Faculty and Staff

Dr. Christopher Lynch

Research and Professional Interests: Political Philosophy, Politics and Literature, and Strategic Thought and National Security.

Tenisha Zackery

Tenisha Zackery

Academic Administrative Assistant II

Philosophy

Dr. Paria Akbar Akhgari

Research and professional interests: 19th and 20th century continental philosophy; Feminist philosophy; Logic; Ethics

Michael P. Boyle

Michael P. Boyle

Senior Instructor
Philosophy Program Coordinator

Research and professional interests: Critical thinking

Dr. Elizabeth Foreman

Research and professional interests: Normative ethics; Applied ethics

Dr. William H. Harwood

Research and professional interests: Ancient philosophy; Critical data studies; Information ethics; Philosophy of race and Social and political philosophy

Dr. Jack C. Knight

Research and professional interests: W.E.B. Du Bois; Ancient philosophy; African American studies

Dr. Pam R. Sailors

Research and professional interests: Philosophy of sport; Bioethics; Feminist philosophy

Dr. Ralph E. Shain

Research and professional interests: Contemporary French and German philosophy (Derrida, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Hegel)

Political Science

Nick L. Beatty

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Dr. Caitlin Davies

Research and professional interests: Political Behavior, Political Psychology, American Politics, Partisanship, Political Identities, Public Opinion.

Dr. Mark C. Ellickson

Research and professional interests: State legislative politics; job satisfaction; survey research methodology; applied survey research for governmental, commercial, and non-profit organizations

Dr. Sara H. Holifield

Research and professional interests: Modern political thought; American political thought; Politics and literature; Religion and politics

Dr. James B. Kaatz

Dr. James B. Kaatz

Associate Professor
Master of Public Administration Program Director

Research and professional interests: Employee motivation; local government employee compensation; Public service motivation; cooperation and conflict among local elected officials

Dr. Ashley E. Leinweber

Research and professional interests: Provision of public goods and services by non-state actors in weak/failed African states; Increasing mobilization of minority groups in democratizing countries; Peace and conflict processes

Dr. Michael R. Masterson

Research and professional interests: International conflict and political psychology with an area focus on China

Dr. Gabriel A. Ondetti

Dr. Gabriel A. Ondetti

Professor
Master of International Affairs Program Director

Research and professional interests: Latin American politics (especially Brazil, Mexico and Bolivia); social movements; land reform; taxation; social policy

Dr. Indira Palacios-Valladares

Research and professional interests: Chilean labor politics and women’s social and political participation in Latin America; Latin-American student movements and attempts to explain why student mobilization varies across the region

Dr. Kevin M. Pybas

Dr. Kevin M. Pybas

Associate Professor
University Pre-Law Advisor

Research and professional interests: The law of church and state; constitutional law; modern and contemporary liberal political thought; American political thought; religion and politics

Dr. Yuhua Qiao

Research and professional interests: Public risk management; public procurement; politics in state budgeting; interstate fiscal disparities; revenue forecasting; China’s pension system; China revenue policies China’s health policies

Dr. David Romano

Research and professional interests: Nationalism; Social movements; Non-state actors; Politicized Islam; Middle-East and Mediterranean politics (special emphasis on Turkey, Iraq, the Kurds, and other Middle Eastern minorities); Forced migration

Dr. Patrick G. Scott

Research and professional interests: Bureaucracy; red tape; leadership; strategic management; program evaluation

Emeriti faculty

Dr. George Connor