Political Science

Array ( [0] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 94344 [post_author] => 62 [post_date] => 2021-05-25 15:12:29 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-05-25 19:12:29 [post_content] => Martin J. Kifer joined the department in Fall 2009. He is the Director of High Point University’s new interdisciplinary Survey Research Center. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Martin graduated from Earlham College. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.   Prior to graduate school, Martin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa and as a Legislative Assistant in the Capitol Hill office of U.S. Congressman Baron Hill. After completing his graduate coursework, he worked as an Analyst for the international and corporate team at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a political consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. His assignments included managing nationwide surveys, focus groups, and in-depth interviews in the U.S. and Eastern and Central Europe. Martin focused on education and health care policy at his most recent job as a Survey Researcher for Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.   Martin’s research and teaching interests include U.S. foreign policy, political campaigns and new media, survey research methods, and American political opinion and behavior. He is currently working on a long-term project with James N. Druckman (Northwestern University) and Michael Parkin (Oberlin College) that examines how congressional candidates campaign on-line. Articles based on this research have appeared in the The American Political Science Review; Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties; Social Science Computer Review; and Political Communication.   Martin teaches American Politics and International Relations as well as seminars addressing social science research methods, political behavior, and U.S. foreign policy. He is the director of HPU’s interdisciplinary Survey Research Center and coordinates internship placements for the department. [post_title] => Martin Kifer [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => dr-martin-kifer [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-08-30 14:13:24 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-08-30 18:13:24 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=94344 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 97983 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:20:17 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:20:17 [post_content] => Webpage: https://marksetzler.org   Professor Setzler has been at HPU since 2004. He grew up on a mule ranch outside of Boise, Idaho. He earned his B.A. in Political Science and Spanish Literature at Oregon’s Pacific University, and his Ph.D. in political science is from the University of Texas at Austin. Before completing his doctorate, he worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill, with a law firm in Washington, and as a research analyst for an urban issues political think tank in Austin. Prior to coming to HPU, he was a visiting professor at the University of Portland and Lewis & Clark College.   Professor Setzler’s research focuses primarily on how democracies can be made more responsive to historically marginalized groups. Much of his scholarship explores political behavior in Latin America, especially Brazil, where he has interviewed hundreds of state deputies, city councilors, bureaucrats, and community leaders. He also examines political behavior and public policy in the US, where his work has centered on attitudes, behaviors, and policies that adversely affect immigrants, women, Latinos, and African Americans. His scholarship has been supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Boren Fellows Program. He is the co-author of a study that received the Theodore Lowi Award from the Policy Studies Association and was named article of the year by the Policy Studies Journal. His other published research and scholarship in print includes articles in The Brazilian Political Science Review, PS: Political Science & Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Politics & Gender, Religion and Politics, International Migration Review, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. He has published multiple studies in The Latin Americanist and now serves as an Associate Editor at this journal.   Outside of the classroom, Professor Setzler enjoys spending time with his family, pleasure reading books in Portuguese that he would never find the time for otherwise, and fly fishing in the Appalachians. [post_title] => Mark Setzler [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => mark-setzler [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-08-30 14:01:05 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-08-30 18:01:05 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=97983 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 203099 [post_author] => 8690 [post_date] => 2022-08-08 12:50:47 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-08-08 16:50:47 [post_content] => 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. [post_title] => Dr. Gordon Ballingrud [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => gordon-ballingrud [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-10-04 12:25:07 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-10-04 16:25:07 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?post_type=faculty-staff&p=203099 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 97428 [post_author] => 50 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 14:12:38 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 18:12:38 [post_content] => Dr. Yanus was born and raised in the pretzel capital of the world, southeastern Pennsylvania. She earned a B.A. in political science from American University in Washington, D.C. and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She previously worked as a full-time intern for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and as a staff member at American University’s Women & Politics Institute.   Her research and teaching interests lie in American government, particularly gender and politics. She has published a number of articles and book chapters in journals such as Politics & Gender; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and Women, Politics and Public Policy. Outside the university, Ali can be found standing on her head, indulging her wanderlust, and spending time with her friends and families—biological, academic, and chosen. Among her other passions are red shoes, palm trees, Phillies baseball, ice cold Coca-Cola, and American industrial history, particularly steel mills and coal mines.   Dr. Yanus offers upper-division seminars on Gender and Politics, American political institutions, and political science research.  She also teaches American Politics and Enduring Issues in Political Thought, an elective for first-year majors. [post_title] => Alixandra Yanus [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => alixandra-yanus [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-07-22 16:02:22 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-07-22 20:02:22 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=97428 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 98172 [post_author] => 53 [post_date] => 2021-06-03 16:22:51 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-06-03 20:22:51 [post_content] => Sam Whitt received his Ph.D. in political science from Vanderbilt University. He holds a B.A. with majors in Russian and German from Sewanee and a second B.A. in political science from the University of Tennessee. Before coming to High Point, he spent an exciting year at the State Department in Washington working on public opinion research.   Much of his dissertation research and subsequent scholarship examines the effects of violent conflict on individual and group behavior using experimental methods. He has conducted field research in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Tajikistan, and is currently engaged in research projects in Syria, Ukraine, and Iraq. His research has been published in several journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Experimental Political Science.   When he is not teaching or working on research, he is usually playing baseball, soccer, and/or basketball with his two sons, Henry and Andrew, who also make periodic campus appearances.   Curriculum Vitae [post_title] => Samuel Whitt [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => samuel-whitt [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-07-06 11:38:09 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-07-06 15:38:09 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.highpoint.edu/?p=98172 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => faculty-staff [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) )