CURRICULUM VITAE: H. RICHARD FRIMAN
Education:
Ph.D. Cornell University, Department of Government (1980-1986, awarded 1987)
Summer FALCON Program in Japanese, Cornell University (1981)
B.A. Indiana University, Departments of Economics and Political Science (1975-1979, awarded 1979)
Employment:
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, 2023-present
Eliot Fitch Chair for International Studies, Marquette University, 2001-2023
Professor of Political Science, Marquette University, 1999-2023; Associate Professor of Political Science,1993-1999; Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1987-1993; Instructor of Political Science,1986-1987
Director and Founder of the Center for Transnational Justice, Marquette University, 2004-2023
Director, Interdisciplinary Major in International Affairs, Marquette University: Inaugural Director, 1988-1994; Director, 2006-2008, 2009-2014; Interim Director, 2017
Chair, Department of Political Science, Marquette University, 2000-2003
Assistant Chair, Department of Political Science, Marquette University, 1997-1998, 1999-2000
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Marquette University, 1997-1998, 1999-2000
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Minor in Justice and Peace, Marquette University, 2003-2004
Associate Director (Marquette Director), Consortium Center for International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University, Title VI National Resource Center for International Studies, 1991-1994
Director and Founder, OPTIONS University Outreach Project on International Security, Marquette University, 1991-1994
Research Fellowships and Honors:
Helen Way-Klingler Senior Scholar Fellowship in the Humanities/Social Sciences, Marquette University, 2012
Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 2008-2009
Visiting Research Scholar, Max Plank Institute for Foreign and International Penal Law, Freiburg, Germany, 1998
German Marshall Fund Fellowship, 1998
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Study Visit Award, 1998
Nominated by Cornell University Press, for the American Political Science Association’s Best Book Award in Comparative Politics, for NarcoDiplomacy: Exporting the U.S. War on Drugs, 1997
Visiting Research Scholar, Social Environment Section, National Research Institute of Police Science, Japanese National Police Agency, and Department and Social and International Relations, University of Tokyo, Tokyo. Japan, 1994-1995
Japan-U.S. Educational Commission, Fulbright Scholar Award, Japan, 1994-1995
Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Grant, Japan, 1994-1995
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1992, and Grant-in Aid, 1991-1992
Northeast Council of the Association of Asian Studies, Research Grant, 1991-1991
Runner-up, Quincy Wright Book Award, International Studies Association-Midwest, for Patchwork Protectionism: Textile Trade Policy and the United States, Japan, and West Germany, 1991
Nominated by Cornell University, Department of Government for the American Political Science Association’s Helen Dwight Reid Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation Completed and Accepted during 1987 or 1988 in the Field of International Relations, 1989
American Political Science Association, Research Grant, 1989-1990
National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1985-1986
National Resources Fellowship to Study Japanese, 1982
Marquette University Internal Research Grants: Challenge Grant, 1995-1996; Faculty Development Grant, 1994; Regular Research Grant, 1992-1993, 1998-1999; Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1988, 1991, 1998-1999; Bradley Institute for Democracy and Public Values Research Grant, 1987, 1989-1990
Professional Affiliations and Activities:
Editorial Board Member: Journal of Human Trafficking, 2014-2025; International Political Sociology, 2005-2017; Paradigm Publishers, 2007-2013
Manuscript/Proposal Reviewer (university and trade presses): Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Dushkin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin, John Wiley and Sons, Lynne Rienner Press, Peter Lang, Marquette University Press, Macmillian, W.W. Norton, Oxford University Press, Prentice-Hall, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, Westview
Manuscript/Proposal Reviewer (journals): American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Crime, Law and Social Change, European Journal of International Relations, Global Governance, Globalizations, International Interactions, International Organization, International Political Sociology, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Journal of Drug Issues, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Human Trafficking, Journal of Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Law & Policy, Millennium, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Religion, Security Dialogue, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Trends in Organized Crime, Viewpoints, World Politics
Proposal Reviewer (grants): Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Israel Science Foundation, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, U.S. National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowships, The Center for Public Integrity, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
Consultant (invited): RAND, CENTRA Technology, Japan Foundation for Global Partnership, University of North Florida (Title VI)
Faculty Affiliations: Faculty Research Associate, Center for Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego; The Ford Institute for Human Security, University of Pittsburgh
