Robert Oprisko

Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change

Research Fellow

201 North Indiana Avenue

Bloomington, IN 47408

United States

http://www.indiana.edu/~global/staff/facultyProfile.php?id=76

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Honor, Prestige, and the Academy: A Portrait of Political Science Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty in Ph.D.-Granting Institutions (2012-2013)

Political Science and Politics, published by Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting, APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2013
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Bourdieu, Honor, Prestige, Higher Education, Political Science, Political Sociology

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Failure as the Real: A Review of Slavoj Zizek's Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

Theoria and Praxis Vol. 1, No. 2
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 10 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Zizek, Failure, Ontology, Praxis, Bohr

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Pushing Up Ivies: Institutional Prestige and the Academic Caste System

Georgetown Public Policy Review (2013)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 31 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko, Kirstie Dobbs and Joseph DiGrazia
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change, Loyola University of Chicago and Indiana University, Bloomington
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higher education, quantitative methods, political science, elitism

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Superpowers: The American Academic Elite

Georgetown Public Policy Review, 2012
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 18 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Elitism, Honor, Political Science, Academia, Class

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The Rebel as Sovereign: The Political Theology of Dignity

Revista Pleyade, No. 9, p. 119-136, 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Aug 2012
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Dignity, Sovereignty, Rebellion, Honor, Exception

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The State as a Person?: Anthropomorphic Personification vs. Concrete Durational Being

Journal of International and Global Studies, 6 (1): 30-49.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko and Kristopher Kaliher
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change and Butler University
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international relations, political theory, sovereignty, anthropomorphic personification, concrete durational being

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Caliphates and Islamic Global Politics

E-International Relations, 2014
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Timothy Poirson and Robert Oprisko
University of St. Andrews and Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Islamic Political Thought, Non-Western Political Thought, Islam, Islamic State, Caliphate

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Placement Efficiency: an Alternative Ranking Metric for Graduate Schools

Georgetown Public Policy Review, 2013
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 04 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko, Kirstie Dobbs and Joseph DiGrazia
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change, Loyola University of Chicago and Indiana University, Bloomington
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Critical University Studies, Political Science, Methodology, Higher Education, Placement Efficiency

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Weinstein's Vital Agony: A Socio-political Theory of Multiple Realities

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2012
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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weinstein, vitalism, existentialism, social string theory, phenomenology, agonism

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Beyond the Cake Model: Critical Intersectionality and the Relative Advantage of Disadvantage

Epiphany, 7 (2): 35-54.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko and Joshua Caplan
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change and Independent
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Intersectionality, variable operationalization, social string theory, quantum politics, feminist theory and methodology

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Egypt's Three-Card Monte: The Arab Spring and Human Revolution

E-International Relations (2013)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Egypt, Arab Spring, Human Revolution, Human Dignity, Protest, Democracy, Quantum Politics

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Strings: A Political Theory of Multi-Dimensional Reality

Theoria and Praxis, 2 (2): 1-23.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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void ontology, bohrian epistemology, social string theory, political theory, international relations, set theory

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Resisting Tyranny: Human Rights Organizations, International Organizations, and Promotion of the Rule of Law in Argentina

Politics, Bureaucracy, and Justice 4 (2), 13-26.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 03 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2015
Robert Oprisko and Olivia Wolfe
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change and Independent
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human rights, international criminal court, IGOs, rule of law

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IR Theory's 21st Century Experiential Evolution

E-International Relations (2013)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Jun 2013
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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IR Theory, Existentialism, Human Revolution, Dignity

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Pursuing Higher Education's MacGuffin: Economic Realities of the $10,000 College Degree

Thought and Action, 30:121-132
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2015
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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Critical University Studies, Higher Education, Prestige, Political Sociology, Adjuncts, MOOCs

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Weinstein's Methodology for Political Analysis

Michael A. Weinstein: Action, Contemplation, Vitalism, edited by Robert L. Oprisko and Diane Rubenstein, 139-147. New York, NY: Routledge. 2014
Posted: 08 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2014
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change

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Weinstein's Method, Political Theory, Somalia

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From Nothing, Everything

Contemporary Political Theory, 2015, DOI: 10.1057/cpt.2015.4
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2015
Robert Oprisko
Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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void universalism, formal ontology, international relations theory, Sergei Prozorov

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Resurrecting IR Theory: Editors' Introduction to a Special Section

Politics, pp. 1-2, 2016, DOI: 10.1177/0263395716665333
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 31 Oct 2016
Kyle Grayson, Martin Coward and Robert Oprisko
University of Newcastle, University of Manchester - School of Social Sciences and Indiana University, Center for the Study of Global Change
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