Faculty

Chairperson

George Serra

George Serra   
Email: gserra@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2417
B.A., M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Professor Serra is the director of the Center for Legislative Studies and campus liaison for the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. His teaching and research interests focus on legislative and electoral behavior, congressional representation of minority interests, presidency and executive politics, and policy implementation. Dr. Serra is a 2003-2004 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and has published articles in leading political science journals, including the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Research,  Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Congress and the Presidency, and Electoral Studies.  

Professors

Michael Kryzanek

Michael Kryzanek
Email: mkryzanek@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2318
B.A., Marquette University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Professor Kryzanek has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1973.  A specialist in Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations, Dr. Kryzanek has written five books on the region.  Dr. Kryzanek is also the editor of the Bridgewater Review, the faculty magazine of Bridgewater State College.  Dr. Kryzanek has also published a book entitled Angry, Bored, and Confused: A Citizen Guide to American Politics, and a text in the area of comparative government entitled Comparative Politics: A Policy Approach.  A fourth edition of his book U.S.-Latin American Relations will be published in 2008.  Professor Kryzanek is currently working on a new book entitled Debates, Differences and Divisions: The 25 Issues That Shape American Politics (Longman Publishers, 2009).  Professor Kryzanek is the recipient of the Lifetime Faculty Achievement Award, The Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award and the Dr. V. James DiNardo Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Professor Kryzanek's blog, Commentary from the Commonwealth, can be reached at http://polisciprof.wordpress.com

 

Shaheen Mozaffar

Shaheen Mozaffar
Email: smozaffar@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2291
B.A., M.A., Bowling Green State University 
Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)

Professor Mozaffar teaches courses in Comparative Politics and International Relations. His professional work combines academic research with public policy.  His academic research focuses on the application of institutional analysis to the comparative study of democratization, ethnopolitics, constitutional design, electoral systems, democratic governance, conflict management, and African politics.  A recipient of a National Science Foundation research grant, he is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the colonial state, regime change, ethnopolitics, democratization, political parties, electoral systems, the choice and consequences of new democratic institutions in Africa,  and US democracy assistance policy.  His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics Studies, Electoral Studies, International Negotiations, International Political Science Review, Journal of Legislative Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Political Parties and Representation (UK).  Professor Mozaffar is a co-Principal Investigator of the African Legislatures Project, a collaborative project between the BSC Center for Legislative Studies and the Democracy in Africa Research Unit of the Center for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town.  He is a Research Fellow of the African Studies Center at Boston University, a Research Fellow of the BSC Center for Legislative Studies, and a Research Fellow of the Center for Social Science at the University of Cape Town.  Professor Mozaffar was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria.

In his public policy work, Professor Mozaffar has served as a consultant to the USAID Africa Bureau on institutional design and democratic governance.  During the 1999-2000 academic year, he served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow at USAID, where he worked on democracy and human rights issues in Latin America.  He was also a member of the US delegation to the Organization of American States election observation team for the legislative elections in Haiti in May 2000.  He was a member of an international panel of experts on electoral systems established by the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division for the Fiji Constitutional Review Commission.  In 2005, he served as a member of an international team of experts appointed by Elections Canada to assist the International Mission for Iraqi Elections assess the Transitional National Assembly Elections in January 2005, the Constitutional Referendum in October 2005, and the Iraqi Council of Representative Elections in December 2005, which he also monitored and observed in Baghdad. Most recently, Professor Mozaffar was invited by the Naval Postgraduate School to deliver its Regional Security Education Program lectures on US strategic interests in Africa and country briefings to Navy personnel on deployment.

 

Associate Professors

 Wendy Haynes

Wendy Haynes
Email: whaynes@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2017
B.S., University of Oregon
M.A., University of Oregon
Ph.D., Northeastern University

Professor Haynes is the Coordinator of the Master of Public Administration Program. She teaches courses in the areas of public personnel, policy analysis, program evaluation, and organization theory.  Her research and teaching specialties include megaproject management and oversight, accountability systems, performance measurement and management, and other  issues surrounding the art and science of public administration.  Professor Haynes has extensive experience in Massachusetts state government as a manager in the Office of Inspector General. She has served for over two decades in a variety of analytical and leadership positions at the federal, state, and local levels.  Professor Haynes recently published a sequel to her first book, Outstanding Women in Public Administration. She also has numerous articles and conference papers to her credit, including "Transportation at the Millennium: In Search of a Megaproject Lens" in Review of Policy Research and "Megaproject Oversight: The Massachusetts Experiment" in Public Works Management and Policy.  As a consultant, Professor Haynes has also produced a wide range of reports and studies dealing with affordable housing in New England. Professor Haynes served as the President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in 2006-07 and remains active in ASPA as well as in the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). In 2004, she received the Donald C. Stone Award, which is the highest award given by ASPA to a person for exemplary service to the profession of public administration and to the Society.

