Emeritus Faculty

Thomas Volgy

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Thomas Volgy nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:29

Thomas J. Volgy was born in Budapest, Hungary. His parents escaped during the Hungarian revolution and emigrated to the United States. He received his BA from Oakland University, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota in Political Science. He moved to Tucson to take a position at the University of Arizona, where he is a professor of political science, specializing in international politics, democratic processes, and domestic public policy. He is served for twenty years as the executive director of the International Studies Association, the largest association of its kind focusing on international politics, with a membership of over 7,000 scholars from 110 countries. He is also co-owner of a firm, called Magellan International, LLC., which does business both in the United States and overseas, involving business consultation, political consultation, and international trade. He served in public office from 1977 through 1991 as a member of the Tucson city council, and then as Mayor of Tucson.

He has published over sixty articles in professional journals, and is the author and/or co-author of several books, including Shocks and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective on Foreign Policy Analysis (2023), Turmoil and Order in Regional International Politics (2023), Regions, Power and Conflict: Constrained Capabilities, Hierarchy, and Rivalry (2022), Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics (2011), Mapping the New World Order (2009), International Politics and State Strength (2003), Politics in the Trenches: Citizens, Politicians and the Fate of Democracy (2001), The Forgotten Americans: Working Hard and Living Poor in the Land of Opportunity (1992).

He has also been honored by the University of Arizona with awards for teaching and distinguished public service.

Volgy ran successfully for local office, both on the Tucson City Council and as Mayor of Tucson, and served for fourteen years in elected office. During that time, he accepted as well a national leadership role with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities, and was invited on numerous occasions to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the National Governors Council on key urban public policy issues facing the nation. He has served as a delegate to two national Democratic conventions, including his role on the DNC’s rules committee.

After leaving public office, Volgy has been actively involved through the U.S. government with the training of government officials overseas in the areas of democratic political development and public policy. He has conducted such training in Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, and Guyana. In addition, he was part of the international team that monitored Hungary’s first democratic elections in the post-Cold War environment. He also served as a member of the U.S. State Department delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference in Prague, and has lectured on international politics and transatlantic relations for the State Department in Europe.

After leaving office, Volgy has been active as well in the private sector. He is co-owner of Magellan International, a firm providing consulting services and assistance domestically and internationally. Through his firm, his projects have included working with litigators to pick juries, conducting survey research for both political campaigns and private sector market surveys, consulting on telecommunications issues in the marketplace, consulting on Congressional and mayoral campaigns, and providing assistance with international trade in Europe and Asia.

Professor Emeritus

volgy@arizona.edu

Prof. Volgy's CV (1/25)

International politics

Status considerations

Comparative regional analysis

Thomas Volgy

V. Spike Peterson

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V. Spike Peterson nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:35

Social Sciences 139A

V. Spike Peterson is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations in the School of Government and Public Policy, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies. She was recently awarded a Richard Hodder-Williams Fellowship by the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, where she resided for several months in Spring 2018. She was also honored to receive the 2018 LGBTQA Scholar Award by the LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association, which recognizes her long-standing and pioneering research in queer approaches to IR and IPE. In 2016 she received the Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Political Science Association. Peterson was earlier awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship and was hosted by the Critical Global Politics unit at the University of Manchester, UK during the Fall 2016 term. During the spring of 2014 she was a Senior Research Fellow hosted by the Department of Geography at Durham University, England, and during 2008-2011 was an Associate Research Fellow of the London School of Economics. Her book publications include Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium (2010) and two earlier editions of Global Gender Issues (1999, 1993) with Anne Sisson Runyan; her own A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (2003); and Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (1992), which she contributed to and edited. She has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, most recently on informalizations of work in relation to structural inequalities and their corollary insecurities worldwide; global householding; gendering war and its economies; and critical queering of marriage, citizenship, migration and states/nations.

Peterson has been awarded a Rockefeller Bellagio Scholarly Residency (2008), a Udall Center Public Policy Fellowship (2007), a Fulbright Scholarship for research in the Czech Republic (1997, declined) and a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant (1996). In addition to her residence at the University of Manchester (2016), Peterson has enjoyed Visiting Research Scholar or Professorships at Durham University (2014), the London School of Economics (2007, 2008), University of Göteborg (2000), University of Bristol (1998) and the Australian National University (1995). She has guest lectured at numerous universities in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe and been an invited speaker at international conferences in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Peterson currently serves on the editorial boards of International Feminist Journal of Politics; Globalizations; Journal of Women, Politics and Policy; New Political Science; Politics & Gender; and Perspectives: The Review of International Affairs. She received the SBS Dean's Award for Excellence in Upper Division Teaching (2014), the Magellan Circle Award for Teaching Excellence (2008) and the Provost’s General Education Teaching Award (2001) at the University of Arizona, as well as the national Mentor Award of the Society for Women in International Political Economy (2000). She regularly teaches undergraduate courses in Politics and Theory that are cross-listed with Gender and Women’s Studies, and graduate seminars on contemporary social theory and global political economy.

Professor Emeritus

spikep@arizona.edu

International politics/economics/inequalities

Critical theorizing

Gender/sexual/racial logics

V. Spike Peterson

Barbara Norrander

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Barbara Norrander nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:22

Social Sciences 326

Barbara Norrander has been a professor at the University of Arizona since 1990, with a Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1982).  Her teaching and research focus on American politics with specializations in elections, public opinion and political parties.  She is the author of The Imperfect Primary:  Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2020). Recent articles include “Change, Continuity and Partisan Sorting on Moral Issues,” coauthored with Joshua Ridenour and Elizabeth Schmitt, The Forum (2019) and "Open Versus Closed Primaries and the Ideological Composition of Presidential Primary Electorates," coauthored with Jay Wendland, Electoral Studies (2016). Her blog posts on presidential nominations and Arizona politics appear on the London School of Economics US Centre Blog and The Monkey Cage.

