Dr. Meena Bose
Chair
Meena Bose, PhD., is the Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies at Hofstra University.
She is the author of Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy (1998), co-editor (with Rosanna Perotti) of From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush (2002), and co-editor (with Mark Landis) of The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings (2003).
Her current research focuses on the changing role of the United Nations in American foreign policy. Dr. Bose teaches courses on the American Presidency, American Foreign Policy, and American Politics.
She taught for six years at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she also served as Director of American Politics in spring 2006. Dr. Bose was an assistant professor of political science at Hofstra from 1996-2000 and acting director of the Hofstra Honors Program from 1999-2000. She hosted a symposium at Hofstra in 2000 on "The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings."
Dr. Bose represented the American Political Science Association on the Department of State's Historical Advisory Committee from 2001-2004. She earned her undergraduate degree in international politics from Penn State University (1990), and she received her master's (1992) and doctoral (1996) degrees in politics from Princeton University.
Dr. Bose discusses political science and presidential studies (Video)