Ronald R. Stockton Legacy Lecture

Abstract

Ronald Stockton was a Professor of Political Science for 48 years, starting in 1973. He specialized in comparative non-western political systems. His signature courses were on Religion and Politics and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. He published several books and articles along the way. He won the three major awards given by the campus: Distinguished Service, Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished Research. He was one of two PIs on the Detroit Arab American Study. His three unusual projects were the Model Arab League (in which his teams won performance awards for 18 years in a row), his Immigrant Memoir Project (in which 40 students wrote their memoirs. The project has a special collection in the Bentley Library in Ann Arbor), and his research on Muslim Gravestones. (This produced an academic article, several lesser publications, and a photo exhibit displayed in four different academic settings). His Legacy Lecture had four components: 1. Reflections by two colleagues (Donald Anderson and Elias Baumgarten). 2. Ron's talk 3. A panel of five former students (Amine Zreikh, Cynthia Munoz, Monica Du Roche, Christian Ledford, and Shahad Atiya). 4. And finally, Open Mike. After his retirement, he started a podcast called Stocktonafterclass. At the time of this talk, it had 42,000 downloads in 126 different countries. His publications are available on his personal site on Deep Blue, the University of Michigan's virtual archive.