Stuart A. MacNiven

Stuart A. MacNiven is the Research Associate on Global Governance and Organizing Secretary of the Dēmos Working Group on Global Governance. As such, beyond his research actvities, MacNiven organizes and coordinates each of the Global Governance Seminars, publishing an executive summary of each for the group.

MacNiven received his PhD in 2003 from Rutgers University, where Benjamin R. Barber chaired his doctoral committee. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Calculus of the General Will: Identity and Difference in the Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau." In addition, MacNiven's article "Politics, Language, and Music in the Unity of Rousseau's Thought" was published in 2004 in Rousseau: Music and Language and he is nearing completion of a book of manuscripts on Rousseau. MacNiven was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and has taught political science courses at Rutgers University, Lehman College, CUNY and Pace University.

Earlier in his career, after receiving his MPA, with an emphasis in organization theory and public policy, MacNiven worked for two years as a contract negotiator for the United States Air Force, Air Logistics Command at Tinker Air Force Base. He worked full-time for four years for the Rutgers University Writing Program and spent six years in the Washington, D.C area as a research assistant, fund raiser, and technical writer. During those years, he published a paper in the Journal of the College and University Personnel Association, "Crisis in Social Security." He received his B.A. in History (African and Latin American emphasis) from the University of California, Santa Barbara.