Randy Hagerty is the Chair of the Political Science Department and has been at Truman since 1990. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Texas Tech University, and his doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His teaching interests include public policy and American government, with a focus on interest group politics and environmental politics and policies. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha and the American Political Science Association. He is a recipient of Truman State’s Educator of the Year Award and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Paul Parker
came to Truman in 1988. He earned degrees at Pacific Lutheran
University (B.A.) and the University of Maryland (M.A., Ph.D.) His
teaching interests include law and courts. He is a member of the
Midwest Political Science Association, the American Political
Science Association, and two regional political science
associations. He is advisor to the Pre-Law Club. Dr.
Parker also received the 2008 E.M. Violette Outstanding Advisor of
the Year Award for his work with Truman State Habitat for Humanity.
James Przybylski has been at Truman since 1973. He holds a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and his master’s
and doctorate from the University of Illinois. His teaching
interests include state and local government, public opinion,
electoral behavior, and political parties. His research interests
include partisan realignment and electoral behavior. He is a member
of the Midwest Political Science Association, the American Political
Science Association, and Phi Beta Kappa.
John James Quinn has been at Truman since the fall of 1996. He majored in History
and English at St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA) and is certified to
teach high school. He obtained his MA and PhD in Political Science
from UCLA (1995). He teaches African Politics, Comparative
Politics, International Political Economy, Research Methodology,
Introduction to Political Science, Introduction to International
Relations, and Senior Seminar. He taught at the University of
Ghana-Legion for a semester and spent three years as a Peace Corps
Volunteer in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. His
primary research agenda centers on the political and economic
effects of majority state ownership of industry or mining or oil in
Africa. He also works on issues of African democratization in the
post-Cold War period, French ODA in Africa, regional diffusion of
ethnic conflict to Zaire, corruption, and comparative development
and democracy. He is author of The Road Oft Traveled: Development
Politics and Majority State Ownership of Industry in Africa (Praeger,
2002). He has also published articles in such journals as
International Interactions, Party Politics, and
International Politics; he has written several chapters for
books as well.
Giray Sadik came to Truman in the Fall of 2008 as an
Assistant Professor of Political Science. He received his bachelor's
degree from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and he holds a
master's degree from Sabanci University in Turkey. He received
his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in May of 2008.
His teaching and research interests include International Relations,
Comparative Politics and Methodology, with areas of specialization
in international security, civil-military relations, politics of
developing countries, politics of the European Union and Middle
Eastern politics. Dr. Sadik is a member of the Midwest Political
Science Association and he has presented papers at a number of
professional conferences, including at the International Studies
Association, The Western Political Science Association, The Southern
Political Science Association and the Middle East and Central Asia
Politics, Economics and Society Conference. Dr. Sadik's book American Image in Turkey and U.S. Foreign Policy is forthcoming by
Lexington Books in 2009.
Elnur Soltanov came to Truman in the Fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and is working toward his doctorate from Texas Tech University. His teaching and research interests include international relations, international security, international political economy, foreign resource and investment politics, comparative politics, methodology and post-Soviet politics. He has written chapters for The Geopolitics of the Turkish World in the 21st Century, Turks, and Central Asia in World Affairs, in addition to numerous articles written for Turkish and Azeri newspapers.
Jaekwon
Suh joined Truman in the Fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor
of Political Science. He holds a bachelor's and master's in
political science from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and
he completed work on his doctorate from UCLA in August of 2008.
He also attended the Summer Institute for Empirical Implications of
Theoretical Models at the University of Michigan. His teaching
and research interests include comparative politics, international
relations, political economy, methodology, political institutions in
advanced countries, corporate governance, distributive politics in
the era of globalization and East Asian politics. He has
presented numerous conference papers and has several articles under
review for publication.
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Candace Young has been at Truman since 1980. She holds a
bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, and a master’s and
doctorate from the University of Missouri. Her teaching interests
include American government, bureaucratic politics, and public
policy. Her current research focuses on legislators’ use of
information, the effects of term limits on the state legislature,
higher education policy, and assessment of student learning. She has
served on numerous statewide panels related to issues of higher
education including the Governor’s Commission on the Future of
Higher Education. In 1992, Dr. Young was selected by students as
Educator of the Year, and in 1993 she was the recipient of a
Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2004, she was named
by the University as a Walker and Doris Allen Fellow. Dr. Young is
a member of the American Political Science Association and is a
past-president of the Missouri Association of Faculty Senates and
the Missouri Political Science Association.