Jaro Bilocerkowycz is an Associate Professor of Political Science who joined the UD faculty in 1985.  He earned his M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Washington--Seattle.  His teaching focuses on comparative politics and international relations—Russia and the New States; West Europe; US National Security; Nationalism and Ethnopolitics; and Global Politics.  Dr. Bilocerkowycz is involved with the Cross Cultural and Social Justice clusters and the Core program.  For several years he was the coordinator of the Cross Cultural Cluster.  He organized and was on-site co-director for several UD study abroad programs: USSR/Poland (1989); Yaroslavl, Russia (1994); Russia/Poland (1997) and also taught in ISSAP’s London program (2002).  Jaro published a book Soviet Ukrainian Dissent: A Study of Political Alienation (Westview Press, 1988) and has authored numerous articles, conference papers, book reviews, and op-ed pieces. His most recent publications are “The Problem of Human Sexual Trafficking in Post-Communist Europe,” a book chapter (in Children’s Human Rights: Progress and Challenges  (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2005);“Russian-Polish  Relations: A New Era,” (DISAM, Fall 2003); four book reviews for Nationalism: A Multidisciplinary Annotated Bibliography, volume 2 (Academic International Press, forthcoming); and an op-ed article “Power to the People of Ukraine,” for the Dayton Daily News, Dec. 6, 2004.