February 27, 2024
Pickering to present Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture March 6
Jeffrey Pickering, professor of political science and security, will make a public presentation titled "Explaining Military Intervention in Africa" at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in the Leadership Studies Building McVay Family Town Hall, Room 114.
Pickering received the 2023-2024 Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award for his outstanding scholarly achievements and contribution to graduate education at Kansas State University.
Pickering's research examines global patterns of military intervention and other coercive foreign policies. He has received two Distinguished Scholar Awards from the International Studies Association, or ISA. In 2019, Pickering received the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award from the ISA-Midwest. He will receive the ISA Foreign Policy Analysis Distinguished Scholar Award in April 2024, where a panel will be held in his honor.
He has played a significant role in K-State's selection as host of the 2019 Peace Science Society annual conference, which brought more than 250 well-known academics to campus worldwide. K-State is the second Big 12 institution to host this conference.
Pickering's contributions to graduate education at K-State include helping design the curriculum for the master's and doctoral programs in security studies and mentoring countless students. His doctoral students have gone on to successful careers in both academia and the private sector. Three of Pickering's students are now faculty members at the U.S. Army's School of Advanced Military Studies.
K-State students, faculty and staff and the public are invited to attend Pickering's presentation on March 6.