Department Staff


Jane Hunter
CBB 5
273-2039
As a graduate of UNI, Jane is very familiar with campus resources.  As the Political Science department secretary, she is available to help you with your general questions as well as direct you to other appropriate persons.
Department Faculty

Pita Ogaba Agbese
CBB 5J
273-2818
Office Hours
T Th 10-11, and by appointment
Professor Agbese received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1984 and he has been with the department since 1985.  He publishes widely on Third World politics and he teaches courses on African politics, international relations, and international law.

Lindsay Cohn
Vitae
CBB 7
273-2647
Office Hours

T 3:45-5 pm, and by appt.

 

Professor Cohn received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2007 and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin and the Johns Hopkins SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington DC before joining the UNI faculty in 2009. Her research interests are in civil-military relations, military organizations, operations, and law, international law, and asymmetric conflict. She teaches courses on civil-military relations, international law, international relations, foreign policy, and international security.

Kenneth E. Basom
Vitae
CBB 5I
273-5915
Office Hours

MWF 2-3 pm, and by appt.
 
Professor Basom received his PhD from Wisconsin-Madison in 1989 and joined the department in 1991 after teaching at Franklin and Marshall College and Middlebury College.  He publishes and teaches in the areas of nationalism and East European politics.
Professor Hays received his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1977 and joined the faculty in 1979.  He is currently the director of the university’s Masters in Public Policy program.  He publishes in American public policy and teaches courses on the policy process, local government, and political methodology.


Donna Hoffman 
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Vitae

CBB 5E
273-5916

Office Hours
M 2:30-3:30, and by appt.

Professor Hoffman received her PhD from the University of Oklahoma and joined the faculty in the fall of 2001. She publishes in the area of the presidency and voting behavior.  Her research interests include presidential-congressional relations, presidential rhetoric, realignment, and southern politics. She teaches courses in American politics including legislatures, the presidency, and campaigns & elections.

Justin Holmes
CBB 5B
273-6305
Office Hours
T Th 3:30-4:30 & by appt.


Professor Holmes will receive his PhD from the University of Minnesota in the Fall of 2008. He has previously taught at the University of Minnesota and Gustavus Adolphus College. His teaching and research interests include political communication, particularly the impact of new media technology on citizens, public opinion, and political psychology.


Alexandra Kogl
Vitae
BAK 306
273-2465
Office Hours
T Th 3:30-4:30 & by appointment

  Alexandra Kogl joined the Political Science faculty in 2003.  She is a Californian with Midwestern roots who received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.  A political theorist with an eclectic research agenda, Dr. Kogl’s interests include the role of place in democratic practice, contemporary American class consciousness, political corruption, and the role of property in democratic political thought. 


Christopher Larimer
Vitae
CBB 5C
273-6047
Office Hours
T Th 11 - 12:15 and by appointment

Professor Larimer received his PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and joined the faculty in the fall of 2006.  His research interests are in the areas of public administration, state politics, and political psychology.  He teaches courses in public administration, including public budgeting, public personnel, and American politics.


Michael Licari
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Vitae

CBB 5D
273-6048

T W 10-11 and by appointment

Professor Licari received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1997 and he taught at SUNY-Binghamton before joining the faculty in the Fall of 2001.  He publishes in public policy and he teaches courses on the policy process, public budgeting, and public organizations.


Philip Mauceri
Vitae

Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Professor Mauceri received his PhD from Columbia University in 1991 and has taught at UConn, UMass-Amherst and Penn. His main research interests include the privatization of armed force, Andean politics, civil-military relations and democratization. He is currently the Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Ramona McNeal
Vitae
CBB 5A
273-6493
MWF 10-11; MW 1-3
and by appointment

Professor McNeal received her PhD from Kent State University in 2005. She previously taught at the University of Illinois at Springfield before joining the faculty in Fall 2008.  Her research interests are in the areas of participation and elections with an emphasis on the impact of the Internet, campaign finance, state politics, and public policy with an emphasis on e-government.  She teaches classes in American politics, public policy and quantitative research methods.


C. Scott Peters
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Vitae
CBB 5F
273-2727

Office Hours
M 2-4, W 2-2:50
&
by appt.

Professor Peters joined the department in the fall of 2003. His current research interests revolve around state judicial elections, particularly the effects of ethical restrictions that govern campaign speech. He teaches courses on judicial process, Constitutional law and civil liberties.  He also serves as the pre-law advisor. Other interests include film, music (especially jazz), and playing soccer. He spends a lot of his free time chasing his toddler daughter around the house.

Dhirendra Kumar Vajpeyi
Vitae
CBB 5G
273-2275

Office Hours
M W 2-4 pm and by appt.
Professor Vajpeyi received his PhD from Michigan State University in 1971.  He publishes extensively in the areas of comparative politics, comparative environmental policymaking, the politics of India, and public policy.  He teaches courses on comparative politics, comparative public policy and public administration.


Taifa Yu

Vitae
CBB 5H
273-2709

Office Hours
T Th 12:30-2:00 pm, 3:15-4:00 pm, & by appt.
Professor Yu has been with the department since he received his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 1988.  He publishes on East Asian politics and he teaches courses on international relations, the politics of China and Japan, and comparative foreign policy.
 

 

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