Faculty Profiles
Christian Dean
Department Chair, Pre-Law Advisor
Associate Professor of Political Science
PhD, MA, University of California, Santa Barbara
BA, San Francisco State University
Dr. Dean started teaching at Dominican University of California (then Dominican College of San Rafael) as an adjunct instructor in the Fall of 1996, after having spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He joined the full-time faculty in the Fall of 1998, at which time he also assumed the role of Chair of the Department of Politics & International Studies. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004. He teaches courses in Political Philosophy, Public Law, and American Politics, and his research concerns the phenomenology of the development of moral character and ethical expertise.
Gigi Gokcek
Assistant Professor of Political Science
PhD, MA, University of California, Santa Barbara
MA, Monterey Institute of International Studies
BA, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Gokcek joined the department in fall 2006. Prior to arriving at Dominican University of California Dr. Gokcek worked as an assistant professor for the School of International Studies at University of the Pacific. Dr. Gokcek offers a variety of courses in international relations and comparative politics, including United States Foreign Policy, Politics of the Middle East, and Political Development. She is also the department adviser for Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society). Dr. Gokcek’s research concerns the internationalization of ethno-religious conflict. She studies the Basque, Kurdish, and Kashmiri separatist movements in particular. In her spare time Dr. Gokcek enjoys running, conversing in Turkish, Spanish, French, and traveling with her husband.
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Alison Howard
Instructor in Political Science
MA, University of Oklahoma
MA, Pepperdine University
BA, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Howard began teaching at Dominican in the Spring of 2004. Her teaching focuses on the field of American politics and teaches courses on the presidency, Congress, media and politics,and political parties and interest groups. Her research interests include the presidency, Congress, and field of political communication. She is the co-author of Addressing the State of the Union: The Evolution and Impact of the President's Big Speech (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006). She has also published articles in PS and Politics and American Behavioral Scientist.
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