PPPA - Key Persons
Amy G. Mazur is Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Washington State University, and Associate Researcher at LIEPP- Sciences Po, Paris. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative feminist policy issues and comparative methodology with a particular emphasis on France.
She is currently co convening, with Isabelle Engeli, the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network (GEPP). In the context of GEPP, she also co convenes the Equal Employment network and the French Team. Their edited book on Corporate Board Gender Equality just came out with Oxford University Press (link to e-book). In the summer of 2022, she co organized a GEPP workshop on Equal Pay at the University of Bielefeld in Germany thanks to funding workshop funding she had obtained in the amount of $15k.
In 2022, she completed a mixed method study for the Organization of Security and Cooperation of Europe on Institutional Mechanisms for Gender Equality and is currently producing practical guide. In Spring 2022, she gave a presentation on the study at a United Nations panel organized by the OSCE. Since, 2019 She has been lead editor of French Politics (see link above). Mazur is also member of the editorial boards of Policy and Politics, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Political Research Quarterly and Palgrave's book series on Gender and Politics.
At WSU, she is the faculty advisor to the Political Science Honor's Society (link to that page on PPPA's website) and the Political Science Club (link). This year she is working on a special project on reforming the Political Science Major and is chair of the School's Scholarship Committee.
From 2020-2022, she was an Associate Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. From 1995 to 2011, she was co convener, with Dorothy McBride, of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. From 2006 to 2014 she was Co Editor of Political Research Quarterly, with Cornell Clayton. In 2015, she was a Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, in 2009, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Warwick, in 2007-08 and in Fall 2001 the Marie-Jahoda Professor of International Feminist Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum. In 2005-06, she was an expert for the United Nations for the Expert Group Meeting on Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-making Processes and rapporteur of the final meeting report. She has also been consulted by the European Union, the World Bank and the Obama Administration. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the European Science Foundation, the French Ministry of Social Affairs and the Norwegian National Science Foundation.
Education
New York University, M.A. 1986, Joint Ph.D., 1992 (Politics and French Studies).
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- Associate Professor
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- Associate Professor
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- Sam Reed Distinguished Professor
Dr. Long is the Sam Reed Distinguished Professor in Civic Education and Public Civility and an associate professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. She received her B.A. with majors in political science and rhetoric and communication from the University of Oregon in 1989 and her Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University in 1997.
Her research interests focus on American Institutions, Public Law and American Public Policy. She is the author of two books, Religious Freedom and Indian Rights: The Case of Oregon v. Smith, which was a finalist for the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and was on Choice Magazine's 2001 Outstanding Academic Titles List, and Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures which received an Honorable Mention in Legal History from The Langum Project for Historical Literature in 2007.
She is currently working on a book on Newdow v. U.S. Congress: The Pledge and the Ninth Circuit for the University Press of Kansas. Carolyn was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ljubljana School of Social Sciences in 2009-2010.
She has taught courses on the American Constitution, Civil Liberties, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, The Judicial Process, Administrative Jurisprudence, Congressional Politics, Public Policy and American Institutions at WSUV since 1995.
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- Assistant Professor
- Research
Cheryl Ellenwood, Nez Perce, is an Assistant Professor at PPPA and an affiliate of the Center for Native American Research & Collaboration at WSU. Her research examines issues of equity in the public sector, as well as nonprofit management, social enterprises and hybrid organization forms. She has worked extensively with Native-led organizations in both the public and private sector and thus her research often examines issues of race, justice, and equity. She is a former development officer for a national Native nonprofit and has worked with several Native-led organizations and views organizations in both broad and narrow terms depending on the research purpose and context. She holds a PhD in Public Management from the University of Arizona and has a MA in American Indian Studies with a focus on American Indian Law and Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Political Theory
- Research
Claudia Leeb, "Towards a Politics of Feelings of Guilt: A Response to McIvor and Rensmann, "Review Symposia on Claudia Leeb's The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence, Critical Horizons (vol. 21, no. 1, 2020) 63-79.
Claudia Leeb, "Critical Dialogue: Response to James Martel's review of Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject," Perspectives on Politics (vol. 16, no. 1, February 2018), 169-170.
