Dr. Jessica R. Adolino

Associate Professor of Political Science

adolinjr@jmu.edu

Biography

Professor Adolino received a B.A. in Politics from Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ohio State University in 1993. She has been teaching at JMU since Fall 1994. In General Education, she teaches a course on global politics. She also teaches an upper level Political Science course on Western European politics and the senior seminar in International Affairs. Her research interests primarily lie in the area of British politics, particularly concerning the participation of ethnic minorities in British political life. She has recently published a book in this area, titled Ethnic Minorities, Electoral Politics and Political Integration in Britain (Pinter 1998). At present, she is completing a textbook for Congressional Quarterly, co-authored with Professor Blake, comparing public policies of the advanced industrialized nations. She is also working on a book on the changing European political environment with Rowman and Littlefield publishers.

Dr. Adolino is the Director of the new Master's Degree in European Union Policy Studies set in Florence, Italy.  For more information on this program, click here.