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Barbara Franz

Associate Professor
  • Email Address: bfranz@rider.edu
  • Phone: (609) 896-5262
  • Fax: (609) 896-5221
  • Office: Fine Arts 272
  • Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099

(Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2001) is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research interests juxtapose the phenomenon of mass migrations and refugee movements and what they mean for the stability of nations, the increasing potential of culture clashes within societies, and the root causes of migration movements, violence, terror, and genocide, as recently seen in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Her book, Uprooted and Unwanted: Bosnian Refugees in Austria and the United States (Texas A& M University Press, 2005) focuses on the experience of Bosnian refugees, especially women, in two host countries with vastly different settlement and social welfare policies. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Dr. Franz turned her research interest toward security studies, seeking to delineate the future of migrant and refugee policies within the new security regimes in the U.S. and Europe. Her research interests further include the criminalization and marginalization of migrants in the post-Cold War era, refugees’ acclimatization methods within new host societies, and gender and feminist perspectives in immigration and refugee studies. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, European Journal of Women Studies, Feminist Review, AWR Bulletin, and the e-journal borderlands. Dr. Franz teaches Global Politics, U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, Nationalism in World Politics, and Global Issues as well as other Political Science courses at Rider.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
    Ph.D., International Relations - May 2001
    M.A. History - 1999
    M.A. International Relations - 1997
  • UNIVERSITÄT WIEN, Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Austria
    Magistra der Philosophie - 1993


EXPERIENCE: Teaching

  • RIDER UNIVERSITY, Associate Professor - Sept. 2007 to present;  Assistant Professor - Sept. 2004 to Sept. 2007
    Teaching introduction course Understanding Politics and upper level courses Global Politics, Global Issues, U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, Politics of Exile, Asylum, and Diaspora, Modern European Ideologies (co-taught in Honor’s Program). Teaching undergraduate students in medium and larger class settings. Advise students. Faculty advisor of Rider’s Model United Nations Team: prepare students for the annual NMUN competition and engage in fundraising. Worked with three student recipients of the 2007-8 and 2005-6 Undergraduate Scholar Award on the projects of “Undocumented Hands and Hurdles” and “Chechnya and Russia: Nationalism Revived”. Recipient of Rider University’s Development and Research Committee’s Summer Fellowships in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Honors Thesis advisor, committee work.
  • ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY, Visiting Assistant Professor - 2003 to 2004
    Taught International Politics to undergraduate liberal arts students. Taught special topic classes entitled Exile, Asylum and Diaspora and National Security and New Forms of War in the Changing Global System to upper level undergraduate students. Taught undergraduate students in medium and small class settings. Advised students. Course evaluations within the Department and university means.
  • SUNY AT ULSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Assistant Professor - 2001 to 2003
    Taught undergraduate American Government, Early American History, Comparative Government, Themes in American Politics, Judicial Processes and Constitutional Law in large class setting. Developed and taught three new courses: Introduction to International Relations, Middle Eastern Politics, and online course American Government for the SUNY Learning Network. Advised students. Conducted committee work. Co-advised student roundtables on Terrorism and Money and Democracy. Coordinated Paralegal Program. Course evaluations above the Department and university means.
  • SUNY, FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Instructor - 2001 to 2003
    Taught Introduction to World Affairs and Contemporary Western Europe. Course evaluations above the Department and university means.
  • USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), Instructor - Summer 2000
    Taught 5 U.S. History and Political Science courses for Central Texas College, Navy College Programs for Afloat College Education (PACE). Administered student enrollment and evaluation. Guided students through theoretical and historical interpretations of political events. Encouraged students’ independent thinking.
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERISTY, History Teaching Assistant - 1994 to 1998


EXPERIENCE: Writing and Research

  • Journal of Urban Affairs, Department of Planning, Policy, & Design, University of California, Irvine
    Referee - 2005 to present
    Provide detailed comments on articles about immigration and refugee issues.
  • Journal of Ethnic and Minority Studies, Centre for European Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Sussex.
    Referee - 2003 to present
    Provide detailed comments on articles about Austrian refugee policies.
  • AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem, Vienna
    U.S. Correspondent - 2002 to present
    Write articles on U.S. refugee and immigration issues.
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Division of International Protection, Resettlement Section, Geneva.
    Intern - Summer 1997
    Researched Resettlement Section web-page. Conceptualized a video clip focusing on resettlement problems. Worked as editorial staff for Resettlement Handbook 1997


PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Barbara Franz (2005) Uprooted and Unwanted: Bosnian Refugees in Austria and the United States, Texas A& M University Press.  Click here for Amazon listing.

