Department Office Staff  
Farrell Hall, Room 409
Phone: (509) 963-2408

Email: polisci@cwu.edu

• Todd Schaefer, Chair
• Allyson Fogle, Secretary Senior (polisci@cwu.edu) 

Department Faculty

• Barb Flanagan, Ph.D: barb.flanagan@cwu.edu, Professor, State University of New York at Geneseo, BA. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MA, and Ph.D. (2003). Her current research interests revolve around human rights, religion and politics, and democracy promotion. She typically teaches classes dealing with political theory and international politics with a focus on the Middle East.
• Gilberto Garcia, Ph.D: gilberto.garcia@cwu.edu, Associate Professor, B.A. from Loyola University at Los Angeles and Ph.D. from UC Riverside (1986) with a focus on Latin American Studies. His expertise is in the area of Chicano/Latino Studies with an emphasis on Pacific Northwest, and U.S. Mexico border studies.
• Bernadette Jungblut, Ph.D: bernadette.jungblut@cwu.edu, Professor,  Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, BA. Rice University, Houston, Texas, Ph.D. 2002, M.A. 2000. Her main interests are Intrastate Conflict, Economic Sanctions, Economic Development/Underdevelopment, European Union Enlargement and Trade Policy-Making, International and Regional Organizations’ Preferential Trade Agreements.
• Todd Schaefer, Ph.D: todd.schaefer@cwu.edu, Professor. Colorado College, BA; Northwestern University, MA, Ph.D. (1994). His main interests are American politics and government (particularly mass media, public opinion, political communication, and electoral politics), and African politics.
• Stefanie Wickstrom, Ph.D: stefanie.wickstrom@cwu.edu, Senior Lecturer. B.A. political science, CWU; M.A. Latin American studies, University of Arizona; Ph.D. political science, University of Oregon.  Research and teaching interests include environmental politics, environmental justice, identity politics, social movements and environmental history..

Emeritus Faculty:

• Bang-Soon Yoon, Ph.D: bang-soon.yoon@cwu.edu, Professor. Graduated from Ewha Women's University (Korea), and obtained MA and Ph.D. (1992) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her current research and teaching interests are gender politics (both American and global), cultural pluralism in America, Asian political development international political economy, and the politics of globalization. She is the former director of the CWU Women Studies Program.
• Michael A Launius, Ph.D: michael.launius@cwu.edu, Professor, Northeastern (Illinois) University, BA. MA; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ph.D in 1990. His principal teaching and research interests are in the areas of Asian politics, international political economy, and comparative political development. He is currently the Program Director for our Public Administration grad program.
• Rex S. Wirth, Ph.D: rex.wirth@cwu.edu, Professor. BA at Weber State College, Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1977. He was a Christian educator at Lambuth College before coming to CWU in 1983. His teaching and research interests include Introduction to Politics, public administration, international politics, and European politics.