Biography:Michael Roskin

Michael G. Roskin (born 1939) is an American political scientist. He is a retired Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Roskin received his A.B. at the University of California at Berkeley and M.A. at the University of California at Los Angeles. He served as a journalist and foreign service officer for the U.S. Information Agency before earning his Ph.D. in international relations at The American University. He began teaching at Lycoming College in 1972. Roskin served as Visiting Professor of Foreign Policy at the U.S. Army War College from 1991 to 1994. He is the author of five political science textbooks. He retired from teaching in 2008 after being named a Fulbright Scholar but continues to lecture.