Warm greetings! Our Department had a successful year in 2016-2017 despite some speed bumps. Faculty members have published

important books and scholarly articles, and they are working on exciting new projects. Professor Anita Manion has taken command

of our undergraduate program as our new Director of Undergraduate Studies. Under Professor Manion’s excellent leadership and the

guidance of Professors Iyob and Rochester, the Department’s proposal for a new Bachelor of Arts in International Relations is on the

verge of full, formal approval (http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2016/11/30/international-relations/).

With the help of Professors Liao and Udani, Professor Manion has also recently streamlined and improved the Bachelor of Science in

Public Policy Administration degree. Enrollment has increased in Political Science classes at all levels, bucking a University trend.

Professor David Kimball is doing a superb job as Graduate Director; this May alone, we awarded four new Ph.Ds.

Our department’s engagement in helping the community has never been greater. Professor Kimball’s leadership of an exit poll project

in the 2016 national elections and the 2017 local elections is a model for any public urban university (http://blogs.umsl.edu/

news/2016/11/14/exit-polling/). It actively engaged our students in real life fact-gathering and analysis, and it provided new

insights into the things that shaped the voters’ decisions when they cast their ballots.

We welcome three new members of our political science family. Ms. Rachel DuPree took over as our Office Support Assistant early in the

spring 2017 semester. Rachel, an UMSL grad, has brought talent, initiative, and a wonderful sense of kindness and helpfulness to our

department. We also welcome Ms. Judy Cates, the Business Support Specialist for Economics, who added our department to her

portfolio early in the spring. We all marvel at Judy’s knowledge, experience and skill, and we are grateful to her in countless ways

already. Our most recent addition is Professor Doug Swanson, our new colleague who serves as Coordinator for Labor Studies. He

replaces Rob Russell, who has moved on to higher office as the Director of Labor Education for the University of Missouri-Extension.

Rob is now based in Columbia.

We congratulate Professor Joyce Mushaben, who has been promoted to College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Global Studies and now

is a member of the College faculty (http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2017/03/14/college-professor/).

We recognize Professor Kenny Thomas, who formally retired his position and now serves as a Founders Professor, teaching a course

and still nurturing graduate students through the program. All of his colleagues and many of our students deeply appreciate all he

has done for us.

We give special thanks to former Director of Center for Ethics in Public Life, Wally Siewart, for all his support over the years, and we

wish him well in his new position with FOCUS Saint Louis. We also thank Raphael Hopkins and Jalina Drake, staff members who served

all of us so well over the years. Raphael has moved away from our region, and Jalina has taken another position on campus. We

thank them and will never forget all the help they have given us.

The budget issues facing UMSL and the University of Missouri have engaged much of the attention of the campus and our Department

this year and will continue to do so in 2017-2018. The department also underwent an extensive five-year review this year, and that

review revealed many of our strengths in research, teaching and service. We are building on those strengths, laying the groundwork

for expanding our enrollment and our programs, and improving the quality of our education for our students.

Last but not least, we had a great turnout for our 2017 Alumni

Reunion this year. I must express how grateful I am to everyone

who was able to attend and to all who participated in the

success of this event.

All the Best,

Dave Robertson

Greetings from the Chair

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Table of Contents:

2016/2017 Table of Contents

Alumni Awards 2

Scholarship Recipients 3

Alumni Reunion 4

Student Success 5

Students and Faculty in the News! 6

Faculty News 8

Thanks to Our Donors 10

Announcements Join us for our Fall Open House on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 from 11am-1pm in room 344A SSB. This is a chance for students to learn more about the Political Science majors and minors and meet our faculty. Undergraduate and graduate students and faculty are all welcome to attend. Food and drinks will be provided.

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Dr. Sudarsan Kant, Dr. Elizabeth W. Sale, and Dr. Andrew Theising Receive the Department of Political Science 2017 Alumni Awards!

