Dr. Meena Bose

Chair

Meena Bose, PhD., is the Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies at Hofstra University.

Dr. Bose, a nationally recognized scholar on the American presidency, was a frequent expert commentator on the 2008 presidential election and the inauguration of President Obama for media including MSNBC, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, cnn.com, CBS Radio, Newsday and News12 Long Island. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Dr. Bose helped coordinate Hofstra's Educate '08, a year-long series of lectures, conferences, artistic performances and exhibitions, town hall meetings and interactive forums focused on the issues, history and politics of presidential elections. Educate '08 provided Hofstra students and faculty and the entire surrounding community with access to the newsmakers, scholars and policymakers who had unique insight and knowledge of the American political system. As part of Educate '08, Dr. Bose was scholar-in-residence for a Campaign 2008 course sponsored by The Washington Center at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. She also developed the curriculum and taught two courses, "The Wisdom of Our Fathers" and "Winning the White House in 2008," for Elderhostel. She is currently active in Define '09: New Challenges, New Solutions, Hofstra's series of programs designed to examine the new presidential administration, its policies and initiatives, the challenges we currently face and ways of addressing our country's most pressing issues.

Long Island Business News selected her as one of the "Top 40 Under 40" leaders on Long Island in 2009. She was the 13th Annual Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecturer, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University, in 2008. Dr. Bose is also a member of the American Political Science Association Task Force on America's Standing in World Affairs. Dr. Bose appeared on the PBS program "Newshour with Jim Lehrer" in 2006 to discuss comparisons between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq.   

She is the editor of the recently published The New York Times on the Presidency.  (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008), and co-editor with John J. DiIulio, Jr., of Classic Ideas and Current Issues in American Government (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007) an introductory American politics course reader to accompany James Q. Wilson and John J. DiIulio's American Government: Institutions and Policies (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). She is also co-editor with Mark Landis of Making the Grade: The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2003); and co-editor with Rosanna Perotti of The Foreign Policy World of George Bush (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).

Dr. Bose is the author of Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy, (Texas A&M University Press, 1998);

Prior to being named the Kalikow chair in 2007, Dr. Bose had since 2001 been at West Point in the Department of Social Sciences. She was previously an assistant professor of political science at Hofstra from 1996-2000 and acting director of the Hofstra Honors Program from 1999-2000. She received her B.A. in foreign service and international politics from Penn State University in 1990; her M.A. in politics from Princeton University in 1992; and her Ph.D. in politics from Princeton in 1996.
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."