Dr. Justin Vaughn came to Boise State University in 2012 as faculty in the Department of Political Science. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Texas A&M University and taught at Cleveland State University from 2007-2012. Dr. Vaughn has authored several studies of presidential politics, and his current research projects include examinations of the role popular culture plays in shaping the presidential image, empirical analyses of management theory as applied to the inner workings of the White House, and how presidents strategically utilize bipartisan rhetoric. He currently is working on a book about the rise of presidential policy czars, and co-editing volumes on the rhetoric of Barack Obama and the linkage between popular culture, gender, and the American presidency. He has done numerous interviews with media outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and Al Jazeera, and helped provide election night analysis of the 2008 presidential election for the Cleveland FOX affiliate. Dr. Vaughn has been a member of the executive council of the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association, and served as chair of the Executive Politics Section for the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in 2012.