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Michael L. Vasu
Michael L. Vasu Ph.D., Director of the Leadership in the Public Sector Program, He is the author of Politics and Planning (Chapel Hill: UNC Press) and the co-author of Organizational Behavior and Public Management (New York: Marcel Dekker) and Effective Program Practices For At-Risk Youth: A Continuum of Community –Based Programs (Kingston, New Jersey), among other books and monographs. In addition, he has published numerous articles in the areas of public policy, social-science computing and public-opinion research. Dr. Vasu is one of the authors of the award-winning software package SocSatSim. He has been qualified, and has served, as an expert witness in the U.S. Federal Courts and North Carolina State Courts. He is the former President of the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research.
Professor Vasu is an Edelman Laureate. In 1998 he and a colleague, Raymond Taylor, were one of six international finalists for the Franz Edelman Award Competition, the highest award sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). They received a cash prize for "Integrated Planning for School and Community" (IPSAC), which is a mathematical optimization model linked with a land-use planning methodology. Dr. Vasu has conducted numerous national polls, directed research, and done management and political consulting for public- and private-sector clients, including IBM, Independent Insurance Agents of America (New York), Union Carbide, the Governor's Crime Commission, the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, and the U.S. Department of Justice, among others. He teaches Public Opinion Research Methods and Leadership in the Public Sector.
Ali Ozturk
Ali Osman Ozturk received his B.A. in Public Management from the School of Political Sciences and his M.A. in Social Politics and Industrial Relations of European Union from the School of Economics at Istanbul University (Istanbul, Turkey). As an adjunct faculty of LPS, he is teaching 602 sections of computer competency courses of LPS 101, 102, and 103, while co-teaching PS 471 Public Opinion Research Methodology. His research interests include new public management, results-based management, organizational culture, public opinion research, and European Union administration.
Andrew J. Taylor
Andrew J. Taylor, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, teaches courses in American politics, including Introduction to American Government, the Presidency and Congress, the Legislative Process, Public Choice and Political Institutions, and a seminar in the Ph.D. program in public administration. He also teaches courses for the Distance Education program at N.C. State on cable TV. In 1999 he received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Poole Outstanding Teacher Award. He is a native of the United Kingdom.
His main research interests are American governmental institutions. He has published in many journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and American Politics Quarterly and is the author of the book, Elephant’s Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party. He is a recipient of a 2003 Dirksen Congressional Center Research Award and in 2004 obtained a $200,000 grant for teaching and research in political science at N.C State from the J.W. Pope Foundation. He also provides political commentary for a number of local media outlets, especially WNCN-17 and WRAL-5 television and WPTF-680 radio and WUNC radio. In 1999-2000 he was the American Political Science Association's Steiger Congressional Fellow. (More information...)
William Boettcher
William Boettcher is an Associate Professor with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He received his Ph. D. degree from The Ohio State University in 1997. He teaches courses in Foreign Policy Decision Making, international Relations and Political Psychology. His research interests include International Relations and Political psychology. (More information...)
Jim Brunet
Dr. Brunet serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration. He has taught the introduction to public administration course in the Administrative Officers Management Program since 2000. His recent research has appeared in a variety of scholarly outlets including: Public Administration Review, International Journal of Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Public Affairs Education, State and Local Government Review, Justice System Journal, Western Criminology Review and Public Personnel Management. He is the author of Drug Testing in Law Enforcement Agencies: Social Control in the Public Sector (LFB Scholarly Publishing).
Steven Greene
Steven Greene is an Associate Professor of Political Science at NCSU. He has a BA in History and Political Science from Duke and a PhD in Political Science from Ohio State. He researches, partisanship, public opinion, and voting behavior and his research has been published in leading journals in Political Science. (More information...)
Richard Slatta
Richard W. Slatta is professor of history at North Carolina State University. He has taught at NC State since completing doctoral work at The University of Texas at Austin in 1980. Promoted to full professor in 1990, he has since won the NCSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Lonnie and Carol Poole Award for Teaching Excellence for 1999-2000. The American Library Association and Library Journal selected The Cowboy Encyclopedia as a Best Reference Source. Cowboys of the Americas won the 1991 Western Heritage Award for Nonfiction Literature, given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. The Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies awarded his first book, Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier the 1984 Hubert Herring Book Prize as the best book on Latin American history. Other honors include Outstanding Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century, Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in American Education. (More information... )
Keith Earnshaw
Dr. Keith Earnshaw is the Founder and President of Earnshaw Environmental, Inc., a company specializing in environmental compliance, risk management, and radiation safety training. He has over 25 years of experience in radiation safety, waste management, and regulatory compliance, and has worked in industry, state government, consulting, and national laboratories.
Dr. Earnshaw received his B.S. in Environmental Health and an M.S. in Health Physics/Environmental Toxicology from Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Rensselaer Poytechnic Institute and currently serves as an adjunct professor with North Carolina State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and North Carolina Wesleyan College.
When Keith is not working, he likes to retreat to his treehouse (official branch office, www.earnshaw-environmental.com ) deep in the woods of North Carolina to read, take the occasional siesta, and communicate with his students online.
Mark A. Wilson
Dr. Mark A. Wilson, Associate Professor of Psychology, joined the faculty in 1992. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Wartburg College (1975), an M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (1978), and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio State University (1983). While completing the Ph.D., he served as Project Coordinator, Technical Director, and Senior Research Associate for Organizational Research and Development Inc. on a comprehensive human-resource research project involving human-resource planning, job analysis, selection (managerial assessment centers), performance appraisal, and compensation for a market- leading insurance company. The experience drastically altered his view of the field and his research interests. It was while working on the project that he developed his interest in the integration of human-resource systems, comprehensive job analysis, his dedication to the scientist-practitioner model, and his love for fieldwork. In addition, he has always been interested in models of human job performance in organizations and research methods. He has consulted and conducted research extensively in both the private and public sectors. He designed the current Trooper selection system for the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and founded the National Summit Meeting of Highway Patrols and State Police for Selection and Promotion Systems. He also designed a new selection system for Field Agents for the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. He has worked extensively with the United States Army Special Forces on better measurement of Special Forces Soldiers Field Performance. He has taught graduate and undergraduate management courses as an Assistant Professor at both Texas Tech University (1981-1985) and Iowa State University of Science and Technology (1985-1992). In 1999, he was made an honorary member of the United States Army Special Forces. In 2006, he was appointed editor of Ergometrika (The Journal of Work Measurement Research). Dr. Wilson lives with his wife, Karen, and his cat Ingrid.
Marina F. Bykova
Marina F. Bykova is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at NC State University. She received her Ph.D.(1985) and Dr.Habil.(1993) from the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She specializes in the history of philosophy. Her main field of interest is the nineteenth century Continental philosophy, with a special focus on German idealism and theories of subject and subjectivity. She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1989-1990, Germany) and a Lisa Meitner Fellowship (1995, Austria). She taught at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and held visiting professorships at the Moscow Lomonosov University (Russia), University of Marburg (Germany), and University of Vienna (Austria). She has authored three books and numerous articles on Hegel, German idealism, and German philosophy of the 19th century. Her works have been published in Russian, German, and English. She is currently working on the concept of Enculturation (Bildung – Ger.) in German philosophical tradition. At NC State she teaches a variety of courses including The 19th Century History of Philosophy, Existentialism, Introduction to Philosophy, Practical Reasoning, and an honors seminar in Kantian Ethics. She also supervises students’ writing projects and undergraduate research.
J. Oliver Williams
Charles K. Coe
Philip M. Pavlik