associate professor of political science loyola college who taught course on southern politics

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Is Loyola good for political science?

The bachelor's program at Loyola Chicago was ranked #226 on College Factual's Best Schools for political science list. It is also ranked #9 in Illinois.

How much do professors make at Loyola?

How does the salary as a Professor at Loyola University Chicago compare with the base salary range for this job? The average salary for a Professor is $114,111 per year in United States, which is 22% lower than the average Loyola University Chicago salary of $146,733 per year for this job.Feb 7, 2022

What major is Loyola known for?

The most popular majors at Loyola University Chicago include: Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse; Biology/Biological Sciences, General; Psychology, General; Marketing/Marketing Management, General; Finance, General; Accounting; Criminal Justice/Safety Studies; Office Management and Supervision; and Political Science ...

Is Loyola a good school for teaching?

Loyola University Chicago is ranked No. 111 (tie) in Best Education Schools. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.

Is Loyola liberal?

Loyola University Chicago #8 Most Liberal Colleges in Illinois.

Are Loyola universities affiliated?

Here are what I consider to be the top 9 Loyola myths: We are not the same school as Loyola Maryland, Loyola New Orleans or Loyola Marymount. We are all completely separate schools. The only thing we have in common other than our name are our Jesuit background and values.Mar 10, 2015

Is Loyola prestigious?

Loyola ranked 365/739 of U.S. colleges and universities—and in the top 40% of private universities nationally—based on three primary factors: quality of education, affordability, and outcomes.

What is Tulane's acceptance rate?

11.1% (2020)Tulane University / Acceptance rate

Is Loyola a religious school?

A Catholic university that provides deep and meaningful faith development, Loyola offers students myriad opportunities for worship, shared prayer, community building, reflection, and service.

What GPA do you need to get into Loyola?

Applicants require very good grades in high school to get into Loyola. The average high school GPA of the admitted freshman class at Loyola University Chicago was 3.65 on the 4.0 scale indicating that primarily B+ students are accepted and ultimately attend.

Dr. Michael Franz

Professor#N#Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago#N#Humanities 250Q#N#mfranz@loyola.edu#N#410-617-2860

Dr. Douglas B. Harris

Professor#N#Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University#N#Humanities 250-O#N#dharris4@loyola.edu#N#410-617-2227

Dr. Janine Holc

Professor#N#Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University#N#Humanities 250E#N#jholc@loyola.edu#N#410-617-2922

Dr. Kevin Hula

Associate Professor#N#Ph.D. Harvard University#N#Humanities 250L#N#khula@loyola.edu#N#410-617-2133

Dr. Joan Ricart-Huguet

Assistant Professor#N#Ph.D. Princeton University#N#Humanities 250J#N#jricart-huguet@loyola.edu#N#410-617-5278

Dr. Mary Kate Schneider

Lecturer of Political Science#N#Director of Global Studies#N#Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park#N#Humanities 250H#N#mschneider5@loyola.edu#N#410-617-6771

Dr. Carsten Vala

Associate Professor and Chair#N#Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley#N#Humanities 250K#N#cvala@loyola.edu#N#410-617-2426

Research

Chinese politics, politics of religion, contentious politics, politics of resource extraction in Latin America

Publications

The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China, God Above Party? (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Media interviews or Quotations

Live video interview (in Mandarin Chinese), “VOA Lianxian (Weizhongke): ‘Ziyou zhijia’ Baogao: Zhongguo Ziyou Zhuangkuang Kanyou [VOA Connection (Wei Zhongke): Freedom House Report: Worries over China’s Freedom],” https://www.voachinese.com/a/4225376.html, broadcast January 26, 2018.

Research

My primary research interests are organized interest groups and the executive branch (particularly the intelligence community). My first book, Lobbying Together, was published by Georgetown University Press in April 1999.

Teaching

Here at Loyola, I cover a broad range of courses dealing with American politics, though I try to focus my classes around the general themes of the executive branch (especially intelligence-related topics) and interest groups, while teaching an introductory course in American politics each semester. My course list includes:

Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

Harry W. Rodgers, III Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, Loyola University Maryland, 2016

New and Noteworthy

Dr. Joan Ricart-Huguet just joined the Department at Loyola as an Assistant Professor. Joan was born and raised in Catalonia. He recently completed his PhD at Princeton and this past year was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at Yale. He became interested in the social sciences early in high school, where he was a student activist.

Kellianne Hickey

Kellianne Hickey presented her research, "Hungry for Justice: The New Roles of Religious Non-profits in Preventing, Serving and Advocating for American Hunger Relief since the 2008 Recession."

Lauren Meyer

Lauren Meyer presented her research, "Assessing Mass Rape as a Crime Against Humanity at the ICTY."

Where did Andrew McCormick go to college?

Andrew McCormick was born in Baltimore, went to Baltimore City College, then Loyola College and then went on to Georgetown University where he received a Ph.D. in Russian Area Studies. During his years at Loyola, Dr. McCormick taught Russian in the Department of Modern Languages, and Russian History in the History Department.

