Faculty

 

Chairperson

George Serra

George Serra
Email: gserra@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2417
B.A., M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Professor Serra is the Chairman of the Political Science Department and Director of the Center for Legislative Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on legislative and electoral behavior, congressional representation of minority interests, presidency and executive politics, and policy implementation. Dr. Serra is a 2003-2004 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and has published articles in leading political science journals, including The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research,  Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Congress and the Presidency, and Electoral Studies .

Professors

Michael Kryzanek

Michael Kryzanek
Email: mkryzanek@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2318
B.A., Marquette University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Professor Kryzanek has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1973. He currently serves as executive director of the University's Center for International Engagement. Dr. Kryzanek is a specialist in Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations, Dr. Kryzanek has written five books on the region. Dr. Kryzanek is also the former editor of the Bridgewater Review, the faculty magazine of Bridgewater State University. Dr. Kryzanek has also published a book entitled Angry, Bored, and Confused: A Citizen Guide to American Politics, and a text in the area of comparative government entitled Comparative Politics: A Policy Approach. A fourth edition of his book U.S.-Latin American Relations will be published in 2008. Professor Kryzanek has recently published a new book entitled Debates, Differences and Divisions: The 25 Issues That Shape American Politics (Longman Publishers). Professor Kryzanek is the recipient of the Lifetime Faculty Achievement Award, The Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award and the Dr. V. James DiNardo Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Kryzanek's blog, Commentary from the Commonwealth, can be reached at http://polisciprof.wordpress.com.


Shaheen Mozaffar

Shaheen Mozaffar
Email: smozaffar@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2291
B.A., M.A., Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)

Professor Mozaffar teaches courses in Comparative Politics and International Relations. His professional work combines academic research with public policy. His academic research focuses on the application of institutional analysis to the comparative study of democratization, ethnopolitics, constitutional design, electoral systems, democratic governance, conflict management, and African politics. A recipient of a National Science Foundation research grant, he is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the colonial state, regime change, ethnopolitics, democratization, political parties, electoral systems, the choice and consequences of new democratic institutions in Africa, and US democracy assistance policy. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics Studies, Electoral Studies, International Negotiations, International Political Science Review, Journal of Legislative Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Political Parties and Representation (UK). Professor Mozaffar is a co-Principal Investigator of the African Legislatures Project, a collaborative project between the BSU Center for Legislative Studies and the Democracy in Africa Research Unit of the Center for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town. He is a Research Fellow of the African Studies Center at Boston University, a Research Fellow of the BSU Center for Legislative Studies, and a Research Fellow of the Center for Social Science at the University of Cape Town. Professor Mozaffar was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria.

In his public policy work, Professor Mozaffar has served as a consultant to the USAID Africa Bureau on institutional design and democratic governance. During the 1999-2000 academic year, he served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow at USAID, where he worked on democracy and human rights issues in Latin America. He was also a member of the US delegation to the Organization of American States election observation team for the legislative elections in Haiti in May 2000. He was a member of an international panel of experts on electoral systems established by the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division for the Fiji Constitutional Review Commission. In 2005, he served as a member of an international team of experts appointed by Elections Canada to assist the International Mission for Iraqi Elections assess the Transitional National Assembly Elections in January 2005, the Constitutional Referendum in October 2005, and the Iraqi Council of Representative Elections in December 2005, which he also monitored and observed in Baghdad. Most recently, Professor Mozaffar was invited by the Naval Postgraduate School to deliver its Regional Security Education Program lectures on US strategic interests in Africa and country briefings to Navy personnel on deployment.

