PhD. UCLA. Political Science,
MA UCLA. Political Science
BA St. Vincent College. English
BA St. Vincent College. HIstory
John James Quinn, PhD (UCLA ), teaches African Politics, Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, Research Methodology, Introduction to Political Science, Introduction to International Relations, and Senior Seminar as well as several JINS classes. He taught at the University of Ghana-Legion for a semester and spent three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire, now the DRC. His primary research agenda centers on the political and economic effects of majority state ownership of industry, mining, or oil in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of The Road Oft Traveled: Development Politics and Majority State Ownership of Industry in Africa (Praeger, 2002), Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions: When Elephants Fight (Lexington, 2016), and Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined (2025). He has also published articles in such journals as International Interactions, Party Politics, International Politics, and Journal of Asian and African Studies. He has also worked on issues of African democratization in the post-Cold War period, French ODA in Africa, regional diffusion of ethnic conflict to Zaire, corruption, African foreign policy, Ethiopian foreign policy, and comparative development.