Faculty
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Andrew C. Battista Associate Professor of Political Science, Dr. Battista earned his B. A. from Miami University (Ohio) and his M.A. and Ph.D. (1984) Pennsylvania State University. His teaching areas include American national government and politics, political parties, interest groups, public policy, and American political development (twentieth century). He has published several articles in professional journals on the role of organized labor in American politics, and his book, The Revival of Labor Liberalism, was published in the Fall of 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. His current research focuses on the evolution of American liberalism over the course of the twentieth century. Dr. Battista serves as the Political Science Department's Co-Director of the Legislative Internship Program with the Tennessee General Assembly. Email: battista@etsu.edu; phone: 439-6628. |
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Weixing Chen Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Dr. Chen earned his B.A. in 1982 from Shandong University in China, his M.A. in 1986 from the College of International Relations in Beijing, and his Ph.D. in 1992 from Northern Illinois University. His teaching interests include International Relations Theories, World Politics, International Studies, and Chinese Politics. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and contributed chapters to many books on Chinese Politics and China's transition. He is the author of The Political Economy of Rural Development in China, 1978-1999 and editor of a number of books. In 2003, he was honored with the ETSU Distinguished Faculty Award for Research. He served as President of the Association of Chinese Political Studies between 2001 and 2003 and serves on the editorial board of three professional journals. He is currently lecturing professor at Shandong Normal University and North China University of Technology and a Guest Professor at Shandong University in China. He was a visiting professor at Tsinghua University and Renmin University in China and a visiting research fellow at the National University of Singapore. Email: chen@etsu.edu; phone: 439-6632. |
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Joseph W. Corso Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dr. Corso was awarded the B.S. degree from Loyola University. He earned his M.A. from the University Notre Dame and the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1973. His teaching interests and activities are in the area of political theory, including classical, modern and American thought. He also offers courses on the Idea of the City and the politics of Southern Appalachia. He has published "Two Models of Authority in Education" (1980), "The Importance of Political Theory for Court Administrators" (1980), and "Perspectives in Court Administration: Three Views From the Field" (1980). He has served on the Johnson City Board of Education and ran for City Commission in 2000, as well as campaigned twice for a seat in the House of Representatives of the Tennessee General Assembly. Email: corso@etsu.edu; phone: 439-8436. |
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dr. Crumley earned her B.A. from the University of Tennessee, Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Crumley’s teaching and research interests include comparative politics and international relations, with a special interest in political economy, land tenure, minority rights, and ethnic conflict. She has presented conference papers and published on agricultural institutions and the state in the transition economies of Hungary, Slovakia, and Russia. She has conducted field research in Russia, interned at the Sociological Research Center in St. Petersburg, and was awarded APSIA-Russian Foreign Ministry Exchange Scholar. She also led a study abroad course in Russia, accompanied students on a 6-country study tour in Europe, and organized undergraduate conference trips to Geneva, The Hague, and Puebla, Mexico. Dr. Crumley serves as the coordinator of the new International Affairs major in the department. Email: crumleyml@etsu.edu; phone 439-6629 |
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Sam W. McKinstry Faculty Emeritus, Dr. McKinstry received his B.A. from Westminster College and his M.A. and Ph.D. (1974) from the University of Missouri. He is past president of the Southern Association of Pre-Law Advisors (SAPLA) and regularly teaches in the area of law and the judicial process, including courses on civil liberties and the Supreme Court. He also coordinates the department's Paralegal Internship Program. His teaching interests also include the politics of India and the politics of Great Britain. Professor McKinstry has served as the president of the Tennessee Consortium for Asian Studies (1979-80) and secretary for the Tennessee Political Science Association (1991). He is a past Associate Editor for the Southeastern Political Review. His publications include "Justice in America" (1978), a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Civil Rights ("Private Clubs", 1996), Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel: Seventy Years of Supreme Court Decisions, The Open Fields Exceptions to the Fourth Amendment:, Illinois v. Gates: the Fourth Amendment v. Totality of the Circumstances, Totality of the Circumstances Test, Duncan V. Louisiana & Trial By Jury, Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Constitutional Right to Die? In Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America, David Schultz & John R. Vile, eds., Spring 2004. He has also presented papers at local, regional and national professional organizations. Email: mckinsts@etsu.edu; phone: 439-6636. |