International Studies Association (member): At Large Executive Council Member, International Political Economy Section; Junior Scholar Award Committee, International Political Economy Section. Panel organizer, 2012; presenter, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2003, 1998, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1990; chair or discussant, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993
American Political Science Association (member): Member, Committee on Organized Sections; Book Award Committee, Migration and Citizenship Section; Program Chair, International Political Economy Division; Dissertation Award Committee, Political Economy Section. Presenter, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2007, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1988, 1984; chair or discussant, 2014, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2004, 1998, 1991, 1990, 1988, 1984
Other Memberships: International House of Japan, Association of Scholars of Trafficking in Persons, Academic Council on the Global Compact on Migration, AJCU Initiative on Migration and Refugee Research, Atlantic Council of the United States, International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), International Political Science Association, Japan-America Society of Wisconsin, Institute of World Affairs (Wisconsin)
Marquette University Service:
Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Chapter of Wisconsin (Marquette University): President, 1996-1999; Vice-President, 1993-1994, 1995-1996; Historian, 1988-1993; Nominating Committee Chair, 2000-2004. Other: Member of Board of Governors, Greater Milwaukee Association of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, 1997-1999; Spring banquet organizer, Greater Milwaukee Association of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, 1999
Institutional Grants: Department of Education, Title VI Grants to Establish National Resource Center for International Studies in Cooperation with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1991-1994 (coauthor), 1994-1997 (coauthor); OPTIONS Grants to Establish, Continue, and Expand for Faculty Speakers Bureau for Community Outreach on International Security Issues, 1991, 1992-1994
University-level Service: ADVANCE Advocates and Allies Program, Academic Integrity Council Member and Investigative Officer, Board of Graduate Studies, Center for Peacemaking Steering Committee, Committee on Centers, Committee on Research, Core Curriculum Committee Focus Group, Faculty Mentoring Program, Human Rights Initiative Steering Committee, Marquette Association for Interracial Justice, Restorative Justice Initiative Conference Planning Committee, Teaching Excellence Award Committee
College-level Service: Ad Hoc Core Review Steering Commitee, Ad Hoc Faculty Hearing Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Policies, Ad Hoc World Trade Commitee, Advisory Committee on External Scanning, Allis Chalmers Distinguished Professor / Scholar Committee (chair), Asian Studies Committee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Gaither Junior Fellows Program Coordinator and Nominating Official, Center for Transnational Justice (director), Committee to Develop a New Interdisciplinary Minor in Justice and Peace (chair), Core Curriculum Discussion Group, Dean’s Advisory Committee, Dean Search Committee, Mellon Grant Advisory Board, Minority Fellowship Committee, Social Sciences Promotion and Tenure Area Committee, Subcommittee on College of Professional Studies
Departmental-level Service: Ad Hoc Committee on Assessment, Assistant Chair, Chair’s Advisory Committee, Committee on Advanced Studies and Fellowships, Delegate to Faculty Nominating Convention, Department Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Graduate Studies Director, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Review Committee (chair), International Affairs major (director), International Relations Search Committee (chaired five searches), Truman Scholarship Review Committee, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate Education Committee, Undergraduate Waiver Coordinator
Research Publications: Books
The Politics of Leverage in International Relations: Name, Shame, and Sanction, editor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 2017)
Crime and the Global Political Economy, editor (Lynne Rienner, 2009, 2017)
Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans, coedited with Simon Reich (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
Challenges and Paths to Global Justice, editor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
The Illicit Global Economy and State Power, coedited with Peter Andreas (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)
NarcoDiplomacy: Exporting the U.S. War on Drugs (Cornell University Press, 1996)
The South Slav Conflict: Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, coedited with Raju Thomas (Garland Publishing, 1996)
Patchwork Protectionism: Textile Trade Policy in the United States, Japan, and West Germany (Cornell University Press, 1990)
Research Publications: Refereed Articles / Book Chapters
“Jesuit Mission Funding and Legacy Donations: Revisiting the Belgian Controversy over the Disposition of the De Boey Estate, 1850-1868,” Journal of Religious History 48:1 (2024): 3-15. Published Online February 2024
“Why is it so Difficult to Curb Transnational Crime,” in Nicola Phillips, ed., Global Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2023).
