Professor
Dept. of Political Science
dking@niu.edu
| Dwight Y. King Professor Dept. of Political Science dking@niu.edu |
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Dwight Y. King is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University. He holds degrees from Goshen College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago. He regularly teaches courses in the field of comparative politics, specializing in emerging democracies, the political economy of development, and Southeast Asia. He has been professionally involved with Indonesia since 1972 and lived there about six years, cumulatively. He held visiting scholar appointments at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta in 1989 and 1991. He has taught and conducted research under Fulbright auspices at Gadjah Mada (1999-2000) and at the Prince of Songkla University (1992) in south Thailand. He served as Senior Advisor to the Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute on monitoring the 1999 Indonesian General Election and the 2004 Presidential Election. He was also a member of the Carter Center's international delegation which monitored the (Constituent Assembly) election in East Timor on August 30, 2001. He has held a number of consultantships with the World Bank, U.S.A.I.D. and Democracy International. He has authored two books and about two dozen journal articles and book chapters. His recent publications concern decentralization and electoral reform, including a research monograph Half-hearted Reform: Electoral Institutions and the Struggle for Democracy in Indonesia (Greenwood-Praeger, 2003). He has received awards from the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Program, the National Science Foundation, and the East-West Communication Institute .
Grants and Research Interests
As head of the Center currently, he is the Principal Investigator (PI) on the DOE Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies grant, 2006-2009. He also continues to monitor Indonesia's electoral reform and decentralization.
Courses Regularly Taught
Due to his administrtive duties, he teaches one course each semester, alternating between graduate seminars on Contemporary
Indonesian Politics (POLS 573R) and seminar in the Political Economy of Developing Areas (POLS 568). At the undergraduate level he occasionally teaches Politics of Developing Areas (POLS 362) and Politics in Southeast Asia (POLS 371)