Associate Professors

Wendy Haynes

Wendy Haynes
Email: whaynes@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2017
B.S., University of Oregon
M.A., University of Oregon
Ph.D., Northeastern University

Professor Haynes is the Coordinator of the Master of Public Administration Program. She teaches courses in the areas of public personnel, policy analysis, program evaluation, and organization theory. Her research and teaching specialties include megaproject management and oversight, accountability systems, performance measurement and management, and other issues surrounding the art and science of public administration. Professor Haynes has extensive experience in Massachusetts state government as a manager in the Office of Inspector General. She has served for over two decades in a variety of analytical and leadership positions at the federal, state, and local levels. Professor Haynes recently published a sequel to her first book, Outstanding Women in Public Administration. She also has numerous articles and conference papers to her credit, including "Transportation at the Millennium: In Search of a Megaproject Lens" in Review of Policy Research and "Megaproject Oversight: The Massachusetts Experiment" in Public Works Management and Policy. As a consultant, Professor Haynes has also produced a wide range of reports and studies dealing with affordable housing in New England. Professor Haynes served as the President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in 2006-07 and remains active in ASPA as well as in the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). In 2004, she received the Donald C. Stone Award, which is the highest award given by ASPA to a person for exemplary service to the profession of public administration and to the Society.

 

Mark Kemper

Mark Kemper
Email: mkemper@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2796
B.A., Northern Illinois University
M.A., Ohio State University
Ph.D., Ohio State University

Professor Kemper teaches courses on American Politics, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Theory and Process, Model United States Senate, and Mock Trial and Moot Court. He serves as a pre-law advisor for Bridgewater State University and as the faculty advisor to the BSU Pre-Law Club. In 2004 Professor Kemper was recognized as the University's Advisor of the Year. In addition, Dr. Kemper is the Assistant Director of the Center for Legislative Studies and co-hosts the Center's monthly cable television public affairs show, Commonwealth Politics. Professor Kemper's current research agenda focuses on the selection of state and federal judges, affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the impact of courts on bureaucracies, and the historical evolution of free speech doctrine in the United States. Dr. Kemper has presented numerous papers at professional conferences, published an article in The Journal of Politics, and authored several book chapters and encyclopedia entries.

 

Deniz Z. Leuenberger

Deniz Z. Leuenberger
Email: dleuenberger@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-6125
B.A., Midland College
M.P.A., Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha

Dr. Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Public Administration and the co-coordinator of the BSU Center for Sustainability. She is the former Faculty Director of the Institute for Regional Development and the chair of the Center for Legislative Studies Global Citizen Leadership and Education program at Bridgewater State University. Her mission is to assist citizens and public, non-profit, and non-governmental agency leaders by providing them with tools to increase community environmental sustainability, to improve resource use efficiency, and to integrate outcomes measurement in decision making. Professor Leuenberger specializes in sustainable development, public sector economics, public budgeting and finance, and non-profit and non-governmental organization management. She also teaches courses in the areas of research methods, urban community and economic development, and public and non-profit management. She is an active member of ASPA, and PAT-Net. She has served on the boards of ASPA's Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, the Section on Transportation Policy and Administration, and the Section for Women in Public Administration. She is the past chair of the Section on Transportation Policy and Administration. She has recently published articles on sustainable development, strategic planning, and caring labor in Administrative Theory and Praxis, Public Works and Management Policy, State and Local Government Review, PA Times, and in the Public Manager. She is the co-author, with John R. Bartle, of the book Sustainable Development in Public Administration.

Assistant Professors

Jordon Barkalow

Jordon Barkalow
Email: jbarkalow@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2231
B.A., Pacific University
M.A., University of Houston
Ph.D., University of Houston

Professor Barkalow is the Assistant Director of the Honors Program.  Professor Barkalow teaches courses in Political Theory and American Government. His current research agenda focuses on the changing understandings of American citizenship and the effect of these changes on principles of constitutional design and the nature of the American political system. Elsewhere, Professor Barkalow has research interests in Ancient and Modern Political Theory. He has published in Political Research Quarterly, has a forthcoming book chapter, and has presented numerous papers at professional conferences. Professor Barkalow is currently working on a book manuscript that argues for a commercial understanding of American citizenship in contrast to Christian, republican, and other liberal theories of citizenship.

 

Kevin P. Donnelly
Email: kevin.donnelly@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2442
B.S., Providence College
M.A., University of Rhode Island
Ph.D., Northeastern University

Professor Donnelly teaches courses in American Government, state and local government, and public policy, and graduate courses in public personnel and program evaluation.  His research interests are in the areas of American politics, language in politics, and health and social welfare policy.  Professor Donnelly recently co-authored a book titled Foreign Remedies: What the Experience of Other Nations Can Tell Us about Next Steps in Reforming U.S. Health Care with David Rochefort.  He has also published in the Journal of Policy History, Harvard Health Policy Review, and Medicine and Health Rhode Island, and presented numerous papers at professional conferences.  Professor Donnelly's current research focuses on the language of political actors involved in advancing policy ideas and interests.

 

Erica Frantz
Email: erica.frantz@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2528
B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Professor Frantz specializes in authoritarian politics, with research interests that bridge the fields of Comparative Politics and International Relations.  She has regional expertise in Latin America and the Middle East.  She co-authored two books in 2011, both with Natasha Ezrow, The Politics of Dictatorship: Institutions and Outcomes in Authoritarian Regimes and Dictators and Dictatorships: Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders.  She is the author of multiple research projects on authoritarian politics forthcoming in 2012.  From 2008-2011, she worked as a political analyst at the Institute for Physical Sciences, a non-profit multidisciplinary research institute in the Washington DC area.  She currently consults on a project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop a dataset coding authoritarian regimes and their time horizons, scheduled to be released in 2012.

 

Brian Frederick

Brian Frederick
Email:brian.frederick@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2445
B.S., MacMurray College
M.A., University of Illinois at Springfield
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
Dr. Brian Frederick's CV

Professor Frederick specializes in the field of American politics. He teaches classes in campaigns and elections, public opinion, political parties and interest groups, women and politics and undergraduate research methods. His research focuses on the U.S. Congress, women and politics and campaigns and elections. He is author of the book Congressional Representation and Constituents: The Case for Increasing the House of Representatives. His research has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Congress and the Presidency, Women, Politics and Policy, Judicature, Justice System Journal, Politics and Policy, American Review of Politics and numerous edited volumes. Professor Frederick also serves as a Research Fellow with the BSU Center for Legislative Studies.

 

Sandra Popiden
Email: sandra.popiden@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2814
B.A., Loyola Marymount University
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor Popiden specializes in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics. She teaches classes in Globalization and Global Governance, International Relations, Comparative Government, U.S. Foreign Policy, and American Politics. Her substantive interests include U.S. national security policy, the politics of the Middle East, the international political economy, civil wars, and transnational problems in international security. Her current research agenda lies at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics. The focus of her research is on economic globalization and intra-state political violence.

Instructors

Jodie Drapal Kluver

Jodie Kluver-Koretski
Email: jkluver@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2404
B.S., University of Nebraska Lincoln/Omaha
M.P.A., A.B.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha

Jodie Kluver-Koretski's main research interests include public and nonprofit organizations, citizen engagement, informal associations, and organizational behavior. She has presented her work at both national and international public and nonprofit sector conferences and has published research articles in Public Administration Review, Administrative Theory & Practice, Public Manager, and PA Times. Professor Kluver-Koretski has taught courses in Public and Nonprofit Administration, Civic Engagement, Organizational Behavior, Public Personnel, Resource Development, American Government, and State and Local Government. She has been actively involved in the community by working with a number of nonprofit and governmental organizations as well as serving both as a faculty advisor for the Bridgewater Organization for Nonprofit Development (BOND) and as a consultant to the university's Institute for Regional Development (IRD). Her professional affiliations have included the American Society of Public Administration, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Public Administration Theory Network, and the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.

Visiting Lecturer

 

 

 

 



Edward J. Valla
Email: edward.valla@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-1387
B.A., Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
M.A., University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Dr. Valla is currently employed full-time as an intelligence analyst specializing in international and domestic terrorism with FBI's Boston Field Office.  He has served in that capacity for almost fourteen years.  Additionally, he retired as a Major from the U.S. Army Reserve after a twenty year career as a military intelligence officer.  His final assignment before retiring was teaching at the Joint Military Intelligence College, now the National Defense Intelligence College.  There, he taught graduate courses in national security studies, counterterrorism, and analytical methodology.  At Bridgewater, Dr. Valla teaches Terrorism and National Security and The Government and Politics of Eastern Europe.  Dr. Valla is a member of the International Studies Association and the International Association for Intelligence Education.

 

 

Last Modified: August 27, 2012