John A. Gould is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado
College. He is a graduate of Williams College with a major in Political Science and a
minor in Studio Art. He did graduate work at the Fletcher School (Tufts University) and
Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. in February, 2001. He speaks French and
Slovak.
Gould taught high school history at the Chapin School in New York from 1984 to 1986 and
at the American School of Paris from 1989 to 1991. As a graduate student he taught
politics at Palacky University (Czech Republic), Comenius University (Slovakia), Tufts
University, and The Fletcher School. He has held a number of fellowships including a
Robert Schuman Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a
post-doctoral fellowship at the Korbel School of International Studies, Denver
University. John took a tenure track position at Colorado College in 2002 where he held a
John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Fellowship from 2003-5.
Colorado College students selected Gould as Lloyd E. Worner Professor of the Year in
2008. He also won the Ray O. Werner award for Exemplary Teaching in the Liberal Arts in
2009.
Gould maintains an active research program in the field of comparative and international
political economy with a particular focus on the relationship of postcommunist economic
policies with political institutions. He specializes in Slovak and Czech politics, but
his recent work includes case studies from Kosovo, Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan
and Chad. He has (co)published refereed journal articles in Comparative European
Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Business and Politics, Global Governance and Review of
International Political Economy. His book, The Politics of Privatization: Wealth and
Power in Postcommunist Europe was published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in April 2011.
In 2009, Gould and his co-authors won the Slovak Studies Association's Best Article
Award for "Slovakia's Neoliberal Turn."
Gould is an associate Editor with the Journal of International Relations and Development,
an internationally edited, peer-reviewed journal of international relations and
international political economy. Gould is pleased to serve on the board of academic
advisers at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He is Vice President of the
Board of Directors of the Colorado Springs World Affairs Council. He belongs to the
American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies, The Slovak Studies Association,
the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. He
lives in Manitou Springs, CO with his wife and two sons.
Postcommunist Political Economy
Natural Resource Managment
Slovak Politics
Social Movements
Post-conflict Reconstruction
