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Recent Courses

Environment And Politics
Hate And Conflict: Art, Media And Political Science
Hate And Conflict: Art,Media And Political Science
Independent Study Medicare
Independent Study Policies: Groundwater Analyses
Introduction To Politics
Public Administration
Public Policy Seminar
Washington Semester Directed Research
Washington Semester Internship
Washington Semester Seminar

Research Interests

Regina S. Axelrod is professor of political science and chair of the political science department. She has published numerous articles and books on environmental and energy policy in the United States, the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe, including Environment, Energy, Public Policy: Toward and Rational Future, Conflict between Energy and Urban Environment, and Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy. She has lectured at Charles University, Prague, the University of Economics, Prague and the University of Budapest in addition to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on nuclear power and the transition to democracy. She received a National Science Foundation grant to support her research. She also has been the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, the National Research Council, the Soros Foundation, the S & H Foundation and the Center for European Studies, New York University. She has been an invited participant to Wilton Park conferences focussed on European Union issues, in Prague, Malta, Istanbul and Madrid. She is an academic associate of the Atlantic Council and past president of the New York Political Science Association. She is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award presented by the Political Science Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York. In October 2007, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award to lecture at the University of Economics, Prague.