D. Jasun Carr
Associate Professor and Minor Advisor Global Studies and Languages | Chair, Department of Global Studies and Languages | Chair, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology
Office: Frazier Hall 316
Education:
BS, Communication Processes, UW-Green Bay; MS, Electronic Media, Kutztown University; PhD, Mass Communication, UW-Madison
Emphasis:
Digital Media; Social Media; Media Psychology; Research Methods
Courses Taught:
CMP2202: Photo, Graphic, and Video Editing; CMP2203: Media Literacy; CMP3307: Social and Interactive Media Campaigns; CMP3309: Communication Inquiry; CMP3339: Web Design; CMP6601: Introduction to Graduate Research Methods; CMP6630: Communication Revolutions
Dr. Jasun Carr earned his PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His ongoing research interests focus on persuasion, consumer culture, and civic engagement; the interaction of source and generational cohort in new media; and the changing journalistic and persuasive practices within social media platforms. Currently he is in the beginning stages of developing a scale to clarify the measurement of "social media trust." In addition to teaching and research, he acts as webmaster and social media coordinator for the department.
Selected Publications:
Carr, D. J. (2018). Multitasking & Multiskilling. In Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh (Ed.), International Encyclopedia for Journalism Studies. (In Press)
Carr, D. J. (2018). Exploring the Role of Parasocial Relationships on Product Placement Effectiveness. American Communication Journal, 20(1), 31-45.
Carr, D. J. & Bard, M. (2017). Even a Celebrity Journalist Can’t Have an Opinion: Post-Millennials’ Recognition and Evaluation of Journalists and News Brands on Twitter. Electronic News, Online First, doi: 10.1177/1931243117710280
Carr, D. J. (2017). The Internet and Information Economy. In Robert Rycroft (Ed.), The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty. ABC-CLIO.
Carr, D. J., Barnidge, M., Lee, B. & Tsang, S. J. (2014). Cynics and skeptics: Evaluating the credibility of mainstream and citizen journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 91(3), 452-470.
Awards & Honors
Faculty Senator - College of Arts & Letters
Political Communication Interest Group - Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication: Head (2016-17), Vice-Head (2015-16), Research Co-Chair (2013-15).
ISU Office of Research: ISU College of Arts & Letters Combined Subject Pool Pilot. (2018-June 2020)
ISU College of Arts & Letters: Faculty Travel Funds. (2017, 2015)
ISU Office of Research: Faculty Travel Funds. (2017)
Idaho Humanities Council Grant: Humanities Cafe 2015-16: Identity. (2015)
ISU College of Arts & Letters: Infrastructure Grant Proposal Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion DSLR Photography and Video Cameras. (2015)
Dr. King Yik
Assistant Professor
King Yik, King Yik received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, specializing in international business. Despite his business education training, he has chosen to focus on liberal arts teaching. He has taught international economics and international management to both undergraduate and graduate students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Michigan, and Idaho State University. He is a recipient of multiple teaching awards. His current research interest is on the role of international organizations in economic development.
Donna L. Lybecker
Professor of International Relations, Environmental Politics, and Comparative Politics
Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor
Ph.D. Colorado State University, 2003
Donna L. Lybecker joined the Department of Political Science in 2007. Her teaching and research focus on Comparative Politics and International Relations, emphasizing Environmental Politics, Borders, and Latin America. In particular she looks at the shifting role and perceptions of the US-Mexico border, water issues among the Western states and more recently the role language and narratives play in policy development.
Courses Recently Taught:
- Introduction to International Relations
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Environmental Politics and Policy
- The Politics of Borders
- The Politics of Central America
- Seminar in Global Politics
Dr. Lybecker has published in academic journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Review of Policy Research, Environmental Politics, and Politics & Policy, and co-authored two books, Great Debates in Environmental History with B. Black (2009), and Cases in International Relations: Pathways to Conflict and Cooperation with G. Hastedt and V. Shannon (2014). She was named the Distinguished Teacher at ISU in 2013 and received the Outstanding Service Award in 2017.
