Kenneth J. Long, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Political Science
Chair of History and Political Science Department
Contact
Phone: 860.231.5766
E-mail:
klong@sjc.edu
Dr. Kenneth Long's colleagues joke with him that, since his field is Political Science, he never needs to be worried about running out of material for classroom discussion. The wealth of subject matter is just fine with Dr. Long, whose teaching goal is to promote critical thinking among his students. "I want them to shake their ideological assumptions," Dr. Long explains, "I want them to see with new eyes."
He likes to draw his students out interactively, so they learn how to establish, understand and articulate their own opinions. He makes the classroom fun, but he expects a high degree of "intellectual rigor" from his students.
Dr. Long also serves as director of American Politics for the Capitol Region Education Council's (CREC) Summer Institutes at Saint Joseph College, an academic program designed to challenge gifted high school students. After completing the sessions, according to Dr. Long, students "have learned to embrace and be excited about a more ambitious agenda for learning. They go from being unsure what college life will be like to absolutely enthusiastic about going to college in a year or two."
Degrees
Ph.D., The University at Albany
M.P.A., Syracuse University
B.A., The University at Albany
Research/Publications
With Elizabeth Vozzola, "But is it Service? Problems of Participatory Democracy and Justice in a Service Learning Class," Journal of College and Character, online journal, v. 2, 2002.
"The Trouble with Connecticut," The New England Journal of Public Policy
, 12 (1), pp. 67-95, fall/winter 1996.
"Marx, Fanon, Nkrumah, and the Intersection of Socialism and Radical Feminism," Rethinking Marxism
, 8 (4), pp.89-103, winter 1995.
"Understanding and Teaching the Semantics of Terrorism: An Alternate Perspective." Perspectives on Political Science, 9, pp. 203-208, fall 1990.
"Attempted Criticisms of Fauerbach's Atheism: Why They Fail," The American Rationalist, 34, 56-60, November, December 1989,
Contributor to Elaine Ognibene, et al, "Integrating the Curriculum: From Impossible to Possible," College Teaching, 37, 105-110, fall 1989.
The Trouble with America, Lexington Books, 2008.
