FACULTY
Dr.
Mark
Setzler,
Chair &
Assistant Professor of
Political Science
Telephone: 336.841.9018
Office: Smith Hall 429
Email:
msetzler@highpoint.edu
Webpage:
http://www.highpoint.edu/~msetzler
Professor
Setzler was born in
rural Washington state and
raised on a small ranch
outside of Boise, Idaho.
He earned his BA in
Political Science and
Spanish Literature from
Oregon's Pacific
University. His doctorate
in Government is from the
University of Texas at
Austin.
Outside of academia, he
has worked as a research
analyst and editor for an
urban issues political
think tank, clerked for a
law firm in Washington,
DC, and interned with a
US Congressional staff on
Capitol Hill.
Dr. Setzler teaches
courses primarily in the
fields of comparative
politics and international
relations. He is advisor
to the university's
Amnesty International
chapter and the College
Democrats.
Prior to coming to
High Point
University in 2004,
he
taught at Oregon's
Lewis
&
Clark College and the
University of Portland,
where he was
named
University Teacher
of the Year by the
college's
students.
Dr.
Setzler
specializes in the
study of voting behavior,
political partisanship,
and
ethnic/immigrant
politics.
Much of his scholarship
focuses on these themes in
Latin American
settings, but he also
writes on political
behavior and public policy in the US.
He has published reviews,
papers,
journal articles,
and book chapters,
including a
study
that was named best
article of the year by the
Policy Studies Journal.
He has presented his
research at dozens of
professional conferences
and public talks,
including the annual meetings
of the American Political
Science Association, the
Latin American Studies
Association, the
Midwestern Political
Science Association, the
Southern Political Science
Association, the
Southwestern Political
Science Association, the
Western Political Science
Association, and the
Western Sociological
Association.
He
presently is working on
book project that examines
patterns of civic
incorporation among young
immigrants in the United
States. He is also working
on several papers that
examine elements of
democratization in Brazil,
where he has interviewed
hundreds of state
deputies, city councilors,
bureaucrats, reporters,
and community leaders. His
research has been
supported with grants from
the Ford
Foundation, the Social
Science Research Council,
the American Council of
Learned Societies, and the
National Security
Education Program.
Courses
Taught
by Dr.
Setzler
PSC
121.
Introduction to Political
Science
PSC 201.
United States
Government
PSC 305.
International
Relations
PSC 306.
US-Foreign Policy
PSC 309. Comparative
Politics
PSC 314.
International
Security
PSC 387.
Latin American
Politics
