Meet Our Faculty

Research interests: police organizational structure, the life course and disbanding of police agencies, crime lab performance, criminal investigations and forensics, ballistics imaging systems, police executives.

Research interests: Asymmetric conflict and cooperation, war, US foreign policy, overseas troop deployments, hegemony, hierarchy, alliances, power, trade, and quantitative modeling.

Research interests: Immigration, global migration, border studies, human rights, environmental justice, Latinx and immigrant farmworkers.

Teaching and research interests: urban and community sociology; housing, home, and neighborhood; environment; culture and consumption; qualitative methods.

Research interests: Conflict Management, Collaboration, Team Dynamics, Process Improvement and Organizational Culture.

Research and teaching interests: leadership communication, gender, commitment

Research interests: Public management, performance management, and higher education.

Research interests: Comparative courts, judicial selection, judicial decision-making and court-Congress relations.

Research interests: Environmental, natural resources, energy, and emerging technological and environmental issues.

Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Innovation, and Policy
Director, Energy Policy Institute

Interests: Strategic planning and management in energy transitions; Sustainable energy; Energy-environmental systems; Comparative policy, innovation systems and better practices in sustainability and resilience; International nuclear safety and cyber security; Science and technology policy.

Professor, Public Policy and Administration

Research interests: Explanatory factors of cross-national democratization patterns, Canada-U.S. Borderlands and environmental policy, and political culture.

Research Interests: Policy implementation, collaboration and collective action, energy and environmental policy, and state and local government.

Associate Research Professor
Director, Idaho Policy Institute

Research interests: Utilizing multi-sector, evidenced-based solutions to address persistent social, environmental, and economic issues and meet the current and critical needs in communities across Idaho and beyond.

Program Lead, Master of Environmental Management; Associate Research Professor, Environmental Studies, Public Policy and Administration; Senior Research Associate, Energy Policy Institute – Center for Advanced Energy Studies

Research interests: Energy and environmental policy, political economy, interactive governance, public participation, policy implementation

Associate Professor, School of Public Service

Research interests: Public policy and decision processes, agenda setting, problem definition, earth systems governance, and the impact of focusing events on public policy, as well as environmental policy and science and technology policy. Current research Project: “Atomic entomology as scientific diplomacy: the Sterile Insect Technique in an international and historical context.”

Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs

Research interests: Public address and political communication, with a particular interest in the public discourses of conservative social movements, especially evangelical voters

Research interests: Race and policing, domestic violence and criminal justice system response, and the public perception of the criminal justice system.

Teaching interests: Corrections, Violent Crime, Criminal Justice Policy.

Research interests: Community and Institutional Corrections, Procedural Justice and Legitimacy, Prisoner Reentry, and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices.

Research Interests: Adult and Juvenile correctional practices and policies.

Teaching interests: Corrections, law, organized crime, juvenile justice

Research interests: Drug policy, gun violence, developmental and biosocial criminology, policing and forensics, quantitative methods

Research interests: Sexual violence, intimate partner violence, victim services, and gender and crime.

Research interests: Courts and sentencing, criminal justice policy, integration of social science research with legal research, inequalities in the justice system, and the female experience of violence, offending, and punishment.

Research interests: Victimology and victim services.

Research interests: Biosocial underpinnings of antisocial behavior and associated psychological traits including self-control, aggression, and psychopathy; Stress and development; substance use and abuse; Spatial/environmental criminology; Crime Mapping.

Research interests: State security policy, including defense spending, the role of militias, civil war intervention, and climate change.

Research interests: Platonic Political Philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Political Thought, and American Political Thought

Teaching and research interests: Congressional representation and elections, electoral competition, political methodology.

Research interests: American politics with an emphasis on state politics, political parties & interest groups, campaign finance, and women in politics.

Research interests: American politics, specifically public opinion, political behavior, political psychology, and state politics.

Research interests: Formal and informal institutions, political parties, legislative politics, citizens’ evaluations of democratic outcomes, political participation, military spending, COVID-19 policy responses.

Research interests: Political philosophy

Research interests: environmental education, experiential learning, water resources, sustainable agriculture, waste reduction, and campus sustainability.

Teaching and research interests: biodiversity conservation, wildlife crime/illegal wildlife trade (IWT), green militarization, environmental displacement, human dimensions of global environmental change, indigenous-led conservation, political ecology, and international borders.

Research interests: Energy and environmental policy, political economy, interactive governance, public participation, policy implementation

Research Interests: Globalization and development, peace and conflict, race, gender, class, migration, urbanization, performance, and social movements, especially in Latin America.

Research interests: Water and environmental governance in the arid Americas; rural-urban water conflicts; political ecology; Indigenous rights and stewardship; social movements, coalition-building, and unlikely alliances; collaborative and community-engaged research.

Research interests: Collaborative conservation in the Intermountain West, place-based environmental governance, public land policy, rural education, and sociotechnical imaginaries.

Professor, Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands

Research interests: Urban revitalization, public/private partnerships, and civic collaboration; placemaking and belonging, creative cities, arts communication, arts economic development; arts policy and planning

Research Interests: Development at the rural-urban interface, bioregional planning, public land preservation, stakeholder engagement, and community protection and use of natural resources.

Research interests: Conflict management, negotiation, mediation, group facilitation and social/emotional intelligence. Dr. Bayard Gregory teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conflict management, negotiation, mediation, and emotional intelligence in the Conflict Management Program at Boise State. Bayard also consults: presenting workshops, facilitating groups, and mediating disputes.

Teaching interests: Emotional Intelligence, Relational Leadership, Organizational Trust, and Leading Cross-Functional Teams.