Dr. Michael M. Gunter, Jr. Associate Professor Director, International Relations Program Political Science Department        Rollins College           Box 2762 – 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL  32789 mgunter@rollins.edu

Office Hours: Mon. 3:15 to 4:15 Tues. 10:45 to 12:15 Wed. 3:15 to 4:15 Thurs. 10:45 to 12:15  212 Cornell Hall 407-646-2263

Dr. Michael Gunter teaches courses in international relations and environmental politics. He is the author of Building the Next Ark: How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity (2006 paperback & 2004 cloth) with Dartmouth College and University Press of New England.  A 2006 Sprout Award nominee, the work has been favorably reviewed by popular and trade periodicals such as Environment, the North American Association of Environmental Educator's Communicator, and the United Nations Environmental Program’s magazine, Our Planet, as well as academic journals such as Global Environmental Politics, International Studies Review, Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, and the non-profit journal Voluntas. 

Named a Cornell Distinguished Faculty member at Rollins, Gunter has also written a number of articles, editorials, and reviews for publications such as Biological Conservation, Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, The Journal of Politics, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Organization & Environment, Politics and the Life Sciences, Teaching Theory and Academic Writing, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. 

Last year Gunter served as a Fulbright Scholar for the U.S. State Department targeting civil society and sustainable development in the Slovak Republic at Univerzita Komenského Fakulta Sociálnych a Ekonomických Vied.  During that time Gunter spoke at the Gustav-Stresemann Institut in Bonn, Germany, at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy in May 2007.  Here he addressed the politics of climate change in U.S. foreign policy as well as the links between terrorism and unsustainable development for their annual Fachleiter Conference.  Previous grants funded trips to Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon, Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, among others.

Gunter spoke, along with former Vice President Al Gore and noted environmental writer Rick Bass, at the prestigious Stonecipher Symposium on Technology, Communication, and Culture in March 2002.  He was on the 2006 Screening Committee for the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order and serves as a continuing manuscript reviewer for Global Environmental Politics, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, and Wadsworth presses.  On the Rollins College campus, Gunter serves as Director of the International Relations Program as well as the Director of Living & Learning Communities.  He is also the advisor for the Rollins Washington Semester Program and Model UN student organization. 

Before returning to academia, Dr. Gunter worked for several years in Washington, D.C., first as a legislative correspondent in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as an editor for a public policy newswire service in the National Press Building.  A curriculum vitae is available here.  Links to current and past courses are found below: