Hi, I'm Dr. Jim Twombly, Professor of
American Politics here at Elmira College.
I teach courses in American politics in
government.
My colleague Dr. Kunihiko Imai teaches his courses in world politics, and
coordinates our International Studies
major. We're quite proud of the breadth
of our program, providing three
concentrations: American Politics, World
Politics, and Public Affairs, with just
two faculty members. We are able to offer
a full range of courses and even some
more offbeat kind of material in term
three. With our required research methods
course, and our Senior Seminar thesis, we
provide excellent training for graduate
study. Former students have recently
tweeted about how they're glad for the
work that we had them do, while their
grad school classmates were complaining,
they saw the work as par for the course.
Our small classes provide great
opportunities to work with faculty.
I have co-authored a number of papers with
students, and had students assist in the
producing of my textbook on the American
presidency, and helping with my book on
political scandals. Every couple of years
Dr. Imai takes students on a term three
trip to study in his native land of
Japan. He is also often provided students
an opportunity to supervise and
participate in Model UN. We've helped a
number of students get internships with
local judges, the district attorney, the
Board of Elections, and have had students
do internships in Albany and Washington.
Some even in their home state capitals
over the summer. We're not just proud of
our program we're proud of our alums who,
worked hard and went on to great success.
For example one graduate student, I'm sorry, one of our graduates, went on to
get his PhD at the University of Buffalo,
and is now a political science
department chair at a college in Georgia.
Another is working on her dissertation
at the University at Albany. Others have
done graduate or professional study at
places like: the University of Michigan,
UC Davis, the London School of Economics,
and Syracuse University. In fact the
Syracuse university student prepared my will.
We trust our alums. So come to EC
to study political science or, international
studies. Not only will you get great
training, but our students hang out, they
work together in clubs, in student
government, and have even been known to
cross party lines every now and then. If
you have any questions, you can email me
at: jtwombly@elmira.edu, 
that's: jtwombly@elmira.edu
or if your questions are about our
world politics concentration, or our
International Studies major
you can email Dr. Imai at: kimai@elmira.edu
Thats: kimai@elmira.edu.
Hope this has been informative, and looking forward to
seeing you soon.
