Education

USAF Academy B.S. Humanities

Cornell University M.A. English Literature

U.S. Naval War College M.A. with highest distinction; National Security and Strategic Studies

University of Oklahoma M.A. Communication

Cornell University M.F.A Creative Writing and Translation

Salve Regina University Ph.D. Humanities

Interests

P. H. Liotta's research interests include the study of geography and geopolitics (Euro-Mediterranean, Central and South Asia) as well the re-examination of security issues in the contemporary environment.

Memberships

International Institute for Strategic Studies (elected 2001)

International Studies Association

Fulbright Foundation

Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS)

PEN International

Founding Member, the International Forum Bosnia and the Bosnia Book Fund

International Advisory Board, Research Institute for European and American Studies (Sole American Board Member)

Poetry Society of America

Academy of American Poets

Authors Guild; Naval War College Foundation

Naval War College Foundation

Modern Languages Association (MLA)

Associated Writing Programs

Listed in the Directory of American Scholars, Directory of Poets & Writers, and Who's Who in America.

Elected to the following boards: Marine Corps University Journal (editorial), The Robert Frost Place, and the Indian Institute of Ecological Economics.

Shares in the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Publications/Papers

“The Real Meaning of Globalization,” The Capitol Forum on America’s Future: The Choices Program, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, October 2008. Presentation

“The Case of Ecosystem Services: From Research Agenda to Social Change,” International Human Dimensions Program, Institute of Economic Growth, University of North Delhi campus, October 2008. Presentation

“Environmental Peacemaking: Peril and Possibility,” International Human Dimensions Workshop 2008 Presentation

“Demographics, Security, and the Shifting Global Tectonic,” Headquarters, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, September 2008. Presentation

The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments, prose poems (Quale Press, forthcoming) Book

Tellurion: a limited edition printing of the Robert Chasen Memorial Prize poem (1988), Cornell University Council for the Creative and Performing Arts Book

Solstice: Pathos Press, Ithaca NY (1986) Book

Cocoons: Selected Poems from the Macedonian of Liljana Dirjan: Poetry Miscellany/University of Tennessee Press (1999) Book

Monograph: Paradigm Unbound: U.S. Grand Strategy in the Wake of Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia; (Macedonian and English text versions); Macedonian Information Centre: Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia and Geneva, Switzerland (1997) Monograph

Paperback: Ballantine/Fawcett Crest (1990) Book

The Wreckage Reconsidered: A Special Research Monograph Research Institute for International and European Studies: Athens, Greece (1998) Book

Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (1989) Book

Rules of Engagement: Poems 1974-1991, Cleveland State University (1991) Book

Diamond's Compass, a novel, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (1993) Re-issued by Random House (1995) Book

The Wreckage Reconsidered: Five Oxymorons from Balkan Deconstruction, a cultural and political study, Lexington Books of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (1999), partially translated into Macedonian, by Vladimir Cupevski, current Macedonian Ambassador to the Republic of Albania Book

The Ruins of Athens: A Balkan Memoir (poems), Garden Street Press (1999) Book

Dismembering the State: The Death of Yugoslavia and Why It Matters, a cultural and political study, Lexington Books of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (2001) Book

The Wolf at the Door: A Poetic Cycle, translated from the Macedonian of Bogomil Gjuzel, with an introduction by Charles Simic, Xenos Books (2001) Book

The Uncertain Certainty: Human Security, Environmental Change, and the Future Euro-Mediterranean, Lexington Books of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (2003) Book

Mapping Macedonia: Idea and Identity, co-authored with C. R. Jebb (Praeger Publishers, 2004) Book

The Exile's Return: Poems, Translated into Macedonian by Bogomil Gjuzel, Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia, Macedonian Ministry of Culture, Blesok Publishers (2005) Book

Redrawing the Map of the Future: Feeble States, Feral Cities, and a Fevered Crescent co-authored with J. F. Miskel (University of Florida Press, forthcoming) Book

The Fight for Legitimacy: Democracy versus Terrorism, co-authored with C. R. Jebb (Praeger Publishers, forthcoming) Book

Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change And Its Impact on Security, co-authored with Allan Shearer (Praeger Publishers, forthcoming) Book

Research and Scholarly Achievements

Awards

Salve Regina University, Outstanding Media Relations Award, 2008.

Class Schedule

Fall 2009 Schedule