Articles in peer-reviewed Journals

  • Barbara Franz (2008) “The Blind Leading the Blind: Evaluating the Proposed Guest Worker Programs in the USA” forthcoming in AWR Bulletin No. 1
  • Barbara Franz (2007) “Guest Workers and Immigration Reform: The Rise of a New Feudalism in America?” New Political Science Vol. 29 (3): 349-368
  • Barbara Franz (2007) “Europe’s Muslim Youth: An Inquiry into the Politics of Discrimination, Relative Deprivation, and Identity Formation” Mediterranean Quarterly: A Journal of Global Issues Vol. 18 (1): 89-112.
  • Barbara Franz (2006) “The EU Enlargement from an American Perspective: A Polemicist’s View” AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems No. 3: 187-195
  • Barbara Franz (2006) “Fortress America? Efforts in Fence Building, Controlling Migration, and the Creation of a New Managed Migration System” IMIS Beiträge No. 30: 23-44.
  • Susanne Prinz and Barbara Franz (2006) “Gastarbeiter in den Vereinigten Staaten: Die Einführung eines ‘gesteuerten’ Migrationssystems?” AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems No: 2: 131-144.
  • Barbara Franz (2005) “Bosnien und Herzegowina: Die Internationalen Dimensionen eines Krieges” AWR  Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, No. 3: 173-188.
  • Barbara Franz (2005) “Letter from America: Still the Country of the Free?” borderlands e-journal Vol.4 (1).  Click here for external website.
  • Barbara Franz (2004) “Immigration und nationale Sicherheit in der EU und den USA: Die Demontage des Füchtlingsrechts” AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, No. 3-4: 58-71.
  • Barbara Franz (2003) “Transplanted or Uprooted?  Integration Efforts of Bosnian Refugees Based Upon Gender, Class, and Ethnic Differences in New York City and Vienna” European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 10 (2): 135-157.
  • Barbara Franz (2003) “Bosnian Refugees and Political Realities: Changes in Asylum and Residence Laws in Austria and the United States” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.29 (1): 5-25.
  • Barbara Franz (2003) “Bosnian Refugee Women in (Re)settlement: Gender Relations and Social Mobility” Feminist Review Vol. 73: 86-103.
  • Barbara Franz (2003) “Die Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union und ihre zukünftige Flüchtlingspolitik: eine amerikanische Sicht” AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, No. 3-4:  177-182.
  • Barbara Franz (2003), “American Patriotism and Nativist Fears After September 11: A Historical Perspective” AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, No. 1-2.
  • Barbara Franz (2002), “Bosnian Refugees in Austria and the United States: A Comparison of Temporary Protection Status and the Refugee Resettlement Program” in AWR Bulletin: Quarterly on Refugee Problems, No. 1-2: 41-54
  • Barbara Franz (2000), “Ethnic Identity and Gender Roles in Flux: The Adaptation of Bosnian Refugees to The Austrian Systems of Humanitarian Relief and Economic Integration, 1992-1999,” in the Canadian electronic Political Science journal e-merge, January 2000. Click here for external website.
     

Book Reviews, Articles, and Service to the Field

  • Barbara Franz (2007) “Immigrationsdebatte in den USA” AUF Eine Frauenzeitschrift Nr. 137
  • David Bruce MacDonald. Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Victim-Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia Manchester: Manchester University Press 2002 in Canadian-American Slavic Studies (2007) 41 (1).
  • Blair Ruble. Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2005 in Canadian-American Slavic Studies (2007) 41(4).
  • Barbara Franz (2007) “Comments on ‘Political Communities on the Margins and the Role of Religion’”, “Comments on ‘Migration and Labor Issues’”, and “Comments on ‘Group Immigration, Assimilation and Mobilization’” all delivered at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association and International Studies Association-Northeast November 15-17, 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Barbara Franz (2007) “Comments on Measuring Democracy” Commentary delivered as Discussant for the panel Democracy and Human Rights at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February 28-March 3, 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Barbara Franz (2005) “Agency vis-à-vis Structure: Comments and Questions” Discussant for the panel Gender Aspects of Forced Migration in the Context of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union at the International Council for Central and East European Studies’ 7th World Congress on the Subject Europe – Our Common Home? July 25-30, Berlin, Germany.
     