“Funding the Mission: Jesuit Networks, Outsider Access, and ‘The Origins of Marquette College’ Revisited,” The Catholic Historical Review 107:3 (2021): 363-393
“An ‘Untrammeled Right’? The McCarran Immigration Subcommittee and the Origins of Presidential Authority to Suspend and Restrict Alien Entry under Section 1182(f),” Journal of Policy History 31:4 (2019): 433-463
“Introduction: Unpacking the Mobilization of Shame,” “Behind the Curtain: Naming and Shaming in International Drug Control,” “Conclusion: Exploring the Politics of Leverage,” in H. Richard Friman, ed., The Politics of Leverage in International Relations: Name, Shame, and Sanction, pp. 1-32, 143-164, 201-218 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
“Guns, Butter and More Guns: Japanese Security through March 11th,” coauthored, in Louis W. Pauly and Bruce W. Jentleson, eds., Power in a Complex Global System, pp. 62-79 (Routledge, 2014)
“Migrant Smuggling and Threats to Social Order in Japan,” in David Kyle and Rey Koslowsky, eds., Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, 2nd Ed., pp. 325-351 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
“The Illegal Migration Industry,” in Nicola Phillips, ed., Migration in the Global Political Economy, pp. 83-99 (Lynne Rienner, 2011)
“Numbers and Certification: Assessing Foreign Compliance in Combatting Narcotics and Human Trafficking,” in Peter Andreas and Kelly Greenhill, eds., Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Transnational Crime and Conflict, pp. 75-109 (Cornell University Press, 2010)
“Crime and Globalization,” “Externalizing the Costs of Prohibition,” in H. Richard Friman, ed., Crime and the Global Political Economy, pp. 1-20, 49-66 (Lynne Rienner, 2009)
“Drug Markets and the Selective Use of Violence,” Crime, Law and Social Change 52 (2009): 285-295
“Migration and Security: Crime, Terror, and the Politics of Order,” in Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia and Simon Reich, eds., Immigration, Integration and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective, pp. 130-144 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
“Immoveable Object? Japan’s Security Policy in East Asia,” coauthored, in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions, pp. 133-154 (Routledge, 2008); originally published in Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shirashi, eds., Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism, pp. 86-107 (Cornell University Press, 2006)
“Human Trafficking in the Balkans,” “Human Trafficking and Human Security,” coauthored with Simon Reich, in H. Richard Friman and Simon Reich, eds., Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans, pp. 1-19, 136-154 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
“The Impact of the Occupation on Crime in Japan,” in Mark E. Caprio and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds., Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society, pp. 89-119 (Routledge, 2007, 2009; Akashi Shoten, 2004 {Japanese])
“Introduction: Challenges and Paths,” in H. Richard Friman, ed., Challenges and Paths to Global Justice, pp. 1-21 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 2009)
“Crime in the Global Political Economy,” in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill, eds., Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, pp. 272-285 (Oxford University Press, 2005)
“The Great Escape? Globalization, Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Criminal Economy,” The Review of International Political Economy 11:1 (2004): 94-131
“Forging the Vacancy Chain: Law Enforcement Efforts and Mobility in Criminal Economies,” Crime, Law and Social Change 41 (2004): 53-77
“Caught up in the Madness? State Power and Transnational Organized Crime in the Work of Susan Strange,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 28 (2003): 473-489; published originally in French in Cultures et Conflits 42 (2001): 131-160, reprinted in L’Economie Politique 15 (2003)
“Evading the Divine Wind through the Side Door: the Transformation of Chinese Migration to Japan,” in Pal Nyri and Igor R. Saveliev, eds., Globalizing Chinese Migration: Trends in Europe and Asia, pp. 9-34 (Ashgate Press, 2002)
“Immigrant Smuggling and Threats to Social Order in Japan,” in David Kyle and Rey Koslowski, eds., Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 294-317 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
“Informal Economies, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, and Drug Crime in Japan, “ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 27:2 (2001): 313-333
“Constructing North American Free Trade,” coauthored with William Avery, in Kenneth Thomas and Mary Ann Tetreault, eds., Racing to Regionalize: Democracy, Capitalism and Regional Political Economy, pp. 87-112 (Lynne Rienner, 1999)
“Germany and the Transformation of Cocaine,” in Paul Gootenberg, ed., Cocaine: Global Histories, pp. 83-104 (Routledge, 1999)
“Introduction,” coauthored with Peter Andreas, and “Obstructing Markets: Organized Crime Networks and Drug Control in Japan,” in H. Richard Friman and Peter Andreas, eds., The Illicit Global Economy and State Power, pp. 1-24, 173-198 (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)