Outside of ISU, Dr. Lybecker is a member of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) National Advisory Committee, and an Associate Editor for the Social Science Journal and an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal for Sustainable Society. In addition, she is the Chair of the Selection Committee for The Bert & Phyllis Lamb Prize in Political Science.
Select Publications (* denotes graduate student co-author)
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Jessica M. Sargent. 2022. “Agreement and Trust: In Narratives or Narrators?” Chapter 4 in Narratives and the Policy Process: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework. Edited by Michael D. Jones, Elizabeth Shanahan, and Mark K. McBeth. Bozeman, Montana State University. Pp. 90-112. org/10.15788/npf4
- Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker, and Jessica M. Sargent*. “Narrative Empathy: A Narrative Policy Framework Stud of Working-Class Climate change Narratives and Narrators,” World Affairs (forthcoming Fall 2022). Available online first (July 28, 2022) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00438200221107018
- Donna L. Lybecker. 2020. “Old West, New West, and the Next West,” Chapter 1 in The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Ericka Wolters and Brent Steel, eds. University of Oregon Press. 3-15.
- Wolters, Erika Allen, Donna L. Lybecker, Frances Fahy, and Monica L. Hubbard. 2019. “Willingness to support environmental actions and policies: A comparative study,” Social Science Journal. (Available online 31 May 2019: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362331919301004)
- Li Huang, Felix Hiefent Liao, Kathleen A. Lohse, Danielle M. Larson, Michail Fragkias, Donna L. Lybecker, Colden V. Baxter. 2019. “Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA,” Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 651 (Part 2): 1796-1809.
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Adam Brewer*, and Carine De Sy*. “The Social Construction of a Border: The US-Canada Border.” Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4: 529-547.
- Mark K. McBeth and Donna L. Lybecker. 2018. “The Narrative Policy Framework, Agendas, and Sanctuary Cities: The Construction of a Public Problem.” Policy Studies Journal (Symposium: Advances in the Narrative Policy Framework), Vol. 46(4): 868-893.
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and James W. Stoutenborough. “Do We Understand What the Public Hears? Stakeholders’ Preferred Communication Choices for Discussing River Issues with the Public,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 33, No. 4: 376-392.
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Maria A. Husmann*, and Nicholas Pelikan*. “Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the US-Mexico Border on YouTube,” Policy and Internet, Vol. 7, No. 4: 497-525.
Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Elizabeth Kusko*. 2013. “Trash or treasure: recycling narratives and reducing political polarization,” Environmental Politics. March 2013: Vol. 22, No. 2: 312-332
Interdisciplinary Faculty
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Professor - African History and Culture
Office: LA 344
Education
Ph.D. Dalhousie University
Research Interests
African intellectual history, African social and political history, African philosophy, culture and development, democratization, social movements and comparative politics
Books
West African Masking Tradition and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, Symbols, and Transnationalism. NY: Rochester University Press, 2020.
United States and African Relations: 1400 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations, coedited with Toyin Falola. Indiana University Press, October 2017.
The Igbo in an Age of Globalization: Reflections on Culture, Language, and Social Reordering, coedited with Chima J. Korieh. Glassboro, NJ: Goldline and Jacobs, 2016.
The History of Somalia. Westport: ABC-CLIO, Press, 2013.
Africa and the Wider World, coedited with Hakeem Ibikunle TIjani and Tiffany Fawn Jones. Boston: Pearson/Macmillan, 2010.
African History, coedited with Chima J. Korieh, Iowa: University Readers, Inc., 2010.
War and Peace in Africa: History, Nationalism, and the State, coedited with Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
Missions, States, and Colonial European Expansion in Africa, coedited with Chima J. Korieh. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Culture and Customs of North Africa: Morocco. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005
African Cultural Values and Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1966. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Conflation of Race and Propaganda in the Mobilization of Africans for World War II,” Journal of Asian and African Studies -JAAS (2021): 1-15.
