OU professor shares distinctive expertise in political science

Heading up the Department of Political Science at Oakland University is a highly accomplished educator with the distinct honors of being named a Fullbright Scholar and leading the university’s award-winning Model United Nations team.

Since arriving in fall 2000, Dr. Paul Kubicek has taught Comparative Politics, Russian Politics, European Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Politics through Literature and several courses in the Honors College.

For the past two years, Dr. Kubicek has coached the Model United Nations team in conferences in Cleveland and Toronto. Competing against Model UN teams from around the world, several team members have been honored as top delegates, representing the interests of diverse nations including Israel, Turkey and Russia.

Before coming to Oakland, Dr. Kubicek was a faculty member at Koc University in Istanbul, where he taught International Relations and Comparative Politics. His research interests include Turkish politics, Central Asian politics and the European Union. He is currently working on a paper on Israeli identity as portrayed in film and television.

In 2007, Dr. Kubicek received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and spent six months in Slovenia teaching International Relations and conducted research on the European Union. During his career, he has conducted research in many countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Slovenia and Croatia.

Dr. Kubicek holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.