Roy Licklider

Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

licklide@rci.rutgers.edu

http://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/licklider/

Professor Roy Licklider is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and an Affiliate at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.  His current research focuses on how people who have been killing one another in civil wars with considerable skill and enthusiasm can form working political communities.

Licklider taught at Tougaloo College before coming to Rutgers in l968 and has held teaching positions at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Yale University.  He has taught courses in international relations, foreign and military policy, terrorism, research design, international political economy, and the comparative politics of higher education.  Licklider has been a member of the Inter-University Consortium for Foreign Policy Research and the University Seminar on Reconciliation at Columbia University, President of the Comparative Foreign Policy Section of the International Studies Association, Program Officer at the Exxon Education Foundation, and consultant for the Political Instability Task Force at Science Applications International Corporation.  For twenty years, he was a member of Charles Tilly’s faculty/student workshop, first at the New School for Social Research and then at Columbia University.
 
Licklider received a B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from Yale University.