Colette Mazzucelli
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Colette Mazzucelli, MALD, PhD, teaches on graduate faculty at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Hofstra University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Professor Mazzucelli teaches courses in comparative politics, international relations, and ethnic conflicts. She also participates as a member of the UN Chronicle Advisory Group at the United Nations.
Her more recent teaching includes developing undergraduate curricula in history and politics of India as well as history and politics of Southeast Asia. She is presently co-authoring a volume analyzing the moral hazards of humanitarian intervention with Dr. A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Dean of the Humanities Division at Molloy College.
Previously, she was on full-time faculty at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in international relations theory and diplomacy, European Union development and dynamics, peacemaking and peacekeeping in the modern world, ethnopolitical landscape, international conflict and security, and investigating international relations. Professor Mazzucelli was cited as one of twelve recipients of the Monsignor Robert Sheeran Pirate of the Year Award 2006 for servant leadership and undergraduate teaching excellence in the Seton Hall University community.
In the mid-1990s Professor Mazzucelli was an Instructor in continuing education at Georgetown University and a Visiting Lecturer at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and the Budapest Institute for Graduate International and Diplomatic Studies. She was Founding Director of the International Peace and Confict Resolution M.A. Program at Arcadia University. Professor Mazzucelli acquired professional experience in program development at Teachers College Columbia University and in education at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
She is the recipient of various international fellowships including, Fulbright, 2007 (CIES and German Fulbright Commission, Brussels, Belgium and Berlin, Germany), 21st Century Trust, 2001 (Merton College, Oxford, England), Bosch Public Policy, 2001 (American Academy in Berlin, Germany), Salzburg Seminar, 1997 (Salzburg, Austria), Bosch Future American Leaders, 1992 (Federal Foreign Office and Economics Ministry, Bonn, Germany), European Commission, 1992 (Brussels, Belgium), Jean Monnet, 1991 (European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy), Fulbright, 1991 (IIE, Paris, France), Rotary Graduate Ambassadorial, 1987 (Strasbourg, France), Pi Gamma Mu, 1985 (Florence, Italy), and Swiss Universities Grant, 1984 (IIE, Fribourg, Switzerland).
In Europe, Professor Mazzucelli toured for the United States Information Service with speaking engagements in France, Germany and Poland. A participant in the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program for Future American Leaders, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union (‘Maastricht’) in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1992-93.
Professor Mazzucelli graduated with a B.A. in History and Philosophy and a minor in Modern Languages, magna cum laude, from the University of Scranton in 1983. Her graduate work includes a professional degree, the M.A.L.D., Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, earned from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Government under the supervision of Professor Emeritus Karl H. Cerny at Georgetown University, completed in 1996. As a doctoral student, she worked at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars during 1989-1990 for Xichang Zhang in the West European Studies Program, Giulietto Chiesa at the Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states), and Reinhardt Rummel in the International Security Studies Program.
