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.

MA National Security Studies

Georgetown University

2000

MA Government

Johns Hopkins University

1995

PhD Engineering

University of California at Los Angeles

1986

Engineer Degree

University of California at Los Angeles

1985

MS Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California

1980

AB Computer Science

University of California at Berkeley

1978

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.
 
Dave has been teaching introductory American government at UMKC since 2006; he also taught at the University of Kansas during and after graduate school.  He has taught American government, comparative politics, international relations, research methods, and political theory.  His current area of interest is patterns in mass media presentations of US foreign policy.
 
brichouxd@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

 

 

 

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

 

  • 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

 

 

HANS VON RAUTENFELD (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2002)

Specialization: Political Theory; Democratic Theory, Liberalism, Continental Political Theory, Classical Political Philosophy.