Meet Our Faculty
Faculty
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Saleh Ahmed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Programs
Research Interests: Coastal vulnerability, inclusive adaptation, and equitable resilience; sustainability-peace nexus; and growth management and socio-cultural sustainability
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Programs
Research Interests: Coastal vulnerability, inclusive adaptation, and equitable resilience; sustainability-peace nexus; and growth management and socio-cultural sustainability
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Michael A. Allen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Faculty in ResidenceResearch interests: Asymmetric conflict and cooperation, war, US foreign policy, overseas troop deployments, hegemony, hierarchy, alliances, power, trade, and quantitative modeling.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Faculty in ResidenceResearch interests: Asymmetric conflict and cooperation, war, US foreign policy, overseas troop deployments, hegemony, hierarchy, alliances, power, trade, and quantitative modeling.
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Kathleen Araújo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Innovation, and Policy
Director, Energy Policy InstituteInterests: 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 of Sustainable Energy Systems, Innovation, and Policy
Director, Energy Policy InstituteInterests: 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.
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Amanda Johnson Ashley, Ph.D.
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, 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.
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Nisha Bellinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Lead, Global Studies
Program Lead, M.A. in Political ScienceResearch interests: Political economic themes, political regimes, human well-being outcomes.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Lead, Global Studies
Program Lead, M.A. in Political ScienceResearch interests: Political economic themes, political regimes, human well-being outcomes.
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Chris Birdsall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Research interests: Public management, performance management, and higher education.
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Research interests: Public management, performance management, and higher education.
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Sophia Borgias, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Lisa Growette Bostaph, Ph.D.
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, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Race and policing, domestic violence and criminal justice system response, and the public perception of the criminal justice system.
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Ross Burkhart, Ph.D.
Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Research interests: Explanatory factors of cross-national democratization patterns, Canada-U.S. Borderlands and environmental policy, and political culture.
Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Research interests: Explanatory factors of cross-national democratization patterns, Canada-U.S. Borderlands and environmental policy, and political culture.
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Isaac Castellano, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Political Science
Research interests: State security policy, including defense spending, the role of militias, civil war intervention, and climate change.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Political Science
Research interests: State security policy, including defense spending, the role of militias, civil war intervention, and climate change.
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Chris Courtheyn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Globalization and development, peace and conflict, race, gender, class, migration, urbanization, performance, and social movements, especially in Latin America.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Globalization and development, peace and conflict, race, gender, class, migration, urbanization, performance, and social movements, especially in Latin America.
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Dan Dexheimer, M.A.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Teaching interests: Corrections, Violent Crime, Criminal Justice Policy.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Teaching interests: Corrections, Violent Crime, Criminal Justice Policy.
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Ana-Maria Dimand, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Research Interests: Public management, government contracting, environmental policy, sustainability, collaborative governance, innovation policy.
Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration
Research Interests: Public management, government contracting, environmental policy, sustainability, collaborative governance, innovation policy.
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Luke Fowler, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Elizabeth Fredericksen, Ph.D.
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
Research interests: Intergovernmental relations and networked governance, public and nonprofit management, organizational behavior/ethics, personnel policy
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John Freemuth, Ph.D.
Professor, Public Policy and Administration
University Distinguished Professor;
Cecil D. Andrus Chair for Environment and Public Lands, Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public PolicyIn Memoriam. The School of Public service mourns the passing of our friend and colleague John Freemuth.
Professor, Public Policy and Administration
University Distinguished Professor;
Cecil D. Andrus Chair for Environment and Public Lands, Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public PolicyIn Memoriam. The School of Public service mourns the passing of our friend and colleague John Freemuth.
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Vanessa Fry, MBA, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor
Interim Director, Idaho Policy InstituteResearch interests: Utilizing multi-sector, evidenced-based solutions to address persistent social, environmental, and economic issues and meet the current and critical needs in communities across Idaho and beyond.
Associate Research Professor
Interim Director, Idaho Policy InstituteResearch interests: Utilizing multi-sector, evidenced-based solutions to address persistent social, environmental, and economic issues and meet the current and critical needs in communities across Idaho and beyond.
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Shaun Gann, Ph.D.
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 Professor, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Correctional programming and policy; juvenile justice policy; juvenile court decision-making; developmental criminology; criminal careers; quantitative analytic methods.
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Stewart Gardner, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor, Political Science
Research interests: Platonic Political Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Political Thought, and American Political Thought
Assistant Clinical Professor, Political Science
Research interests: Platonic Political Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Political Thought, and American Political Thought
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Andrew L. Giacomazzi, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Lane Gillespie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Victimization, gender, intimate partner violence, rural crime and justice, capital punishment sentencing.
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Victimization, gender, intimate partner violence, rural crime and justice, capital punishment sentencing.
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Bayard Gregory, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Lori Hausegger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, Canadian StudiesResearch interests: Comparative courts, judicial selection, judicial decision-making and court-Congress relations.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, Canadian StudiesResearch interests: Comparative courts, judicial selection, judicial decision-making and court-Congress relations.
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Monica Hubbard, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Marianne Hudson, M.A.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Teaching interests: Corrections, law, organized crime, juvenile justice
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Teaching interests: Corrections, law, organized crime, juvenile justice
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Charles Hunt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Teaching and research interests: Congressional representation and elections, electoral competition, political methodology.
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Teaching and research interests: Congressional representation and elections, electoral competition, political methodology.
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Cody Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Drug policy, gun violence, developmental and biosocial criminology, policing and forensics, quantitative methods
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Drug policy, gun violence, developmental and biosocial criminology, policing and forensics, quantitative methods
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Jaclyn J. Kettler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, NEW Leadership IdahoResearch interests: American politics with an emphasis on state politics, political parties & interest groups, campaign finance, and women in politics.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, NEW Leadership IdahoResearch interests: American politics with an emphasis on state politics, political parties & interest groups, campaign finance, and women in politics.
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Laura King, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Program Lead, Criminal JusticeResearch interests: Sexual violence, intimate partner violence, victim services, and gender and crime.
Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Program Lead, Criminal JusticeResearch interests: Sexual violence, intimate partner violence, victim services, and gender and crime.
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William King, PhD
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.
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.
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Jacqueline Lee, Ph.D.
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 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.
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Stephanie Lenhart, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Environmental Studies, Public Policy and Administration; Senior Research Associate, Energy Policy Institute – Center for Advanced Energy Studies
Research interests: Energy and environmental policy, political economy, interactive governance, public participation, policy implementation
Assistant Research Professor, Environmental Studies, Public Policy and Administration; Senior Research Associate, Energy Policy Institute – Center for Advanced Energy Studies
Research interests: Energy and environmental policy, political economy, interactive governance, public participation, policy implementation
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Eric Lindquist, Ph.D.
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, 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
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Libby Lunstrum, Ph.D.
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, 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.
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Jeffrey Lyons, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Lead, Political ScienceResearch interests: American politics, specifically public opinion, political behavior, political psychology, and state politics.
Associate Professor, Political Science
Program Lead, Political ScienceResearch interests: American politics, specifically public opinion, political behavior, political psychology, and state politics.
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Lisa Meierotto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Global Studies
Director, Marilyn Shuler Human Rights InitiativeResearch interests: Race and ethnicity, human rights, environmental justice, border studies, applied anthropology.
Assistant Professor, Global Studies
Director, Marilyn Shuler Human Rights InitiativeResearch interests: Race and ethnicity, human rights, environmental justice, border studies, applied anthropology.
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Jillian Moroney, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Ashley Orme, M.A.
Program Lead, Conflict Management
Research interests: Conflict Management, Collaboration, Team Dynamics, Process Improvement and Organizational Culture.
Program Lead, Conflict Management
Research interests: Conflict Management, Collaboration, Team Dynamics, Process Improvement and Organizational Culture.
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Sanghee Park, Ph.D.
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, 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.
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Krista Paulsen, PhD
Associate Professor
Program Lead, Urban StudiesTeaching and research interests: urban and community sociology; housing, home, and neighborhood; environment; culture and consumption; qualitative methods.
Associate Professor
Program Lead, Urban StudiesTeaching and research interests: urban and community sociology; housing, home, and neighborhood; environment; culture and consumption; qualitative methods.