“Threat Tactics in U.S. Trade Negotiations,” in Chae Han Kim, ed., Domestic Politics, Trade Negotiations, and Regional Integration, pp. 29-66 (Hallym Academy of Sciences / Sowha Publishing, 1998)
“Gaijinhanzai: Immigrants and Drug Crime in Contemporary Japan,” Asian Survey 36:10 (1996):964-977
“Drugs as a Security Problem in East Asia,” in William M. Carpenter and David G. Wiencek, eds., Asian Security Survey: An Assessment of Political-Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region, pp. 89-98 (M.E. Sharpe, 1996)
“Introduction: Between Blowback and Throwback,” in Raju Thomas and H. Richard Friman, eds., The South Slav Conflict: Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, pp. 3-8 (Garland Publishing, 1996)
“Just Passing Through: Transit States and the Political Economy of Trade Regulation,” Journal of Transnational Organized Crime 1:1 (1995): 65-83
“Side-Payments versus Security Card: Domestic Bargaining Tactics in International Economic Negotiations,” in Taehyun Kim. Seok-Jin Lew, and Soung Chul Kim, eds., Diplomacy and Politics, pp. 261-295 (Seijong Institute, 1995 in Korean)
“International Pressures and Domestic Bargains: Regulating Money Laundering in Japan,” Crime, Law and Social Change 21 (1994): 253-266
“Dancing with Pandora: The Eisenhower Administration and the Demise of GATT,” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 53:3 (1994): 257-272
“From Policy Beliefs to Policy Choices: The Resurgence of Tariff Retaliation in the U.S. Pursuit of Fair Trade,” Journal of Public Policy 13:2 (1993): 163-182
“Side-Payments versus Security Cards: Domestic Bargaining Tactics in International Economic Negotiations,” International Organization 47 (1993):387-410
“Awaiting the Tsunami? Japan and the International Drug Trade,” The Pacific Review 6 (1993): 41-50
“Neither Compromise nor Compliance: International Pressures, Societal Influence, and the Politics of Deception in the International Drug Trade,” in David Skidmore and Valerie Hudson, eds., The Limits of State Autonomy: Societal Groups and Foreign Policy, pp. 103-126 (Westview Press, 1993)
“The Crisis Game,” Simulation and Gaming 22 (1991):382-389
“The United States, Japan, and the International Drug Trade: Troubled Partnership,” Asian Survey 31 (1991): 875-890
“The Crisis of Teaching Crisis Decision Making,” The Political Science Teacher 2 (1989): 14-16
“Rocks, Hard Places, and the New Protectionism: Trade Policy Choices in the United States and Japan,” International Organization 42 (1988): 689-724
Book Reviews:
Giacomo Chiozza, Leverage and Cooperation in the US World Order: The Shrewd Sheriff (Cambridge 2023), in H-Diplo, February 2024.
Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, J.C. Sharman, Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime and Terrorism, in Political Science Quarterly 130:2 (2015) 383-384
Frederico Varese, Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories, in Perspectives on Politics 10:2 (2012): 475-476
Peter E.B. Hill, The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State, in Journal of Japanese Studies 31:1 (2005): 155-159
Mats Berdal and Monica Serrano, eds., Transnational Organized Crime & International Security: Business as Usual, in Contemporary Security Policy 24:2 (2003): 157-159
Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, in Labour/Le Travail (2002): 338-340
Lars S. Skalnes, Politics, Markets and Grand Strategy: Foreign Economic Policies as Strategic Instruments, in Journal of Politics 64:2 (2002): 669-670
Brian Woodall, Japan Under Contruction, Robert Uriu, Troubled Industries, Mark Tilton, Restrained Trade, in American Political Science Review 92:1 (1998): 255-257
Stephen Gill and David Law, The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems and Prospects, in Studies in Comparative International Development 24 (1989): 74-78
Public Scholarship:
“Trump’s Travel Ban is Built on a Law Meant to ‘Protect” the U.S. from Jews and Communists,” Monkey Cage Analysis, Washington Post, June 22 and June 26, 2017
“Where is the Media Outcry over the Japanese Arrested for the Murder of Someya Satoru?” Asahi Shimbun February 7, 2004 (Japanese and English editions)
“Mideast Turmoil is Like No Other, ” Letters, New York Times, October 17, 2000
“Resilient Smugglers,” Letters, New York Times, June 6, 1998
“Japan too Struggles with Methamphetamine,” Letters, New York Times, July 15, 1997
“US Trade Policy: Hard Choices or Piecemeal Solutions,” The Christain Science Monitor, February 5, 1987
Encyclopedia/Reference Collection Entries:
“Senile Industry Protection,” in R.J.B. Jones, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, vol. 3 (P-Z), pp. 1388-1389 (Routledge, 2001)
“Drug Trade,” in Ronald Gottesman, ed., Violence in America: An Encyclopedia, pp. 434-440 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999)
“Import Restrictions,” in Frank N. Magill, ed., Survey of Social Science: Economics, pp. 1000-1006 (Salem Press, 1991)
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