“Nationalism, Decolonization, and Exilic Diplomacy: A Study of Kabaka Mutesa II of Uganda and Sultan Mohammed (Ibn Youssef) V of Morocco, 1940s-1963,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History – JCCH (Spring 2021): 1-27.
"Igbo-Ukwu." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Article published in March 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.585.
"Onitsha Market Literature: Narrating Identity and Survival in a Colonial African City." In Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education, edited by Brian Atterberry et al. 31-46. New York: Routledge, 2017.
"Introduction." Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 7-16.
"Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth-Century Niger Delta." In Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 99-122.
"The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.". Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 265-284.
“The Ahiara Declaration and the Faith of Biafra in a Postcolonial/Bi-Polar World, 1967-1970.” In Toyin Falola and Ogechukwu Ezekwem (eds.), Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War (London: James Curry, 2016), 62-80.
“Interrogating Discursive Constructions of African Political History: From the Precolonial to the Postcolonial,” in Kenneth Omeje (ed.), The Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015), 29-44.
"Eastern Nigeria and the Rise of a New Class of Ogaranyas (Wealthy Men) in the Late Nineteenth-century: A Biography of Chief Igwebe Odum of Arondizuogu (c.1860-1940)." Journal of African Economic History 36 (February 2012): 27-52.
"Neoliberalism in Microcosm: A Study of Precolonial Igbo of Eastern Nigeria." MBARI: The International Journal of Igbo Studies 1, no.1 (2008): 45-68.
"Civil Society and Igbo Traditional Politics: A Historical Survey of Age Grades, Secret Societies, Social Clubs, Women's Organizations, and Town Unions since 1900." International Journal of African Studies 6, no. 2 (2008): 15-28.
"Civil Society in the Islamic Kingdom of Morocco." Journal of International Review of Politics and Development 5, no.2 (2007): 37-53.
"Don C. Ohadike: The Man, His Intellectual Legacy and African Historiography." Journal of Dialectical Antropology 10, no. 4. (August 2007): 32-50.
"Deadly Ethnic Violence and the Imperiative of Federalism an Power-sharing: Could a Consociation Hold in Rwanda?" Journal of Commonwealth Comparative Politics 43, no. 1 (March 2005): 82-101.
Awards
Named an ISU Outstanding Researcher, 2017.
Library Residency Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington, 2009.
Victor A. Olurunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars, 2007.
Eleanor Young Love Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2006.
NEH’s Schomburg Center Residence Fellowship, 2006-7.
West African Research Council Grant, 2001.
Government and Opposition Essay Prize, 2001.
Courses
HIST 1120 Global History Since 1500
HIST 2255 African History and Culture
HIST 4491 Seminar
IS 3300 Travel and Study Abroad
IS 3350 International Symposium
IS 4493 Senior Thesis
Emeritus Faculty
Craig Nickisch
Professor Emeritus
Craig Nickisch, Professor Emeritus. Ph.D. BS South Dakota State University, MA Northwestern University, PhD University of Nebraska. Fulbright Scholar. Taught German, Spanish, and the FL Methods Course. Master Teacher, Awards for Outstanding Research and Outstanding Public Service.
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Arthur Dolsen
Professor Emeritus
Office: 328 Business Administration
Arthur Dolsen, Professor Emeritus. Ph.D. Classics (Trinity College, Dublin 1978), B.A. (University of British Columbia 1968). Dr. Dolsen teaches all levels of Latin offered by the university. He has also taught French and Russian extensively. His research interests include questions of ancient Greek history and rhetoric, in particular the works of Thucydides.
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Pamela Park
Professor Emerita
Pamela Park, Professor Emerita, French. French Literature (CUNY 1979), License in French (University of Nancy 1974) B.A. French (Fordham University 1972).
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Sarah McCurry
Emerita
Sarah McCurry, Emerita. Sarah did her undergraduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her graduate work at the University of California at Los Angeles. She studied in Mexico and lived in Santiago, Chile for six and a half months.