Dr. Sudarsan Kant graduated w ith his PhD in 2011 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. Currently he serves as the interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Harris-Stowe State University as well as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. At Harris-Stowe, Sudarsan developed the undergraduate degree program in political science and is hoping to soon matriculate its first cohort of political science students in the institution’s 160 year history. He has also served on the faculty senate and multiple standing committees at Harris-Stowe and other organizations on campus. Sudarsan’s main research interest is on the politics of Oceania, and he tries to remain active in his field by participating in academic conferences when time permits. Sudarsan is married to Dayna Stock, and the smartest thing he did besides finishing his degree was probably meeting Dayna, who was a fellow student in the department.

Dr. Elizabeth Sale received both her MA (1998) and her PhD (1999) from the University of Missouri-St. Louis Department of Political Science. She is the Evaluation Director and a research associate professor at the MIMH. She has over 25 years of experience in the field of survey and evaluation research, with specific expertise in conducting process and outcome evaluations in the field of child and adolescent mental health and substance abuse prevention. Dr. Sale’s skills include research and evaluation design, logic model development, survey sampling methods, measures development, and

Dr. Sudarsan Kant, Distinguished Alumni Award Re-cipient, May 2017

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qualitative and quantitative analysis. She has evaluated many nationally recognized evidence-based prevention programs and has extensive experience in the management and analysis of national longitudinal multi-site evaluations. Dr. Sale is an adjunct research associate professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the School of Public Health. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Community Psychology , the Journal of Primary Prevention, the American Journal on Drug and Alcohol Abuse and the Journal of Drug Education. Dr. Andrew Theising holds the departmental trifecta: BA (1990), MA (1996), and PhD (1997)! He is an urban scholar and has written and edited several books on the industrial legacy of the St. Louis region, most recently co-editing St. Louis Currents: The Fifth

Edition (Reedy Press, 2016) with Terry Jones. He is associate professor and chair of political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is also a nationally recognized expert on East St. Louis, IL. Theising not only studies urban issues in depth – he works tirelessly to apply that research in the community and work toward solutions. He chairs the Leadership Council of the Pierre Laclede Honors College; chairs the governing board of Head Start program in St. Clair County, Illinois; and serves as vice president of the school board for the East St. Louis Charter High School.

From the left, Distinguished Alumni Award Recipi-ent Dr. Andrew Theising with Alexis Elward, and on the right, Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient, Dr. Elizabeth W. Sale, May 2017

Political Science Graduate Students and Faculty Join in on the Fun

Our students, faculty, and staff are always welcome to attend department events. We were glad to see that some students and faculty were able to make it out to enjoy the festivities.

Eric Royer (back left), Young-Im Lee, Robert Davis, and Joseph Anthony pictured with our department’s Graduate Director, Professor David Kimball.

Professor Anita Manion announces the Scholarship Awards

We are excited to report that $8937 in undergraduate Political Science scholarships is being awarded for the 2017-18 academic year, and we recognize the following recipients of these awards for their accomplishments:

Political Science Alumni Endowed Scholarship

Robert Nickel, Junior

Symington Scholarship

Abby Naumann, Senior

Bruce Somer Scholarship

Nicholas Adams, Junior

Maxwell Cook, Junior

Frantzen Political Science Alumni Endowed Scholarship

Madisyn Weiss, Junior

Jennifer Mossgraber, Junior

Politics in America Scholarship

Armin Cejvanovic, Junior

Steven Southerland, Senior

Scholarship Recipients Alumni Reunion 2017

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Mary Painter (left) with Professor Jean-Germain Gros.

Professor Adriano Udani (left) with graduate student, Robert Davis.

More Alumni Reunion Fun

Whether you have personal or profes-

sional news to share, we love hearing

from you! Stay in touch by sending your updates to

dupreer@umsl.edu or Dave Robertson at daverobertson@umsl.edu.

