Profile

I teach a wide array of courses in American politics, and focusing on boundaries between political science and psychology, ethnic studies, environmental studies, Southern studies, and American law.

Education

• Ph. D. (political science), University of Iowa, 1997. Dissertation: "Images in Black and White: Measuring Racial Prejudice and Its Consequences."
• M.A. (political science), University of Iowa, 1991.
• B.A. (political science), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.
• Completed the four-week Summer Institute in Political Psychology at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, August 1999.
• Completed the five-week National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, "Faulkner and Southern History," at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, July 2005.
• Completed the nine-month 2005-2006 Leadership Institute of Greater Mankato, sponsored by the Greater Mankato Chamber of Commerce, full-day sessions ran each month from September 2005 to May 2006.
• Completed the Oxford Round Table workshop on Diversity in Society, Oxford University, UK, March 2007.
• Completed the Prague Summer Schools weeklong course, "Crime, Law and Psychology," sponsored by Schola Empirica (public policy institute), Prague, the Czech Republic, July 2014.
• Additional education in:
  • Political psychology
  • Southern history;
  • Crime, law and psychology
  • Japan studies

Areas of Interest

• Race, ethnicity and politics
• Southern politics

Courses Taught

• POL 111 United States Government
• POL 221 Introduction to Political Analysis
• POL 423/523 Political Parties
• POL 426/526 Racial and Ethnic Politics
• POL 427/527 Political Psychology
• POL 455/555 American Legal Philosophy
• POL 461/561 Environmental Politics
• POL  471/571 Public Opinion and Polling Methods
• POL 474/574 Executive Process
• POL 476/576 Southern Politics

Selected Presentations/Publications

• Slocum, F. (2007). Authoritarianism and resistance to diversity in the American South. Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table.