Meet Our Faculty

Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Programs

Research Interests: Coastal vulnerability, inclusive adaptation, and equitable resilience; sustainability-peace nexus; and growth management and socio-cultural sustainability

Associate Professor, Political Science
Faculty in Residence

Research interests: Asymmetric conflict and cooperation, war, US foreign policy, overseas troop deployments, hegemony, hierarchy, alliances, power, trade, and quantitative modeling.

Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Innovation, and Policy
Director, Energy Policy Institute

Interests: Strategic planning and management in energy transitions; Sustainable energy; Energy-environmental systems; Comparative policy, innovation systems and better practices in sustainability and resilience; International nuclear safety and cyber security; Science and technology policy.

Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Community Development

Research interests: Urban revitalization through property-based economic development, public/private partnerships, and civic collaboration; defense investments in cities with a focus on the redevelopment of former military bases.

Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Lead, Global Studies
Program Lead, M.A. in Political Science

Research interests: Political economic themes, political regimes, human well-being outcomes.

Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration

Research interests: Public management, performance management, and higher education.

Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Programs

Research interests: Water and environmental governance in the arid Americas; rural-urban water conflicts; political ecology; Indigenous rights and stewardship; social movements, coalition-building, and unlikely alliances; collaborative and community-engaged research.

Professor, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Race and policing, domestic violence and criminal justice system response, and the public perception of the criminal justice system.

Professor, Public Policy and Administration

Research interests: Explanatory factors of cross-national democratization patterns, Canada-U.S. Borderlands and environmental policy, and political culture.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Political Science

Research interests: State security policy, including defense spending, the role of militias, civil war intervention, and climate change.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Globalization and development, peace and conflict, race, gender, class, migration, urbanization, performance, and social movements, especially in Latin America.

Lecturer, Criminal Justice

Teaching interests: Corrections, Violent Crime, Criminal Justice Policy.

Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration

Research Interests: Public management, government contracting, environmental policy, sustainability, collaborative governance, innovation policy.

Associate Professor, Public Policy and Administration
School of Public Service Faculty Director

Research Interests: Policy implementation, collaboration and collective action, energy and environmental policy, and state and local government.

Professor, Public Policy and Administration

Research interests: Intergovernmental relations and networked governance, public and nonprofit management, organizational behavior/ethics, personnel policy

Professor, Public Policy and Administration
University Distinguished Professor;
Cecil D. Andrus Chair for Environment and Public Lands, Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public Policy

In Memoriam. The School of Public service mourns the passing of our friend and colleague John Freemuth.

Associate Research Professor
Interim Director, Idaho Policy Institute

Vanessa’s research and teaching focus on the role of multi-sector, evidenced-based solutions in addressing persistent social, environmental, and economic issues. Much of her recent research has focused on housing and homelessness. Before moving to Boise to earn her PhD at Boise State, Vanessa lived in the Wood River Valley and worked with a number of nonprofit organizations.  As a co-founder and chair of Sustain Blaine (now Sun Valley Economic Development), Vanessa collaborated with stakeholders across the community to create a regional economic development strategy for all of Blaine County.

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice 

Research interests: Correctional programming and policy; juvenile justice policy; juvenile court decision-making; developmental criminology; criminal careers; quantitative analytic methods.

Assistant Clinical Professor, Political Science 

Research interests: Platonic Political Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Political Thought, and American Political Thought

Professor, Criminal Justice
Interim Dean of School of Public Service

Research interests: Program evaluation, community policing and problem-solving, organizational change, crime control, crime in public housing, community crime prevention, and domestic violence.

Associate Professor, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Victimization, gender, intimate partner violence, rural crime and justice, capital punishment sentencing.

Lecturer, Conflict Management

Research interests: Conflict management, negotiation, mediation, group facilitation and social/emotional intelligence. Dr. Bayard Gregory teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conflict management, negotiation, mediation, and emotional intelligence in the Conflict Management Program at Boise State. Bayard also consults: presenting workshops, facilitating groups, and mediating disputes.

Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, Canadian Studies

Research interests: Comparative courts, judicial selection, judicial decision-making and court-Congress relations.

Associate Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Program Lead, MPA and Nonprofit Administration programs

Research interests: Environmental, natural resources, energy, and emerging technological and environmental issues.

Lecturer, Criminal Justice

Teaching interests: Corrections, law, organized crime, juvenile justice

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Teaching and research interests: Congressional representation and elections, electoral competition, political methodology.

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Drug policy, gun violence, developmental and biosocial criminology, policing and forensics, quantitative methods

Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, NEW Leadership Idaho

Research interests: American politics with an emphasis on state politics, political parties & interest groups, campaign finance, and women in politics.

Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Program Lead, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Sexual violence, intimate partner violence, victim services, and gender and crime.