TO OUR ALUMS

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Recent Graduates (continued)

Recent Graduates

Current Student Success

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Fall 2016

Undergraduate Degrees

Bell, Scott (BA)

Bilyeu, Brad (BA)

Bruno, Amanda (BA)

Davis, Robert (BA)

Doss, Tameka (BA)

Dougherty, Rachel (BA)

Esperanto, Kadisha (BA)

Garrison, Gilbert (BA)

Lakew, Melaku (BA)

Muhammad, Sakinah (BA)

Norris Jr, James (BA)

Resnik, Taylor (BA)

Vires, Alex (BA)

Graduate Degrees

Patterson, William (MA)

Graham, David (MA)

Spring 2017

Undergraduate Degrees Boston, Jennifer (BA) Hartley, Evan (BA)

Mandzic, Mirzet (BA) Murphy, Michael (BA) Salihovic, Elma (BA)

Ziegemeier, Aaron (BA)

Graduate Degrees Bakirci, Islam (MA)

Carter, Christopher (MA) Chance, Tyler (MA)

Downey, Justin (MA) Welter, Timothy (MA)

Deppen, Raymond (PhD) Early, Angela (PhD)

Lee, Young-Im (PhD) Lewis, Timothy (PhD)

Spring 2016

Undergraduate Degrees Butler, Nicolae (BA)

Derda, Mary-Katherine (BA) Dreon, Josh (BA)

Gibson, Kenya (BA) Horst, Hannah (BA) Kostecki, Molly (BA)

Omeragic, Mahir (BA) Richard, Derrick (BA)

Sahbaz, Aleksander (BA)

Graduate Degrees: McCorkle, Kerra (MA) Simmonds, Brett (MA) Gracey, Jessica (PhD)

Hosto-Marti, Barbara (PhD) Karr, Alan (PhD)

Political Science May 2017 PhD Graduates

From the Left: Timothy Lewis, Raymond Deppen, Young-Im Lee, and Angela Early

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SEND YOUR NEWS AND UP-DATES TO Rachel DuPree at dupreer@umsl.edu or Dave Robertson at daverobertson@umsl.edu.

Jean-Germain Gros

Dr. Gros was featured on Voice of America-Africa focus in December 2016, commenting on the US pres-idential election. His 2016 book, Healthcare Policy in Africa, was reviewed in the Journal of Modern African Studies in March 2017. He also has a book chapter, “Correcting Intellectual Malprac-tice: Haiti and Latin America” pub-lished in Ollie Johnson and Kwame Dixon’s (eds.) Handbook of Afro-Latin America, Routledge 2017.

David Kimball

Dr. Kimball’s publications include an article titled “Voter Com-petence with Cumulative Voting,” pub-

lished in the Social Science Quar-terly (97:619-635) in 2016 and “Ranked Choice Voting: A Different Way of Casting and Counting Votes,” published in Changing How America Votes (ed. Todd Donovan. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Little-field, pp. 100-112) in 2017. His 2016 publication was co-authored with Martha Kropf, and his 2017 article was co-authored with Jo-seph Anthony. Joseph is a graduate student currently working toward his PhD in Political Science. Professor Kimball also moderated panel discussion on the first 100 days of the Trump administration with Professors Barbara Graham, Dave Robertson, Marty Rochestor, and Adriano Udani.

Yuguo Liao

Professor Liao’s most recent article, “Exploring the antecedents of municipal man-agers’ attitudes toward citizen

participation” was published in Public Management Review. His co-author on this article is Hindy Schachter. He also presented his research titled “The role of political

coverage and analysis of Missouri primary results on KSDK. He has had 6 discussions, 3 interviews, and 1 comment with St. Louis Pub-lic Radio. The following media ap-pearances are especially interest-ing:

- Panelist, the 2017 St. Louis Mayoral election, on Stay Tuned, Nine Network (2/24/17, ½ hour)

- Early Edition, Newstalk ZB, (25 markets throughout New Zealand) interview on Donald Trump’s Secre-tary of State nominee (12/12/16, live) http://newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/bayleys-early-edition/audio/david-robertson-trump-taking-sides-with-russia-with-secretary-of-state-pick

- Early Edition, Newstalk ZB, (25 markets throughout New Zeal- and) interview on the second Presi- dential debate (10/10/2016, Live) - Kyodo News (Japanese news agency), interview on second presi-dential debate (taped, 10/9/16) - Nine Network of Public Media, Discussion of Missouri Primary for “Stay Tuned” show (7/28/16, taped) http:// staytuned.ninenet.org/ episodes/primary-preview/

- FM News Talk 97.1, discussion of Trump candidacy (5/23/16, live) - Xinhua News Agency, (largest media organization in China), com- ments on the second presidential debate (10/9/16, taped) https:// www.youtube.com/watch? v=oFSMAHEPaq0 Last but not least, he has had several quotes that have been cited in various print media, including the St. Louis Post Dispatch, USA Today, New York Times, Roll Call, The Atlantic, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, and Navy Times.

