School Leadership
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Thomas PrestonProfessor & Director |
Research Interests: Within political psychology and foreign policy analyses, Dr. Preston has explored how the individual characteristics and styles of political leaders affect the ways in which they structure their advisory systems, use information and advice, or make policy decisions. In the security field, his focus has been upon homeland security issues, bio-terrorism, and current trends in nuclear and biological weapons proliferation. |
Faculty
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Dana BakerAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Baker's primary research interests are in disability, health, and scientific policy with a North American comparative focus. She has a special interest in policies addressing neurological differences and neurodiversity. |
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Joe CampbellProfessor |
Research Interests: Dr. Campbell's research interests include metaphysics, epistemology, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of science. |
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Cornell ClaytonProfessor |
Research Interests: Dr. Clayton has taught a variety of courses on courts, law, and American political institutions since joining the faculty in 1992. His research interests include public law, American government, and political theory, and he is currently coeditor of Political Research Quarterly. |
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Martha CottamProfessor & Graduate Director |
Research Interests: Dr. Cottam's research interests include political–psychological factors in decision-making, international politics, U.S.–Latin American relations, and North-South conflict and cooperation. |
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Bill KabasencheAssistant Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Kabasenche's research interests include bioethics and ethics (virtue ethics, moral psychology). |
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Claudia LeebAssistant Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Leeb's areas of interest include contemporary political theory and philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century continental political thought, feminist political theory, Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, psychoanalysis, democratic theory, and history of political thought. |
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Carolyn LongAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Long's research interests include public policy, the American constitution, civil liberties, judicial process, and legislative process. |
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Anthony C. LopezAssistant Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Lopez is broadly engaged in research at the intersection of international conflict, political psychology, and evolutionary theory. He is particularly interested in the investigation of war (or coalitional aggression in general) as a product of an evolved coalitional psychology, as well as the seemingly intimate relationship between inter-group conflict and within-group cooperation. |
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Amy MazurProfessor |
Research Interests: Dr. Mazur's interests focus on comparative feminist policy issues with a particular emphasis on France. She is coeditor of Political Research Quarterly and coconvener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. Her most recent books include The French Fifth Republic at Fifty: Beyond Stereotypes (coedited, Palgrave, 2008) and Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology (coedited, Cambridge University Press, 2008), and she has recently published articles in European Political Science, Review of Policy Research, French Politics, and Politics and Gender. |
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Michael W. MyersProfessor |
Research Interests: Dr. Myers's research interests include philosophy of religion and Indian and comparative philosophy. |
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David NiceProfessor |
Research Interests: Dr. Nice's research interests include the presidency and legislative behavior, American politics, state and local politics, public budgeting, research methods, and political parties. |
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Nathan NicolClinical Assistant Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Nicol specializes in ethics and ancient philosophy, with additional research and teaching interests in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy. |
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Travis RidoutAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Ridout's research interests include presidential nominations and campaign effects, political communication, political participation, and political methodology. |
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Michael SalamoneAssistant Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Salamone specializes in judicial politics, American government, and inter-branch relations. He is interested in how the public, news media, and elected officials respond to U.S. Supreme Court decisions. |
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David ShierAssociate Professor & Undergraduate Studies Director |
Research Interests: Dr. Shier specializes in philosophy of language and history of analytic philosophy, with additional research and teaching interests in logic, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. |
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Robert SnyderInstructor |
Research Interests: Dr. Snyder specializes in philosophy of religion, Asian philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism), and Middle Eastern philosophy (Islam), with additional research and teaching interests in interfaith dialogue, spirituality, Christian theology, East–West studies, and ethical theory. |
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Steven StehrAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Stehr's primary teaching and research areas are public administration, public policy, and disasters and emergency management. |
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Mark StephanAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Stephan's research interests include American politics, political behavior, research methods, public policy, bureaucratic politics, democratic theory, and environmental politics. |
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Matt StichterAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Stichter's research interests include ethical theory and applied ethics. |
Paul ThiersAssociate Professor |
Research Interests: Dr. Thiers's research focuses on political issues relating to globalization, international trade (especially food trade), and social and environmental justice, with a specific emphasis on rural China and a regional emphasis on the Pacific Rim. Recent research projects have focused on Chinese pesticide policy, China's integration into international organic food markets, and China's accession to the World Trade Organization. |