- University Department Political Science
- Location Norcross Hall
- Phone Number 336-841-9499
- Email [email protected]
Ballingrud returns to HPU to teach American politics, upper-level electives, and seminars. He hopes to teach classes on public law, constitutional law, constitutional politics, judicial politics, and more. He taught at HPU from 2018-2020 after completing graduate school to earn his Ph.D. in American politics and political theory. He has taught at other universities since 2020.
“I’m excited to return to a campus and student body that I remember well from a few years ago,” says Ballingrud. “I have excellent memories of HPU students–their curiosity and industriousness especially–from the years I have worked here in the past. I’m excited as well to put into practice some new classroom games and experiments to teach students about the patterns, difficulties, dilemmas, and practices of politics in a hands-on way.”
Ballingrud will teach students who plan to become political science majors and those who have not yet selected a major who may be new to the study of politics.
“My aim is to provide and model a different way of looking at politics, where moral indignation is not absent but directed and controlled, institutional processes and opinionated political reasoning are all laid bare, and students appreciate the interrelationships between their own ideals, the basic commitments of the U.S. political system, and the constraints imposed upon them, and all of us, to getting the kind of world we want,” says Ballingrud.