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POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT LECTURERS
VISITING PROFESSORS
D. ROBERT WORLEY Dr. Worley is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute of Government and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has served on the adjunct faculties of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, and UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He completed the National and International Security Studies Program for Senior Executives at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and his formal education includes the following degrees.
He held progressively senior positions in non-partisan institutions conducting policy analysis spanning more than two decades. Positions held include the RAND Strategy Assessment Center, RAND’s National Security and Army Research Divisions, the Joint Advanced Warfighting Program at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities at Quantico. He is currently working pro bono on the bi-partisan Project on National Security Reform and authoring a book, Orchestrating the Instruments of National Power. His previous book, Shaping U.S. Military Forces, addressed military service culture and transformation of the force. Dr. Worley served on a small panel of strategy advisors to the Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command in its lead role on the Global War on Terrorism. Most recently, he has examined U.S. interagency operations in the Horn of Africa and conducted military experiments in the Middle East. Prior to his analytic career, he managed and directed engineering research and development efforts at the Hughes Aircraft Company, NASA, and UCLA concentrating on the design and construction of large command, control, communications, and intelligence systems. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1967 to 1971 with one tour in Vietnam.
PART TIME LECTURERS
David Brichoux Dave Brichoux has a Ph.D. in political science
from the University of Kansas (2003). For his dissertation he
studied public opinion about the topics of US foreign policy and the
distribution of wealth, using surveys to test the idea that people's
factual beliefs translate their moral principles into policy
preferences.
ROBERT COLLINS 1972 BA, University of Missouri – Kansas City in Economics 1974 MA, University of Missouri – Kansas City in Economics 1979 MUP, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in Urban Planning
Professional Background: 1979 to 1987 Development Specialist, City of Kansas City, Missouri 1987 to 1997 Director of Development and Planning, City of Kansas City, Missouri 1997 to 2003 City Manager, City of Kansas City, Missouri 2004 to Present Principal in the Firm of Collins, Noteis and Associates 2004 to Present Lecturer in Political Science
Areas of Interest: Urban Politics, Public Policy, Mexican American Politics and Trade, Urban Development and Public Management
KAREN MITCHELL Karen Mitchell has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her master’s degree is in political science and her doctorate is in Political Science and the Social Sciences. She has taught at UMKC since 1976 in both political science and social science. Her main academic areas are American government, women and politics, leadership, and political theory and ideology. Courses taught at UMKC include: Introduction to American Government, Introduction to Social Science, Politics of Representation, Politics of Bureaucracy, Political Leadership, and Women’s Leadership and Politics.
Dr. Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Ottawa University.
DAVID SPRICK Education Ph.D. University of Missouri-Kansas City, Political Science/Public Affairs & Administration Dissertation: Puzzling in the Administrative State: A Study of Medicaid Section 1115 Comprehensive Research and Demonstration Waivers May 2003 (expected)
M.P.A. Southwest Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri Public Administration Areas of Emphasis: Public Policy May 1997
B.S. Truman State University Kirksville, Missouri Area of Emphasis: Exercise Physiology May 1995
Published Articles
HANS VON RAUTENFELD (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2002) Specialization: Political Theory; Democratic Theory, Liberalism, Continental Political Theory, Classical Political Philosophy.
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