Professor, Criminal Justice

Research interests: police organizational structure, the life course and disbanding of police agencies, crime lab performance, criminal investigations and forensics, ballistics imaging systems, police executives.

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Courts and sentencing, criminal justice policy, integration of social science research with legal research, inequalities in the justice system, and the female experience of violence, offending, and punishment.

Assistant Research Professor, Global Studies and Urban Studies & Community Development

Senior Research Associate, Energy Policy InstituteResearch interests: Energy and public lands policy, political economy, interorganizational relations, organizational collaboration and adaptation.

Associate Professor, School of Public Service

Research interests: Public policy and decision processes, agenda setting, earth systems governance, and the impact of focusing events on public policy, as well as environmental policy and science and technology policy

Associate Professor,  Environmental Studies and Global Studies

Teaching and research interests: biodiversity conservation, wildlife crime/illegal wildlife trade (IWT), green militarization, environmental displacement, human dimensions of global environmental change, indigenous-led conservation, political ecology, and international borders.

Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Lead, Political Science

Research interests: American politics, specifically public opinion, political behavior, political psychology, and state politics.

Assistant Professor, Global Studies
Director, Marilyn Shuler Human Rights Initiative

Research interests: Race and ethnicity, human rights, environmental justice, border studies, applied anthropology.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Urban Studies  

Research Interests: Development at the rural-urban interface, bioregional planning, public land preservation, stakeholder engagement, and community protection and use of natural resources.

Program Lead, Conflict Management

Research interests: Conflict Management, Collaboration, Team Dynamics, Process Improvement and Organizational Culture.

Associate Professor, Public Policy and Administration

Research interests: Dynamics that determines different types of policy outcomes, changes, and performances, which is often at the intersection of public administration and political science.

Associate Professor
Program Lead, Urban Studies

Teaching and research interests: urban and community sociology; housing, home, and neighborhood; environment; culture and consumption; qualitative methods.

Professor, LEAD Certificates
Program lead, LEAD Certificates

Research and teaching interests: leadership communication, gender, commitment

Lecturer, Environmental Studies
Internship Coordinator, Environmental Studies

Research interests: Experiential learning, water resources, sustainable agriculture, waste reduction, and campus sustainability.

Lecturer, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Police personnel issues and criminological theory.

Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Interim Associate Dean of School of Public Service

Research interests: Public communication of scientific and environmental controversies, with a particular focus on industry rhetoric and discourses of technical expertise.

Lecturer, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Victimology and victim services.

Clinical Faculty, LEAD Certificates
Assistant Lead, LEAD Certificates

Teaching interests: Emotional Intelligence, Relational Leadership, Organizational Trust, and Leading Cross-Functional Teams.

Lecturer, Environmental Studies

Research Interests: Political philosophy, democracy and public administration, public sector ethics, public trust in democratic institutions and processes, public participation in government program design and decision-making.

Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Director, Ph.D. 

Research interests: Political psychology, political behavior, and political communication broadly, both within the context of American and comparative politics.

Assistant Professor, Political Science 

Research interests: How political parties adapt to institutional limits on their power; how US troop deployments influence foreign policy decision making in other countries.

Professor, Environmental Studies
Program Lead, Environmental Studies

Research interests: Nature Conservation, Resource Use, Science and Society, Latin American and Latina/o history.

Professor, Political Science
Research Director, School of Public Service

Research interests: New democratic institutions, civil society, diffusion of innovative democratic institutions, human development, participatory budgeting, subnational governance, global cities, Global South, Latin American, Africa.

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

Research interests: Biosocial underpinnings of antisocial behavior and associated psychological traits including self-control, aggression, and psychopathy; Stress and development; substance use and abuse; Spatial/environmental criminology; Crime Mapping.

Professor, Public Policy and Administration
School of Public Service Director of Training

Dr. Stephanie Witt is Director of Training for the School of Public Service. She is also a Professor in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Political Science programs. Her research interests include intergovernmental relations and human resource management. She is the former Editor of the Social Science Journal, and has served as Department Chair, Associate Dean, and the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Professor, Political Science

Research interests: Political philosophy

University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Public Policy and Administration

Research interests: Environmental policy with attention to the science-policy linkage, the United States-Canada relationship, and borderlands issues.

Professor, Emeritus, Political Science

Research interests: American government and politics.

Professor, Emerita, School of Public Service

Research interests: Regional governance and economics, community development, and sustainability.

University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Political Science

Dr. Gary Moncrief is a University Foundation Research Scholar and University Distinguished Professor of Political Science.

 Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Political Science

Professor, Emeritus, School of Public Service

Research interests: Cities, Boise.

Professor, Emeritus, Criminal Justice