March 1996
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, University of California, Santa
Barbara, 1992
(International Relations, Comparative Politics, American Politics, Political
Theory)
Dissertation:
"From Spears to Pruning Hooks: A Political Sociology of the 1980s West
German Peace Movement" (chairman: Prof. Peter H. Merkl)
Master of Arts in Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985 (International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory)
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983 (International Relations)
TEACHING
Fall 1993- Assistant Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teach graduate and undergraduate courses: science, technology and environment, environmental politics and policy, environment and development, world politics, One Mile of the Hudson, and international relations.
Spring 1991-Spring 1993 Visiting Assistant Professor Marquette University. Taught global environmental politics, international relations, national security policy, international security and arms control courses.
Fall 1984-Fall 1990 Lecturer, Teaching Assistant, Tutor University of California, Santa Barbara. Taught or TAed environmental studies, comparative politics, international relations, political theory, American politics, public policy, public law, law and society courses.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Why Movements Matter: The West German Peace Movement, the SPD, and the INF Negotiations (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996)
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, MONOGRAPHS AND JOURNALISM
"U.S. Must Reduce Addiction to Oil," Times Union, February, 4, 1996
"Teaching Political Ecology," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (1996)
"The Greening of Rensselaer County?" in the Record, the Echo, and The Advertiser (October 1995)
Edit weekly green commentary/news column in The Polytechnic (from Fall 1995)
Multiple contributions to EnviRenss (publication of the Environmental Education Center; from Fall 1994)
"Huge European Antinuclear Protest" in Robert McClenaghan, ed., Ecology and Environment (Glendale, CA: Salem Press, 1995)
"The Development of Citizens Clearinghouse on Toxic Waste," in Robert McClenaghan, ed., Ecology and Environment (Glendale, CA: Salem Press, 1995)
"The Platform of Deep Ecology," in Robert McClenaghan, ed., Ecology and Environment (Glendale, CA: Salem Press, 1995)
"Movements on the Rise in the West," Peace Review, vol. 6, no. 4 (December 1994 )
"Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and Ecology Movement Cooperation," Proceedings of the Indigenous Knowledge and Social Problems Symposium (1994)
"The Greens," in Buse and Doerr, eds., Encyclopedic History of Modern Germany (New York: Garland, 1994)
"Local Lore and Science: Toward a Sociology of Ecology Movement Knowledge," in Wolfgang Rudig, ed., Green Politics Three (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994)
"Knowledge as Power: Ecology Movements and Global Environmental Problems," in Conca and Lipschutz, eds., The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)
"Oil Spill Emphasizes Urgency of Rethinking Energy Policy," in Milwaukee Journal , January 16, 1993
"Exploring the Connections Between Environment and Security," in H. Richard Friman, ed., New and Enduring Issues in International Security (Milwaukee: UWM/MU CIS, 1992)
"West Germany Confronts Its Past: Fassbinder, the Historikerstreit and Auschwitz," Thresholds 4 (1990)
3-part series on the Savings & Loan crisis in Daily Nexus, September, 1990
"SDI, the Federal Republic of Germany, and NATO," Research Paper (1989)
"CIA on Campus," in The Progressive, February 1988
"The Greens: Party of the Movements," Thresholds 1 (1986)
SELECTED HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1988-90 University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (UC IGCC) Dissertation Fellowship
1989-90 UCSB General Affiliates Dissertation Fellowship
1989-90 UCSB Social Science Research Grant
1989 Chancellor's Group Achievement Award
1985-86 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and UC IGCC International Fellowship
1983-84 University of California Regents Fellowship
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Presented papers, and acted as discussant or rapporteur at conferences sponsored by the American Political Science Association, Peace Studies Association, Western Political Science Association, Eastern Sociological Association, New York State Political Science Association, German Studies Association, UC IGCC, Pacific Workshop on German Affairs, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of South Florida, UC Berkeley Energy & Resources Group and Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, UWM/MU Center for International Studies, and UWM World Affairs Forum between 1985 and 1996
LANGUAGES
German: Good
Spanish: Fair reading and comprehension
Dutch, Italian, French, Russian, Portuguese Reading sufficient for professional purposes
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1993- Advisor to EcoLogic; advisor to Concerned Citizens for the Environment (Troy); advisor to Citizens Utility Board (Albany); advisor to Capital District Green party; conference organizer; Advisory Council of the Jacques Ellul Institute; advisor to Political Discussion Group; advisor to Model UN
1992-93 Faculty mentor for McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
1991- Manuscript reviewer for SUNY Press, Longman, Houghton Mifflin, St. Lucie Press, and Peace & Change; speaker for OPTIONS Program; international affairs media contact person
1983-90 Organized various conferences; Graduate Students Association; host for public affairs radio program; faculty advisor to student groups; member of various departmental and campus-wide committees; political organizer
Email: breyms@rpi.edu