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Research InterestsHer research interests include: political behavior, campaigns and elections, public opinion, political psychology, political parties, media and politics, gender and politics, and political methodology. VitaeSee external link |
Lonna R. AtkesonProfessor Ph.D.,University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995
Email: atkeson@unm.edu Awards and Grants
APSA Emerging Scholar Award, 1998. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Recent & Representative PublicationsHer articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly and Political Behavior. External Links |
Research InterestsHis research and teaching interests lie in the areas of conflict and cooperation (broadly defined), research design, and methodology. This includes the study of wars (civil and international), social order and disorder, bargaining problems, and strategy in politics. He uses the tools of game theory and social choice theory to address these problems. Vitae |
Christopher K. ButlerAssociate Professor Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2000
Email: ckbutler@unm.edu Awards and Grants"Bargaining in a Spatial Context: An Experimental Study." University of New Mexico Research Allocations Committee Research Grant ($3,499) awarded November 11, 2002. "Chapter Development through Raising Awareness and Encouraging Networking." Awarded by Phi Kappa Phi ($10,000). Recent & Representative Publications"Security Forces and Sexual Violence: A Cross-National Analysis of a Principal-Agent Argument", Journal of Peace Research 44(6): 669-687. 2007. With Tali Gluch, and Neil J. Mitchell. "Assessing Power in Spatial Bargaining: When is There Advantage to Being Status-Quo Advantaged?", International Studies Quarterly 51(3): 607-23. 2007. With Mary J. Bellman, and Oraz A. Kichiyev. "A Prospect Theory and Coercive Bargaining", Journal of Conflict Resolution 51(2): 227-250. 2007. External Links |
Research InterestsHis research and teaching interests are in the areas of Latino/Hispanic politics, New Mexico politics, campaigns and elections, public opinion, and political culture and socialization. Vitae |
F. Chris GarciaProfessor Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1972
Email: cgarcia@unm.edu Awards and GrantsHis major research grants have been funded by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Spencer Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Awards include the NM Governor's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Franklin J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service from the APSA, the Regents' Meritorious Service Award, the APSA/COSCP Recognition Award and the Navajo Nation's Chief Manuelito Award. Professor Garcia served as President of the University of New Mexico for a one-year term, August 2002-July 2003. He has also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, and Provost. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and reviews. The most recent of the eleven books he has authored, co-authored or edited are: Hispanics and the US Political System: Moving into the Mainstream (2007) Governing New Mexico (UNM Press, 2006); Pursuing Power: Latinos and the Political System (Notre Dame Press, 1997); New Mexico Government (3rd. edition, UNM Press, 1994); and Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics (Westview Press, 1992). |
Research InterestsInternational relations and post-communist political development. Vitae |
Gregory W. GleasonProfessor Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1984 Email: gleasong@unm.edu Professor Gleason in currently on loan to the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies 2007-2009. The Marshall Center's website is http://www.marshallcenter.org Awards and GrantsHis research has been funded by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of State. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe is the author of Markets and Politics in Central Asia: Structural Reform and Political Change (Routledge, 2003) and The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (Westview, 1997), and has published extensively in the fields of public policy, federal relations, and international relations. External Links |
Research InterestsPolitical Theory and Religious Narrative as Political Theory. Vitae |
Ellen Grigsby
Intern Program Coordinator Ph.D. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Email: egrigsby@unm.edu Recent & Representative PublicationsAnalyzing Politics: An Introduction to Political Science, (Thompson/Wadsworth, 1999; 3rd Ed., 2004). External Links |
Research InterestsHer research and teaching interests include political economy, public policy, international trade, congressional and bureaucratic politics, government regulation, and methods. Vitae |
Wendy L. HansenProfessor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1988
Email: wlhansen@unm.edu Recent Grants and AwardsNational Science Foundation, Conflict-Induced Displacement, Understanding Causes of Flight, 2008-2009 (with Prakash Adhikari). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, Understanding the Social Costs of Natural Disasters: A Study of the Impact of Hurricane Katrina, Spring 2009 (with Alok Bohara). Recent & Representative PublicationsHer articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, International Organization, Business and Politics, Economic Inquiry and others. |
Research InterestsAmerican Politics, especially Congress. Vitae |
Fred R. HarrisProfessor, J.D. University of Oklahoma, 1954
Email: fharris@unm.edu Awards and GrantsPresented Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honorary society, August 2001. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe has produced eighteen books, including Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, Co-editor (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics (Oxford University Press, 1993), and In Defense of Congress (St. Martin's Press, 1995). |
Research InterestsCivil society, social movements, presidentialism, Mercosur, environmental politics, UN conferences. Vitae |
Kathryn HochstetlerProfessor Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994
Email: hochstet@unm.edu Awards and GrantsHer post-doctoral research has been supported by the Centre for Brazilian Studies of Oxford University, the Fulbright Association, and the Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social in Buenos Aires. She also received a number of grants from Colorado State University. Recent & Representative PublicationsHer books include Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences (co-authored, SUNY Press, 2005), Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics (co-edited, Palgrave, 2006), and Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (co-authored, Duke University Press in 2007). Her articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, World Politics, and other publications. |
Research InterestsHis research interests include urban politics and policy, and campaigns and elections. Vitae |
Timothy B. Krebs
Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, 1997
Email: tbkrebs@unm.edu Awards and GrantsHe received a Research Allocation Committee grant from UNM to study negative speech in mayoral campaigns. He also received the Best Dissertation Award, 1995-1997, from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Recent & Representative PublicationsHis articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, and Journal of Urban Affairs. He has also co-authored a chapter on city councils in Cities, Politics, and Policy: A Comparative Analysis, an edited volume on urban politics (CQ Press, 2003). |
