COD Experts: David Goldberg

Political Science Professor David Goldberg, Ph.D., is an expert in U.S. and international political systems and has developed course work in U.S. foreign policy. He is a regular election contributor to the Naperville Sun and has authored works in U.S. Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean and presented workshops on democracy in Latin America. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and his doctorate in Political Science from Northern Illinois University.  

Before his tenure at COD, Goldberg taught international relations, Latin American politics and U.S. foreign policy for two years on a dissertation completion fellowship at Beloit College in southern Wisconsin. He also taught as an adjunct at Northern Illinois University, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, Waubonsee Community College and Illinois Central College while in graduate school.

Contact Goldberg at goldberg@cod.edu or (630) 942-3722. 

David Goldberg

I never cease to be amazed at people in the United States and other parts of the world who struggle for social, political and economic change in the face of insurmountable obstacles and the threat of violence.

- David Goldberg, Political Science Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • The Russia/Ukraine Crisis 
  • The American Electoral Process
  • U.S. Foreign Policy
  • International Relations
  • Political Systems and Transnational Components of Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean 
  • Watergate
  • Crisis in Haiti
  • Persian Gulf Security

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