American Studies 2007
“The U.S. in a Global Community” 
Dr. Michael M. Gunter
Bonn, May 17-21, 2007
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Dr. Michael M. Gunter
Dr. Michael M. Gunter, Professor of Political Science at Rollins College, Florida, is the author of Building the Next Ark: How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity (2006 paperback & 2004 cloth). His articles, editorials, and reviews have appeared in, e.g., Biological Conservation, Encyclopedia of the Developing World, The Journal of Politics, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Organization & Environment, Politics and the Life Sciences and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Currently on a Fulbright Scholarship in Bratislava, he is targeting civil society and sustainable development in the Slovak Republic. Previous research funding and course development grants have taken Gunter to the Peruvian Amazon, Charles Darwin Research Station, the Galapagos Islands, Santo Domingo as well as the Dominican Republic, and the "black triangle" forests of the Czech Republic, Poland, and former East Germany.
Gunter spoke, along with former Vice President Al Gore and noted environmental writer Rick Bass, at the prestigious Stonecipher Symposium on Technology, Communication, and Culture in March 2002. He is on the 2006 Screening Committee for the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Before returning to academia, Dr. Gunter worked for several years in Washington, D.C., first as a legislative correspondent in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as an editor for a public policy newswire service in the National Press Building. He received his PhD from the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 2001.
