POSITIONS  

                            

2012-present  Provost, Florham Campus, and Senior VP for Government and Community Affairs, FDU.  The provost is responsible for all Florham Campus operations and all budgets comprising approximately $55 million for a total student population of approximately 3500.  Also includes oversight of budget and operations for Wroxton College in Oxfordshire, UK. The Sr. VP for Government and Community Affairs is responsible for the University’s external relations with public, elected officials and their staffs, and with federal and state agencies. It also includes oversight of university-wide, externally-focused organizations such as the University Press, The Literary Review, and the PublicMind Poll.

 

2002-2012    Executive Director, PublicMind: Co-founder, director, and primary architect of the university’s independent survey research center, engaging faculty from a variety of disciplines and all colleges, raising the university’s profile both regionally and nationally in print, radio, television and web-based and social media, conducting regional and national attitude measurements as a public service, and undertaking research for government, corporate and non-profit organizations. See: http://publicmind.fdu.edu

 

2001-2002   Fellow of the American Council of Education, hosted by Lafayette College, Easton, PA: engaging in trustee relations, strategic planning, enrollment management, institutional development, legal issues, and governmental relations: Special interest in enrollment competition as well as structural advantages and disadvantages of private, noon-profit institutions.

 

1997-2001  Chair, Dept. of Social Sciences and History: restructured, re-staffed and rejuvenated multi-disciplinary department of 14 F/T and up to 21 P/T political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians; Transformed faculty recruitment and review processes to emphasize teaching and research; Expanded enrollment in all disciplines as well as service courses; Increased contributions to overhead.  See: http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=49

 

Professor of Comparative Politics (full, tenured) specializing in the contemporary  US-Japan defense relationship; US public opinion.

 

1999-2007  Book Review Editor, The Journal of Conflict Studies, Canadian-based, refereed academic journal among the first to specialize in irregular warfare, (including terrorism, insurgency, and counter-insurgency) with an international readership of both academics and policy-makers.

 

1994-1995  Advanced Research Scholar, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, R.I.

 

 

ACADEMIC DEGREES                    

 

1989  Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

 

1983  M.A., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

 

1981  A.B., International Relations, Magna cum Laude, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pa.

                   

 

OTHER EDUCATION   

 

1993  N.E.H. Summer Institute: "Early Modern Maritime History." John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I.

 

1990  Fulbright/Hays Group Project in Japan: "The Economic and Cultural Transformation of Post-War Japan."

 

1989 Institut des Langues Spécialisées' seminar: "Geographic Perspectives for Europe"

          Montpellier, France.

 

1984 Centre d'étude et de recherche sur la vie locale, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Université de Bordeaux.

 

1980 Certificat de Langue Française, degré supérieur; Sorbonne, Paris.

      

BOOKS

            

Woolley, Peter J. Geography and Japan’s Strategic Choices: From Seclusion to Internationalization (Alexandria, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005.) 201 pp.

 

Woolley, Peter J., Japan's Navy: Politics and Paradox, 1971-2001 Foreword by James E. Auer. (Boulder, Col.: Lynne-Rienner Publishers, 2000), 161 pp.

       

EDITED BOOKS  

          

Woolley, Peter J. and Albert Papa, eds., American Politics: Core Argument and Current Controversy, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Publishers, 2002), 504 pp.; Ibid, 1st edition 1998, 416 pp.

              

ARTICLES     

  

Cassino, Dan, Peter Woolley, Krista Jenkins, “Predicting Bias in National House of Representative Generic Ballot Questions,” Survey Practice, VOL7, NO2 (2014): http://surveypractice.org/index.php/SurveyPractice/article/view/153/html

 

Bruce G. Peabody & Peter J. Woolley, The Public’s Constitutional Thinking and the Fate of Health Care Reform: PPACA as Case Study, Fordham Law Review, V. 81, No. 3., pp. 26-40

 

Peter J. Woolley & Bruce G. Peabody, Polls, the Public, and Popular Perspectives on Constitutional Issues, Fordham Law Review, V. 81, No. 3.

 

Woolley, Peter J. and Peabody, Bruce G., "Popular Constitutional Values: The Links Between Public Opinion and the Supreme Court's 2011 Term" (2013). Res Gestae. Paper 14: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/res_gestae/14.

 

Peabody, Bruce G. and Woolley, Peter J., "Res Publica: Public Opinion, Constitutional Law, and the Supreme Court’s 2010 Term" (2011). Res Gestae. Paper 4: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/res_gestae/4.

 

Woolley, Peter J. and Dan Cassino. 2010. “Polling a Third Party Challenger: Fact or Artifact?” Survey Practice, VOL3 NO4 (2008): http://www.surveypractice.org/index.php/SurveyPractice/issue/view/31

 

Dan Cassino, Krista Jenkins and Peter J. Woolley, “Measuring ‘What if?’ Standard versus priming methods for polling counterfactuals,” Survey Practice.  VOL1  NO 4 (2008): http://www.surveypractice.org/index.php/SurveyPractice/issue/view/52

 

Woolley, Peter J., "Japan's Sealane Defense Revisited," Strategic Review, Vol. XXIV, No. IV, (Fall 1996), pp. 49-58.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "Japan's Minesweeping Decision 1991: An OrganizationalResponse." Asian Survey Vol. XXXVI, No. 8, (August 1996), pp. 804-817. [Reprinted in Edward R. Beauchamp, ed., Japan's Role in International Politics Since World War II.  Series: Dimensions of Contemporary Japan, Vol. VI (Hamden, Conn.: Garland, 1998), pp. 104-117.]

 

Woolley, Peter J. and Cdr. Mark S. Woolley, USN, "The Kata of Japan's Naval Forces" in Naval War College Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 59-69.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "The Role of War and Strategy in the Transformation and Decline of Great Powers" in Naval War College Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 1 (Winter 1996) pp. 19-37.

 

Woolley, Peter J.  "Low-Level Military Conflict and the Future of Japan's Armed Forces" in Conflict Quarterly, vol. XIII, no. 4 (Fall 1993), pp. 55-73.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "Japan's Security Policies: Into the Twenty-First Century" The Journal of East and West Studies, vol. 22, no. 2 (October 1992), pp. 107-119.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "Geography and the Limits of U.S. Military Intervention" in Conflict Quarterly, vol. XI, no. 4 (Fall 1991), pp. 35-50.

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CHAPTERS      

 

Peter J. Woolley, “Menendez vs. Kean: National and Local Issues in New Jersey,” in Larry J. Sabato, ed., The Sixth Year Itch: the Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency. Longman, 2007.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "The United States, Japan, and the Defense of Democratic States in the Western Pacific" in Saving Democracies: U.S. Intervention in Threatened Democratic States, Anthony James Joes, ed. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000), pp. 145-166.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "Arguing from the Same Premises: the Ideology is Intact" in American Politics: Core Argument and Current Controversy, P.J. Woolley and A.R. Papa, eds., (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall Publishers 1998), pp. 51-55.

 

Woolley, Peter J. "Geography Revisited: Expectations of U.S. Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era" in Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and Coalition Warfare, Fariborz L. Mokhtari, ed. (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1994), pp. 187-201.

 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL WRITING  

               

Peter J. Woolley, “The Deflation of Chris Christie,” Huffington Post (Politics), July 21, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/the-deflation-of-chris-ch_b_7819092.html

 

Peter J. Woolley and John Schiemann, “No Backlash Against Torture” Huffington Post (Pollster), March. 2, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/no-backlash-against-torture_b_6777064.html

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Peter J. Woolley and John Schiemann, “Will there be a backlash Against Torture?” Huffington Post (Pollster), Oct. 2, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/will-there-be-a-backlash-_b_5920846.html

 

Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, "Forget Tuesday's Elections, A Survey Experiment Shows How Much the Government Shuttdown Hurt the Republicans," Huffington Post (Pollster), Nov. 6, 2013.

 

Peter J. Woolley, "Is Chris Christie a Shoo-In for Re-Election?" Huffington Post (Pollster), Oct. 11, 2013.

