Desserud 2PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:2010-presentDirector, <strong>Urban</strong> <strong>and</strong> Community Studies InstituteUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John2007-2010 Associate Dean of Graduate StudiesUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John2000-presentFull Professor, Politi<strong>ca</strong>l ScienceDepartment of History <strong>and</strong> PoliticsUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John2007 (Winter term) Visiting Professor (sabbati<strong>ca</strong>l appointment)A<strong>ca</strong>dia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia2003-2006 Chair, Department of History <strong>and</strong> PoliticsUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John2002 (Michaelmas term) Senior A<strong>ca</strong>demic Member (sabbati<strong>ca</strong>l appointment)Linacre College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK1992-2000 Associate Professor, Politi<strong>ca</strong>l ScienceDepartment of History <strong>and</strong> PoliticsUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John1998-1999 Special Advisor to the PresidentUniversity of New Brunswick(“Revisioning the University”)1996 (January-July) Visiting Researcher (sabbati<strong>ca</strong>l appointment)Institut d’études politiquesUniversité de Bordeaux IV, France1995 (Fall term) Visiting Scholar (sabbati<strong>ca</strong>l appointment)Department of Politi<strong>ca</strong>l ScienceUniversity of Western OntarioLondon, Ontario1992-1994 Chair, Department of History <strong>and</strong> PoliticsUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John1989-1992 Assistant Professor, Politi<strong>ca</strong>l ScienceSocial Science DivisionUniversity of New Brunswick, Saint John
Desserud 3RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITY:1) Recent Grants:The Separation of Powers <strong>and</strong> Responsible Government in the CanadianParliamentary System, Canadian Study of Parliament Group, James R. MalloryResearch Grant 2005-2006, value $10,000.00 (completed).Principal Investigator, Civic Engagement <strong>and</strong> Social Capital in New Brunswick, threeyear SSHRCC Research Grant (2003-2006), with Dr. Joanna Everitt (co-investigator)<strong>and</strong> Dr. Paul Howe (collaborator), value: $98,000.00 (completed).2) Published A<strong>ca</strong>demic Papers (* = refereed):Desserud 2009a. *“The Decision to Prorogue,” Canadian Politi<strong>ca</strong>l Science Review, 3:40-54.Desserud 2008. “The 2006 Provincial Election in New Brunswick,” Canadian Politi<strong>ca</strong>lScience Review, 2:1, 1-13.Howe 2006. Paul Howe, Joanna Everitt <strong>and</strong> Don Desserud, *“Social <strong>and</strong> Civic Attitudes<strong>and</strong> Beliefs in New Brunswick (Canada)’s Linguistic Communities,” in Chedly Belkhodja,ed., Canadian Ethnic Studies, 38:3, pp. 37-57.Desserud 2006. *The Confidence Convention under the Canadian ParliamentarySystem, Parliamentary Perspectives, Oc<strong>ca</strong>sional Paper Series No. 7, October.Desserud 2005. “Would Fixed-Date Elections be an Improvement or Create NewProblems?” Electoral Insight, Volume 7, No. 1, January, pp. 48-53.Desserud 1999a. *“Commerce <strong>and</strong> Politi<strong>ca</strong>l Participation in Montesquieu’s Letter toDomville,” History of European Ideas, Vol. 25, Issue 3, May, pp. 135-151.Desserud 1999b. *“An Outpost’s Response: The Language <strong>and</strong> Politics of Moderation inEighteenth-Century Nova Scotia,” Ameri<strong>ca</strong>n Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29, Issue3, Autumn, pp. 379-406.Desserud 1996a. *“The Exercise of Community Rights in the Liberal-Federal State:Language Rights <strong>and</strong> New Brunswick’s Bill 88,” International Journal of CanadianStudies, special issue on Citizenship <strong>and</strong> Rights, Vol. 14, Fall, pp. 215-236.Desserud 1991a. *“Virtue, Commerce <strong>and</strong> the ‘Tale of the Troglodytes’: Montesquieu’sPersian Letters,” History of Politi<strong>ca</strong>l Thought, Vol. 12, Issue 4, Winter, pp. 605-626.3) Forthcoming <strong>and</strong> In Progress: