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Jonathan C. Benjamin-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado

  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
  • Professor
  • 402.554.4859
  • ASH 275
  • Email: jalvarado@unomaha.edu

Fall 2015 Office Hours
By Appointment Only.
Background

Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2000 from a previous teaching and research position at the University of Georgia, where he also received his Ph.D. Besides his teaching duties, Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado is the Director of the Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence Program at UNO. 

Awards

College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Service Award, 2013

College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, 2003

Courses Taught

LLS 1000  Introduction to Latino/Latin American Studies
PSCI 2210 Introduction to International Relations
PSCI 2500 Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSCI 31408145  Latino Politics
PSCI 32608265  U.S. Foreign Policy
PSCI 4250/8256  Intelligence and National Security
PSCI 4280/8286   Inter-American Politics
PSCI 8200 Seminar in Foreign and Security Affairs
PSCI 8250 Seminar in International Relations

Research

Dr. Benjamin-Alvarado’s research has been published in the Journal of Political Science Education, the Nonproliferation Review, Political Science Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review.  He is the author of Power to the People:  Energy and the Cuban Nuclear Program published by Routledge Press and the editor of Cuba’s Energy Future:  Strategic Approaches to Cooperation published by the Brookings Institution Press.