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Heidi Reeder, Ph.D.
Professor, LEAD Certificates
Program lead, LEAD Certificates
Research and teaching interests: leadership communication, gender, commitment
Professor, LEAD Certificates
Program lead, LEAD Certificates
Research and teaching interests: leadership communication, gender, commitment
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Mari Rice, Ed.D.
Core Faculty and Internship Coordinator, Environmental Studies Coordinator, Certificate in Environmental Education
Research interests: environmental education, experiential learning, water resources, sustainable agriculture, waste reduction, and campus sustainability.
Core Faculty and Internship Coordinator, Environmental Studies Coordinator, Certificate in Environmental Education
Research interests: environmental education, experiential learning, water resources, sustainable agriculture, waste reduction, and campus sustainability.
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Marc Ruffinengo, M.A.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Police personnel issues and criminological theory.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Police personnel issues and criminological theory.
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Jen Schneider, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Danielle Swerin, M.A.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Victimology and victim services.
Lecturer, Criminal Justice
Research interests: Victimology and victim services.
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Brian N. Thompson, M.S.
Clinical Faculty, LEAD Certificates
Assistant Lead, LEAD CertificatesTeaching interests: Emotional Intelligence, Relational Leadership, Organizational Trust, and Leading Cross-Functional Teams.
Clinical Faculty, LEAD Certificates
Assistant Lead, LEAD CertificatesTeaching interests: Emotional Intelligence, Relational Leadership, Organizational Trust, and Leading Cross-Functional Teams.
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Christopher Torres, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Stephen Utych, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Julie VanDusky-Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Research interests: Formal and informal institutions, political parties, legislative politics, citizens’ evaluations of democratic outcomes, political participation, military spending, COVID-19 policy responses.
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Research interests: Formal and informal institutions, political parties, legislative politics, citizens’ evaluations of democratic outcomes, political participation, military spending, COVID-19 policy responses.
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Emily Wakild, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Studies
Program Lead, Environmental StudiesResearch interests: Nature Conservation, Resource Use, Science and Society, Latin American and Latina/o history.
Environmental StudiesProfessor, Environmental Studies
Program Lead, Environmental StudiesResearch interests: Nature Conservation, Resource Use, Science and Society, Latin American and Latina/o history.
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Brian Wampler, Ph.D.
Professor, Political Science
Research Director, School of Public ServiceResearch interests: New democratic institutions, civil society, diffusion of innovative democratic institutions, human development, participatory budgeting, subnational governance, global cities, Global South, Latin American, Africa.
Professor, Political Science
Research Director, School of Public ServiceResearch interests: New democratic institutions, civil society, diffusion of innovative democratic institutions, human development, participatory budgeting, subnational governance, global cities, Global South, Latin American, Africa.
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Jessica Wells, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Stephanie Witt, Ph.D.
Professor, Public Policy and Administration
School of Public Service Director of TrainingDr. 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, Public Policy and Administration
School of Public Service Director of TrainingDr. 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.
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Scott Yenor, Ph.D.
Professor, Political Science
Research interests: Political philosophy
Professor, Political Science
Research interests: Political philosophy
Faculty Emeriti
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Les Alm, Ph.D.
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.
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.
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Richard Kinney, Ph.D.
Professor, Emeritus, Political Science
Research interests: American government and politics.
Professor, Emeritus, Political Science
Research interests: American government and politics.
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Susan Mason, Ph.D.
Professor, Emerita, School of Public Service
Research interests: Regional governance and economics, community development, and sustainability.
Professor, Emerita, School of Public Service
Research interests: Regional governance and economics, community development, and sustainability.
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Gary Moncrief, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Political Science
Dr. Gary Moncrief is a University Foundation Research Scholar and University Distinguished Professor of Political Science.
University Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Political Science
Dr. Gary Moncrief is a University Foundation Research Scholar and University Distinguished Professor of Political Science.
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Gregory Raymond, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Political Science
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Political Science
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Todd Shallat, Ph.D.
Professor, Emeritus, School of Public Service
Research interests: Cities, Boise.
Professor, Emeritus, School of Public Service
Research interests: Cities, Boise.
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Professor, Emeritus, Criminal Justice