About
Josh Berkenpas is a Professor of Political Science who joined Minnesota State University and the Mankato community in 2016. He teaches and writes in the areas of American Politics and Political Theory. He served in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006. He is a father to a ten-year-old and a seven-year-old who are students in a local public school.
Education
- Ph.D.
Areas of Interest
- Constitutional Law and American Political Thought
- American Politics
- Sex/Gender in American Politics
Courses Taught
- POL 103W Thinking about Politics
- POL 111 United States Government
- POL 313 Modern Political Thought
- POL 415 Recent United States Political Thought
- POL 424 Women & Politics
- POL 470 Food Politics in the US
Selected Publications/Presentations
- "Critique of Positivism and the Post-Behavioral Revolution" (2024, Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science).
- "High-Modern Food Systems in the USA: A Framework for Analysis and Change" (2023, Social Change).
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"White Supremacy, Racism, and War: The American Mythological Nexus" (2023, Soundings).
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"‘The Behavioural Revolution’? A Genealogy of a Concept" (2016, European Political Science).
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The Behavioral Revolution in Contemporary Political Science: Narrative, Identity, Practice (2016, Dissertation)
