Faculty and Staff

Albert Price

Professor and MPA Director

220 French Hall

Phone: (810) 762-3470

Web site:

Professor Price joined the faculty in 1980. His major research and teaching interests involve the combined areas of Public Law and Public Administration, and has published work on the courts and corrections system, corruption, and economic development. Price is currently the Director of the Master in Public Administration program, the Pre-Law advisor, and Director of the Law and Society program

Peggy Kahn

David M. French Distinguished Professor of Political Science

220 French Hall

Phone: (810) 762-3470

E-mail: pegkahn@umflint.edu

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Professor Kahn joined the UM-Flint faculty in 1984 and specializes with courses in comparative politics, European politics, and women's work. Her present research is on the dynamics and dilemmas of women's low-paid work in the service sector, both in the United States and Great Britain. Kahn also teaches in the Women and Gender Studies program.

William Laverty

Assistant Professor

220 French Hall

Phone: 810-762-3470

E-mail: blaverty@umflint.edu

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Professor Laverty joined the faculty in 2004, and teaches courses on public policy, public administration, urban affairs, state, regional, and local government as well as American national institutions. His major research interests involve intergovernmental relations and issues related to private property rights, water resource policy, rapidly growing urban areas, and endangered species. Laverty also teaches courses in the Master in Public Administration program.

Jason Kosnoski

Assistant Professor

220 French Hall

Phone: (810) 762-3470

E-mail: kosnoski@umflint.edu

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Professor Kosnoski joined the UM-Flint faculty in 2005 and teaches courses in political theory. Before joining the faculty at UM-Flint, he was Junior Fellow at the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, Austria, and taught at the City University of New York and the University of California at San Diego. His research specializes in contemporary political theory, with a special emphasis on democratic theory, and the work of John Dewey and Jurgen Habermas

Dana Dyson

Assistant Professor

220 French Hall

Phone: (810)-762-3470

E-mail: dysond@umflint.edu

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Professor Dyson joined the department in 2008, and teaches courses in public policy, public administration and American government. Her doctoral research empirically examines political processes in education policymaking and focuses on external and internal factors that influence student performance outcomes in K-12 education. Her other research interests include urban issues, political parties and elections, and social welfare policies. Dyson teaches courses in the MPA program.

Derwin Munroe

Lecturer and Department Chair

220 French Hall

Phone: (810) 762-3470

E-mail: dmunroe@umflint.edu

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Professor Munroe teaches courses on comparative politics and international relations, and joined the UM-Flint faculty in 1999. His doctoral research on Venezuelan state formation was funded by a Fulbright award and the Organization of American States. His current interests include US foreign policy, development and economic policy, and contentious politics in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Suzanne Shivnen

Department Secretary

220 French Hall

Phone: (810) 762-3470

E-mail: sshivnen@umflint

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Suzanne Shivnen has been employed at UM-Flint as the Political Science secretary since 2005. She holds a BBA from Western Michigan University. She was previously employed as a human relations specialist by MCI corporation.

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