 

Peter J. Woolley, “Parsing Public Opinion on Drone Warfare,” Huffington Post (Pollster), Feb. 2, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/parsing-american-public-o_b_2658389.html

 

Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, “Dirty Little Secrets of Chris Christie: Feel the Zeitgeist, Baby!” Huffington Post (Pollster). 17 July 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/dirty-secrets-chris-christie_b_1680117.html

 

Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, “Dirty Little Secrets of Chris Christie: It’s Not the Personality, Numb Nuts,” Huffington Post (Pollster and Media pages).  23 July, 2012.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/dirty-little-secrets-of-c_b_1687003.html

 

Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, “Dirty Little Secrets of Chris Christie: Not Too White, Not Too Stupid,” Huffington Post (Pollster).  30 July 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/dirty-little-secrets-of-chris-christie_b_1713450.html

 

Peter J. Woolley, “Three Pieces of Advice from a Pollster,” New Jersey Municipalities, March 2012, pp. 54-55.

 

Peter J. Woolley and Bruce Peabody, “Health Care and Strip Searches: The Public As Constitutional Thinkers,” Huffington Post (Pollster). April 5, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/health-insurance-and-stri_b_1406418.html?ref=@pollster

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Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, “Fox News Does Not Make You Dumb: Researchers Respond to Critics,” Huffington Post (Pollster and Media pages).  Posted May 15, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/fox-news-does-not-make-yo_b_1519284.html?ref=@pollster

 

Peter J. Woolley, “Three Pieces of Advice from a Pollster,” New Jersey Municipalities, March 2012, pp. 54-55.

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Peter J. Woolley and Bruce Peabody, “The American Public as Jurists,” Huffington Post (Politics). March, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/the-american-public-as-ju_b_1380673.html

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Cassino, Dan, Krista Jenkins, and Peter J. Woolley. 2009. “Are Polls Becoming Equal?” in JSM Proceedings, Section on Survey Research Methods. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 5590-5602.

 

“Soldiers of Fortune,” on Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton, in The Common Review (Spring 2007), pp. 46-8.

 

Peter J. Woolley and Tim Vercellotti, Public Attitudes Toward the Clean Elections Initiative: Monitoring Study of the 2007 New Jersey Clean Elections Pilot Project [for the New Jersey Citizens’ Clean Election Commission], Nov. 29, 2007.

 

Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, “Bush Withers Republican in Garden State Senate Race,” The Polling Report, Vol. 22, No. 16 (August 28, 2006), pp. 1, 7-8.

 

Peter J. Woolley and Dan Cassino, “Why Menendez Won,” The Polling Report, Vol. 22, No. 22, (Nov. 27, 2006), pp. 1, 5-6.
 

Woolley, Peter J. “Why Jon Corzine Won,” The Polling Report, Vol. 21, No. 23 (Dec. 12, 2005), p. 1, 6-8.

 

Woolley, Peter J. “Diderot Beats Descartes,” The Common Review, v. 2, no. 4 (Winter 03-04), pp. 58-59.

 

Peter Woolley and Tim Vercellotti. The Well-Kept Secret of Clean Elections: Report to the New Jersey Citizens’ Clean Election Commission. Nov. 21, 2005.

 

Woolley, Peter J. “Black Hole of Presidential History,” Scripps-Howard News Service (Aug. 7, 2003) reprinted in Cincinnati Post, The Sacramento Bee, Modesto Bee, Naples Daily News, Tri-City Herald, Marietta Daily Journal, Rock Hill Herald, Henderson Gleaner, Bakersfield Californian, Birmingham Post-Herald, Fresno Bee, Raleigh News & Observer, Tacoma News-Tribune.

 

Woolley, Peter J. “A Pity for me and Al Gore,” The Journal of Irreproducible Results, v. 48 (Sept. Dec. 2003) pp. 61-62.

 

Woolley, Peter J. “Making the World Safe for Personal Choice,” The Common Review, v. 2, no. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 38-45.

 

Woolley, Peter J.  et alia. “Toward Global Education”, (F.D.U. White Paper, January 2000), http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/presupdates/041007.html

 

Woolley, Peter J. "Of Rice and Yen: the Sacred and the Secular" in The Japan Times Weekly International Edition, May, 13-19, 1991, p. 9.

 

“Amateur Cops: Pennsylvania’s Constable System” in Pittsburgh Magazine (March 1986), pp. 32-36.

 

RECENT PRESENTATIONS   

      

Michael Unger, Peter J. Woolley, Bruce Peabody. "Public Opinion, Constitutional Issues, and the Supreme Court’s 2012 and 2013 Terms." Paper prepared for the Midwest Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, April 5, 2014, Chicago, IL Panel 45-11: Public Perceptions of Judicial Decision Making.

