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Department of Political Science

Faculty and Staff

Full-time Faculty

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Dr. Susan J. 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
	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
	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
	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
	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, 355M Fabrice_Lehoucq@uncg.edu (336) 334-9822 Personal Homepage
Dr. Kenneth 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
	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. Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez
	Assistant Professor BA, Florida International University MPA, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey MSW, Ph.D., The University of Georgia	Teaching areas: nonprofit management and leadership, philanthropy and resource development, public administration and policy Research areas: immigrant impact on the nonprofit sector, federal immigration policy, identity-based nonprofit organizations, Latino-serving nonprofit organizations, organizational effectiveness	Courses: PSC 540, 550, 310 dxrodrig@uncg.edu (336) 256-8531
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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