Marty Rochester Professor Rochester published his book, The New Warfare: Re-thinking Rules for An Unruly World (Routledge), in

February of 2016. Professor John Vasquez of the University of Illi-nois, former president of the Inter-national Studies Association, has called the book “the most im-portant application of just war theory since 9/11 and an essential book for our time.” Michael Glennon of Tufts University and former counsel to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said the book is “backed by a treasure trove of research” and “should be read and pondered by international lawyers, theorists, and policymakers.”

He had an article titled “Too Much and Too Little: Campus Demon-strations in the 1960s and Today,” published in Academic Questions (Winter 2016). He delivered the annual Edwin Fedder Lecture on Foreign and International Affairs (UMSL, September 20, 2016) “Fighting the War on Terror: The Tough Moral, Legal, and Strategic Choices Facing the United States.” He has published over a dozen op-eds in newspapers. He was a guest on the Charlie Brennan KMOX radio show on four occasions to discuss topics ranging from Ameri-can foreign policy to campus un-rest. He gave a talk on “The United Nations at 70: Still A Work in Pro-gress“ at the St Louis World Affairs Council on April 7, 2016, and he was a guest panelist at two Oasis-sponsored forums on the 2016 Presidential Election.

Todd Swanstrom

Professor Swanstrom has had several publications in the 2016-17 academic year. His publica-tions include:

- “Reflections on Place Mat-ters: Poverty, Politics, and Power in the Modern Metropolis,” Special Symposium on the 3rd edition of Place Matters with my original essay, three critiques, and my rejoinder, Urban Affairs Review Vol. 53, No. 1 (January 2017), pp. 175-226. - “Rebound Neighborhoods in Old-er Industrial Cities,” with Henry Webber and Molly Metzger, Eco-nomic Mobility: Research & Ideas on Strengthening Families, Com-munities & the Economy, edited by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2017, pp. 325-352.

- “The Incompleteness of Compre-hensive Community Revitaliza-tion,” in Urban Policy in the Time of Obama, ed. by James DeFillipis (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), pp. 211-230.

- “Rebound Neighborhoods in St. Louis: Causes and Consequences,” with Hank Webber, and “The Com-munity Development System in St. Louis: The Times They Are A’Changing,” with Karl Guenther, in St. Louis Currents: Facing Re-gional Issues at 250, edited by Andy Theising and E. Terrence Jones (St. Louis: Reedy Press, 2016), pp. 157-195.

In the year 2016, he accomplished four presentations. They are as follows:

- “The Ferguson Moment: Poverty, Politics, and Power in U.S. Sub-urbs,” Institute for State and Ur-ban Development, Dortmund, Germany, December 14, 2016.

skills in explaining the voluntary turnover intention of city manag-ers” at the 2017 Annual KAPA (Korean Association of Public Ad-ministration) International Confer-ence on June 22, 2017.

Richard Middleton

Dr. Middleton’s book, Un-mastering the Script: the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican

Identity, was approved to go to press by the academic editorial board of the University of Alabama Press. He received a book con-tract from West Academic Publish-ers, the world's leading publisher of legal scholarship, to publish his book, Unequal Protection of the Law: the Rights of Citizens and Non-citizens in Comparative Per-spective. He also gave a talk on the Presidential executive order on immigration at SLU LAW and was quoted in the St. Louis Review about immigration and presiden-tial executive orders (for more detail about these two, see law.slu.edu/tag/richard-middleton). He recently presented at the Global Awareness Society International Conference in Costa Rica on the topic of the global legal rights of immigrants.