 

Peter J. Woolley, “Polling Fools,” TEDx, Nov. 2013 at http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Polling-Fools-Peter-Woolley-at;search%3Awoolley

 

Krista Jenkins, Dan Cassino, Peter Woolley. Sandy, Christie, and Obama: A Hurricane’s Impact on Voter Preferences." Annual Meeting of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, Boston, May 15, 2013.

 

Cassino, Dan, Peter J. Woolley, Krista Jenkins. Bias in Generic Legislative Ballot Questions: Building a Better House Election Forecast” for the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Phoenix, AZ. May, 2011.

 

“New Jersey Politics Roundtable,” Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association.  Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 18, 2011.

 

“New Jersey’s Presidential Polls,” Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Political Science Association. New Brunswick, NJ. Feb. 24, 2012.

 

GRANTS

Peter J. Woolley, Principal Investigator; Dan Cassino, co-investigator, “Study of Driver Behaviors and Policy Attitudes” New Jersey Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  2007-2012 $120,600.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by E. Hotta (New York, Knopf, 2013) in Armed Forces & Society, 42:3 (July 2016). 

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An Inoffensive Rearmament: The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army by Frank Kowalski, edited by Robert D. Elbridge (Naval Institute Press, 2013) in Armed Forces & Society Vol. 42, No.1 (Jan 2016), pp. 243-246.

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Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History by Phillip Bobbit (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) in The Journal of Conflict Studies. (2:2004).

 

Terror in the Mind of God: the Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer (University of California Press, 2002) in The Journal of Conflict Studies (Fall 2002) pp. 152-153.

 

How Effective is Strategic Bombing?: Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo by Gian P. Gentile (New York: New York University Press, 2001) in The Journal of Conflict Studies (Winter 2001) pp. 168-169.

 

Guerrilla Conflict before the Cold War by Anthony James Joes, (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996) in Naval War College Review, Vol. LI, No. 2 (Winter 1998) pp. 167-168.

 

UN Peacekeeping: Japanese and American Perspectives, Selig S. Harrison and Masashi Nishihara, eds. in Naval War College Review, Vol. L, No. 1 (Winter 1997) pp. 140-142.

 

Terrain and Tactics by Patrick O’Sullivan (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991) in Conflict Quarterly, vol. XIII, no. 1 (Winter 1993), pp. 94-96.

 

The War for South Vietnam: 1954-1975 by Anthony James Joes (New York: Praeger, 1989) in Conflict Quarterly, vol. XI, no. 1 (Winter 1991), pp. 75-77.

 

HONORS­

 

2014  HomeTowne Television Fred Honold Award for Community Service

 

2009   Distinguished Faculty Award for Service, Sept. 2009.

 

2006   Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, Sept. 2006.

 

 Distinguished Guest, Commander, U.S.Third Fleet, aboard USS Abraham Lincoln. Jan.          19-20, 2006.

 

2005   FDU Presidential Citation, “for your commitment to your students and to

           your University, and for expanding the reach of Fairleigh Dickinson

           through PublicMind.”

 

2005   Outstanding Faculty Member, by Student Government Association.

 

2001   Fellow, American Council on Education.

 

2000  Educational Opportunity Fund Outstanding Faculty Member

 

1999   Pan-Hellenic Outstanding Teacher

          Guest of the United States Navy, aboard the USS Kinkaid, (DD965), Seventh Fleet.

          Feb. 22-29.

 

1997   Edward S. Miller Prize for the best historical article in the Naval War College Review

          inthe 1996 publishing year:"

 

1993   National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute.

                    Educational Opportunity Fund's (EOF) Outstanding Faculty Member.

 

1990  Fulbright/Hays Scholarship, Fulbright/Hays Group, Project in Japan, U.S. Department

         of Education.

 

1989  Overseas Travel Grant, State of New Jersey, Dept. of Education.

 

1984  Boursier du Gouvernement Français, Ministry of Education: to study the political effects of decentralization.

 

MISCELLANY           

Scores of invited lectures, book reviews, conference papers, professional presentations, and press releases as well as hundreds of radio, newspaper, and television interviews.