Faculty & Staff

Lisa Carlson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Lisa Carlson is an associate professor of Political Science. Her main areas of research interest are: International and Domestic Conflict Processes, and Theories of Deterrence and Escalation.
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Jie Chen
Dean & William Borah Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Jie Chen is the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and a William Borah Distinguished Professor of Political Science.
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Don Crowley, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
Don Crowley is the Department Chair and a professor of Ploitical Science. His areas of research interest are: Privacy, the Supreme Court and the Cultural War, and Law and Social Change.
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Nickolas Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Nickolas Jorgensen is an assistant professor of Political Science. His academic areas of research interest are: Comparative Judicial Politics, International Relations, Democratization, Ethnicity and Nationalism, and Political Development, Conflict Studies.
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Johoo Lee
Assistant Professor
Johoo Lee is an assistant professor in the Deapartment of Political Science. His academic areas of interest are: Public Management/Public Organizational Theory, Human Resource Management, E-government, Social Networks, and Research Methods.
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William Lund, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
William Lund is a professor of Political Science. His areas of research interest are: History of Political Theory (esp. Hobbes) and Contemporary Liberalism and Its Libertarian and Communitarian Critics.
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Bryan McQuide, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Bryan McQuide is an assistant professor of Political Science. His academic areas of research interest are: Interest group lobbying, American political institutions, technology policy. Courses taught: Introduction to Political Science and American Government, American Presidency, American State and Local Politics, Policy Deliberation in the New Information Society, American Interest Groups and Social Movements, American Congress, and Public Policy.
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Sandra Reineke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Sandra Reineke is an assistant professor of political Science and is the coordinator of the Women's Studies program. Her areas of interest include political philosophy, democratic theory, social movements, feminist political theory, sexual politics, causes of war, and human rights.
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Manoj K. Shrestha
Assistant Professor
Manoj K. Shrestha is an assistant professor in Political Science. His aeas of academic interest are: Local Government, Public Policy, Water Governance, Empirical Network Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Collaborative Management and Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, Local Finance, and Self-Organizing Community.