Dr. Meena Bose
Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies
Professor, Political Science

Career

Dr. Meena Bose is qualified to discuss:

• American Presidency
• Leadership and Politics
• Presidential Election Politics
• American Foreign Policy
• American Politics

Dr. Bose is Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies at Hofstra University and Director of Hofstra’s Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency. 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), co-editor (with Mark Landis) of The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings (2003), and co-editor (with John J. DiIulio, Jr.) of Classic Ideas and Current Issues in American Government. She also is a contributor to the tenth edition of the American Government: Institutions and Policies textbook by James Q. Wilson and John J. DiIulio, Jr. 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 2006. Dr. Bose previously taught at Hofstra University from 1996-2000. She 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.

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