Emeritus Faculty

Michael Polakowski

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Michael Polakowski nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:37

Social Sciences 329

My interests focus on justice and ethical decision-making in society. In the later 70s and early 80s I was a law enforcement officer, in various capacities, in Wisconsin. While working I completed my Bachelors degree at Lakeland College and proceeded to the University of Wisconsin Madison to receive a Masters and Ph.D. in Sociology with concentrations in criminology, law and statistics. At the University of Arizona I have taught courses ranging from General Education to Ph.D. seminars. My research has ranged from life-course studies of deviance to the implementation and evaluation of drug courts to correctional theories and policy. I am currently the Director of the Rombach Institute of Delinquency, Crime and Corrections.

Associate Professor, retired

mpolakow@arizona.edu

Criminal justice policies

Crime statistics

Inequality

Michael Polakowski

V. Spike Peterson

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V. Spike Peterson nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:35

Social Sciences 139A

V. Spike Peterson is a Professor Emeritus of International Relations in the School of Government and Public Policy, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies. She was recently awarded a Richard Hodder-Williams Fellowship by the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, where she resided for several months in Spring 2018. She was also honored to receive the 2018 LGBTQA Scholar Award by the LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association, which recognizes her long-standing and pioneering research in queer approaches to IR and IPE. In 2016 she received the Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Political Science Association. Peterson was earlier awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship and was hosted by the Critical Global Politics unit at the University of Manchester, UK during the Fall 2016 term. During the spring of 2014 she was a Senior Research Fellow hosted by the Department of Geography at Durham University, England, and during 2008-2011 was an Associate Research Fellow of the London School of Economics. Her book publications include Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium (2010) and two earlier editions of Global Gender Issues (1999, 1993) with Anne Sisson Runyan; her own A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies (2003); and Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (1992), which she contributed to and edited. She has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, most recently on informalizations of work in relation to structural inequalities and their corollary insecurities worldwide; global householding; gendering war and its economies; and critical queering of marriage, citizenship, migration and states/nations.

Peterson has been awarded a Rockefeller Bellagio Scholarly Residency (2008), a Udall Center Public Policy Fellowship (2007), a Fulbright Scholarship for research in the Czech Republic (1997, declined) and a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant (1996). In addition to her residence at the University of Manchester (2016), Peterson has enjoyed Visiting Research Scholar or Professorships at Durham University (2014), the London School of Economics (2007, 2008), University of Göteborg (2000), University of Bristol (1998) and the Australian National University (1995). She has guest lectured at numerous universities in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe and been an invited speaker at international conferences in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Peterson currently serves on the editorial boards of International Feminist Journal of Politics; Globalizations; Journal of Women, Politics and Policy; New Political Science; Politics & Gender; and Perspectives: The Review of International Affairs. She received the SBS Dean's Award for Excellence in Upper Division Teaching (2014), the Magellan Circle Award for Teaching Excellence (2008) and the Provost’s General Education Teaching Award (2001) at the University of Arizona, as well as the national Mentor Award of the Society for Women in International Political Economy (2000). She regularly teaches undergraduate courses in Politics and Theory that are cross-listed with Gender and Women’s Studies, and graduate seminars on contemporary social theory and global political economy.

Emeritus Professor

spikep@arizona.edu

International politics/economics/inequalities

Critical theorizing

Gender/sexual/racial logics

V. Spike Peterson

Barbara Norrander

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Barbara Norrander nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:22

Social Sciences 326

Barbara Norrander has been a professor at the University of Arizona since 1990, with a Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1982).  Her teaching and research focus on American politics with specializations in elections, public opinion and political parties.  She is the author of The Imperfect Primary:  Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2020). Recent articles include “Change, Continuity and Partisan Sorting on Moral Issues,” coauthored with Joshua Ridenour and Elizabeth Schmitt, The Forum (2019) and "Open Versus Closed Primaries and the Ideological Composition of Presidential Primary Electorates," coauthored with Jay Wendland, Electoral Studies (2016). Her blog posts on presidential nominations and Arizona politics appear on the London School of Economics US Centre Blog and The Monkey Cage.

Professor Norrander teaches Introduction to American National Government (POL 201), Political Parties (POL 331), Elections and Voting Behavior (POL 435), and seminars in the graduate program.  She was president of the Western Political Science Association and has been a member of the executive board for the Midwest Political Science Association and the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics and State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

Emeritus Professor

norrande@arizona.edu

American politics

Primary elections

Gender gap

Barbara Norrander

Kirk Emerson

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Kirk Emerson nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 14:18

Social Sciences 139A

Kirk Emerson is Professor of Practice Emerita in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She is best known for her scholarship and practice in collaborative governance and environmental conflict resolution, having worked in both academia and government at local and federal levels during her 40 plus years of public service. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She was appointed the first editor of Perspectives on Public Management and Governance by the Public Management Research Association. In 2019, she was awarded the NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award and served as a Fulbright Specialist teaching collaborative governance at Lanzhou University in China. Dr. Emerson was the first director of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (now the McCain National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution) at the Morris K. Udall Foundation (1998-2008).

Dr. Emerson studies collaborative governance, public engagement, inter-agency cooperation, and conflict management in the context of natural resources and public lands management and implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act. Her current focus is on understanding how collaborative governance regimes change over time and building capacity to manage and participate in complex governance systems. For more information, see /people/kirk-emerson

Recent publications include:

Emerson, Kirk, Elizabeth Baldwin, Tyler A. Scott, Justin R. Pidot, Aaron M. Lien, Faiz Currim, Steven Bethard, Sudha Ram, Marc L. Miller, and Laura López-Hoffman, 2022. “Toward NEPA Performance: A Framework for Assessing EIAs,” Environmental Impact Assessment Review 97 106879.
Emerson, Kirk. 2022. "On Theory and Theory Building in Public Administration." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 5.1 (2022): 3-10.
Ulibarri, Nicola, Kirk Emerson, Mark Imperial, Jens Newig and Ed Weber. 2020. “How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison,” Policy and Society. 1-21.
Emerson, Kirk and Elizabeth Baldwin. 2019. “Effectiveness in NEPA Decision Making: In Search of Evidence and Theory.” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning Environmental Policy and Planning 21(4), 427-443.
Emerson, Kirk. 2018. “Collaborative Governance of Public Health in LMICs: Lessons from Research in Public Administration.” BMJ Global Health. 3.Suppl 4 (2018): e000381.

Emeritus Professor of Practice

kemerson@arizona.edu

Environmental policy and management

Collaborative governance

Conflict management