A Ph.D. student at the Josef Korbel School of International
Studies at the University of Denver (DU), where he also earned in M.A. in the
same field, Steve has taught courses in International Relations and/or
Comparative Politics at DU, the University of Colorado (CU) Denver, and Renmin
University in Beijing, China. A
specialist in the interrelationship of religion and the rule of law, he has
participated in a number of seminars on this same theme in Vietnam and the
U.S. And has specialized in Chinese
politics throughout his academic career, which included a B.A. in International
Studies at Idaho State University.