IPSR Affiliates


Beth Bailey
  • Foundation Distinguished Professor, History
  • Director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies
  • Military and US society; War and Society; History of Gender and Sexuality; Recent US History.

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  • Associate Professor, International Business
  • Executive Director, Institute of International and Global Engagement
  • KU Institute of International and Global Engagement

Sarah Deer
  • University Distinguished Professor
  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • School of Public Affairs & Administration
  • Adjunct Instructor – School of Law

Alesha Doan
  • Professor, Public Affairs and Administration and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Associate Dean, Social & Behavioral Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Mugur Geana
  • Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Interim Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development
  • Director, Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations

Donna Ginther
  • Roy A. Roberts and Regents Distinguished Professor, Economics
  • Director, Institute for Policy & Social Research
  • Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Economics

Jeffrey Girard
  • Associate Professor, Psychology
  • M. Erik Wright Scholar
  • Co-Director of the Kansas Data Science Consortium
  • Program Director, Brain, Behavior & Quantitative Science Program

Misty Heggeness
  • Associate Scientist, Institute for Policy & Social Research
  • Associate Professor, Public Affairs and Administration
  • Co-director, Kansas Population Center

Jay T. Johnson
  • University Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair, Geography & Atmospheric Sciences
  • Director, Center for Indigenous Science, Research, and Technology

Ward Lyles
  • Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Director, Center for Compassionate & Sustainable Communities
  • Urban Planning Program

Alex Red Corn
  • Director and Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Sovereign Partnerships and Indigenous Initiatives

Argun Saatcioglu
  • Professor, Sociology and Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
  • Director, Center for Research on Education and the Workforce
  • Courtesy Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

David Slusky
  • Professor, Economics
  • Professor of Population Health (by courtesy) Chair
  • Speech-Language-Hearing Executive Director
  • American Society of Health Economics

Belinda Sturm
  • Professor, School of Engineering, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
  • Director, Kansas National Science Foundation EPSCoR
  • Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
  • Ross McKinney Faculty Fellow

Akiko Takeyama
  • Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology
  • Director, Center for East Asian Studies
  • President, Association of Feminist Anthropology

Kim Warren
  • Associate Professor and Associate Dean, History and School of Social Welfare
  • Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Rami Zeedan
  • Associate Professor, Jewish Studies
  • Founding Editor in Chief, Druze Studies Journal (DSJ)
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies for Jewish Studies

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