Dave Robertson

Dr. Robertson had two pub-lications in 2016. One of his publica-tions is titled “Federalism and American

Political Development.” This is an 8000 word chapter, published in The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, ed. Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman (Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2016). The other en-compasses several sections titled “Public Policy from 1789-1865,” “Public Policy from 1868-1937,” “Public Policy from 1937-1980,” and “Public Policy from 1980.” This was a total of 7500 words published in American Govern-ance. Ed. Stephen L. Schechter. 5 vols. Detroit: Macmillan, 2016. From March 2016 to present day, he has had several media appear-ances, including 11 comments and 9 interviews on KMOX and 5 com-ments, 3 interviews, and 3 discus-sions on KSDK. He was also Live for 6 hours on KSDK-TV during the presidential election results, and he has had two instances in which he participated in the

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- ““The Ferguson Moment: Equity Planning in a Fragmented Subur-ban Setting,” Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning, September 16, 2016.

- “Place Matters: Thick Injustice in the American Metropolis, U.S. Bank CDC Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, May 25, 2016.

- “Overview of St. Louis Demo-graphic and Economic Conditions,” Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, National Advisory Council Meeting, February 16, 2016.

- “Overview of St. Louis Demo-graphic and Economic Conditions,” Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, National Advisory Council Meeting, February 16, 2016.

Adriano Udani

Professor Udani has had a very produc-tive year. His recent accom-plishments are as follows:

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICA-TIONS

Udani, Adriano and David C. Kim-ball (forthcoming). “Immigrant Resentment and Voter Fraud Be-liefs in the U.S. Electorate.” Ameri-can Politics Research.

Udani, Adriano (2017). “Inferring What Hardliners Would Do: As-sessing Factual Knowledge of State Policies on Immigrant Treatment in the United States.” Politics, Groups, and Identities.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ab-s/10.1080/21565503.2016.1247733

Udani, Adriano (2017). “Postponing the Day of Reckoning? Examining Contextual Effects on Public Sup-port for Voter Identification Poli-cies.” Social Science Quarterly

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12363/full

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Udani, Adriano. 2017. “What U.S. employment verification policies tell us about temporary immigrant workers.” American Politics and Policy Blog at the London School of Economics, US Centre. Retrieved at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/02/17/the-take-up-of-e-verify-programs-shows-that-state-officials-prefer-the-highly-skilled-over-temporary-immigrant-workers-with-lower-skills/

Udani, Adriano and David Kimball. 2017. “Who believes in voter fraud? Americans who are hostile to immigrants.” Monkey Cage Poli-tics Blog at Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/01/who-believes-in-voter-fraud-americans-who-are-hostile-to-immigrants/

Democratic Township, FOCUS St. Louis Leadership St. Louis Pro-gram, FOCUS St. Louis Emerging Leaders Program, FOCUS St. Louis Experience St. Louis Program, First Bank, and the Open World Russian Federation Delegation.

Awards

2016 Lifetime Service Award from the Missouri Democratic Party for his work (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) preparing the Missouri Pres-idential Delegate Selection Plan.

Kenny Thomas

Founders Profes-sor Thomas was quoted in the Bend Bulletin on 7/7/2017 (http://

www.bendbulletin.com/newsroomstafflist/5429654-151/county-makes-loans-to-growing-businesses) and in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in an article on Foxconn coming to the United States on 7/20/2017 (http://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/columnists/david-haynes/2017/07/20/haynes-go-foxconn-but-get-good-deal-wisconsin-taxpayers/493936001/).

Joyce Mushaben

In the spring of 2017, Pro-fessor Musha-ben achieved the high honor of being named UMSL’s first College

Professor of Global Studies in Arts and Sciences (for more infor-mation, visit http://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2017/03/14/college-professor/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Joyce%20Mushben&utm_campaign=UD03/15/17. She has also been selected to deliver the university’s fourth Last Lecture (for background info, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo). Her book, Becoming Madame Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic (Cambridge Univer-sity Press) is set to release in Au-gust of 2017.

Lorenzo Gonzalez Professor Gonzalez published his auto-biography, To Return to Cuba, with Lulu publish-ing on June 7, 2017. For more

information, please visit http://www.lulu.com/shop/lorenzo-f-gonzalez/to-return-to-cuba/paperback/product-23213588.html.

