About Cliff Staten

Cliff Staten is Professor Emeritus (retired) of Political Science and International Studies at Indiana University Southeast. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife, Shan, who is retired and spent 45 years in university housing last serving as the Executive Director of Housing at Florida State University. Cliff received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1987 from the University of North Texas. He taught at the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas State University prior to coming to Indiana University Southeast (IUS) in the fall of 1989. He received the IUS Distinguished Teaching Award, the IUS Distinguished Research Award, the IUS Chancellor’s Diversity Award, and the Karl Metz Award for Distinguished Service to the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences. He traveled and studied throughout Mexico and Central America/Caribbean with a special focus on Nicaragua and Cuba. He also traveled throughout southern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Europe. He taught advanced courses on Latin American politics, US foreign policy, terrorism, and international political economy. He was the Director of the Indiana Consortium for International Programs University-level Model United Nations Program for 18 years. In addition to numerous articles and chapters in books on a variety of topics, he wrote the following books: The History of Cuba 3rd edition (Bloomsbury, 2026; 2nd edition 2015, first edition 2003) and The History of Nicaragua 2nd editiion  (Bloomsbury, 2026, first edition 2010).  He is currently writing a new book entitled Lectures in International Political Economy.