Professor Norrander teaches Introduction to American National Government (POL 201), Political Parties (POL 331), Elections and Voting Behavior (POL 435), and seminars in the graduate program.  She was president of the Western Political Science Association and has been a member of the executive board for the Midwest Political Science Association and the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics and State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

Professor Emeritus

norrande@arizona.edu

American politics

Primary elections

Gender gap

Barbara Norrander

William Mishler

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William Mishler is Professor Emeritus of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Mishler received his BA at Stetson University and his PhD from Duke University. Before moving to Arizona in 1997, he held tenured positions at Duke University, SUNY Buffalo, and as the James F. and Maude B. Byrnes Professor of Government at the University of South Carolina. He has twice served as Director of the Political Science Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation and for three years as Senior Research Scientist and Democracy Fellow in the Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance at the United States Agency for International Development. A specialist in democratic theory, he teaches and writes on public opinion, political representation, and the dynamics of citizen support for democratic parties, leaders and regimes. Recently he has been writing and consulting on problems of Human Trafficking. Mishler is the author or co-author of eight books, the most recent of which is Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: the Changing Views of Russians (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He also is the author of numerous articles and chapters in most of the leading Political Science journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. In addition to his scholarly work, Mishler has consulted extensively on Conflict Management, Democratization, and Public Opinion for the United States Agency for International Development and a variety of non-governmental organizations including the Academy for Educational Development, ARD Inc., FHI 360, IIE, Management Systems International, the National Democratic Institute, NORC and Social Impact. His consulting work has taken him to Armenia, Bangladesh, Colombia, Georgia, Guatemala, Serbia, Honduras, Kosovo, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Tunisia, Senegal, and Sri Lanka.

Professor Emeritus

mishler@arizona.edu

Prof. Mishler's CV (8/23)

Democratization

Human trafficking

Public opinion/behavior

William Mishler

Kirk Emerson

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Kirk Emerson nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 14:18

Social Sciences 139A

Kirk Emerson is Professor of Practice Emerita in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She is best known for her scholarship and practice in collaborative governance and environmental conflict resolution, having worked in both academia and government at local and federal levels during her 40 plus years of public service. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She was appointed the first editor of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance by the Public Management Research Association. In 2019, she was awarded the NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award and served as a Fulbright Specialist teaching collaborative governance at Lanzhou University in China. Dr. Emerson was the first director of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (now the McCain National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution) at the Morris K. Udall Foundation (1998-2008).

Dr. Emerson studies collaborative governance, public engagement, inter-agency cooperation, and conflict management in the context of natural resources and public lands management and implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act. Her current focus is on understanding how collaborative governance regimes change over time and building capacity to manage and participate in complex governance systems. For more information, see /people/kirk-emerson

Recent publications include:

Emerson, Kirk, Elizabeth Baldwin, Tyler A. Scott, Justin R. Pidot, Aaron M. Lien, Faiz Currim, Steven Bethard, Sudha Ram, Marc L. Miller, and Laura López-Hoffman, 2022. “Toward NEPA Performance: A Framework for Assessing EIAs,” Environmental Impact Assessment Review 97 106879.
Emerson, Kirk. 2022. "On Theory and Theory Building in Public Administration." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 5.1 (2022): 3-10.
Ulibarri, Nicola, Kirk Emerson, Mark Imperial, Jens Newig and Ed Weber. 2020. “How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison,” Policy and Society. 1-21.
Emerson, Kirk and Elizabeth Baldwin. 2019. “Effectiveness in NEPA Decision Making: In Search of Evidence and Theory.” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning Environmental Policy and Planning 21(4), 427-443.
Emerson, Kirk. 2018. “Collaborative Governance of Public Health in LMICs: Lessons from Research in Public Administration.” BMJ Global Health. 3.Suppl 4 (2018): e000381.

Professor of Practice Emerita

kemerson@arizona.edu

Environmental policy and management

Collaborative governance

Conflict management

Kirk Emerson

H. Brinton Milward

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H. Brinton Milward nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 10:31

Brint Milward is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He was the first director of the School of Government & Public Policy, which is the largest school at the university. He was Director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, whose honorary co-chairs were President George Herbert Walker Bush and President Bill Clinton. He was the first president of the Public Management Research Association and is a former president of NASPAA. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and in 2019 won the H. George Frederickson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Management Research Association. In 2010, he won the NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award. Milward's research interests revolve around networks and collaboration. His research has focused on understanding how to manage networks of nonprofit and for profit organizations that jointly produce public services. He has conducted studies of what happens when governments privatize public services, or what he calls, governing the “hollow state." Several of these articles are classics in public administration with one named as one of the most influential articles published by Public Administration Review in its 75 year history. In 2018, PS, the journal of the American Political Science Association, recognized him as the 14th most cited scholar in the combined subfields of public administration, public policy, political psychology, and public law. In addition, since 9/11 he has studied illegal and covert networks that pursue grievances or greed. His articles on "Dark Networks," have been widely cited for their application of network analysis and management theory to terrorist networks, human trafficking, and drug smuggling. This work on “dark networks” has led to his participation in federal research grants worth over $10,000,000 since 2009. Milward received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

Professor Emeritus

milward@arizona.edu

Prof. Milward's CV (12/24)

Interorganizational networks

Illegal and covert networks

Public management

H. Brinton Milward