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Teaching (Fall 2009):
- PUBPOL 264S.25, ADV TOP IN PUBLIC POLICY
- Sanford 102, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- POLSCI 299DS.25, ADV TOP IN GOVT & POL (IR)
- Sanford 102, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- HISTORY 104.05, LECTURES SPECIAL TOPICS
Synopsis
- ICS 140.01, SELECTED TOPICS
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- CANADIAN 150.01, NORTH AMER: NEIGHBORS/FUTURE
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- PUBPOL 196.01, SELECTED TOPICS
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- POLSCI 199B.02, COMP GOV/POLITICS (TOP)
Stephen R. Kelly is a 26-year career Senior Foreign Service Office who is currently the U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence at Duke University. His primary role is to seek out those interested in careers formulating and implementing U.S. foreign policy. He is a resource for students and faculty interested in internships, scholarships, fellowships or general advice on a diplomatic career.
Prior to this assignment Mr. Kelly was Director of the Senior Level Assignments Division at the State Department in Washington, D.C., where he oversaw the counseling and assignments of the most experienced and high-ranking career officers in the U.S. diplomatic service.
From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Kelly was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to Mexico, one of the largest U.S. diplomatic establishments in the world. Mr. Kelly focused in particular on the myriad border issues with Mexico, growing law enforcement and immigration problems, and on efforts to further North American integration.
From 2000-2004 Mr. Kelly was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Mission to Canada. Mr. Kelly also served as Consul General in Quebec City from 1995-1998, where he was the chief U.S. reporting officer on the Quebec Sovereignty Referendum of October 1995.
Other overseas postings include the Netherlands as political counselor, Indonesia as human rights officer, Belgium as a political and consular officer, and Mali, in West Africa, as a management officer. His early domestic assignments included the State Department Operations Center, special assistant to the Deputy Secretary, and desk officer for Senegal, Mauritania and The Gambia.
Mr. Kelly a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and holds a master’s degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College in Washington, D.C. His foreign languages are French, Spanish, Dutch and Indonesian. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Zaire and as a journalist for various U.S. newspapers before joining the Foreign Service, notably the Charlotte Observer, for whom he was the Raleigh and later Washington correspondent.
