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VITADr. William J. Ball e-mail: ball@tcnj.edu Current Position Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The College of New Jersey. Education Ph.D., Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1992. M.A., International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, 1984. B.A., Political Science, Drake University, 1983. Publications Ball, William J. 2006. "Using Deliberative Democracy to Facilitate a Local Culture of Collaboration: The Penn's Landing Project." in Schuman, Sandy (ed.) Creating a Culture of Collaboration. San Francisco, Ca.: Jossey-Bass. Ball, William J. “From Community Engagement to Political Engagement,” PS: Political Science and Politics, April, 2005. Ball William J. "Listening to the City and the Goals of Deliberative Democracy,” Group Facilitation. Fall, 2004. Ball, William J. "Political Science: Academic Virtual Conferencing - The Case of the Teaching Politics Virtual Conference." Social Science Computer Review. Summer, 2000. Ball, William J. "Political Science: The State of the Art (and Slightly Beyond) in Online Publishing." Social Science Computer Review. Spring, 1997: 13-26. Ball, William J. Using the Internet to Enhance Classroom and Citizenship Information. In Grant Reeher and Joe Cammarano, eds. Education for Citizenship. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997:199-213. Ball, William J. 1995. "Using the Internet in the Political Science Classroom." In William J. Ball ed. "Integrating the Internet into Teaching Political Science: Why Wait Any Longer?" PS Political Science & Politics. 18:718-744. Ball, William J. 1995. "A Pragmatic Framework for the Evaluation of Policy Arguments." Policy Studies Review. 14:3-24. Ball, William J. 1994. "Using Virgil to Analyze Public Policy Arguments: A System Based on Toulmin's Informal Logic." Social Science Computer Review. 12: 26-37. Ball, William J. and David Leuthold. 1991. "Estimating the Likelihood of an Unpopular Verdict in the Electoral College." Public Choice. 70: 215-224. Recent Presentations "The Politics of Community Engaged Learning." American Political Science Association annual meeting. Chicago, IL, August 29, 2004. "Using Public Policy-Oriented Community-Based Research to Boost Both Community and Political Engagement" American Political Science Association annual meeting. Philadelphia, PA, Sept 2, 2003. "The Real World Analysis of Political Arguments." American Political Science Association annual meeting. Washington, D. C., Sept 1, 1999. "Teaching with Technology in Political Science. " Southern Political Science Association annual meeting. Norfolk, Va. November 8, 1997. "Advances in Electronic Publishing in Political Science/ An Initial Report on PROceedings." American Political Science Association annual meeting. Washington. D.C. August 29, 1997 "Surfin' Politics USA: Using the Internet in Classroom-based Citizenship Education." American Political Science Association annual meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 30, 1996 "An On-Line Electronic Publishing System for Political Science." ." American Political Science Association annual meeting. Chicago, Il. August 31, 1995 Other Accomplishments Project director and principal investigator of PROceedings: Political Research Online (http://PRO.harvard.edu). PROceedings, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, is a project to publish the papers of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) annual meeting online, jointly sponsored by Harvard University Library and the APSA. Publisher of Teaching Politics: Techniques & Technologies (http://teachpol.tcnj.edu). Teaching politics disseminates scholarship on teaching and teaching resources such as the Images of American Political History collection (supported by a grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center). Director of the Leadership in Public Affairs Program at The College of New Jersey (supported by a grant from the State of New Jersey). Co-editor of H-teachpol, an online discussion list devoted to teaching politics 1996-1999. Founder and administrator of Political Science Manuscripts (http://www.tcnj.edu/~psm), an online archive of political science research, 1995-1998. Founder and administrator of the American Political Science Association Gopher Server an online resource for materials from the Association and from other sources, 1993-1996. Founder and moderator of the Political Science Research and Teaching List (psrt-l@h-net.msu.edu), a comprehensive online discussion forum for political scientists, 1990-1994. Professional Memberships/Positions Member of the American Political Science Association. President (1997) of the Computers and Multimedia Section of the American Political Science Association. Member (1997) of the Publications Committee of the American Political Science Association. |