RESEARCH STUDIES

Co-Principal investigator. 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) Latino Survey. With Ivelisse Cuevas-Molina, Melissa Michelson, Tatishe Nteta, Francis-co Pedraza, Betina Wilkinson. Released: January 2017. Cam-bridge, MA.

GRANTS New Initiatives Grant Program of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. Research Grant. May 2017

University of Missouri – St. Louis Research Grant. May 2017

Visiting Young Scholar. North Car-olina State University. April 2017

College of Arts and Sciences, Uni-versity. Research travel grant. September 2016

International Studies Program. Research Fellow. September 2016

Creating Whole Communities. Research Grant. May 2016

College of Arts and Sciences, Uni-versity. Curriculum Grant with David Kimball. April 2016

PRESENTATIONS

Pictures in Their Minds: African Immigrant Perceptions of Immi-grant Service Providers. June 2017

16th Annual Conference of Cambio de Colores. St. Louis, MO. Latino perspectives on immigration en-forcement and implications for support of policy enforce-ment. June 2017

4th Annual Conference of Influenc-ing Social Policy: Policy 2.0. St. Louis, MO. Immigrants’ Stereo-types of Service Providers and Charitable Organizations in St. Louis Metro Region. March 2017

Annual Meeting of the American society of Public Administration. Atlanta, GA. Perceived Conse-quences: The Visibility and Prox-imity of Immigration Policy Among U.S. Citizens. January 2017

Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA. Making American Elections Great Again: Immigrant Resentment and Public Support for Voter Restrictions. November 2016

Invited Talk at the Wesleyan Me-dia Project Post-Election Confer-ence. Did the Paris Attacks Influ-ence American Public Opinion? (second author with David Kim-ball) April 2016

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Phila-delphia, PA.

Making American Elections Great Again. April 2016

Annual meeting of the Midwest

Political Science Association. Chi-

cago, IL

INVITED UNIVERSITY TALKS/PANEL PARTICIPATION

Invited speaker, Creating Whole

Communities Research Fellow

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Information Session. “Findings from a Community-focused Re-search Project on Immigrant Ser-vices for African Immi-grants.” April 2017

Invited speaker, What’s Current Wednesdays. “Immigration and resettlement: What we know And what we think we know.” March 2017

Invite moderator, Department of Social Work. “2016 Presidential Post-Election Debrief.” November 2016

Invited speaker, Department of Social Work. “Immigrant Resent-ment and Implications for Social Service Providers.” October 2016

Terry Jones

In the past year, Pro-fessor Emeritus Jones has had the following achieve-

ments:

Publications

Co-edited St. Louis Currents: The Fifth Edition (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville) with An-drew Theising.

Co-authored Seniors’ Needs As-sessment: City of St. Louis (Seniors Count of Greater St. Lou-is) with Cynthia J. Palazzolo.

Co-authored Seniors’ Needs As-sessment: St. Louis County (Seniors Count of Greater St. Lou-is) with Cynthia J. Palazzolo.

Co-authored Seniors’ Needs As-sessment: St. Charles County (Seniors Count of Greater St. Lou-is) with Cynthia J. Palazzolo.

Co-authored “One vs. Many: Mu-nicipal Fragmentation or Consoli-dation (paper delivered at the Midwest Political Science Associa-tion 2017 Annual Conference) with James Brasfield and Mark Tranel.

Co-authored St. Louis County Strategic Planning Citizen Survey (St. Louis County Department of Planning) with Cynthia J. Palazzo-lo.

Media Appearances

PBS News Hour (April 2017) on state preemption of local authority.

Guest on St. Louis Public Ra-dio’s “St. Louis on the Air’ six times during this period on public opinion, elections, state politics, and local politics.

Presentations

Over sixty presentations to com-munity groups including OASIS, the Gatesworth Questers Seminar, Ladue Chapel, Rockwood School District, Kirkwood School District, Ladue School District, Clayton School District, Webster Groves School District, St. Louis County Library Managers, Creve Coeur

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