Political Science Faculty
Andrew Appleton
Associate Professor
appleton@wsu.edu
509-335-4025
Johnson Tower 815, WSU Pullman
Dr. Appleton's research interests include comparative politics, political parties, post-industrial societies, and political behavior.
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Dana Baker
Assistant Professor
bakerdl@vancouver.wsu.edu
360-546-9125
MMC 202N, WSU Vancouver
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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Nicole Burtchett
Adjunct
nicoleb@mail.wsu.edu
Johnson Tower 723, WSU Pullman
Cornell Clayton
Professor
cornell@mail.wsu.edu
509-335-2427
Johnson Tower 817, WSU Pullman
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 co-editor of Political Research Quarterly.
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Martha Cottam
Professor
cottam@wsu.edu
509-335-7997
Johnson Tower 813, WSU Pullman
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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Erin Kimball
Adjunct
Johnson Tower 819, WSU Pullman
Carolyn Long
Associate Professor
coelong@vancouver.wsu.edu
360-546-9737
MMC 102A, WSU Vancouver
Dr. Long's research interests include public policy, the American constitution, civil liberties, judicial process, and legislative process.
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Nicholas Lovrich
Professor
faclovri@wsu.edu
509-335-4811
Johnson Tower 701B, WSU Pullman
Dr. Lovrich's interests include public administration, public policy analysis, public personnel administration, natural resource and environmental administration, media and politics, and state and local government.
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Amy Mazur
Professor
mazur@wsu.edu
509-335-4615
Johnson Tower 822, WSU Pullman
Dr. Mazur is C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative feminist policy issues with a particular emphasis on France. She is co-editor of Political Research Quarterly and co-convener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. Her most recent books include The French Fifth Republic at Fifty: Beyond Stereotypes (co-edited, Palgrave, 2008) and Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology (co-edited, 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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Claire Metelits
Assistant Professor
cmetelits@wsu.edu
509-335-4042
Johnson Tower 823, WSU Pullman
Dr. Metelits' research interests include non-state armed actors (insurgents, militias, criminal organizations), contemporary state-building, conflict, and international security.
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David Nice
Professor
dnice@wsu.edu
509-335-8320
Johnson Tower 808, WSU Pullman
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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Mitchell Pickerill
Associate Professor
mitchp@wsu.edu
509-335-4544
Johnson Tower 821, WSU Pullman
Dr. Pickerill's areas of specialization include law and courts and American politics.
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Thomas Preston
Professor
tpreston@wsunix.wsu.edu
509-335-5225
Johnson Tower 823, WSU Pullman
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.
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Travis Ridout
Associate Professor
tnridout@wsu.edu
509-335-2264
Johnson Tower 816, WSU Pullman
Dr. Ridout's research interests include presidential nominations and campaign effects, political communication, political participation, and political methodology.
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Steven Stehr
Associate Professor & Chair
stehr@wsu.edu
509-335-2544
Johnson Tower 801, WSU Pullman
Dr. Stehr's primary teaching and research areas are public administration, public policy, and disasters and emergency management.
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Mark Stephan
Associate Professor
stephanm@vancouver.wsu.edu
360-546-9467
MMC 202U, WSU Vancouver
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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Paul Thiers
Associate Professor
pthiers@vancouver.wsu.edu
360-546-9466
MMC 102S, WSU Vancouver
Dr. Thiers' 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.
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Andrew Thomas
Adjunct
marmmot2001@yahoo.com
Johnson Tower 622, WSU Pullman
Matthew Weidenfeld
Assistant Professor
mweiden@wsu.edu
509-335-8701
Johnson Tower 808, WSU Pullman
Dr. Weidenfeld's interests lie at the intersection of phenomenology and ancient Greek political thought. He is currently working on two interrelated projects. The first is a phenomenological examination of political judgment, which draws on the work of Martin Heidegger and Hubert Dreyfus. The second is a reading of Being and Time as a resurrection of Aristotle's practical philosophy, which argues that the model of phronesis developed therein is an appropriate response to the conditions of the modern public.
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