SHARYL CROSS

Professor of Political Science

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1990

On leave untill Fall 2008

Dr. Sharyl Cross is a professor within the Department of Political Science at San Jose State University in California. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (1990). Dr. Cross was a Graduate Fellowship Scholar at the RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies (1984-1987) and Post-Doctoral US State Department Title VIII Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1991-1992). During 1994-1996, she was Visiting Professor of International Security and Transregional Studies at the United States Air University/Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery Alabama. Dr. Cross has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books on topics pertaining to US-Russian security relations, Russian foreign policy and other international relations issues. She has received grant awards from IREX, US State Department (Title VIII), NATO-EAPC, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and California State University to support research concerning Russian international behavior and regional security issues (Balkans and Latin America). Her books include Global Security Beyond the Millennium: American and Russian Perspectives co-edited with Igor A. Zevelev, Victor A. Kremenyuk
and Vagan M. Gevorgian, Macmillan Press, 1999 and The New Chapter in United States-Relations: Opportunities and Challenges, co-edited with Marina A. Oborotova, Praeger, 1994. Her articles have appeared in Communist and Post Communist Studies, Mediterranean Quarterly, Survey, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Presidential Studies Quarterly and SShA. Her recent study entitled “Russia and NATO Toward the 21st Century: Conflicts and Peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo” is published at NATO’s Academic Forum and the Journal of Slavic Military Studies (July 2002). Dr. Cross received the “Outstanding Professor” award in the Political Science Department at San Jose State University in 1998 and her courses in international education have been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and other publications. As a Senior Fulbright Scholar recipient in 1999, Dr. Cross was Research Scholar/Professor at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO).