Meet Our Faculty

Research Interests: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; Climate Risk Management and Resilience Planning; Refugee Challenges and Disaster Risk Management; Sustainability-Peace Nexus; Land Use Change and Growth Management; United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Research interests: Dynamics of power and how these dynamics foster behavior between states both in conflict and cooperation.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Research interests: American National Government, Contemporary Political Ideologies, Constitutional Law, American Political Thought

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

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

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 group facilitation as Associate Director of the Dispute Resolution Program at Boise State. Bayard consults actively—presenting workshops, facilitating groups and mediating disputes.

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

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

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

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

Research interests: Developmental and biosocial criminology, policing and forensics, drug policy, quantitative methods.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Research interests: Police personnel issues and criminological theory.

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

Research Interests: The impact of deindustrialization on the American West and western urban identity.

Research interests: Victimology and victim services.

Research interests: Collaboration in environmental governance; environmental hermeneutics; environmental ethics and philosophy; philosophy of science and technology; philosophy of the imagination and place.

Research interests: Language in politics, the development of political attitudes, and how citizens seek out and process political information.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Research Interests: U.S. military interventions and occupations in the Caribbean and Latin America, Pan-Americanism and Latinoamericanismo, Puerto Rican military service and militarization in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s, Inter-American relations.

Research interests: Political philosophy

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

Research interests: American government and politics.

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

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

Research interests: Cities, Boise.