Course Listing

Many Baker Institute fellows and scholars, including founding director Edward P. Djerejian, teach classes or seminars at Rice University.

Spring 2013

Baker Institute Fellows

Edward P. Djerejian
Founding Director

• POST 455 – United States Middle East Policy (with Kirstin Smith)

John W. Diamond, Ph.D.
Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance

• ECON 201 – Microeconomics I

Russell A. Green, Ph.D.
Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics

• ECON 404 – Senior Independent Research

Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.
Fellow in Disease and Poverty

• BIOE 510/GLHT 510 – Seminar in Tropical Medicine

Mark P. Jones, Ph.D.
Fellow in Political Science

• POLI 568 – Comparative Political Institutions
• POLI 597 – Directed Reading – Comparative Politics

Aynne E. Kokas, Ph.D.
Fellow in Chinese Media

• ASIA 438/FILM 438 – Global Environmental Media
• ASIA 439/FILM 439 – Transnational Asian Media

Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D.
C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow

• ASIA 488 – Asia and Energy
• ANTH 212/ASIA 212 – Perspectives on Modern Asia (with Linda H. Peche)

Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Ph.D.
Fellow in Science and Technology Policy

• BIOC 547 – Experimental Biology and the Future of Medicine (with Daniel Wagner)
• NSCI 511 – Science Policy and Ethics (with Dagmar K. Beck)
• UNIV 312 – Public Diplomacy and Global Policymaking (with Christene M. Kimmel)

Allen J. Matusow, Ph.D.
Academic Affairs Director William Gaines Twyman Professor of History

• HIST 386 – Carter, Reagan and the End of the Cold War
• HIST 464 – Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy
• POST 201 - Baker Institute Introduction to Public Policy
  

Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D.
James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics

• ECON 447/547 – Energy Economics II

Robert M. Stein, Ph.D.
Fellow in Urban Politics

• POLI 530 – Approaches to American Government
• POLI 593 – Directed Reading – American Politics

Baker Institute Rice Scholars

Dagobert Brito, Ph.D.
Peterkin Professor of Political Economy

• ECON 301 – Microeconomics II
• ECON 484 – Public Goods

David Cook, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies

• RELI 402/524 – Independent Study
• RELI 440/522 – Islam’s Mystical Tradition
• RELI 443/565 – Maimonides “Guide for the Perplexed”
• RELI 530 – Pedagogy Practicum

Robert F. Curl, Ph.D.
Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus University
Professor Emeritus and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus

• COLL 208 – Introduction to Contract Bridge

André W. Droxler, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Environment and Society
Professor of Earth Science

• ESCI 103 – Field Trips for the Earth
• ESCI 506 – Carbonate Depositional Systems

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Director, Program on Religion and Public Life, Institute for Urban Research

• SOCI 328 – Religion and Public Life
• SOCI 328 – Gender and Science
• SOCI 401 – Religion Seminar
• SOCI 492 – Directed Honors Research
• SOCI 501 – Graduate Religion Seminar

Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management

• ECON 355 – Financial Markets
• ECON 452 – Religion, Ethics and Economics
• ECON 510/STAT 610 – Econometrics I

Malcolm Gillis, Ph.D.
Ervin K. Zingler Chair in Economics
University Professor

• HONS 471 – Undergraduate Scholars Program (with Daniel S. Wagner)

Peter R. Hartley, Ph.D.
George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair and Professor of Economics

• ECON 523 – Dynamic Optimization

Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology

• SOCI 492 – Directed Honors Research
• SOCI 600 – Medical Sociology Independent Study

Richard Smith, Ph.D.
George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History
Director of Asian and Global Outreach for the Rice University Center for Education

• HIST 302 – Traditional Chinese Culture
• HIST 342 – Modern China

Ronald Soligo, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Economics

• ECON 201 – Microeconomics I

Richard J. Stoll, Ph.D.
Albert Thomas Professor of Political Science

• MANA 498 – Independent Study
• POLI 211 – Introduction to International Relations
• POLI 306 – Directed Reading II
• POLI 378 – Politics of American National Security
• POLI 405/406 – Senior Thesis
• POLI 596 – Directed Reading – International Relations
• POLI 599 – Teaching Political Science

Diana L. Strassmann, Ph.D.
Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice
Director, Program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities

• ASIA 329/SWGS 322 – Poverty, Gender and Development

Ted Temzelides, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics

• COLL 200 – Teaching Practicum – Martel
• ECON 303 – Macroeconomics

Ron Witte
Associate Professor of Architecture

• ARCH 612 – Advanced Seminar in Architecture