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Kenneth J. Mijeski Professor of Political Science, Dr. Mijeski earned his B.A. from Florida State University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1971. His teaching interests lie in Latin American politics, Third World politics, U.S. Latin American policy, and global issues of peace, security and development. His research has considered various issues in Latin America and has led to a number of publications in addition to numerous scholarly presentations at regional, national and international professional conference. Since the mid-1990s, his research has explored Ecuador's indigenous social and political movements. Professor Mijeski has traveled widely throughout Mexico, Central and South America including twice co-directing summer study programs (Mexico and Peru) and one summer as a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay and Colombia. He has served as president of the Tennessee Political Science Association (1990-1991) and is past-president of the South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies (1999-2000). Email: mijeskik@etsu.edu; phone: 439-6627. |
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Master of Public Administration Program (MPA) Faculty |
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Lon Felker Professor of Public Administration, Dr. Felker holds doctorate and masters degrees in political science from Michigan State University. He also received an A.B.in International Studies from the University of South Carolina. Felker has taught at a number of institutions, including Central State University (Ohio), East Carolina University (North Carolina) and the University of Dayton (summer session, 1975). he was a Marshall Scholarship holder to Germany in 1970-71, an I.C.P.S.R. summer fellow at the University of Michigan, and a Fulbright Lecturer to Peru (1986). Dr. Felker has taught at East Tennessee State University since 1988. His chief research interests are public administration, intergovernmental relations, and comparative and international public administration. Email: felker@mail.etsu.edu; phone: 439-5789. |
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Paul Trogen Associate Professor of Public Finance, Dr. Trogen earned a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Florida State University. He first earned a BA in Political Science at the University of St. Thomas and used those skills to secure two state jobs and win an election to local public office. Then, to expand his career opportunities, he earned a Masters degree in Public Administration from Minnesota State University at Mankato. His areas of interest include public budgeting, public finance, political economy and organizational behavior. Paul has published articles in Southeastern Political Review, International Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, and Journal of Financial and Economic Practice. He has published chapters in the Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration 2nd Ed., Handbook of Public Sector Economics, and Handbook of Bureaucracy 2nd Ed. Email: trogenp@mail.etsu.edu; phone: 439-5374. |
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Michael Marchioni Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Advisor of the MPA Program. Dr. Marchioni earned his MA from Louisiana State University in Cultural Geography and Anthropology and his PhD from the University of Cincinnati in Urban Economic Geography and Regional Economics. He has taught at ETSU for over 30 years in the fields of Cultural Geography, Planning and Urban Studies, taking on the responsibility of shaping the undergraduate and graduate planning programs. While in the Department of Economics, Finance and Urban Studies, he chaired at least 80 thesis and capstone committees and assisted in many others. Dr. Marchioni was named recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Tennessee Chapter of the American Planning Association (TAPA) and was the first director of the State of Franklin Section of TAPA, as well as a member of the organization’s executive board. He was recipient of the 2003-2004 Outstanding Service Award and the 2004-2005 Outstanding Teacher Award. His research interests include urban and regional planning, housing, urban economic development, flood plain management, culture trait geography, and consumer behavior. Email: marchion@mail.etsu.edu; phone: 439-5362. |
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Adjunct Faculty |
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Marsha Beeler Adjunct professor of Political Science, Marsha earned her Bachelor degree in 1997 from East Tennessee State University, and a Master of City Management degree from East Tennessee State University in 2000. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Political Science at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She teaches a broad range of U.S. politics courses, including The Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, and Idea of the City. In addition she regularly teaches the department’s Introductory course: Introduction To American Government in both the traditional and internet formats. Her primary research interests are The Supreme Court, Congress, State & Local Government and Public Administration. Email: beeler@mail.etsu.edu. |
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Adam Dickson Instructor of Political Science, Adam earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Carson-Newman College and his Master of Public Administration degree from East Tennessee State University. He is the instructor for the course, Black American Political Thought. Adam is also heavily involved in the community, serving as Vice-President of the local Boys and Girls Club, chair of the Martin Luther King Steering Committee, and recently being appointed to the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth. |
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Donald "Jeff" Lokey |
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Staff |
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Kathi Horne - Executive Aide |
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Lauren McBride - Student Worker |
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Catherine Connatser - Student Worker |