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Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International and Multicultural Academic Programs

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Curriculum Vitae
    POL 221 Introduction to Global Politics
    POL 263 The European Union
    POL 283 Politics of the Middle East
    POL 293 Canada: An Introduction
    POL 324 American Foreign Policy
    POL 361 The United Nations & MUNFW
    POL 377 Human Rights & Social Justice
    POL 409 Capstone Seminar
    ITS 409 Capstone Seminar
    HNR 103 Honors: Empires
    HNR 403 Honors: Québec: Past, Present, & Future
Writing Guidelines for POL SCI Research Papers
Study Abroad
American Junior Year
Oxford Study Abroad Programme
International Studies Association
Middle East Institute
Association for Canadian Studies in the US
Foreign Policy
Political Resources
Model United Nations Of The Far West
Spring Greece and Italy Trip (2006)
Marc's Photo Album

Marc O'Reilly

With my niece Anne-Elizabeth Desjardins, July 2008

 

 

 

Dr. Marc J. O'Reilly is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the International Studies Committee at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. He is the current Co-President of the International Studies Association (ISA)-Midwest. He is originally from Montreal, Canada. He holds a B.A. from McGill University, an M.A. from Ohio University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He specializes in international relations, comparative politics, and American, Canadian, and Middle Eastern foreign policies.

Dr. O'Reilly teaches Political Science courses on Global Politics, The European Union, Canada, Human Rights, the United Nations, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Politics of the Middle East. He co-teaches the Capstone course with Professors Tom Newcomb and John Bing. He also teaches the Capstone seminar in International Studies and Honors courses on Quebec/French Canada and Empires. Every April, he takes his POL 361 class to the Model UN Conference of the Far West in San Francisco, CA. In May 2012, he will lead a group of Heidelberg students on a tour of Greece and Turkey.

In 2010, Dr. O'Reilly received Heidelberg’s Distinguished Scholarship/Research Award. His research interests include the Middle East, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy, and empires.

Marc's BookDr. O'Reilly is the author of Unexceptional: America's Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007 (Lexington Books, 2008), which can be purchased on-line at lexingtonbooks.com, barnesandnoble.com, or amazon.com. He is co-editor of Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy (Lexington Books, 2006) with Patrick James and Nelson Michaud.

 

Dr. O'Reilly has published articles in International Studies Perspectives, The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, The Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, and The American Review of Canadian Studies.

In addition to his professorial duties, Dr. O'Reilly serves as Heidelberg University's Director of International & Multicultural Academic Programs.

 

 

 

Oxford
2002 Heidelberg College Summer Course
New College, Oxford University

 

Parthenon
May 2006 Heidelberg Tour of Italy and Greece

 


March 2009 Heidelberg Group in Venice

"Kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight" -- Bruce Cockburn