Faculty Profiles
Brady Baybeck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director, of Public Policy Administration Program (PPA)
Ph.D, Washington University in St. Louis
Prof. Baybeck's current research examines political
geography, particularly at the level of the individual and local government.
His teaching and research interests focus on the use of geographic information
systems (GIS) and quantitative data in useful policy and political research.
He has published in The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Political Geography, Political
Analysis, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
Personal Webpage: http://www.umsl.edu/~baybeckb
Email: baybeck@umsl.edu Office: 406 Tower, Phone: (314) 516-5146
Glen Hahn Cope , Ph.D.
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
and Professor of Political Science
Ph.D in Public Administration, The Ohio State University
Glen Hahn Cope is Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
As Provost she reports to the Chancellor and is responsible for the academic affairs, student affairs, and research activities of the university. These include the Office of Research Administration, the Division of Student Affairs, and the Colleges, Schools, Centers, and other academic units.
Glen Hahn Cope holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University; an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and an A.B. in Economics from the University of Michigan. Her teaching and research interests include public and nonprofit budgeting and finance, and leadership and management of public and nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions, especially under conditions of fiscal stress. She has published extensively in professional journals and edited books, and frequently presents papers at professional meetings on topics in these areas. She has taught at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels including courses on: the profession of public administration; public and cost-benefit analysis; public administration and mangement; innovation in government; and policy research projects on state government finance and management, urban growth, and economic development.
Email: copeg@umsl.edu Office: 426 Woods Hall Phone: 314-516-5371
Brian Fogarty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Fogarty’s research and teaching interests focus on Congress, political communication, quantitative methodology and formal theory. In particular, he specializes in the strategic interaction between members of Congress and the news media. Recent research has appeared in Political Analysis and PS.
E-mail: fogartyb@umsl.edu Office: 800 Tower Phone: 314-516-5520
Andrew Glassberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
His primary area of research and teaching is urban politics and public policy. He is the author of Representation and Urban Community, a study of neighborhood government in London, and has been engaged for the last several years in research on how local governments deal with budgetary stringency. During the summer of 1993, Glassberg served as one of the first NASPAA Fellows at the Department of Defense. He studied defense conversion and is continuing as a consultant to the Office of Economic Adjustment. He is Co-editor of the American Review of Public Administration.
E-mail: glassberg@umsl.edu Office: 914 Tower Phone: 314-516-5506
Associate Professor, Academic Director,
Center for International Studies, and
Associate Provost, Academic Affairs
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Prof. Glassman is a specialist in Chinese and Japanese politics and U.S. relations with East Asia. He is especially interested in Chinese education. His current research interests include state and local government programs to enhance international competitiveness, and the future of U.S.-China relations. He is also continuing his study of public policy in the People's Republic of China and has published articles in Contemporary China, Asia Quarterly, and Comparative Education.
E-mail: jglassman@umsl.edu Office: 366 SSB Phone: 314-516-5755
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Washington University
Prof. Graham's teaching and research specialization is in the area of judicial politics and behavior. She regularly teaches the following undergraduate courses: Judicial Politics & Policy, Law, Courts & Politics, Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties and the Supreme Court. At the graduate level, Prof. Graham teaches the Proseminar in Public Law and Law, Courts & Public Policy. Her current research interests focuses on the politics of representation and judicial selection on the nation’s courts, Supreme Court policymaking in the areas of civil liberties and civil rights and examining critical race theory from a political framework of analysis. Her work has appeared in The Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Judicature and The Michigan Journal of Race& Law. Prof. Graham is the coauthor of The Supreme Court, Race and Civil Rights: From Marshall to Rehnquist (1995). She is currently conducting research that investigates the role political and structural variables play in understanding minority representation on state and federal courts.
E-mail: barbara.graham@umsl.edu Office: 343A SSB Phone: 314-516-5854
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
and Research Fellow in the Center for International Studies.
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Prof. Gros specializes in African politics, with an emphasis on Francophone Africa. He is particularly interested in the processes of democratization and economic development. In addition, Prof. Gros specializes in public policy administration, with an emphasis on health policy in the United States and the Third World.
E-mail: jg.gros@umsl.edu Office: 905 Tower Phone: 314-516-5848
Ruth Iyob, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Research Fellow in the Center for International
Studies.
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara.
Prof. Iyob specializes in African politics with an emphasis on the Horn of Africa. From 1991-93 she held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of African Studies and the Department of Political Science at Emory University. In 1993, she was an observer of the UN- sponsored referendum in Eritrea. She was a 1993-95 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Asmara. Her book, The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance & Nationalism, 1941-1993, was published in 1995 by Cambridge University Press.
