Department of Political Science
 

Jennifer Sterling-Folker is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. She received her B.A. in Political Science and Art History from the University of New Hampshire in 1983. She received her M.A. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1993, both in Political Science, from the University of Chicago. While at Chicago she was the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur Scholarship, and a Margaret Yardley Fellowship from the NJ State Federation of Women's Clubs. She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Professor Sterling-Folker is an international relations theorist whose writing focuses on theories of international organization and cooperation. Her empirical research interests include monetary policy-making, the United Nations, American Foreign Policy, Japanese politics and government, and the European Union. At the University of Connecticut she teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. UConn's Undergraduate Golden Key National Honor Society elected her an Honorary Faculty Member in 1996.  She is also an Associate Editor of International Studies Perspectives, a journal of the International Studies Association.

She has taught political science courses at a variety of institutions in the New England area including: Wheaton College in Norton, MA; St. Anselm's College in Manchester, NH; Smith College in Northhampton, MA; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and the University of New Hampshire, Manchester. Before attending graduate school, she taught in the social studies department at Sacred Heart High School in Kingston, Massachusetts.

Selected Publications:

Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy:  Explaining U.S. International Monetary Policy-Making After Bretton Woods.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002.

"Realism and the Constructivist Challenge:  Rejecting, Reconstructing or Rereading." International Studies Review, 4(Spring 2002).

"Evolutionary Tendencies in Realist and Liberal IR Theory ," In Evolutionary Interpretations in World Politics, William R. Thompson, ed.  New York:  Routledge, 2001.

"Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared," International Studies Quarterly (March 2000).

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: 'Assertive Multilateralism' and Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policymaking," in After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World, James M. Scott, ed. (Duke University Press, 1998).

"Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables," International Studies Quarterly 41(1997): 1-25.

Complete CV is in the Fastlane Above