PROFILE OF DAVID WESSELS


Professional Positions
(Selections)

Teaching at Sophia University(上智大学):

Professor (教授), Faculty of Global Studies (総合グローバル学部)and Graduate School of Global Studies, Program in International Relations (グローバル・スタディーズ研究科国際関係論専攻) from April 2014.

Professor (教授), Faculty of Foreign Studies(外国語学部)and Graduate School of Global Studies, Program in International Relations (グローバル・スタディーズ研究科国際関係論専攻)
until March 2014.


I have also taught at: Yale College (Instructor, 1978); United Nations University International Courses, Tokyo (1999, 2000); Daito Bunka University (2007-2008).

Other Appointments:

*Selection Panel, Japan-U.S. Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan), 2007, 2011, 2013.
*Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University Graduate School, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (2003-2004)
*Visiting Fellow, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A. (1995)
*Foundation for the Advancement of Private Universities-sponsored Research Team Member on
“Japan in International Society and International Relations in
Japan” (1995-1996)
*Sabbatical Scholar, Campion Hall, The University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. (1994)
*Japanese Ministry of Education-sponsored Research Team Member on “Domestic Change and the International System” (1989-1992)
*Visiting Scholar, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China (1988)
*Visiting Scholar, Weixin, Hong Kong (1988)
*Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University,New York, New York, U.S.A. (1987)
*Visiting Researcher, Graduate School and Asian Studies Program, School of Foreign  Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (1987)
*Foundation for the Advancement of Private Universities-sponsored Research Team Member on
“The Conditions of International Relations and Area Studies in
Japanese Universities” (1982-1984)
*Consultant, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan (1982, 1983)
*United Nations University-sponsored Research Team Member on "Endogenous Intellectual Creativity and the Emerging New International Order, with Special Reference to East Asia," (1979-1982)

University Degrees
(Selected)

*Ph.D. in Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,U.S.A. (1981)
*Master’s in Theology  (神学修士), Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (1977)
*M.A. in Government, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (1970)
*Classical A.B. in Philosophy, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri,U.S.A. (1968)



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