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I am Associate Professor of Political Science
at Binghamton University,
one of the four Ph.D. granting university centers
in the State University of New York system. I serve as the advisor for
the Concentration in Politics and Law
available to Political Science majors.
I am also the coordinator for the honors program in
the Department of Political Science.
I received a B.A. from Lawrence University, a M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. I specialize in the study of judicial politics, with a particular focus on decision making in the United States Courts of Appeals and state courts of last resort. My other research and teaching interests include the influence of the U.S. Supreme Court on decision making in state courts of last resort, federal judicial selection, and the socialization of judges. |
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"No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital
to our lives
as water and good bread. A civilization which detroys what little remains of the wild,
the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying
the principle of civilization itself."
--Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire