California State University, Channel Islands

Faculty Member, Political Science

Professor of Political Science

About

I am Professor of Political Science at California State University ChannelCSUCI Campus Islands in Camarillo, California. Camarillo is located north of Los Angeles and south of Santa Barbara.  CSUCI is the newest campus in the California State University System; it was established in 2002.  The CSUCI campus is nestled against the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and is just minutes from the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Coast Highway. 
I am a native of Seattle, Washington. I earned my B.A. degree in political science from Seattle University in 1986, and my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado in 1992. I am an alumnus of the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program (1993-1994). As  a fellow I worked for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee -- an arm of the Democratic Leadership, Co-Chaired at the time by Senators George Mitchell and Tom Daschle -- as a health policy analyst. I joined the faculty at Cal. State Channel Islands in 2007 after teaching for eight years at Niagara University in Lewiston, NY, and six years at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

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