JohnIshiyamaDepartment ChairProfessorPolitical Science and International Studies ProgramFacultyJohn.Ishiyama@unt.edu940-565-4326Wooten Hall 125A

UNT Faculty Profile

FacultyPolitical Science and International Studies ProgramResearch Comparative Politics: democratization and political parties in post communist Russian, European, Eurasian and African (especially Ethiopian) politics, ethnic conflict and ethnic politics, the scholarship of teaching and learning. Was editor in chief of the American Political Science Review 2012-2016. Was principal investigator, along with Joseph Oppong, for the National Science Foundation-Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) grant "UNT Civil Conflict Management and Peace Science" that funds one of only a few NSF-REU political science sites in the country, and he was Director of that program (2010-2020). Past President President of the American Political Science Association Piper Professor of Texas