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Faculty and Staff

Full-time Faculty

 

Please note: Faculty vitae in pdf format are available by clicking the instructor's name. You may download the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader from the Adobe web site.

Dr. Susan J. Buck

Dr. Susan Buck

Associate Professor; BS, University of Florida; MS, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Teaching areas: environmental law and policy, public policy, administrative law, and ethics. Research areas: common pool resources and state wildlife management. 

Courses: PSC 300, 310, 313, 314,510K, 601; ENV 100
sjbuck@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0520

Dr. William E. Crowther
Dr. Crowther Professor; BA, Humboldt State University; MA, PhD, UCLA Teaching areas: comparative politics, democratization. Research areas: Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, nationalism, and inter-ethnic politics.

Courses: PSC 260, 350, 352, 355K, 361 
wecrowth@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0519

Dr. Ruth H. DeHoog
Dr. Ruth DeHoog Professor and Department Head; BA, Calvin College; MA, PhD, Michigan State University Teaching areas: public administration, organizational behavior, urban management,and privatization. Research areas: community development, government-nonprofit relations. 

Courses: PSC 600, 612, 630
rhdehoog@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0511

Dr. Robert J. Griffiths
Dr. Griffiths Associate Professor; BS, University of Vermont; MA, PhD, University of Connecticut Research and teaching areas: comparative and international politics, African politics, civil-military relations, and the politics of development 

Courses: PSC 250,290, 340, 341W, 347, 391
rjgriffi@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0518

Dr. David Holian
Dr. Holian Associate Professor; BA, Northwestern University; PhD, Indiana University Research and teaching areas: the presidency, legislative politics, mass media, public opinion, and political methodology.

Courses: PSC 100, 300, 333, 334
dbholian@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0514

Dr. Susan W. Johnson
Assistant Professor; BA, Carson-Newman College, MA, Appalachian State University;
PhD, University of South Carolina
Research areas: American politics; judicial politics, Supreme Court decisionmaking, Canadian Supreme Court

Courses: PSC 100, 316, 318, 320, 336
swjohnso@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0512

Dr. Fabrice Lehoucq
Associate Professor; BA, University of Pittsburgh, MA, PhD., Duke University Teaching areas: Comparative politics, Latin American Politics, Political Economy of Development

Courses: PSC 260, 300, 355P Fabrice_Lehoucq@uncg.edu

(336) 334-9822

Dr. Kenneth Klase
Dr. Klase Associate Professor and Director of the MPA Program; BA, Ohio State University; MBA, Auburn University; DPA, University of Georgia Teaching and research areas: public administration, public budgeting and finance, and public financial management. 

Courses: PSC 510M, 512, 603, 603L, 604 
kaklase@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0510

Dr. Gregory McAvoy
Dr. McAvoy Associate Professor; BA, Pomona College; PhD, University of Minnesota Teaching and research areas: public policy, research methods, environmental policy, and program evaluation.. 

Courses: PSC 210, 301, 302, 329, 611 
gemcavoy@uncg.edu; website

(336) 256-0517

 

Dr. Charles L. Prysby
Professor; BS, Illinois Institute of Technology; PhD, Michigan State University Teaching and research areas: research methods, elections, voting behavior, political parties, southern politics, and contextual analysis .

Courses: PSC 301, 327, 332, 328, 602
prysby@uncg.edu; website

(336) 334-5048

Dr. Jerry Pubantz

Professor; BS, Georgetown University; PhD, Duke University

 

 

Teaching and research areas: international politics, Middle East politics, the United Nations, American Foreign Policy, and globalization

Courses: PSC 240, 342, 344, 348, 355
j_pubant@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0516

Dr. Carisa R. Showden

Assistant Professor; AB, Syracuse University;
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Teaching and research areas: feminist theory, theoretical and cultural constructions of agency, domestic violence, democratic theory, women and politics, modern political thought, and post-structuralism

Courses: PSC 105, 270, 335, 336
crshowde@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0515

Dr. Takashi Tsukamoto

Assistant Professor; Diploma, Chartered Institute of Marketing; MBA, Heriot-Watt University; MMR, University of Georgia; PhD, University of Louisville

Teaching and research areas: urban politics and governance, economic and community development, urban policy, public administration, globalization and city, and comparative urban development

Courses: PSC 310, 323, 399, 520, 620, 630
t_tsukam@uncg.edu

(336) 256-0513

 

 

Retired Faculty

Dr. B. David Meyers Associate Professor; BA, SUNY at Binghamton; MA, Boston University; PhD, UCLA
Dr. David M. Olson
Professor; BA, MA, PhD,University of California at Berkeley

Lecturers

Jeff Colbert, mjcolber@uncg.edu - PSC 100, 105, 210, 399
Leigh Sink
alsink@uncg.edu - PSC 100, 105, 240

Part-Time Faculty

Dr. Thom Little, sllfthom@aol.com - PSC 100, 322, 330, 530,
Elizabeth McNamara e_mcnama@uncg.edu - PSC 105, 260

Adam Van Liere, anvanlie@uncg.edu- PSC 105, 240

 

Staff

Maggie Davis, Administrative Secretary mldavis@uncg.edu
Cheryl Hylton, Program Assistant cmhylton@uncg.edu

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