Lowell Gustafson

Education:

• 1977- B.A., History & Philosophy, North Park College
• 1981- M.A., Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
• 1984- Ph.D, Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

Publications:

Books:

• The Sovereignty Dispute over the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988
• Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession, Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
• Ancient Maya Gender Identity and Relations, co-edited with Amelia Trevelyan, Westport: Bergin and Garvey, 2002
• Gustafson, L. S., Rodrigue, B. H., & Blanks, D. R. (2022). Science, religion and deep time. Routledge.

Selected Articles:

• "Big History," in Expositions, 2014,
• "Nature and the Imagination," in The Imaginative Conservative 2015
• Gustafson, L (2017). “Nature’s Artistic Narrative.” Journal of Literature and Art Studies, October 2017, Vol. 7, No. 10, doi: 10.17265/2159-5836/2017.10.000
• "A Legacy of Transformation: The International Big History Association" (2017). The International Journal for Transformation of Consciousness, Vol. 3 No. 1
• "The Real Thucydides Trap," Humanitas Vol XXXI, Nos 1 & 2, 2018, (ISSN: 1066-7210), pp. 5 - 34.
• SETI and Big History: Challenge and Extension Journal of Big History, (2020) IV (2); 4 - 17.

Book Chapters:

• “From Particles to Politics.” Teaching and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly Field (pp. 72 - 99). Volgograd, Russia: Uchitel Publishing House, 2014.
• "Colonial Vs National Self-Determination in the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands," in Nationalism and Intra-State Conflicts in the Postcolonial World (Conflict and Security in the Developing World), edited by Fonkem Achankeng and Moses Ochonu, Lexington Books, 2015
• "Big Politics," in From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology, Volume I, edited by Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin, and Andrey Korotayev , Primus Books, Delhi, India, 2015.
• "The Geopolitics of Global Citizenship," in Globalization and Global Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Approaches edited by Irene Langran and Tammy Birk, Routledge, 2016
• Gustafson, L. (2017). "Identity and Big Geopolitics" in Osamu Nakanishi, chief editor, Universal Studies and the Modern World: Becoming Global and Cosmic Humanity. Institute for Global and Cosmic Peace, Tokyo, Japan.
• Big History and Political Science: Science, the Deep Past, and the Political, in The Routledge Companion to Big History edited by Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, and David Baker, Routledge, NY, 2019.

Book Reviews:

• Review of Stephen Offutt. New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa in H-Net Reviews, October, 2015.

Teaching Areas:

• Latin American Politics
• Theories of International Relations
• American Foreign Policy

Presentations:

• Deep Time and a Coming of Age Story, 2020 International Conference, Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Peace Islands Institute of Pennsylvania, Service at Wayne

Services:

• Editor, Bulletin of the International Big History Association
• Organizer, with Michael Zimmerman, of Anthropology Lecture Series since 2005
• "Speaking Up: The Origins of Language," Falvey Library Lecture on YouTube
• Editor (2017 - 2020), Journal of Big History

Research:

• Politics and Science. What is politics? When did it begin? How did it develop? How do the sciences help us answer those questions? How does political science fit within the Liberal Arts? What difference do the answers to those questions make to us today?
• International Relations Theories
• American Foreign Policy
• Latin American Comparative Politics and International Relations

Course List:

• Sum23-PSC-1200-035 International Relations
• Professional Experience:
• 1986 to Present- Department of Political Science, Villanova University.
• 1984 to 1986- Lecturer, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

Area of Expertise:

• Latin American Politics
• International Relations Theories, Political Anthropology
• War and Peace, Political Economy, Science and Politics