Research InterestsHer research and teaching interests are in public policy, federalism and health policy, with a specialization in the politics of family planning and abortion. Vitae |
Deborah R. McFarlaneProfessor
Dr.P.H., University of Texas, 1983
Email: dmcf@unm.edu Awards and GrantsUNM Regents' Lecturer Award, 1990-1993 and 1994-1997. Three-year grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to study pioneers in the field of population policy, 2002-2005. Visiting Professor in the Department of Population and Family Health Services, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Fall 2004-Spring 2005. Recent & Representative PublicationsShe co-authored The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Politics in the American States with Kenneth J. Meier (Chatham House, 2001) and has published articles in American Politics Quarterly, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Social Science Quarterly, American Journal of Public Health Policy, and others. |
Research InterestsHis research and teaching interests lie in the areas of international relations, American foreign policy and inter-American relations, with specific focus on the "liberal peace" and U.S. military interventions. Vitae |
Mark PecenyProfessor and Chair Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993
Email: markpec@unm.edu Awards and GrantsGunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence, 2002-2003. UNM Regents' Lecturer Award, 2003-2006. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe has published in American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Latin American Research Review and the Journal of Peace Research, as well as authoring a book entitled Democracy at the Point of Bayonets, on the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). |
Research InterestsInstitutional design in world politics, regional economic institutions, trade and conflict, military alliances and conflict, natural resource management and conflict, institutions of international criminal and transitional justice (e.g. war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, peace treaties, domestic courts), restorative justice and political violence, international law, and human rights. Vitae |
Kathy L. PowersAssistant Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2001
Email: kpowers1@unm.edu Awards and GrantsIn 2002, she has received a National Science Foundation research grant and more recently several internal research grants from the University of Arizona and Penn State University. Recent & Representative PublicationsHer articles have appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions, GeoJournal and the NAACP's special edition. |
Research InterestsHis interests lie in the subfield of American Politics, with an emphasis on American institutions. His specialty is primarily on the United States Congress but has teaching and research interests in the American presidency, judicial politics and political parties as well. Vitae |
Michael S. RoccaAssistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2004
Email: msrocca@unm.edu Awards and GrantsHe recently received a UNM Faculty Research Allocation Grant to pursue his research on position taking in Congress. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe has published articles in American Politics Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Sciences Quarterly. External Links |
Research InterestsThe theory and practice of international relations, international security affairs, national security and defense policy and planning, military technology, security and economics. Vitae |
Andrew L. RossProfessor Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984 Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Policy
Email: aross@unm.edu Awards and GrantsHe has held research fellowships at Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, the University of Illinois, and the Naval War College. In September 2002, Dr. Ross was the recipient of a Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service award. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe is the co-editor of three editions of Strategy and Force Planning (1995, 1997, 2000). His work on U.S. grand strategy, national security and defense planning, regional security, weapons proliferation, and security and economics has appeared in numerous monographs, journals, and edited volumes. External Links |
Research InterestsHis interests lie in racial and ethnic politics with a specific focus on Latino political behavior and minority representation in Congress. Vitae |
Gabriel R. SanchezAssistant Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2005
Email: sanchezg@unm.edu Awards and GrantsHe recently received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant to pursue his research focused on public support for health care reform in New Mexico. Recent & Representative PublicationsHe has published articles in Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research, and Social Science Quarterly. Professor Sanchez also recently published his first with Professor Chris Garcia, entitled, "Hispanics in the Political System: Moving Into The Mainstream" through Prentice Hall Press. |
Research InterestsAmerican Politics, race, ethnicity and gender; special emphasis on Hispanic politics. Social movements and interest groups. Immigration politics and policy. Vitae |
Christine M. SierraProfessor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1983
Email: csierra@unm.edu Awards and GrantsVisiting Professor at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Fall 2003 and Summer 2004. Principal Investigator, Gender & Multicultural Leadership: The Future of Governance, three-year study supported by the Ford Foundation, 2003-2006. Past research support from the Mexican American Studies & Research Center (MASRC) at the University of Arizona, the Levi-Strauss Foundation, the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), the Brookings Institution and the Ford Foundation/National Research Council. Recent & Representative Publications"Hispanic Politics in New Mexico: A Look at Recent Elections." The New Mexico Report, Premiere Issue, The Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University of New Mexico, Spring 2003. "We're a Poor State: A Glimpse at Poverty in New Mexico." The New Mexico Report, The Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University of New Mexico, Academic Year 2003-2004. Her publications focus on U.S. Latino politics, Latino mobilization on immigration reform, Hispanic political behavior in New Mexico and Chicana/Latina politics. She also co-wrote and co-produced (1999) the video documentary, "'This Town is Not For Sale!': The 1994 Santa Fe Mayoral Election," featuring the election of Debbie Jaramillo as Santa Fe's first woman mayor. |
Research InterestsHis research has focused on political violence by states, military politics, police and judicial reform, and peacekeeping and democracy promotion in cases of internal conflict. Vitae |
William D. StanleyProfessor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
Email: wstanley at unm.edu Awards and GrantsHe served as Interim Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM from July 2001 to June 2004. UNM Regents' Lecturer Award, 2004-2007. His research has been funded by the United States Institute for Peace. Recent & Representative PublicationsHis first book, The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador, was published by Temple University Press in 1996. Recent works include articles and chapters on peacekeeping mission strategy; civil war resolution; policing, public safety, and justice reform in post-conflict societies; and the role of factional politics in episodes of extreme violence by states. He is currently writing a comparative book on civil war settlements in Central America. |