July 2023 - Present | Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Political Science | |
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August 2022 - Present | Director of Graduate Studies, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Political Science | |
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July 2015 - June 2023 | Associate Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Political Science | |
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July 2013 - June 2015 | Assistant Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of Political Science | |
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2008 - 2013 | Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University ‐ Department of Political Science | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2019 - 2021 | Supplemental Funding |
National Science Foundation | |
Collaborative Research: Judicial Diversity and Appellate Decision Making | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
$17,002 | |
2017 - 2021 | Collaborative Research: Judicial Diversity and Appellate Decision Making |
National Science Foundation - SES #1655159 | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
$105,707 | |
2012 | Humanities & Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship |
Louisiana State University | |
Role: Recipient | |
2011 | Performance Review grant |
Louisiana State University, College of Humanities and Social Science | |
$6,000 | |
2010 | ASPIRE (Arts & Sciences Program in Research) mentor travel funding |
Louisiana State University | |
2010 | LSU Council on Research Summer Stipend Award |
Louisiana State University | |
$5,000 | |
2007 - 2008 | Dean's Award for Social Science Dissertation Research Grant |
University of Georgia | |
$1,000 |
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Department of Political Science, University of Georgia. 2004.
- Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Georgia. 2007.
- Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, Louisiana State University. 2011.
- Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, Louisiana State University. 2012.
- UofL Faculty Favorites nominee, various years.
- Outstanding Scholarship, Research, & Creative Activity in the Social Science. University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences. 2019.
- APSA Law and Courts Section Teaching and Mentoring Award (Co-Winner), 2023
Courses
- POLS 390 Political Research
- POLS 629 Seminar in American Politics
- POLS 316 Gender, Sexuality, and the Law
- HON 436/446 Gender, Sexuality, and the Law
- POLS 314 Judicial Politics
- POLS 313 American Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
- POLS 312 American Constitutional Law: Powers of Government
2008 | Ph. D., University of Georgia ‐ Political Science | |
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2004 | M.P.A., University of Georgia ‐ Public Administration | |
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2000 | B.A., Emory University ‐ English/Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society | |
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Links
Contact Information
University of Louisville
Department of Political Science
205 Ford Hall
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: 502-852-3245
Email: