POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

LECTURERS

VISITING PROFESSORS

D. ROBERT WORLEY
303F Manheim
phone: 816-235-5948
email: worleyd@umkc.edu

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

REGINALD L. BASSA, JR. (Ph.D., Cambridge, ABD)
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science 303G Manheim Hall; (816)235-5844 (Manheim Hall) (816)235-2738 (Scofield Hall)
bassar@umkc.edu

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

collinsrl@umkc.edu

Hootan Shambayati

Lecturer of Political Science

213 Haag Hall
shambayatih@umkc.edu

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

• David M. Sprick, “Ex Abundanti Cautela (Out of an Abundance of Caution): A Historical Analysis of the Tenth Amendment and the Continuing Dilemma of ‘Federal’Power.”  Capital University Law Review 27 (May 1999).

• Greg Arling and David Sprick, Nursing Home Access and Reimbursement: National and Regional Perspectives on Issues Facing Georgia, Prepared for the Georgia Health Policy Center (May 1999) available at http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwsps/ar1999/units/health.htm#N_1_

• David M. Sprick, “Theodore Roosevelt:  The Empowerment of the Presidency and the Executive Branch.”  The Washington Journal of Politics, 2 (1998): 17-50.

• K. Flynn, D. Burns, D. Sprick, A. Teipel, J. Mayhew and J. Heimdal, “Effect of a Negative Grade and Exercise Intensity on Females’ Maximal Eccentric Strength and DOMS.”  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 28 (May 1996): S168