FACULTY

 

Bernick

Ethan Bernick
Dir. of Public Administration
Associate Professor
Research Interests: State & local politics; public health programs; race & politics; policy
MPA Faculty
Birkhead
Nathaniel Birkhead
Department Head
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Congress; state legislatures; elections; presidency; American institutions
MPA Faculty
Ciftci
Research Interests: Islam; Muslim political attitudes; Arab public opinion; Turkish politics
Security Studies Faculty
Fliter
John Fliter
Dir. of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Supreme Court; law; judicial policy making; civil rights & liberties; law, politics, and literature
Flynn
Michael Flynn
Dir. of Security Studies
Professor
Research Interests: U.S. foreign policy; political economy; U.S. military deployments; international relations; international security
Security Studies Faculty
Heidbreder
Brianne Heidbreder
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Gender & representation; public administration; urban politics; state & local politics
MPA Faculty
Johnson
Laurie Johnson
Dir. of Primary Texts
Professor
Research Interests: Political philosophy; enivronmental political thought; ideologies; classical liberal theory

MPA Faculty

Kisangani
Emizet Kisangani
Professor
Research Interests: Civil wars; state building; African politics; economic development; international political economy; use of military force abroad

Security Studies Faculty

long
Andrew Long
Associate Professor
Research Interests: International conflict & cooperation; the connection between economics & security; international economy

Security Studies Faculty

Ortbals-Wiser
Candice Ortbals-Wiser
Professor
Research Interests: European Politics, Latin American Politics, and Women and Politics
Pickering
Jeffrey Pickering
Professor
Research Interests: Global patterns of military intervention; domestic inequality; interstate cyber incidents; the use of military force abroad

Security Studies Faculty

Smirnova
Vera Smirnova
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Political geography; territorial politics; relations between land, territory, and power and their various manifestations in pre- and post-Soviet Russia

Security Studies Faculty

Tyburski
Michael Tyburski
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Political implications of international migration and migrant remittances for both development and security

Security Studies Faculty

Wang
Jie Wang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Collaborative governance; environmental policy; water resources management; and environmental impact assessment

MPA Faculty

Warner
John Warner
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Political thought; how politics structure experiences of intimacy; Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Zhang
Zhiwei Zhang
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Public budgeting & finance; public procurment & outsourcing; nonprofit finance & managemen

MPA Faculty

 

ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Lillich

Kathy Lillich

Undergraduate Academic Advisor

mailklillich@ksu.edu

Fliter
John Fliter
Pre-law Academic Advisor

 

STAFF

Macfarlane

Monica Macfarlane
Office Manager

Department of Political Science
Kansas State University
802 Mid Campus Dr. South
101D Calvin Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506

785-532-6842
polsci@ksu.edu