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Donn M. Kurtz II
Donn M. Kurtz II, Ph. D. did his graduate work at Tulane University and taught comparative and international and politics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1969 until his retirement in 2007. He was Head of the Department of Political Science from 1974-81 and again from 1999-2006. He served as President of the Louisiana Political Science Association twice (1972-73 and 1986-87).
He is a recent contributor to Foreign Policy Journal and Intelligence Daily.
His academic research, primarily on political elites, has appeared in Politics and Policy, Journal of Modern African Studies, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Social Science Journal, Comparative Education Review, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology and Sociological Perspectives. He is the editor of and a contributor to The American Political Family (1993) and authored Kinship and Politics: The Justices of the United States and Louisiana Supreme Courts (1997). He lives in Grand Coteau, Louisiana.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 3, 2010 BP Is Not The Only One To Blame
Many others in addition to BP bear direct or indirect responsibility for the environmental disaster we now face. The others include those of us in Louisiana, voters across the country, and the governments of the oil producing Gulf Coast states, and the federal government.