What is Giampetro Meyer's research?

Her research focuses primarily on legal responses to race and gender discrimination in employment. Her current teaching interests are in the areas of law, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. She has earned both national and local awards for teaching and has received the Holmes-Cardozo Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in recognition of excellence in legal scholarship.

Where is Marianna Carlucci?

Dr. Marianna Carlucci came to Loyola University Maryland in the fall of 2011. She earned her B.A. in Psychology (with a certificate in Women’s Studies) and Ph.D. in Legal Psychology from Florida International University. Originally from Venezuela, Dr. Carlucci grew up in Miami, Florida until 2011 when she moved to Baltimore. She teaches Introductory Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Psychology of Gender, Research Methods, Advanced Research Seminars in Psychology, and graduate courses in Research Methods. She has taught in the classroom, online, and at correctional institutions in Maryland. Dr. Carlucci’s research lies at the intersection of psychology and law, and includes investigations into eyewitness memory and juror decision-making. She is particularly interested in understanding injustice in the criminal justice system. Recently, she (with colleague Amy Wolfson) has partnered with the Department of Juvenile Services to understand and enhance the sleep-wake environment during residence in juvenile justice facilities in the state of Maryland. Dr. Carlucci is also the current Equity and Inclusion Fellow for Faculty Affairs, working to advance equity and inclusion goals for Academic Affairs and working with divisions and groups across campus to further equity, inclusion, and belonging on campus. Her favorite place to be is in the classroom with her students!

What is Van Doren's dissertation?

from the University of Maryland in College Park. Her dissertation was based on a study of the requirements for job success and self-development of retail personnel. Her major focus was increasing productivity and developing personnel through effective management and marketing skills. In 1996, she was recognized as one of Loyola's Top Eight Teachers with the distinction of Affecting Eternity. For many years she led the International Marketing European Study Tour. She incorporated this global experience into her managerial approaches to training.

Who is William Kitchin?

William Kitchin has taught at Loyola since 1975. He obtained a Ph.D. in political science from The Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. His areas of teaching specialization are American constitutional law, American politics, and biopolitics, and for years he taught Soviet Law. He has served as Loyola’s Prelaw Advisor.

Who is Birgit Albrecht?

Dr. Birgit Albrecht joined the Loyola Community in 2007 and serves as an associate professor of chemistry. A native of Germany, she was awarded her DPhil from the University of Oxford and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Yale University. Her research interests in physical and computational chemistry focus on studies of protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions and she serves as a Co-PI for Loyola’s Supercomputer cluster. She currently teaches General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, as well as in the Honors program. Dr. Albrecht has taken a specific interest in peer-led and active learning approaches and has used these pedagogical changes to foster a more active learning environment and to increase student engagement and retention.

Who is Thomas Ward?

Thomas Ward, Ph.D., is a professor of Spanish and currently the Modern Languages and Literatures Associate Chair for Student Issues and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies. He teaches Latin American literature and the Spanish language in a way that incorporates authentic materials in a Spanish-only classroom to derive the Latin American perspective on culture, history, politics, and social movements. Regarding social movements, Professor Ward offers his students the possibility of working with Baltimore's Latino immigrant community to put book knowledge in a context defined by real people. He brings to his class the literary and cultural studies research he has conducted and published in three books and over thirty journal articles.

Faculty Appointments

  1. Associate Professor of Political Science, 2000-present
  2. Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1994-2000
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Background

  1. Ph.D. 1995 Harvard University, Political Science
  2. A.M. 1991 Harvard University, Political Science
  3. B.A. 1987 University of Kansas, Political Science, Germanic Languages and Literature
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Research

  • My primary research interests are organized interest groups and the executive branch (particularly the intelligence community). My first book, Lobbying Together, was published by Georgetown University Press in April 1999. This project took shape during a two-year research stay at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., when I interviewed more than 130 lobbyists and group …
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Teaching

  • Here at Loyola, I cover a broad range of courses dealing with American politics, though I try to focus my classes around the general themes of the executive branch (especially intelligence-related topics) and interest groups, while teaching an introductory course in American politics each semester. My course list includes: 1. PS102 American Politic...
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Service

  • Current Service
    1. University Board on Discipline / Title IX adjudicator 2. Phi Beta Kappa Committee 3. Loyola/Notre Dame Joint Library Committee 4. Faculty advisor for the Loyola InterVarsity, a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship 5. Departmental internship coordinator 6. Major advi…
  • Previous Service
    1. Academic Senate 2. Chair, Department of Political Science, 2007-2010 3. Core advisor 4. Co-chair of the Middle States Subcommittee on Technology and the Library 5. Steering committee for the Center for Community and Social Research 6. Faculty Development Committee 7. Strategic …
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Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

  1. Harry W. Rodgers, III Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, Loyola University Maryland, 2016
  2. Educator For Life Award, Loyola University Maryland, 2015
  3. Emerging Scholar Award, APSA Political Organizations and Parties Section, 2000
  4. Newman Scholar, Loyola College, 2000-2002
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