Kenneth E. Basom

Department of Political Science

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA  50614-0404

phone: 319-273-5915

e-mail: Kenneth.Basom@UNI.edu

EDUCATION

Institution Dates Degree

University of Wisconsin-Madison	1981-89	Ph.D.-Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison	1979-80	MA-Political Science
Earlham College-Richmond Indiana	1973-77	BA-History with Honors

EXPERIENCE

Position Employer/Location Dates

Associate Professor, tenured	University of Northern Iowa	1996-
Assistant Professor	University of Northern Iowa	1991-1996
Visiting Asst. Professor	Middlebury College  Middlebury, VT	1990-91
Visiting Asst. Professor	Franklin & Marshall  Lancaster, PA	1989-90

PUBLICATIONS

“Politicization, Centralization, and Arrested Democratization in Croatia” in R. B. Jain, ed.,

Command Economy to Market Economy: Restructuring and Transformation, New Delhi:

            Deep and Deep Publications, 2000, pp. 246-267.

"Ljuba Davidovic" in Richard Frucht, ed. Encyclopedia of Modern East Europe1815-1989,

            Garland Publishing, 2000, pp. 217-218.

"Ljubljana Declaration of 1912" in above encyclopedia, pp. 459-460.

"Vidovdan Constitution" in above encyclopedia, pp. 828-829.

Review of Bosnia: A Short History, by Noel Malcolm (New York: New York University Press,

            1994) in European Studies Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 1996, pp. 63-65.

"Prospects for Democracy in Serbia and Croatia," East European Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 4

            (January 1996), pp. 509-528.

Review of Independent Slovenia: Origins, Movements, Prospects, edited by Jill Benderly and

            Evan Kraft (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994) in Slavic Review, vol. 54, no. 4

            (Winter 1995), pp. 1116-1117. 

"The Power of Intellectuals in an Era of Privatization," Australian Slavonic and East

European Studies, Volume 9, No. 1 (June 1995), pp. 135-157.

"Russia: Managing the Environment Amid Political Decay and Upheaval," in

International Journal of Comparative Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 1,          no. 1

            (January-June 1995), pp. 44-63.

            Reprinted as Chapter Three in O.P. Dwivedi and J.G. Jabbra, eds., Managing the

Environment: An East European Perspective, (Willowdale (Toronto): de Sitter

            Publications), 1995. 

“Communism, Nationalism, and Democratization: The Case of Slovenia,” The European Studies

Journal, Vol. 9, no. 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 1-25.

COURSES TAUGHT

Independent Study	Nationalism
Comparative Politics	American Culture and Politics
Russian and East European Politics
Graduate Seminar in Comparative Politics
Russia/Soviet Union