Education
PhD, Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
M.A., Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
B.A., Political Science, Duke University
Bio
Chief Academic Officer
Dr. Robbie Totten joined AJU in 2015 as Assistant Professor of Politics and Global Studies. Shortly thereafter he was appointed Chair of the Department of Politics and Global Studies and an Associate Professor. Dr. Totten also serves AJU as Accreditation Liaison Officer and as the Interim Director of Assessment. Most recently, he also has agreed to serve as Interim Chief Academic Officer and Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Dr. Totten earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree from Duke University, and a master鈥檚 degree and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He enjoys teaching classes related to American Political Development, International Relations, film and politics, globalization, immigration, terrorism, Security Studies, and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Totten also likes to teach the Global Studies in the College鈥檚 core curriculum, and the opportunity to offer a class on United States immigration law and policy. He feels privileged to coach AJU's long-standing and successful undergraduate Model United Nations team at a national competition in San Francisco every spring and a conference in Seattle in the fall. In recent years, students have ably represented countries such as Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, and Sweden at tournaments.
Professor Totten鈥檚 research has appeared in academic journals and public policy edited volumes, and it has centered on transnational issues, international relations and security, U.S. immigration policy, and the American Founding. In addition to the 鈥減ublications鈥 tab above, you can see his research at .
Publications
Articles
oreign Policy Interpretive Lenses and State Migration Law: Realism, Isolationism and Liberalism Thought, and U.S. Immigration Policy.鈥 UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy 24 (2018): 135-177.
Diplomacy & Statecraft 28 (2017): 344-370.
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 29 (Winter 2015): 205-256.
Defense & Security Analysis 31 (Summer 2015): 1-14.
Diplomatic History 36 (January 2012): 77-117.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (Summer 2008): 37-64.
Summarized in JSTOR Daily: Where News Meets Its Scholarly Match, Livia Gershon, March 7, 2017.
Book Chapters
鈥淭he Articles of Confederation State-System, Early American International Systems, and Antebellum Foreign Policy Analytical Frameworks.鈥 In A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to Present, ed. Christopher Dietrich (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming, expected 2019).
In Undecided Nation: Political Gridlock and the Immigration Crisis, eds. Erika de la Garza and Tony Payan (Springer International Publishing, 2014).
Dictionary/Encyclopedia Entries
鈥1924 National Origins Act.鈥 In Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present, eds., Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming, 2019-2020?).
in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present, ed., Edward Blum (Scribner鈥檚, 2016).
Book Reviews
Vol. 48, November 2014, of Robert W.T. Martin, Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic (NYU Press, 2013).
Working Papers
2019 or 2020? 鈥淛ohn Witherspoon and the Foundation of American Foreign Policy,鈥 In Progress.
2013. Working Paper in Immigration Reform: A System for the 21st Century, edited by Tony Payan and Erika de la Garza, Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy, Latin America Initiative.
2012. UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Working Paper Series, #187