Friedensbewegung, Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Munich, 2001, pp. 70-83. When Just Causes Conflict with Accepted Means: The German Peace Movement and Military Intervention in Bosnia, German Politics and Society, Vol. 15, Nr. 3, 1997, pp. 99-118. 2
"Public-Good Movements and the Dimensions of Political Process: Postwar German Peace Movements, Comparative Political Studies Vol. 29, No. 3, 1996, pp. 267-289. "The West German Peace Movement", co_authored with Klaus Eichner, in Bert Klandermans, ed., International Social Movement Research: Peace Movements in Western Europe and the U.S., JAI Press, 1991. "The West German Peace Movement and the Christian Churches: an Institutional Approach," The Review of Politics, Vol. 50, No. 1, 1988. Book Reviews: Review of Markus Kreuzer, Institutions and Innovation: Voters, Parties and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy, reviewed in American Political Science Review 96:4, Dec.2002, 855-56. Review of Steven Breyman, Why Movements Matter: the West German Peace Movement and U.S. Arms Control Policy, reviewed in German Politics and Society 20:3, Fall 2002, 108-112. Review of Mary Hampton and Christian Soe, eds., Between Bonn and Berlin: German Politics Adrift? reviewed in Politik, pp. 16-17, Summer 2001. Review of Steve Breyman, Movement Genesis: Social Movement Theory and the 1980s West German Peace Movement, reviewed in Mobilization, 4:1, 1999, pp. 118-119. Review of Helena Flam, ed., States and Anti-Nuclear Movements, reviewed in American Political Science Review, 91:2, pp. 481-482, June 1997. Review of Hans-Georg Betz, Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe, reviewed in Politik, Spring 1996. Review of Gene Frankland and Donald Schoonmaker, Between Protest and Power: The Green Party in Germany, reviewed in Conference Group on German Politics Newsletter, March 1994. Review of Ulrike Wasmuht, Friedensbewegungen der 80er Jahre and Thomas Rochon, Mobilizing for Peace: The Antinuclear Movements in Western Europe, reviewed in German Politics and Society, No. 19, Spring 1990. Review of Rob Burns and Wilfried van der Will, Protest and Democracy in West Germany, reviewed in German Politics and Society, No. 18, Fall 1989. Review of David Gress, Peace and Survival: West Germany, the Peace Movement, and European Security, reviewed in German Studies Newsletter, Issue 8, July 1986. 3
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Outside reviewer for tenure and promotion case, 2001, 2009. Program Chair, Symposium on The U.S., Germany and Europe Since 1945, Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi, Sept. 21-23, 2000. Program Chair, Political Science section, German Studies Association conference, 1997 Panel reviewer for NEH grant proposals in Social Science, 1997 Manuscript reviewer for Comparative Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Review of Politics, German Politics and Society, International Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly TEACHING REPERTOIRE Introduction to Comparative Politics (undergraduate) Introduction to European Studies (undergraduate) Politics of Western Europe (undergraduate) European Social Movements (undergraduate) German Politics (undergraduate) European Political Economy (graduate and undergraduate) Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies (graduate and undergraduate) CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected) 2014 Fading Tolerance: Explaining German Tobacco Control Policy at Home and in the EU, presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, September 18-21 (with Paulette Kurzer). 2013 Difficult Decisions: the GAL and Schwarz-Gruen in Hamburg, presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Denver, October 11-14. 2011 "Ongoing debates on Participatory Governance in the EU: Evidence from Consumer Protection and Health," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Antonio, April 21-24 (with Paulette Kurzer). 2010 Global Dissemination of Public Health Concepts and Ideas, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, April 1-3 (with Paulette Kurzer). 2009 Germany Confronts Genetically Modified Foods, presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association. 4
2007 Germans and GM Foods: Explaining German Policy toward Agricultural Biotechnology, presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association. 2007 Institutions vs Markets: EU s Commission and Consumers Debate Biotech (with Paulette Kurzer), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. 2005 What s for Dinner? European Farming and Food Traditions Confront American Technology (with Paulette Kurzer), presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association. 2005 To Eat or Not to Eat? European Farming and Food Traditions Confront American Technology (with Paulette Kurzer), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2003 Germany s Non-War against Smoking and the Tobacco Policy of the European Union (with Paulette Kurzer), presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association. 2003 Germany s Non-War against Smoking and the Tobacco Policy of the European Union (with Paulette Kurzer), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2002 Public Health in the European Union: The Ongoing Struggle to Pass Tobacco Control Measures (with Paulette Kurzer), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston. 2000 Party-Sponsored Protest and the Movement Society : The CDU Mobilizes Against Citizenship Law Reform, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. 1999 German Peace Movements Across Five Decades, presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. 1998 Media Framing and Social Movement Mobilization, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. 1997 Normalization of the German Left s Security Stance, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. 1996 From Pacifism to Selective Military Intervention? The German Peace Movement Since 1990, presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association. 5
1996 Social Movement Response to Changing Political Opportunities, Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. 1992 "The Political Process Model and West German Peace Movements," American Political Science Association. 1990 "Ironic Victory: The West German Peace Movement and the Waning of the Cold War, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. 1990 "Churches and Peace Movements: the West German Case", Conference of the Council for European Studies. 1989 "Peace Protest and the SPD", presented at the 1989 Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. 6