E-mail: iyob@umsl.edu Office: 812 Tower Phone: 314-516-6372
Farida Jalalzai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Institute for Women's and
Gender Studies
Ph.D., University of Buffalo
Professor Jalalzai teaches classes in gender politics (the Politics of Gender in the United States and Gender and the Law) and political behavior (Introduction to Political Behavior). Her research analyzes the role of gender in political representation and political behavior. She is currently researching media coverage of men and women candidates for public office, the behavior of political widows in the U.S. Congress, and women’s executive representation worldwide. She has also conducted research with James E. Campbell on forecasting presidential elections at the state level. Her work has been published in the journals Women and Politics (December 2004) and The Journal of Political Marketing (forthcoming January 2006), and has a chapter forthcoming in the book Problems in American Political Marketing (Haworth Press, 2006).
E-mail: jalalzaif@umsl.edu Office: 904 Tower Phone: 314-516-5838
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Administration
and Internship Coordinator; Fellow, Public Policy Research Centers.
Ph.D., Georgetown University.
He is the author of The Metropolitan Chase: Politics and Policies in Urban America, Fragmented by Design: Why St. Louis Has So Many Governments and Conducting Political Research, as well as dozens of scholarly articles, chapters, and technical reports. He has served as a consultant to more than fifty governmental and non-profit agencies and has held offices in many professional and community organizations. His research interests are primarily in the area of metropolitan governance, urban public policy, state government, and public opinion.
E-mail: terry.jones@umsl.edu Office: 813 Tower Phone: 314-516-5511
David C. Kimball, Ph.D.
Associate Professor.
Ph.D. Ohio State University.
Professor Kimball teaches American government, political behavior, campaigns and elections, and research methodology. His research interests include divided government, electoral reform, representation in Congress, and interest group lobbying. His work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Social Science Computer Review, and edited volumes. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on split-ticket voting with Barry Burden.
E-mail: kimball@umsl.edu Office: 348B SSB Phone: 314-516-6050
Nancy T. Kinney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Administration and Director, Non-Profit Management &
Leadership Program
Ph.D. Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver.
Professor Kinney’s research focuses on the civic engagement of underrepresented groups in the policy formulation process. In particular, she has examined the implications of the charitable choice policy that promotes a broader welfare role for faith-based and community initiatives. In addition to courses in public policy and the politics of welfare, Prof. Kinney teaches in the University's Nonprofit Management and Leadership certificate program.
Web Site: www.umsl.edu/~kinneyn/ntkweb.htm
E-mail: ntkinney@umsl.edu Office: 901 Tower Phone: 314-516-5420
Richard T. Middleton, IV, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia.
Professor Middleton teaches African American Politics, Minority Group Politics, State Government, Foundations of Law, and Constitutional Law. His research focuses on the intersection of race and ethnicity in the evolution of political power, representation, public policy and law. His work has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Politics and Policy, The JSU Researcher and other edited volumes. He has forthcoming entries on the “Civil Rights of Hispanic Americans,” “Rights of Immigrants,” and “Civil Rights of Native Americans,” in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties and Rights (Greenwood Press). Prof. Middleton has conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and is currently working on a book-length manuscript that focuses on African American and Afro-Latino attitudes towards black identity. Prof. Middleton is also currently working towards a Juris Doctorate at the St. Louis University School of Law and has been named a "Dean's Scholar."
E-mail: middletonrt@umsl.edu Office: 803 Tower Phone: 314-516-6745
Joyce M. Mushaben, Ph.D.
Professor and Research Fellow, Center for International Studies
Ph.D., Indiana University.
Joyce Marie Mushaben (Ph. D., Political Science, Indiana University 1981) is a Professor of Comparative Politics, a Research Fellow in the Center for International Studies, and former Director of the Institute for Women's & Gender Studies (2002-2005). Fluent in German, her teaching centers on comparative public policy, European politics, women’s leadership, citizenship, immigration and globalization. Her research covers new social movements, youth protest, German unification and identities, gender, ethnicity and welfare policies, and the European Union.
Her books/monographs include From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes towards the National Question and NATO in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1995 (Westview, 1998); Identity without a Hinterland? Continuity and Change in National Consciousness in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989 (AICGS/Johns Hopkins University, 1993); The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Social Integration and Political Mobilization among Ethnic Minorities in Germany (Berghahn Books, 2008); and a co-edited text with Gabriele Abels, Gendering the European Union: New Responses to Old Democratic Deficits (forthcoming 2009). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Polity, West European Politics, German Politics, German Politics & Society, the Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Citizenship Studies and Femina Politica,. She serves on the Executive Boards of the International Association for the Study of German Politics, and the German Studies Association, as well as on Editorial Boards for German Politics & Society, and the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.
Having received a 1999 Trailblazer Award and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Creativity in 2007, Mushaben is a three-time Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1985 -1986, 2002, 2005); a former Ford Foundation Fellow (1989-1990), a guest scholar at the Academy for Social Sciences and the Central Institute for Youth Research (GDR). She was named the first Research Associate in the BMW Center for German & European Studies at Georgetown University (1990-91), a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University (1994-95), and Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Erfurt, Germany (1996). She is commonly known as “Dr. J.”
E-mail: mushaben@umsl.edu Office: 712 Tower Phone: 314-516-4908
David B. Robertson, Ph.D.
Professor and Fellow, Public Policy Research Center.
Ph.D., Indiana University.
Dave Robertson's interests include American national politics and policy, political history, political economy, labor, and environmental policy. His most recent book, The Constitution and America's Destiny (Cambridge University Press, 2005) explores the politics of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He is also the author of The Development of American Public Policy: The Structure of Policy Restraint (with Dennis Judd) and of Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle of American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal, and the editor of Loss of Confidence: Politics and Policy in the 1970s. He has published articles on federalism and public policy, program design, lesson-drawing, the new institutionalism, James Madison, and labor market policies in the United States and Great Britain. His article, "Madison's Opponents and Constitutional Design," in the American Political Science Review won the 2006 Mary Parker Follett Award for the Best Article in Politics and History published in 2005 (the award is presented by the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association). His articles in Policy Studies Review also have won national awards. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Policy History and he edits CLIO, the newsletter of the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Dave has received the Governor's, Chancellor's, and Emerson Electric Awards for Teaching Excellence. He is the political analyst for KSDK Television (NBC).
Web Site: www.umsl.edu/~poldrobe/index.html
E-mail: daverobertson@umsl.edu Office: 801 Tower Phone: 314-516-5855
J. Martin Rochester, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Professor Rochester is an international relations specialist who teaches and writes in the areas of international law, organization, and politics. His nine books include Waiting for the Millennium: The United Nations and the Future of World Order; Between Two Epochs; Between Peril and Promise: The Politics of International Law; and US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Gulliver’s Travails. His textbook The Global Condition (coauthored with Fred Pearson) has been used in many countries (including Spanish and Chinese language editions) and at hundreds of American universities. In addition, he has published in such scholarly journals as the American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and The Journal of Peace Research, and has served on the Governing Council of the International Studies Association. He is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at UM-St. Louis, and in 2001 was named a Distinguished Teaching Professor by the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri.
E-mail: rochester@umsl.edu Office: 805 Tower Phone: 314-516-5844
G. Eduardo Silva, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair; Research Fellow, Center for International
Studies
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Professor Silva specializes in Comparative Politics, Latin American political economy, and environmental policy in developing countries. He is author of The State and Capital in Chile: Business Elites, Technocrats, and Market Economics and co-editor of Organized Business, Economic Change, and Democracy in Latin America and Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-1985. His articles have appeared in leading journals such as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Development and Change, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, and the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs.
E-mail: e.silva@umsl.edu Office: 347A SSB Phone: 314-516-5836
Todd Swanstrom, Ph.D.
E. Desmond Lee Endowed
Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Policy
Ph.D., Princeton University
Prof. Swanstrom has a masters from Washington University in Political Science and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Politics. The author or co-author of six books and over twenty-five scholarly articles, Professor Swanstrom also served as a neighborhood planner for the City of Cleveland and as Staff Director of Strategic Planning for the City of Albany. He is co-author of the prize-winning book, Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century, rev. ed. (University Press of Kansas, 2005), which examines the relationship between urban decline and suburban sprawl. Recently, he has published articles on the prospects for alliances between central cities and distressed suburbs, economic segregation among municipalities, different ways of measuring poverty, and the development of a regional greenway in St. Louis. His current research focuses on metropolitan approaches to equity and theories of regional network governance. He is also doing research on the responses to foreclosures in six metropolitan areas and efforts to open up construction jobs to women and minorities. He is a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Building Resilient Regions Network which is working to build the field of regional studies and translate scholarly research for practitioners.
E-mail: swanstromt@umsl.edu Office: 348A SSB Phone: 314-516-6480
Kenneth Thomas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Research Fellow,
Center for International Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dr. Thomas specializes in the field of international political economy. His main research interests are capital mobility, multinational corporations, and (controlling) competition for investment. His first book, Capital Beyond Borders: States and Firms in the Auto Industry, 1960-1994 (St. Martin's), was published in 1997, and his second, Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown), was published in 2000.
E-mail: kpthomas@umsl.edu Office: 808 Tower Phone: 314-516-5839