 

Mark Kemper  

Mark Kemper
Email: mkemper@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2796
B.A., Northern Illinois University
M.A., Ohio State University
Ph.D., Ohio State University

Professor Kemper teaches courses on American Politics, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Theory and Process,  Model United States Senate, and Mock Trial and Moot Court. He serves as a pre-law advisor for Bridgewater State College and as the faculty advisor to the BSC Pre-Law Club. In 2004 Professor Kemper was recognized as the College's Advisor of the Year.  In addition, Dr. Kemper is the Assistant Director of the Center for Legislative Studies and co-hosts the Center's monthly cable television public affairs show, Commonwealth Politics.  Professor Kemper's current research agenda focuses on the selection of state and federal judges, affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the impact of courts on bureaucracies, and the historical evolution of free speech doctrine in the United States. Dr. Kemper has presented numerous papers at professional conferences, published an article in The Journal of Politics, and authored several  book chapters and encyclopedia entries.

 

Deniz Z. Leuenberger

Deniz Z. Leuenberger
Email: dleuenberger@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-6125
B.A., Midland College
M.P.A., Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha

Dr. Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger's mission is to assist citizens and public, non-profit, and non-governmental agency leaders by providing them with tools to increase community environmental sustainability, to improve resource use efficiency, and to integrate outcomes measurement in decision making. Professor Leuenberger specializes in sustainable development, public sector economics, public budgeting and finance, and non-profit and non-governmental organization management. She also teaches courses in the areas of research methods, urban community and economic development, Middle Eastern politics, and public and non-profit management. She is an active member of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, ASPA, and PAT-Net. She has served on the boards of ASPA’s Section on Transportation Policy and Administration and on the Section for Women in Public Administration. Currently, Dr. Deniz Leuenberger is developing research in the United Arab Emirates and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and is especially interested in the use of sustainable development and strategic planning in women-led organizations in the region. She has also developed several community-based projects that focus on citizen education and sustainable development action in Southeastern Massachusetts. She has recently published articles on sustainable development, strategic planning, and caring labor in Administrative Theory and Praxis, Public Works and Management Policy, State and Local Government Review, PA Times, and in the Public Manager.  Dr. Leuenberger is also the co-author of a book titled Sustainable Development for Public Administration with Dr. John R. Bartle.

Assistant Professors

 Jordon Barkalow

Jordon Barkalow
Email: jbarkalow@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2231
B.A., Pacific University
M.A., University of Houston 
Ph.D., University of Houston

Professor Barkalow is the Assistant Director of the Honors Program.  Professor Barkalow teaches courses in Political Theory and American Government. His current research agenda focuses on the changing understandings of American citizenship and the effect of these changes on principles of constitutional design and the nature of the American political system. Elsewhere, Professor Barkalow has research interests in Ancient and Modern Political Theory. He has published in Political Research Quarterly, has a forthcoming book chapter, and has presented numerous papers at professional conferences. Professor Barkalow is currently working on a book manuscript that argues for a commercial understanding of American citizenship in contrast to Christian, republican, and other liberal theories of citizenship.

 

Kevin P. Donnelly
Email: kevin.donnelly@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2442
B.S., Providence College
M.A., University of Rhode Island 
Ph.D., Northeastern University

Professor Donnelly teaches courses in American Government, Public Policy, and Municipal Organization and Management.  His research interests are in the areas of American politics, language in politics, health and social welfare policy, and community-based research.  Professor Donnelly has published in Harvard Health Policy Review and Medicine and Health Rhode Island, and has presented numerous papers at professional conferences.  His current research focuses on the language employed by political actors involved in advancing health care reform, including the use of rhetoric in political strategy, framing policy alternatives, and building constituent support.  This work builds upon his dissertation and is geared toward the development of a book manuscript.

 

Brian Frederick

Brian Frederick
Email: brian.frederick@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2445
B.S., MacMurray College
M.A., University of Illinois at Springfield
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
Dr. Brian Frederick's CV

Professor Frederick specializes in the field of American politics.  He teaches classes in campaigns and elections, public opinion, political parties, women and politics and undergraduate research methods.  His research focuses on the U.S. Congress, women and politics and judicial elections.  He is author of the book Congressional Representation and Constituents: The Case for Increasing the House of Representatives. His research has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Congress and the Presidency, Judicature, Politics and Policy and numerous edited volumes. Professor Frederick also serves as a Research Fellow with the BSC Center for Legislative Studies.

 

Jodie Drapal Kluver

Jodie Drapal Kluver
Email: jkluver@bridgew.edu
Phone: 508-531-2404
B.S.,  University of Nebraska Lincoln/Omaha
M.P.A., A.B.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha  

Jodie Drapal Kluver's main research interests include public and nonprofit organizations, citizen engagement, informal associations, and organizational behavior.  She has presented her work at both national and international public and nonprofit sector conferences and has published research articles in Public Administration Review, Administrative Theory & Practice, Public Manager, and PA Times.  Drapal Kluver has taught courses in Public and Nonprofit Administration, Civic Engagement, Organizational Behavior, Public Personnel, Resource Development, American Government, and State and Local Government.  She has been actively involved in the community by working with a number of nonprofit and governmental organizations as well as serving both as a faculty advisor for the Bridgewater Organization for Nonprofit Development (BOND) and as a consultant to the college's Institute for Regional Development (IRD).  Her professional affiliations have included the American Society of Public Administration, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Public Administration Theory Network, and the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.

Last Modified: September 2, 2009