WORKS IN PROGRESS

  • Barbara Franz, “Islamic Alienation in Europe and the United States: Policy Problems of Integration, Intolerance, and In/Exclusion”
  • Nicole Ives and Barbara Franz, “Wading through Muddy Water: An Exploration of Liberian Refugee Family Challenges in Resettlement”
  • Susanne Prinz and Barbara Franz, “Bargain Basement Labor Market Policies: Labor Migration in Europe and the U.S.”


PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

  • Barbara Franz and Nicole Ives (2008) “Wading through Muddy Water: An Exploration of Liberian Refugee Family Challenges in Resettlement” Paper presented at the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, January 6-10, 2008 Cairo, Egypt.
  • Barbara Franz (2007) “European Migration Policy from the American Viewpoint” Paper presented at the 57th International Study Congress on the Subject of Migration, Asylum and Minorities: European and National Perspectives in the “New” Europe, September 20-24, 2007 Vilnius, Lithuania.
  • Barbara Franz (2006) “Die EU-Osterweiterung aus der Sicht der USA” Paper presented at the 56th International Study Congress on the Subject Migration and EU-Enlargement-Analysis and Development, September 23-26, 2006, Poznan, Poland.
  • Barbara Franz (2006) “Muslims in Europe: The Development of a Parallel Society?” Paper presented at the Oxford Round Table on Global Security in the 21st Century, August 6-11, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
  • Barbara Franz (2005), “Bosnia und Herzegowina: Die Interrnationalen Dimensionen eines Krieges” Paper presented at the 55th International Study Congress on the Subject: Ethnic Cleansing in Europe and Repatriation after Flight and Expulsion, September 22-25, 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Barbara Franz (2005), “Refugees and Illegal Work in Europe: The Effects of Bargain Basement Labor Market Policies” Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1-4, 2005, Washington, DC.
  • Barbara Franz (2005), “Agency vis-à-vis Structure: Comments and Questions” Discussant for the panel Gender Aspects of Forced Migration in the Context of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union at the International Council for Central and East European Studies’ 7th World Congress on the Subject Europe – Our Common Home? July 25-30, Berlin, Germany.
  • Barbara Franz (2004), “Immigration and National Security in the USA” Paper presented at the 54th International Study Congress on the Subject: Safe Borders and Safe Standards for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Migrants, October 7-10, Luzern, Switzerland.
  • Barbara Franz (2004), “National Security and Immigration: An International Comparison” Paper presented at the New York State Political Science Association, 58th Conference April 23-24, 2004 Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
  • Barbara Franz (2004), “Gender Relations in Bosnian Refugee Communities” Paper presented at the Workshop on Immigration Incorporation, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, March 24.
  • Barbara Franz (2003), “EU Osterweiterung und Fluechtlingspolitik: Die Amerikanische Sicht” (EU Enlargement and Refugee Policy: The American View) Paper presented at the 53rd International Study Congress on the Subject: The Enlargement of the European Union: Implications for Migration and Asylum, Vienna, Austria.
  • Barbara Franz (2001), “Bosnian Refugees and Political Realities: Changes in Asylum Law in Austria, the European Union and the United States” Paper presented at the 55th Annual New York State Political Science Association Conference State University of New York College at New Paltz
  • Barbara Franz (2001), “Humanitarian Neglect and Fear of ‘Overforeignization’: A Historical Comparison of U.S. and Austrian Nationalisms Focused on Immigration and Refugee Issues” Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ANS), Columbia University, New York.
  • Barbara Franz (2000), “IR Theory, Feminism and Bosnian Women: A Matter of Incoherence, at the 54th Annual New York State Political Science Association Conference at Hofstra University, Long Island.
  • Barbara Franz (1999), “Bosnian Refugee Integration: the Comparison of Two Public Policy Approaches in Austria and the United States,” at the 53rd Annual New York State Political Science Association Conference at St. John's University, in Queens, New York.
  • Barbara Franz (1999), “Ethnic Identity in Flux: Bosnian Refugee Resettlement in Austria and the United States,” at the Fourth Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ANS) at Columbia University, New York City.


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO) 
  • American Association of University Women
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • American Political Science Association
  • Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem
  • European Politics and Society
  • Greenpeace Austria
  • New Political Science Association
  • Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars
  • Amnesty International