Our faculty regularly publish articles in academic journals and provide commentary in national, state, and local media outlets. Here are a few selected excerpts:
2025
Dr. Akan Malici, An Introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Routledge.
2024
Dr. David J. Fleming, Mattie MacDonald ’20, and Julia Roberts ’16, “Exploring the Dynamics of Policy Diffusion: The Rise of Public Montessori Education in South Carolina,” Journal of Political Science.
Drs. Jim Guth and Brent Nelsen, “Christianity and Culture in Europe,” The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture.
Drs. Jim Guth and Brent Nelsen, “Religion and Support for the ‘Trump Doctrine’,” Religion and American Politics: Domestic and International Contexts.
Drs. Jim Guth, Brent Nelsen, and François Foret, “Religion and the Contours of European Identity,” Religion and Politics in Europe, the USA and Asia: New Trends and Challenges.
Jamal Halley ’20, Chloe Rawlings ’21, Dr. Elizabeth S. Smith, and Jillian Wacker ’22. (2022 (backdated due to COVID delays)). “Am I Who You Think I Am? Covering and Reverse Covering of Identity as a Political Strategy for Emerging Political Leaders.” The Journal of Student Leadership.
Miles Koniver ’25 and Drs. Elizabeth S. Smith, Zara Anishanslin, and Barbara Palmer. “Power Dressing: Dress Codes in State Legislatures.” Handbook on Politics and Fashion.
Drs. Brent Nelsen and Tina Soliman Hunter, The North Sea System for Petroleum Production: State Intervention on the British and Norwegian Continental Shelves, Edward Elgar Publishers.
Drs. Elizabeth S. Smith, Sabrina S. Roof, Katherine West, and Nicole Hyman. (2021-2022); backdated due to COVID). “The Political Socialization of College Students: Student Government, Diversity and Political Power.” Politics, Culture and Socialization.
2023
Drs. David J. Fleming and Brooke Culclasure, “Exploring Public Montessori Education: Equity and Achievement in South Carolina,” Journal of Research in Childhood Education.
Drs. Jim Guth and Brent Nelsen, “Confessional Culture, Religiosity, and Traditionalism: Tracing the Influence of Religion on Public Attitudes towards European Integration,” Religion, State & Society.
Drs. Jim Guth and Brent Nelsen, “Confessional Cultures and European Identity: Religion, Ideology, and Economics,” MDPI.
Dr. Jim Guth, Dr. Brent Nelsen, and Samantha G. Whitley ’21, “Explaining Green Party Support in the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections: A Test of Four Hypotheses,” Society.
Dr. Jim Guth and Thomas V. Feingold ’21, “Catholic Partisanship in the 2020 Presidential Election: Demographic and Cultural Cleavages,” Politics and Religion Journal.
Dr. Buket Oztas, “Metacognitive Exercises in the Political Science Classroom: Reflections and Research on Student Investment in Learning”. The Palgrave Handbook of Teaching and Research in Political Science, Chapter 4.
Dr. Buket Oztas, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context, by Daniel E. Agbiboa.
Dr. Buket Oztas, Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency, by Henriette Müller.
Dr. Danielle Vinson and Jacob Lollis ’20, “Nothing to See Here: Republican Congressional Members’ Twitter Reactions to Donald Trump,” Congress & the Presidency.
2022
Drs. David J. Fleming and Brooke Culclasure, “A Multi-State Analysis of Public Montessori Programs,” presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.
Dr. Buket Oztas, “Insurgent-Generated Content and Framing of ‘The New Internationalist Commune’ of Rojava,” International Journal of Communication (contributed by POL students Julia Freeman ’20 and Caroline Ring ’21).
Dr. Liz Smith, Jamal Halley ’20, Chloe Rawling ’21, and Jillian Wacker ’22. “Am I Who You Think I Am? Covering and Reverse Covering of Identity as a Political Strategy for Emerging Political Leaders.” The Journal of Student Leadership.
2021
Drs. Brittany Arsiniega, Teresa Cosby, Jim Guth, Glen Halva-Neubauer, Liz Smith and Danielle Vinson, “Doing the Hard Work of Keeping Our Republic,” Greenville News.
Dr. Jim Guth, “The Partisanship of Protestant Clergy in the 2016 Presidential Election,” Politics and Religion.
Dr. Akan Malici, “After the Attempted Coup in Washington, Americans should rethink overthrowing other peoples’ Governments,” Informed Comment.
Dr. Akan Malici, “Top Three Ways Biden can get us out of Forever Wars,” Informed Consent.
A photo by Dr. Buket Oztas makes the cover of Nationalities Papers, a publication of Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Danielle Vinson, “Looking at American Politics Through the Prism of Native American Culture and Experience,” Perspectives in Religious Studies.
“What We Can Learn from Native American Politics,” an interview with Dr. Danielle Vinson.