Faculty and Staff

Howard Cody, Professor of Political Science, holds a joint appointment with the Canadian-American Center. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Canada’s McMaster University in 1977. He teaches courses primarily on Canadian, Comparative, and European politics. His major research fields include parliamentary politics and core-periphery relations in regionally divided Westminster-model countries such as Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

He concentrates on Canada’s party and parliamentary politics, especially in minority governments and in the West and Atlantic Canada. He also has studied proposals for electoral reform in Canada. His interest in Canada has led to research and interviews with Members of Parliament in Britain, Australia and New Zealand to study their institutions, electoral systems, and political practices. He has interviewed Canadian Members of Parliament on many visits to Ottawa since 1987.

He has published on Canadian politics in the Canadian Parliamentary Review and Inroads in Canada, in the Representations of Canada: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Canadian Society series in Russia, and in the New England Journal of Political Science and Great Plains Quarterly, among other journals, in the United States. He also has published seven essays and two book review essays on Canada in the American Review of Canadian Studies, where he served as Associate Editor for three years. He has published on British politics in the British rournal Political Studies, on Australian politics in the Australian Quarterly and in the Australian Senate Papers on Parliament series, and on Maine politics in the New England Journal of Political Science.

He provided thirty-seven columns on United States-Canada border issues for the Portland, Maine-based monthly Northeast International Business Journal between 1997 and 2001. At present, he serves on the Executive Council of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), and as Secretary of the regional Canadian Studies association, the Middle Atlantic and New England Council for Canadian Studies (MANECCS). On the University of Maine campus, he serves as Director of the International Affairs program, and as Editor of the Canadian-American Public Policy quarterly series, which is published by the Canadian-American Center.

Howard Cody | 581-1869 | howard.cody@umit.maine.edu

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