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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
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Department
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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. |
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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. |
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Michael Hall
Vitae
SAB 330A
273-3144
Office Hours
MW 9-9:50, 12-12:50 & by appt. |
Professor Hall has a PhD from the University of California at Santa
Barbara and he joined the department in the Fall of 2001. He
researches and teaches in the areas of international relations theory
and international political economy. |
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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. |
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Donna Hoffman
Home page
Vitae
SAB 333
273-5916
Office Hours
W 10 am - noon, 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.
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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.
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Christopher Larimer
Vitae
SAB 332
273-6047
Office Hours
M W 1:00-2:30 pm 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. |
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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.
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Professor Mauceri received his PhD from Columbia in 1991 and he taught
at the University of Connecticut before joining the department in
1994. He publishes and teaches in comparative politics, Latin
American politics, human rights and political violence/terrorism.
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Ramona McNeal
Vitae
SAB 331
3-6493
M F 10-11 am
W 3-6 pm
and by appointment
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Professor McNeal received her PhD from Kent State University in 2005. She was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield before joining the department at UNI as a visiting professor in 2007. 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 class in American politics, public policy and quantitative research methods |

David Moore
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SAB 341
273-7924
Office Hours
M 2-3 pm
W 9:30-10:30 am
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Professor Moore came to
UNI in 2003, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland
with specializations in political theory and political economics. His
main current research focus is on globalization and its effects on
democratic theory and practice. He also has research interests in the
study of the relationship between property and democracy, U.S. race
theory, classical political thought, and contemporary democratic
theory. He teaches political theory, introduction to American politics,
a capstone class on democracies, and in the Humanities program. |
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Professor Peters joined the department in the fall of 2003.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1998, and
has taught at Grand Valley State University, University of Louisville,
and University of Cincinnati. His current research interests revolve around state supreme court elections. He teaches courses on judicial process, Constitutional
law and civil liberties. |

Vaughn Shannon
Home page
Vitae
SAB 338
273-2647
Office Hours
T Th 12:45-2:00 pm and by appointment |
Professor Shannon received his PhD from
Ohio State University in 2001. He was a visiting professor at
Miami University until he joined the department at UNI in the
Fall of 2005. He researches and teaches in the areas of
international security, US foreign policy, and the Middle East.
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Steve Shone
SAB 330A
3-6305
T Th 10-noon, 2-3 pm
and by appointment |
Professor Shone received his PhD from the University of California-Riverside in 1992. He teaches courses in American politics and political theory. His current research interest is the ideas of Lysander Spooner and Voltairine de Cleyre.
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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. |
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Taifa Yu
Vitae
SAB 323
273-2709
Office Hours
T Th 12:30-2:00 pm, 3:14-4:00 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. |