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 Ph.D. Alumni since 1990 Holding Academic Positions


R. Bruce Anderson   
Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: Electoral Competition and the Structure of State Legislatures: Organizational Complexity and Party Building
Current Position: Associate Professor, Baker University
Email: bruce.anderson@bakeru.edu
 
Lisa J. Carlson   
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: A Theory of Escalation: The Use of Coercive Bargaining Strategies in International Conflict
Current Position: Professor, University of Idaho
Email: lcarl@uidaho.edu
 
Jeffrey Dixon
Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: Intervention, Capabilities, Costs, and the Outcome of Civil Wars
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Tarleton State University
Email: jdixon@tarleton.edu
 
Johanna Dunaway
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: What Makes the News? The Institutional Determinants of the Political News Agenda
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Email: jdunaway@lsu.edu
 
Albert Luther Ellis, III       
Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: The Regressive Era: Progressive Era Tax Reform and the National Tax Association– Roots of the Modern American Tax Structure
Current Position: Visiting Faculty, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Email: kfale@tamuk.edu
 
Richard Engstrom
Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: Electoral District Structure and Political Behavior
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Email: engstrom@gsu.edu
     
David Goodman
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Use of Statutory Control by U.S. State Legislators: One Step Closer to a More Complete Understanding of Legislative Control of Bureaucrats
Current Position: Research and Policy Specialist, Texas Education Agency
Email: david.goodman@tea.state.tx.us



 Raúl González   Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Legislative Politics of Party Competition:
An Analysis of Internal Organization in Eight Mexican State Congresses, 2001 – 2008

Current Position: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
Email: raul@rice.edu
 
Robert Hogan
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: The Role of Campaigns in State Legislative Elections
Current Position: Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
Email: rhogan1@lsu.edu
 
Martin Johnson
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Influences of Contextual Information and Social Connectedness on Political Behavior
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Califonia-Riverside
Email: martin.johnson@ucr.edu
 
Bernadette Jungblut
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: International Trade and Interstate Conflict: The Influence of Domestic Political Institutions
Current Position: Assistant Director, Office of Assessment and Planning, University of Central Florida
Email: bjungblu@mail.ucf.edu
 
LaVonna Blair Lewis
Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: The Allocation of Distributive Program Benefits and the Maintenance of Interest Groups
Current Position: Clinical Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Email: llewis@usc.edu
 
Nancy Martorano
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Theories of Legislative Organization and the Development of U.S. State Legislative Committee Systems
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Dayton
Email: Nancy.Martorano@notes.udayton.edu
 
Michaela Mattes
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Falling to "Peaces": Conciliatory Agreements and the Durability of Peace
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Email: Michaela.c.mattes@vanderbilt.edu
     
Juan Pablo Micozzi    Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Electoral Connection in Multi-Level Systems with Non-Static Ambition: Linking Political Careers and Legislative Performance in Argentina
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
Email: jmicozzi@unm.edu
 
Beth Miller
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Charting the Course: A Test of the Dynamic Implications of the On-Line and Memory-Based Models
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Email: millerel@umkc.edu
 
Jody Neathery-Castro
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Regionalizing France: Decentralization or Trompe l'Oeil?
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Email: jneathery@unomaha.edu
 
Allison Rinden Ownby
Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: Cycling and Recycling: The Effects of Group Context and Member Involvement on Social Capital
Current Position: Director, Office of Educational Programs, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Email: allison.r.ownby@uth.tmc.edu
 
Brian Posler
Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: Reaping Gains Through the Organizational Party: Delegation to Party Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives
Current Position: Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Studies, University of Southern Indiana
Email: bposler@usi.edu
 
Andree E. Reeves
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation:Barden to Powell to Perkins: Leadership and Evolution of the U.S. Houseof Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, 1951-1984
Current Position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Email: reevesa@uah.edu
 
Holly Teeters Reynolds
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Institutional Change: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi
Email: hreynold@olemiss.edu
 
Jeffrey Ryan
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Latin American Insurgencies: 1956-1986
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Arkansas
Email: jeffr@uark.edu
 
Burcu Savun

Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Information, Bias, and Mediation Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mediation of International Conflicts
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Email: burcu@pitt.edu

 
Paru Shah
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: The Politics and Policy Implications of Latino Representation in Education
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Macalester College
Email: shahp@macalester.edu
 
Michelle Taylor-Robinson
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Bureaucratic Politics as a Cause of Government Growth: The Case of Costa Rica
Current Position: Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Email: E339MT@polisci.tamu.edu
 
Stacy Ulbig
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Subnational Contextual Influences on Political Trust
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
Email: SGU001@shsu.edu
 
Greg Vonnahme
Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: Helping America Vote? The Institutional Design of Elections and Recent Reforms
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
Email: gvonnahme@ua.edu
 
Garry Young
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Legislative Decision Making Under Multiple Referral
Current Position: Research Scientist and Associate Director of theGeorge Washington Institute of Public Policy, George WashingtonUniversity
Email: youngg@gwu.edu
 
Harriet Hopkins Young
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: The Effect of Increased Incumbency Margins Upon Partisanship in the Congress
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Northern Arizona University
Email: Harriet.Young@nau.edu