Claudia Leeb, "Adorno and Freud meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far Right from a Psychoanalytic and Critical Theory Perspective", in Jeremiah Morelock (ed.) How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School (Leiden: Brill Press, 2021), 200-219.
Claudia Leeb, "Das Klassenkonzept poststrukturalistisch gedacht," [A post-structuralist perspective on the concept of class], in Ingolf Erler (ed.) Keine Chance für Lisa Simpson? - Soziale Ungleichheit im Bildungssystem [No Chance for Lisa Simpson? Social Inequality in the Educational System], (Wien: Mandelbaum-Verlag, 2007), 72-88.
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- Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Washington State University
The School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs is housed on the 7th and 8th floors of the Claudius O. Johnson Tower. Claudius O. Johnson became the first full time professor and chairman of the newly formed Department of History and Political Science in 1928. He served as the chair of the department until 1951 and then retired from the faculty in 1960. In 1967, the Claudius O. Johnson Tower was dedicated in his honor.
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- Director of the Thomas
- Director, Thomas S. Foley Institute / WSU Pre - Law Advisor / Research
- Director, Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service
Cornell Clayton is the Director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service at Washington State University, where he also serves as the C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science.
Clayton has written widely about American government, politics and law. His work on judicial politics has twice received the American Judicature Award from the American Political Science Association, and his research has been translated and republished in five languages. He is a frequent political commentator on local and national news media, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, and National Public Radio, among other places.
Clayton served for eight years as coeditor of Political Research Quarterly, the journal of the Western Political Science Association, and served as the Chair of the Law and Court Section of the American Political Association. Other distinctions include two Fulbright Fellowships, the Truman Scholarship, the Wayne N. Aspinall Chair and the Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professorship. He has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at many institutes and universities around the world.
Clayton received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Politics from Oxford University. He came to WSU in 1992.
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- Associate Professor Emeritus
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy
- Research
Dr. Callie Phillips is an Assistant Professor in The School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (PPPA) at Washington State University. Her teaching and research interests are metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, practical reason and philosophy of technology.
Outside of work, she enjoys sewing, knitting, hiking, and reading science fiction.
Education
• Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2019
• B.A. Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2011
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- Professor of Philosophy
- Research
Dr. Patricia Glazebrook is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. She serves on the Graduate Faculty at the University of North Texas in the United States, and is a Research Associate at Osun State University in Nigeria. She serves as a Board Member for Gender CC: Women for Climate Justice in Berlin, Germany, and is on the Board of Governors of the Center for Research in Environment and Sustainable Development in Lagos, Nigeria. She is on the editorial board of New Heidegger Research published by Rowman and Littlefield in the United States, and Meeting Rivers published by Fireflies Intercultural Center in Bangalore, India.
She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. She has published Heidegger and Science and Heidegger on Science, as well as many papers on Heidegger, ecofeminism, ancient philosophy, philosophy of technology, environmental philosophy and climate change and climate justice.
Her current research addresses climate impacts and adaptations by women subsistence farmers in Ghana. She also researches on the military use of drones. She has incorporated Ghana Fair in the United States in partnership with the Single Mothers' Association of the Upper East Region in Ghana to provide livelihood diversification and alternative income, and to support microcredit financing for women in the Region.
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- Associate Professor
- Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy
- Assistant Professor of Bioethics
- Elma Ryan Bornander Honors Chair Professor / Research
Dr. Samantha Noll is an Assistant Professor in The School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (PPPA) at Washington State University. She is also the bioethicist affiliated with the Functional Genomics Initiative, which applies genome editing in agriculture research, and the Center for Reproductive Biology. Dr. Noll is the co-author or editor of two books, including a Field Guide to Formal Logic (Grand River Learning, 2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City (Routledge, 2019). She publishes widely on food justice and food sovereignty, local food movements, and the application of biotechnologies in food production. She is also the author or co-author of more than 30 other publications, in journals ranging from the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics to Environmental Ethics and Pragmatism Today. She is currently working with scholars from several disciplines on various projects that engage with ethical considerations at the intersection of philosophy of food, environmental ethics, and emerging technologies.
Education
• Ph.D. Philosophy, Michigan State University, 2016
Dr. Thomas Preston is C. O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Washington State University and a specialist in security policy, foreign affairs, and political psychology (leadership analysis). He received his M.A. at the University of Essex (United Kingdom) and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH).
He is a Faculty Research Associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, New York and at CRISMART (The National Center for Crisis Management, Research and Training), part of the Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Preston joined Washington State University and the Department of Political Science in 1994 and teaches undergraduate courses on American foreign policy, U.S. national security policy, and intelligence analysis and tradecraft. At the graduate level, he offers seminars on international security and the psychology of leadership and decision-making.
He has been awarded the prestigious William F. Mullen Excellence in Teaching Award by the WSU College of Liberal Arts, was named a WSU faculty Innovator by the university, and has received two Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards from the U.S. State Department to New Zealand in 2010 and Romania in 2020. He is the author of four books: The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs (Columbia University Press, 2001), ‘From Lambs to Lions': Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007/2009), Pandora's Trap: Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011), and co-author of the popular Introduction to Political Psychology (Taylor and Francis 2022), now in its Fourth Edition. He has written numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters on presidential leadership, foreign and national security policy, and the use of active-learning simulations in the classroom.
At WSU he teaches undergraduate courses in national security policy, foreign policy, and intelligence analysis and analytic tradecraft. At the graduate level, he teaches seminars in the psychology of leadership and decision making, as well as in international security. His current research involves looking at leadership and advisory group dynamics during crisis, the impact of presidential leadership style on decision-making, WMD proliferation issues, and a book project on how to bridge the gap between academia and the practitioner community. He frequently serves as an independent consultant for various U.S. governmental departments and agencies.
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- Mock Trial Coach & Instructor
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- Associate Professor Career Track
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- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University
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- Assistant Professor
- Professor
- Research
Jacob S. Lewis (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. His research centers on African politics and focuses on issues of corruption, conflict, and political psychology. He also studies issues of antisemitism in a comparative perspective, focusing on mechanisms of blame and the role of conspiracy theories and populism. His work has been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, Political Geography, Social Movement Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics, Nations and Nationalism, and Political Studies Review. His work has been supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Anti-Defamation League, and more.
Professor Lewis current oversees two large post-conflict peacebuilding projects in Zimbabwe and Ghana and maintains an active connection with the world of public policy and international development. One of his core goals is to help prepare undergraduate and graduate students for meaningful and fulfilling careers in applied politics and policy, and he integrates this into his teaching and broader pedagogy. Before beginning his life as an academic, he managed democratization and post-conflict stabilization programs across Africa as well as in Afghanistan. He loves alpine skiing, coffee, and cats.
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- Director, Ruckelshaus Center / Research
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at Washington State University
- Assistant Professor Career Track
Bio
Mark Fagiano is an assistant professor at Washington State University. His research gravitates around philosophical problems in the disciplines of ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology. As a pragmatist, Fagiano's research is grounded in the revolutionary vision of William James (especially James's theory of relations). His admiration of James and other pragmatists has directed him to reflect upon more pressing and threatening existential and social problems that are relevant to the pursuit of living a good life.
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- Associate Professor
- Research
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- Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Washington State University
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- Associate Professor
- Research
Research Interest:Moral psychology, ethical theory, philosophy of expertise, virtue ethics, applied ethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy, epistemology
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- Associate Director
- Associate Professor
- Associate Director / Associate Professor / Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Assistant Professor Career Track
Michael Ritter (Ph.D., 2017, University of Iowa) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs. His research and teaching interests include American politics, comparative politics, voting and elections, election administration, inequality, methodology, and public policy. He is particularly interested in how election laws and election administration shape political participation. His recent book, Accessible Elections: How the States Can Help Americans Vote, examines how state convenience voting laws (absentee and mail voting, early voting, and same day registration) and election administration impact voter turnout, voter turnout equality by race and socio-economic status, and campaign mobilization.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
B.S., University of Wisconsin-River Falls
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- Associate Professor
- Graduate Studies Director / Research
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- Regents Professor Emeritus
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- Associate Professor
- Research
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- Chapter Advisor Award, 2018 - 2019
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- Assistant Professor Career Track
- Clinical Assistant Professor
- Spring 2019. Current Position: Assistant Director, Foley Institute, WSU
Bio:
Richard Elgar has lived and worked as an administrator, teacher, writer/journalist, program director and advocate within organizations on three different continents. He currently serves as Assistant Director of the Foley Institute, where he has worked since 2006, and as Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association.
Education:
Ph.D. Washington State University, 2019, Political Science
M.A. Washington State University, 2010, Political Science
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Cambridge,1998, English
BA (Hons) University of Ulster, 1988, English
Richard Elgar, Spring 2019. Current Position: Assistant Director, Foley Institute, WSU
Renée Edwards. 2015. Current Position: Researcher and qualitative team lead for the Education and Employment Research Center. Rutgers University.
Season Hoard. 2012. Current Position: Project Manager, DGSS and Associate Clinical Professor - WSU.
Ingrid Bego, 2011. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University.
Wannapa Leeraisiri, 2004. Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Janine Parry. 1999. Washington State University. Current Position: Full Professor, University of Arkansas.
Outside of WSU - Committee Member:
Emily St. Denny. Fall, 2016. Nottingham Trent University. Current Position: University of Stirling, UK.
Max Waltman. 2014. University of Stockholm. Current Position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Harvard University.
Rainbow Murray. 2008. Birkbeck College- London. Current Position: Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Research
Isabelle Engeli. 2007. University of Geneva. Current Position: Reader, University of Bath.
Laure Bereni. 2007. EHSS-Paris. Current Position: Chargée de recherche, CNRS, Equipe PRO, Centre Maurice Halbwachs
Claudie Baudino. 2000. Université de Paris IX - Dauphine. Current Position: Chargée de Mission, French Ministry of Social Affairs.
Books
Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World: Making Democracy Work in Business. Edited with Isabelle Engeli. Oxford University Press 2022.
The Oxford University Press Handbook on French Politics. Edited with Robert Elgie and Emiliano Grossman. 2016.
The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research. With Dorothy McBride and the participation of Joni Lovenduski, Joyce Outshoorn, Birgit Sauer and Marila Guadagnini. Temple University Press. 2010. Chapter 10 translated into Croatian and published in Marjeta Šinko (ed.) 2015. Žene i politika:feministička politička znanost Zagreb: Biblioteka Politička misao.
Politics, Gender, and Concepts: Theory and Methodology. Edited with Gary Goertz. Cambridge University Press. 2008.
Theorizing Feminist Policy. London: Oxford University Press. 2002.
State Feminism, Women's Movements, and Job Training: Making Democracies Work in the Global Economy. Edited. New York: Routledge. 2001.
Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France. Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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- Current Position: Project Manager, DGSS and Associate Clinical Professor - WSU
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- Professor
- Sam Reed Distinguished Professor in Civic Education and Public Civility
- Sam Reed Distinguished Professor in Civic Education and Public Civility / Research
Professor Stehr has mentored more than 65 graduate students, encouraging them to pursue challenging opportunities beyond academia and continuing to support their work long after graduation. He has lectured at universities from Berkeley to Kabul and Pullman, and developed unique courses such as Politics, Justice and Film; The American Presidency; and a capstone course in Politics of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy.
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- Director, Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service
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- Director
- Director of PPPA / Research
- Professor
Travis N. Ridout (Ph.D, University of Wisconsin) is Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He is also co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising. Ridout's research on political campaigns and political advertising has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Annual Review of Political Science, and in several book chapters. Ridout's most recent book, Political Advertising in the United States, was published in 2016.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Native American / Indigenous Law
- Research
Yvonne Sherwood (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Native American/Indigenous Law and Politics. Her teaching and research interests include Indigenous feminisms, law, and critical race and ethnic studies. Her work focuses on supporting Indigenous activists, organizers, and community workers' language revitalization and land pedagogy efforts while providing a critical pedagogy and anti-colonial lens she has developed by working with Indigenous feminists and a diversity of critical and legal scholars. She proudly serves as a co-chair for the Canadian Sociological Association Decolonization Subcommittee.
Education
PhD and MA, sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
BA, sociology and women's & gender studies, Eastern Washington University
AA, ethnic studies, Yakima Valley Community College