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Dr. James W. Clarke

Title: Professor Emeritus
Office: Social Science 315
Phone: 520-621-7600
Email: jclarke@email.arizona.edu
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James W. Clarke (Ph.D., Penn State, 1968), Professor of Political Science and University Distinquished Professor, has taught courses in the areas of race and public policy, and violent crime and political order. Professor Clarke's teaching has been recognized with a number of awards, among them the Burlington Northern Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, and he has twice been selected as Outstanding Teacher in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Additionally, he is the author of five books on criminal violence: American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics (1982; 1990); Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison (1988; 1999); On Being Mad or Merely Angry: John W. Hinckley, Jr. and Other Dangerous People (1990); The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture (1998; 2001); and Defining Danger: American Assassins and the New Domestic Terrorists (2006). In 1999, Professor Clarke taught in Ireland as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar.